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Each of these presenters was invited to teach because they are respected and revered in their spiritual community! They are also skillful guides who can lead you into an experience that will send you home with the lessons rooted in your broadening practice.
Learn more about these teachers and the magic they will share with you. You will also find general descriptions of their topic for the breakout sessions that are included with your main conference pass for the weekend.
*Prior to the event date we will send you specific instructions for selecting your desired breakout sessions.
Breakout sessions are designed to be highly experiential and interactive, lasting approximately two hours each. Prepare yourself to break out of the places you feel stuck, and experience growing your skills and charms in unimaginable ways!
A lifelong student, lover, and practitioner of the magical arts, Judika is the author of numerous books devoted to spells, spirits, and witchcraft including the best-selling Encyclopedia of 5000 Spells and Encyclopedia of Spirits, Daily Magic: Spells and Rituals for Making the Whole Year Magical, Pure Magic: A Complete Course in Spellcasting, as well as Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, Encyclopedia of Mystics, Saints, and Sages, Magic When You Need It, and The Weiser Field Guide to Witches. Judika is the curator of two books of mystical fiction, The Weiser Book of the Fantastic and Forgotten and The Weiser Book of Occult Detectives. An editor and 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
Friday, October 21, 2022 | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM CST
Join author Judika Illes in an exploration of spells of the witching season. October heralds the beginning of the annual witching season, when the veil between the worlds is especially sheer, including the veils between the realms of the living and the dead and the realms of mortals and spirits. It is a time that is especially conducive to any kind of spellwork. However, certain spells are best cast during this time, while a few can only be cast during this season. Contrary to some popular assumptions, this witching season does not terminate on
Halloween/Samhain but continues throughout the winter.
Goals of these spells include love, protection, spiritual protection, prosperity, and ancestor work. We will discuss what makes these spells unique, learn how to maximize success, and even cast some spells together. No previous spellcasting experience is required, although the material is suitable for adepts. Judika will describe and teach necessary techniques and tricks.
Materials needed for this workshop:
A pen and paper or something else to take notes is required. In addition, you may wish to have
something representing a loved one who is now deceased. This could be a photo or a drawing or
something that reminds you of them, such as a piece of jewelry or a small item of clothing like a
glove or handkerchief or even a bottle of their favorite perfume or cologne.
Arin is a third-degree Wiccan High Priestess in the Black Forest Clan, a tradition linked both by lineage and practice to several other branches of Wiccan thought and philosophy including the Caledonii Tradition, Druidism, Gardnerian practice, Seax-Wicca, general Celtic Wicca, and German witchcraft. She works as a priestess in her community performing rites of passage and giving occasional workshops, and leads a private coven. She's also the author of The Green Witch's Grimoire, Spellcrafting, The Pregnant Goddess, Wicca, The Green Witch, The Way of the Hedge Witch, House Witch, The Witch's Book of Self-Care, Pagan Pregnancy, Solitary Wicca for Life, and The Hidden Meaning of Birds—A Spiritual Field Guide.
Arin can be found at: https://arinmurphyhiscock.com/
This workshop touches on a variety of green witch-centered activities, including planning an herbal grimoire; creating a botanical entry page (including pressing samples, entering information, and personal notes); reviewing garden performance and planning for next year: working with plant spirits for insight; discussing the seasonal shift from Samhain to Yule through a green witchcraft lens; and creating a protection talisman for a garden over winter. The seasonal shifts resonate for many witches, and this workshop also includes a guided meditation to help prepare for the darkness and renewal the natural world goes through during the winter months.
Materials needed for this workshop:
Journal and pen/pencil.
Handouts that can be downloaded closer to the Gathering (printed out, if desired)
Your favorite meditation supports (candles, incense, cushions, etc.
Temperance is the author of Year of the Witch (Weiser 2020), teacher, and folk witch based in South Florida, and has spent over nineteen years of practice devoted to growing and developing her personal path of witchcraft and paganism. Temperance studied History at Salem State University and is currently studying Religion in South Florida. In her free time, she is most likely reading too many books and blogging her way through the internet.
Temperance can be found at www.wildwomanwitchcraft.com
In this interactive workshop, each participant will build a year of festivals based on their own individual climate types and geographic location, and include personal days to enhance your magical power. This course teaches you how to see the land as an ally and more importantly, how to be an ally to the land. This is a unique opportunity to create an annual festival cycle that reflects your own personal magic!
