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Our curated lineup of presenters are respected in their spiritual communities and skilled at guiding others through meaningful experiences. Each session aims to deepen your practice and provide you with valuable insights.
Learn more about these teachers and their breakout session topics, all included with your main conference pass.
These sessions are designed to be highly experiential and interactive, each lasting about two hours. They will help you move past personal barriers and enhance your skills.
Before the event, we will provide specific instructions to help you select your desired breakout sessions. Get ready to embark on a journey of growth and transformation!
Theresa Reed (aka “The Tarot Lady”) is a Tarot expert, astrologer, teacher and author who has been reading Tarot for over forty years. She is the author of The Cards You’re Dealt – How to Deal When Life Gets Real and about a dozen other books.
Learn more about her work @thetarotlady
Throughout history, humans have been captivated by the mystery of the future. From gazing at the stars to interpreting dreams, we've sought to understand what lies ahead. What drives this curiosity? And can we truly glimpse the path that awaits us?
In this workshop, we’ll explore the art of divination and learn simple yet effective ways to connect to your intuition (the answers ARE within you). You’ll learn magical techniques for creating the perfect vibe, mindset, and connection for better, more accurate readings. Lastly, we’ll also discuss the prediction predicament, ethics, and how to deliver information with compassion.
Get ready to discover a world of magical techniques that will elevate your readings to new heights!
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Germany and the German speaking cultures have a long history of magic. While this may not always have been called witchcraft, we find a lot in these practices that a Witch would recognize. Hidden in ancient church documents, collections of folklore, fairy tales, local customs, and many other places, there is truly a rich magical current to draw upon.
Much of this magical current can be adapted into the practice of a modern Witch, honoring this rich heritage while also making the magic relevant for us today.
Join Moss Matthey, author of An Apostate’s Guide to Witchcraft, to explore some of the charms and magical techniques found in the cultures of the German speaking world, as well as how we can carry them into the modern day, including:
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Fossil/Crystal ward:
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Wendy Dooner is deeply committed to empowering women to rediscover the innate healing wisdom of nature and their bodies. Her BS degree in Herbal Medicine and advanced Shamanic training formed the foundation of her practice she calls Shamanic Herbalism – where science, magic, and spirituality work side-by-side. It’s not just about healing; it’s about empowerment and a deeper connection with yourself and the natural world around you.
Work with the spirit medicine of the Elder Tree to prepare for moving into the dark half of the year. With Samhain as the doorway, we step into the infinite potential of the dark season, turning inward and dreaming into being what we wish for the following year
Through their powerful qualities as a crone tree. You will learn about the physical medicine and how to work with it to protect your body at this transition in the wheel of the year. Connect in ceremony and learn a simple yet profound technique to really listen to the language and wisdom of our herbal plant guides.
As we pause and reflect at this time of year, we consider what no longer serves us. Elder assists in seeing ourselves clearly - as we are now and who we are in our soul-aligned space. You will craft a magical Elder herbal pouch to work with throughout the dark months to support your winter reflections and transformation.
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H. Byron Ballard, BA, MFA, is a native of Western North Carolina. She is a writer, amateur folklorist with a specialty in Appalachian folk magic and healing. She tours extensively in the United States and Great Britain.
Her many books include four on mountain folk magic. The first was Staubs and Ditchwater, and the most recent is Small Magics (2023). She lives in Asheville.
In this immersive workshop, H. Byron Ballard, with her rich experience as an
Appalachian village witch, offers a hands-on, fundamental approach to cultivating a magical practice. She addresses essential questions about the nature of magic, its significance, and the ways to practice it, presenting straightforward techniques that participants of any skill level or tradition can adopt.
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Jacki Smith, aka Aunt Jacki, is a longtime leader in the Midwestern Pagan community. She has been teaching magic for over 30 years and is the author of numerous books. In these two hours, she’ll have you laughing until your magic spills out and you remember just how magical you are every day! She’ll show you how to visualize your magic and experience your spells as they come into your life.
Learn more about Jacki and her work at www.coventrycreations.com
In this enjoyable and inventive workshop Aunt Jacki will guide you in crafting your very own spirit candle and instruct you on casting candle incantations to manifest protection, prosperity, healing, spiritual clearing, love, community, and familial connection.
Jacki holds the belief that the magic partly resides in the art of creation, and that the mere act of creation alters the course of your life. While leading you to create your own spirit candle, Jacki will offercues to open your mind, heart, and spirit to a path of personal fulfillment.
