PantheaCon 2015 Program book

PANTHEACON 2015 STAFF This will be a wonderful gathering, but it could not have been done without a tremendous amount of help from a lot of heroines and heroes. Here is a list of some of our staff.

• Ringmaster: Glenn Turner, producer and director • Programming: Jamie (Head), Mike (Second), Bat-Dave, Hobbit, Donna Kay, JosephJoseph, Morgan Anduin, Cara • Operations: Sabre (Head), Gene (Second), B, Chris, Cruz, Darrin, Dorie, Larcie, Rellie, eric liter, Erin, Joe, Kaerla Fellows, Ryn Serenity, Kelly, Miss Kimmi Fantastico, Astra Kim, Laurel, Skwirl, Nicole, LadyVanadis, Bob, RoseRed, Chiefted • Green Room: Christa (Head), Brad, Chris, Lonnie, Dragon Singing, Sara Moore, Tina, Wynter Rose • Gryphons: Angela (Head), Maiasaurus (Second), Gnowun Uno, Cathy B, Ronan, Thorrfin, Chaos, Funmilayo, Jax, Freyaschild, Grammy Kitty, Rose Teathyme, Feathyr, Saiwila, Dagulf Loptson, Baba Iwasina, Nan Edwards Boyster, Shirin Morton McClimans, PombaPet, Starlight • Hospitality: Sandy (Head), Esther (Second), Davin, Blondie, Constant Change, Diana, Brushwolf, Max • Information: Sage (Head), Queen (Second), Arthur, et alia laughing and weeping, Trancer, BGOD, Cynan, Myrrtle, Nifty!

Kimmie, MamaRhi, Robert, Shanda, Sylvia FireCatWolf, Glyph • Logistics: davideye (Head), Parker, CJ Newell • Newsletter: Helena Handbasket (Head), Michelle (Second) • Pre-Registration: Teri Davis (Head), Amy Racina (Second), Bob Orser, Don Simpson • Registration: Goblin Queen (Head), Acianita (Second), Gina Woodyatt, Icefire, Gnara, Deborah Moyer, Forrest, Jim, Brigideire, Spider, Triskele, Michael Martinez, Goblin Minion #1, Villain, Tracey • Staff Lounge: Jack (Head), joi de vert (Second), Salt, origynal sinnerjee, Cayenne, Nemea Arborvitae, Diane Snake Friend, Heather, Grim, Selene Z Rogue • Tech: OnOffOn (Head), OffOnOff (Second), Alec, Amber, Cameron Nelson, Techno, Ferbie, David, Sparkle, Dylan, Justin, Kenton, AiYume, MC, Fenris Lycaous • Hotel Liaison & Vendor Coordinator: Thalassa • Hotel/Vendor Staff: Rydell (Department Second). Gareth (Department Third), Marc, Edward • Web Site: Mike, Jamie, Dewey Worth • Cover Art: Adam Lunøe • Program design & layout: Jim Ward

CONTENTS PantheaCon 2015 Staff................................................................... 3 Welcome to PantheaCon 2015....................................................... 5 Membership Registration............................................................... 6 Welcome from the Programming Staff........................................... 6 Information Desks 2015................................................................. 6 Newsletter..................................................................................... 7 The Green Room, Presenters Check In ............................................ 7 Technical Services.......................................................................... 7 Volunteers (AKA Gryphons)............................................................ 7 Convention Operations................................................................... 8 Peace Bonding............................................................................... 8 Hotel Survival Guide....................................................................... 8 While You Are Here......................................................................... 9 Event & Ritual Etiquette................................................................. 9 PantheaCon FAQ........................................................................... 10 Parties & Hospitality Suites.......................................................... 11 Friday Afternoon Schedule........................................................... 21 Friday Evening Schedule.............................................................. 23 Saturday Morning Schedule......................................................... 26 Saturday Afternoon Schedule....................................................... 29 Saturday Evening Schedule.......................................................... 32 Sunday Morning Schedule........................................................... 35 Sunday Afternoon Schedule......................................................... 39 Sunday Evening Schedule............................................................ 42 Monday Morning Schedule.......................................................... 44 Monday Afternoon Schedule........................................................ 47 PantheaCon 2015 Presenters........................................................ 51 PantheaCon Vendors.................................................................... 69 Event Floorplans...............................................................back cover Cover: Frigga spinning the thread of all fates by Adam Lunøe 3

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Welcome to PantheaCon 2015 W

elcome to the Twenty-first annual PantheaCon. Our wonderful gathering of the tribes has become the largest annual pagan convention in the United States or possibly the world.

The Bay Area has a wide range of pagans, re-constructionists, and nature religions that meet and mingle here. As usual we have made the hard choice among an abundance of applications for great events and knowledgeable speakers.

Mornings have two 90 minute sessions (9 AM–10:30 AM & 11 AM–12:30 PM) and afternoons have two (1:30 PM–3 PM & 3:30 PM–5 PM), with a one-hour lunch and a two-hour dinner break. Evening events are scheduled at 7 PM, 9 PM and 11PM. You can find scholarly, ritual and entertainment presentations in almost every time slot. So no matter what mood you are in, there will be something to get you excited and get you going. Programming runs from noon on Friday to 4 PM on Monday and has over 200 presentations.

This year we will open some areas on Thursday from 6–9 PM. We have the San Jose/Santa Clara rooms for a casual Hang-out on Thurs. 6PM till midnight. This area is kid-friendly (no alcohol). We encourage people to bring games and things to share.

Thursday open areas: Registration 6–9PM, Information 6–9PM, Green Room (for presenters) 6–9PM, Gryphons (volunteers) Room 245 from7–9PM, Con Hospitality Room 945 from 7–9PM. Registration for PantheaCon Membership opens at 8 AM on Friday and is at the Convention Center Entry on the ground floor farthest from the hotel elevators. After you register and pick up your badge, you will receive a complete program guide, pocket program, and up to date changes. Look each day for our PantheaCon Daily Oracle for the latest about changes to the program and upcoming evening parties.

Badges will be required for participation in any presentation or for admittance to any official PantheaCon party floors. Badges will be checked. Please wear your badge at all times. Lost badges will have to be purchased again, but your money will be refunded if you find the old one. [See badge policy] A short Opening Ritual with Glenn Turner and friends starts the Conference at noon (Hotel room check in is typically at 3 PM, but bags can be left with the hotel bell service people.) Then at 1:30 PM the Con gets going with lots of wonderful presentations. We will have up to 14 different simultaneous workshops going on at any time. Keep your eyes open on the official posting spots to hear about parties or informal meetings. Every time slot is full of magical and fabulous presentations. One of our biggest “complaints” is that there is no cloak of bi-location available for people. And don’t forget Monday, it may be the last day of Con but it has some of the best stuff. You can wrap up the weekend with the Closing Ritual at 3:30 PM. We again have the use of the bar called Club Max all day Saturday. Look for the events scheduled there.

Dress up, have fun. Bring your dancing shoes for all the great

events with dancing, wear red and black for the Friday night Pomba devotional, and robes and finery we can only wear in a hotel, but not outside. You may also want to bring a drum to join in a drum circle one evening, or bring ritual robes, or a kilt, or pirate garb, or finery for parties or just relax as yourself.

(A word of caution: we share the hotel including the elevators and First floor areas with a few non-Con hotel guests. Please, be covered as if for the street when traveling through the public areas of the hotel. This is not to discourage dazzling costuming.)

Look for the Shuttle van to the Overflow Hotels just outside the Convention Entrance near Info, Reg and the Vendors. We have chairs for waiting for the van. Also check at the Info desk for more about the shuttles.

Food: The Ballroom Mezzanine area on the second floor above Reg will have tables and chairs to eat at with the food cart downstairs between Reg and Sprigs. Menus for the Doubletree restaurants will be posted on the website, at Info and at the restaurants.

Book Signing tables are located in the Bayshore Foyer, outside the Vendor Room Main Entrance and next to the Ancient Ways booth. The schedule of the authors doing signings is available at the Vendor Coordinator table. Books can be bought at the Ancient Ways booth, where you can also find books and CDs the presenters bring to us to sell for them. (Presenters, please check ahead with us by emailing store@ancientways.com; don’t just drop off books or CDs at the Ancient Ways booth without prior permission.)

The City Foyer can be used as a place to go after an exciting workshop to continue the discussion. Sometimes the Con Suite is a good place to gather to discuss a good topic. Check with them first by phoning 7954.

The Conference Hospitality Suite (Con Suite), Room 954, is in the Ninth floor Presidential suite has snacks, tea and coffee and is a place to go to relax a bit. It is open much of the time or as we can staff it. If you wish to bring something to contribute, by all means, do so. We also have a nearby Kid Friendly room—kids must be with an adult.

As requested by a Teen petition, we have a Teen Lounge on the 2nd floor in the Chardonnay next door to the Health Club. It will be open from about 9 am till midnight.

Party Rooms and Hospitality Suites: The 2nd, 9th and 10th floors are where parties are held. All will host discussions, gatherings and parties. Look for the details of these groups with their times and days on the website, program book, and at the Information table and Bulletin board. All groups hosting parties should give their information to the Info table and check in with Ops for guidelines.

Please help us make this Convention better by using our General Event Evaluation form. We want you to have the best possible time with your peers as possible. Hand it in to the Info table, mail it to Ancient Ways or send us feedback at feedback@pantheacon.com.

We will post a feedback form on the website too.

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LO S T B A D G E P O L I C Y

WELCOME FROM THE PROGRAMMING STAFF!

We’ve scheduled more than 200 presentations from many different traditions, so we think there will be plenty to keep everyone involved, busy and having fun. You can find the presentation schedule elsewhere in the program guide or online at pantheacon. com. You’ll also find a list of party room events. If late-night parties aren’t your thing, we offer selected scholarly presentations in the evening hours.

Some important notes:

Please keep track of your badge!

You will be asked to show your badge at the entrance to most con events. If you do not have your badge, you will be asked to retrieve it before entering. Our policy for lost badges is that if you have lost your badge, you will need to purchase another con membership at full price. If you later find your original badge, you can bring both badges to the registration desk and we will refund the cost of your second badge.

THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS!

MEMBERSHIP REGISTRATION Located in the Lobby area near the Ballrooms used by our Vendors.

If you have pre-registered you can get in a quick set of lines designated by letter for last names. Your badge will be waiting for you.

To do your On-site registration, fill out the form and stand in the line, pay and your badge will be made. On-site Registration is $80 for the full 4 day weekend. A one day badge is $40 and an evening only badge is $20. (Evenings start after 5pm when the last afternoon programming ends.)

Your badge gives you access to all events and to the Conference floors (2nd, 9th, and 10th ) where Hospitality room events and parties are held. Please do not lose or forget to wear your badge. You will NOT be allowed into events or the 2, 9 or 10th floors without your badge. This is to keep people from crashing our events and our parties. One exception is the Vendor Hall where visitors are welcome.

If you lose your badge, you will need to buy another one. If you find your old badge you can get a refund. See our LOST BADGE POLICY section.

Hours: Thurs. 6–9pm, Fri. 8am–11pm, Sat. 8am–11pm, Sun. 8am–11pm, Mon. 8am–1pm

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1. All presentations and party floors are monitored, so remember to wear your badge at all times. If you don’t have your badge you will be asked to retrieve it before being allowed to enter a presentation or party.

2. If you are attending a presentation with adult content, make sure you bring your state-issued ID with you as we will be checking ages at the door.

3. Please be aware that as our attendance grows some popular presentations may fill to capacity. We will be turning people away if the rooms are too full. If you think a presentation might be really popular, we highly recommend that you arrive early.

PantheaCon is doing its part to combat the condition known as Pagan Standard Time. Please be prompt to all your events, especially those that are marked as closed or restricted entry - if you’re late, you may not get in! All closed/restricted events are marked with a special symbol in the program. If you are in a hallway outside presentations in progress, please be respectful of your fellow con-goers and keep it quiet. There are plenty of places in the hotel where loud, happy people are welcome and where you won’t run the risk of disturbing a presentation.

We encourage you to make the Info desk a regular stop every day for message board postings such as cancellations, room changes and late additions to the schedule, and copies of our amazing newsletter. The newsletter also contains schedule changes, as well as helpful hints on staying healthy, ritual etiquette, local restaurants, interviews and daily divination readings.

We hope you will fill out a PantheaCon feedback form before you head home. You can find them at the info desk, or you can email your comments to feedback@pantheacon.com. We do listen to your suggestions and comments and use them to help make every year a little bit better.

See you around the Con! — The PantheaCon Programming Team

INFORMATION DESKS 2015

Got questions? Come by one of the Information desks and our ultra friendly staff can help direct you to where you want to go, give you suggestions for places to eat, tell you about the hotel shuttle, give you a daily newsletter and a pocket program guide, and so much more!

Remember, we have a Secondary Information desk located near the main bank of elevators. The Primary Information desk is located between the Registration table and the Vending room.

You can bring Lost and Found items to either of the Information desks and we will make sure it goes to ConOps for safekeeping. Check with us first to see if something you lost was turned in. We can direct you to Con-Ops, if your lost item isn’t with us.

If you have flyers you want to post, you must bring them to the Primary Information desk so we can approve for posting and give you

the right kind of tape to post with. Also, you can find Panthea- Con’s fabulously helpful Feedback forms at the Information desk. PLEASE, take a little time to give us your feedback - we use it to improve the Con each year.

Oh, and let us know if this is your first time at PantheaCon—we love to help you have an outstanding experience. (We are developing a “New to PantheaCon” essay and could use your questions and suggestions.)

Information desk hours are as follows: Thurs – 6PM to 9PM, Friday, Saturday, & Sunday–8:00 AM to midnight, Monday–8:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

NEWSLETTER

The Daily Oracle is the PantheaCon newsletter. It’s your source for schedule changes (cancellations, additions, and room changes), Hospitality Suite events, and important safety notices. A new edition comes out every day, and you can find current copies at all Information desks, Information boards near first and second floor elevators, literature tables on the first floor, and the PantheaCon Hospitality Suite (Room 954). Items for inclusion in the Newsletter must be turned in at the main Information desk in the Bayshore foyer or emailed to newsletter@pantheacon.com by 9 p.m. each night (earlier is better), and inclusion is dependent on space.

THE GREEN ROOM (for use of the presenters)

Where Presenters Check In

(in the Capitola room opposite the San Jose and near Club Max) Thank you for joining us to present at PantheaCon! First, please pick up your conference badge at Registration, located at the lobby level. Then, go to the Green Room, located opposite the San Jose room on the first floor and near Club Max. Please check in at least 90 min before your presentation. Those who do will receive a special ribbon. This can also be done a day or two ahead if you are already attending the conference.

Green Room will be open: • Thursday – 6 PM to 9PM • Friday–10:00 AM to 11:00 PM • Saturday–8:30 AM to 11:00 PM • Sunday–8:30 AM to 11:00 PM • Monday–8:30 AM to 2:00 PM In the past, some of our presenters have experienced lines at Green Room check in, mainly because of the high volume of participants on Friday night and Saturday morning for check in. To help smooth this process, we ask that the contact person and only the contact person come into the Green Room to sign in for their event. The contact person will be given all of the “Presenter” ribbons allocated for their event. All other members of a workshop or ritual will be able to get their ribbons from the contact person. Any discounts or compensation will also be given to the contact person only. Any technical changes, scheduling, or room changes will be made with the contact person only. We hope this will make things much faster and smoother so that we can make the best possible convention for everyone, especially for our presenters!

If you have Assistants that are there to help in ONLY your event, they will get a special badge from the Green Room. Come early, so they are not delayed and late to the presentation. You will need to

pick it up for them. This will give them access to your event, NOT any other presentations at P-Con. They are welcome to purchase a day pass at registration to attend other events, if they become interested. If you need additional copies of your handout, there is a business center in the hotel where they are already set up for exactly this type of service.

We look forward to your presentation!

TECHNICAL SERVICES

Greetings from the Tech Dept (aka Engineering).

We are the folks responsible for providing Technical support to presenters at PantheaCon. Our primary magickal skill is invisibility; if you can “see” us then something has gone wrong.

Presenters, please be assured that we are doing our best to support your needs. Some presenters opt to bring their own equipment (LCD projectors, PAs, etc.) If you decide to bring you own gear, please let us know. We do provide screens for anyone bringing their own projector. For those requesting LCD projectors, we do NOT provide video adapters for Mac computers.

Con-Goers: The Tech department asks that you be careful and respectful of any equipment in presentation rooms. Do not move or adjust any equipment unless instructed directly by the Tech Staff. We appreciate your good intentions, but prefer to handle the gear ourselves.

And, oh yes... we are the prettiest ones.

VOLUNTEERS (AKA GRYPHONS) ROOM 245

As Gryphons (Voluteers), we can be called upon to assist any other department or to do our own specific duties such as monitoring presentations and parties.

Volunteers can *earn back* their Membership fee and may be considered for open Staff positions at future Cons.

Important Notes:

You must have a membership for PantheaCon 2015 in order to work as a Volunteer. Please pick up your membership badge from Registration before you come up to the Gryphon Lair (room 245) to sign up for shifts to help out. If you register and pay for your membership on site, you will be required to show your membership receipt when signing up to Volunteer.

You must also be at least 18 years of age as of the first day of the convention - which is considered to be February 13th, 2015. If you are not yet 18, but will be 16 as of the first day of the convention, you can still volunteer. You must have a parent or legal guardian who is ALSO a member of the convention AND attending come with you to the Gryphon Lair to complete your paperwork.

To be eligible for ANY reimbursement you must work as a Volunteer for a minimum of 8 hours, across at least two days, during the convention. For example: $55-$60 paid for membership = 8 hours work required for full reimbursement, $70-$80 paid for membership = 12 hours of work required for a full reimbursement.

The minimum shift length is two hours and no one but you can work hours toward your reimbursement.

For speedier check in, we ask you to please look at the Schedule of Events, figure out your availability before heading up to Gryphon Lair (room 245) and fill out the online Volunteer Form if

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possible. Please note that Friday, Saturday & Sunday shifts are very popular and fill up quickly on a first come, first served basis. Monday shifts have a special added bonus: work 3 hours and have it count for 4. Most Monday shifts involve assisting with load-out and require Volunteers to lift up to 40 lbs. Also, if you take an 8:45 am or a 10:45 pm shift, we will round you up to the next hour.

Volunteers are responsible for their own food and lodging during the run of the Con. Here’s how the process works: Once you’ve done your paperwork, you will receive a Gryphon number and time sheet. Your time sheet will be used to determine your reimbursement amount. To ensure that you receive credit for all hours worked, you MUST check in at Room 245 at least 15 minutes prior to your shift and after the end of your shift. Your time sheet must be updated and intialed by a Staff member.

We have an immediate reimbursement policy, which means that you will receive a check on site after your worked your specified number of hours.

Our work trade agreement also specifies that once you sign up for a shift and have agreed to work it, you must show up or face serious repercussions (e.g. losing all hours previously worked that day). We look forward to seeing you during our normal Lair hours: • Thursday: 7:00-9:00 pm • Friday: 9:30 am-1:00 am • Saturday & Sunday: 7:45 am-1:00 am • Monday: 7:45 am-3:00 pm

CONVENTION OPERATIONS—ZINFANDEL

Convention Operations (commonly called ConOps) can be found in the Zinfandel Room on the Second Floor of the hotel (just past the Boardroom and the Riesling room on the left side of the taller tower of rooms). It will be open almost 24 hours a day, starting late Thursday and closing late afternoon Monday.

A Special Request—when entering ConOps for assistance of ANY kind please try to keep your voice down—ConOps is a small room already full of people, ringing phones and two-way radios. We DO want to help you, that’s what we are there for, we just ask that you help us help you and everyone else who needs our assistance.

Getting Assistance

The most visible facet of the Operations crew is called the “Conference Assistance Team” or “CAT” and they are our version of event security. There will be CAT people wandering about the convention, so if you need assistance with a problem, feel free to approach any of us as we are here to make things run as smoothly as possible.

All Operations/CAT people will have a special badge, which is red metallic printing on black background with the Ancient Ways logo, so that they can be easily identified. Remember: If you have a problem, need assistance or want to turn in or claim a “lost and found” item, you can: 1. Talk to a CAT member 2. Go to the Information Table 3. Go to the ConOps (Board Room—Second Floor) 4. Or ask any of our staff people with radios for urgent help.

PLEASE: do not go to the Registration Table.

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Lost and Found

All lost and found items should be taken to one of two places, either the Information Table (located in the foyer outside the Vendor Hall and across from Registration) or ConOps (2nd floor Zinfandel Room).

Anything turned into the Information Table will be taken to ConOps for safekeeping. If you want to claim a lost and found item, you MUST go to ConOps. The Information Table will only be collecting lost and found items. At the end of the convention all unclaimed items are taken to the Ancient Ways store.

PEACE-BONDING

Peace-bonding weapons is a common sci-fi convention practice. We strongly suggest that any athames and other ritual tools, which might be mistaken for weapons, be peacebonded. After all PantheaCon is a peaceful gathering of the tribes, and to that end we will be offering to peace-bond your weapons as a symbol of your “intent of non-use.” Also, having your weapon peace-bonded can help to avert misunderstandings with non-attendees and hotel staff who may not know or understand a “costume” or “ritual” use for a weapon.

If one of our CATs offers to peace bond your weapon, or suggests that you should have it peace bonded, please consider it seriously. You will be able to get peace-bonds from wandering CAT people or ConOps. NOTE: Please use common sense when displaying any weapon.

Move away from crowded areas, do not allow it to be brandished about and make certain that it is securely put away when you are finished showing it.

HOTEL SURVIVAL GUIDE

We’ve put together this guide to let you know what some rules and expectations are for yourself and your fellow attendees. We hope you have a wonderful time!

Checking in/Check-out

Hotel check-in starts at 3pm. Standard check-out time is 12:00 noon. If you need a later check out you can call the Front Desk to see if one can be arranged, however if the room is already booked it may not be possible. If you arrive earlier than 3pm, or wish to stay later than Noon, the Bell Captain may be able to store your baggage for you for a short period of time.

Being a Guest

As a guest of both PantheaCon and Doubletree it is expected that you will follow the hotel’s posted rules.

There is no sleeping in any of the public areas of the hotel.

There is no-smoking in any of the rooms. All the rooms have sensors installed to detect heat and smoke, so the use of incense, candles, etc., is strictly prohibited. Smoking is permitted only on the balconies or other outdoor areas. The hotel’s policy on e-cigarettes is the same as it is on smoking of any kind: in designated areas and no closer than 10 feet of any outside doors.

Maids start cleaning and refreshing rooms very early in the

morning, around 7am. Please use the “Do Not Disturb” sign on the door where the maids can see it and not wake you. If you want maid service after their normal rounds (generally after 9am) you should call Housekeeping and leave the “Please Make Up Room Now” sign on the door.

Please make sure that your baggage and any other personal belongings are out of the way when maids come in so they can work safely and easily.

Please be sure to tip the maid for her work, especially if you’ve had a party and there’s a lot to do beyond their usual routine. Since this may not be the same person over the course of your stay, we suggest that you leave a tip every day. A couple of dollars is a good base rate, and at least double this, if there is a lot for the maid to do.

The tip can be wrapped in a note paper with “for the maid” written on it and left in a prominent place on the desk or on the pillow. It should be clearly marked for them or they will not take it.

WHILE YOU ARE HERE

Pets

The convention no longer allows pets in any function spaces— including the Vendor Room and the Function Rooms. Occasionally a presenter may have a dog at their own event. Pets are also not allowed in any food establishments due to food safety laws. In order to reduce misunderstandings we request that Service Animals be visibly “In Service”, i.e. wearing their service vest or other highly visible and licensed identifying items.

Pet Policy (from the Hotel website) Pets are permitted Allowed Maximum size: Large Maximum weight: 100 lbs Deposit: USD $50.00 Services Pets must be crated/caged when owner away.

Registered guests are responsible for any damage caused by pets. Housekeeping personnel will inspect accommodations upon departure.

In consideration of other guests, we ask pet owners to ensure guest room noise levels are kept to a minimum. Refunds to guests inconvenienced by noisy pets (up to $100) will be charged to the registered pet owners.

Housekeepers are prohibited from entering rooms occupied by pets unless guests are present or unless pets are crated.

No private vending All vending is done through the Vendor’s space in the ballrooms and other permitted public vending spots. There is no private selling of any kind allowed. There are California State Laws dealing with selling anything out of a hotel room (it is considered “Pandering”) and being found doing so may mean the involvement of the local authorities and expulsion from PantheaCon.

Restaurants, Lounges, etc Always check at the restaurants, bars, and lounges for the most current hours (we have provided our best approximations below).

These may have changed over the last year.

Also be aware that the extra wait-staff brought in to serve during our event may not be used to large, changing groups in the res-

taurants and can get overwhelmed and backed up. There is usually a large line for lunch and dinner at the cafe, please factor in both your time in line and eating so you don’t run late or miss a presentation or ritual.

Check the Info table for lists of local restaurants (10 to 15 min away) or call Waiters on Wheels for food that can be delivered to your room.

• Espresso Bar brewing Starbuck’s—Open 6am–8pm daily.

Serves only basic Starbucks coffee & Espresso as well as pastries and snacks.

• Sprigs—from 6am until 1am on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and 6am to 2pm on Monday during the con and hopefully during the rest of Monday. (This venue normally only serves Breakfast and has limited hours.) It has moderate to high prices, but it will often get backed up and run slow. When Sprigs is not open there is a limited menu available in the Lobby Lounge (aka 2050 Bar).

• Spencer’s for Steaks & Chops—Open 11:30am to 10pm Monday through Friday, and 5pm to 10pm Saturday and Sunday (no lunch on weekends). Reservations are strongly suggested. Offers a wide array of options and is more expensive than Sprigs.

• Sushi & Sake Bar—Open Friday and Monday from 5pm– 10pm. On Saturday and Sunday lunch from 12pm to 2pm and for dinner 5pm to 10pm (based on demand). It is located in the Lobby Lounge overlooking the pool. As a captive clientele you can expect to pay market prices.

• Snack Cart—Near Sprigs/ PantheaCon Registration for quick “grab and go,” inexpensive meal options. 11 am to 10 pm for lunch and dinner. Healthy food and vegetarian options should be available there.

• Room Service—In-room dining service features an extensive menu served from 6 am to 11 pm. From a continental breakfast of freshly baked pastries and fresh fruit juices to a pizza or fivecourse dinner.

Pool and Hot Tub

The pool and hot tub are available for your use between 8am and 11pm. Please be aware that there is no life guard on duty. There is no nudity or sexual behavior allowed. Bathing suits are required.

Clothing/Costumes

Please feel free to dress up! However, please keep in mind that we share the hotel with guests who are not attending the convention as well as the hotel employees themselves. If you have a scanty costume please bring a cover-up for the public places in the hotel, including the elevator.

EVENT & RITUAL ETIQUETTE

The essence of paganism is diversity, but one consequence of this is the fact that we can’t always assume everyone shares the same ideas about what is acceptable behavior. Please extend the same courtesy to others as you would want; if you are having a problem with someone please speak to a staff member. Please see our Anti-harassment policy.

To remind old timers and inform newcomers, here are some of the unwritten “rules.”

• A ritual is a religious service, and one in which considerable power may be raised. Participants should behave reverently and be careful.

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BLOOD HEROES: PANTHEACON 2015 BLOOD DRIVE Coru Priesthood and Solar Cross Temple have joined forces with Blood Centers of the Pacific to host a Blood Drive at PantheaCon 2015. We invite all Pagans to donate blood at the “Blood Heroes Blood Drive” being held Friday, February 13 through Sunday, February 15 at PantheaCon. Visit the Blood Drive table in the lobby to sign up for blood donation!

Every three seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood.

The Coru Priesthood and Solar Cross are hosting this blood drive as an act of kinship, hospitality and devotion to our community and to the Morrígan, Celtic Goddess of sovereignty, prophecy, and battle. We encourage all people to donate the gift of life, whether in the name of your own deities, the Morrígan or without devotional intent.

• A ritual is not a spectator sport. Those who don’t wish to take part should go far enough away so that their conversations, etc. will not disturb participants. Those who are participating should pay attention and guard their tongues.

• A ritual need not be solemn, but it should be serious, in the sense that humor should be used purposefully.

• Gratuitous funny remarks can be disruptive. Even those rituals that appear to be informal have been planned carefully.

• Look to those who are leading for cues on how and when to join in chanting, drumming, dancing, etc. so that you will contribute to the build-up and flow of energy, rather than dispersing it.

• Once the circle has been cast, enter or leave it only in an emergency. Bouncing in and out of a circle may disperse the energy, and will certainly distract the other participants. If you must leave, “cut” and exit or get one of the ritual officers to do so.

• Ritual tools (including drums) are personal and powerful.

Don’t handle, use or play without specific permission from the owner.

If your attempt at closeness and caring makes someone uncomfortable, STOP, and if someone touches you in an unwelcome way, don’t hesitate to tell him/her how you feel. Be sensitive to how your well-meant affection is being perceived. Practice Safe Sex! The Convention won’t last forever. When making commitments and forming relationships, consider how they will affect your life when you go home.

Networking

The Conference is a wonderful opportunity for pagans from various traditions to share knowledge and ideas. A freebie table will be available for groups to put out literature on what they are doing. When talking to newcomers, avoid a “hard sell” approach.

People who recruit too intensely make pagans suspicious. It is also counterproductive to boast about your magical powers, spiritual advancement, initiations and degrees. Newcomers should judge teachers and groups by their deeds, not their words. Don’t let anyone pressure you into joining a group or doing anything you are not ready for.

Thanks to the “Rites of Spring” and Diana Paxson for originating and rewriting this material.

PANTHEACON FAQ (FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS) Hotel Parking

Be aware that parking is in short supply and you may have to park at a distance. ATTENTION: The Doubletree Parking is a pay parking lot at $18 a night. However, the hotel has agreed to the following: Parking charges for all attendees and overnight guests with PantheaCon will be $5 a night. Overnight guests present the ticket form the machine and the front desk agent will program the tickets at the Special $5 rate per night; the charges will be posted to the hotel bill. For Conference attendees, not staying in a room, a scanner at the conference Registration area can scan the parking ticket for the Special rate and a second one should be situated near Club Max. Parking is now fully automated. Be sure to get your parking ticket scanned! We cannot reserve a specific parking space for you.

There are no charging stations for electric cars at this time.

Getting High

Hotel Check In/Check Out times

Food and Sleep

Convention Membership Registration

The presence of illegal substances can jeopardize everyone participating in the Convention. So, please don’t! Also, the general atmosphere of release and excitement at a Convention can sometimes lead to problems with drugs or alcohol. If you find yourself losing control, ask for help from Staff, or another experienced person.

The excitement of four days with our own tribe sometimes makes it hard to remember the body’s needs. A contact high can be as exhausting as the drug-induced kind. Remember to eat and sleep! If you find that your emotions are running away with you, check your physical condition, and if necessary get someone to help you ground and center.

Sex

It can be a powerful force, especially in an atmosphere of freedom. Respect it, and remember the following: —among pagans, nudity is an affirmation, not an invitation! —Be sure you interpret signals correctly. A loving touch is not necessarily an invitation either.

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Like most hotels the Doubletree check in time is 3 PM with check out at 12 noon.

You can ask for early check in and late check out and also store your bags with the bellman. If you are planning to split the room rate tell them at check in so check out is swift and easy.

Our Registration tables will open at 10 AM on Friday, Feb. 17.

After you register you will receive a program book that includes a map of the hotel showing locations of our hospitality room, vendor rooms and where the events will be held. You may acquire a pocket program, scheduling changes in the Daily Con Newsletter, and other useful information, like places to eat from the Info desk adjacent to Registration.

Programming

Great people from all over the Bay Area, California and from other parts of the country are coming, and other countries! Programming starts Friday afternoon at Noon and continues through

Monday afternoon till 4:00 PM. Up to 14 simultaneous workshops go on during the day. At night there are up to ten different programs plus postings for parties and possibly some discussion groups that can reconvene at night in some extra rooms (inquire in Green Room).

ASL Options

ASL interpreters may be available if requested by Feb. 1. We ask that anyone needing ASL interpretation at the con please let us know as soon as possible, before the con, so that we can arrange this service.

Accessibility in Program Spaces

We include open space in each of the programming rooms for those of you with mobility devices such as wheelchairs or motorized scooters. The exact space available will vary as we have a wide variety of spaces and layouts that we use throughout PantheaCon. The seats immediately adjacent to those open spaces should be held for any able-bodied companion of those who need assistive devices to get around the convention.

We aim to make the convention easy to access for everyone.

Any programming staff you see at the convention will be happy to answer questions or help you as best we can as our process evolves.

Photography

Please, no photos. Many people need their privacy. We request that you not snap photos and post them on the web. People can lose jobs over such things and certainly, no photos in rituals, parties or even halls. We trust you to honor this policy. We do not have a Conference Recording and Video Dept. this year, but individual presenters sometimes record their events. They should be well designated and only filming planned events with all participants agreeing.

If a Press person approaches you with no approval from the Conference, please report them to your nearest CAT (security) person or to any staff person with a radio. Thanks.

Food

We will have lists of Restaurants located nearby at the Information table, but in truth, there is little in walking distance except what you find at the hotel. The hotel has an expensive restaurant (Spencer’s) and a cafe, Sprigs. Sprigs has a fair amount of staff turnover, so there may staff waiting on you who are not used to large fluid groups of people at tables—tip generously.

During the day there is a snack cart with sandwiches etc. We have set aside one hour for lunch, and two hours for dinner and half an hour between the two sessions each morning and afternoon.

Convention Parties

The Conference has a Hospitality Suite (room 954) where you can go for a snack, coffee, etc; it has a second room that is kid friendly—kids must be with an adult.

Many groups haveParty Rooms and Hospitality Suites. They will be hosting parties at various times which will be posted at the Information area. If you wish to have a private party in your room that’s fine, but parties for the whole Con should be held on the second, ninth and tenth floors, and should be arranged with PantheaCon well before the event.

What to wear?!?

This is always an important question!

Swimsuits are required in the Pool and Hot Tub. Every night at 9 PM you might want to wear your dancing shoes.

On Friday at 11 PM wear something red, black, and strumpetlike for the PombaGira devotional.

On Saturday people are encouraged to wear their kilts! Certainly on Saturday night dress in a fun costume or a ritual robe or bring a drum for the drum circle.

On Sunday night dress in ritual robes for more rituals or dress up for the parties. Monday has a more relaxed pace to it.

PARTIES & HOSPITALITY SUITES

For your security the 2nd, 9th, and 10th floor areas are monitored for Badge wearing Con attendees only. This prevents visitors to the hotel or other non-attendees from “crashing” our parties.