Temperance Alden is the author of Year of the Witch (Weiser 2020), teacher, and folk witch based in South Florida, and has spent over nineteen years of practice devoted to growing and developing her personal path of witchcraft and paganism. Temperance studied History at Salem State University and is currently studying Religion in South Florida. In her free time, she is most likely reading too many books and blogging her way through the internet.
Materials needed for this workshop:
Pen and paper.
Rebecca is an emotional witch, forever seeker and queer human lady (she/her), who uses magic and storytelling to support in the unlearning of limiting beliefs, habits, and information that takes you out of momentum of your own personal power. And gently guides you to inspire new meaning through writing, Numerology, and Math Magic.
You can connect with Rebecca online at www.rebeccascolnick.com or on Instagram @beescolnick.
In this interactive workshop, Rebecca Scolnick guides you through some of the magic found in her brand-new book: The Witch’s Book of Numbers. She reveals how you, too, can apply the incredible power of numerology to find answers to life’s big questions and magnify your magic —no complex mathematics required! In this workshop, you will learn:
Whether you’re a beginner witch or have years of experience, this workshop will show how numerology can boost your magical practice, enrich your life’s meaning, and empower your unique journey as a witch.
Materials needed for this workshop:
Paper, pen, and a simple calculator (the one on your smart phone is perfect!)
Madame Pamita is a Ukrainian diaspora witch, teacher, author, candle maker, spellcaster, and tarot reader. She has a popular YouTube Channel for teaching witchcraft, she hosts two podcasts: "Baba Yaga's Magic" and "Magic and the Law of Attraction" and she is the author of Baba Yaga’s Book of Witchcraft, The Book of Candle Magic, and Madame Pamita's Magical Tarot. She is also the proprietress of the online spiritual apothecary, the Parlour of Wonders and lives in Santa Monica, California.
You can find her at parlourofwonders.com.
Best selling author and witch of the woods, Madame Pamita, is going to lead you through a magical experience to connect you to your roots and craft your very own Motanka. In Ukrainian magic, the Motanka is a powerful spirit doll crafted for healing, protection, blessings and assistance from your ancestors. Motanky have been around for thousands of years as talismans to house our guardian ancestors so they can protect us, give us strength, provide insight and inspiration, heal us, and bless us with good fortune. Throughout millennia, they have been created and given from mother to daughter, weaving a golden thread of lineage connecting generation to generation.
Motanky can be crafted to protect the home, bring blessings to the family, and provide the comfort that only the ancestors can give. Place your motanka on an ancestor altar or in the sacred corner of your home. If you want to speak with your ancestor spirits, you can talk to your motanka and ask for their support. They can aid a loved one in pregnancy and childbirth, or they can be placed in a cradle before a child is born to protect them in infancy and connect them to their ancestors. They can be given to an ill person to remove their sickness or placed in a casket so that the ancestors accompany one into the afterlife. There are countless ways a Motanka can benefit you for the rest of your life, and for generations to come.
Materials needed for this workshop:
Hemp or linen cloth cut into two squares. First square is about 18 inches (45 centimeters) on each side. And second is a rectangle cut about 8 inches by 6 inches (20 centimeters by 15 centimeters). You’ll also need embroidery floss for tying off the hands and neck of the motanka.
Colorful fabric for clothing: Square piece about 6 to 8 inches (15 to 20 centimeters) for the scarf, rectangular piece about 5 by 8 inches (12 by 20 centimeters) for the skirt, and a white ribbon OR rectangular piece of fabric 2.5 by 4 inches (6 by 10 centimeters) for the apron. You’ll need needles or pins for tucking in loose ends of the embroidery floss. And any magical talismans you’d like to wrap up in your motanka (small coins/wool for prosperity, magical herbs for attracting good things, grains for abundance, ashes collected from your hearth or wood stove to connect with ancestors, etc.)
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 powerful. You are whole. You are divine. To truly claim your powerful wholeness and honor your divinity, you need good tools that ground your energetic body, create sacred boundaries, and heal you from the past. That’s exactly what you will learn in this workshop. Come find out how to embody your creative magic in all areas of your life, and together we will invoke three inner spells to spark the Warrior Goddess Witch within you.
Materials needed for this workshop:
Pen and paper.
Jacki Smith, aka Aunt Jacki, is a longtime leader in the pagan community. She has been teaching magic for over 30 years and is the author of numerous books on the subject. In these two hours she’ll have you laughing until your magic spills out and you remember just how magical you are every day! And 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 coventrycreations.com.
