Canyondancer and I are the founders of the Adventure Tradition of Wicca, and we're fully-ordained clergy. We preside over a number of passage rites, including legal weddings. Rites of passage are available for any milestone; if you need one customized for a special event in your life, we'll work with you to create it.
Like other clergy, we charge for our services, and our rates vary according to how much time we spend with the honoree(s), and what expenses we incur (including travel, and accessories for the rite). Generally, our fees range from $150 to $500, but don't hesitate to ask whether there's room for negotiation.
Like other clergy, we charge for our services, and our rates vary according to how much time we spend with the honoree(s), and what expenses we incur (including travel, and accessories for the rite). Generally, our fees range from $150 to $500, but don't hesitate to ask whether there's room for negotiation.
Scroll down for some basics of the Trad, and scroll beyond that for a slide show!
Yes, some of the pix are blurry.
We do take group pix, but not everyone in them is "out of the broom closet," so you won't see those photos here.
Yes, some of the pix are blurry.
We do take group pix, but not everyone in them is "out of the broom closet," so you won't see those photos here.
Wicca is a contemporary Nature religion, drawing on paleo-European spirituality, and inspired by the poetic premises developed in the 18th and 19th centuries. Gerald B. Gardner articulated Wicca in the mid-20th century, and since then, many Traditions (denominations) have developed. We are guided by powerful but not oppressive moral precepts and liturgy: the Wiccan Rede (an ye harm none, do as ye will, which is more complex than it sounds), the Threefold Law (what we put into the worlds returns to us three-fold, always remembering that three is a magical number); and The Charge of the Goddess, written by the late Doreen Valiente.
Adventure has guided humanity forever. It's what drew us out of the Rift Valley and across the continents, gave us the courage to sail to the ends of the world, and launched us into space. Adventure has written humanity's fireside stories, too. It's an archetypical attitude, a relationship to life, and a mode of interpreting experience.
Adventure Wicca was developed in the mid-1980s. Its covens and solitaries embrace Wicca's thealogy, liturgical calendar, and Order of Circle, and are united by the Trad's foundations of a brave heart, a hospitable camp, and the urge - no, the calling - to see what's around the next bend. Adventure Wicca is inclusive and intersectional.
We hold that personal transformation is Significant, and necessary to the achivement of any quest. What happens on the "inner planes" reverberates on the "outer planes" as well, so when we change ourselves, we change the Worlds; only by changing ourselves are we able to change the world.
We face our fears and doubts, acknowledge and correct our misunderstandings and mistakes, and address our prejudices. We explore and challenge the habits and attitudes we take for granted. Our intention in this to reclaim the power those "shadows" hold in trust for us.
We hold that each named goddess and god are aspects of the Great Mother and the Horned One.
They are partners in the sacred Spiral Dance of Life. "She" is all that is eternal and generative; "he" is all that dies and is reborn.
Their relationship is cooperative and creative, so we see the natural world as full of complements, not opposites.
Humanity's natural state is one of harmony with each other and the rest of life, the universe, and everything.
Life here and now, everywhere and ever, is the source and object of holiness.
Magic is a natural force; how we use it is our responsibility.
Evil is a behavior, a consequence of ignorance, fear, and/or wonky brain chemistry - not a natural or supernatural force or entity.
Reincarnation happens, in as many ways as life's other functions carry on.
Adventure has guided humanity forever. It's what drew us out of the Rift Valley and across the continents, gave us the courage to sail to the ends of the world, and launched us into space. Adventure has written humanity's fireside stories, too. It's an archetypical attitude, a relationship to life, and a mode of interpreting experience.
Adventure Wicca was developed in the mid-1980s. Its covens and solitaries embrace Wicca's thealogy, liturgical calendar, and Order of Circle, and are united by the Trad's foundations of a brave heart, a hospitable camp, and the urge - no, the calling - to see what's around the next bend. Adventure Wicca is inclusive and intersectional.
We hold that personal transformation is Significant, and necessary to the achivement of any quest. What happens on the "inner planes" reverberates on the "outer planes" as well, so when we change ourselves, we change the Worlds; only by changing ourselves are we able to change the world.
We face our fears and doubts, acknowledge and correct our misunderstandings and mistakes, and address our prejudices. We explore and challenge the habits and attitudes we take for granted. Our intention in this to reclaim the power those "shadows" hold in trust for us.
We hold that each named goddess and god are aspects of the Great Mother and the Horned One.
They are partners in the sacred Spiral Dance of Life. "She" is all that is eternal and generative; "he" is all that dies and is reborn.
Their relationship is cooperative and creative, so we see the natural world as full of complements, not opposites.
Humanity's natural state is one of harmony with each other and the rest of life, the universe, and everything.
Life here and now, everywhere and ever, is the source and object of holiness.
Magic is a natural force; how we use it is our responsibility.
Evil is a behavior, a consequence of ignorance, fear, and/or wonky brain chemistry - not a natural or supernatural force or entity.
Reincarnation happens, in as many ways as life's other functions carry on.