The PantheaCon Hospitality Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 954

Hospitality is open throughout the whole convention, beginning on Thursday from 7 – 9pm only, Friday late morning and closes on Monday after the Closing Ritual. We are open 20 hours a day, with four hours for “reset” in the early morning. Come in, introduce yourself. Take time to grab a snack, a cup of coffee, tea, meet friends, make new friends, sing and enjoy yourself. This is the place to meet, leave messages on our message board, take a break.

It is what we are here for.

The Hospitality suite has always been child-friendly, and will continue to be. If you’re looking for a place to sit and have a quiet conversation without the pitter-patter of little feet, the main room which has comfortable seating and snacks, will have the added feature of being an adult-only room; this is the main room.

In addition we have a “Kids room”. When you come into the main doors of the Suite, turn to your right, instead of to the leftthrough that door will be the Kids Room– and welcome! All children in this room MUST be accompanied by their responsible adult.

To our fellow coffee, tea and hot chocolate drinkers, please bring your own coffee cup, if you can. Remember to keep it with you too. You might want to include a spoon, a nice linen napkin, maybe a small bowl or plate, to be green.

Some Guidelines

The Staff asks that you do not store your belongings in the suite.

Hospitality is not responsible for anything left in the suite, nor are we lost and found (Operations handles Lost and Found). There will be no showering, nor dish washing in the suite.

Find our community altar set up; everyone is welcome to add to it (please put your name and phone number on your item if you want it back). Our altar is for all Pantheons.

The Hospitality Suite is also used for overflow from a class or workshop. Whatever the activity, anyone can come in. This is important to note as in the past some folks thought they were walking in on a class.

Hours: Open 7 – 9 PM Thursday 12:00 PM Friday to 6:00 PM Monday closed 3–7 AM for cleaning.

Coru Cathubodua Priesthood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241, 243

Service, sovereignty, kinship and warriorship are the values that guide the Coru Cathubodua Priesthood, a priesthood dedicated to the Morrígan. We are Pagan priests on the move, ready to take ac-

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tion to advance our mission to bring sovereignty and kinship to the world through acts of community and individual service. Guided by our the matron the Morrígan, Celtic Goddess of sovereignty, prophecy, and battle, we welcome all who share this vision of service to bringing these values to life for all people. For information about Coru Cathubodua, visit corupriesthood.com.

Hospitality Room: Want to know more about the Coru priesthood? Looking to meet and talk with others who are drawn to the Morrígan? Interested in Celtic heroic spirituality? Join us in our hospitality room for conversation and fellowship with our community.

Temple Room: A dedicated sanctum for reverence of the Morrígan and the family of Celtic Gods and heroes. Join us for collective worship at the scheduled times below. Or, visit our Temple during open hours for solitary worship.

• Friday 7-9pm: Temple consecration rites, followed by social time in the Hospitality Room.

• Saturday 10am-11pm: Temple and Hospitality Rooms open (except during Coru Morrígan ritual, 4-9pm) 10am: Temple opening prayers 1pm: Prayer cycle 4-9pm: Closed for Coru Morrígan ritual 11pm: Temple closing prayers • Sunday 10am–10pm: Temple and Hospitality Rooms open 10am: Temple opening prayers 1pm, 4pm, 7pm: Prayer cycle 7-10pm: Mixer/Meet & Greet in Hospitality 10pm: Temple closing prayers

Hanta Yo!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

Hanta Yo! means “Clear The Way”. Since 2008 we’ve been strengthening our inner feminine divine by embracing women’s mysteries and developing our Authentic Selves. We’ll be sisters and brothers together here. Our door will open starting at 6pm, and we’ll go until we drop, on Saturday and Sunday. We will be open Friday night as well. Come and learn what we do, why we do it, and how you can do it too. Open to all genders. We are the “I Got Tits!” ladies....come and get your own button.

• Saturday 10 am to Noon—Open Drop in Hours 1:30 pm—ROOM CLOSED FOR AMAZON RITUAL—Visit us in San Simeon/San Martin Room 5:00 to 9:30 pm—Open Drop in Hours 9:30 pm—Brie Healing Circle • Sunday 11:00 am—Dianic Discussion Circle 1:00 to 2:00 pm—Stitch’n’Bitch Hour 3:30 to 6:00 pm—Open mixed gender visiting hours. All welcome!

CAW (Church of All Worlds) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

Come to The Church of All Worlds Suite to share food, Water Sharing, Tea, Tarot, Persephone’s Journey, Sacred Intimacy, Direct Magick, Hypnosis and more. Incorporated since 1968 CAW has been founded on ancient mythos, science fiction & visionary science. It is inclusive & supportive of Sacred Eros, Qadishtu, Sacred Kink, Twin Spirits, GBLTQQI, & Conscious Polyamory. www.

CAW.org Room open Friday: 7pm to 9pm Saturday 10:30am to 10pm Sunday 10:30am to 8pm.

Monday 11am Closing Water Sharing.

See our Room’s White Board for daily events.

Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship (ADF) ���������������������������������� 253

Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship (ADF) will once again host a hospitality suite. Stop on by, chat, have a snack, or make an offering at the altar. We will be open all day from noon until late at night Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. ADF will also be offering several discussions throughout the con about various druid topics. The times will be posted on our door. Come and by and spend some time. We look forward to celebrating another great year at PantheaCon!

Heathen Hospitality Hall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255 We welcome all who are friendly to the Heathen/Germanic

Elderflower Womenspirit Festival. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Room 249 Faiths. Join us for conversation, snacks, blots & workshops.

Elderflower is a community of women and girls working to empower each other and celebrating Goddess as Maiden, Mother, Crone, and Amazon. We gather annually in the Mendocino Woodlands in August for ritual, workshops, laughter, and cater meals.

This year’s festival will be held on August 12th -16th.

We will be open for visiting, sharing, and chatting during the following times. Additional hours may be posted during the Con. See the information board &/or posted hours on the Elderflower Room door. Finally, please note that while Elderflower is a women’s community. As we are a women’s community, we provide womenonly space for most of our hours. We have open hours (Sunday 3 to 6p.m.) to invite anyone to join us and learn more about the Elderflower community.

Please check our party room door for any additions/changes to the schedule.

• Friday 5 pm—Open Drop in Hours 7pm—Women’s Drum Circle

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• Friday—open 1pm to Midnight (or later) 1:00p—Opening Blot 1:30—What is a Lokean? Led by River & Dagulf.

3:30—Matronae/Wild Hunt lecture & blot led by River.

7:30—Heathen Storytelling with Steven Abell – Bring your stories, poems and songs to share.

• Saturday—open 8:30am to Midnight (or later) 11:00a—What did Vikings Eat? Led by Karen & Rod. 1:30p—Thor Blot led by Hrafnar.

6:00—Raffle 8-9:00—Scotch Tasting – Closed event limited to 15 people, sign up 6pm in the Hall. Bring a bottle of Scotch for the tasting or a small donation for the Hall. MUST BE 21!

• Sunday—open 8:30am to Midnight (or later) 11:00a—Embodying Myth led by Cara 1:30p—Freya Blot let by Cara 6:00—Sumbel • Monday—open 8:30am to Noon 10:00a—Closing Blot and loading out – volunteers welcome!

The Pagan Alliance Hospitality Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257 6:00 - 7:00 Introduction to the Avalonian Tradition, present-

Please join us for community building, networking, & relaxation. Be Green! Bring your own chalice. 21+ w/ Photo ID to drink spirits. Donations are welcome. Follow us on Twitter. Replies to twitter.com/paganalliance. Info: www.thepaganalliance.org Friday 8 - 10:30 pm+ -Queer Cocktails: LGBTIQQ2s-identifying meet & network in a casual, safe environment. All are welcome!

Saturday 10 am -11 am - Magical Mimosas! Come socialize with other magical folks, sip mimosas (for 21+) and plan your day 5:30-7pm -Whiskey Tasting. Spaces Limited. Signup in the suite ahead of time. Bring a bottle to share! Taste the rainbow! 21+ with ID only!

9:00 pm-12:00 am+ – Tiki Party! Saturday Night Hosted by Miss Tiki. What will the night bring? come by to see!

Sunday 4 pm - 5:00 pm – Clothing SWAP! Bring your clean ritual, fancy evening and interesting day wear and accessories to trade with other Pagan folks. All sizes and gender identities welcome. Left over clothes will be donated to charity.

5:30-7pm - Tea with Queens. Co-hosted by the Circle of Dionysos. 21+ to Drink Spirits 8 pm-10:00 pm+ – Pajama Party. Wear your best nighty, robe or comfy onesie! 21+ to drink spirits.

Sisterhood of Avalon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Bendithion a Croeso! Celebrating our 20 year anniversary of service, the Sisterhood of Avalon is an international Celtic Women’s Mysteries organization which seeks to balance intuitive wisdom with scholastic achievement. Among our activities, we sponsor the Avalonian Thealogical Seminary; facilitate international training intensives; host Spiritual Pilgrimages to sacred sites in the British Isles through Mythic Seeker; produce devotional anthologies and keepsake datebooks through Ninth Wave Press; and provide a variety of learning opportunities both through our local hearth groups and our online community.

We invite you to spend some time around our hearth fire; come join us in building community, learn more about who we are and what we do, and share in a cup of tea and some light snacks.

Our room will be open from 12:00 - 5:00 PM every day.

Throughout the weekend, we will be hosting some powerful women and Sisters whose work we support and appreciate to share their work with you, including: Tiffany Lazic,author of the forthcoming book “The Great Work” through Llewellyn Publications, founder of The Hive and Grove Holistic Center in Ontario, and Administrative Director of the Sisterhood of Avalon; Margo Wolfe, President of the Sisterhood of Avalon, and instructor at Cherry Hill Seminary; Vyviane Armstrong, member of the SOA Council of Nine and director of Mythic Seeker Pilgrimages; Rebecca Besbris, Bay Area SOA Learning Circle Facilitator and Pagan crafter; and Jhenah Telyndru, founder of the Sisterhood of Avalon, Academic Dean of the Avalonian Thealogical Seminary, and author of “Avalon Within.” Please visit our hospitality room for more information.

Sunday, 5:00 - 6:00 Sisterhood of Avalon SisterSpace - All members of the SOA are invited to join us in Sisterhood for a group working and sharing circle.

ed by Jhenah Telyndru -Everyone is welcome to join us for an overview of the Avalonian Tradition and to learn more about the Sisterhood of Avalon. Bring your questions and an open heart.

We look forward to connecting with you! Please visit us online at www.sisterhoodofavalon.org

Pagans of Color Hospitality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

The Pagans of Color Hospitality Room is happy to be back this year. We look forward to seeing you there for coffee and pastries every morning of conference as well as our usual snacks!

Room open: Friday: 2pm-12am Saturday: 9am-12am Sunday: 9am-12am Monday: 9am-2pm Friday, at 5PM, please join the PoC Hospitality Suite and HUAR (Heathens United Against Racism) for a Sumbel to celebrate and toast our new year committed to working together against racism.

Saturday, at 12PM, Ryan Smith, head coordinator for HUAR will offer a historical overview of the rise of “whiteness” and apply historical, economical, and social underpinnings to the system that continues to cause strife and heartache in nonwhite communities.

There will be an opportunity for Q&A afterwards. Please join us!

Sunday, from 5PM to 7PM, we are open for a meet and greet with young Pagan leaders from the “Turning the Wheel” panel in conjunction with Solar Cross Temple.

We also have some surprises in store so please, stop by and join us for a bit! Looking forward to see you this weekend!

Hexenfest/Sharon Knight & Winter Hospitality ���������������������������� 263

Hexenfest is a (mostly) annual festival dedicated to magic in music and the arts. Founded by Pandemonaeon core members Sharon Knight and Winter, Hexenfest’s hospitality room will offer a sampling of what Sharon and Winter offer musically throughout the year, as well as a Hexenfest Revisioning meeting for interested members of the community to contribute to the continuing evolution of Hexenfest. When not hosting specific activities, you are still welcome to come by during the listed Open Hours, or whenever the door is open, for some social time. Warning: spontaneous drumming or singing likely to erupt at any time. www.hexenfest. net, www.sharonknight.net Open House Friday 3-8pm, Sat-Sun 11am-6pm.

• Friday 6-8pm—Porcelain Princess Video-Album Crowdfunding Kickoff Party!!

We want to do something grand for our next album. Guest musicians! A music video! A lush, full band sound a la Loreena McKennitt or Faun. We will give a short presentation at 6:30pm.

Attending the party does not obligate you! Just come to hear about the project and share a glass of champagne with friends.

• Saturday

11am-1pm—Hexenfest Revisioning Meeting - Come share your ideas, wishes, and brainstorms for what you’d like Hexenfest to become!

2-3pm The Well of Song Improv Singing Circle Dip into the spontaneous flow of song! Facilitated by Sharon.

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• Sunday noon-1pm The Well of Song Improv Singing Circle Dip into the spontaneous flow of song! Facilitated by Sharon.

2-3pm, Introduction to Acutonics Tuning forks. Come play with forks, learn about intervals, and feel them in your body!

The Ifa Orisha Room. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

The Ifa Orisha Room by day will focus on introducing the Orisha (Divine Spirits) through the indigenous spiritual traditions of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria. By night, the Ifa Orisha Room will focus on dating and relationships. The Ifa Orisha room will offer snacks, beverages and spiritual surprises. For more information, contact Baba Esu at 408-655-8500 or email at esuwemimo@gmail.com • Friday 12 Noon – 2:00pm Open Room-Meet and greet socializing; Open Q&A; Consultations 6:30pm – 8:00pm Socializing, Kinky Munch, and Speed dating • Saturday 12 Noon - 5:00pm Open Room-Meet and greet socializing; Open Q&A; Consultations 1:30pm- 2:00pm Orisha Praise Singing- Learn songs for Yemoja- The Divine Spirit of the Ocean 2:30pm – 3:00pm Orisha Praise Singing- Learn songs for OyaThe Divine Spirit of the Wind 3:30pm – 4:00pm Orisha Praise Singing- Come and learn songs for Oshun- The Divine Spirit of the River 6:30pm – 8:00pm Introduction to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Kink • Sunday 11:00am-1:00pm Introduction to Ifa & Orisha: The Ancestors 3:30pm-5:30pm Open Room-Meet and greet socializing; Open Q&A; Consultations 7:00pm-9:00pm How to write an online dating profile: Open relationships, Polyamory, and Kink

The Fire Family and Spark Hospitality Room �������������������������������� 267

Pass through our magical portal and leave the mundane behind as you enter a soothing and beautiful place where you can relax and commingle with the greater Fire Family. Our transformative space is sponsored by groups that host Sacred Fire Circle gatherings, including The Spark Collective and Gaia’s Oasis. SparkCollective.org; GaiasOasis.org • Friday - Open 8 to 10 PM - “Meet the Fire Family” - Join us for tea, light snacks, and see old friends and make some new ones too!

• Saturday - Open 10 AM to 5 PM & 8 PM to Midnight 3:30 PM - DiversiFire - Experience spontaneous music, song, and dance in an informal, fire-circle like setting.

8:00 PM - Our Famous CHOCOLATE PARTY - Be our valentine and indulge in all things Chocolate!

• Sunday - Open 11 AM to 9 PM 3:30 PM - DiversiFire - Commingle and co-create music, dance, and song!

As always there will be lots of spontaneous music making, singing and advanced hanging-out at the Fire Family Suite! Please check the schedule of events posted outside the door and join us for tea and light snacks during our open hours.

Don’t forget to come play with the greater Fire Family commu-

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nity at The Spark Collective Sacred “Fire” Circle at 11 PM on Sunday at the Con.

OBOD, the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids �������������������������������� 269

Members of Quercus, Doire Bhrighid and Redwood – seed groups with the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD, the largest Druid organization in the world) - welcome you to join us in our room for lively music, poetry, rituals, talks, and friendly discussion on Nature spirituality.

OBOD welcomes people of all theistic and non-theistic traditions. To OBOD, Druidry can be a religious path on its own, or it can be a spiritual path, philosophy or tradition, to augment any path you are currently on.

• Friday 1:30pm Open; 3:30 Opening Ritual 7:00 Introduction to OBOD; 9:00 Moot.

• Saturday 11:00am Open; 1:30pm Druidic guided meditation; 2:15 The Druid:”Antiquarian”, Iolo Morganwg, and the Gorsedd Prayer 3:30 Ogham; 6:00 Ritual for Peace and Community; 7:00 Moot; 8:00 Psychic Development; 9:00 Discussion 11:00 Partying • Sunday 11:00am Open; 12:00 noon Herbs and Herbal Infusions; 1:30pm Living Druidly–Philosophy and Ethics; 3:30 Living Druidly–Science and the Environment; 6:00 Tree Meditation; 7:00 Ritual for the Earth; 9:00 Communicating with Nature and Spirits • Monday 11:00am Closing Ritual

Reiki Explorers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271

Reiki Explorers is dedicated to introducing people to Reiki and sharing novel, powerful and fun ways to use this energy source.

Connections between healing and astrology are also explored.

Crystals, Sound Healing and other related modalities also welcomed. Beginnners and Experienced Practitioners and Teachers welcome. Put on by the ReikiExplorer Meetup group.

• Friday 7-10 pm: Come Try Reiki, Meet other Reiki people • Saturday 1:30: Usui/Holy Fire Reiki: Reiki.org Reiki Evolves - Holy Well Meditation 3:30: Why do I hurt? Am I a Healer/Psychic? Energetic & Astrological Perspectives on Healing - bring your astro chart 5pm: Reiki’s origins in Japan.. Kurama mountain as sacred space, book signing, tour info 9-11: Reiki Party: Energy Car Wash/ Aura Combing, Angel Wings and other Reiki Auric Techniques • Sunday 11 am: Jessica is presenting Connecting Spirit to Community with Reiki Healing in San Simeon room] 3:30: Speed Reiki: Reiki Explorer Tips and Techniques 5pm: A Nautical Theme to Astrology.. experience the Celestial Seas 7-10 pm: Reiki Party: Reiki stories, Questions and Healing Requests

• Monday 11am : Fix it with Reiki Phobia Challenge: Are you afraid of heights, snakes, airplanes? Reiki can Help.

Kemetic Temple of San Jose, Temple of Ra, & Kemetic Temple of Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273 We will hold a ritual dedicated to Bastet on Saturday evening.

Participants will be invited to join us in reciting her praises. We also will have evenings of fellowship both Friday and Saturday.

Please join us for lite snacks and refreshments.

Both Fri. & Sat. 6 PM to 11PM

The Woven Circle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943

The Woven Circle is a cadre of Pagan craft teachers from various traditions. We feel strongly about keeping both traditional crafts and the creative process alive in our modern world. Our talents include beadwork, fiber arts, wheat weaving, straw, book and paper arts.

• Friday 7pm-10pm: Meet the Instructors Reception • Saturday 3pm-5pm: Open Projects 7pm-10pm: Zentangle Focus • Sunday 11am-5pm, 7pm-10pm: Open Projects

The Magickal Cauldron Hospitality Room �������������������������������������� 945

Magickal Cauldron, based in Northern California, is a nonprofit religious, educational organization, publishing house, and mystery school. The Cauldron offers experiential events — Goddess Gather, Two-as-One — God and Goddess Gather Together, and the Living Mysteries of Eleusis. The Cauldron also offers magical training, initiations, priesthood training and ordination. Contact the Cauldron at info@MagickalCauldron.org. See magickalcauldron.org/ for more info.

All Weekend - The Heartfelt Hunt Bound in a Net-working of love and life, each knot holds a multi-faceted jewel. Projection.

Reflection. A magical, mysterious weekend-long game. Gods and Monsters have promised to play! Rewards for those whose quest is true. Details & game materials in the room.

• Friday 10:00 pm Pajama Party Meet & Greet, hosted by Lasara, Come hang out in your PJs, introduce yourself, get to know some of the Magickal Cauldron Priesthood, and chill out for a spell.

BYOB. Some snacks provided.

• Saturday 12:30 to 1:30 pm Singing our Legacy, led by Resa - Let’s raise our voices together in song. We have some to share. Bring yours!

3:30 pm Games for the Gen X’ers, led by Jonna & Ryan - Jetpack Unicorn, Zombies, Wool for Sheep, Chupacabra, and Taboo!

• Sunday 12 - 1 pm New Age Rites of Passage Discussion Group, led by Jonna & Ryan ; Create the foundations for new age rites of passage, the important milestones of growing up. Bring our children into adulthood and beyond. All ages welcome.

1:30 - 3:00 pm Tea with Motherbear -A blend of channeled offerings, divination, deep conversation, tea & biscuits. Bring your questions, comments, experiences and mysteries to share.

5:00 pm Fare Thee Well Party, Drink deep - Closing Rites of the Heartfelt Hunt — prizes, awards, rewards.

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Three Witches’ groups sponsor this Hospitality Suite, which offers a place to relax, chat, enjoy a snack, or attend some of our in-suite programs. See our ad listing this year’s offerings of discussions, lectures and programs in suite and in the PantheaCon program by present and past members.

The Covenant of the Goddess (CoG) includes covens and individual members of many Craft traditions, organized in 13 Local Councils across North America. We are a national organization of Witches, founded in California in 1975 as a non-profit 501(c)3 religious corporation, making us one of the oldest and most diverse Witches’ organizations. We offer legally-recognized clergy credentials to qualified members, and form a network of support and information for Witches. CoG has been representing the Craft in interfaith work for nearly 40 years around the world. View our national website at www.cog.org.

The New Wiccan Church, International (NWC) was established in 1973, so it is among the oldest of established Pagan Churches.

NWC was established to support members in all the needs of a religious community, supplying credentials for clergy as well as education and outreach to the wider community. We are specifically a British Traditional Wiccan church with members from many branches of these practices. Please visit us at the Hospitality Suite at the Convention or on our website at www.newwiccanchurch.org.

NWC is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

NROOGD, the New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn, is a Witches’ tradition originating in 1968 in the Bay Area.

We have celebrated over 45 years of open Sabbats throughout the Greater Bay Area. Let us know if you want to attend any. Please drop by at the Hospitality Suite, or catch up with us at www.nroogd. info

American Magic Umbanda House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 960

The House was founded in 1990, based on the teachings of Umbanda African, an Afro-Brazilian spiritual tradition working with the Orixa and other powers. We have evolved over the years and are a “mixed pantheon House”, meaning we also work with nonAfrican powers as well. The House, under Mai d’Orixa Maeva, resides in Oakland California. amuhinfo@gmail.com Our suite will be open to everyone from noon to midnight on Saturday and Saturday and Sunday and noon to 5pm on Monday.

Because of our work on the Pombagira ritual, there is no open suite time on Friday. There will be snacks and conversation during the open hours. Please check the sign by the suite door for talks and other more structured events.

House of Brigh Faery Seership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 962

The House of Brigh Faery Seership™ tradition is a collection and system of lore, customs, techniques and prohibitions, which are influenced by the age-old practices of the conjurers, seers, cunningmen, and hedge-witching women of America and northern and western Europe. It focuses on the living inner common wealth of the sacred land, and humanity’s spiritual cousins (the Faery) in the other world and our relationship with deep ancestral currents of contact. It is a philosophy, way of life and a paradigm through which we, as humans can re-enter alliance with the Earth, other living creatures, the plant/tree kingdom and other races of spiritbeings which share the Earth’s surface and underworld life with us.

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and have survived to date in many areas of Europe and America in folk traditions, ballads and lore. It also includes contemporary techniques and lore developed through the co-creative relationship between Orion and his faery-wife, Brigh. For more information about Faery Seership, Orion Foxwood’s books and workshops, and his Conjure Root-Doctoring work, see www.orionfoxwood.com.

Please stop by our suite for additional programming and events related to the Faery Seership tradition facilitated by seers from across the United States. A schedule of events and suite hours will be posted on the door.

Pandamos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 963

Pandemos is a San Francisco Bay area collective of practitioners from diverse backgrounds, approaches and communities, united for the purpose of honoring the Hellenic gods and celebrating Ancient Hellenic culture.

• Friday 8pm - Midnight, Hellenic Hospitality: Join us for Mediterranean style snacks and open-forum, Hellenic style drink-offerings.

• Saturday 10:30am - 12:30pm, Stone Reading:Coffee and the historical, mythological and practical aspects of the Alphabeta oracle.

4:30pm - 6:30pm, Hellenismos 101 Tutorial-style devotional for Hera and Zeus and discussion.

11pm, Dionysian Hospitality - Following our Dionysia, join us in our party room.

• Sunday 11am, Brunch and Round-Table Gender Discussion about creating safe and appropriate spaces for gender variant pagans.

4:30, Mysticism of the Greek Magical Papyri: Ancient Demotic mystical principles applied to invocation of Hellenic deities.

6:30, Hermes-Related Feast Type Thing - A fun, informal feast in honor of Hermes, in his role as a rustic deity.

Temple of Witchcraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 964

Co-founded by Christopher Penczak, Steve Kenson, and Adam Sartwell, the Temple started in 1998 as a system of magickal training and personal development, and eventually developed into a formal tradition of Witchcraft.

Now, as an outgrowth of the work of students, initiates, and graduates of the programs, the Temple of Witchcraft has evolved into an organization based on traditions of modern magick, Witchcraft, and neopaganism. The work of the Temple seeks to strengthen the connections between spirit and matter through inner transformation and public service.

The Temple of Witchcraft’s goal on an individual level is to awaken the potential of the human soul to its natural gifts of psychic awareness, communion with nature and the spirits, and magick.

We seek an expansion of consciousness through the alignment of our souls with Love, Will, and Wisdom to further the Great Work.

On a greater scale, we seek the restoration, maintenance, and evolution of humanity to the Garden of the Gods, the cooperative consciousness where all things are in harmony and community.

Our myths define this awareness as the First Garden. We manifest this vision through both our inner workings and service to the greater community. By these actions, we plant the seeds and tend the garden of Witchcraft culture, tradition and community. For more information about the Temple, explore our site, http://www.

templeofwitchcraft.org/.

Open Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 7pm-12am.

• Friday 7-8pm - Focusing on Divine Wisdom and the Yellow Ray of Witchcraft.

8pm- 9pm Divine Will and the Red Ray of Witchcraft.

9pm - 12am open social time. Refreshments will be available.

Please have an ID available.

• Sunday—closed from 7pm-9pm for a private function. Open again at 9pm 9pm - 10pm - Divine Love and the Blue Ray of Witchcraft.

Circle of Cerridwen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966

We welcome one and all to the Circle of Cerridwen Suite! Come relax, have a snack, and have some fun! All people of all sexualities, genders, race, or any other identity are very welcome. NOTE: Out of respect to those in recovery, the Circle of Cerridwen suite is a DRY suite. In other words, no alcohol or other substances of that nature are allowed.

Friday open at 4 pm Enochian Chess Congress — all evening unless ritual in progress 7pm: Patheos Authors Meet and Greet Saturday - open at 4pm Enochian Chess Congress 7 pm: Adding the Chinese 5 Elements to Ritual Sunday: open at 4 pm Enochian Chess Congress 7 pm : Spirit Babies Ritual (See http://spiritbabies.org) 9 pm: WOGD Ritual

Pagan Scholars’ Den. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967

For the second year Cherry Hill Seminary, the Conference on Current Pagan Studies, the Pagan History Project, and the Atheopagans are jointly hosting the Pagan Scholars’ Den. Join us for heady discussions, leavened with frequently silliness.

• Friday 9:00 pm: 3rd Annual Pagan Pajama Party! Wear your PJ’s and get your freak on!

• Saturday 2 - 3pm Atheopagan open house. Lunch will be served at this relaxed, open atmosphere meet and greet.

3 - 5 pm: Pagan History Project Open House 7 - 10 pm: Programming TBA • Sunday 1:30 to 3 pm: Atheopagan Panel: a panel discussion on the interests of non-theist Pagans and naturalists.

3:30 to 5:00 pm: Atheopagan Workshop by Mark Green. Learn about non-theistic paganisms in this introductory workshop.

3:00 to 5:00: Cherry Hill Seminary Open house

Black Rose Witchcraft. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 969

Black Rose Witchcraft is an educational collaboration between The Sacred Fires Tradition and The Blue Rose Feri Tradition of witchcraft. Black Rose offers a self paced online and monthly in person class and serves as a platform for modern traditional witchcraft training. Our Hospitality room will host a myriad of events that will be open to the pagan community. Come join us for the festivities. For more information visit www.blackrosewitchcraft.com • Friday 12:-4:00 Black Rose open house • Saturday 11:00-12:00 Black Rose open house

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12:00-1:30 Pagan Media Salon with Devin Hunter 2:00-3:30 Feri Tradition meet up 3:30-5:30 Sacred Fires Healing Collective, healers salon 9:00-? Black Rose Ball (21+ only and wear something black) • Sunday 11:00-12:00 Black Rose open house 12:00-1:30 Golden Gate Kindred Blot. Come join our guests in a 3 round blot honoring the Gods, ancestors and land wights 6:00-7:00 Project Pagan Priest. For those who identify as being male, with Devin Hunter and Storm Faerywolf

Pagans In Recovery - Serenity First . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 972

Serenity First is an open, 12 step recovery group. We share our experience, strength, and hope, in an Earth based format.

Join us every day for an 8:00 AM morning meeting. A great way to start your Pcon day, with the traditional coffee and donuts and fellowship. All spiritual paths/and programs of recovery welcome.

All addicts, friends and family of addicts, the “I might be an addict, but I’m not sure” and the just curious are welcome.

This is our first year with a Hospitality Room. Volunteering some of your time is a great way to do your 12th Step work and would be gratefully appreciated.

We will be planning discussion groups addressing such topics as being Pagan in AA, dealing with Judean/Christian references in The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous, and should we rewrite portions to be more nondenominational. We may also add more meetings and I’ve heard rumors of a pizza party Saturday night!

Keep an eye on the daily Pcon postings. We’ll be putting up flyers.

Stop by anytime for support, discussion or just plain fun! But most especially, if you’re thinking of doing a little research and picking up. Come knock on our door instead, any time day or night.

Green Fairy Absinthe Parties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1054

Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m. to 3 a.m.

Necronomi.com and friends invite you for Bachhanalian respites and indulgence in our magnificent party room – this year on the tenth floor. Some say we are possessed by the spirit known as the Green Fairy, which we do not deny. Nor do we deny that we, in turn, possess her. In fact, if you would honor us with your presence, you may soon say the same of yourself! This year, the delirious pixie is expected to be exceptionally generous with her charms. But that is not the end of– nor the end to– our merriments.

A veritable tavern of refined beverages awaits your sampling, as well as a sumptuous banquet– a feast fit for kings and queens, or at least the Fairy and Her most devoted acolytes and companions.

There shall be song, decadence, and contemplation of topics profound– an environment ideal for the relief of the weary spiritual explorer or a copious enhancement to their visions and dreams.

The night of Venus is suited to all acts of love and passion, and the night of Saturn shall be our Saturnalia. Please be advised that both photo IDs and convention badges will be required at the door, and that these are 21+ parties.

Llewellyn Worldwide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057

Llewellyn has been dedicated to bringing our readers the best in metaphysical books and resources since 1901. We provide instruction and new perspectives on a wealth of topics, including witchcraft, Paganism, astrology, tarot, earth-based spirituality, magic, and the paranormal.

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This year at PantheaCon we’ll be hosting one big book launch party, informal discussions, publishing presentations, and more.

We’d love for you to drop by, meet some cool people, check out our new offerings, and maybe go home with some free stuff. Check our door poster for updates!

• Friday 7-10pm “Office Hours.” Llewellyn’s publisher, senior acquisitions editor, and publicist will be on hand to answer any questions, conduct brief meetings, and attend to the business of business.

• Saturday 11am-12pm “Publishing FAQ.” In this brief presentation, we’ll answer the most common questions about publishing, including how to submit and polish manuscripts, what to expect, how to market and promote your work.

12pm-1pm “Quick Pitches.” Llewellyn’s publisher, senior acquisitions editor, and publicist will continue to field any questions left over from the Publishing FAQ and will be on hand to take your 5-to-10-minute pitches.

7-10pm “New Books Launch Party!” Join us for a super fun toast to our new books and the authors that wrote them: Journey into Spirit by Kristoffer Hughes, Everyday Witchcraft by Deborah Blake, Babalawo, Santería’s High Priests by Frank Baba Eyiogbe, and the new edition of Incense by Carl Neal. Get your book signed, snag some swag, have a drink, and enter for giveaways!

• Sunday 12-1pm “Brown Bag Discussion: Herbs.” Bring your own lunch (we’ll provide soft drinks and cookies) and join senior acquisitions editor Elysia Gallo and participating Llewellyn authors to share your favorite herbal remedies and recipes! This is usually the worst of the cold and flu season, after all...

3:30-4:30pm “Book Promotion for Authors.” Whether you’re a Llewellyn author or not, come to learn some tips of the trade from Llewellyn publicist Kat Sanborn.

9-11pm “Llewellyn Mingler.” Meet Llewellyn authors and staff, and enjoy a drink with us!

Pantheaon Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1060 The Pantheon Foundation is a Pagan religious 501c3 non-profit service organization. We are dedicated to creating 21 century infrastructure for our community through fiscal sponsorship and projects that benefit all Pagans.

• Friday Evening 6:30-7:00 Establishing the Hermes Altar Invocation and offerings to a Patron of the Foundation 7:30-8:30 Pantheon Foundation Reception A brief report on our successes of the past year.

9:00-9:30 Ekklesía Antínoou & P. Sufenas Virius Lupus This will be the first part of a Roving Hero/ine Cultus Ritual, which will be in four 30-minute blocks that will process through four hospitality suites. The first part of the ritual is dedicated to Antinoë, the foundress of Mantineia in Arcadia, and will also honor Arcadian Hermes. Prayers will be said in particular for women pioneers, discoverers, innovators, and trail-blazers under Antinoë’s blessings.

• Saturday 7:30-9:00 Meet the OSOGD Curious about the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn?

Wonder what it is like to be a member? Well, come on up and ask! Meet with some of the fraters and sorors of the OSOGD in the Pantheon Foundation Suite. OSOGD members will be available to answer those questions and more. Plus we’ll have refreshments !

9:00-Midnight Esoterica Lounge Come relax with old friends and meet new ones in a “chill space” house of Gods and Goddesses. Serving as a quieter atmosphere from the illustrious Green Fairy Party, the Pantheon Foundation Suite will be open to the public and invite you to come in, sip wine and converse about all things esoteric. Spend time in delightful devotion with Aphrodite, trade riddles with Hermes, wax philosophical with Baphomet…

• Sunday 2-4 Memetic Theurgy The meme, a “unit of culture” (an idea, belief, pattern of behaviour, etc.) which is “hosted” in the minds of one or more individuals, and which can reproduce itself, thereby jumping from mind to mind. How can the meme be utilized in theurgy? Frater H:.M:.K:.S:.K:., one of the adepts of the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn, will present on the work that he has been developing regarding the application of memetics to the art of invocation. Fr. HMKSK will discuss techniques for how one can apply memetics to everyday life. Open to all. Come share your views. Be prepared for a practical exercise.