Through this process, you will become receptive to new possibilities and blessings. You will have a tangible tool to manifest solutions and witness as they materialize in your life. Craft your spirit candle and step aside to let the magic flow from the flickering flame.
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Jacki believes the most potent incantations are the ones you perform in the moment with what you already have at hand. Have a candle ready (any candle will do) and push your creative boundaries! Open your cupboards and use what you already You’ll find everything you need between your junk drawer, spice cabinet, backyard, etc.
Lorriane Anderson is a multidisciplinary spiritual teacher, writer, and soul-based entrepreneur, whose work focuses heavily on intentional and energetic living as well as using spiritual practices as a pathway for profound healing, growth and transformation. She has been featured in The Daily Star, The Spruce, Reader’s Digest, Kindred Spirit, and Oprah Daily, among others. She is the co-creator of the bestselling Seasons of the Witch Oracle Deck Series along with several other titles in the spiritual space.
HeatherAsh Amara’s life was transformed in 1986 when she first read Dreaming Down the Dark by Starhawk. She launched into an intensive study with Vicki Noble, author of The MotherPeace Tarot, and an apprenticeship with Cerridwen Fallingstar.
She is the author of the international bestselling Warrior Goddess book series for women. She lives in New Mexico where she stewards 180 acres of wilderness at the Warrior Heart Ranch.
Find her online: www.warriorgoddess.com
You are potent. You are complete. You are divine. To genuinely acknowledge your potent completeness and respect your divinity, you require effective tools that anchor your energetic body, establish sacred boundaries, and facilitate healing from the past. This is precisely what this workshop seeks to provide.
Join HeatherAsh to discover how to embody and integrate your creative magic into all facets of your life, and together we will call upon three inner incantations to spark the Warrior Goddess Witch within you.
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Laura Tempest Zakroff (she/they) is a professional artist, author, performer, and Modern Traditional Witch based in New England. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her artwork has received awards and honors worldwide. Her work embodies myth and the esoteric through her drawings and paintings, jewelry, talismans, and other designs.
Laura is the author of several bestselling Llewellyn books including Weave the Liminal, Sigil Witchery, Visual Alchemy, and Anatomy of a Witch, as well as the artist and author of the Anatomy of a Witch Oracle and The Liminal Spirits Oracle. Laura edited The New Aradia: A Witch’s Handbook to Magical Resistance and the Gorgon's Guide to Magical Resistance from Revelore Press. Laura is the creative force behind several community events and teaches workshops online and worldwide.
Sigils are magical symbols that are designed to influence ourselves and the world around us. Explore a fresh, innovative and intuitive approach to crafting your own designs. Tracing through history, art, and culture, we’ll look at the basic elements that make up all symbols, consider meanings, and see how to safely and respectfully incorporate them into your own personal practice.
Join us for an inspiring and hands-on experience that will empower you to create sigils that reflect your intentions and desires. Unleash your creativity and unlock the magic within!
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Rhonda McCrimmon is a Celtic Shaman committed to creating shamanic pathways for those disconnected from their animist lineage and heritage. Walking a shamanic path for nearly a decade, she follows her calling with single-minded determination, making shamanic practices accessible for all. She recently published her first book, The Cauldron and the Drum: A Journey Into Celtic Shamanism with Hierophant Publishing.
Visit her at www.centreforshamanism.com
Follow her on social media @centreforshamanism
Explore the rich history and customs of the Celtic Wheel of the Year including the fire festivals of Samhain, Imbolc, Beilltainne & Lughnasadh and their associated Celtic Gods and Goddesses, Morrighan, Brigit, Dagda, and Lugh. You will also learn about the symbolism, colors, and power objects associated with different times of the year. This knowledge will help you to engage in seasonal rituals to deepen your connection with the cycles of nature so you can enrich your personal practice with ancient Celtic traditions.
You will also participate in a guided healing with The Morrighan, Goddess of the North at the helm so you can step into Samhain and begin this cycle with renewed insight, courage and purpose.
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Lorraine Monteagut, PhD. is a queer Latine witch, astrologer and author of Brujas: The Magic and Power of Witches of Color, featured in Axios, NPR, Telemundo, Cosmopolitan, People en Espanol, Bustle, Book Riot, the Witch Wave, and elsewhere. Lorraine's scholarship in occult ancestral spiritualities traces the diverse traditions of contemporary magical practices.
