Sacred Well - Ritual Music from Reclaiming 

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Sacred Well: Ritual Music from Reclaiming - released Fall 2025 - was curated and produced by Eileen Hazel and George Franklin/Reclaiming Quarterly. This is our fourth compilation - visit our playlsits page for previous releases.

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Sacred Well by Reclaiming feat. Maxina Ventura
Max: "Sacred Well is one of those pieces which showed up whole. I jotted it down and figured it had to be out in the wider world, a gift from the Norns."
Max has been involved with Reclaiming since 1986, and has been part of the Spiral Dance Chorus over the  decades. She's a mom of three wonderful kiddos (now adults). She is a Homeopath and sees the world holistically, describing herself as often living between the worlds.

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My Soul Says So by Suzanne Sterling

Written by Suzanne Sterling and Jeffrey Alphonsus Mooney.

Suzanne: I started writing this chant for a Witchcamp at Diana’s Grove many many years ago. I was with Alphonsus, Dawn Isadora, and Thorn Coyle and we were talking about the myth. I cannot remember dates or themes after all the years of teaching at camps but it must have been about taking leaps of faith and going toward the Unknown! I wrote the verses, and Alphonsus created the “If my soul says so” line. We added it to the verses… and voilá! It’s been sung in a lot of different camp settings. I hope that it has helped people to live authentic truthful moments and take risks that speak to their own souls.

Alphonsus: Sometimes creating a chant for a ritual a good focus. Is your writing relevant for tonight’s ritual? Maybe a single line is. It’s thinking about how your creativity helps serve the point of the ritual. Suzanne and I had each had luck writing with the word Soul. She had those beautiful lyrics, and I had this one great line: “If my soul says so, I do as my soul says.” I didn’t write that line for camp. I was lifting it from my past writing. I had that line, and I tried singing it with hers. There’s always a nice warm feeling to hear people sing it. When I hear those lines, I feel there’s liberation in them. But I also feel in my body that yeah, I don’t always do as my soul says. And then there’s the private, behind-the-scenes version: “If my soul says so, you do as my soul says!” So I go back to what my own soul says. Its scary. In a way it’s a dare. Am I doing what my soul says? How do I know? Sometimes doing what your soul says will kick your ass.

Suzanne Sterling's music streams on all sites. Visit suzannesterling.com

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Elemental Welcome by Eileen Hazel
Elemental Welcome is my invocation of the elements, sung to call upon the forces of Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit. This song may used for ritual invocation or a simple welcoming of the elements in your daily journey. Let this song envelop you in the deep interconnectedness of nature and spirit.
Eileen Hazel, a captivating song catcher and community song leader. As a priestess of Aphrodite and seeker of beautiful mycelium, she weaves enchanting melodies that transcend boundaries.
Eileen orchestrates community singing, celebrating shared experiences and the unifying power of music.

Eileen's music streams online. Her website is eileenhazel.com
Elemental Welcome: Eileen Hazel - composer, lead vocal, guitar, bells; Artemis Jackson - flute; Green Huse - harmony vocals; Jeff Martin - upright bass; Dan Ransford - djembe, percussion; Jeanette Robsahm - singing bowl; Produced by Eileen Hazel and Jeff Martin. Recorded by George Franklin and Jeff Martin. Mixed by Jeff Martin at Studio E, Sebastopol.

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Savior Spring by Saro Lynch-Thomason

This song is about gratitude to southern Appalachia in the spring, and choosing to live. I wrote "Savior Spring" in the early summer of 2023, as the perennial flowers, little peeper frogs, and returning light were helping to transition me out of an intense period of grief. May we always be asking the animate world "What can I offer you, for saving me?"

Saro Lynch-Thomason is a song leader and folklorist based in Southern Appalachia. She loves to use songs to connect folks to people's history and the pagan past.

Find out more @songspeaksaro (IG, TikTok) and at sarosings.com​​

Recorded and mixed in the studio of Samara Jade in Jupiter, NC.

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Take Me Down (Worldmusic English-Spanish-German Version) by Peti SongCatcher & Friends

Take me down / Llévame al alma / Lass’ mich los - Peti Songcatcher & friends... longing for solidarity, awareness, wholeness.

​Free Activist Witchcamp, OR, Wolf Creek, 2010 - some of you who were there may remember that evening. We were returning to our group in the evening after a long day of exhausting healing.

Produced on CD "Peti Songcatcer & Friends - Lieder Zwischen Himmel und Erde / Songs Between Heaven and Earth. Germany, 2014

Traditional, EN / Quaker song. Performance & production: Peti Songcatcher, 2014. Lyrics by Karen Neller (ES) & Duke Meyer (GER)
 

LYRICS

Take me down into my soul
Take me down where I am whole
Take me down in your embrace
Where I see my truest face

 

Llévame al alma
Hasta mi integridad
Hasta tu abrazo
Y mi rostro de verdad

 

Lass mich los von Fesseln frei
Lass mich los und lach dabei
Lass mich los und ich bleib da
Schön und froh und herzensklar

 

Mach mich groß, von innen schön
Mach mich froh und lass mich gehn
Mach mich groß und ich vertrau'
Auch den Zeichen, die ich schau

 

To the Crossroads by Beverly M. Frederick

To the Crossroads uses a traditional tune used for The Scottish Faery Ballad Tam Lin. Starhawk created this at the first Mendocino Redwoods California WitchCamp in 1995.