In this FUN and creative workshop, Jacki Smith (aka Aunt Jacki), will guide you in creating your very own spirit candle and teach you how to cast candle spells to manifest protection, prosperity, healing, spiritual clearing, love, community, and family connection.
Just like making a last minute dinner from whatever you happen to have in your kitchen, you can similarly grab a candle and almost anything you have laying around your home to cast a spell! In this interactive, game show-like workshop, Aunt Jacki will show you how to adapt and improvise to create powerful spells anytime, anywhere. There's no need to trudge over to your local magic supply shop- we can use what we have and it's fun. It's What's my Candle Spell!
Materials needed for this workshop:
Jackie believes the most powerful spells are the ones that you do in the moment with what you already have available. So besides having a candle ready (any candle at all), she challenges you to explore your creative limits. Open your cupboards and see what you already have to use in this candle spell. You have everything you need between your junk drawer, spice cabinet, back yard, etc.
Annwyn Avalon is a Water Witch, Water Priestess, and the founder of Triskele Rose Witchcraft, an Avalonian witchcraft tradition. She has devoted her life to the study of art, witchcraft, and magic. She is the author of Water Witchcraft: Magic and Lore from the Celtic Tradition and The Way of the Water Priestess: Entering the World of Water Magic. Visit her at www.WaterWitchcraft.com
Water holds within its depths the power of cleansing, healing, and transformation. In this workshop, we will explore the mysteries and magic of water, as well as the science behind water magic and how it can be used to create balance within us. You will also learn how to do meaningful work in devotion to the sacred waters and Water Goddesses. We will end the workshop with a guided vision journey, where we will dive deep into the magical realms of water to bring balance and find our own current.
Materials needed for this workshop:
Pen, paper and a glass or bowl of water.
Amy is a professional intuitive and the best-selling author of, ‘Blackthorn’s Botanical Magic,’ ‘Sacred Smoke,’ and ‘Blackthorn’s Botanical Brews.’ She has appeared on HuffPoLive, Netflix’s Top Ten Secrets and Mysteries in an episode about Supernatural Abilities & the AP Newswire. Amy lives in Delaware.
You can view Amy’s tea shop at BlackthornsBotanicals.com
The more tumultuous the times, the more our friends, family and other practitioners need us, and the more likely that we are stretching ourselves too thin. "I don't have time" is a great way to say, "I don't want to." Join Amy Blackthorn, author of 'Blackthorn's Protection Magic,' 'Blackthorn's Botanical Wellness,' and 'Blackthorn's Botanical Magic' to explore the radical self-care that results when we make ourselves accountable for taking care of our own needs. Learn techniques for incorporating your own care into a daily routine, magical methods to demand what you need for yourself and reminding yourself that you are just as important as the rest of your family and friends. Remember, you can't pour from an empty cup.
Linda Star Wolf has been a visionary teacher and shamanic guide to thousands of people over the last 35 years. Starting out as a therapist in the mental health and addictions fields in the 1980’s, Star Wolf is a nationally certified alcohol and drug counselor who draws from her personal experience of recovery from addiction. Dedicating her life to helping others to release dysfunctional patterns of all kinds and to radically transform their lives, Star Wolf teaches people how to awaken to the Bigger Picture, embody their own inner Visionary Shaman and step into a life of passionate purpose. Her personal commitment to sacred activism and visionary leadership led her to create the Shamanic Ministers Global Network.
Star Wolf holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Services from St. Leo College, a Doctorate of Ministry from Summit University and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Religious Studies from the University for Integrative Learning.
Find her at: https://www.shamanicbreathwork.org/
Saturday, October 22, 2022 | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM CST
Shamanic Breathwork® uses deep breathing techniques and special music and sound to help participants reach an altered state of consciousness.
During this intensive workshop, Linda Star Wolf will teach you the breathing practices and provide the accompanying soundtrack as she guides you through this experiential process. You will need headphones and a room where you can sit comfortably or lie down and be undisturbed for the duration of the workshop.
This is a highly experiential and transformative process that inspires you to remember and reconnect with your own inner healer. As old wounds and dysfunctional patterns are released and transformed, you can begin to regain lost soul parts and remember the magic of who you truly are.
Materials needed for this workshop:
Headphones and a quiet space where you can lie down or sit comfortably and be undisturbed for the duration of the workshop. Notebook and pen for journaling.
