You are invited to a sacred and powerful gathering beneath the veil.

On "Día de los Muertos", when the ancient Aztecs believed that our ancestors walk with us and the veil between worlds is thin, we come together in ritual to honour the dead, hex the patriarchy, and reclaim our sacred feminine power.

This is not your typical circle; this is ancestral magic, feminine rage, sacred softness, and embodied resistance. This is for those who feel the stir of something ancient in their bones… and are ready to rise.

This ritual is held in partnership with Mother Lilith, the fierce, ancient archetype of the untamed feminine.

In witchcraft and esoteric traditions, Lilith is the first woman, cast out of Eden for refusing to submit. She represents the wild, sovereign feminine, unowned, unbroken, and unapologetically free. She walks with the witches, the rebels, the outcasts, and all who have been told they are “too much.”

Hexing the patriarchy is not just symbolic. It is political. It is a stand for every woman who has been burned, erased, controlled, and diminished under systems built to suppress the feminine.

This ritual IS NOT about harming individuals, it’s about dismantling oppressive systems energetically. It is spellwork as resistance, fueled by centuries of silenced voices rising in unison. In this act of communal magic, we transmute pain into power.

What to Expect:

A guided ritual hex against the patriarchy, rooted in ancestral and feminine energy
Devotional invocation of Mother Lilith and feminine archetypes of rebellion and sovereignty
A space for expression of sacred rage, grief, and reclamation
Ocean cleansing ritual to embody release and rebirth
Photos captured (with consent) to document and promote the growing wave of feminine resistance

After the Ritual:

You’ll be invited to enter the natural swimming pool at McIver's Ladies Baths, where you can cleanse, lighten, and feel reborn. If cold water isn’t for you, hot showers are available onsite (payment apart).

Who This Space Is For:

Due to the venue, this event is open to women only (cis and trans). We honour all expressions of womanhood and create this circle as a sacred, inclusive space of safety and sisterhood.

This is a custom-tailored ritual, born from an ancient hex reworked for our unique circle and adapted to the Southern Hemisphere’s energies and the ancestral resonance of Día de los Muertos. It’s not religious and not based on any one witchcraft tradition, and it is deeply powerful!

What's Included in the Price:

Your entry fee to the McIver's Ladies Baths (after the ritual)
Ritual tools:
Incense, candles, feathers, etc
Light snacks to share (fruits, crackers)

What to bring:

A bathing suit and a towel
Your water bottle
An open mind and heart, the power of the ritual is amplified by your belief and presence
A willingness to be present in your body and emotions
A sense of reverence for the women who came before us, for the ocean, and for each other
Readiness to release: anger, grief, control, fear, or whatever is no longer yours to carry.
Optional:

A small offering for your ancestors (this could be a flower, a piece of fruit, a poem, a whisper; something meaningful to you)
Coins for the showers ($0.20 per minute) if you prefer not to swim
A journal and pen (optional but encouraged, for reflection afterwards)

What This Is Not About

❌ This is not a performance:

There is nothing to prove, perfect, or perform.
This space is about presence, not presentation. You don’t need to act spiritual, witchy, or “know all the right things.” You are invited to show up as you are: raw, quiet, soft, fierce, curious. All expressions are welcome.

❌ This is not about knowing witchcraft:

You don’t need prior experience.
You need a willingness to believe in the unseen, in energy, in the power of women gathering with purpose. This is not based on any one tradition or religion. It’s a custom, intuitive ritual rooted in ancestral remembrance and the reclamation of the feminine.

❌ This is not a group therapy session

While the ritual may evoke deep feelings or prompt personal reflections, it is not a space for therapeutic processing.
You are never required or expected to share your personal story. Silence is sacred here, too.

❌ This is not a space to relive trauma

We ask that participants refrain from sharing graphic or traumatic personal experiences during the group portion of the ritual. This is to protect the emotional safety of the circle and prevent accidental harm or triggering of others.
This circle is for ritual and release, not retelling or reactivation.

❌ This is not a debate space or ideological arena

This ritual is inherently political, yes, but it’s not a space for debate, proving, or intellectualising.
It is for feeling, for energy work, and for collective liberation. Please come with respect for the space, the intention, and each woman’s unique path.

❌ This is not religious or dogmatic

In witchcraft, we don’t divide the world into "good" or "bad". We work with energy, intention, and the principles of natural law. Not inherited dogma.

Unlike most religious systems that frame morality in absolutes (good vs. evil, light vs. dark), witchcraft honours complexity. We recognise that shadow and light both have purpose. Fire can warm or destroy. Water can cleanse or drown. Magic can heal or hex (and both can be sacred).

Witchcraft is a path of personal responsibility, not moral policing. You are not punished for doing magic “wrong”, but you are invited to work with awareness, clarity, and sovereignty.

Hexing, cursing, and banishing are tools of spiritual resistance and boundary-setting. Just as you would defend your body or protect someone you love, you can assert your spirit and protect your community through energetic means.

Pre-Ritual Study & Reflections

Recommended for all participants to deepen their connection to the work

Learn who Lilith is in mythology and witchcraft,
Understanding patriarchal systems,
The politics of the witch as a symbol of resistance and female autonomy,
Hexing as spiritual resistance, release and a form of justice work.
If you carry religious beliefs that frame witchcraft as wrong, dangerous, or sinful, we ask you to reflect deeply on those internalised messages before entering this space.
Guilt and fear are tools used by oppressive systems to control and silence women and spiritual rebels.

Why This Ritual Matters:

For centuries, women, femmes, and marginalised people have been silenced, punished, and erased for daring to claim their power. Witches burned at stakes, midwives outlawed, voices mocked, bodies controlled, movements crushed. Patriarchy isn’t an abstract concept, but a living system of harm, built and reinforced by individuals, institutions, governments, and cultures.

This ritual is about more than symbolic gestures. It’s a collective act of justice and reclamation.

In this circle, you are invited to channel your rage, grief, and power into a group hex, a directed spell of accountability and energetic disruption. Each participant will have the chance to focus on a person, institution, organisation, or country that embodies patriarchal harm in their life or in the world. This may be a public figure like Donald Trump, an abusive ex, a harmful corporation, a government policy, any entity whose actions have upheld oppression, or any of the above!

Working with Mother Lilith, the archetype of the untamed, sovereign feminine, we call on her to bear witness and bring justice. Lilith, who refused to submit, who became the patron of outcasts and the demonised, walks with us as we name the injustices and return their energy to sender.

This is spellwork as protest, an ancestral rage channelled into liberation. This is about breaking energetic ties to oppressive power, exposing the rot, and making space for something new.

We do this not only for ourselves but for the line of women before us. The healers, witches, mothers, sisters, daughters, and rebels who had no safe space to gather like this. And we do it for the ones yet to come, so they inherit a freer, lighter world.

When we hex in the name of Lilith, we step into a lineage of women who refused to bow.

We reclaim what was taken.

We remember who we are.