Beverly is a Reclaiming WitchCamp teacher and longtime Reclaiming priestess and musician.

This song is from Beverly's album Through the Darkness, which streams online.

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Earth My Body (Mojo Garage Ah Ah Version) (feat. Miranda Wong)

Earth My Body is a classic Pagan Chant - author unknown. Reclaiming is recording several versions of this song featuring Miranda Wong on vocals. Visit our playlists page for more from Reclaiming & Miranda Wong.

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Look to the Stars by Nora Farley

I wrote Look to the Stars to sing with my family on Winter Solstice 2021, and recorded this version with the generous help of my wonderful musician friends.
Nora Farley is a singer, song-leader, composer, and teacher with a masters degree in composition from the University of Michigan. She learned song-leading in her experience as a summer camp counselor and has lately turned it towards fostering the Pagan community music tradition. She organizes chant sing-alongs in Ann Arbor around the Wheel of the Year. You can learn more about her and her music on her website and YouTube channel.

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Circle of Peace by Foxglove Trio (feat. Phoebe Anne Thomas Sorgen)

The song is improvisational music by the Foxglove (later called Audible Light) trio with lyrics by Kazuaki Tanahashi. Phoebe Anne Thomas Sorgen sings with Nicole Milner on piano and Edie Hartshorne on Japanese koto. Recorded live at the Freight & Salvage. Published by Kaz Tanahashi and A World Without Armies.​

Vocals: Phoebe. koto: Edie. piano: Nicole. All four are life-long peace activists. This is one of three tracks performed by then Foxglove Trio (later Audible Light trio) in a concert and CD of musical settings of peace poetry by Kazuaki Tanahashi, a childhood survivor of the Hiroshima nuclear bombing. As a child, Nicole escaped the Holocaust in her father's arms at night, but they were forever separated from her mother.

Visit the artists:

Audible Light Trio

Brushmind - Kaz's organization

Edie

Nicole

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​Protector of the Trees by Beverly M. Frederick

Protector of the Trees was created by Beverly in 1995 for a Beltane Eve Gathering at the SF Women's Building.

Beverly is a Reclaiming WitchCamp teacher and longtime Reclaiming priestess and musician.

This song is from Beverly's album Through the Darkness, which streams online.

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Maha Lakshmiye by Awakened Heart Music
Maha Lakshmiye, by Diana Egizi and Maggie Taurick, is a mantra to invoke the energy of beauty, abundance, well-being and radiance.
Visit instagram.com/awakened.heart.music/

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​Green Tara Mantra by Evelie Delfino Sales Posch

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Companion of the Earth (God Invocation) by Beverly M. Frederick

Companion of the Earth was written by Beverly M. Frederick. It has been sung at many rituals including a Men's Pearl Pentacle ritual in San Francisco.

Beverly is a Reclaiming WitchCamp teacher and longtime Reclaiming priestess and musician.

This song is from Beverly's album Through the Darkness, which streams online.

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Air I Am (Panpipes Spanish-English Version) by Reclaiming feat. Irene Rojas-Carroll

Air I Am is a classic Pagan Chant written by Andras Corban-Arthen Recorded with permission. Reclaiming is recording several versions of this song featuring Irene Rojas-Carroll on vocals. 

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Happy Sun by Doug Orton
Happy Sun is a Pop Song about growing older from what I would call a Child's POV.   It was recorded at Dancing Dog in Emeryville with Dave Bryson (Counting Crows)  as Engineer.  It features a double Bass with Victor Krummenacher (Camper Van Beethoven) on Bass and Marty Jones on Lead fret-less Bass. Chris Pedersen (also with CVB) on drums, Steve Pedersen on Guitar, Jeff Essex on Keyboard. Jasmine Walker and Danielle Doucett on Back-Up Vocals.   
An old College friend had written a first attempt novel titling it Happy Sun, so that's where the title came from.  It was a good session with really good players.   
Raised by wild chihuahuas , not much is known of Doug Orton's feral years. Those years remain largely a mystery. What is known is that Doug co-taught Reclaiming Classes and Camps through the 1990's into the 2000's before the Call of the Wild took him back to his humble chihuahua beginnings. Lately in these ever emerging brave new worlds Doug has taken part in Reclaiming online classes with Beverly Frederick in a very much Sancho capacity adding where he can building the ultimate sand castle and when in doubt invoking the Sacred Clown.  I will always remember the words of my mama chihuahua: "If the wig fits wear it. And always be careful of whose lap you sit on!"

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