Welcome to CauldronFire. I’m Talasyn, a transplanted New Englander, raised in a family with a parent who practiced both Gardnerian and traditional witchcraft. My training in earlier years was in a trad coven in the Boston suburbs, followed by working for many years in the Reclaiming Tradition. I participated in a number of weeklong witchcamps in British Columbia, and co-founded the Strand by Strand Collective, offering classes and public rituals in Portland in the 1990s and early 2000s. I’ve taught witchcraft, seership, ritual skills and dowsing, both individually, and as part of a teaching team, and, in the past, a teaching collective.
I identify as a Celtic polytheist, and an ecstatic witch, and incorporate many elements of ecstatic and visionary practice in ritual. Some of these include building and working ritual in labyrinths, experimenting with trance techniques, drumming, chant and singing to achieve altered states. Over the years I’ve spent significant time on pilgrimage, engaging in ritual at sacred sites in England, Ireland, Cornwall, Wales and Scotland. At times, I offer some teaching and training opportunities to committed witches who are willing to work to deepen their practice using the powerful and visionary tools of ecstatic practice.
Dwelling with Mystery, working with the Ancestors, and providing devotional service to several beloved deities remain core parts of my witchcraft. I also love to offer events, including coffee gatherings, workshops, the occasional public ritual, and even an international conference. See below for details.
In the recent past, I coordinated a Celtic Polytheist teaching circle in Portland that offered intensive training in Celtic polytheist ritual skills. I’m a co-founder of The Weavers, an active witchcraft circle in Portland.
Thank you for visiting.
-Talasyn
A partial list of recent offerings:
• Coffee with Witches, a monthly gathering with a theme
• Calling the Brigidines: a devotional gathering of witches working with Brigid
• How to Join / Form a Witchcraft Group (in person and on Zoom)
• Celtic polytheist skills: devotional practice, lore, ritual construction
• Witching Up the Power: ecstatic ritual skills
• Public Rituals, indoors and outdoors
• In the Roundhouse of the Ancestors: a Celtic Polytheist international Death Conference
• Summer Witchcraft Gatherings
• Celtic Polytheist meetups
• Death Cafės for Witches
• Dowsing skills, for beginners through very advanced dowsers
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