4-5 Golden Dawn Table Lodge Open to the public for the first time, come participate with members of the OSOGD in our newly formatted Table Lodge ritual. Well known to members of Masonic orders, table lodges are held around a table in conjunction with dinner and ours is a variation to the full ritual proceedings of opening and closing the 0=0 Hall of the Neophytes. It is ritualistic practice that all initiates can participate in while simultaneously providing the members with refreshment and fellowship.

7-8:30 The Middle Pillar Ritual Fr, H:.O:.S:.V:., an adept of the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn, will lead an open instruction on the practice of the Middle Pillar Ritual. The Middle Pillar is the primary practice for members of the 2=9 Theoricus Grade in the Golden Dawn, as well as a staple ritual practice of any magician trained in the western schools of magick. Fr. HOSV will discuss the standard ritual, as well as variations on how to move the energy about the body and finally lead the participants through the practice. Open to everyone, whether you have a lot of experience doing the practice or have never done the Middle Pillar before.

9:00-Midnight Esoterica Lounge, the Sunday edition…

Sosyete Fos Fe Yo We’s Vodou Lounge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1066

Look for The Vodou Store (Docteur Caeli D’Anto, Hellfurian Leontari, and Elizabeth Ruth’s incredible shop) in the vendors’ area, too!

• Friday 6pm-9pm Suite Closed for sosyete dinner, meetings, and ceremonies - invitation only 9pm in the Con: Mambo T presents “Vodou 101: Legba, The Barons and The Gede.”

• Saturday - Afternoon: meetings, readings/book signings in the vendors’ area, ritual preparation, open hours. See the door with an up to date schedule!

9pm: sevis preparations begin in the suite. Come practice singing and salutes for tonight’s Danbala Sevis if you wish.

11pm in the Con: Mambo T and the Sosyete present the Danbala Sevis. See the program book for what to bring and what to wear.

• Sunday - 1-3:30pm Open Hours TBA 3:30-5pm Readings with Mambo T and Book Signings 5-7pm Suite closed for sosyete dinner 7-9pm Vodou Lounge - open hours with Mambo T and sosyete members. Everyone welcome.

9pm in the Con: “It’s About Time: Kemetic Festivals” with Mambo T (as Rev. Tamara of the House of Netjer) • Monday- Hours TBA. See you next year!

House of Danu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1067

Hospitality Hours to learn about the Druids of OBOD: Friday Noon to 3 pm; Saturday Noon to 1:30pm; Sunday Noon to 1:30PM The House of Danu is Suite is open to PantheaCon participants who wish to enjoy our hospitality and learn about the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD) centered in East Sussex, England. It is the oldest and largest Druid order in the world.

The House of Danu is a fellowship of Solitaries, Seed Groups and Groves in the West: British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California, that serves as a regional spiritual home for OBOD members in the West.

• Sunday: 5PM to 9PM Chaplaincy Open House Join us to learn why we should be concerned about Pagans who are incarcerated, the religious discrimination they must endure, why close to a third of US inmates are reaching out to Pagan culture, and what your tradition can do to help. We must not abandon our people to the Evangelical Christians who dominate religious education in prisons.

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1 2:00 PM — Opening ritual.....................................................................................................Glenn Turner & friends............................. Oak 1:30 PM v The Warrior and the Healer..................................................................................Tommie StarChild..................................... Boardroom 1:30 PM — The Good, The Bad, & The Blogging.....................................................................Patheos Pagan Bloggers........................... Carmel/ Monterey 1:30 PM — Music for Life Cycles and Rites of Passage............................................................Turning Earth Singers............................... Pine 1:30 PM — Reuniting the Two Selves....................................................................................Katrina Rasbold........................................ San Martin/ San Simeon 1:30 PM — House Wights: Making a Spiritually Welcoming Home........................................Shirl Sazynski........................................... Santa Clara 1:30 PM — Earth Religions and Climate Changes..................................................................Glenn Turner............................................ Silicon Valley 3:30 PM v Connecting to the Wisdom of the Soul With Hypnosis.........................................Brenda Titus, CH....................................... Boardroom 3:30 PM — A Witch’s Guide to Wands....................................................................................Gypsey Elaine Teague............................... Carmel/ Monterey 3:30 PM — The Horned God 2.0.............................................................................................Jason W. Mankey...................................... Fir 3:30 PM — Village Witchery 101...........................................................................................Hexeba Theaux......................................... Oak 3:30 PM — AMAZONS AND POWERFUL WOMEN: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE..............................Amber K and Azrael Arynn K.................... Pine 3:30 PM — Demystifying the Out-of-Body Experience (OBE).................................................Luis Minero.............................................. Riesling 3:30 PM v Singing Bowl Meditation.....................................................................................Ayamanatara........................................... San Jose 3:30 PM v INTUITIVE PERSONAL RITUAL MAKING................................................................Ruth Barrett - Temple of Diana................. San Juan/ San Carlos 3:30 PM ¡ Conscious Open Relationships.............................................................................Robert Allen and Lasara Firefox Allen....... San Martin/ San Simeon 3:30 PM v Healing Ritual of Asclepius..................................................................................Ivan Richmond......................................... Santa Clara 3:30 PM v The Theatre of Witchcraft....................................................................................Bhride...................................................... Silicon Valley 5:00 PM ¡ Welcoming the Sabbath Bride.............................................................................A Couple of Jews...................................... Riesling 5:00 PM — The Furious Revels...............................................................................................River Devora............................................. San Juan/ San Carlos 12:00 PM

Opening ritual

Oak

Glenn Turner & friends Join us as we bless this space and gather together to shield and encompass the hotel and our extended space during this gathering of our tribes.

1:30 PM

The Warrior and the Healer

Boardroom

Tommie StarChild The Warrior and Healer are often viewed as contrasting archetypes; this workshop will take a new look at these archetypes and how they relate to pagan men. We’ll discuss how the Warrior and Healer archetypes relate to societal messages about masculinity and our journey through pagan spirituality; exploring an alternative creation mythos highlighting male mysteries in order to shed light on who we are as pagan/spiritual workers - in order to see ourselves, shift our perspective, and connect to the authentic self within. This workshop is open to ALL—men, women, trans, and everyone.

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The Good, The Bad, & The Blogging

Carmel/ Monterey

Patheos Pagan Bloggers Patheos Pagan is one of the most visited websites in the Pagan Blogosphere, but it’s also a “for profit” business not run by those of our tribe. How does a good blogger deal with writing for the community while posting amidst a sea of car insurance ads? Join the bloggers of Patheos Pagan as they sound off on the pros and cons of writing for a commercial entity as they share their online experiences both good and bad.

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1:30 PM

Pine

Music for Life Cycles and Rites of Passage

Turning Earth Singers Come learn some of our favorite new and undiscovered Pagan chants, songs, and rounds, including a few original pieces by our members. This year we will share music honoring the cycles of life and rites of passage (welcoming babies, coming of age, partnership, adulthood, dying, recovering from grief...). We’ll create a loosely structured ritual space, in which we can sing each song at length, improvise, and harmonize, allowing ourselves to sink deeply into each piece and let the magic flow.

1:30 PM

Reuniting the Two Selves

San Martin/ San Simeon

Katrina Rasbold Discusses the separation of the Higher Self and Conscious Self and ways that humans can bridge the gap between the two to create positive manifestation. The nature of both Higher Self and Conscious Self are discussed, as well as specific techniques that allow the two selves to communicate effectively for stronger magical flow.

1:30 PM

Santa Clara

House Wights: Making a Spiritually Welcoming Home

Shirl Sazynski Home should be a sanctuary. Discover how to transform your ordinary surroundings—whether it’s a single room, apartment or house‚ into a more spiritually inviting space with the resources available to you, attracting helpful spirits into your life. Beginning with methods to cleanse and bless your personal space, learn how to keep the atmosphere spiritually healthy, lucky and peace-

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ful with the aid of your house wight (spirit) or personal guardians, and how to preserve this relationship if you move.

3:30 PM

1:30 PM

Amber K and Azrael Arynn K Listen to the stories of bold and courageous women throughout the ages. In between the storytelling we will present proven techniques for women to embrace their own power and achieve success as activists, leaders, pioneers, and warriors, both peaceful and otherwise. What is power and where can you find it? Some of this material comes from Amber and Azrael’s research for a future book on empowered women. If you are strong and want to be stronger, effective but want to be more so, or neither of these and want to change your life, join our presentation and discussion.

Earth Religions and Climate Changes

Silicon Valley

Glenn Turner Join us in a meeting network to examine how we think about our future. How can we make a difference? Are issues different in different parts of the country? How can we strengthen our communities in the face of the social and economic challenges ahead?

What is a Pagan response to the awful climate destruction produced by our dysfunctional capitalist system? How can we work towards a better sustainable social system that benefits all? We will break into to small groups then rejoin to plan responses to local and national issues and ways we can support each other.

3:30 PM

Boardroom

Connecting to the Wisdom of the Soul With Hypnosis

Brenda Titus, CH You hold inside of you all of the answers that you need to live a happy, successful life, the life that you were born to live.

During this workshop with a magically minded professional hypnotherapist, you will learn about hypnosis and how it can help you identify and overcome subconscious obstacles and blocks so that you can live an even more successful, happy and productive life.

You will experience a group hypnosis session to aid in the process of overcoming these blocks by connecting to the wisdom of your Soul. Doors close 30 minutes after start time.

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AMAZONS AND POWERFUL WOMEN: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE

3:30 PM

Demystifying the Out-of-Body Experience (OBE)

Riesling

Luis Minero Author of book Demystifying the Out-of-Body Experiences (OBEs)‚ will explain the advantages of developing this ability, like developing greater awareness, contacting spirit guides directly, finding our life task, how working with Bioenergies is a key to their development, understanding better the processes of death, and all the consequences for spiritual growth that this practice brings.

Some methods and common entry and exit sensations will also be discussed; as well as the current studies on OBEs and their benefits.

3:30 PM

Singing Bowl Meditation

San Jose

Gypsey Elaine Teague This panel discusses the magical properties of over 80 woods as applied to wands. One simply does not serve soup with a butter knife so why do we think one wand will always work perfecty?

Samples of all woods will be presented.

Ayamanatara A powerful way to bring your body to a state of calm using crystal singing bowls as the conduit. During the meditation, crystal singing bowls are played while we sit or lie in meditative bliss. The sound floods us with ethereal vibrations which deepen our meditation and connection with All. You may wish to bring a blanket or yoga mat to lie on. Doors will be closed 5 minutes after start time to allow for meditative space.

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

A Witch’s Guide to Wands

The Horned God 2.0

Carmel/ Monterey

Fir

Jason W. Mankey Ten years ago Jason Mankey presented his first Horned God workshop at PantheaCon, and ten years later he’s back to do it again but this time completely revised and updated. New information, new gods, new slides, (and maybe even new jokes), it’s the Horned God but now with even more horned goodness. Explore the light and the dark of one of Pagandom’s most revered deities.

3:30 PM

Village Witchery 101

Oak

Hexeba Theaux As Witches, we have a hybrid heritage: ceremonial magic and other elements of the Western Mystery Tradition, modern scholarship, the Counterculture and folk tradition. When we come out of the broom closet, our non-Pagan neighbors think first of the Witch of folk tradition or perhaps of the Hollywood image. What do you do when they start coming to you asking for help with their love life, their children and their lost cats? Come learn about the nuts and bolts of village Witchery. PREREQUISITE FOR VILLAGE WITCHERY 102, 201 AND 202.

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INTUITIVE PERSONAL RITUAL MAKING

San Juan/ San Carlos

Ruth Barrett - Temple of Diana Whether to meet your own needs or to assist others in marking significant life passages is an important aspect of participating in Pagan religion and leadership. Learn helpful skills in how to design personal rituals and work effectively one-on-one with others to initiate a life change or attitude, facilitate a change already in process, or name and claim a transformation that has already occurred. Doors close at start time.

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3:30 PM

Conscious Open Relationships

San Martin/ San Simeon

Robert Allen and Lasara Firefox Allen Ever been curious about open relationships? Already in one and want some more information, and to build community?

Open relationships are created in many ways, from polyamory to non-monogamy to swinging. In Conscious Open Relationships we will cover these formats, as well as offering some structure around how it all works, including agreements, shared dialogue, consent, jealousy, and cultivating an open mind and open heart. Some sexual content may be included in the context of creating agreements.

Adults (18+) only. Doors close 15 minutes after start time.

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7:00 PM — Priest/Priestess Chat: Building Circles and Community........................................Suzy Peltier AKA Lady Red Hawk.............. Boardroom 7:00 PM — Celia in Concert...................................................................................................Celia......................................................... Carmel/ Monterey 7:00 PM v The Four Ways of Witchery..................................................................................Orion Foxwood......................................... Cedar/ Pine 7:00 PM v Magick Incense Making 101................................................................................Carl F. Neal............................................... Fir 7:00 PM v Cauldron Magic...................................................................................................Selena Fox................................................ Oak 7:00 PM ¡ Men, Integration, and The Initiatory Magick of Everyday Life..............................Robert Allen............................................. Riesling 7:00 PM — Designing Intensive Rituals.................................................................................Shauna Aura Knight................................. San Jose 7:00 PM — Gods and Monsters: Building a Variant Pantheon................................................DK Cowan................................................. San Juan/ San Carlos 7:00 PM — Bast Devotional Dance........................................................................................Avia Moore............................................... San Martin/ San Simeon 7:00 PM ¡ Rosaleen Norton: The Witch of King’s Cross..........................................................Julia Phillips............................................. Santa Clara 7:00 PM — Ochun’s Golden Pentacle.....................................................................................Leni Hester............................................... Silicon Valley 9:00 PM — Infused with Spirit: Creating Herbal Potions........................................................Lady Mau................................................. Boardroom 9:00 PM — Ruth Barrett and Holly Tannen in Concert............................................................Holly Tannen and Ruth Barrett................. Carmel/ Monterey 9:00 PM v The Rite of the Grand Convergence......................................................................Black Rose Witchcraft............................... Cedar/ Pine 9:00 PM v Hekate: Witness and Ally.....................................................................................Timotha Doane and Kristen Oliver............ Oak 9:00 PM — Solitary Seidh & Utiseta......................................................................................Shirl Sazynski........................................... Riesling 9:00 PM — New Aeon Tantra: The Diamond Sapphire Gem of Radiant Light.........................Gregory Peters/Ordo Sunyata Vajra.......... San Jose 9:00 PM — CircleSinging.......................................................................................................Deborah J. Hamouris................................ San Juan/ San Carlos 9:00 PM — Pop Culture Magick: Working With Villains..........................................................Emily Carlin.............................................. San Martin/ San Simeon 9:00 PM ¡ Vodou 101: Legba, The Barons, and The Gede......................................................Mambo Chita Tann................................... Santa Clara 9:00 PM — Drum circle 101...................................................................................................Don Schulz............................................... Silicon Valley 11:00 PM — Ritual Astrology..................................................................................................Charly McCreary....................................... Boardroom 11:00 PM — Mahal EtnoFusyon in Concert!!!...........................................................................Mahal {EthnoFusion Musik}..................... Carmel/ Monterey 11:00 PM ¡ Pomba Gira 3.0: Red on Black!!!...........................................................................American Magic Umbanda House............ Cedar/ Pine 11:00 PM v Authentic Recon Lady Gaga Devotional/Clothing Swap.......................................Discordian.com........................................ Oak 11:00 PM — Pagans in Recovery - Serenity First......................................................................Pagans in recovery - Serenity First Jack & Kevin Riesling 11:00 PM ¡ Invoking the Lover Within: A Flirtation Workshop...............................................Sarah Astarte........................................... San Juan/ San Carlos 11:00 PM — Bardic Circle.........................................................................................................Valerie Voigt............................................. Silicon Valley 3:30 PM

Healing Ritual of Asclepius

Santa Clara

Ivan Richmond Thiasos Olympikos will perform a Hellenic healing ritual in honor of Asclepius, the Greek God of healing. All who wish to be healed will be anointed with healing oil. The goal is to receive dreams from the God showing us the way to healing. All are welcome. Doors close at start time.

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3:30 PM

The Theatre of Witchcraft

Silicon Valley

Bhride This class is for practitioners of all magical paths, that would like to hone and sharpen the most important magickcal tool you possess (the only one you really need)your self ! As an actress and Witch, I have discovered how very beneficial the two crafts are to each other. Using theater techniques, we will work on what I call “the Force of Intent” through voice and gesture. Like theater, energy working requires focus and intent, but oft times we get caught up in all those other tools. Voice, gesture, and conveying emotion and intent is vital in both private and public ritual.

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5:00 PM

Welcoming the Sabbath Bride

Riesling

A Couple of Jews Jew-friendly Pagans, Pagan-friendly Jews, and those who find ways to be Heathen and non-Heathen at the same time, please join us as we welcome the Jewish Sabbath. There’ll be a short prayer service (where the Hebrew God is acknowledged to encompass a feminine form!) followed by wine and bread and maybe something tasty to nosh upon.

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The Furious Revels

San Juan/ San Carlos

River Devora In communities throughout Europe, stretching back as far as 2500 years or more, folks have gathered during the dark season, donned grotesque masks and bestial costumes, and wildly cavorted through their towns to drive out evil spirits and the doldrums of winter. Let’s prepare the hotel for PantheaCon properly with a good, thorough and time-tested European cleansing tradition.

Bring your furs, antlers, horns, masks, grotesque costumes, rattles, drums, bells, and brooms.

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7:00 PM

Boardroom

Priest/Priestess Chat: Building Circles and Community

Suzy Peltier AKA Lady Red Hawk This open discussion speaks directly to this Con’s theme of “...Building Pagan Safety and Social Nets.” Hosted by Lady Red Hawk, High Priestess and founder of the 20 year-old, Neo-Wiccan Tradition of Taoist Wicca. Joining us, will be her High Priest, Lord Salmon, and some of her initiates to answer your questions.

She knows this calling can be a lonely road filled with the pitfalls of Circle/Coven dynamics. You need not be initiated, or experienced. Bring your questions and concerns. If you have experience, please share it. All are welcome. Get or give support, network and build community.

7:00 PM

Celia in Concert

Carmel/ Monterey

Celia Celia is a Singer/Songwriter/Comedienne described as “A cross between an Earthy Enya, Joan Baez, & Tina Fey.” She dishes up the most delicious concoction of the silly & sacred. Celia has opened for notable authors: Susun Weed, Marianne Williamson & Dr. Masaru Emoto & her “Symbol” song was named the “Anthem for the Veteran Pentacle Quest”. Celia is soon to release her 11th album titled “Letting Go.” “What Celia Offers is a Gift to the World.” Brooke Medicine Eagle, Author, “The Last Ghost Dance” www.CeliaOnline.com 7:00 PM

The Four Ways of Witchery

Cedar/ Pine

Orion Foxwood In his over 30 years of Craft work, Orion has noted 4 approaches/modes to different Craft traditions. They transmit distinctive attributes of witchery: 1) Fertility; 2) Mystery: 3) Ecstasy; and 4) Sorcery. In this workshop, Orion will describe each of them, how they manifest, how he encountered them, their inherent power and how they are tapped through traditional, historical and contemporary witchcraft. Then, he will open out the “Hidden Hosts of the Four Ways” for an experience with the power of their presence.

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7:00 PM

Magick Incense Making 101

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chian traditions. Discover approaches for using different types of cauldrons and cauldron imagery in personal and group meditations and rituals.

7:00 PM

Riesling

Men, Integration, and The Initiatory Magick of Everyday Life

Robert Allen In this men’s only workshop, we will look at the levels of comfort we hold about power and emotional surrender.

There is a magick in-between, where power and surrender become one. It is there where we find our true self. As men, we’ll be given the opportunity to experience initiatory states to discover those vulnerable parts of ourselves, and come to realize that power and surrender each comes with its own rewards and risks as we walk through the world. This will empower you to be the man you want to be, or strengthen the man you already are. Door close 10 minutes after start time.

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7:00 PM

San Jose

Designing Intensive Rituals

Shauna Aura Knight How do you design rituals with intensity, depth, and impact?

Perhaps you facilitate group rituals to explore personal shadows, look into the mirror of souls, or to deal with Underworld or Ancestor issues. How do you break people out of their comfort zones to do deep work while ensuring safety? We’ll discuss choosing a ritual theme (seasonal sabbat, myth, fairytale, etc.), working with ritual techniques to draw people into the theme, and ritual structures that pull people into the deep magic. We’ll practice ecstatic/ embodied ritual techniques that can be used to engage a deeper trance state.

7:00 PM

San Juan/ San Carlos

Gods and Monsters: Building a Variant Pantheon

DK Cowan Who are the Gods and how do we find the ones who look like us? Too often we are told either that the gods are just aspects of universal archetypes or that the gods can only be worshiped within their culturally prescribed Pantheons. But Pantheons evolve according to society’s need. In this presentation we’ll run a crash course on DYI pantheon building with a focus on gender and sexual variance.

Carl F. Neal Learn to make all-natural incense for your rituals or as gifts!

There are no synthetic fragrances here, only the gifts that Nature has given to us. Learn to combine herbs, resins, and woods with natural gum and wood binders to create your own sticks, cones, coils, and much more, that are infused with your own energy. You will leave this workshop with natural incense you have crafted with your own hands. If you haven’t had a chance to attend this workshop before, don’t miss out! Doors close at start time.

7:00 PM

7:00 PM

Rosaleen Norton: The Witch of King’s Cross

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Cauldron Magic

Oak

Selena Fox Learn some old and new ways of working with cauldrons for healing, inspiration, celebrating the seasons, home blessing, and divination. Explore cauldron lore and symbology from around the world including Celtic, Roman, Chinese, Greek, and Appala-

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Bast Devotional Dance

San Martin/ San Simeon

Avia Moore We will be dancing in devotion to Bast, the Egyptian cat Goddess of music, dance, and all that is feline. May she bring the energies of her feline children that have left our world so they may be reunited once again with us. Feel free to bring an item to be blessed by her divine energy for you or your feline companion.

7:00 PM

Santa Clara

Julia Phillips Rosaleen Norton (1917-1979) was an extraordinary visionary artist who had a remarkable capacity to explore the depths of her subconscious mind and express the archetypal beings she encountered through art. She was especially devoted to

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the God Pan and honoured him through rituals conducted with her coven in Bohemian Kings Cross, Sydney. In the early 1990s I met two people who knew Roie, one of whom was a member of her coven in the 1950s. This talk looks at her life and times through her work and the lens of the Australian media. Wiccan initiates only.

Doors close at start time.

fierce compassion and clearer future. In strength, we will return to the power and deep connection found within Hekate’s cave. The door will close once the ritual has started, about 15 minutes after the program’s stated time.

7:00 PM

Shirl Sazynski Different from “oracular seidhr”, solitary seidh/utiseta is a Norse shamanic tradition of soul travel, intense inspiration and deep empathy, at times becoming another during trance through feeling their heart, mind, choices and sensations “from the inside”, as if they are your own. It’s magic in the oldest sense: communicating with and learning from the Gods and spirits. Following Odin’s mythological example and Icelandic folklore, it can be practiced alone in a quiet, meditative space with a minimum of tools. Learn the lore, foundational safety, ethics, benefits and uses of seidh techniques.

Silicon Valley

Ochun’s Golden Pentacle

Leni Hester Ochun’s Golden Pentacle is a moving meditation practice, informed by the Iron Pentacle and the heart-centered meditation of Sri Chinmoy, designed to honor and align with the Goddess Ochun. This “play-shop” will teach the practice through breath, movement, play, and a brief divination, from a divination deck I am creating.

9:00 PM

Infused with Spirit: Creating Herbal Potions

Boardroom

Lady Mau Magical people have long made use of special concoctions to aid in their quests from love potions and fabled flying ointments to aqua vitae. Join us as we explore the use of tinctures and infusions to aid in inner work. We will begin with an overview of basic and advanced methods of creating these special elixirs as well as safety concerns for the modern alchemist. We will then use magical intent to create a tincture for ritual use. Each participant will be invited to sample tinctures designed to enhance spiritual discovery.

Workshop is for those 21 years and older only.

9:00 PM

Ruth Barrett and Holly Tannen in Concert

Carmel/ Monterey

Holly Tannen and Ruth Barrett Dianic priestess Ruth Barrett sings songs of magic, mystery, and Amazon women, accompanying herself with amazing dulcimer artistry. Holly sings Pagan anthems and parodies, from “Heretic Heart” to “Rime of the Ancient Matriarch.” Come and laugh, cry, and sing along. All welcome!

9:00 PM

The Rite of the Grand Convergence

Cedar/ Pine

Black Rose Witchcraft Join thirteen witchcraft traditions from all over the US and Canada including Sacred Fires, Blue Rose Feri, The Temple of Witchcraft, and The Firefly Tradition to cast one of the largest protection spells in modern history. Inspired by a mythical rite by the same name, the Rite of the Grand Convergence is said to have protected England from invading forces during WWII. Come and align to the many Gods of the craft, the beloved and mighty dead, and join us as we summon a great cone of power to protect future generations of witches and pagans. Wear something black.

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9:00 PM

Hekate: Witness and Ally

Oak

Timotha Doane and Kristen Oliver Hekate: Dark Moon Ritual and Shadow work. We will acknowledge our shadows, what we fear and reject, invoke Hekate and work with her as witness and ally. We will move out of the bonds of silence, fear and anger into a courageous place of

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9:00 PM

Riesling

Solitary Seidh & Utiseta

9:00 PM

San Jose

New Aeon Tantra: The Diamond Sapphire Gem of Radiant Light

Gregory Peters/Ordo Sunyata Vajra Author Gregory Peters invites you to come celebrate the central rite of the Ordo Sunyata Vajra (OSV), the Diamond Sapphire Gem of Radiant Light. In this rite that has been lovingly practiced by OSV members since 1999, we will explore the union of the human with the divine, the opening up of cosmic consciousness and generate healing for the benefit of all sentient beings. The OSV is a vehicle of the Stellar Gnosis of Thelema and our rites draw upon both eastern and western esoteric traditions. People of all skill levels are welcome to attend.

9:00 PM

CircleSinging

San Juan/ San Carlos

Deborah J. Hamouris CircleSinging can be described lots of ways: vocal improvisation, vocal “jamming”, add-a-part/change-a-part, vocal orchestra, “voicestra”, a “drum circle” for singers, or just plain “make it up” singing. Starting with simple vocal warm-ups Deborah will begin creating improvised choral parts for all. Once there’s a groove going, singers are invited into the middle of the circle to solo or just experience the sound from the center of the community of voices.

You might find yourself moving to the groove, too. CircleSinging is highly participatory and a “mistake-free zone”—fun for everyone.

9:00 PM

San Martin/ San Simeon

Pop Culture Magick: Working With Villains

Emily Carlin In Pop Culture Magick we work with the stories and character from our favorite fandoms to create compelling magick. Unsurprisingly, some of the most popular characters to work with are the villains. Villains have their advantages: a singular focus towards a goal, a certain ruthless efficiency, and pure potency. However, they require all the delicacy of handling and careful word crafting as the most persnickety fae and are as like to hinder as help you if they think you’re taking advantage. In this workshop we’ll talk about some of our favorite pop culture villains and how to work with them.

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9:00 PM

Vodou 101: Legba, The Barons, and The Gede

Santa Clara

Mambo Chita Tann Join Mambo T (Chita Tann Bon Mambo) for a discussion and interactive conversation about Haitian Vodou spirits that anyone can honor, including Papa Legba, the various spirits known as the Barons, and the Gede nation those Barons oversee. We’ll talk about who these spirits are and how they can be approached by anyone. We’ll also share some of their songs and rituals. [NOTE FOR PARENTS: Be aware that a Baron/Gede conversation may include some potentially adult/NSFW topics, especially if we get around to singing any of their dirty songs!]

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Drum circle 101

Silicon Valley

11:00 PM

Authentic Recon Lady Gaga Devotional/Clothing Swap

Oak

Discordian.com From the makers of 2014’s SKELETOR AFFIRMATIONS ritual! For centuries our ancestors performed ritual devotional chanting and clothing swaps to honor Stefani Germanotta.

Especially your ancestors. I don’t mean to get personal, but it’s right there in the archaeological record. This is a worshipful service celebrating Eris wearing her mask as the Queen of Pop, patroness of glamor, art, gender disruption, fashion, and liberation. This is a fam trad ritual that has survived since the burning times of the DISCO INFERNO. Be ready to swap. Fabulous attire is requested; some will be provided. Doors close at start time.

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11:00 PM

Riesling

Don Schulz Introduction to the drum circle. Emphasis on etiquette, play, rhythmic fundamentals, finding one’s “voice”, and Jamming with a group. No experience required - in fact, the less the better. Have a drum? Bring it! Need one? We’ll have some to borrow! Never played before? wonderful! You’re my kind of people!!!

Pagans in Recovery - Serenity First

11:00 PM

Sarah Astarte This is an interactive workshop in which different lover archetypes will be role-played by the participants. Each person will have the opportunity to explore different “love styles,” approaches to meeting and getting to know people. Clear boundaries will be established so that is an emotionally safe space. Some of the lover archetypes include the ingénue, the coquette, the adventurer, and the vixen. This is a playful and pleasurable workshop where you learn new flirtation techniques and get to explore the Lover within you! Doors close at start time.

Ritual Astrology

Boardroom

Charly McCreary Integration of current planetary positions into your ritual planning and work will enhance your magickal practices! Whether working with the Chart of Planetary Hours to determine an ideal time of day for your ritual or incorporating herbes and their astrological correspondences into your lunar ceremonies, astrology is a powerful tool every practitioner should consider. The first 12 attendees will receive a mini kit of astrological herbes for creating amulets or infusions.

11:00 PM

Mahal EtnoFusyon in Concert!!!

Carmel/ Monterey

Mahal {EthnoFusion Musik} Be entranced by music from around the world and sung in many languages. Mahal will offer originals, covers, and traditional songs in various genres: folk-rock, tribal, devotional chant, popjazz, meditative, trance. Join Mahal in singing favorite Goddess, Buddist, Hindu and Earth chants. Dance to the gentle or rockin’ tunes thru yoga, tai chi, martial arts moves, butoh, Bharatanatyam, Kathak and other high-energy, free-form sacred circle dances or just sit, listen and breathe.

11:00 PM

Pomba Gira 3.0: Red on Black!!!

Cedar/ Pine

American Magic Umbanda House Pomba’s here & ready to move you. Come ready to dance, as we drum, sing, and celebrate the hard-earned wisdom of Pomba Gira. Pomba teaches self-confidence, love of thyself, and how to make sure the bills get paid. Dress in your best red and black, ready to groove it out. This is a participatory ritual where you share in blessing the con and our community with love, and prosperity for the coming year. Remember: Street-legal cover through the halls, beach- legal coverage on the dance floor. No one under 21. No photography! Latecomers shall be admitted if they dress well and bring chocolate!

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Pagans in recovery - Serenity First Jack & Kevin A 12 step program for all addictions. Specifically geared to those on the Pagan paths of Spirituality.

11:00 PM

San Juan/ San Carlos

Invoking the Lover Within: A Flirtation Workshop

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Bardic Circle

Silicon Valley

Valerie Voigt Love to lift your voice in song about that good Old Time Religion? Want to learn more songs or sacred chants? Don’t want to sing, but want to recite poetry, or dance, or listen? Come share your performing art, or enjoy the performing gifts of your fellow Pagans.

Format will be Pick, Pass, or Play: pick a song (or singer); pass (that is, skip your turn); or play—that is, perform! Come share the fun.

SATURDAY 9:00 AM

The Enneagram for Thelemites

Boardroom

Kim Makoi, D.C., M.Sc. If “Do what thou wilt” is indeed the whole of the Law, then as Thelemites we need all the help we can get in discerning True Will from the tricks of the ego! The Enneagram provides just such a tool, and in this class, we will explore how it is relevant to those on the path of Thelema. (You know that Crowley would have loved it!). Doors close at start time.

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9:00 AM v The Enneagram for Thelemites............................................................................Kim Makoi, D.C., M.Sc............................... Boardroom 9:00 AM — Working with the Irish Sidhe...............................................................................Lora O’Brien............................................. Carmel/ Monterey 9:00 AM — Wake Up To Spirit................................................................................................CAYA Coven.............................................. Cedar 9:00 AM — Reflexive Yoga for Intermediate Yogis..................................................................Holly Allender Kraig................................. Fir 9:00 AM v Mapping Her Memory: Seeking the Goddesses of Wales.....................................Jhenah Telyndru....................................... Oak 9:00 AM v Sacred Kings and Priestess Queens......................................................................R J Stewart............................................... Pine 9:00 AM — Five Pillars of Astrology.......................................................................................Rev Bill Duvendack................................... Riesling 9:00 AM v Creating a Tarot Pocket Book...............................................................................Woven Circle............................................ San Carlos 9:00 AM — Pagan Family Meet & Greet.................................................................................San Francisco Pagan Parents & Families... San Jose 9:00 AM v Magic of Marlinspike...........................................................................................Christopher Mabie.................................... San Juan 9:00 AM v History of the Worlds Part 1-Blot.........................................................................Hrafn Skjoldr Kindred............................... San Martin/ San Simeon 9:00 AM — Animal Spirits in Pagan Religions II.....................................................................Sabina Magliocco..................................... Santa Clara 9:00 AM — Food and Pagans.................................................................................................Magenta Griffith...................................... Silicon Valley 11:00 AM v Magick Incense Making 201 (Intermediate)........................................................Carl F. Neal............................................... Boardroom 11:00 AM — Harp as Living Myth............................................................................................Diana Rowan............................................ Carmel/ Monterey 11:00 AM v Pagan Death Passages.........................................................................................Selena Fox................................................ Cedar 11:00 AM v Taking a Part in the Golden Dawn Neophyte Hall................................................Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn... Fir 11:00 AM — Beginning Energy Healing...................................................................................Gus diZerega............................................ Oak 11:00 AM — Fortune-telling with the Petit Lenormand Deck..................................................Mary Greer............................................... Pine 11:00 AM — Gods and Radicals: Anti-Capitalist Resistance and Pagan Practice.......................Rhyd Wildermuth & Alley Valkyrie............ Riesling 11:00 AM — Create Your Own Compass: Casting Sheets For Fun and Divination......................Karen Krebser........................................... San Carlos 11:00 AM — Childrens’ Ritual and Circle..................................................................................Taffy Dugan.............................................. San Jose 11:00 AM — Herbalism 101 - The Budding Herbalist. Remember, Safety First!........................Ceana....................................................... San Juan 11:00 AM — Merging Movement With Ritual..........................................................................Tempest & Nathaniel Johnstone............... San Martin/ San Simeon 11:00 AM — Lives of the Pagan Teachers.................................................................................Brandy Williams....................................... Santa Clara 11:00 AM v Seeing for the Tribes............................................................................................EliSheva................................................... Silicon Valley 9:00 AM

Working with the Irish Sidhe

Carmel/ Monterey

Lora O’Brien (or, How Not to Get Fucked by Fairies)* Lora O’Brien is an Irish Priestess, guardian and guide to the home of Queen Medb, and various Sidhe Notaries, not least of whom is the original Bean Sidhe - the Morrigan - in Rathcroghan, County Roscommon, Ireland.

