Presently I am calling the Grove my home as I search to find work that sustains self and others. I am originally from southern Indiana and part of me will always call that place home. My main occupation over the last 20+ years has been as a florist. I continue to love working with plants and flowers, stained glass, and different mediums of art. Creativity and physical work on some level is something I find necessary to help me balance. As a Virgo, I also love to organize most anything and create paths ways to new experiences. I have 2 children (Ben, 25 and Megan, 23) who are just beginning to find their place in the world, and an amazing 2 year old granddaughter.

I continue personal work as a student of Thorn Coyle's Feri group as well as in Diana's Grove Mystery School. This year I am undertaking a new challenge as a member of the Mystery School Rites team. Within these communities I continue to define myself, the work, and where my edges are and expansion needs to happen. I often reflect back with much gratitude for the doorway I found in Reclaiming and only hope my work in Dreamweaving can sustain that open door for many others.

MoonStar

I've been attending Reclaiming Witch Camps every summer since 1999, and MidWest Camp since 2002. Some of my deepest and most complex spiritual work has been done at this camp and I am delighted to now be able to give something back to this community by serving on Dreamweaving.

I am a Southerner by birth and lived in New Orleans for much of my adult life. The year 2005 brought tragic and catastrophic changes to my life. I am still healing and figuring out what happens next in my life.

One of the many things I have learned from the challenges of the last few years is to trust in the patterns and cycles of the Universe and the Divine. I do not know or understand why, but I have learned that change is perhaps the only constant in life and that healing is possible if I trust myself and my intuitionÑa challenge in and of itself.

Trusting my intuition, I have chosen another dramatic life change, leaving the heat and humidity of the Gulf South, where I lived all but a decade of my life, for the snows and colors of southern Maine. I have purchased a lovely home, which I share with 2 rescue cats, 2 rescue dogs, and my new partner and long time friend, Taliesin.

Having recently become the steward of two and a half acres of forest, field and stream, I am excited about the possibilities inherent in this year's camp theme, Priestessing the Earth. As I grow older, I am increasingly certain of the transience of our lives, both individually and as a species, and of the responsibility we bear to the multitude of other lives with which we share this gorgeous planet. I am looking forward to laying new patterns of Priestessing the Earth in my soul through this year's camp work. And I very much look forward to meeting both new and returning campers.

Ravyn

Ravyn practices acupuncture and aikido in the lush Willamette river valley of Portland, Oregon. She is a writer, educator, lover, artist and activist dedicated to bringing more magic into the world through the cracks in Western civilization. She teaches witchy workshops internationally and in the Oregon prison system. Ravyn is dry, semi-sweet, and heady with an oaky, nutty finish. She has been involved with Reclaiming style magic and ritual since 1996 and doesn't regret one moment of it.

Sayre

I live in Chicago with three bicycles, an elm tree named Sheela Na Gig, and a big stripey orange cat named Butter. In the midst of the metropolis I seek for the wild richness of the edges - the bounty of edible 'weeds' in empty lots, the sparkling delight urban feyfolk, conversation with trees that have watched the city spring up around them. I feel that my work lies as much in the how I do things as in the what I do - dreamwork, making furniture, riding my bike, choosing, teaching, loving, singing ecstatically, sitting, stretching, landscaping, eating well, sewing, sleeping well, flossing.

I fell in love with Diana's Grove and the Midwest Witchcamp community in 2005 and am excited to return to camp this year as a second year Dreamweaver. I look forward to seeing those of you I've met before and to meeting those of you I have yet to meet.

Taliesen

Well, being over sixty what do I say about myself? I hope I hope that I have aged gracefully like good wine or fine cheese, but some say I have become a bit curmudgeonly. I take that as a compliment. I have been a witch for over 20 years off and on but with growing intensity with age. My magickal name was given to me some years ago at the first Reclaiming activity I attended - Elements of Magic - and where I first became acquainted with Dreamweaving and Midwest witch Camp. 2007 marks witch camp number seven for me.

I am New England born and descended. I have lived most of my life here with long periods lived in Colorado as well. I love both this land called Maine, where I now live, as well as the high peaks and red deserts of the West. I'm fortunate to share with Moonstar, a partner of like mind (and two dogs and two cats with minds of their own), a home and land with magnificent white pine trees and a small orchard.

Nature for me is the Goddess and I revel in the delights that she brings to me wherever I live. She has blessed me with land to care for and in my work as the environmental director for a large community college. Priestessing the Earth is a challenge she has given me at home and in my career.

I can say that Midwest Witch Camp truly changed my life, for two year ago it forced me to look hard at the compromises I developed over the years to just get along and not rock the boat in an increasingly unsatisfactory and unhappy relationship. I chose at that camp to find and follow my true desires. The eventual result was a whole new and amazingly amazing relationship with a woman of like spiritual mind and heart. This came upon me suddenly and as a complete surprise, a wonder. With the aid of this new partner, everything in life seems possible.

Being a witch is important to me. It is truly a practical hard-reality middle way between despair and fantasy in daily existence. I try - without as much success as I would like - to bring my witchiness to the daily life of Priestessing the Earth. This is hard work but rewarding. Witch camp is a necessary annual infusion of Goddess energy which helps me to carry forward, refocus, and grow a little. And it is a chance to serve all of you here, hopefully well.