Lorraine is currently working on her second book, Modern Witchcraft for Dummies (Wiley, 2025). She is the creator of Witchy Heights, a community space for practical magic, where she teaches topics like folk magic, ritual astrology, and spiritual activism. She lives in St. Pete, Florida with her partner, dog, cat, and thousands of bees.
You can connect with her @witchyheights
Witchcraft has historical roots in folk practices across the world, most of which were strictly occulted, passed down orally and protected for centuries through cultural lines. As witchcraft has shed the stigma of the past, modern witches increasingly ground their practices in ancient folk magic and draw inspiration from legendary witches. Much of the folkloric cannon today hails from Euro-pagan traditions, as they're the most consistently documented, but the histories of witchcraft extend beyond the western witch, reaching to all corners of the world.
In this talk, we'll romp through a survey of witch lore and folk legends of the Global South, including Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Aboriginal Australia. We'll explore important historical witches and their practices, and we'll trace how culturally specific lore has been appropriated or left out by modern witchcraft. You'll get a well-rounded overview of global witch folklore, and there will be time to share your own cultural stories of the witch.
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Participants are encouraged to bring a witch folk story from their own childhood (including things like a folk tale, a family story, a fictional story they were told at bedtime, or even a TV witch) and a pen and paper - Lorraine will show you how to transform these stories into empowerment spells via a writing exercise.
Lilith Dorsey, M.A., hails from many magickal traditions, including Afro-Caribbean, Celtic, and Indigenous American spirituality. Their traditional education focused on Plant Science, Anthropology, and Film at the University of R.I, New York University, and the University of London. Their magickal training includes numerous initiations in Santeria also known as Lucumi, Haitian Vodoun, and New Orleans Voodoo.
A successful Voodoo Priestess practicing magick for patrons since 1991, Lilith is editor/publisher of Oshun-African Magickal Quarterly, filmmaker of the experimental documentary Bodies of Water: Voodoo Identity and Tranceformation,’ and a choreographer/performer for jazz legend Dr. John’s “Night Tripper” Voodoo Show.
Lilith is dedicated to providing accurate and respectful information about the African Traditional Religions and is a proud published Black author of such titles as 55 Ways to Connect to Goddess, The African American Ritual Cookbook, Love Magic, Orishas, Goddesses and Voodoo Queens, Water Magic, and Voodoo and African Traditional Religion.
There are Kitchen Witches, Hedge Witches, Crystal Witches, Green Witches, Water Witches, Dark Witches, Root Witches, Light Witches, Air Witches and many more. Each of these unique beings is going to approach and succeed with their magickal practices and divination efforts in their own uniquely beautiful way.
Based on Lilith's new book of the same name, both beginners and adept readers are welcome here. In this workshop we will explore Tarot Every Witch Way, discussing recipes, stones, herbs, sounds, and every other way to engage and interact with your cards.
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A lifelong student, lover, and practitioner of the magical arts, Judika Illes is the author of numerous books devoted to spells, spirits, and witchcraft including the best-selling Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells and Encyclopedia of Spirits, as well as Pure Magic, Daily Magic, Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, Encyclopedia of Mystics, Saints, and Sages, and the newly published Witches: A Compendium.
The editor and curator of two books of mystical fiction, The Weiser Book of the Fantastic and Forgotten and The Weiser Book of Occult Detectives, Judika was among the contributing authors to Taschen’s Witchcraft, part of The Library of Esoterica series. A certified aromatherapist, she has been a professional tarot card reader for over three decades. A native New Yorker, Judika teaches in the US and internationally, live and virtually.
Follow her on Instagram @judikailles and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AuthorJudikaIlles/
Welcome to the Season of the Witch! But isn’t it always the season of the Witch? Why is this time of year so closely associated with witches and witchcraft? Join Judika Illes, author of numerous books including Encyclopedia of 5,000 Spells and the newly released Witches: A Compendium, for this workshop focused on the Witching Season and what it means to be a Witch. We will discuss the diverse and individual ways that witchcraft is practiced, as well as what unites us. What do we who identify as witches share?
Judika will help us close our Gathering of the Witches weekend by leading a ritual for self-affirmation, self-celebration, and self-initiation as we kick off the holiday week and begin the “official” Season of the Witch.
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