She will share her work, knowledge and experience with the Irish Fairies or Sidhe (the people and the places), and how to stay safe while doing so. *(participation does not constitute a guarantee) 9:00 AM

Wake Up To Spirit

Cedar

CAYA Coven All are welcome to join the Clergy of Come As You Are Coven for a fun, lively, family-and-child friendly morning ritual to start your day on the right foot at PCon. This popular rite involves original songs, dancing, gentle stretching and movement to get the blood flowing, heartfelt connection between all participants as unique manifestations of the Divine, and a wholesome, joyful sense of community sharing. Individuals of all abilities welcome - activities can be modified so that those who need to sit for the duration of the ritual may still participate fully. Come As YOU Are and be welcome!

SATURDAY

9:00 AM

Reflexive Yoga for Intermediate Yogis

Fir

Holly Allender Kraig Move your yoga practice a new level by learning the basics of Reflexive Yoga. This class is for those familiar with Hatha Yoga and would like to incorporate spiritual and emotional work into their practice. Using specific Vinyasas and meditations, see how you can break through obstacles holding you back. Please bring a towel or mat.

9:00 AM

Mapping Her Memory: Seeking the Goddesses of Wales

Oak

Jhenah Telyndru Embark upon a virtual pilgrimage through ancient sites in Wales as we seek out the Goddesses of the Mabinogi in the sacred landscape. Drawing upon decades of retracing the paths that legends have carved into the land, this presentation will feature striking visuals of sites associated with the Ladies of the Mabinogi, and will explore the archaeological, historical, and folkloric contexts of these mythic places. We will discuss the power of pilgrimage, and share journeying tools which can help to initiate or deepen relationships with these powerful British Goddesses.

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9:00 AM

Sacred Kings and Priestess Queens

Pine

R J Stewart A ritual workshop attuning to potent ancestral magic. Join R J Stewart and Anastacia Nutt to become immersed in the sacromagical lineage of the Sacred Kings and Priestess Queens, as taught to initiates within the British esoteric tradition. Discover how this spiritual lineage works for us,here,today.

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9:00 AM

Five Pillars of Astrology

Riesling

Rev Bill Duvendack This is a basic astrology program that has been taught around the world, and focuses on the 5 parts of astrology that are key to learn early on, which are the signs, the planets, houses, aspects, and most important, free will. No previous astrology background is necessary, and handouts will be provided.

9:00 AM

Creating a Tarot Pocket Book

San Carlos

Woven Circle N. Marie will be leading this class in creating a pocket book for use with Tarot Cards. This accordion fold book will hold four pockets to reflect seasonal changes. Students will work with collage and paper craft techniques to create a piece that can be displayed on their alter to read the passing of the Seasons. All materials will be provided.

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9:00 AM

Pagan Family Meet & Greet

San Jose

San Francisco Pagan Parents and Families Where are all the other families with kids? Bring the kids and come on down and meet other Pagan families! We will do brief introductions, and then let the kids play and everyone get a chance to connect with like-minded folks. We had great fun last year. Hope to see you there!

9:00 AM

Animal Spirits in Pagan Religions II

Santa Clara

Sabina Magliocco Gods, Spirit Guides, Familiars, and Otherkin: Animal spirits in many forms are central to the modern Pagan religious imagination, whether as deities, spirit guides, familiars, or parts of us. How do these categories differ and overlap? What sorts of animals appear in each category? Which animals are represented more than others, and why? How can animal spirits help us to work towards a future of healing human/ animal relations and the environment? Join us for a collaborative exploratory session that will contribute to my ongoing research on animals and the spiritual imagination!

9:00 AM

Food and Pagans

Silicon Valley

Magenta Griffith What makes us Pagan is the things we do ‚Äì and what could be more basic than what we eat? We as Pagans are creating culture, and part of that is cooking, baking and brewing. Let’s talk about where our food comes from, and what we do with it, especially ritual foods and potlucks. Recipes will be provided from the “Prodea Cookbook”.

11:00 AM

Magick Incense Making 201 (Intermediate)

Boardroom

Carl F. Neal Already taken the Magick Incense Making 101 class a few times? This much more intimate workshop has very limited space. This year we will explore the making and use of completely natural incense pellets (aka “moist incense”). We will also work with the most precious of incense ingredients: aloeswood. Expand your incense knowledge and enjoy a whole new level of incense wisdom. This workshop will be strictly limited to 24 people.

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11:00 AM

Harp as Living Myth

Carmel/ Monterey

Christopher Mabie Learn how traditional marlinspike techniques can be integrated with your magical work. Get hands experience with nautical knots that can be used for all levels of magic. Take away a project, practice materials, and FUN!! Limited to 40 participants.

Diana Rowan Harp lecture-music performance: how the ancient Celtic harp was saved from obscurity via the power of mythology. The stately Celtic harp was deliberately and progressively wiped out starting with the Elizabethan Age. It was revived by the resurgence of interest in Celtic mythology and history starting in the late 19th century. See and hear how myth can have tangible, crucial impact on our lives today.

9:00 AM

11:00 AM

9:00 AM

Magic of Marlinspike

San Juan

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History of the Worlds Part 1—Blot

San Martin/ San Simeon

Hrafn Skjoldr Kindred Celebrate the Nordic creation story, from the ice and cold of Nifelheim to the fires of Muspelheim with nothing (just the Ginungagap) inbetween. The rise of the giants, Audhumla, Buri, the Gods, the creation of the nine worlds by Odin from Ymir’s flesh and blood, and the making of Ask and Embla - Oh -and dwarves.

At the conclusion, we blot to the Gods - primarily to Odin. using home brewed Root Beer (the icy rivers of Nifleheim) and ice cream ( Audhumla) as well as mulled Mead (the heat of Muspelheim).

Ceremony written by Einar and performed by Hrafn Skjoldr & friends. Doors close 10mins in.

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Pagan Death Passages

Cedar

Selena Fox Explore & experience uses of meditation, music, breath, touch, life review, & rituals in supporting dying Pagans & their loved ones. Learn ways to create & conduct crossing over, wakes, memorials, green burials, other rites. Includes Circle of Remembrance.

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SATURDAY

11:00 AM

Taking a Part in the Golden Dawn Neophyte Hall

Fir

Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn The 0=0 Hall of the Neophytes is not only the “ritual engine” of the Golden Dawn; it is also a powerful ritual for building community and effecting change. Come join the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn in consecrating talismans dedicated to healing and building bonds with our local communities. We will all be performing the ritual together, forming teams to do the work of the traditional Golden Dawn officers. Come try out the Golden Dawn system, and go home with a consecrated emblem of community! Doors close at start time.

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11:00 AM

Beginning Energy Healing

Oak

Gus diZerega This workshop assumes no previous knowledge. Topics are flexible, but will include: what is energy healing?, seeing healing energy, moving healing energy within your own body, the importance of motivation, ‘yin’ and ‘yang’ energy, auric cleansing, chakra stimulation, relieving energy coagulations that lead to physical symptoms such as pain and stiffness, and self-cleansing. This workshop integrates the basics of what I learned from six years study with a Brazilian shaman as well as over twenty-five years of healing work.

There will be audience participation.

11:00 AM

Fortune-telling with the Petit Lenormand Deck

Gods and Radicals: Anti-Capitalist Resistance and Pagan Practice

Riesling

Rhyd Wildermuth & Alley Valkyrie Is there something inherently radical to Pagan belief and practice? Modern Paganism has been full of radicals - from the Anarcho-Socialists within the Order of the Golden Dawn to the ecoleftists of Reclaiming. Likewise, indigenous resistance movements to Capitalism and exploitation have often invoked gods and spirits to fight off destruction of their way of life, from the ritual that sparked the Haitian revolution to the invocations to Pachamama in South America. We will explore connections between earth-based traditions and anti-Capitalism, and discuss conflicts between worshiping Gods and living in modern societies.

SATURDAY

San Carlos

Create Your Own Compass: Casting Sheets For Fun and Divination

Karen Krebser This class is about creating a compass, your own personal North Star, to use when performing divination by casting. Attendees will be guided in the creation of their compass including the use of directions, attributing meanings to symbols and placing them on the compass, and even getting your ancestors involved, which is always a hoot. Casting “junk-oracle” charms will be provided for practice, and everybody will leave with their own paper compass.

11:00 AM

San Jose

Childrens’ Ritual and Circle

Taffy Dugan Calling all children - it’s circle time! Time to dance and sing!

Time to have a blast doing ritual that’s all about you kids! After running South Bay Pagan Kids for the past couple of years, Taffy Dugan has crafted through trial and error (a lot of error as her Witchlets like to remind her), a fun and captivating ritual that you and your families will thoroughly enjoy. While it’s run in an eclectic Wiccan way, there are elements that many Pagan families can take away and use in their home rituals.

11:00 AM

Herbalism 101— Pine The Budding Herbalist. Remember, Safety First!

Mary Greer Discover what all the excitement is about. This small deck of 36 fortune-telling cards originated in 1790s Germany. Recently rediscovered by English-speakers, it is experiencing a huge renaissance. Learn about its special divinatory language and methods, and how the Lenormand deck provides amazingly succinct, specific and accurate answers to your questions. Learn about the history, the decks and basic techniques via a ppt presentation, followed by group practice and sample readings.

11:00 AM

11:00 AM

San Juan

Ceana Introduction to herbalism. The workshop is designed for those with a budding interest in natural medicine with a primary focus on several globally available plants. The instruction will center on how to prepare and safely use information for the student to take into consideration when planning short & long term health treatments using plants. Will also include information on how to safely gather wild plants and prepare them for use. Resource information will be included for event, with additional sources online. Please alert presenter of any plant allergies in advance so we can all play safe.

11:00 AM

Merging Movement With Ritual

San Martin/ San Simeon

Tempest & Nathaniel Johnstone Ritual is a dynamic union of self and spirit, above and below—so why should it be static? Invigorate your spiritual practice by bringing movement into your ritual and discover a much more powerful experience. We’ll explore sacred dance concepts and show how different movements, gestures and dance steps can be applied to enhance your practice. For groups and covens, as well as solitary practitioners.

11:00 AM

Lives of the Pagan Teachers

Santa Clara

Brandy Williams A priestess of Kemet, a Greek philosopher, a Byzantine monk, an Italian courtesan’s intellectual daughter - each exemplified the practice of theurgy, communion with the gods.

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SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT A GLANCE v

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1:30 PM — Pagan Culture Confonts Our Prison Crisis.............................................................Pagan Alliance......................................... Boardroom 1:30 PM — Tradition vs. Innovation - A Panel Discussion.......................................................Phoenix LeFae.......................................... Carmel/ Monterey 1:30 PM v Four Jacks, A Queen & The Wheel of the Year.......................................................Christopher Penczak................................. Cedar/ Pine 1:30 PM — Turning The Wheel: Nurturing Young Leaders & Embracing Change....................Thorn, Jason, David, Courtney, et al......... Oak 1:30 PM — Kitchen Witches’ Alchemy part II: fermentation as a magical tool.......................Lise Dyckman........................................... Riesling 1:30 PM ¡ Men’s Spirituality Panel.......................................................................................Ivan Richmond......................................... San Jose 1:30 PM ¡ Introduction to Wheat Weaving...........................................................................Woven Circle............................................ San Juan/ San Carlos 1:30 PM ¡ Elderflower Amazon Ritual..................................................................................Elderflower.............................................. San Martin/ San Simeon 1:30 PM — Living Thelema....................................................................................................Dr. David Shoemaker................................ Santa Clara 1:30 PM — Theurgy in Iamblichus, Agrippa, & the Golden Dawn..........................................Sam Webster............................................ Silicon Valley 3:30 PM v Toward a Culture of Consent................................................................................Lasara Firefox Allen.................................. Boardroom 3:30 PM — Heavy Metal and the Occult................................................................................Jason W. Mankey...................................... Carmel/ Monterey 3:30 PM v Oracles from the Living Tarot...............................................................................Aurea Arcana............................................ Cedar/ Pine 3:30 PM — Crowley, Harris and Thoth....................................................................................Geraldine Beskin...................................... Oak 3:30 PM — Legal and Organizational Requirements for Pagan Groups..................................Brian Ewing............................................. Riesling 3:30 PM — Creating programs for earth-centered children & teens......................................Margo Wolfe............................................ San Jose 3:30 PM — Queering Conjure: Working Roots of Liberation...................................................Lou Florez................................................. San Juan/ San Carlos 3:30 PM v Trance Dancing with the Jinn..............................................................................Yasmin Henkesh....................................... San Martin/ San Simeon 3:30 PM ¡ Wicca in the Southern Hemisphere.....................................................................Julia Phillips............................................. Santa Clara 3:30 PM — Warding and Ritual Safety...................................................................................Warding and Ritual Safety Panelists........ Silicon Valley 5:00 PM — Havdalah.............................................................................................................A Couple of Jews...................................... Riesling 11:00 AM

Silicon Valley

Seeing for the Tribes

EliSheva This is a reconstruction of an Ancient Hebrew Divination Ritual that the Hebrews and many other local tribes attended when they wished to “ask of the Gods”before rabbinical monotheism took hold Come with your questions.

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1:30 PM

Boardroom

Pagan Culture Confonts Our Prison Crisis

Pagan Alliance Prison inmates in California are reaching out to Pagan Culture in staggering numbers to get through their harsh experience, often confronted by official obstruction and discrimination. This is an assault on your religious freedom as well. You will see a presentation prepared by the Center of Engaged Religious Pluralism, joined by a panel of Pagan Elders and Chaplains. We have a strategy for coming to their aid and expanding what is becoming a Pagan alternative to gang culture.

1:30 PM

Carmel/ Monterey

Tradition vs. Innovation - A Panel Discussion

Phoenix LeFae Magical traditions continue to define and redefine themselves. Do we uphold strict traditional values? Do we innovate and change? Is there room for both? How do we honor our traditions while still evolving. How do these questions connect to our practices with religion and magic? Join catherine yronwode, M. Macha Nightmare, Storm Faerywolf, Yeshe Rabbit, and Jason Mankey in this panel discussion on tradition and innovation.

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1:30 PM

Four Jacks, A Queen & The Wheel of the Year

Cedar/ Pine

Christopher Penczak The God of Witches turns the Wheel of the Year through his birth, life, death and rebirth. Often seen as a God of the Waxing and Waning light, of Oak and Holly, he can also be seen as a God of Vegetation and a God of Horned Animals. Explore the Vegetative God as manifest through four Jacks—Green, Corn, Lantern and Frost—associated with Beltane, Lammas, Samhain and Imbolc, as they turn the Wheel of the Year for the Great Queen of the Earth!

Presentation doors closed at start time for deeper vision work ritual.

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1:30 PM

Turning The Wheel: Nurturing Young Leaders & Embracing Change

Oak

Thorn, Jason, David, Courtney, Shauna, Luna, Elena, Athena T. Thorn Coyle will moderate a special panel of Pagan leaders under 50, sparking an interactive dialog about how we can better nurture and support younger leaders, and how we can effectively embrace healthy generational changes in our organizations, events, and institutions. Participants will include Jason Pitzl-Waters of The Wild Hunt, David Salisbury, Courtney Weber, Shauna Aura Knight, Luna Pantera, Elena Rose, and Athena Nikai.

SATURDAY

1:30 PM

Kitchen Witches’ Alchemy part II: fermentation as a magical tool

Riesling

Lise Dyckman “As above, so below” takes on a whole new perspective when we realize that most of the DNA in our bodies are not human. At our most intimate level we are not individuals but ecosystems.

What would it look like to work with microbiomes (ecosystems of small-cell critters) in our magical practices? Fermentation can be a tool of the will, like a wand; it can also radically change our environments in practical ways. We’ll look at—and taste—how non-alcoholic fermentations can play a part in daily practice, rituals, and transform our environments large and small; session includes a brief ritual.

1:30 PM

Men’s Spirituality Panel

San Jose

1:30 PM

Silicon Valley

Theurgy in Iamblichus, Agrippa, & the Golden Dawn

Sam Webster Theurgy survived the fall of the ancient world, transmitted in books to the Renaissance and then to the Modern era, contributing deeply to contemporary Pagan practice. Based on my doctoral thesis, I will show how the Iamblichan paradigm of theurgy was transformed by the Agrippan synthesis with Kabbalah (and Christianity), then was implemented in the Golden Dawn. Sacrifice is the Engine of Theurgy, and it advanced the theurg though the tasks and stages of development to the highest attainments of spirituality. I will show how theurgy came to be and how we can apply its methods today.

3:30 PM

Toward a Culture of Consent

Boardroom

Ivan Richmond Pyrokanthos, the founder of the Men’s Mysteries, and Ivan Richmond, a ten year veteran of those mysteries, will discuss men’s spirituality. Topics will include rites of passage, symbolism, men’s spiritual needs and the do’s and don’t of ritual. They will show that men’s spirituality is integral to and supportive of our broader community of equal siblings and that it is in concord with Feminism, gays, trans folk, queers, etc. For men and trans female to males only. Doors close at start time.

Lasara Firefox Allen Rape culture is the problem; a culture of consent is the answer. With dominant culture as the backdrop, rape culture is nearly comprehensively a feature of developing sexual identity.

Coming from the shadow of dominant culture conditioning, we aren’t told how to ask for, or offer, clear consent. In this workshop we will talk about consent; how to give it, how to ask for it, and how to play with the process of consenting in a fluid and integrated way.

We will play a consent game, so be ready for some silly fun. This workshop will be closed 10 minutes after start time.

1:30 PM

3:30 PM

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Introduction to Wheat Weaving

San Juan/ San Carlos

Woven Circle This class focuses on beginning weaving techniques along with straw preparation and sources on books, materials, and local groups. In this class, each student will make at least two weaving: a Bridget’s Cross and Harvest Knot to bring home. Children must be accompanied by an adult. All materials and supplies are provided. For an example of the projects go to www.paganhumanist.com

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1:30 PM

Elderflower Amazon Ritual

San Martin/ San Simeon

Elderflower A magical working for Women’s Financial Equality. Come meet the Amazons and Other Women of Elderflower as we Drum, Sing and Dance to manifest material abundance. This is a Women’s Only Ritual. All Self Identified Woman welcome.

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1:30 PM

Living Thelema

Santa Clara

Dr. David Shoemaker In this entertaining lecture, popular Thelemic author David Shoemaker will explore ways to integrate the spiritual system of Aleister Crowley into your daily life. Learn how the power of True Will can enhance your magick, your work, your relationships, and your overall well-being.

SATURDAY

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Heavy Metal and the Occult

Carmel/ Monterey

Jason W. Mankey Heavy Metal has always been associated with the occult, ever since the days of Black Sabbath, but how much real occult material is in heavy metal? Did Black Sabbath worship the devil, or was it all just a record company ploy to sell more albums? Who was the first real Satanic heavy metal band and why should you care?

(Why? They were a huge influence on Metallica!) The last fifteen years have been something of an occult and Pagan renaissance in Heavy Metal music too, come find out what you are missing!

3:30 PM

Oracles from the Living Tarot

Cedar/ Pine

Aurea Arcana Join the Aurea Arcana for a new year of Oracles from the Living Tarot. This year promises to be a special treat as joi wolfwomyn return to directing a PantheaCon-classic piece of ritual theatre. Experience the cards personified, receive your oracle for the year ahead, and play your part in bringing the magic to life.

Doors close at start time.

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3:30 PM

Crowley, Harris and Thoth.

Oak

Geraldine Beskin Using some of Aleister Crowley’s letters in her collection,Geraldine Beskin will throw new light on the origins of the Thoth Tarot. Lady Frieda Harris’s creation of the cards was done in extremly trying conditions, not least because there was a war going on with ‘presents from the sky’ putting everything in jeopardy.Her work is a magnificent monument to her as an artist

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gaining from Crowley’s deep magical mind. Remember, she paid him ¬£2 a week to teach her magic and they both got much, much more than they had bargained for.

3:30 PM

3:30 PM

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Riesling

Legal and Organizational Requirements for Pagan Groups

Brian Ewing As Pagan groups become larger, they might wish, or even need, to become “official” so they can network, expand nationwide, give back to society, raise funds, etc. But the mundane details and paperwork can seem daunting. This class covers what is needed to incorporate as a nonprofit organization, and other legal, paperwork, and mundane requirements to keep your organization running in the future.

Wicca in the Southern Hemisphere

Julia Phillips How do Wiccans in Australia and New Zealand follow the Wheel of the Year? Do they cast clockwise or anti-clockwise?

Is Fire placed in the north or the south? Does it matter that there are no native animals with either horns or hooves? Do Australian Wiccans include indigenous beliefs in their Wiccan practice? In this informal discussion (initiated Wiccans only - any tradition), Julia Phillips will share her experiences gained in Australia and New Zealand, compared with growing up and experiencing Wicca in England. Doors close at start time.

3:30 PM

3:30 PM San Jose Warding and Ritual Safety Warding and Ritual Safety Panelists Creating programs for earth-centered children & teens

Margo Wolfe This hands-on workshop will explore the many possibilities of working with children and teens in various settings, from festivals to ongoing classes and even one-day events. Discussion will focus on moving beyond craft projects to include a more in-depth, but lighthearted educational component and service possibilities that supplement the young person’s spiritual upbringing. We will also explore topics such as leadership building and goal-setting for young people, curricula development, activity facilitation on a budget, and logistics for programming needs.

3:30 PM

San Juan/ San Carlos

Queering Conjure: Working Roots of Liberation

Lou Florez Born from divergent cultural, economic, political, and spiritual upheavals in American history, the Southern rootwork tradition supplies a magical framework for investigating liberation. As spiritual workers and Hoodoos in the 21st century we are called to the table to create new magics of resistance and liberation that address the current needs of our communities. Join Lou for a hands on rootworking seminar on Queer conjure in practice.

Enjoy educational demos deconstructing traditional Southern spiritual workings and techniques and re-imagining them with a Queer twist! We will create baths, mojos, and waters that are designed for your needs!

3:30 PM

Trance Dancing with the Jinn

San Martin/ San Simeon

Yasmin Henkesh Learn how to induce a trance using elements of Egyptian sacred dance - Sufi whirling, popular zikr and the zar. The workshop begins with a lecture on the history of trance dancing, followed by a demonstration of basic movements and a shortened ritual. Included are movements suitable for beginners to advanced practitioners, the wheelchair bound to professional dancers. Come relieve stress and tension while communing with Middle Eastern spirits! Doors close 15 minutes after start time.

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Santa Clara

Silicon Valley

Rituals can have lasting emotional and magical impacts on the participants. But how can we ensure that impact is positive? Is it even possible to ensure that, and if so, whose job is it? Our experienced and opinionated panelists will discuss ritual safety with a focus on warding and give their answers to questions such as: What type of warding is required for different types of ritual? What items, techniques, or procedures should warders use? What can our gods do to help us ward? What non-magical things should we do to help keep our participants safe?

5:00 PM

Havdalah

Riesling

A Couple of Jews Jew-friendly Pagans, Pagan-friendly Jews, and those who find ways to be Heathen and non-Heathen at the same time, please join us for the Havdalah service that marks the end of Shabbat and the beginning of the new week. There’ll be a short prayer service followed by wine and bread and maybe something tasty to nosh upon.

7:00 PM

Magical Ethics and Protection

Boardroom

Katrina Rasbold This two-fold discussion covers the basics of standard, crosscultural magical ethics, the nature of karma, and the law of returns.

The presentation approaches from a perspective of producing the strongest flow of magical energy while incurring the least chance of unexpected magical blow back. The second portion of the class discusses how to protect the home and the self magically, as well as how to cleanse, empower, and defend the home when needed.

Emphasis is on personal responsibility and ethical conduct, as well as non-aggressive defense and protection.

7:00 PM

Concert with R J Stewart and special guests

Carmel/ Monterey

R J Stewart A concert of original songs and music, with some traditional Celtic and medieval music. Featuring the 73 stringed psaltery, guitar, and flutes. R J will be singing his own songs, comic and serious, and some dramatic Scottish magical ballads. There will be surprise guests!

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7:00 PM — Magical Ethics and Protection.............................................................................Katrina Rasbold........................................ Boardroom 7:00 PM — Concert with R J Stewart and special guests........................................................R J Stewart............................................... Carmel/ Monterey 7:00 PM — DANCE ELEMENTAL - Ecstatic Dance Journey.......................................................DevaGnosis.............................................. Cedar/ Pine 7:00 PM ¡ Pagan Humor 7: It’s all about ME!........................................................................Angus McMahan...................................... Club Max 7:00 PM v The Morrigan Speaks: Arise to the Battle.............................................................Coru Cathubodua Priesthood................... Oak 7:00 PM — Archetypes of the Masculine and the Wheel of the Year......................................Jeffrey Albaugh........................................ Riesling 7:00 PM — Witchcraft and Worship in a Wheelchair..............................................................Lunar Lavender........................................ San Jose 7:00 PM — Bringing Race to the Table; An Exploration of Racism in Paganism......................Bringing Race to the Table Authors.......... San Juan/ San Carlos 7:00 PM ¡ Honoring through sacred BDSM and Kink ritual..................................................Athena Wallinder..................................... San Martin/ San Simeon 7:00 PM — Neoplatonic Tantra..............................................................................................Bruce MacLennan..................................... Santa Clara 7:00 PM — Village Witchery 102...........................................................................................Hexeba Theaux......................................... Silicon Valley 9:00 PM — Modern Asatru/Heathenry: 40 Years In: What Now?............................................Angela T Carlson...................................... Boardroom 9:00 PM — Lon Milo DuQuette- Homemade Musical Magick................................................Lon Milo DuQuette................................... Carmel/ Monterey 9:00 PM — Pandemonaen Live Show....................................................................................Pandemonaeon........................................ Cedar/ Pine 9:00 PM — Michael Mullen’s Trio Of One................................................................................Michael Mullen’s Trio Of One.................... Club Max 9:00 PM — Pagans in Recovery - Serenity First......................................................................Jack & Kevin............................................. Riesling 9:00 PM v Teenage Gods and Heroes....................................................................................Ekklesia Antinoou.................................... San Jose 9:00 PM — Druid Ritual and Grand Procession......................................................................House of Danu.......................................... San Juan/ San Carlos 9:00 PM ¡ Dionysos Hestios, Host of the Revel -- Devotional...............................................Pandemos................................................ San Martin/ San Simeon 9:00 PM — Babalon Rising: Jack Parsons’ Witchcraft Prophecy..............................................Erik Davis................................................. Santa Clara 9:00 PM v Ritual Sonics: How to use Vocalization and Sound...............................................Taylor Ellwood.......................................... Silicon Valley 11:00 PM — Pagan Open Mic..................................................................................................Jhenah Telyndru....................................... Carmel/ Monterey 11:00 PM — Katabasis: Descent to the Underworld.................................................................Circle of Dionysos..................................... Club Max 11:00 PM ¡ Tantric Shamanism Breathwork Ceremony..........................................................Sylvia Brallier........................................... Oak 11:00 PM — Saturday Nite Drum/Dance Jam..........................................................................David Gibbons.......................................... Pine 11:00 PM ¡ Different Kind of Seidh........................................................................................Freyja’s Gift............................................... San Juan/ San Carlos 11:00 PM ¡ Danbala Sevis: Honoring the Serpent and the Rainbow......................................Mambo Chita Tann................................... San Martin/ San Simeon 11:00 PM — Historia Discordia:The Origins of the Discordian Society......................................Adam Gorightly........................................ Santa Clara 11:00 PM — Salon d’Aphrodite................................................................................................The Temple of Aphrodite.......................... Silicon Valley 7:00 PM

DANCE ELEMENTAL - Ecstatic Dance Journey

Cedar/ Pine

DevaGnosis An expanded vision of pagan ritual for our time. Deepen your connection to the living pulse of the elements present in the modern tribal vibrations of ecstatic dance culture. Dance fearlessly. Let your true self be seen as we journey together! Air: Take flight with winged feet. Fire: Ignite with passionate release. Water: Dive into the depths of soulful expression. Earth: Be grounded and empowered through community celebration. We are one Spirit in this ecstatic dance ritual. Dance a higher vision of our future. (Live DJ w/ improvisational music, all ages, talk-free dance floor.)

7:00 PM

Pagan Humor 7: It’s all about ME!

Club Max

Cafe Ho-Hum. The one constant through all of these presentations has been ME! Yay me! Go Mr. Myself! This year we celebrate the wonder, the glory, the bizarrely suburban plainness of my life. Plus: Embarrassing photos on the big screen!

7:00 PM

The Morrigan Speaks: Arise to the Battle

Oak

Coru Cathubodua Priesthood What is your battleground? Where will you take your stand?

The Morrigan calls upon the warrior in us to rise to the battle and fight for what we love. Inspired by the powerful words of Her ancient prophetic poems, we will call upon the Great Queen to call forth the strength in us to take up the struggles of our time: To act as warriors, to take up the battle for justice toward a better future for our world.

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7:00 PM

Riesling

Archetypes of the Masculine and the Wheel of the Year

Jeffrey Albaugh What are the dominant archetypal aspects of the masculine that occur in Pagan celebrations around the Wheel of the Year? How do these Pagan archetypal images and narratives compare and conflict with patterns of masculinity manifested in the dominant culture in the United States? In what way are these archetypes present in our lived experiences as Pagan men, and how can we foster the positive aspects of these archetypal patterns in our lives, our relationships, and in the world?

7:00 PM

San Jose

Witchcraft and Worship in a Wheelchair

Lunar Lavender A radically inclusive, all-traditions look at how to adapt magic and paganism to the needs of disabled practitioners, and how to build spaces that are safe and comfortable for everybody, regardless of physical and cognitive differences. All attendees are welcome whether disabled or not, and an open Q&A discussion will be held at the end to share ideas and experiences.

7:00 PM

San Juan/ San Carlos

Bringing Race to the Table; An Exploration of Racism in Paganism

Bringing Race to the Table Authors Discussions of race, diversity and equity have become a part of the Pagan community. The importance of these conversations intersect with our communities ability to build safety and social nets that are healthy & sustainable for all Pagans. Join authors from the Bringing Race to the Table: An Exploration of Racism in the Pagan Community anthology in discussions about race, appropriation & privilege. Moderated by Crystal Blanton.

7:00 PM

San Martin/ San Simeon

Honoring through sacred BDSM and Kink ritual

Athena Wallinder Sacred kinky sexuality and exotic ritual. We will explore our own and very divine kinky nature to bring it back into the sacred and use it to honor ourselves and others, as well as the Gods.

Self exploration of love and acceptance of all will be emphasizes as we explore deeply within ourselves, our paths and magic. 19 and over only bring ID.

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7:00 PM

Neoplatonic Tantra

Santa Clara

Bruce MacLennan There is an ancient Western Pagan tradition that uses the power of Eros to ascend to Divinity, proceeding through stages of Purification, Illumination, and Divine Union. The technique was described in the fourth century BCE by Diotima, the Wise Woman in Plato’s “Symposium,” and was further developed by Marsilio Ficino, the great Renaissance scholar, and others. In this workshop I will describe the Neoplatonic Ascent by Love as presented in my recent book, “The Wisdom of Hypatia.” We will do some visualization and contemplative exercises so that attendees learn the technique.

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7:00 PM

Village Witchery 102

Silicon Valley

Hexeba Theaux This class presents further principles and techniques for Witches who may find themselves needed as community practitioners in a mostly non-Pagan community. We will also discuss the most common problems that clients bring to Witches, and ways to approach solutions. We’ll also consider some issues in community relations, including several related to the fact that many of us live in multicultural neighborhoods. Bring your questions, and a notebook if you like. PREREQUISITE: VILLAGE WITCHERY 101.

9:00 PM

Boardroom

Modern Asatru/Heathenry: 40 Years In: What Now?

Angela T Carlson We’re a long way from the 1970’s when our movement’s rebirth really got started. We have moved from isolated pockets of folks writing letters to one another to global interaction via the Internet.

What have we learned from our beginnings and what do we see as our future, both for ourselves and our children? Can we overcome the divisions within our Community and be stronger and more focused as a result? Let’s talk about it.

9:00 PM

Carmel/ Monterey

Lon Milo DuQuette—Homemade Musical Magick

Lon Milo DuQuette Spend a Magickal, unforgettable evening with Lon Milo DuQuette as he performs his Homemade Magick to enchant you.

9:00 PM

Pandemonaen Live Show

Cedar/ Pine

Pandemonaeon Pandemonaeon brings their fierce dark witchery to Pantheacon in this evening of dark tribal faerytale from the realms of myth and dream. Featuring tribal drums, hard guitars, strong vocals, and electric bagpipes, Pandemonaeon’s music is fit to summon a storm.

9:00 PM

Michael Mullen’s Trio Of One

Club Max

Michael Mullen’s Trio Of One Michael Mullen’s Trio Of One is a multi-faceted solo show: Looped jigs and reels and rocking acoustic folk that bring a uniquely Celtic twist to the term One Man Band. After the enthusiastic response Michael received from the generous Pantheacon crowd last year, Michael is looking forward to returning with even more tricks up his loopy sleeve...

9:00 PM

Pagans in Recovery - Serenity First

Riesling

Pagans in recovery - Serenity First Jack & Kevin A 12 step program of recovery for all addictions. Specifically geared to those on the Pagan path of spirituality.

SATURDAY

9:00 PM

San Jose

Teenage Gods and Heroes

Ekklesia Antinoou Ever feel like older pagans don’t understand you? Antinous died when he was between the ages of 17 and 20, and became a god. The hero Polydeukion and his heroic foster-brothers Memnon and Achilles were between the ages of 12 and 18 when they died. Many gods and heroes associated with all of these were also youthful. The Ekklesia Antinoou is committed to fostering teenagers, recognizing their wisdom, and incorporating them into a mature and effective practice for the benefit of the greater community.

In this presentation/ritual, come find out what it means to have teenage gods and heroes! Primarily for teenagers, but anyone can attend. Doors close at start time.

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9:00 PM

Druid Ritual and Grand Procession

San Juan/ San Carlos

House of Danu The Druid House of Danu presents its popular Druid Ritual with Grand Procession. We bring together Bardic resources from groups throughout the West Coast, to bring meaning and passions to our work. You will celebrate your spirituality with the full range of visual and performing arts: crafting, chanting, live music, drumming and dancing. Bring your drums, and your creativity. Ritual is something you do, not something you watch. We are a Fellowship of solitaries, seed groups, and groves spanning California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia of the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids 9:00 PM

San Martin/ San Simeon

Dionysos Hestios, Host of the Revel -- Devotional

Pandemos Dionysos is worshipped as a god of ecstasy, wine, theater and the mysteries. In his aspect as Dionysos Hestios, he brings us together and holds space for community to happen. Join us as we drum, dance and feast in honor of the god. Doors close at start time.

