Camp Information
Teachers
Jane Meredith (she/her)
Jane is a writer, priestex, and teacher of myth, magic, Kabbalah, and core classes in the Reclaiming tradition. One of the founders of CloudCatcher WitchCamp she considers it her home-and-heart camp, and is always thrilled to dance and make magic on the mountain. She has attended every CloudCatcher WitchCamp, so far!
Jane’s books include: Falling through the Tree of Life: Embodied Kabbalah, Journey to the Dark Goddess, Aspecting the Goddess, and with co-author Fio Gede Parma, Elements of Magic and Magic of the Iron Pentacle. Some of her other passions include: trees and rivers, white cockatoos and dark chocolate, intimacy and depth.
She lives either in the Blue Mountains, Darug and Gundungurra country, or in Huonbrook, northern NSW, Arakwal and Bundjalung country; and likes to travel. Jane loves collaborative magic, dropping deep into the mythic and personal realms and finding the tides where they overlap, and experimenting.
Her website is www.janemeredith.com and you can find her on Instagram and Facebook as janemeredithauthor.
Urania
I make my home north of San Francisco among the rolling hills of Marin County. I’m proof positive that magic can happen anywhere, I met my first Reclaiming Witch in 1989 at traffic court while reading Dreaming the Dark. Walked out of there with no fine and a flyer.
I took my first Reclaiming class in 1991 and was invited to student teach in the San Francisco Bay Area Community in 1993. Since then I’ve done most everything from schlepping to bookkeeping to ritual planning, teaching, founding cells, and general rabble rousing. Rotation has been one of my core practices.
I am regularly awed and grateful to have received so many opportunities from this community. My life is richer for having walked this path.
Sue Blackfeather (she/her)
I was born on the land of the Taungurong people. I spent my childhood freely roaming and exploring
the vast paddocks that ran along the edge of the Omio (Goulburn) River. For most of my adult life. I have lived (as I do now) in Wurrundjeri Country.
I am an Astrologer, a drummer, seeker of all things curious, storyteller, ritualist, spontaneous gardener, grower of herbs, nurturer and resilient traveller.
As a witch with a stellium of planets in Scorpio, I am forever intrigued by the journey of life and how to navigate my way through the tides of transition and change. Mystery, alchemy, transformation
and all things Plutonian find resonance within me.
As a drummer, I recognise the interplay between rhythm and magic. The beating of my human heart reminds me to keep listening, to keep paying attention to the rhythms and cycles of life. Drumming is an innate part of my magical existence and a joyful, ecstatic part of my daily practice, creative expression and energetic release. I see no separation – rhythm is my magic and in magic there is rhythm.
As an Astrologer, standing at the intersection of where land and sky meet, I look to the Stars for
guidance and understanding of this mysterious life.
I am delighted to make my way back to the caldera to teach at Cloudcatcher once again.
You can find Sue’s Astrology work here. Sue is also on Instagram and facebook.
Alex Iantaffi (they/he/lui)
Alex is an Italian disabled, neurodivergent (AuDHD), trans, bi queer, polyamorous parent, author, therapist, speaker, clinical supervisor, teacher, initiate and witch currently living on Dakota and Anishinaabe territories known as Minnesota in the so-called United States. They have been involved with Reclaiming since 2004 as a co-creator, teacher, weaver, organizer, ritual artist, initiate and initiator. Alex is also a Feri and a Queer Spirit initiate and practices some of the Mediterranean ancestral practices they were brought up with through their maternal line, such as the tarantella. They are honored, grateful & excited to be invited to teach at CloudCatcher Witchcamp for the first time!
When not working, parenting, or practicing witchcraft, they can be found reading books, enjoying nature, watching movies, building Lego, cooking, writing, singing, playing music and dancing (not necessarily all at once).
Alex is the author of award-winning book "Gender Trauma: healing cultural, social, and historical gendered trauma" and co-author of "How to UnderstandYour Gender", “How to Understand Your Sexuality”, “How to Understand Your Relationships” (forthcoming), “Life Isn’t Binary”, and “Hell Yeah Self-Care: a Trauma-Informed Workbook”. They host the podcast Gender Stories. More at www.alexiantaffi.com
Megan (she/her)
Megan is a weaver of magic and mysteries, living within the unceded lands of the Arakwal Bundjalung people, near Cavanbah-Byron Bay. Her passion is the reconnection and resilience of land, sky and sea peoples. Her wisdom comes from working in multidimensional ways with plants and animals, especially wildlife and the lands of the Caldera. Her preferred habitats are ecotones and liminal spaces. She’s been dancing the spiral of Reclaiming and magical activism in Australia and Europe for over 30 years. CloudCatcher WitchCamp has been her beloved home Camp, since 2012.
Megan was an organiser for the 2020-2022 Camps. She has strong and deep connections with the Mountain and Brigid. She seeks peace through listening more deeply and studying gaeilge (Irish), the language of her ancestors. She loves teaching in community as well as at Earthsong and California WitchCamps and is delighted to be part of the teaching team for the CloudCatcher WitchCamp Brigid Camp.
August Wolff (it/they)
August works as a trauma informed counsellor, educator and artist. Weaving queer, trans, disabled and neurodiverse magic, August’s work is about healing through empowered embodiment and compassionate presence. Its practice is enriched by an experience of multiplicity and it enjoys bringing playfulness and gentle yet fierce space-holding to its work. August's magical practice is informed by BDSM, seership, altered states and somatic and parts based trauma work. These combine with a deep exploration of consent and personal and interpersonal development.
Over the last decade August has served the Reclaiming community in a number of ways including community ritual, art, advocacy and a long and ever-deepening relationship with the healing power and skills of the Bower.
August currently resides on Wadawurrung country and looks forward to a deepening bond with Brigid’s mysteries and serving the Reclaiming community at Cloudcatcher 2024.
More at www.thisisaugustwolff.com and www.8wolff.com.
Silen Charlie Wellington (they/he)
Silen is a sculptor of sound, artist of people, storyteller, genderqueer shapeshifter, mercurial name collector, and lover, among other things. Silen has been practicing in the Reclaiming Tradition for eight years, and has been remembering witchcraft their entire life. Silen practices witchcraft to deepen communion with Mystery, to show up and be fully present in the world, and to steward better futures.
As a composer, Silen weaves magic into their life through poetry, performance art, and music, filling gardens with flutes, brass instruments, clarinets, dancers, singers, and actors for their trans-ancestors, tearing through notes at the shattering of the world and whispering delightful fae dances that escape definition.
Silen lives on unceded Cheyenne, Arapaho, & Ute Lands in what is otherwise known as Fort Collins, Colorado. When masquerading as a muggle, they work in peer support for folks struggling with mental health & suicidality
Plex (she/they)
Activist, Witch, and Healer, Plex shimmers when sharing with others, joyfully exploring, learning, developing and prospering within the Reclaiming Community.
Living on Dja Dja Wurrang lands in central Victoria, with a deep love and devotion to nature, manifesting and connection to All; Goddess, Planet Earth and Humanity, keeps them motivated to be the change they want to see in the world.
It is clear to see she passionately embraces the community of Reclaiming Australia and shares that “After wandering our wide, brown land, I discovered my tribe… finding Reclaiming was like coming home.”