It is often said that women are natural spiritual adepts as we are initiated organically via embodied rites of passage: menarche, fertility, birth, pregnancy release, menopause.
Join Moon Body creator Miriam Ropschitz for a 4-hour journey through history, circle and somatics centred on the Witch as a symbol of dark feminine power.
I’ve always been fascinated by the way that the church has attempted to invert these embodied initiations. It claimed that, instead of them being sacred manifestations of the mirror between woman’s body, the earth and the goddess body, that they were dirty, vulgar and base. We see these same ideas repeated in the propaganda of the European Witch Hunts.
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'Witch' is a welcoming hearth for those of us craving connection, rest, healing, community with other women & a way to honour the descent into the dark half of the year by drinking the medicine of the Witch.
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All Women are Witches.
A Witch is a Wise Woman. Her gifts arise in numerous ways: healing, herbalism, sexuality and clairsentience – among so many others.
All women are witches
A witch is a woman who cultivates her inner-power and wields it in the external world. Therefore all women can be witches if they choose to be because all women are connected to the unseen through the womb portal. A key part of my work is reclaiming the witch as a sacred feminine archetype to help walk women back to their power & magick. How do you feel about the witch archetype? What does she mean to you?
The Malleus Maleficarum says over and over again that it is woman’s “carnality” – ie the way that women are so undeniably of the body – that made them vulnerable to the Devil’s temptations. And yet since the beginning of humanity, it was the sacred mirroring between woman’s body and the earth body which our ancient ancestors reached for, like children reaching for the mother’s breast.
Remembering these truths with other women is what I’m here to do...
This is what we'll be doing at Witch.
"We hunger for Witch wisdom. We intuit her absence within our communities. We miss her, we need her and we're calling her back. She's been gone too long."
In the time known as the Early Modern period many converging factors set the scene for the Witch Hunts in Europe. Land privatisation, the advent of capitalism, and the Enlightenment are just some of them. Women were (at least) 80% of the Witch Hunts' victims and it is impossible not to consider these times as a war on women; an attempt to create a new kind of woman by way of fear: meek, servile and well-behaved. In today's strange times, the Witch holds an undeniable allure for wild women. She is a repository of our feelings about what it means to be undomesticated and free.
Witch Workshop
This workshop is a celebration of the Witch, Samhain and magickal women craving a coven.
Wise woman, healer, herbalist, trouble-maker, edge walker, midwife, elder, soothsayer, crone – however we define the Witch, the charge she holds is undeniable.
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Talks on the History of Women and the Witch Trials; Female Sexuality; Reclaiming Voice & Body; Healing the Witch Wound and Restoring Feminine Magick. Somatic Practices around reclaiming the voice + the root. Sharing Circle, Song + Story.
1. feel called by the witch
Have you always felt a deep affinity with the witch archetype? This workshop is a good chance to learn historically accurate information about her.
2. want to reclaim lost power
Are you aware that there are things in your life, which are stopping you from showing up authentically, in your power? This is a space to process.
3. offer woman's work
Do you work with women? If so, understanding how the witch wound manifests in the lives of women can give you more information to support them.
4. Carry witch wounds
Are you aware of ways that the Witch Wound is playing out in your life? This workshop will support you to begin the healing process.
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Hi love, my name is Miriam Ropschitz.
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I've spent the last decade working with women in the field of menstrual & sexual embodiment and the history of feminine spirituality in Old Europe.
I've been intrigued by the witch archetype since childhood and have spent years studying and researching the European Witch Hunts + folk magick.
I believe passionately that restoring the witch to a sacred feminine archetype will enact deep healing for all beings and that healing the Witch Wound is key to bringing a healthy relationship with the dark feminine back to our planet.
This workshop is an offering for the women in my community, made with love. It comes with prayers interwoven that it may bring healing for those women who know deep in their bones that they are witches or have been witches and are ready to put down the heavy burden of the witch wound, claim their gifts and bring them out into the world.