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9:00 PM

Babalon Rising: Jack Parsons’ Witchcraft Prophecy

Santa Clara

Erik Davis Much of Jack Parsons’ colorful life is well-known: rocket scientist, head of the OTO’s Agape Lodge, and magical partner with L. Ron Hubbard in the notorious Babalon Working. But Parsons also needs to be seen as a proto-feminist prophet of California witchcraft. In essays written before Gerald Gardner ever saw print, the polyamorous Parsons attacked religious patriarchy, envisioned a new witchcraft, and called for the liberation of self-empowered female practitioners in language that directly anticipated the feminist witchcraft that flourished in California in the 1970s.

9:00 PM

Silicon Valley

Ritual Sonics: How to use Vocalization and Sound

Taylor Ellwood Learn how to use your voice in ritual chanting, meditation, and other practices. You’ll also learn how to make connections with inner contacts, as well as how ritual sonics can be applied to practical magic. Doors close at start time.

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11:00 PM

Carmel/ Monterey

Pagan Open Mic

Jhenah Telyndru Do you have a passion for music and a willingness to share in community? If so, bring your voices, instruments, and love for music to our popular open mic session. Share your original songs, favorite chants, evocative beats, and improvisational jams in a safe and supportive environment open to singers and musicians of all levels. Join us and let the Awen flow!

11:00 PM

Club Max

Katabasis: Descent to the Underworld

Circle of Dionysos Welcome to the Meathook, the most exclusive speakeasy in the Underworld. During this participatory theatrical ritual, host Divas Ereshkigal and Hecate bring you the hottest pantheon of talent the realm has to offer. Explore the metaphoric and symbolic potencies of the mysteries of death and dying, then return to the land of the living rewarded for your journey into the unknown.

11:00 PM

Tantric Shamanism Breathwork Ceremony

Oak

Sylvia Brallier Ecstasy is a divine gift that lifts us out of ordinary reality and into a direct experience of the sacred. The transformative fires of ecstasy burn away the blocked energy held within us, transmuting it into pure energy that to be used for manifesting the highest outcome for the Earth and all beings. This form of Tantric breath work is done within the context of a circle. It is a profound opportunity to drop away what has been holding you back and move forward towards your bliss. Ages 18+ only. Doors close at start time.

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11:00 PM

Pine

Saturday Nite Drum/Dance Jam

David Gibbons Let’s gather to drum up and dance up a storm. Bring your dancing shoes, your rhythm toys, and lots of magical energy. We’ll provide extra things to play, and all are welcome.

11:00 PM

Different Kind of Seidh

San Juan/ San Carlos

Freyja’s Gift A Different Kind of Seidh Join Freyja’s Gift Trance Team as they send several Seeress and Seers into Trance to find the answer to a question you may have about your future from the Gods, from your Beloved Dead, or from the Spirits of the Land.

Please no children under 16, this can be intense for the young. We will monitor those leaving to make sure you are grounded. Open entry. Participants include John and Lisa Morgenstern, Nan Edwards Boyster, and Maia.

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11:00 PM

San Martin/ San Simeon

Danbala Sevis: Honoring the Serpent and the Rainbow

Mambo Chita Tann Mambo T and Sosyete Fos Fe Yo We welcome you to a formal Haitian Vodou ceremony (Rada sevis) in honor of Danbalawedo, the world serpent; and Ayida-wedo, his wife, the rainbow.

Respectful non-participating observers, and participating guests,

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9:00 AM — Juggling the Gods: syncretism in theory and practice.........................................Soli Johnson............................................. Boardroom 9:00 AM v Madeline Montalban: The Magus of St Giles........................................................Julia Phillips............................................. Carmel/ Monterey 9:00 AM v Pole Stretching for Health...................................................................................Kim Makoi, D.C., M.Sc............................... Cedar 9:00 AM v Preparing for Possession.....................................................................................Diana Paxson........................................... Fir 9:00 AM ¡ Self-Defense for Women.....................................................................................Scott H. Rowe........................................... Pine 9:00 AM — Myth, Ancient Mysteries, and the Soul’s Journey................................................Daniel Gautier.......................................... Riesling 9:00 AM ¡ Intermediate Wheat Weaving..............................................................................Woven Circle............................................ San Carlos 9:00 AM v The Mare-Headed Queen - The Celtic Horse Goddess...........................................Kristoffer Hughes..................................... San Jose 9:00 AM — How To See The Future In The Palm.....................................................................Kooch Daniels.......................................... San Juan 9:00 AM v Animal Skulls as Ritual Partners..........................................................................Lupa......................................................... San Martin 9:00 AM — Striving to be Worthy of Zudie.............................................................................Gareth Storm........................................... San Simeon 9:00 AM — Pagan Kids’ Song and Story Time.........................................................................Turning Earth Singers............................... Santa Clara 9:00 AM v The Modern Witch’s Broom: Updating an Ancient Tool.........................................Deborah Blake.......................................... Silicon Valley 11:00 AM ¡ Drum Making Workshop......................................................................................Don Schulz............................................... Boardroom 11:00 AM — The Tarot Tour of London.....................................................................................Geraldine Beskin...................................... Carmel/ Monterey 11:00 AM v Connecting to Allies—A Ritual...........................................................................North Bay Reclaiming.............................. Cedar 11:00 AM — Poetess and Prophetess: The Morrigan and Poetry..............................................Morpheus Ravenna & Rynn Fox................ Fir 11:00 AM — Intention, Focus, & Will: Creating Your Future with Wand Magic.........................Amber K and Azrael Arynn K.................... Pine 11:00 AM — Introduction to Ifa & Orisha: The Ancestors..........................................................Baba Esu.................................................. Riesling 11:00 AM — Magick Wand and Rattle Crafting for Kids of All Ages..........................................Melanie Marquis...................................... San Carlos 11:00 AM — Divination in the Ancient World...........................................................................Tony Mierzwicki....................................... San Jose 11:00 AM — Ancient Magic for the Modern World--A Kemetic View........................................Richard Reidy........................................... San Juan 11:00 AM ¡ Celebrating our grandmas as our first goddesses................................................Victoria Slind-Flor.................................... San Martin 11:00 AM v Connecting Spirit to Community with Reiki Healing............................................Jessica Reiki Miller................................... San Simeon 11:00 AM — Shamanic Practices 101: Calling In Prayer and Ho’Oponopono............................Jeanne McLaughlin.................................. Santa Clara 11:00 AM — Village Witchery 201...........................................................................................Valerie Voigt............................................. Silicon Valley are welcome! Participants are expected to dance and sing, and are also required (mandatory) to wear all white, modest clothing (covering the shoulders and down to the knees for all genders). Women should wear a white kerchief, scarf, or hat. For Danbala’s presence, participants may not be bleeding (including from menstruation) but may observe.

11:00 PM

Santa Clara

Historia Discordia:The Origins of the Discordian Society

Adam Gorightly Starting with a vision of Eris in a 1950s bowling alley, Discordianism has turned into a worldwide movement that moves in as many different directions as it has members‚Äîall of whom can hardly agree on anything except to agree that they disagree. Even then there’s disagreement. Adam Gorightly shares the stories of how this irreligious movement was birthed and of the many chaotic wonders discovered in Greg Hill’s Discordian Archives that led to the creation of Principia Discordia, and influenced Illuminatus! www.historiadiscordia.com

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11:00 PM

Salon d’Aphrodite

Silicon Valley

The Temple of Aphrodite Breathe. Stretch out. Bask in a salon of beauty and relaxation. In honor of Aphrodite, we invoke pleasure, ease, and loveliness. Enter a sanctuary of tranquility & stimulation where we will recline, relax, listen to poetry read with passion, and remember the essential gift of pleasure. Please arrive in lounging garments, with a blanket, or shawl to lay on.

SUNDAY 9:00 AM

Boardroom

Juggling the Gods: syncretism in theory and practice

Soli Johnson Whether by chance or fate, some modern pagans and polytheists find themselves honoring Gods and spirits from more than one tradition. Here we will discuss the hows and whys of syncretism, the role of history, navigating ways to keep Everyone happy, avoiding cultural appropriation, and still having a life outside of the shrine.

SUNDAY

9:00 AM

Madeline Montalban: The Magus of St Giles

Carmel/ Monterey

9:00 AM

Riesling

Myth, Ancient Mysteries, and the Soul’s Journey

Julia Phillips Madeline Montalban (1910-1982) was an extraordinary woman; intelligent, charismatic and a true magus. Reputedly the most powerful magician in London, Madeline’s contemporaries included Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Grant, and Gerald Gardner. She wrote on occult matters for “Prediction” magazine for over 30 years and developed a system of angelic magic that she taught to students by correspondence and personal guidance through “The Order of the Morning Star”. This talk is based upon my research of Madeline’s life through personal conversation and correspondence with those who knew her best, illustrated with photos and extracts from her angelic material and other occult writings. Doors close at start time.

Daniel Gautier This slide presentation examines prominent Greek myths and their relation to ancient initiatory traditions, with emphasis on the symbolism of the sacred Mysteries, the Soul’s journey, and the process of personal transformation. Subjects include: Ceres/Persephone and the Eleusinian Mysteries, the Sphinx, Dionysos and Pythian Apollo at Delphi, Orpheus and the Orphic/Pythagorean Mysteries. Visual examples are taken from ancient sources and the Hermetic/Neoplatonic artists Botticelli and Raphael, with discussion of the links between the Mysteries and Symbolist artists Redon, Burne-Jones, Delville.

9:00 AM

Woven Circle For those of you who have taken wheat weaving classes and advance hand crafters. This class focuses on intermediate weaving techniques. In this class, each student will make a Corazon using a locking technique and hair braid for a hanger. Children must be accompanied by an adult. All materials and supplies are provided.

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Pole Stretching for Health

Cedar

Kim Makoi, D.C., M.Sc. Pole stretching is an exciting form of exercise that is like yoga meets tai chi... with sticks! We will be working with 4 and 6 foot bamboo and rattan poles and getting our bodies and energies moving and grounded in this rejuvenating class suitable for all fitness levels and ages. Class size limited due to space considerations, so doors will close once capacity is reached!

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9:00 AM

Preparing for Possession

Fir

Diana Paxson Trance Possession, in which a medium allows his or her body to be occupied by a god or spirit, is an ancient religious practice. It is found in cultures worldwide and is becoming increasingly apparent in pagan circles today. Diana Paxson, author of /The Essential Guide to Possession, Depossession, and Divine Relationships/, will address questions such as: What is trance-possession? Who does it, where and why? What are its benefits and dangers? What are the requirements for safe, sane and consensual possessory work? How does one train as a medium? Doors close at start time.

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9:00 AM

Self-Defense for Women

Pine

Scott H. Rowe Assault on women is unfortunately all too common in our culture. Attackers tend to target women they know, and an attack can happen anywhere, including at a festival or convention.

Self-Defense for Women is intended for self-identified women who do not see themselves as martial artists or fighters, but would also not like to become victims if they are targeted. This is a hands-on, no-nonsense, highly practical workshop; come prepared to move and engage our instructors who will teach specific techniques for ending an assault. Workshop will be closed five minutes after the program starts.

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SUNDAY

9:00 AM

San Carlos

Intermediate Wheat Weaving

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9:00 AM

The Mare-Headed Queen - The Celtic Horse Goddess

San Jose

Kristoffer Hughes Be immersed in the mysteries of the Mare of Sovereignty, Rhiannon, Rigatona, the Mari Lwyd. One of her guises is the bereaved mother and calumniated wife, learn how to work with the horse goddess to assimilate the experience of grief and bereavement. There is another side to sadness - discover how the horse goddess can lend you her saddle of comfort and learning.

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9:00 AM

How To See The Future In The Palm

San Juan

Kooch Daniels What does your palm say about the now and the future? This fun palmistry discussion gives insightful guidelines for learning to read the hand. Kooch Daniels, author of The Art And Magic of Palmistry, will share essential techniques to help you build your skills and gain confidence in practicing the art of palmistry. Using hands of willing participants, we’ll explore palmistry symbols and major lines and interpret their potential meanings. More than a “how to” talk, this is a show and tell class that answers questions about your hands.

9:00 AM

Animal Skulls as Ritual Partners

San Martin

Lupa

For thousands of years, animal skulls have been used in rituals and other spiritual practices around the world. In this presentation, we’ll explore how to legally and ethically obtain skulls, how to work with and care for the spirits within them, how they can be a connection to animal totems and evolutionary ancestors, and more! We’ll also meditate with well-cleaned animal skulls; a limited number will be provided for attendees to borrow, or bring your own! Door will be closed later in the presentation to allow for an uninterrupted meditation.

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9:00 AM

Striving to be Worthy of Zudie

San Simeon

11:00 AM

Cedar

Connecting to Allies - A Ritual

Gareth Storm Building Empathy to Improve Our Lives. This is a discussion group on letting go of old lessons, held grudges, and other shibboleths that make it harder for us to be around people, and for them to be around us. It is not a detailed how-to, but a why-should-I, with an intention of open and friendly talk. Frank stories will be shared and invited from the audience. All are welcome! At the end, those who choose to strive to be worthy of Zudie will receive a small token of their steps on the path.

North Bay Reclaiming Allies come in many forms; magical, ancestral, animals, humans, communities. How do we learn to identify these allies and ask for support in our greatest times of need? In this ecstatic participatory ritual we will find our personal allies and honor the power in each other as world changers. Doors will close ten minutes after the start time; once sacred space has been created.

9:00 AM

Morpheus Ravenna & Rynn Fox She speaks oracular prophecies, foretelling what is to come. She incites heroes to greatness on the battlefield with mighty words.

She chants spells of druidry and sorcery. She recites tales of high deeds and the sorrows of the fallen. The Morrigan is known by many as a war Goddess, but She is also a poet - a keeper of memory and a weaver of words. Join us for this workshop to learn about Her relationship to poetry, and what She can teach us about the ancient Celtic poetic traditions of versed memetic knowledge, mantic prophecy, and magical incantation.

Pagan Kids’ Song and Story Time

Santa Clara

Turning Earth Singers Sing Pagan children’s songs with rhythm and movement, and read culturally diverse children’s books celebrating nature-based spirituality. We’ll start with songs and stories for the littlest ones and then move to material for older children. Music and book list will be given as handouts. All families and all ages are welcome!

Kids under 7 should come with an adult.

9:00 AM

Silicon Valley

The Modern Witch’s Broom: Updating an Ancient Tool

Deborah Blake Explore new ways to create and use this classic symbol of witchcraft, no matter what your budget, lifestyle, or path. Includes craft ideas, spells, and more. Make a mini-broom to take home. (Supplies included.)

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11:00 AM

Drum Making Workshop

Boardroom

Don Schulz Make your own wood and rawhide hand drum! In this fun workshop you will make your own playable hide hand drum to take home and enjoy. There is a variable charge for this class depending on type and size of drum desired. Contact Don Schulz with The Different Drum by internet in advance (drummaker@ thedifferentdrum.net, or on Facebook at “The Different Drum”, or call (916) 835-1863) for a list of Prices and an FAQ sheet or contact me at the event in my booth. Space will be limited and advance registrations gets preference on variations. 12 and over only, please.

Please contact me with ANY questions!

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11:00 AM

The Tarot Tour of London

Carmel/ Monterey

Geraldine Beskin London’s many famous landmarks can be used to show all of the major arcana. The London Eye is our Wheel of Fortune and the Tower of London is the Tower card obviously.The history of these sites and twenty others and their ghosts of kings and queens, legends and myths are fascinating.Curiously, their iconic shapes and mystical associations are really correct for the Trump card they represent.See where Pamela Coleman Smith walked, where Crowley drank his fine wines and enjoy a fresh interpretation of the Major Arcana.

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11:00 AM

Fir

Poetess and Prophetess: The Morrigan and Poetry

11:00 AM

Pine

INTENTION, FOCUS, AND WILL: CREATING YOUR FUTURE WITH WAND MAGIC

Amber K and Azrael Arynn K Wands are a basic part of all fictional magic, (think Harry Potter), and most modern practitioners own one, but few have a clear idea how they can actually be used. Cultivation of intention, will, and focus is required for wandwork. We will discuss determining your True Will, finding the seed of your passion and augmenting it, setting goals and objectives, and raising and focusing energy, as well as specific wand techniques. There will be minimal information on creating or buying wands, and a great deal of information on developing the inner strengths and powers that your wand directs.

11:00 AM

Riesling

Introduction to Ifa & Orisha: The Ancestors

Baba Esu Egun Re O! It is through singing, dancing, and praying that our Ancestors continue to live. In this presentation, we will explore some of the indigenous spiritual technology of the Yoruba such as how to: communicate, pray, and sing to our individual and collective Ancestors. Attendees can learn about food offerings; alter set-up, tools for successful ritual, and the importance of Elders and Community. We will conclude our experience by singing and invoking the presence of our Ancestors to come join us from which attendees may have the opportunity to experience the Divine.

11:00 AM

San Carlos

Magick Wand and Rattle Crafting for Kids of All Ages

Melanie Marquis Come craft your own magick wand, magick rattle, and several other easy-to-make magick tools! Kids of all ages are welcome. After we craft our tools, we’ll perform our very own on the spot spellwork using our new creations!

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1:30 PM v Visioning for our Culture-Gender, Many Genders, No Gender..............................Michelle Mueller and Gina Pond.............. Boardroom 1:30 PM — What You Need More Than A Tarot Deck..............................................................Thalassa................................................... Carmel/ Monterey 1:30 PM — Ritual and Story-telling.......................................................................................Starhawk................................................. Cedar 1:30 PM — HOMEMADE MAGICK - Just do it yourself.............................................................Lon Milo DuQuette................................... Fir 1:30 PM v Sacred Mass in Celebration of the Dark Mother...................................................Order of the Black Madonna..................... Oak 1:30 PM v Brigid Healing Ritual...........................................................................................Selena Fox................................................ Pine 1:30 PM — Geomancy: of Origins and Oracles.......................................................................Murtagh anDoile...................................... Riesling 1:30 PM — The Tablet of Cebes..............................................................................................Bruce MacLennan..................................... San Jose 1:30 PM — Odduns: The Core of Afro-Cuban Ifa.....................................................................Frank Baba Eyiogbe.................................. San Juan/ San Carlos 1:30 PM — Isle of Avalon, Isle of Healing...............................................................................Jhenah Telyndru....................................... San Martin/ San Simeon 1:30 PM ¡ Performing for kids, Storytelling, Singing and more............................................True Thomas the Storyteller..................... Santa Clara 1:30 PM — Feeling Good with Acupressure and Shiatsu........................................................Tom Swiss................................................ Silicon Valley 3:30 PM v Advanced Magick Incense Making.......................................................................Carl F. Neal............................................... Boardroom 3:30 PM — Waking from the fetters of Monotheism.............................................................Gus diZerega............................................ Carmel/ Monterey 3:30 PM v The Rite of Humankind........................................................................................Sacred Fires & Assembly........................... Cedar 3:30 PM — Honoring or Appropriation? What is the Difference?............................................T. Thorn Coyle, & Friends.......................... Fir 3:30 PM v Tarot Reading Circle.............................................................................................Mary Greer............................................... Oak 3:30 PM v Restoring Sovereign Order...................................................................................Christopher Penczak................................. Pine 3:30 PM — A Thousand Ways: Exploring Devotional Rituals..................................................Silence Maestas....................................... Riesling 3:30 PM — Working with the Irish Goddess Morrigan...........................................................Lora O’Brien............................................. San Jose 3:30 PM v Oracular Seidh.....................................................................................................Seidhjaller................................................ San Juan/ San Carlos 3:30 PM v Lupercalia and Parentalia 2015!..........................................................................Ekklesia Antinoou.................................... San Martin/ San Simeon 3:30 PM v Places of Power to Face the Future......................................................................Children’s Magic Grove............................. Santa Clara 3:30 PM v Reiki I For Everybody...........................................................................................Robert Allen............................................. Silicon Valley 11:00 AM

Divination in the Ancient World

San Jose

Tony Mierzwicki Throughout history, humanity has sought to gain insights from the realm of the divine by reading signs using some sort of standardized process. While there were numerous techniques employed, this workshop will focus on divinations used in Egypt from late antiquity, including vessel divinations (where a bowl of water is contemplated), flame divinations, the use of dice in combination with Homeric verses, and dream oracles. While the interpretations which have come down to us are sometimes culture specific, the techniques work just as well now as they did two millennia ago.

11:00 AM

Ancient Magic for the Modern World--A Kemetic View

San Juan

Richard Reidy In ancient Egypt magical spells were aimed at the here-andnow. They dealt with such issues as health, healing, protection, litigation, love and other practical subjects for the individual. Today we have the same sort of needs as well as ones that are specific to contemporary living. We will explore the use of ancient magical techniques for modern day issues including the use of herbs and oils. We will try our hand at crafting our own spells incorporating those ancient techniques. Please bring paper and pen.

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11:00 AM

Celebrating our grandmas as our first goddesses

San Martin

Victoria Slind-Flor We will celebrate -- in a craft project and ritual -- those who are often our first experiences of unconditional love and acceptance, our grandmothers (or some other significant person in our lives). We will make poppets honoring them, share their stories and express our gratitude. Open to all over the age of 12. People admitted only until event begins.

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11:00 AM

San Simeon

Connecting Spirit to Community with Reiki Healing

Jessica Reiki Miller Reiki is one of the fastest growing forms of energy work out there, with millions of practitioners worldwide. Easy to learn and use.. it is a great base for connecting people more deeply to spirit in healing way. Includes basic Reiki 1 training

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11:00 AM

Santa Clara

Shamanic Practices 101: Calling In Prayer and Ho’Oponopono

Jeanne McLaughlin Shaman Ways are about Walking the Beauty Path, Living in Harmony and exploring alternate realities. In this workshop, you’ll use two of these practices to find out where you’ve been lim-

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iting yourself, which wound has held you back; then we’ll begin healing this wound. We’ll do a brief journey to your Heart Center, where you can safely work with your own personal guides. You’ll leave the workshop knowing both practices and will be able to start using them immediately. You’ll be amazed how quickly your life will change!

11:00 AM

Village Witchery 201

Silicon Valley

Valerie Voigt Additional issues and techniques in working with non-Pagan clients who seek out the help of their local Witch.  Solutions to some of the most common problems people bring to a Witch. Distinguishing different kinds of curses/hexes, and ways of neutralizing them. Dealing with spirit entities. Some heuristic techniques will be included.  1:30 PM

Boardroom

Visioning for our Culture-Gender, Many Genders, No Gender

Michelle Mueller and Gina Pond This program is open to people of all genders (including non-gendered folk), and is especially for people interested in working together through conflicts in community. Our program encourages respect for transgender, genderqueer, intersex, cisgender female and male, and Goddess-oriented feminist Pagans in our community. Doors close at start time.

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1:30 PM

What You Need More Than A Tarot Deck

Carmel/ Monterey

Thalassa In this supposedly rational age, what are we doing flinging cards, runes, rocks, &c? What purpose do we serve as diviners?

Thalassa will ramble through history, lore, science, pop culture, and gods only know what else in the quest for reasons why more than ever what we do as readers matters.

1:30 PM

Ritual and Story-telling

Cedar

Starhawk A powerful ritual tells a story, and a powerful story moves energy in much the same way as a ritual. The craft we learn as writers and storytellers can inform our rituals and make them more emotionally moving and beautiful as we craft a clear intention and find the imagery, the telling details and symbols to express it. And the energy-shaping we practice in ritual can make us more skillful writers and poets. Come explore where these crafts meet!

1:30 PM

HOMEMADE MAGICK - Just do it yourself.

Fir

Lon Milo DuQuette Based on DuQuette’s latest book, Homemade Magick takes a look at 40 years of hard-core ceremonial magick played out in garages, bedrooms, living rooms, and backyards. Life itself is initiation. It’s happening to you right now.

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1:30 PM

Sacred Mass in Celebration of the Dark Mother

Oak

Order of the Black Madonna The Order of the Black Madonna offers a ritual mass in honor of the Dark Mother, the Sacred Feminine, adapting the standard ceremony typically dedicated to the god of patriarchy and oppression, and celebrating instead the Divine Matriarch of love and creation who dwells in the darkness between the stars and in between the beats of every heart. We will offer chants, prayers, songs, and a special and unique communion sacrament to all participants as a reminder that there is sweetness amidst the bitterness and darkness of life. No entry after doors are closed.

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1:30 PM

Brigid Healing Ritual

Pine

Selena Fox Connect with the Celtic Goddess Brigid for healing self, others, and the planet. This Community wellness support rite includes trance-chanting, inner journeying, and energy raising. Invoke and align with Brigid in some of Her sacred forms, including Sacred Oak, Swan Maiden, Fiery Sun, Holy Well, and Bright One. If you wish, bring a piece of jewelry or other object to be energized during the ceremony.

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1:30 PM

Geomancy: of Origins and Oracles

Riesling

Murtagh anDoile Where did the Geomancy come from, and how does it work?

The original form of earth divination introduced to Europe during the Crusades from the Mideast, this system was once popular in magical circles and used in divination until the late 16th century.

Revived in the late 19th by magical orders, its roots actually are older and more extant than was believed. We will look at the sixteen symbols of the Geomancy, and methods to interpret them. We will explore its ties to Astrology, and the Gods of the Planets who influence it, and its uses in Magic.

1:30 PM

The Tablet of Cebes

San Jose

Bruce MacLennan The “Tablet of Cebes” is an ancient text that describes and interprets a symbolic tablet in a temple of Kronos, dedicated by Cebes of Thebes (c.430-350 BCE), a Pythagorean initiate and disciple of Socrates. It presents images arranged in a mandala and showing the way of initiation into wisdom. The text itself probably dates to the third to first centuries BCE, and thus provides an authentic Pagan path towards wisdom. I will explain this path so that attendees can apply it in their lives. Slides will show how Cebes’ Tablet has inspired many artists over the centuries.

1:30 PM

Odduns: The Core of Afro-Cuban Ifa

San Juan/ San Carlos

Frank Baba Eyiogbe Babalawo or “Father of the Secrets” Frank Baba Eyiogbe, author of the Llewellyn book “Babalawo, Santeria’s High Priests” will introduce you to the underlying concepts that make Afro-Cuban Ifa work, using tools such as the of Table of Ifa and the ecuele. Ifa can be thought of as “the I Ching on steroids” and is based on a binary sys-

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tem much like the ones and zeros that make up computer code. Evidence now reveals that underneath our reality there is a breathtaking world made up entirely of the ones and zeros forming the underlying fabric of the universe! A sample reading will also be performed.

1:30 PM

Isle of Avalon, Isle of Healing

San Martin/ San Simeon

Jhenah Telyndru Inspired by Celtic myths of the Divine Feminine, as well as the five seeds of the star revealed in the cleaved apple of wisdom that gives Avalon her name, the Avalonian Cycle of Healing is a road map for personal transformation. Together, we will explore this pentatonic pathway of inner understanding as a vehicle for affecting deep and lasting change in our lives 1:30 PM

Santa Clara

Performing for kids, Storytelling, Singing and more

True Thomas the Storyteller Learning how to tell stories and communicate effectively (through physical movement, voice, singing, etc.) is one of the most important things we can learn. True will have kids up and having fun. (Child must be able to focus and take direction, recommended for 7 and up.)

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1:30 PM

Feeling Good with Acupressure and Shiatsu

Silicon Valley

Tom Swiss Shiatsu (Japanese for “finger pressure”) and acupressure are forms of Asian Bodywork Therapy, which use pressure and stretching to relieve pain and stress. According to the theories of Chinese medicine, these techniques help balance the flow of qi, or vital energy, in the body. We will discuss and practice the use of acupressure points for physical, emotional, and spiritual balancing, and also learn a simple self-shiatsu routine. If time permits we will also do some partner work. Please bring a mat or towel to lie on for stretching.

3:30 PM

Advanced Magick Incense Making

Boardroom

Carl F. Neal Are you ready for the ultimate PantheaCon incense making experience? Join Carl Neal for the first Advanced Incense Making workshop at PantheaCon! We will roll a complex incense blend but our focus will be on aligning incense energies and magickal incense substitutions. This unique workshop has not been offered for over 6 years and may not be offered again this decade. Only 12 people will be able to attend this unusual workshop.

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3:30 PM

Waking from the fetters of Monotheism

Carmel/ Monterey

Gus diZerega 1500 years of religious and political control destroyed the West’s pre-Christian cultures. Fragments survive removed from their contexts. Our words, concepts, and styles of thinking have been shaped by a religion using centuries of force and terror to eliminate alternatives. Among other things, NeoPagan religion is a spiritual liberation movement. As we grow we need to learn to see the world and one another through Pagan eyes again. We will examine how monotheistic culture blocks our understanding and confuses our practice. And how to free ourselves. A talk followed by discussion.

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3:30 PM

The Rite of Humankind

Cedar

Sacred Fires and Assembly of the Crossroads Join Sacred Fires and Assembly of the Crossroads for a shamanic journey to the birth of humanity and back again. In this ritual we celebrate fifty million years of evolution and look to the stars as we summon our primal roots from a place before the cosmos, to the realm of the Star Goddess. Come trance, dance, chant and receive the blessings of creation. Wear comfortable clothes.

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3:30 PM

Honoring or Appropriation? What is the Difference?

Fir

T. Thorn Coyle, Chandra Alexandre, Crystal Blanton, & Friends When are our practices respectful honoring and when are they appropriation? Sometimes we are called by Gods. Sometimes a tradition speaks to us. And yet: we know that many cultures have been exploited and are still oppressed. Is our wish to work with these Gods or traditions another form of theft? And yet: human cultures overlap, and, “sticking to our own Goddesses,” can lead quickly toward the perils of “racial purity.” What then? Join moderator T. Thorn Coyle in discussing this important topic with Crystal Blanton, Elena Rose, Christopher Bradford, Chandra Alexandre, and Patricia St. Onge.

3:30 PM

Tarot Reading Circle

Oak

Mary Greer Working together intuitively increases everyone’s skills as you will discover in this reading circle. You will give and receive impressions from Tarot cards for the benefit of all - whether you’ve ever read a Tarot card before or not. No matter your expertise, you will learn new skills and deepen your divinatory awareness. Plus, each person will receive several messages from the heart regarding a personal question. Suitable for everyone.

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3:30 PM

Restoring Sovereign Order

Pine

Christopher Penczak Esoteric tradition often relays a concept of a Sacred Sovereign, or Sacred King, residing in the spiritual “center of the world.” Echoes of this tradition can be found in the tales of Melchizedek, Prester John, Brahmatma, the Theosophical Manu, divine pharaohs, and even King Arthur. The sovereign is responsible for establishing and maintaining cosmic order in the world.

In this age of environmental, social, political, health and economic crisis, work with spiritual forces along with direct action to restore sovereign order through working with the Sovereign and the mandala of the world. Doors close at start time.

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3:30 PM

A Thousand Ways: Exploring Devotional Rituals

Riesling

Silence Maestas Rituals have the power to focus and amplify our devotional practice. Rituals charged with loving praise and celebration let practitioners uncover new aspects of this sacred work. In this session, we will explore the devotional aspect of ritual work by look-

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7:00 PM ¡ The Rosary of Mary Magdalene...........................................................................Luna Pantera............................................ Boardroom 7:00 PM — Broceliande Celtic and Early Music Concert..........................................................Broceliande.............................................. Carmel/ Monterey 7:00 PM v The Flame in the Cauldron: The Awakened Spirit of the Witch.............................Orion Foxwood......................................... Cedar/ Pine 7:00 PM ¡ Songs of Devotion...............................................................................................Bloodroot Honey Priestess Tribe............... Oak 7:00 PM — Forecasting the Future with Portentous Pluto.....................................................Captain Starwise...................................... Riesling 7:00 PM — How to Write for Intermediate to Advanced Audiences.......................................Immanion Press....................................... San Jose 7:00 PM — Leadership: Boundaries, Communication, and Groups........................................Shauna Aura Knight................................. San Juan/ San Carlos 7:00 PM — Sitting Down or Sitting Out: Adapting Energy Work............................................Lisa Spiral................................................. San Martin/ San Simeon 7:00 PM — The Mystical Connection of the Green Fairy.........................................................Leif Adamson........................................... Santa Clara 7:00 PM — Men’s Mysteries, Men’s Rituals............................................................................Jeffrey Albaugh........................................ Silicon Valley 9:00 PM ¡ Pagans of Color Caucus........................................................................................Xochiquetzal Duti..................................... Boardroom 9:00 PM v Love Spell Bellydance Show................................................................................Didi Gordon/Sarah Astarte....................... Carmel/ Monterey 9:00 PM — The Nathaniel Johnstone Band in Concert...........................................................The Nathaniel Johnstone Band................ Cedar/ Pine 9:00 PM v Kali Puja: Devotions to the Dark Goddess............................................................Chandra Alexandre & SHARANYA............. Oak 9:00 PM — Pagans in Recovery - Serenity First......................................................................Jack & Kevin............................................. Riesling 9:00 PM — It’s About Time: Kemetic Festivals........................................................................Tamara L. Siuda........................................ San Jose 9:00 PM — Laughter Magick.................................................................................................Celia......................................................... San Juan/ San Carlos 9:00 PM v Bring Something to Share Blot............................................................................Angela T Carlson...................................... San Martin/ San Simeon 9:00 PM v Healing with the Ancestors.................................................................................Luna Pantera............................................ Santa Clara 9:00 PM v Familiars Death: Celebrating Fur, Feather, & Scale...............................................Carl F. Neal............................................... Silicon Valley 11:00 PM — Spark Collective Fire Circle...................................................................................Spark Collective........................................ Oak 11:00 PM v Facets of Freyja Devotional..................................................................................Cara Freyasdaughter/Freyja’s Aett............ San Juan/ San Carlos ing at illustrative examples from many traditions. By identifying structural themes within rituals we can begin to understand the rich potential of ritual practice to support the devotional path.

Novice and experienced ritualists will come away with many new ideas to inspire their personal work.

3:30 PM

Working with the Irish Goddess Morrigan

San Jose

Lora O’Brien Lora O’Brien is an Irish Priestess, guardian and guide to the home of the Morrigan in Rathcroghan, County Roscommon, Ireland. She will share her work, knowledge and experience with this dark Irish Goddess.

3:30 PM

Oracular Seidh

San Juan/ San Carlos

Seidhjaller In Viking times, seers travelled to communities to answer questions. Since 1991 the Seidhjallr group has offered the same service here. Our practice comes from heathen tradition, but all are welcome as we journey together to learn what wyrd has woven. For more information, see www.seidh.org. The session is limited to 60 people. Doors close at start time.

