Camp Information
Teachers
SusanneRae (they, them, and sometimes she)
SusanneRae is a wonderer, a gardener, healer, teacher, parent, activist and friend: a weird, queer witch who works with Labyrinth, many Deity and Godds, Yoga, Nature beings, Mystical Buddhism and Seidre. Born of Angle, Scots and Welsh heritage they have a lifetime’s experience working with earth-centred energies. Currently they live in Willyama (so-called Broken Hill, NSW.) in so-call Australia.
SusanneRae has been practising Reclaiming style magic for many decades, teaching and organising for nearly 10 years. Hekate has been a constant companion to their existence, growing stronger as they age. SusanneRae is super excited to be back at their home camp as part of CloudCatcher WitchCamp teaching team.
Over many decades SusanneRae has learned of the will to change, the transformational power of personal wisdom; of the desire to hold, heal and love this earth and each other as we untangle the mess of white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy and attempt to weave a new future together. Susanne loves the mystery and all the challenges it brings.
SusanneRae has contributed to:
Elements of Magic, Pearl Pentacle by Jane Meredith, and Fio Gede Parma (Authors),
Honoring the Wild: Reclaiming Witchcraft and Environmental Activism - Irysanya Moon (Author), and
The Meditation Space is an online platform for their teaching and mentoring.
You can find out more about whats going on with SusanneRae here : https://www.themeditationspace.com.au
Megan (she/they)
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 of people with land, sky, sea and themselves within community. Hekate guides them through the shadowlands alongside those who are passing; in the healing arts and the magic of the moon and crossroads. Her wisdom comes from working in multidimensional ways with plants, especially medicinal herbs, animals including wildlife and energy consciousness. She’s been dancing the spiral of Reclaiming and magical activism in Australia and Europe for over 30 years.
She was an organiser for the 2020-2022 CloudCatcher WitchCamps. They love teaching in community as well as at Earthsong, California, CloudCatcher and World Wide WitchCamps.
Urania (she her)
Urania is proof positive that magic can happen anywhere, Urania met her first Reclaiming Witch in 1989 at traffic court while reading Dreaming the Dark. Urania walked out of there with no fine and a flyer.
Urania took her first Reclaiming class in 1991 and was invited to student teach in the San Francisco Bay Area Community in 1993. Since then Urania has done most everything from schlepping to bookkeeping to ritual planning, teaching, founding cells and Witchlets, and general rabble rousing. Rotation has been one of her core practices. Urania is regularly awed and grateful to have received so many opportunities from this community. Urania’s life is richer for having walked this path.
Stephen (he/him)
Stephen is an Aotearoa-born immigrant to Turtle Island, where he grew up and came to live in
Huchiun in unceded Lisjan territory, home of the Chechenyo-speaking Ohlone people (colonially known as Oakland, California), where he lives with his partner, cat, and python.
He is or has been an actor, director, cook, alchemist, soothsayer, protester, producer and ritualist.
Stephen came to Reclaiming in 2015 and fell spirit first into classes, rituals and camps. Continuing on this path led to him being an initiate and then a teacher in this tradition. In addition to teaching and ritual, he is an original organizer of Pleasures of Beltane witchcamp. He also delves deeply into other currents and offshoots of Traditional Witchcraft as well as the syncretic magic of late antiquity, weaving them together in “organized entropic spellwork.”
Stephen’s personal practice centers on working with spirit allies and deities in devotion, trance and aspect. Mirth and Reverence forms the axis around which his spirit revolves.
Follow Stephen on Instagram: @mirthandreverence
Raphael Jerripin Boodjarn (they/them)
Raphael is a Ngarigo and Yuin queer Indigenous witch and artist. Their magic is a living resistance, a medicine born of Country, ancestral memory, and the uncompromising work of decolonisation. They weave Indigenous knowledge, Witchcraft, and eco-queer feminist praxis into ritual of resistance, reclaimation, and reimagination of the world.
Raphael has faced the underworld and returned, their path shaped by survival, including living through leukaemia. Guided by Hekate’s torch, they move through thresholds of shadow and light, reclaiming each as sacred ground. The hounds of Hekate move with them, fierce guardians of instinct, courage, and ancestral lore. Living in their van with their beloved dog, moving with the land, they carry Country in their bones, creating spaces for rebellion, reflection, and the re-membering of power, the kind that moves with, not over.
Their art and ritual are radical invitations: to descend, to rise, to witness, to remember. Their witchcraft is survival, sovereignty, and the refusal to accept a world stripped of spirit, justice, and possibility.
Follow Raphael on Instagram: @raphthewitch
Nathan (he/him)
Nathan is a Witch from Quandamooka county. One who spends most of his time with all his Dead friends, crafting things from bones and listening to all the secrets his sassy plant friends have to teach him.
Nathan is a devote of the Titan Goddess Hekate with a passion for ancestral magic and connection with the beloved dead. He is a student of great teachers, a Wildwood witch as well as a member of the Haitian Vodou community. Nathan has attended the last three witch camps where he developed a love for the Reclaiming tradition and a desire to share and teach within the beautiful safe place that they foster.
Nathan’s relationship with Hekate is one that takes him to the grave yard at 2am on a school night and to the crossroads every Wednesday. His deep love and gratitude for the gifts she shares is what has led him to be the person he is today.