J. Allen Cross is a practicing witch of Mexican, Native American, and European descent whose craft was shaped by his Catholic upbringing and mixed family culture. Living in his home state of Oregon, he works as a psychic medium and occult specialist for a well-known paranormal investigation team out of the Portland metro area. When he’s not investigating, he enjoys providing spells and potions to his local community, exploring haunted and abandoned places, working as a consultant for other workers and investigators, and of course writing about witchcraft. Follow him on Instagram at @oregon_wood_witch
In this class, bestselling author, witch, and paranormal investigator J Allen Cross will teach you how to open your psychic senses in order to communicate with the earthbound dead (aka ghosts), and other spirits that are all around us all the time. This unique workshop will be a mixture of lecture, Q&A, and activities. Participants will be learning some short meditations and how to use pendulum dowsing as tools to communicate with spirits. After this class, you’ll be able to interact with spirits for years to come using some of J Allen Cross’s trusted methods.
This workshop will include guided visualizations, handouts containing spells and rituals, and will conclude with a spiritual cleansing.
Materials needed for this workshop:
Pen, paper, and a pendulum (which can be a fancy crystal pendulum or any weight on a string so if it’s a necklace with a pendant or car keys and dental floss, that works too!)
Phoenix (she/her) is a restless seeker of knowledge and beauty. She is an initiate in the Reclaiming Tradition of Witchcraft, the Avalon Druid Order, and Gardnerian Wicca. Phoenix has written several books including What Is Remembered Lives, Walking in Beauty, and Witches, Heretics, and Warrior Women. She is a folk magick practitioner, professional Witch and reader, and the owner of the esoteric Goddess shop, Milk & Honey.
Find her at: http://www.phoenixlefae.com/
Spirituality in the form of Witchcraft can be a rebellious act. Many of us find our way to the practice of Witchcraft because we are seeking change, connection, and let’s be honest: power. Witches and heretics are the outsiders of mainstream culture. They are the edge-walkers and the world changers. It is an honor to step into the lineage of spiritual rebel and it is an important part of the magick of Witchcraft. In this presentation, we will explore the potential of our own personal spiritual rebellion and step closer to our own inner heretic. Part lecture, part ritual, during our time together we will speak the names of the rebels of the past and seek their influence, wisdom, and magick on the rebellions we wish to create in the world today.
Materials needed for this workshop:
Pen and paper.
Emma is a crafty witch and the author of Wild Witchcraft and Witch Life. For her, magical crafting is about connecting with the deepest parts of self, and the spirits that live within and around us, to intentionally create and embody the energy and spirit you wish to attract into your life.
Find her at: https://emmakathrynwildwitchcraft.com/
Spirit work is a wide and varied practice and can include working with the ancestors, but also includes the genius loci, the spirit of place, of flora and fauna. A spirit vessel is quite simply a working tool that allows a stronger connection with spirit when you need it. Using a spirit vessel allows the spirit you are working with to anchor in this realm or in a different place for longer periods and can add a new depth to your witchcraft practice. Because spirit vessels can be used for any type of spirit work, they are accessible to all, regardless of tradition or path.
Materials needed for this workshop: A clean jar or tin, or anything with a lid ( a food jar that has been cleaned is perfect). Ground eggshell. Any natural materials you find in or around your home or neighborhood, including; twigs, pinecones, dried herbs, dried grasses, dried flowers, dried leaves, wool, string, wire, spices, or just about anything you can imagine that will fit inside of your container.
Rhian is a Certified Life Coach, Interfaith Minister, and Professional Intuitive who helps people see their inner truth in order to live their most fulfilling lives. She has been in private practice since 2005 helping survivors of trauma and abuse to live in their truth and break behavioral patterns that are not supporting their highest good and ultimate healing.
Find her at www.myvillagewitch.com
In this magical workshop Rhian Lockard will take you into the realm of spiritual communication. You will develop your own intuitive center and learn to live a life in co-creation with spirit through the use of communication with your guides and your higher self through intuition. There are concrete and tangible tools that participants can use to develop these skills and they will leave the course knowing how to ask for and receive tangible evidence of their communication being effective. Participants will also be centered in a place of their own spiritual self-empowerment and have a more fully articulated concept of their capacity to tap into the spiritual realm with ease. Participants will leave the course with a clearer understanding of how to initiate contact with their Spirit Guides and Guardian Angels.
Materials needed for this workshop:
Pen and paper.
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