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3:30 PM

Lupercalia and Parentalia 2015!

San Martin/ San Simeon

Ekklesia Antinoou The wolves are back in town to kick some serious goat-arse!...

Oops, I mean, come and participate in this ritual of purification and ancestral honoring with the Ekklesía Antínoou as we honor the gods associated with Lupercalia, and of course, Antinous! ALL ARE WELCOME! Doors close at start time.

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3:30 PM

Places of Power to Face the Future

Santa Clara

Children’s Magic Grove A ritual by children, for children of all ages. The members of Children’s Magic Grove would like to share their places of power to help others find theirs. Children must be with an adult.

Sponsered by Dark Forest Coven. Doors close at start time.

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3:30 PM

Reiki I For Everybody

Silicon Valley

Robert Allen In this course we will discuss the origins of Reiki, it’s history, and practices. Reiki is powerful, as it calls up the magick of hands- on- healing, distance healing, and self healing. Heal the world, heal yourself! The class will be hands on, with clothing on.

Please bring a yoga mat or towel as you will laying on the floor occasionally. All participants will be initiated in to Reiki level 1. All ages are invited. Doors close 10 minutes after start time.

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7:00 PM

Boardroom

The Rosary of Mary Magdalene

Luna Pantera Having been raised Catholic for the first portion of my life there were some things I missed once the Goddess called me.

Mary Magdalene, a Goddess in Her own right, came to me at a Spiritual retreat and gave me a rosary of love and healing: for a broken, betrayed or bitter heart. It can become so easy to get lost in the chaos and hate in the world today. Come and let me share the Rosary of Mary Magdalene to help heal and strengthen your own heart! Please bring your own rosary. Prayers will be provided.

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7:00 PM

Broceliande Celtic and Early Music Concert

Carmel/ Monterey

Broceliande Join Celtic/Early Music band Broceliande in a magical, evocative concert to celebrate the release of their new CD! Broceliande is Margaret Davis (soprano, Celtic harp, recorders, flute), Kristoph Klover (tenor, 12-string guitar, octave mandolin, whistle), and Kris Yenney (alto, cello, hardanger cello d’amore).

7:00 PM

Cedar/ Pine

The Flame in the Cauldron: The Awakened Spirit of the Witch

Orion Foxwood In his witchery traditions, Orion knows the Craft as a “gnostic” (mystical, revelatory) and chthonic (deep, initiatory primal) paradigm. Witches shaped by it have profound, sacred and life-altering experiences. These areas form a core topic in his new book “The Flame in the Cauldron”. In this workshop, he will discuss the “witch-blood”- its stages of quickening and associated experiences; the “known-unknown” (uncanny inner-guidance of the witch); and the magical power that is tapped. He will lead a working for drawing forth the witch-flame for communion across the generation of Craft.

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7:00 PM

Songs of Devotion

Oak

Bloodroot Honey Priestess Tribe Join the Bloodroot Honey Priestess Tribe for a semi-skyclad rite, entirely in song, in which we honor our dedicated Goddesses with heartfelt temple reverence. Ancient & modern forms of Aphrodite, Diana, the Morrighan, Lilith, Artemis, Hera, the Black Madonna, the Sheila-na-Gig and others will be aspected by experienced, devoted Priestesses so that the public may come and sing, dance, & make requests & personal devotions. Children under 18 with parents only, please.

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7:00 PM

Forecasting the Future with Portentous Pluto...

Riesling

Captain Starwise Find out how, why and even where trends will occur in space and time; and, yes you will even learn how to actually pinpoint events, with their times and locations around the world. Find out why, regardless of picky planetary parsing, “a Rose by any other name is still pluto!

7:00 PM

San Jose

How to Write for Intermediate to Advanced Audiences

Immanion Press In this panel, our authors and editors will share tips, knowledge and suggestions on how to write non-fiction books for intermediate to advanced audiences who are looking for more than another 101 book.

7:00 PM

San Juan/ San Carlos

Leadership: Boundaries, Communication, and Groups

Shauna Aura Knight Poor boundaries are one of the most common causes of group dynamics and leadership issues. Who are you? Where are your edges? This is the essence of boundaries. Many difficulties in small groups can be connected to poor boundaries and communication.

When do you pressure people to say yes? When are you afraid to say no? Your boundaries, and the boundaries of others in your group, affect the health of the group. Using the cycle of the moon, we’ll work with ways to improve healthy boundaries and communication to inspire more sustainable groups.

7:00 PM

San Martin/ San Simeon

Sitting Down or Sitting Out: Adapting Energy Work

Lisa Spiral What do you do when you can’t stand through an hour long ritual? How do you raise energy when you can’t dance? When have you felt invisible in a ritual? Welcome, people with mobility issues, other sensitivities or ritualists wanting to be more inclusive. Let’s play with ground/center/shield and energy raising techniques and discuss adaptations that work. Participants are encouraged to bring percussion instruments.

7:00 PM

The Mystical Connection of the Green Fairy

Santa Clara

Leif Adamson Absinthe is made using a number of botanical additions that many traditions and cultures find a mystical or medicinal connection to. This discussion would address modern myths and legends pertaining to absinthe, many of which come from the smear campaign from over 100 years ago. We will also explore the mystical connections of the herbal infusions, including what spiritual connections various cultures find with them.

7:00 PM

Men’s Mysteries, Men’s Rituals

Silicon Valley

Jeffrey Albaugh Our re-evaluation of the feminine sometimes leads to confusion between patriarchal power structures and authentically expressed masculinity. What are the lived experiences of our maleness, and how do we encounter these sacred experiences? What are the mysteries embedded in these events, and how do we engage these mysteries in rituals that specifically target men and our lived experiences as men.

9:00 PM

Pagans of Color Caucus

Boardroom

Xochiquetzal Duti This year we are limiting the caucus to those who identify as nonwhite. Let’s build on the work from last year and grow in strength with each other. We will adjourn afterwards to the PoC Hospitality Suite if more time is needed.

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9:00 PM

Love Spell Bellydance Show

Carmel/ Monterey

9:00 PM

Bring Something to Share Blot

San Martin/ San Simeon

Didi Gordon/Sarah Astarte Come and fall in love with Bellydance! This show features numerous dancers with a variety of styles, all of them honoring different forms of love, such as infatuation, romance, and heartbreak. Love stories of heroes and deities will be told through dance.

The show in its entirety is a love spell, so join us and receive sweet blessings! Doors close at start time.

Angela T Carlson Join us and join in by bringing an item for the Ve, a food or Beverage to honor a particular God/Goddess/Vaettir, a story, song or personal experience that has deep meaning to you. Wear whatever shinies you’d like, be it full garb or awesome T-shirt. Family Friendly! Doors close at start time, so please be prompt.

9:00 PM

Healing with the Ancestors

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The Nathaniel Johnstone Band in Concert

Cedar/ Pine

The Nathaniel Johnstone Band The Nathaniel Johnstone Band’s (Seattle, WA) vibrant sound crosses boundaries and borders, resulting in a blend of European, Middle Eastern, and South American music with Jazz, Rock, Surf, Folk, Gothic, and Steampunk influences. Their catalog features many songs steeped in myth and fairytales with a twist. Come get your dance on!

9:00 PM

Kali Puja: Devotions to the Dark Goddess

Oak

Chandra Alexandre & SHARANYA Come ready to engage the mystery that is Maa Kali for a time of reflection, surrender, celebration and magic in Her embrace. All are welcome to dance and sing Her praises. Jai Maa! Doors close at start time.

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9:00 PM

Pagans in Recovery - Serenity First

Riesling

Pagans in recovery - Serenity First Jack & Kevin A 12 step program of recovery for all addictions. Specifically geared to those on the Pagan path of spirituality.

9:00 PM

It’s About Time: Kemetic Festivals

San Jose

Tamara L. Siuda How did the ancient Egyptians, or people of Kemet, celebrate the seasons of their festival year? What were the holidays like?

How did they honor their gods on Their holy days, and how can we do it today? Join Egyptologist and Kemetic devotee Tamara L. Siuda for an inside look at the calendar system behind the one we still use today.

9:00 PM

Laughter Magick

San Juan/ San Carlos

Celia Join us for Hearty, Extended, Unconditional Laughter combined with Yogic Breathing (Pranayama). Laughter games & exercises soon turn to authentic & contagious laughter burning calories & tightening your tummy while dissolving stress & raising joy. Transform perceptions of negative energy into perfect opportunity thru Laughter Magick. Walk away care free with a relaxed mind & bountiful bliss. Laughter really IS the best medicine! Wear comfortable loose clothing. No mat required. Lead by Celia who is a Singer/ Songwriter, Comedienne & Certified Laughter Yoga Leader.

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9:00 PM

Santa Clara

Luna Pantera Ancestors! What comes to mind: slave owners/slave, oppressor/oppressed, spiritual/corrupted, enlighten or ignorant? So much of what we think about our Ancestors comes from believes that were taught to us. What would it be like to go back and actually talk with those who came before us; whose shoulders for better or worst we stand on? This workshop is for those who are ready to face, forgive, heal/be healed, and learn from those whose DNA runs through their veins. We will have a discussion on the myths and “realities” of Ancestors and go on a trance to meet an Ancestor representative!

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9:00 PM

Silicon Valley

Familiars Death: Celebrating Fur, Feather, & Scale

Carl F. Neal Americans love their pets but many Pagans have a deeper connection with certain animals that we often call “familiars”.

The death of any fur/feather/scale friend is difficult, but losing a familiar is doubly difficult. This ritual is an opportunity to say goodbye to that special animal and reaffirm the connection between you. Although this ritual is focused on animals who crossed over in the last year, any animal (familiar or not) can be honored. Participants are asked to limit themselves to honoring a single animal during the ritual. Optionally, bring a photo or object you associate with your animal. Doors close at start time.

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11:00 PM

Spark Collective Fire Circle

Oak

Spark Collective Transform yourself! Enter the circle through the sacred portals: music, voice, movement, and nurturing. We invoke the directions before beginning our journey around the center. Then the magic begins as we open ourselves to deep witnessing and sacred play.

The ritual is a cauldron of spontaneous motion, emotion, magic, and song -- all serving to connect us more deeply with our personal intentions and our fellow travelers. Join us by listening to what the moment needs. This is a safe space to stretch your spirit and try new things.

11:00 PM

Facets of Freyja Devotional

San Juan/ San Carlos

Cara Freyasdaughter/Freyja’s Aett Who is this Freyja? Owner of Brisingamen, Chooser of the Slain, Dis of the Vanir, Queen of the Witches, Keeper of the Boundaries, Goddess of Ecstasy—She is all of these. Wouldst thou know more? Come face to face with this multi-faceted Viking Goddess at our devotional ritual. Doors close at start time.

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9:00 AM — ADF Ritual of Community Offering and Unity......................................................ADF.......................................................... Cedar 9:00 AM ¡ The Divine Feminine in the Biblical World: A Goddess for Every N.......................Jehon Grist, Ph.D...................................... Fir 9:00 AM — Yoga for Every Body.............................................................................................Holly Allender Kraig................................. Oak 9:00 AM — Celebrate Wildness‚Äî Future Starts in Your Backyard..........................................Jo Carson and Feraferia............................ Pine 9:00 AM v The Elemental Balancing Ritual...........................................................................Taylor Ellwood.......................................... San Carlos 9:00 AM — SongCraft: Become a Langwitch!.........................................................................Holly Tannen and Ruth Barrett................. San Jose/ Santa Clara 9:00 AM — Hypnosis for Deeper Trance.................................................................................Mike Sententia......................................... San Juan 9:00 AM v Co-Create Like a Shaman.....................................................................................Alida Birch................................................ San Martin 9:00 AM ¡ Introduction to Rhythm and Drumming for children...........................................Don Schulz............................................... Silicon Valley 11:00 AM — The Etruscan Gods: Harmony in Heaven and Earth..............................................Murtagh anDoile...................................... Carmel 11:00 AM v Sonic Alchemy: The Well of Song.........................................................................Sharon Knight.......................................... Cedar 11:00 AM — Working with Diverse Traditions..........................................................................Starhawk................................................. Fir 11:00 AM — Enochian Chess of the Golden Dawn....................................................................Witches’ Order of the Golden Dawn.......... Monterey 11:00 AM v Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries.................................................................................Dark Forest............................................... Oak 11:00 AM — CREATING THE FUTURE WITH THE POWER OF THE ANCIENT GODS.........................Amber K and Azrael Arynn K.................... Pine 11:00 AM — Sacred Gifts: Religious Reciprocity.......................................................................Rev. Kirk S. Thomas.................................. San Carlos 11:00 AM — Artemis, Aphrodite & The Ringing Cedars’ Anastasia...........................................Jo Carson and Feraferia............................ San Jose/ Santa Clara 11:00 AM — Beyond the Gates of the Seer: Divining the Oracular in Community.................... Awen, O’Luanaigh, & Falco-Adkins.......... San Juan 11:00 AM — Village Witchery 202...........................................................................................Valerie Voigt............................................. San Martin 11:00 AM v Celtic Shape Shifting...........................................................................................Reid Hart.................................................. Silicon Valley

MONDAY 9:00 AM

ADF Ritual of Community Offering and Unity

Cedar

ADF This year ADF presents a druid ritual that celebrates our Pagan Unity by bringing the diversity of the various Indo-European pantheons together for community offerings to the Kindreds. Join us as we open the gates to the Otherworlds. This high energy celebration will reinforce the act of *ghosti (hospitality) that we share with the many Gods and Goddesses and the bright future for our community.

9:00 AM

The Divine Feminine in the Biblical World

Fir

Jehon Grist, Ph.D. Every pre-classical culture produced its share of goddesses, including (believe it or not) Biblical Israel. In this session, we’ll be introduced to both the major and some of the minor goddesses, from Inanna and Isis to Sekhmet and Anat, in this richly illustrated presentation. We’ll close with a bio of God’s wife, Asherah, and how her divorce changed the history of Western religion.

Recommended for ages 17 and higher due to presentation of some ancient Near Eastern nudes.

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Yoga for Every Body

Oak

Holly Allender Kraig Holly started practicing yoga 14 years ago when she was 300 pounds. She is no sting-bean of an instructor and breaks the mold

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when it comes to teaching yoga, as well. In this workshop, she introduces Hatha Yoga basics and her unique style, called Reflexive Yoga, to create flexibility, build strength and connect to your higher spirit. Move into poses to find your inner power waiting to be unleashed as well as remove blockages in your life. Enhance your daily life and ritual practice with this powerful practice. All levels of experience are welcome! Bring a towel, blanket or mat.

9:00 AM

Celebrate Wildness—Future Starts in Your Backyard

Pine

Jo Carson and Feraferia With easy, straight-forward instructions you can build a powerful faery ring henge in any outdoor location and use it to focus your rituals and magical world. Call in the faeries and landforms from the sacred directions and feel it transform. Visit sacred places in earth and stars, and set up linkages between your circle and the land-sky-love body around you. Replant your surrounds with natives and fruit trees to create a garden of abundance. Using these tools we can build the future by the power of attraction rather than fear. Start now to create the paradise we long for.

9:00 AM

The Elemental Balancing Ritual

San Carlos

Taylor Ellwood In this workshop you’ll learn how to dedicate and work with an element for a year. We’ll explore both the classic five elements and elements such as sound, emptiness and love, and how they can be used for internal work. Doors close at start time.

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9:00 AM

SongCraft: Become a Langwitch!

San Jose/ Santa Clara

Holly Tannen and Ruth Barrett Become a langwitch! The tools of the magician are language and the body. Rhythm is a gift of the body, rhyme a gift of language.

We’ll create powerful songs and chants that are easy to sing, deeply moving, and magically resonant. Please bring an Ithing or (preferably) pen and paper.

9:00 AM

San Juan

Hypnosis for Deeper Trance

Mike Sententia We use trance every day. From ritual to meditation, from daydreaming to getting into flow, a trance is any non-drug-induced altered state. It’s one way to separate the sacred from the profane, and it can open the doors to creativity. In this exercise-focused class, you’ll learn hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques to create deeper trances during rituals. You’ll learn to use hypnotic suggestion to create visions and sensations during guided meditation. And you’ll get a few fun ideas for using hypnosis in the bedroom, too.

9:00 AM

San Martin

Co-Create Like a Shaman

Alida Birch You will learn a practical and clear process for mobilizing the creative pulse within, leading to clear vision and personal magic. Here you will find ways to live the concept of ‚Äòwe are all connected’, influence that which seems immune from your influence, collaborate with the Universal Powers to reach your vision, teach your subconscious to support your vision and open to those opportunities you cannot yet perceive. Simple. Fun. Empowering.

Bring drums and rattles if you have them. Doors close 5 minutes after start time.

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9:00 AM

Silicon Valley

Introduction to Rhythm and Drumming for children.

Don Schulz Back by popular demand! For kids under 12 with parental supervision. I’ll bring one of my mother drums, some hand drums and other noisy toys to introduce your children to a world of rhythm and community.

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11:00 AM

The Etruscan Gods: Harmony in Heaven and Earth

Carmel

Murtagh anDoile The Etruscans (The Rasenna) were a non-Indo-European people who occupied Northern Italy a millenia prior to the rise of the Roman Empire. While compared to the Greek gods of their neighbors, the Etruscan Gods, the Aiser, “the college of Gods”, is unique.

The Aiser sought for a balance in the universe, and were characterized by harmonious lateral relationships, rather than hierarchy.

We will look at these Gods and their relationship to the Etruscan Discipline; the divinatory practices or “rules” used to determine the will of the gods and meaning of the sixteen stations of the Sky.

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11:00 AM

Sonic Alchemy: The Well of Song

Cedar

Sharon Knight Sonic Alchemy is Sharon’s fusion of music with magical practice. Using music to enhance our work in the visionary realms infuses it with a substance that can help us more fully open the gates of inspiration. This workshop will focus on improvisational song. We invoke the Well of Song, that place from whence all songs come, and draw music from it. In circle singing style, Sharon will assign different parts to the group until we are singing 4 part harmony. We wil follow the currents of sound, letting it lead us were it will. Cleansing, invigorating, and ecstatic.

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11:00 AM

Fir

Working with Diverse Traditions

Starhawk A panel to explore how we work together across divisions of tradition, culture, race, gender and background. how do we draw lines between cultural sharing and cultural appropriation? How do we effectively support one another in facing discrimination from outside, and confront our own prejudices? How can we learn from and support one another?

11:00 AM

Enochian Chess of the Golden Dawn

Monterey

Witches’ Order of the Golden Dawn This mash-up of John Dee’s Enochian Tablets and Chaturanga, the ancient four-handed ancestor of Chess, includes many syncretic features. The founders of the Golden Dawn created this game early in the 20th Century and crammed into it a wealth of esoteric knowledge. We will explain the game’s origins, symbols and rules and then will pit four volunteers from the audience against each other. Comments and kibitzing from the peanut gallery are encouraged. Remember to check the Circle of Cerridwen Hospitality Suite schedule for more information on our Enochian Chess Congress!

11:00 AM

Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries

Oak

Dark Forest We celebrate Kore the Maiden, Springtime and Renewal. This ritual is also preparation for the NROOGD Greater Eleusinian Mysteries, honoring Demeter, which we will celebrate in the autumn. At this ritual, you will be renewed through the blessings of Kore. Come with gifts for any and all of Kore, Hestia, Hecate, Demeter, Hades and Hermes. To receive a blessing or boon from Kore, be prepared to have your feet washed first. Wear white or light-colored clothing if possible. Children who are with guardians are welcome to attend. Once the doors close, we cannot let people in. Hail Kore!

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11:00 AM

Creating the Future with the Power of the Ancient Gods

Pine

Amber K and Azrael Arynn K Who are the gods and what are they good for? Can deities worshipped by early pastoral and agrarian cultures have any relevance in 21st century technological society? We will discuss timeless gods, whose qualities and powers are needed in any time and cul-

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1:30 PM — Secrets of the 36 Zodiacal Faces...........................................................................Clifford Hartleigh Low.............................. Carmel 1:30 PM v The Tree of Enchantment: The Vision Keys of Faery Seership................................Orion Foxwood......................................... Fir 1:30 PM — The Great Art of Ramon Llull for Pagans..............................................................Frater HOSV.............................................. Monterey 1:30 PM — Deep Roots and Strong Branches: Essentials of Polytheism.................................River Devora............................................. Pine 1:30 PM — Feng Shui for Pagans: Magical Housekeeping.....................................................Tess Whitehurst........................................ San Carlos 1:30 PM — The Solar Feminine: Rekindle the lost side of the Goddess..................................Stephanie Woodfield................................ San Jose/ Santa Clara 1:30 PM v Skeleton Key Magic.............................................................................................Puck......................................................... Silicon Valley 3:30 PM — Closing Ritual......................................................................................................Glenn Turner & friends............................. Fir ture; adapting gods, whose spheres of influence can translate into modern terms; and future gods, both personalized archetypes and apotheosized human beings. Amber K and Azrael Arynn K have been working and playing with goddesses and gods for more than 55 years between them, as Wiccan priestesses.

11:00 AM

Sacred Gifts: Religious Reciprocity

San Carlos

Rev. Kirk S. Thomas Unlike the Abrahamic faiths, ancient Indo-European religion was based on reciprocity - ‘do ut des,’ I give so that you may give. This workshop will examine the concept of reciprocity as well as the evidence for reciprocal relationships between the Gods and the people in ancient writings from Ireland to India and many places in between.

We will also explore how these ancient practices may apply to us in the modern day as we re-imagine and recreate our Paganisms today.

11:00 AM

San Jose/ Santa Clara

Artemis, Aphrodite & The Ringing Cedars’ Anastasia

Jo Carson and Feraferia Western culture has Kore (young Goddess) figures such as Artemis, Persephone & Aphrodite. A new Kore has emerged in “Anastasia,” who lives wild in the Siberian forest & teaches magic in The Ringing Cedars books. She says ‘Man’ can save ‘Himself ’ by living in touch with nature in family-love based homesteads with pagan aspects. Hundreds of such villages now exist. Is this the Kore of the new era? Is it even pagan with its vision of God who created Man as as the “most important life-form in the universe”? Let’s chew on these ideas & sort out what is useful.

11:00 AM

Beyond the Gates of the Seer: Divining the Oracular in Community

San Juan

Patricia Awen Fey O’Luanaigh and Lillie Falco-Adkins

The portals and practices for connecting with Spirit are many.

At this pivotal time the portal of the oracular calls out to be heard, and in this workshop you will learn how to discover, connect to, and open the conduit for the expression of your inherent oracular abilities. Possibilities for guidance and healing both individually and collectively will arise as we call on the spirits of the land and the ancestors of all those present to assist in opening the Gates of the Seer. Divination will guide our steps as this process culminates in a co-created oracular group ritual.

11:00 AM

Village Witchery 202

San Martin

Valerie Voigt Final tips and techniques for working with non-Pagan clients who seek the help of a Witch. Precautions and community relations in non-Pagan neighborhoods. Q&A plus recommended supplies and resources, including resources for further study.

11:00 AM

Celtic Shape Shifting

Silicon Valley

Reid Hart Shape shifting is a profound experience that we can access through guided shamanic journeys. We work with power animals and the story of Taliesin & Cerridwen to connect with our own shape shifting ability. Through shape shifting, we can become more skillful in safely navigating the real world. The shape shifting method comes from the ancient bard Taliesin who recorded the mysteries of shape shifting in his poetry. Prior journeying experience is helpful, but not necessary. Please do not enter during journeys when there is drumming.

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1:30 PM

Secrets of the 36 Zodiacal Faces

Carmel

Clifford Hartleigh Low The 36 Decans or Faces of the Zodiac are one of the most ancient building blocks of astrology, and among the most magical.

Subdividing the Ninth Sphere of the Cosmos, they are the realms of the highest gods and Intelligences. They are the foundation of reality, and lend mysterious powers to those versed in their secrets.

This class will explain the role of the Decans, the construction of their imagery in ancient texts, their controversy in Natal Astrology, how to create a Decan Divination Deck, and how to use the Electional Astrology of the Picatrix to create powerful talismans.

1:30 PM

Fir

The Tree of Enchantment: The Vision Keys of Faery Seership

Orion Foxwood Nine major spirits inform the teachings/ practices of this Faery tradition. Orion & Brigh first presented them in his book “The Faery Teachings” with visual life given through his partnership with the artist, Martin Bridge. Descriptions & exercises for working with them are in his book “The Tree of Enchantment”. Martin & Orion have partnered again to re-envision the “Keys” to reflect the deeper

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understanding that has grown out of over 10 years of inner work with hundreds of students. The result of this ongoing exploration will be shared as a point of visionary contact in this workshop.

1:30 PM

Monterey

The Great Art of Ramon Llull for Pagans

Frater HOSV The ancestor of symbolic logic and mechanical computation, one of the most important medieval arts of memory, a koan-like meditative system, a set of correspondences encompassing the whole of thought, a way to organize knowledge about any subject -- the Great Art of Ramon Llull is all these and more. Llull, a mystical Christian, wrote the Art to convert Muslims and Jews, but it escaped his control, inspiring centuries of magicians and alchemists. With only a little revision, it is suited to modern use and Pagan sensibilities.

Practice the Art and upgrade your brain! No experience needed.

1:30 PM

Pine

Deep Roots and Strong Branches: Essentials of Polytheism

River Devora The old ways are returning. Slumbering gods reawaken, gaining strength and gathering followers. But many of the traditions themselves are incomplete. In addition to devotion to deities, most older polytheist societies also included ancestor veneration, life cycle rituals, personal ethics, group mores, ways of living on and with the land and its spirits, ritual and spiritual artistic expression, and spirit tech to best do these things. Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s discuss how to weave together rich, complete, and meaningful polytheist traditions. Open to all polytheist paths, old, new, and reinterpreted.

1:30 PM

Feng Shui for Pagans: Magical Housekeeping

San Carlos

Tess Whitehurst In ancient times, and even the relatively recent past, we humans spent most of our lives outdoors, and our dwellings were much more aligned with nature. Now, many of us are largely removed from what was our natural habitat for so many millennia. Consequently, for the sake of our magical power, emotional wellness, and inner equilibrium, we must pay special attention to the places where we recharge and renew: our homes. In this workshop, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll learn how to bring out the most in any home by emphasizing the elements, cleansing the space, and decorating in empowering, inspiring, and magical ways.

1:30 PM

San Jose/ Santa Clara

The Solar Feminine: Rekindle the lost side of the Goddess

Stephanie Woodfield We have been taught to think of the moon as feminine and the sun masculine. But our ancestors saw the sun as a Goddess in many cultures across the globe. She was a warrioress, a healer, and bringer of abundance. Discover how this face of the Goddess differs from her lunar counterpart, and how to draw her energy into our lives.

1:30 PM

Skeleton Key Magic Puck

Silicon Valley

Learn how to use skeleton keys and modern keys to open up the doors to luck, love, protection, and more! Key give aways will be available

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3:30 PM

Closing Ritual

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Glenn Turner & friends Join us as we join together one last time to thank and say goodbye to the guardians and protectors of our event. We can also share highlights of our gathering of the tribes.

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All Pagans Meeting Join us to produce a Bay Area Network of Pagans

Sunday, March 15, from 1-5 pm Oakland Humanist Hall at 390 27th Street, Oakland, 94612 For info and RSVP:

Arlynne Camire, Exec. Director, The Pagan Alliance arlynnecamire@gmail.com Glenn Turner: glenn@ancientways.com

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PANTHEACON 2015 PRESENTERS A Couple of Jews

Max Bernstein and Cruz Arellanes are pagan-friendly Jews on the PanteaCon ops team.

• Welcoming the Sabbath Bride Friday, 5:00 PM ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Riesling • Havdalah Saturday, 5:00 PM ����������������������������������������������������������������� Riesling

Adam Gorightly

A self-described ‘crackpot historian,’ for two decades Adam Gorightly’s articles have appeared in nearly every ‘zine, underground magazine, counter-cultural publication, and conspiratorial website imaginable. Bringing a mischievous sense of Prankster-Discordianism to the zany world of fringe culture, once Gorightly connects his dots, readers are plunged into alternative universes which forever alter their view of ‘reality.’ His landmark work, The Shadow Over Santa Susana: Black Magic, Mind Control and the Manson Family Mythos is by far the best ever compiled on the Tate-Labianca murders.

• Historia Discordia:The Origins of the Discordian Society Saturday, 11:00 PM ��������������������������������������������������������� Santa Clara

ADF

ADF Ar’ nDraiocht Fe’in: A Druid Fellowship (ADF) is an international druid organization devoted to creating a public tradition of NeoPagan Druidry based on honoring the polytheistic religions of the Indo-European peoples. The Irish words, pronounced “arn ree-ocht fane”, mean “Our Own Druidism”, and that’s just what ADF is - a completely independent tradition of Neopagan Druidism. ADF provides a flexible structure for a Neopagan Druidic religion based on the practices of the ancient Indo-Europeans, adapted to the needs of a modern people.

• ADF Ritual of Community Offering and Unity Monday, 9:00 AM �������������������������������������������������������������������� Cedar

Alida Birch

Alida Birch, author of The Co-Creation Handbook: A Shamanic Guide to Manifesting a Better World and a More Joyful Life, teaches shamanism and Co-Creative manifestation in the US & Australia, leading year long apprenticeships and vision quests in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon. Alida specializes in helping people release their suffering and experience of lack and to transform their lives through energy medicine, soul retrieval, and conscious CoCreation. Find her also at www.AlidaBirch.com • Co-Create Like a Shaman Monday, 9:00 AM ����������������������������������������������������������� San Martin

Amber K and Azrael Arynn K

Amber K and Azrael Arynn K are Wiccan priestesses, authors of True Magick, Ritualcraft, Covencraft, How to Become a Witch, and other books. They are active with Ardantane in New Mexico.

Ardantane, PO Box 307, Jemez Springs NM 87025. www.ardantane.org.

• Amazons & Powerful Women: Past, Present, Future Friday, 3:30 PM ��������������������������������������������������������������������������� Pine • Intention, Focus, & Will: Creating Your Future with Wand Magic Sunday, 11:00 AM ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Pine • Creating the Future with the Power of the Ancient Gods Monday, 11:00 AM ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Pine

American Magic Umbanda House

The members of the AMUH have been practicing our version of American Umbanda for over 16 years in the greater San Francisco bay area. We are what is called a mixed house, meaning that we have a variety of pantheons that we work with, but our primary pantheon is the orixa of Yorubaland west Africa. In addition to the Pcon Pomba Devotional, we offer public consultos six times a year in Berkeley. For more information please contact Moma Maeva at: AMUHinfo@gmail.com • Pomba Gira 3.0: Red on Black!!!

Friday, 11:00 PM ������������������������������������������������������������� Cedar/ Pine

Angela T Carlson

Angela T Carlson has been a Daughter of Thor for about 30 years and actively serving as a Gythia within the Heathen community for almost 20 years. She is a devoted working Mom who helps run conferences and events on the side.

• Modern Asatru/Heathenry: 40 Years In: What Now? Saturday, 9:00 PM ���������������������������������������������������������� Boardroom • Bring Something to Share Blot Sunday, 9:00 PM ��������������������������������������� San Martin/ San Simeon

Angus McMahan

Angus McMahan is a gregarious solitary who can usually be found playing strange drums strangely at various Community Seed rituals. He is a lego sculptor, a cross-country marcher, a crop circle inspiration, a breathtakingly slow triathlete and a writer of no great renown. www.angus-land.com • Pagan Humor 7: It’s all about ME! Saturday, 7:00 PM ������������������������������������������������������������� Club Max

Athena Wallinder

Athena has practiced and explored and practiced many different avenues of magic for the past 25 years. Her main expertise is with the grimoires, as well as Enochian magick. Athena has been teaching in various magical paths for 22 years. She has also self published 4 handbound books to date.

• Honoring through sacred BDSM and Kink ritual Saturday, 7:00 PM ������������������������������������ San Martin/ San Simeon

Aurea Arcana

This revolving, roving group of witty and wry fools, wisemen, queens, and mathemagicians gather annually, as they have under many names and directors, to present to you the divine mysteries of Oracles from the Living Tarot. This year, OLT is directed by joi wolfwomyn.

• Oracles from the Living Tarot Saturday, 3:30 PM ���������������������������������������������������������� Cedar/ Pine

Avia Moore

I began my journey as a Bast priestess at the age of 17. However, my connection with Her has existed since I was a young girl. I have provided PantheaCon with two devotional dances for Her in the last few years.

• Bast Devotional Dance Friday, 7:00 PM ���������������������������������������� San Martin/ San Simeon

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Ayamanatara

Ayamanatara is a multi-denominational Shaman; an internationally-renowned author, healer, teacher, trance channel, clairvoyant, mystery school initiate, kabbalist, and animal communicator.

She is a Director of Matrix International University, and a member of the Sound Healers Association, America Society of Dowsers, and the American Botanical Council. She is the author of several books including 365 Days to Enlightenment and the Faery Spiral series, and several meditation CDs. • Singing Bowl Meditation Friday, 3:30 PM �������������������������������������������������������������������� San Jose

Baba Esu

Baba Esu (esuwemimo@gmail.com) is an initiated Priest of Esu and was initiated by Chief Luisah Teish & Ile Orunmila Oshun 14 1/2 years ago. Baba’s lineage comes through Oba or King Adebolu Fatunmise in Ile Ife, Nigeria. Baba Esu conducts divination, rituals, and spiritual elevations including initiations for clients, students, and God-Children. Baba has initiated seven people into the Orisha Priesthood and in 2006 founded Ile Ose Tura (The House of Esu and Oshun) in San Jose, CA. Ile Ose Tura is currently accepting new students, singers, and drummers.

• Introduction to Ifa & Orisha: The Ancestors Sunday, 11:00 AM ����������������������������������������������������������������� Riesling

Bhride

Bhride has been acting in the professional theatre scene since she was 8 years old, and a practicing Witch since she was 16. She immediately discovered the two worked in great harmony, and loves teaching what she fondly calls The Theatre of Witchcraft. As a Priestess in a Celtic tradition she is drawn to the bardic transitions of old.

• The Theatre of Witchcraft Friday, 3:30 PM ����������������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley

Black Rose Witchcraft

Black Rose is a school and lineage of Modern Traditional Witchcraft which is empowered and informed by various lineages of magical, spiritual, and occult initiatic lore. This year, Black Rose is partnering with The Temple of Witchcraft (Salem, MA), the Firefly tradition (Washington D.C.), it’s parent traditions, Blue Rose Feri and Sacred Fires (San Francisco), as well as others to present a multinational ritual that you wont find anywhere else. For more information visit www.BlackRoseWitchcraft.com • The Rite of the Grand Convergence Friday, 9:00 PM �������������������������������������������������������������� Cedar/ Pine

Bloodroot Honey Priestess Tribe

The Bloodroot Honey Priestess Tribe is a matriarchal community of wild, wise and witty women living in service to the Great Goddess. Warriors, Queens, Lovers, & Mothers...each Tribe member offers her sacred gifts in her own self-defined expressions of spiritual leadership. All of the Tribe’s members are High Priestesses trained by lineage holder Yeshe Rabbit.

