Reclaiming keeps Beltane as a large open gathering, often outdoors with maypole and fire, planned by consensus and welcoming anyone who comes rather than reserved to initiates.
Source The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in BritainRonald Hutton
Reclaiming casts collectively rather than through a single priestess, often outdoors and at very large public gatherings, with the wording improvised and the whole company invited to speak the quarters.
Source The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan WitchcraftRonald Hutton
Reclaiming teaches divination in its public classes and camps rather than reserving it to initiates, and uses it collectively, with a group reading a shared question, including questions about political action.
Source The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)Anonymous (multiple authors)
Reclaiming calls this aspecting, teaches it openly rather than reserving it to initiates, allows any trained participant to carry a deity for the group, and treats grounding afterwards as part of the work.
Source The Triumph of the Moon: A History of Modern Pagan WitchcraftRonald Hutton
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Source The Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)Anonymous (multiple authors)
Reclaiming's Samhain is its best known observance, the public Spiral Dance held in San Francisco since 1979 and now elsewhere, a mass ritual for the dead drawing hundreds and open to all comers.
Source The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in BritainRonald Hutton
Reclaiming teaches magic as a tool of personal and social change and applies it collectively at protests and public actions, so the working is often explicitly political, and its ethics are worked out by consensus rather than fixed by a Rede.
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Reclaiming's ritual practice draws on the Triple Goddess as one image among many for the divine feminine, consistent with the tradition's pluralist theology.
Source Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in AmericaChas S. Clifton
Reclaiming holds its sabbats as large public rituals open to anyone who comes, planned by consensus and often carrying explicit ecological or political intent, its Samhain Spiral Dance drawing many hundreds.
Source The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in BritainRonald Hutton
Starhawk's own founding text of the Reclaiming tradition; already an existing citation source in this atlas, cited here as the encyclopedia entry for the work itself.
Source The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great GoddessStarhawk
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)
Reclaiming teaches the Threefold Law as one ethical principle among several, consistent with the tradition's broader, non-dogmatic approach to doctrine.
Source Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in AmericaChas S. Clifton
Reclaiming holds the Wiccan Rede as an ethical touchstone, consistent with the tradition's Principles of Unity and its emphasis on individual responsibility.
Source Her Hidden Children: The Rise of Wicca and Paganism in AmericaChas S. Clifton
Source Encyclopedia of ReligionMircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.)