Ancestral Land Acknowledgment

As a pagan public ritual group, we build relationships within our community and with the earth itself. In order to further our right relationship with the land and the people who have tended and held it sacred from time immemorial, we acknowledge that we are holding ritual on the ancestral lands of the Nacotchtank, Pamunkey, Piscataway, Powhatan, Saponi, Seneca, Tauxenent, Tutelo and others whose names we may not yet know and are committed to learning. We pay respects to their elders past and present, and honor their truths.

This statement is a beginning. It may evolve over time as we learn. Hopefully, it is a first step towards building relationships with the indigenous peoples of this area where and when we can uplift and support them within the scope of our own mission.

Who We Are

Two Rivers Sanctuary is the urban, pagan-owned temple, school, and the motherhouse of the Order of the Elemental Mysteries.

Connect DC is our public worship group. We seek to heal and transform the city of Washington DC through magic, mystery and celebration. Our rituals are Wiccan-based, always free, and open to the public. We have been celebrating magic in public spaces since 1999. Our motto, “Stop, drop, and do ritual”, sums up our philosophy in seeking public and accessible areas to do magic.

Reflections Mystery School is a contacted mystery school with the purpose to train the vision keepers, edge-walkers, soul retrievers and seed savers of the incoming age. Our focus is soul work. We certainly offer classes on magickal and spiritual topics, but our primary area of concentration is evolving the soul.

Our founder, Katrina Messengeris a poet, priestess, warrior, witch, full time Wiccan mystic and an ordained minister. She is a DC native with over fifty years of experience as a grassroots activist and community leader, including her past work as the state president of Maryland NOW and as the acting minister for the Sojourner Truth Congregation of Unitarian Universalists. Katrina is a certified Archetypal and Dream Patterning Analyst, and is the author of Elemental Psychology: Using Jungian Psychology and the Sacred Elements for Spiritual DevelopmentDescent: A Journey for Women, and Dark Beauty.

 

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