• Songs of Devotion Sunday, 7:00 PM �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Oak

Brandy Williams

Brandy Williams has been practicing and teaching magic for over 30 years. Her work spans magical orders such as Ordo Templi Orientis and the Golden Dawn as well as Witchcraft and Pagan

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reconstruction. Her book “The Woman Magician” examines and challenges the Western understanding of women’s bodies, energies, and powers, articulating a new metaphysics which frees and empowers women to act authentically as women and as magicians.

• Lives of the Pagan Teachers Saturday, 11:00 AM �������������������������������������������������������� Santa Clara

Brenda Titus, CH

Brenda is passionate about helping people transform their lives through the power of hypnosis. She has 15 years of experience counseling and advocating for victims of sexual assault, adults molested as children, and other traumatic events. Now she brings the potent, life-changing techniques of 5-PATH and 7th Path Selfhypnosis to help all people transform their lives and achieve health, wellness, and success. She is a regular contributor to the Hypnosis.org E-Zine, a Co-Host on the Hypnosis, Etc. Podcast, and has presented at the National Guild of Hypnotists Annual Convention.

For more information about hypnosis, go to www.ochypnotherapy. com.

• Connecting to the Wisdom of the Soul With Hypnosis Friday, 3:30 PM �������������������������������������������������������������� Boardroom

Brian Ewing

Brian Ewing is the Secretary/Treasurer/co-founder of Pagan Pride Los Angeles, Inc., President of the Pagan Pride Project, and Secretary/Treasurer of the Grey School of Wizardry, Inc. He is an Attorney practicing Labor and Employment Law, but in law school he also studied nonprofit law. He advises Pagan nonprofits on financial, incorporation, and legal issues.

• Legal and Organizational Requirements for Pagan Groups Saturday, 3:30 PM ����������������������������������������������������������������� Riesling

Bringing Race to the Table Authors

Authors in the anthology Bringing Race to the table; An Exploration of Racism in the Pagan Community, published with Immanion/Megalithica.

• Bringing Race to the Table; An Exploration of Racism in Paganism Saturday, 7:00 PM ������������������������������������������ San Juan/ San Carlos

Broceliande

Broceliande plays Celtic music from the British Isles and the Medieval and Renaissance music, with an emphasis on music inspired by or traditionally performed during each of the four seasons.

Their entrancing sound is built on the interweaving of up to 3-part vocals with Celtic harp, 12-string guitar, cello, flute, octave mandolin, recorders, and percussion. Their repertoire includes original arrangements of trad and Early music and ranges in feel from Celtic dances, to harp tunes, to a capella madrigals.

• Broceliande Celtic and Early Music Concert Sunday, 7:00 PM ������������������������������������������������� Carmel/ Monterey

Bruce MacLennan

Bruce MacLennan PhD has studied and practiced ancient Greek religion and spiritual disciplines for more than forty years. He has also studied the relationship between Neoplatonic spiritual practices, Jungian psychology, and neurotheology and has published journal articles and book chapters on these topics. MacLennan is invited regularly to give international presentations and offers regular work-

shops on Neoplatonic spiritual practices, Pythagoreanism, theurgy, divination, ancient Greek Paganism, and related topics.

• Neoplatonic Tantra Saturday, 7:00 PM ����������������������������������������������������������� Santa Clara • The Tablet of Cebes Sunday, 1:30 PM ������������������������������������������������������������������� San Jose

Captain Starwise

Captain Starwise, is a Forth generation Astrologer and Nautical enthusiast, who produces Astrological charts with a seafaring theme, that have been tested to be some of the most beautiful, whimsical and Easily Read Charts the world has ever known.

• Forecasting the Future with Portentous Pluto...

Sunday, 7:00 PM �������������������������������������������������������������������� Riesling

Cara Freyasdaughter/Freyja’s Aett

A collaboration of primarily Bay Area based Freyja’s priestesses.

• Facets of Freyja Devotional Sunday, 11:00 PM ������������������������������������������ San Juan/ San Carlos

Carl F. Neal

Carl Neal has been fascinated with incense since childhood. For decades he has researched and experimented to better understand incense. Beyond that, Carl is also a Guardian in our Community (at a time when Guardians are sorely needed) and has helped many others find their feet on that path. Carl is a former animal rescue volunteer and an eternal animal lover (even helping place familiars in new homes).

For 20 years he has been a dedicated Solitary deeply committed to the needs of the Greater Pagan Community. Carl has books in print with Llewellyn and Red Wheel/Weiser (www.IncenseBooks.com).

• Magick Incense Making 101 Friday, 7:00 PM ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Fir • Magick Incense Making 201 (Intermediate) Saturday, 11:00 AM ������������������������������������������������������� Boardroom • Advanced Magick Incense Making Sunday, 3:30 PM ������������������������������������������������������������� Boardroom • Familiars Death: Celebrating Fur, Feather, & Scale Sunday, 9:00 PM ���������������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley

CAYA Coven

Come As You Are (CAYA) Coven is an eclectic, open, drop-in coven with branches in the Bay Area. Our mission is to create safe, loving, magical, celebratory, warm, family-friendly community rituals. All are offered opportunities to participate, and everyone’s talents and gifts are honored. Visit us in the East Bay, or online at www.cayacoven.com • Wake Up To Spirit Saturday, 9:00 AM �������������������������������������������������������������������� Cedar

Ceana

Ceana Hope is a Bay Area transplant from Nova Scotia Canada.

She has been interested in wild harvesting plants since childhood.

It started with berries and flowers, and blossomed into an interest of plant medicine and became almost a decade of self-study and hands on application. Despite living in the city of San Jose now, she is still able to find what she needs and wishes to share her knowledge with those who wish to learn. She hopes to attend a local school to become an accredited herbalist soon.

• Herbalism 101 - The Budding Herbalist. Remember, Safety First!

Saturday, 11:00 AM ������������������������������������������������������������ San Juan

Celia

Celia is a Singer/Songwriter/Comedienne described as “A cross between an Earthy Enya, Joan Baez, & Tina Fey.” She dishes up the most delicious concoction of the silly & sacred. Celia has opened for notable authors: Susun Weed, Marianne Williamson & Dr. Masaru Emoto & her “Symbol” song was named the “Anthem for the Veteran Pentacle Quest”. Celia is soon to release her 11th album titled “Letting Go”. Celia is also a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader, Vocal Coach, and Sound Healer residing in Prescott, AZ. www.CeliaOnline.com • Celia in Concert Friday, 7:00 PM �������������������������������������������������� Carmel/ Monterey • Laughter Magick Sunday, 9:00 PM ��������������������������������������������� San Juan/ San Carlos

Chandra Alexandre & SHARANYA

SHARANYA is home to (R)evolutionary Shakta Tantra. We are a federally-recognized devi mandir (goddess temple) based in San Francisco and Puri (Orissa) India working for social justice through the work of blossoming radical truth, healing and wholeness through individual sadhana (spiritual practice), devotion, and the Dark Goddess as Kali Maa. • Kali Puja: Devotions to the Dark Goddess Sunday, 9:00 PM �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Oak

Charly McCreary

Charly is a ritual theater artist and practicing occultist based in Seattle, WA. She has studied neopagan and ceremonial magick traditions for over 15 years and works with the Cabiri, a circus performance troupe that depicts ancient myth through ritual theater, and the Rowan Tree Church, a Wiccan church founded by renowned author and herbalist Paul Beyerl.

• Ritual Astrology Friday, 11:00 PM ������������������������������������������������������������� Boardroom

Children’s Magic Grove

A Children’s circle, comprised of the children of Dark Forest Coven. We have been meeting as a group for several years in a teaching circle.

• Places of Power to Face the Future Sunday, 3:30 PM �������������������������������������������������������������� Santa Clara

Christopher Mabie

The magic of marlin spike captivated me at a young age and I have been using knots in daily life as a park ranger and farmer before graduating California Maritime Academy.

• Magic of Marlinspike Saturday, 9:00 AM ��������������������������������������������������������������� San Juan

Christopher Penczak

Christopher Penczak is a modern witch with a full time teaching and healing practice in New England. He is the cofounder of The Temple of Witchcraft nonprofit and Copper Cauldron Publishing.

He is the author of many books, including the Temple of Witchcraft series and The Gates of Witchcraft.

• Four Jacks, A Queen & The Wheel of the Year Saturday, 1:30 PM ���������������������������������������������������������� Cedar/ Pine • Restoring Sovereign Order Sunday, 3:30 PM �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Pine

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Circle of Dionysos

The Circle of Dionysos is dedicated to the exploration and celebration of spiritual traditions that honor gender fluidity and sexual variance. We believe that universal diversity is purposeful, and thus that members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Community possess wisdom that is of vital importance to the community at large. Through public ritual performances, small study groups, and personal spiritual guidance, we seek to help both individuals and our community in discovering, developing, and expressing that wisdom. For More information about the Circle of Dionysos, please visit our website at http://circleofdionysos.org/.

• Katabasis: Descent to the Underworld Saturday, 11:00 PM ����������������������������������������������������������� Club Max

Clifford Hartleigh Low

Clifford holds a B.A. in Psychology from NYU and is an accomplished practitioner of several schools of magic. A graphic artist, photographer, former club promoter and DJ, he has spent over fifteen years researching electional astrology, Medieval and Renaissance astrological talismans, and early magical texts including the Picatrix. An outspoken proponent of weather magic, healing magic, tarot divination, black magic, and root work, his influences include Orthodox Jewish Kabbalah, Wicca, Chaos Magick, Santeria, Hoodoo, Golden Dawn, Greco-Roman Magic, and traditional Grimoires.

• Secrets of the 36 Zodiacal Faces Monday, 1:30 PM ������������������������������������������������������������������� Carmel

Coru Cathubodua Priesthood

Service, sovereignty, kinship and warriorship are the values that guide the Coru Cathobodua Priesthood. We are Pagan priests on the move, ready to take action to advance our mission to bring about sovereignty and kinship to the world through acts of community and individual service. Guided by our the matron the Morrigan, Celtic Goddess of sovereignty, prophecy, and battle, we welcome all who share this vision of service to bringing these values to life for all people. For information about Coru Cathubodua, visit www.corupriesthood.com.

• The Morrigan Speaks: Arise to the Battle Saturday, 7:00 PM ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Oak

Daniel Gautier

Daniel Gautier is an author, composer and visual artist. His work reflects his training in the disciplines of Hermeticism, Platonism, Kabballa, Raja Yoga. He has recorded a CD of his music, Elemental Dreams, and wrote the books, Aphorisms of Light - The Hermetic Wisdom, and Master of the Guild.

• Myth, Ancient Mysteries, and the Soul’s Journey Sunday, 9:00 AM �������������������������������������������������������������������� Riesling

Dark Forest

Dark Forest is a NROOGD-based coven filled with life, kids, dogs, humor, and respect for the sacred. Our membership represents many magickal traditions. NROOGD is what we have (joyfully) in common; Feri to Gardnerian to family/ traditions and eclectic groups are those we represent individually, and our group practice is enriched by all of this. We have been preparing ourselves magically and meditatively for months to bring you the Lesser Ele-

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usinian Mysteries, and hope you will also join us for the August Hecate Ritual, as well as the Great Eleusinian in October (exact dates/times TBD).

• Lesser Eleusinian Mysteries Monday, 11:00 AM ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Oak

David Gibbons

Hello, I’m David Gibbons of Santa Rosa, CA. I am a longtime drummer who loves to drum at rituals, in circles, and for dancers.

I led last year’s event, and look forward to seeing all you drummers and dancers again this ear. My intention for this event is to create well-defined high energy rhythms that will be fun to dance to, and fun to drum along with.

• Saturday Nite Drum/Dance Jam Saturday, 11:00 PM ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Pine

Deborah Blake

Deborah Blake is the author of seven books from Llewellyn, including The Goddess is in the Details, The Witches Broom, and Everyday Witch Book of Rituals. She has written many articles for Pagan publications and has an ongoing column in Witches & Pagans Magazine. She is the High Priestess of Blue Moon Circle, an eclectic coven based in upstate NY. • The Modern Witch’s Broom: Updating an Ancient Tool Sunday, 9:00 AM ���������������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley

Deborah J. Hamouris

Deborah Hamouris (“DJ” to her friends) is a singer-songwriter with a long performance and recording history in the Pagan community. Musically versatile, she performs as both a jazz vocalist and (on her mountain dulcimer) as a traditionally-influenced songsmith. Deborah recently released “Snapshots,” recorded with jazz guitarist Mimi Fox, as well as “The Green Man” with husband, Buffalo. She currently directs Women & Song and the Unconditional Love Choir in the East Bay, teaches mountain dulcimer, and produces the Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering anually in May. In her spare time, and when the cat allows, she knits.

• CircleSinging Friday, 9:00 PM ���������������������������������������������� San Juan/ San Carlos

DevaGnosis

DevaGnosis is a holistic spiritual fellowship whose home-base is in Campbell, Ca. We create, host and promote events related but not exclusive to “Divine-Nature Spirituality.” Our focus is on personal growth, healing, healthy living, deep exploration and epiphany. We are here to empower tribe and community to raise the vibration of humanity. We feel called to serve on the path towards Enlightenment, Center, Source, Love, God, Goddess, Spirit, Inspiration, Grace, Peace and Awe though events, classes & workshops, Ecstatic Dance, Seasonal Rituals, and more. Please visit: www.devagnosis. org for more information.

• DANCE ELEMENTAL - Ecstatic Dance Journey Saturday, 7:00 PM ���������������������������������������������������������� Cedar/ Pine

Diana Paxson

Diana L. Paxson is the author of many novels on pagan themes, and a number of popular non-fiction books, including /The Way of the Oracle/ and /The Essential Guide to Possession/. She writes a regular column on goddesses for /Sagewoman/. She is also an elder and former Steerswoman of the Troth, whose journal /Idunna/, she

edits. Visit her website at: http://www.diana-paxson.com/, or like her on Facebook!

• Preparing for Possession Sunday, 9:00 AM ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� Fir

Diana Rowan

Diana’s harp performances synthesize her passion for music and spirituality, her love of travel, history and culture, and her decades of study, teaching, and composition into a transforming experience. Not only do her performances integrate the many traditions and cultures of the countries in which she has studied and lived, they also reveal Diana’s depth of respect for musical and spiritual traditions plus an ability to innovate new forms. Holding a PhD in harp composition, Diana performs worldwide both as a solo artist and collaborator.

Harp as a healing portal is a particular focus of all Diana’s work.

• Harp as Living Myth Saturday, 11:00 AM ������������������������������������������� Carmel/ Monterey

Didi Gordon/Sarah Astarte

Doreet (Didi) Gordon is a dark fusion bellydancer based out of Santa Cruz, CA. She began her love affair with belly dance in 2004.

Doreet is a founding member of Raks Hakohaveem and creative director of student troupe, Nahaash Raqs. She is also co-producer of the yearly Dark Fusion event Lumen Obscura. Doreet offers classes at Serpent’s Kiss in Santa Cruz. Sarah Astarte, Ph.D., is a spiritual guide, interfaith chaplain, and psychology professor. She specializes in shamanic healing, body image and sacred sexuality. She is an initiated priestess of the Goddess, and seasoned bellydancer.

• Love Spell Bellydance Show Sunday, 9:00 PM ������������������������������������������������� Carmel/ Monterey

Discordian.com

Discordian.com was created by the Church of No Dead Saints to further their purpose of promoting Discordianism as the thinking prankster’s religion. The Church believes that Discordianism will die without an influx of modern thought, semi-belief, and Erisian events. By creating this site with its writings and ideas, St. Mae and St. Fox hope to revitalize Discordianism as an intense, throbbing centre of laughter, defiance, and lunacy.

• Authentic Recon Lady Gaga Devotional/Clothing Swap Friday, 11:00 PM �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Oak

Dr. David Shoemaker

Dr. David Shoemaker is the International College of Thelema, and the Prolocutor of its initiatory Order, The Temple of the Silver Star. He is also an initiate of Ordo Templi Orientis, serving in various regional and national roles. He is a clinical psychologist in private practice, as well as a musician and composer. He has taught on many topics over the years, but his specialties include Qabalistic Psychology, ritual design, Raja Yoga, and systems of initiation. His “Living Thelema” segments are featured regularly on the “Speech in the Silence” podcast.

• Living Thelema Saturday, 1:30 PM ����������������������������������������������������������� Santa Clara

Ekklesia Antinoou

The Ekklesia Antinoou (“Citizenry of Antinous”) is a queer, Graeco-Roman-Egyptian syncretist reconstructionist polytheist group dedicated to worship of Antinous, the deified lover of the Roman Emperor Divus Hadrianus, and related divine figures. This form of modern Antinoan practice has been functioning since 2002. P. Sufenas Virius Lupus will be conducting this session, with assistance from several other Ekklesia Antinoou members and friends.

• Teenage Gods and Heroes Saturday, 9:00 PM ���������������������������������������������������������������� San Jose • Lupercalia and Parentalia 2015!

Sunday, 3:30 PM ��������������������������������������� San Martin/ San Simeon

Elderflower

Elderflower is a women’s spirituality festival that takes place in the Mendocino Woodlands of Northern CA. every August. Since 1988, women have gathered together to create a time and space for healing and growth, as well as a growing community of empowered women.

• Elderflower Amazon Ritual Saturday, 1:30 PM ������������������������������������ San Martin/ San Simeon

EliSheva

DK Cowan

DK Cowan is a social constructionist, reform polytheist, ritual performance artist, and queer’d priest/co-founder of The Circle of Dionysos.

• Gods and Monsters: Building a Variant Pantheon Friday, 7:00 PM ���������������������������������������������� San Juan/ San Carlos

Elisheva (aka Eli) is originally from the Northern Galilee. She served in her country’s security forces, retired; ran an international company, retired and now is a psychotherapist and organizational consultant in private practice. She is Shophet (“elected leader”) of Am HaAretz (aka AMHA) an Israeli Earth & Goddess Tradition of Peaceful Warriors reconnecting to Hebrew Tribes. Her academic background also includes archeology studies at Tel Aviv, and an MA in conference interpreting • Seeing for the Tribes Saturday, 11:00 AM ���������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley

Don Schulz

Emily Carlin

Creating hand made “ancient style” drums of simple wood and hide since 2001, I consider myself a “Rhythmic Evangelical”, wanting everyone to pick one up and play. My hope is that we can all return to the heart of our Mother - no matter how old or experienced.

• Drum circle 101 Friday, 9:00 PM ����������������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley • Drum Making Workshop Sunday, 11:00 AM ���������������������������������������������������������� Boardroom • Introduction to Rhythm and Drumming for children.

Monday, 9:00 AM ������������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley

Emily Carlin is an eclectic witch, attorney, and mediator, based in Seattle, Washington. She works extensively with the Crone and specializes in shadow magick and defensive magick. Emily teaches at Pagan events around the Puget Sound area and online at www. shadowkrafting.com. You can read her work in her book Defense Against the Dark, the latest Llewelyn Magickal Almanac, and in her weekly blog. For more info on me go to http://about.me/ecarlin.

• Pop Culture Magick: Working With Villains Friday, 9:00 PM ���������������������������������������� San Martin/ San Simeon

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Erik Davis

Erik Davis is an author, scholar, and podcaster living in San Francisco. He is the author of Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica, The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape, and the cult classic TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information, which has been translated into five languages. He also wrote a short critical volume on the occult and Led Zeppelin. He hosts the podcast Expanding Mind, and is currently earning his PhD in Religious Studies at Rice University.

• Babalon Rising: Jack Parsons’ Witchcraft Prophecy Saturday, 9:00 PM ����������������������������������������������������������� Santa Clara

Frank Baba Eyiogbe

Glenn Turner

Glenn Turner has become active in Sunflower Alliance and their local Bay Area actions to prevent massive influx of crude oil by rail. She has turned her skills to help organize a Bay Area Peoples Climate Rally on September 21 and a conference by 350 Bay Area.

Her vision of the future includes a Pagan earth religion response on moving from climate destruction towards climate justice. She is the Ringmaster, organizer and sponsor of PantheaCon along with running her shop Ancient Ways in Oakland CA for the last 26 years.

Contact glenn@ancientways.com • Earth Religions and Climate Changes Friday, 1:30 PM ����������������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley

Initiated as an Babalawo or “Father of the Secrets” in Havana Cuba in 1996, Frank Baba Eyiogbe has been practicing Santeria for over twenty-five years: over twenty-three years as a santero (Orisha priest) and eighteen years as a babalawo (high priest). Author of the Llewellyn Publications book “Babalawo, Santeria’s High Priests,” he created the premier Santeria website www.orishanet.org, and has been a guest on NPR’s All Things Considered and The Global Guru and was interviewed for LIFE magazine. He has guest lectured at the University of Washington as well as UC Berkeley.

• Odduns: The Core of Afro-Cuban Ifa Sunday, 1:30 PM ��������������������������������������������� San Juan/ San Carlos

Glenn Turner & friends

Frater HOSV

Gregory Peters/Ordo Sunyata Vajra

Frater HOSV is currently serving as First Adept of the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn. He has received a PhD in cognitive psychology, and is working as a data scientist.

• The Great Art of Ramon Llull for Pagans Monday, 1:30 PM ��������������������������������������������������������������� Monterey

Freyja’s Gift

Freyja’s Gift Trance Team is an eclectic group of Heathens, Wiccans and Traditional Witches who do trance work for their community. Some do Seidhr, some have other practices. Freyja’s Gift is led by Seidhkona Lisa Morgenstern, and is the Seidh team for Hrafn Skjoldr Kindred.

• Different Kind of Seidh Saturday, 11:00 PM ���������������������������������������� San Juan/ San Carlos

Gareth Storm

Gareth is an eclectic pagan with roots in shamanism, Gardnerian practice, and ceremonial magick. He calls himself a ‘skeptical priest’ and values critical thinking in all areas of life.

• Striving to be Worthy of Zudie Sunday, 9:00 AM ������������������������������������������������������������� San Simeon

Geraldine Beskin

Geraldine Beskin and her daughter Bali run London’s oldest Independent Occult Bookshop - as did her parents. The Atlantis Bookshop is 92 years old and Aleister Crowley, Austin Spare and Gerald Gardner were friends of the original owner. Indeed, modern witchcraft started in the basement. Geraldine’s lecturing manner is refreshingly un-academic involving lots of improvisation and no strict adherence to her extensive notes. Her lighthearted style comes from a mind full of esoteric knowledge, strange facts and being a Gemini!

• Crowley, Harris and Thoth.

Saturday, 3:30 PM ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Oak • The Tarot Tour of London Sunday, 11:00 AM ���������������������������������������������� Carmel/ Monterey

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Glenn Turner and whoever wants to help, will bless the space and the group. Glenn, a witch since 1968 and a founder of NROOGD and Covenant of the Goddess, is also master of Sirius Encampment OTO (1983). She is the Ringmaster, organizer and sponsor of PantheaCon along with running her shop Ancient Ways in Oakland CA for the last 26 years. She can be reached at glenn@ancientways.com • Opening ritual Friday, 12:00 PM �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Oak • Closing Ritual Monday, 3:30 PM ��������������������������������������������������������������������������� Fir Author of The Magickal Union of East and West: The Spiritual Path to New Aeon Tantra (Llewellyn) as well as a co-editor of The Thoth Tarot, Astrology & Other Selected Writings of Phyllis Seckler, and The Kabbalah, Magick, and Thelema: Selected Writings, Volume II (Teitan Press). An initiate of several Hindu and Buddhist tantrik lineages and Dzogchen practitioner, he was a close student and friend of Phyllis Seckler (Soror Meral). In 1999 he founded Ordo Sunyata Vajra, an East-West esoteric group that explores methods of working with the Stellar Gnosis • New Aeon Tantra: The Diamond Sapphire Gem of Radiant Light Friday, 9:00 PM �������������������������������������������������������������������� San Jose

Gus diZerega

A Gardnerian Elder for over 25 years, Gus diZerega has conducted workshops on healing, shamanism, ecology and politics at Pagan events in the US and Canada. His newest book “Faultines: the 60s, the Culture War, and the Return of the Divine Feminine,” received a major award from the Association of Independent Publishers in 2014. A political scientist in the outside world, he writes often on political, ecological and spiritual topics. He regularly contributes to Witches and Pagans and to Patheos.

• Beginning Energy Healing Saturday, 11:00 AM �������������������������������������������������������������������� Oak • Waking from the fetters of Monotheism Sunday, 3:30 PM ������������������������������������������������� Carmel/ Monterey

Gypsey Elaine Teague

Gypsey is an Elder in the Georgian Tradition, and High Priestess in the Icelandic Tradition, and the originator of Steampunk Magic.

Her research into wands will be published soon after years of working with woods and metals. Gypsey is the Branch Head of the Gunnin Architecture Library at Clemson University.

• A Witch’s Guide to Wands Friday, 3:30 PM �������������������������������������������������� Carmel/ Monterey

Hexeba Theaux

Ivan Richmond

Holly Allender Kraig

Jason W. Mankey

Hexeba Theaux has been studying witchcraft and Wicca since she was a teenager, learning from several wonderful teachers (and a few bad ones); reading everything she could get her hands on; working solitary for many years; and working with groups for several more.

She has belonged to circles or covens in Spain, and California, been initiated into two Central Valley Wicca Traditions, and is a Gardnerian third degree. She is an apprentice to Valerie Voigt, and runs the Dandelion Circle in Sacramento. As a Cajun, Ms. Theaux has a special interest in Hoodoo and in historical witchcraft as a whole.

• Village Witchery 101 Friday, 3:30 PM ��������������������������������������������������������������������������� Oak • Village Witchery 102 Saturday, 7:00 PM ������������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley Holly Allender Kraig is a yoga instructor, certified massage therapist, certified NLP Practitioner, psychic and Reiki Practitioner. She has taught Hatha Yoga across the country for 10 years to students of all levels, abilities and walks of life.

• Reflexive Yoga for Intermediate Yogis Saturday, 9:00 AM �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Fir • Yoga for Every Body Monday, 9:00 AM ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Oak

Holly Tannen and Ruth Barrett

Ruth Barrett is a recording artist of original Goddess songs, a pioneer musician in the pagan and Goddess Spirituality Movements since the 1980’s, and author of “Women’s Rites, Women’s Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation.” Her recordings include “Songs of the Otherworld,” “Garden of Mysteries,” “Parthenogenesis,” and “The Year Is A Dancing Woman.” Holly Tannen is a feminist folklorist, anti-censorship activist, and Reclaiming priestess of Brighid. Her CDs include “Between The Worlds,” “Rime of the Ancient Matriarch,” “The Flower of Australia,” and “Crazy Laughter.”

• Ruth Barrett and Holly Tannen in Concert Friday, 9:00 PM �������������������������������������������������� Carmel/ Monterey • SongCraft: Become a Langwitch!

Monday, 9:00 AM ������������������������������������������ San Jose/ Santa Clara

House of Danu

The House of Danu is an fellowship of West Coast solitaries, seed groups, and groves of the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids (OBOD) centered in East Sussex, England.

• Druid Ritual and Grand Procession Saturday, 9:00 PM ������������������������������������������ San Juan/ San Carlos

Hrafn Skjoldr Kindred

Hrafn Skjoldr (Raven Shield) Kindred, led by Nan Boyster, is a tribal Asatru/Heathen group which honors the Norse Gods and offers public blots and ceremonies in the Antelope Valley of Southern California.

• History of the Worlds Part 1-Blot Saturday, 9:00 AM ������������������������������������ San Martin/ San Simeon

Immanion Press

Immanion Press publishes experimental esoteric books for the intermediate to advanced practitioner about a wide variety of spiritual beliefs and magical practices.

• How to Write for Intermediate to Advanced Audiences Sunday, 7:00 PM ������������������������������������������������������������������� San Jose

Ivan Richmond is an initiate of the Men’s Mysteries celebrated by the Men’s Lodge of Thiasos Olympikos, a Hellenic Reconstructionist organization that primarily has mixed-sex rituals, but also offers Men’s and Women’s Mysteries. He has been active in Hellenic Reconstructionism and in other aspects of the Pagan community since 2001. During this time he has worked to explore men’s issues and men’s spirituality, with a view to strengthening the Pagan community’s ability to address issues related to men, and increasing opportunities for Pagan men to find fellowship.

• Healing Ritual of Asclepius Friday, 3:30 PM ��������������������������������������������������������������� Santa Clara • Men’s Spirituality Panel Saturday, 1:30 PM ���������������������������������������������������������������� San Jose Jason Mankey is an internationally acclaimed speaker and writer. A devotee of history, The Horned God, and Led Zeppelin, Jason has given hundreds of talks on those subjects (and more) at various Pagan festivals across North America. He currently writes for Patheos.com on the blog “Raise the Horns” attracting thousands of readers every month. Jason lives in Sunnyvale CA with his wife Ari and two small cats.

• The Horned God 2.0 Friday, 3:30 PM ������������������������������������������������������������������������������ Fir • Heavy Metal and the Occult Saturday, 3:30 PM ���������������������������������������������� Carmel/ Monterey

Jeanne McLaughlin

Jeanne McLaughlin is a Medicine Woman who spends her life studying, practicing and teaching Shamanic ways. These include traditions from a variety of cultures including Native American, Polynesian, Asian and Celtic. Jeanne’s personal practice is Animal Medicine; working with animal spirits when they pass, and making Medicine Art from the feathers & bones she finds in the wild.

• Shamanic Practices 101: Calling In Prayer and Ho’Oponopono Sunday, 11:00 AM ����������������������������������������������������������� Santa Clara

Jeffrey Albaugh

Jeffrey Albaugh (Shade Fane) is a pagan mystic residing between the mountains and the sea on the west coast of Southern California. He holds a BA in Theater , a MA in Depth Psychology, and currently a PhD candidate investigating the emergent psychology of contemporary Paganisms in the United States. He serves as Program Manager for the Conference on Current Pagan Studies and Chairman of the Board of Cherry Hill Seminary. He has been engaged in Pagan practice for over 25 years.

• Archetypes of the Masculine and the Wheel of the Year Saturday, 7:00 PM ����������������������������������������������������������������� Riesling • Men’s Mysteries, Men’s Rituals Sunday, 7:00 PM ���������������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley

Jehon Grist, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Lehrhaus Judaica. Ph.D., UC Berkeley, ancient Near Eastern cultures • The Divine Feminine in the Biblical World: Monday, 9:00 AM �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Fir

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Jessica Reiki Miller

Jessica first learned Reiki at Free Spirit Gathering in Maryland in 1992, and went on to train with multiple teachers here and in the Japan, and has been teaching Reiki full time for the last 15 years.

A Reiki historian and technique innovator, her pagan give a much broader perspective on the versatility and use of the Japanese healing art, for healing, career, spirit and sacred place work. Her book, Reiki Birthplace: A Site Guide to Mt Kurama explains the sites, practicalities, power and history of the mountain where Reiki’s founder meditated 21 days and received the energy.

• Connecting Spirit to Community with Reiki Healing Sunday, 11:00 AM ���������������������������������������������������������� San Simeon

Jhenah Telyndru

Jhenah Telyndru is the founder and Morgen of the Sisterhood of Avalon, Academic Dean of the Avalonian Thealogical Seminary, and member of the Pagan music group Afalarian. She is the author of “Avalon Within: A Sacred Journey of Myth, Mystery, and Inner Wisdom”, and the creator of a unique embodiment meditation system found on the “Trancing the Inner Landscape: Avalonian Landscape Postures” DVD. She presents workshops across North America and facilitates journeys to sacred sites in the British Isles with Mythic Seeker Spiritual Pilgrimages. Jhenah holds a Masters Degree in Celtic Studies from the University of Wales, Trinity St. David.

• Mapping Her Memory: Seeking the Goddesses of Wales Saturday, 9:00 AM ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Oak • Pagan Open Mic Saturday, 11:00 PM �������������������������������������������� Carmel/ Monterey • Isle of Avalon, Isle of Healing Sunday, 1:30 PM ��������������������������������������� San Martin/ San Simeon

Jo Carson and Feraferia

Feraferia is a love culture for wilderness. A faerie faith, Feraferia connects you to spirits of your particular surround. We draw from ancient Crete, the Eleusinian Mysteries, troubadour practices, and megalithic traditions. We celebrate the Sacred Daughter, “Kore”, who carries keys to the future. Feraferia leader Jo Carson is a filmmaker (her feature “Dancing With Gaia” screened at PantheaCon 2011) and has just published “Celebrate Wildness‚ Magic, Mirth, and Love on the Feraferia Path.” Jo has followed pagan pathways since joining Order of the Temple of Astarte in 1970 and Feraferia in 1973.

• Celebrate Wildness—Future Starts in Your Backyard Monday, 9:00 AM ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Pine • Artemis, Aphrodite & The Ringing Cedars’ Anastasia Monday, 11:00 AM ���������������������������������������� San Jose/ Santa Clara

Julia Phillips

Julia’s study of the occult began in 1971 at the Society of Psychical Research in London. The practice of Wicca, tarot, astrology and Hermetic magic followed and in 1991 she founded the Australian/New Zealand Pagan Alliance. A presentation Julia gave at the Australian Wiccan Conference in 1991, “History of Wicca in England 1939 to present day”, later made its way onto the internet and has been translated into several languages. Books as author Madeline Montalban: The Magus of St Giles (Neptune Press, 2012) The Witches of Oz (Capall Bann, 1994) Publications as editor The Wiccan (est. 1964)

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• Rosaleen Norton: The Witch of King’s Cross Friday, 7:00 PM ��������������������������������������������������������������� Santa Clara • Wicca in the Southern Hemisphere Saturday, 3:30 PM ����������������������������������������������������������� Santa Clara • Madeline Montalban: The Magus of St Giles Sunday, 9:00 AM ������������������������������������������������� Carmel/ Monterey

Karen Krebser

Karen Krebser is a cartomancer, diviner, oracle, and seer. She has been reading cards professionally for ten years, and studying various divinatory systems for longer than that. Her blog, The Muse’s Darling (www.musesdarling.com), explores all kinds of divination for enlightenment and entertainment, and she has recently begun casting charms to add depth and immediacy to her readings. Karen is also a poet, which is all about translating universal beauty into individual experience. And after all, isn’t that what a good reading does?

