“We are all longing to go home to some place we have never been—a place half-remembered and half-envisioned we can only catch glimpses of from time to time. Community. Somewhere, there are people to whom we can speak with passion without having the words catch in our throats. Somewhere a circle of hands will open to receive us, eyes will light up as we enter, voices will celebrate with us whenever we come into our own power… Someplace where we can be free."
~ Starhawk
VWC 2011
August 20 – 27
The Four Powers
Of The Mage
It has been taught that those who wish to work with magic must learn four key powers: to Know, to Will, to Dare, and to Keep Silent. Telling ourselves the story of The Twelve Wild Swans (the theme of the very first Vermont camp), we will explore the meaning of these Four Powers of the Mage to us today in our personal and political work, and consider the shadows of each. Just as there is a “fifth sacred thing” that grows from the four elements, we will look together for that place of power where all four may come together to create a fifth — the power of transformation called magick.