ABSTRACT
Sofia is one of the Jewish founders of Reclaiming.When I asked her why she became a Witch, she referred to a religious experience she had in 1974, when 23 years old. She lived by the ocean and usually walked on the beach in the evenings. One evening she suddenly felt a presence. She looked around and saw nobody. She finally looked at the moon and felt an intense stream of communication, almost as if she merged with the moon. She heard a voice from inside the moon, talking to her, telling her that it had saved her and protected her from all kinds of dangers throughout her life:
What happened was that I was being picked out by the Goddess to hear her message. She told me to meditate every full moon and said I would start meeting women that would show me what I needed to know. The Goddess also asked me to take back Sofia, my birth name – which also is one of her names – and told me her creed, the “Charge of the Goddess”, It almost had the same form as the traditional one.