• Create Your Own Compass: Casting Sheets For Fun and Divination Saturday, 11:00 AM ��������������������������������������������������������� San Carlos

Katrina Rasbold

Katrina Rasbold is a best-selling author of twenty-six books available on Amazon.com. She holds a Ph.D. in Religion and has taught workshops and classes throughout California for more than two decades. She and her husband, Eric Rasbold, are the co-founders of the CUSP (Climbing Up the Spiral Pathway) spiritual path, which is practiced worldwide. Her first book, “Energy Magic,” reached the #1 position the the Amazon Kindle Bookstore in the category of Paganism and remained there for five weeks. This book introduced the concept of “Bio-Universal Energy,” which extended into a series of eleven books. She is also the author of the very popular “Seven Sisters of Avalon” novel series.

• Reuniting the Two Selves Friday, 1:30 PM ���������������������������������������� San Martin/ San Simeon • Magical Ethics and Protection Saturday, 7:00 PM ���������������������������������������������������������� Boardroom

Kim Makoi, D.C., M.Sc.

Dr. Kim Makoi is a queer eclectic neo-pagan, hermeticist, Thelemite, metaphysician and San Francisco chiropractor in his 18th year of practice, specializing in the treatment of chronic stressrelated conditions. He is also a longtime Enneagram enthusiast, certified Dynamic Stick Stretching instructor and a homeschooler!

• The Enneagram for Thelemites Saturday, 9:00 AM ���������������������������������������������������������� Boardroom • Pole Stretching for Health Sunday, 9:00 AM ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Cedar

Kooch Daniels

My life in metaphysics started studying with NROOG in early 70’s. When I was 22, I began giving readings for $1. as a Ghirardelli Square street artist. I traveled to India to study palmistry and made my living by giving thousands of readings at different events and Renaissance Faires for twenty five years. My experiences have taught me how to teach you to become a palmist. Some of her publications: lead author-- Tarot D’Amour (Redwheel 2003); second author-- Matrix Mediations (Inner Traditions 2009); and Theater of Karma (Tarot Media Co. 2012) • How To See The Future In The Palm Sunday, 9:00 AM ������������������������������������������������������������������ San Juan

Kristoffer Hughes

Kristoffer Hughes is the founder and head of the Anglesey Druid Order in North Wales, UK. He is a writer and a frequent speaker and workshop leader throughout the United Kingdom and abroad.

He works professionally for Her Majesty’s Coroner. He has studied with the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids and is its 13th Mount Haemus Scholar. He is a native Welsh speaker, born to a Welsh family in the mountains of Snowdonia. He currently writes for Llewellyn Worldwide specializing in Celtic studies and also death and bereavement.

• The Mare-Headed Queen - The Celtic Horse Goddess Sunday, 9:00 AM ������������������������������������������������������������������� San Jose

Lady Mau

Mau is a scientist, gardener, amateur cook and kitchen witch.

With a spirit of experimentation and a passion for each of these paths, she seeks the point of alchemy in order to feed both body and soul. She is the High Priestess of the Fig Grove, based in Berkeley, CA, a coven within The Order of the Sacred Grove.

• Infused with Spirit: Creating Herbal Potions Friday, 9:00 PM �������������������������������������������������������������� Boardroom

Lasara Firefox Allen

Lasara Firefox Allen, MPNLP, is an internationally published, best-selling author, coach, educator, and activist. Her book Sexy Witch (Llewellyn, 2005) is published in four languages and distributed globally. She offers workshops on topics relating to relationships and intimacy, sexuality, parenting, media literacy as it relates to body-image and self-esteem, writing, and spirituality. Married to the love of her life, Robert Allen, and mother to two amazing young people, Lasara and her family live in the wilds of northern California.

• Toward a Culture of Consent Saturday, 3:30 PM ���������������������������������������������������������� Boardroom

Leif Adamson

As the owner/operator of The Absinthe Guy, a traveling bar tending service specialized in absinthe, I am committed to spreading knowledge and dispelling the myths and propaganda many still believe. I have dedicated myself to finding the truth behind the myths and legends of absinthe and finding the mystical connections. It is an honor and pleasure to share my passion with others.

• The Mystical Connection of the Green Fairy Sunday, 7:00 PM �������������������������������������������������������������� Santa Clara

Leni Hester

Leni Hester is a devotee of Ochun, a Priestess and Witch, who serves the Orisas and the Ancestors in Denver CO. A student of the occult, theatre arts and yoga since childhood, she holds a Gardnerian 3rd degree and can write about herself in the third person with reasonable detachment. She’s been co-creating ecstatic community ritual since the early 90s with the Lunatic Fringe. A frequent contributor to Sagewoman and Witches & Pagans magazines, her work also appears in the anthologies Women’s Voices in Magick, Pop Culture Grimoire, and Manifesting Prosperity, all from Immanion/Megalithica, as well as the devotional anthologies, Queen of the Great Below and Lady of Crossroads from Neos Alexandria.

• Ochun’s Golden Pentacle Friday, 7:00 PM ����������������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley

Lisa Spiral

Lisa Spiral is the author of Manifest Divinity through Immanion Press. She has been active in the Twin Cities Pagan Community for over 30 years. She has been a featured local guest at Sacred Harvest Festival. She is a member of Northern Dawn - CoG. She can be found at lisaspiral.com, followed on facebook at Lisa Spiral or reached via email at lisaspiral@gmail.com.

• Sitting Down or Sitting Out: Adapting Energy Work Sunday, 7:00 PM ��������������������������������������� San Martin/ San Simeon

Lise Dyckman

Lise considers herself a kitchen and garden witch with eclectic affiliation to several neopagan groups (most recently as an organizer for FFRASS and a NROOGD initiate). She obviously enjoys cooking and eating in both personal and scholarly ways (her MA thesis was on the history of apple butter making among the Pennsylvania Germans, and she has been head of a kingdom-wide cooks’ guild in the SCA). A librarian by trade, she teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies’ School of Consciousness and Transformation while also working in scholarly publishing.

• Kitchen Witches’ Alchemy part II: fermentation as a magical tool Saturday, 1:30 PM ����������������������������������������������������������������� Riesling

Lon Milo DuQuette

Lon Milo DuQuette is a best-selling author, lecturer, songwriter and folk artist. His books on Magick, Tarot, and the Western Mystery Traditions have been translated into 9 languages. He has three albums and currently working on his fourth. He travels the world sharing his love of Magick and Music. He is currently U.S. Deputy Grand Master of Ordo Templi Orientis and he is on the faculty of the Omega Institute in Reinbeck N.Y. and the Maybe Logic Academy. He lives in Costa Mesa, California with his wife Constance.

• Lon Milo DuQuette- Homemade Musical Magick Saturday, 9:00 PM ���������������������������������������������� Carmel/ Monterey

Lon Milo DuQuette

Lon Milo DuQuette is a singer-songwriter and best-selling author and lecturer. His books on Magick, Tarot, and the Western Mystery Traditions have been translated into 12 languages. He is currently U.S. Deputy Grand Master of Ordo Templi Orientis and he is on the faculty of the Omega Institute in Reinbeck NY, and the Maybe Logic Academy. He lives in Costa Mesa, California with his wife Constance. lonmilo@gmail.com • HOMEMADE MAGICK - Just do it yourself.

Sunday, 1:30 PM ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� Fir

Lora O’Brien

Lora O’Brien is an Irish woman with strong experience in Irish history, heritage, archaeology, mythology, & Irish Spirituality. You could call her Pagan, Witch, Druid, Priestess or Shaman, and you wouldn’t be wrong, although she doesn’t call herself anything but Bean Drao, a female user of magic. She is a guide, a teacher, and writes Irish heritage articles and books, incl. Irish Witchcraft from an Irish Witch & A Practical Guide to Irish Spirituality which combines her psychology studies with very accessible information & technique to provide a clear pathway for connection to Ireland • Working with the Irish Sidhe Saturday, 9:00 AM ���������������������������������������������� Carmel/ Monterey • Working with the Irish Goddess Morrigan Sunday, 3:30 PM ������������������������������������������������������������������� San Jose

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Lou Florez

Lou Florez is an internationally known speaker and lecturer of folk magic traditions of the South. He is a deeply rooted Spirit Worker, Priest, and Medium who has studied with indigenous elders and medicine holders from across the globe. Lou is graduate of Catherine Yronwode’s Hoodoo Rootwork Correspondence Course, and is a member of The Association of Independent Readers and Rootworkers, a gathering of professional practitioners of African American folk magic, hoodoo, conjure, and rootwork, who provide psychic readings and spiritual root doctoring services to the public. In 2008, Lou was confirmed as an Olorisha and Priest of Shango under Iyanifa Ifalade Ta’Shia Asanti of Ile Ori Ogbe Egun, and is a Tata Nkisi in the Bacongo Tradition. Lou also holds the title of High Priest through Neo-Egyptian Tradition in Dallas, and he has studied and apprenticed with Curanderos and Hoodoo Workers throughout the South.

• Queering Conjure: Working Roots of Liberation Saturday, 3:30 PM ������������������������������������������ San Juan/ San Carlos

Luis Minero

Luis Minero is the author of “Demystifying the Out-of-Body Experience.” He graduated in chemistry with honors and has been and instructor and researcher with IAC (International Academy of Consciousness) since 1996. Minero has over 25 years of personal experiences with paranormal phenomena, including out-of-body experiences (OBEs), and has been interviewed in many radio and TV programs throughout the world. He speaks fluently several languages and has taught thousands of individuals in many countries across Europe, Australia and the Americas how to develop their own OBEs. • Demystifying the Out-of-Body Experience (OBE) Friday, 3:30 PM ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Riesling

Luna Pantera

Luna Pantera is a Priestess and Witch whose path includes opening up the line of communications with the Ancestors to all who are willing and ready to listen. Luna’s personal work with her Ancestors has rekindled her magikal gifts and started healing of deep family wounds. She is the Founder of the Theater of the Ancestors; which is a theatrical company that uses ritual performance to awaken people’s Higher/God/Goddess Self. She has written several blogs regarding the importance of working with the Ancestors, and is a featured author in Crystal Blanton Anthology, Shades of Faith..

• The Rosary of Mary Magdalene Sunday, 7:00 PM ������������������������������������������������������������� Boardroom • Healing with the Ancestors Sunday, 9:00 PM �������������������������������������������������������������� Santa Clara

Lunar Lavender

Lunar is an eclectic pagan, pixie in a human body, kitchen and nature witch, consort of Lilith, genderqueer ladylover, and allaround woo-worker, playing a constant balancing act between the magical, the mundane, being fabulous, and chronic pain. (It’s not easy being sparkly and exhausted at the same time.) She runs a Tumblr and likes to pretend it’s useful, while hoping to create safe and inclusive spaces for disabled, differently-abled, and chronically ill witches and pagans.

• Witchcraft and Worship in a Wheelchair Saturday, 7:00 PM ���������������������������������������������������������������� San Jose

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Lupa

Lupa is a author, artist, ecotherapist, and amateur naturalist in Portland, OR. She is the author of several books on totemism and other nature-pagan topics, to include “Plant and Fungus Totems: Connecting With Spirits of Field, Forest and Garden” (Llewellyn, May 2014). She creates ritual costumes and other art from hides, bones, and natural and recycled items, and organizes Curious Gallery, an annual two-day arts festival in Portland celebrating cabinets of curiosity. All things Lupa may be found at http://www. thegreenwolf.com • Animal Skulls as Ritual Partners Sunday, 9:00 AM �������������������������������������������������������������� San Martin

Magenta Griffith

Magenta Griffith has been a Witch since the 1970’s. She is a founding member of the coven Prodea, which has been celebrating rituals together since 1980, and is a founding member of the Northern Dawn Council of Covenant of the Goddess. “The Prodea Cookbook, Good Food and Traditions from Paganistan’s Oldest Coven” was published in March 2014. Magenta writes for various publications, including Llewellyn annuals. She shares her home with a large collection of books and a small black cat.

• Food and Pagans Saturday, 9:00 AM ������������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley

Mahal {EthnoFusion Musik}

Mahal is a musical ensemble with up to 13 performers blending voices and sacred instruments from all over the world with modern instruments. Included in the instrumentation are powerful and beautiful vocals by Evelie who sings in 30+ languages; two-stringed lutes; bronze gongs; hand drums; bamboo percussion; jaw’s harps; flutes; didgeridoos; tabla; guitars; bass; and keyboard.

• Mahal EtnoFusyon in Concert!!!

Friday, 11:00 PM ������������������������������������������������� Carmel/ Monterey

Mambo Chita Tann

Mambo Chita Tann (Mambo T, Tamara L. Siuda) has been priestess asogwe in Haitian Vodou for 11 years. She is the head of Sosyete Fos Fe Yo We, with members in Haiti, the U.S., and other countries. Her book, “Haitian Vodou: An Introduction to Haiti’s Indigenous Spiritual Tradition,” was released in February 2012. Internet: tamarasiuda.com, legba.biz, imamou.org. Twitter: tamarasiuda. Facebook: chitatann (Mambo T Chita Tann).

• Vodou 101: Legba, The Barons, and The Gede Friday, 9:00 PM ��������������������������������������������������������������� Santa Clara • Danbala Sevis: Honoring the Serpent and the Rainbow Saturday, 11:00 PM ���������������������������������� San Martin/ San Simeon

Margo Wolfe

Margo Wolfe, PhD. is an educator and writer who has been working with teens and young adults in traditional and non-traditional educational settings for over 20 years. Additionally she coordinates and teaches the Teen CUUPS (Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans) group in Erie, PA, working with many amazing young people. Her forthcoming book is entitled, Turning the Wheel: Mentoring our Pagan youth, A curriculum guide for instructors of Pagan Teens. For more information about her work, visit www.walkingwithteens.com.

• Creating programs for earth-centered children & teens Saturday, 3:30 PM ���������������������������������������������������������������� San Jose

Mary Greer

Mary K. Greer specializes in using Tarot and Lenormand cards for guidance, personal insight and transformation. With 46 years experience in Tarot, she is the author of eleven books including Tarot for Your Self, Who Are You in the Tarot, and the biography, Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses.

• Fortune-telling with the Petit Lenormand Deck Saturday, 11:00 AM �������������������������������������������������������������������� Pine • Tarot Reading Circle Sunday, 3:30 PM �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Oak

Melanie Marquis

Melanie Marquis is the author of A Witch’s World of Magick (Llewellyn, Feb. 2014), The Witch’s Bag of Tricks (Llewellyn, 2011), and Bugbug and the Ants (Featherweight, 2012), a picture book for children. She’s the founder of United Witches global coven, the organizer of Denver Pagans, and a local coordinator for the Pagan Pride Project. Her work has appeared in many national and international Pagan publications including Pentacle Magazine, Circle, and Spellcraft. She’s also an artist, musician, and a tarot reader, and is always open to questions and conversation.

• Magick Wand and Rattle Crafting for Kids of All Ages Sunday, 11:00 AM ������������������������������������������������������������ San Carlos

Michael Mullen’s Trio Of One

Michael Mullen’s Trio Of One is a multi-faceted solo show: Looped jigs and reels and rocking acoustic folk that bring a uniquely Celtic twist to the term One Man Band. Using “live looping” for more impact as a solo musician, when performing as the Trio Michael is a musical hydra with many heads and arms. Whether performing exhilirating Scottish fiddle tunes, rambunctious Irish drinking songs, the odd classic rock cover that he performs in his own inimitable way, or memorable originals--Michael’s musicianship and energy drive the music forward like race horses being chased by a formula car.

• Michael Mullen’s Trio Of One Saturday, 9:00 PM ������������������������������������������������������������� Club Max • Visioning for our Culture-Gender, Many Genders, No Gender Sunday, 1:30 PM ������������������������������������������������������������� Boardroom

Mike Sententia

Mike has been teaching professionally for over two decades & practicing magick since 1991. His system, Direct Magick, focuses on the underlying principles of how thought and intent cause change in the world, especially in the areas of healing and manifesting. He is a popular author & blogger on the physics of magick, and writes on MagickOfThought.com. Beyond magick, he teaches erotic hypnosis in San Francisco and computer security worldwide.

• Hypnosis for Deeper Trance Monday, 9:00 AM ��������������������������������������������������������������� San Juan

Morpheus Ravenna & Rynn Fox

Both founding priests in the Coru Cathubodua Priesthood, Morpheus Ravenna and Rynn Fox share a dedication to the Morrigan and a vibrant practice of devotional Celtic polytheism. Morpheus is a spiritual worker, artist, and initiate of Anderson Feri.

She spearheads the Coru, with a forthcoming book on the Morrigan. She can be reached at bansheearts.com. Rynn is a longtime practitioner of Feri and Morningstar Mystery School. In addition to serving as communications officer for the Coru, she is also a

staff writer for Pagan and minority religion media outlet, The Wild Hunt (wildhunt.org) • Poetess and Prophetess: The Morrigan and Poetry Sunday, 11:00 AM �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Fir

Murtagh anDoile

Murtagh anDoile is an independent scholar; a Drui of the Tuatha De Danann (NECTW), an Irish Mystery Tradition; and the founder of Nemed na Morrigna (Morrigan’s Grove). He has been published in various Pagan magazines. Through talks given in the early 80s, at diverse festivals, he is one of the progenitors of the Celtic Reconstructionist movement. He was interviewed in “Keepers of the Flame: Interviews with Elders of Traditional Witchcraft in America.” He has studied Geomancy for 35 years and written an Etruscan Magical system. He is the Director of the Pagan History Project.

• Geomancy: of Origins and Oracles Sunday, 1:30 PM �������������������������������������������������������������������� Riesling • The Etruscan Gods: Harmony in Heaven and Earth Monday, 11:00 AM ���������������������������������������������������������������� Carmel

North Bay Reclaiming

Reclaiming is a community of people working to unify spirit and activism. Our vision is rooted in the religion and tradition of the Goddess. This is an ecstatic tradition and encourages participation from all community members. For more info see www.northbayreclaiming.org • Connecting to Allies - A Ritual Sunday, 11:00 AM �������������������������������������������������������������������� Cedar

Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn

The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn is a group of Pagans who have come together since 2001 to study the Mysteries of Hermetic Magick. Our goal is to normalize adeptship: to make the art of magick more prevalent in the world. We are located in the San Francisco Bay Area. Contact us at: cancellarius@osogd.org • Taking a Part in the Golden Dawn Neophyte Hall Saturday, 11:00 AM ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Fir

Order of the Black Madonna

The Order of the Black Madonna is a devotional society dedicated to Our Lady of Magic, the holy darkness which gives birth to all and receives all. Some call her Our Lady of Czestochowa, some call her Isis, some Sophia, some call her Caridad del Cobre, some Magdalene, some know her only as the Great Dark Rich Mother Earth. She is the silent, numinous holy sense that is found in moments of unselfconscious reverence. Learn more at orderoftheblackmadonna.com.

• Sacred Mass in Celebration of the Dark Mother Sunday, 1:30 PM �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Oak

Orion Foxwood

Orion Foxwood is an author, witch, conjure man and faery seer.

He wrote “The Faery Teachings” (RJS Books), “The Tree of Enchantment” & “The Candle & the Crossroads” (Weiser). Born with the second sight in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, he was exposed to faith-healing, root-doctoring and second-sight practices of southern/ Appalachian culture; and continues learning and teaching them. He founded the House of Brigh Faery Seership Institute; is co-founder of Conjure Crossroads; and, the Founder of Foxwood Temple, a coven dedicated to the witchcraft of his elders. His website is Orionfoxwood.com.

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• The Four Ways of Witchery Friday, 7:00 PM �������������������������������������������������������������� Cedar/ Pine • The Flame in the Cauldron: The Awakened Spirit of the Witch Sunday, 7:00 PM ������������������������������������������������������������� Cedar/ Pine • The Tree of Enchantment: The Vision Keys of Faery Seership Monday, 1:30 PM ��������������������������������������������������������������������������� Fir

Pagan Alliance

The Pagan Alliance is a non-profit corporation formed to educate our Communities and the general public, to promote acceptance of our faiths and traditions, to work for justice, and to connect our communities, celebrate our spiritual diversity. ‘Pagans in Captivity’ is a program of the Pagan Alliance operated by the Chaplaincy Program of the Druid House of Danu.

• Pagan Culture Confonts Our Prison Crisis Saturday, 1:30 PM ���������������������������������������������������������� Boardroom

Pagans in recovery - Serenity First Jack & Kevin

A 12 step program of recovery for all addictions. Specifically geared to those on the Pagan path of spirituality.

• Pagans in Recovery - Serenity First Friday, 11:00 PM �������������������������������������������������������������������� Riesling • Pagans in Recovery - Serenity First Saturday, 9:00 PM ����������������������������������������������������������������� Riesling • Pagans in Recovery - Serenity First Sunday, 9:00 PM �������������������������������������������������������������������� Riesling

Pandemonaeon

Pandemonaeon is a tribal rock band founded by internationally touring musicians Sharon Knight and Winter. Dark, sensual, and hard hitting, their music has been described as “Dark tribal fusion with powerful vocals and metal accents” and “Music for bellydancers in combat boots”. Pandemonaeon co-produces the magick, music, and dance festival Hexenfest. www.pandemonaeon.net • Pandemonaen Live Show Saturday, 9:00 PM ���������������������������������������������������������� Cedar/ Pine

Pandemos

Pandemos is a San Francisco Bay area collective of practitioners from diverse backgrounds, approaches and communities, united for the purpose of honoring the Hellenic gods and celebrating Hellenic culture.

• Dionysos Hestios, Host of the Revel -- Devotional Saturday, 9:00 PM ������������������������������������ San Martin/ San Simeon

Patheos Pagan Bloggers

Patheos.com brings together faith communities, academics, and the broader public into a single environment for stimulating discussion about religion. The Patheos Pagan Channel offers voices from a wide variety of Pagan traditions on topics including polytheism, queer spirituality, ecotheology, Contemporary Pagan history, and much much more.

• The Good, The Bad, & The Blogging Friday, 1:30 PM �������������������������������������������������� Carmel/ Monterey

Patricia Awen Fey O’Luanaigh and Lillie Falco-Adkins

Patricia Awen Fey O’Luanaigh, M.A., is a poet, Bard, Oracular and Underworld Priestess with the Seven Sisters Mystery School, Celtic shamanic practitioner, and PhD student in Women’s Spirituality at CIIS. She has two children - Dorian, in the Otherworld/s, and Dominique, in this one. Death, grief, dreams, divination,

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Faery, folklore, archetypal mythology/psychology, alchemy, and parapsychology are areas of focus. An intrepid explorer/navigator of the liminal, she believes that the reawakening of women’s visionary abilities and the transformative efficacy of their experiences will result in a new “Cartography of the Liminal” that will resonate throughout the multiverse. Lillie Falco-Adkins, M.A., has spent many years practicing diverse forms of spirituality and healing including Celtic, African, pagan, and varied indigenous traditions.

She holds a master’s degree in Women’s Spirituality and is currently a doctoral student at CIIS (California Institute of Integral Studies).

She is passionate about helping women heal from the soul-wounding of living in a patriarchal, fractured, and dis-embodied culture.

Explorations into the transpersonal worlds of the ancestors, faery, kontomble, and spirits through channeling and ritual are areas of interest. Lillie is also a certified sound healing practitioner and has training in women’s priestessing and spiritual leadership.

• Beyond the Gates of the Seer: Divining the Oracular in Community Monday, 11:00 AM ������������������������������������������������������������� San Juan

Phoenix LeFae

Phoenix LeFae is a Reclaiming initiated Priestess, hoodoo practitioner, Avalonian Druid initiate, and lifelong spiritual seeker. She leads monthly Goddess of the Month gatherings in the Bay Area. Phoenix is a published author and teaches paganism across the United States.

• Tradition vs. Innovation - A Panel Discussion Saturday, 1:30 PM ���������������������������������������������� Carmel/ Monterey

Puck

Born and raised in San Diego, CA, Puck is a Counselor and Educator working with At-Risk and Homeless Youth. As a magic worker, he is a trained psychic through the Berkeley Psychic Institute’s Golden Rose Academy,and a student in Orion Foxwood’s Faery Seership.

• Skeleton Key Magic Monday, 1:30 PM �������������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley

R J Stewart

R J Stewart is a Scottish author and composer now living in the USA and Britain. He is one of the leading writers and teachers of magical traditions, and author of 41 books on Magical Arts, Faery and UnderWorld tradition, Music and consciousness, Celtic tradition, and has recorded many CDs of original music and song.

• Sacred Kings and Priestess Queens Saturday, 9:00 AM ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Pine • Concert with R J Stewart and special guests Saturday, 7:00 PM ���������������������������������������������� Carmel/ Monterey

Reid Hart

Reid Hart teaches Celtic shamanism and shamanic access to the Western Mysteries. He has presented at the Fairy and Human Relations Congress. He has practiced shamanic healing for 21 years. His focus is connecting individuals with a direct experience of spirit, through ancestors, Runes, Seidr, Tarot Spirits, earth powers, Qabalah, and the Faery realms. He is a graduate of the Foundation for Shamanic Studies 3-year advanced shamanic training, Tom Cowan’s 2-year Celtic Shamanism program, and Hakomi psychotherapy training. He lives with his wife Alida Birch on a 5-acre nature preserve in Oregon with a sacred Grove, vineyard, and earth spiral.

• Celtic Shape Shifting Monday, 11:00 AM ����������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley

Rev Bill Duvendack

My name is Rev. Bill Duvendack. I am an ordained Independent Spiritualist Minister. I have been working with the Western Esoteric Tradition for 27 years, and have extensive knowledge and experience in that paradigm, as well as some familiarity with Eastern Traditions. I am also an internationally known professional esoteric astrologer, psychic, and published author. For more information, please consult my website at www.418ascendant.com.

• Five Pillars of Astrology Saturday, 9:00 AM ����������������������������������������������������������������� Riesling

Rev. Kirk S. Thomas

Rev. Thomas is currently the Archdruid of Ar nDraiocht Fein (ADF) and a senior priest in that church. He holds a Masters degree in Celtic Studies from the University of Wales, and in addition to theatre and ritual training, he has had extensive experience in ecstatic trance techniques from fasting to hook suspensions.

• Sacred Gifts: Religious Reciprocity Monday, 11:00 AM ���������������������������������������������������������� San Carlos

Rhyd Wildermuth & Alley Valkyrie

Alley Valkyrie is a writer, activist, and spirit-worker who has spent the past several years working with homeless and impoverished populations throughout Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Her work is focused on demystifying and humanizing the experiences of homelessness and poverty. She has been immersed in both radical politics and the Craft for over fifteen years, is an initiate in the Feri tradition, and is committed to fighting oppression as an act of service to the Gods. Alley writes regularly for The Wild Hunt, and is currently trying her hand at a memoir.

• Gods & Radicals: Anti-Capitalist Resistance & Pagan Practice Saturday, 11:00 AM �������������������������������������������������������������� Riesling

Richard Reidy

Richard Reidy received his Master of Divinity degree in 1979 and is the author of Eternal Egypt: Ancient Rituals for the Modern World (available thru amazon.com), the first comprehensive collection of key ritual texts performed throughout Egypt during the time of the pharaohs, complete with commentaries and background information on each ritual. For the past sixteen years he has moderated the Temple of Ra in San Francisco, and, since 2006 an Egyptian Reconstructionist temple in San Jose, CA, meeting monthly for ritual, study and fellowship. He can be reached by email at rjreidy@hotmail.com.

• Ancient Magic for the Modern World--A Kemetic View Sunday, 11:00 AM ��������������������������������������������������������������� San Juan

River Devora

River Devora is a multi-trad spirit worker, medium, and clergyperson. She has been actively involved with the Bay Area pagan communities since 1994, and has led classes and rituals locally and nationally. In 2013, she founded South Bay Heathen Shenanigans, a ritual and learning group for folks interested in pre-Christian Northern Europe. She initiated as a community priestess with Waxing Muse Coven in 1996, initiated to Ochun in 2011, and is oathed to Odin, Freyr, Loki, Juksakka, and the Morrigan. She lives with her living and non-living family in a quiet home with a bossy garden.

• The Furious Revels Friday, 5:00 PM ���������������������������������������������� San Juan/ San Carlos • Deep Roots and Strong Branches: Essentials of Polytheism Monday, 1:30 PM ������������������������������������������������������������������������ Pine

Robert Allen

Robert Allen is a writer, and workshop designer and facilitator.

Robert has facilitated workshops in the realms of relationships, the men’s movement, Tantra, and Bhakti yoga. His articles have been distributed widely on the internet. Robert walks the Path of the Beloved with his wife, Lasara Firefox Allen, and is raising two conscious, aware, inspiring youngsters in the idyllic rural lands of northern California. See more at www.contactrobertallen.com.

• Men, Integration, and The Initiatory Magick of Everyday Life Friday, 7:00 PM ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Riesling • Reiki I For Everybody Sunday, 3:30 PM ���������������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley

Robert Allen and Lasara Firefox Allen

Lasara Firefox Allen and Robert Allen are walking the path of the beloved together. As man and wife, best friends, partners, and parents, the devotional aspect of spiritual dedication manifests in their day to day life. Robert and Lasara live in northern California with their two amazing daughters. Robert and Lasara are teachers, leaders, and writers. They both offer coaching services, as a team or individually. Contact them for more info: www.lasarafirefoxallen. com and www.contactrobertallen.com.

• Conscious Open Relationships Friday, 3:30 PM ���������������������������������������� San Martin/ San Simeon

Ruth Barrett - Temple of Diana

Ruth Barrett is an ordained Dianic high priestess, ritualist, pioneering pagan musician and award- winning recording artist of original Goddess songs. Since 1980, Ruth has taught magical and ritual arts nationally, and co-facilitates a national priestess training program. She is co-founder of Temple of Diana, Inc. and is author of WOMEN’S RITES, WOMEN’S MYSTERIES: Intuitive Ritual Creation (Llewellyn, 2007). Her newest CD is Songs of the Otherworld. Contact information: Ruth Barrett www.dancingtreemusic. com • INTUITIVE PERSONAL RITUAL MAKING Friday, 3:30 PM ���������������������������������������������� San Juan/ San Carlos

Sabina Magliocco

Sabina Magliocco is Professor of Anthropology at California State University - Northridge. A priestess in the Gardnerian tradition who has also studied Reclaiming witchcraft, she has an eclectic coven in the Los Angeles area. sabina.magliocco@csun.edu • Animal Spirits in Pagan Religions II Saturday, 9:00 AM ����������������������������������������������������������� Santa Clara

Sacred Fires and Assembly of the Crossroads

Sacred Fires (The Living Temple of Diana) is a tradition of Dianic Goddess Consciousness open to all genders, and concentrated on helping pagans grow in relationship to the Goddess in all Her manifestations. Assembly of the Crossroads is an open pagan organization dedicated to education, community, and trance. For more information visit www.sacred-fires.com • The Rite of Humankind Sunday, 3:30 PM ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Cedar

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Sam Webster

Sam Webster, M. Div., PhD, Mage, has taught magick publicly since 1984. He is an Adept of the Golden Dawn, and an initiate of Wiccan, Druidic, Buddhist, Hindu and Masonic traditions, publisher at Concrescent Press, author of “Tantric Thelema”, and a columnist at The Wild Hunt. He founded the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn in 2001, the Pantheon Foundation in 2014, a Pagan religious non-profit service organization, and serves the Pagan community principally as a priest of Hermes. SamWebster11@gmail.com • Theurgy in Iamblichus, Agrippa, & the Golden Dawn Saturday, 1:30 PM ������������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley

San Francisco Pagan Parents and Families

We are a group of Pagan families in San Francisco. Our goal is to craft celebratory rituals that are designed specifically to be kid friendly, while being satisfying for the adults involved. We also hold non-ritual, nature-themed events, such as hikes and campouts for families. We aim to create a network of Pagan families in San Francisco and foster a sense of community. We welcome Pagans from all different traditions and are LGBTQA inclusive, Poly friendly and embrace all forms of consensual freakatude. http:// groups.yahoo.com/group/SFPaganParentsandFamilies • Pagan Family Meet & Greet Saturday, 9:00 AM ���������������������������������������������������������������� San Jose

Sarah Astarte

Sarah Astarte, Ph.D., has a doctorate in transpersonal psychology and is a psychology professor at Contra Costa College. She is also an interfaith chaplain, spiritual guide, shamanic healer, reiki practitioner, and priestess of the Goddess. She specializes in body image, sacred sexuality, empowerment, and death and dying. She is the author of “The Lover Within: Exploring Body Image in Adult Women and the Archetypes of the Lover.”

• Invoking the Lover Within: A Flirtation Workshop Friday, 11:00 PM ��������������������������������������������� San Juan/ San Carlos

Scott H. Rowe

Scott H. Rowe is a dedicant priest of the Morrigan, a spirit worker, a martial artist, and an initiate of a distinctly American witchcraft tradition. He is a regular columnist for Polytheist.com, a new site for polytheist ideas. He is a practitioner of multiple healing arts including Chinese Medicine, and is both teacher and student in most things in his life.

• Self-Defense for Women Sunday, 9:00 AM �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Pine

Seidhjaller

Seidhjallr, founded by Diana L. Paxson, author of /The Way of the Oracle/, is the oracular group associated with Hrafnar kindred.

We have served the Pagan community in Northern California since 1991. We also present smaller oracular rituals in Berkeley four times a year.

• Oracular Seidh Sunday, 3:30 PM ��������������������������������������������� San Juan/ San Carlos

Selena Fox

Selena Fox is a priestess, writer, psychotherapist, green cemetery director, interfaith minister & Pagan rights activist. Her writings on Celebrating the Seasons, Ancestors, Nature magic, Spiritual healing, Rites of Passage & other topics have been widely published. She travels internationally presenting workshops & rituals.

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She teaches Circle Craft via a weekly internet radio show. Selena is executive director of Circle Sanctuary (www.circlesanctuary.org) serving Pagans worldwide since 1974 & is founder of Pagan Spirit Gathering, a national/global Summer Solstice celebration.

• Cauldron Magic Friday, 7:00 PM ��������������������������������������������������������������������������� Oak • Pagan Death Passages Saturday, 11:00 AM ����������������������������������������������������������������� Cedar • Brigid Healing Ritual Sunday, 1:30 PM �������������������������������������������������������������������������� Pine

Sharon Knight

Internationally touring songstress Sharon Knight and her longtime collaborator Winter serve up Celtic-inspired folk tales that sound like they ran away with the Faeries at the turn of the century and took cover in an old trunk bound for the circus, which was then commandeered by pirates. Her Neofolk Romantique style combines a love of antiquity and romance with an affinity for the haunting and melancholy, adds a hearty dash of feistiness, and reminds us that we can all see the world through the eyes of enchantment.

• Sonic Alchemy: The Well of Song Monday, 11:00 AM ������������������������������������������������������������������ Cedar

Shauna Aura Knight

An artist, author, community builder, and activist, Shauna travels nationally offering workshops on the transformative arts of ritual, community leadership, and personal growth. She’s the author of The Leader Within, Ritual Facilitation, and Dreamwork for the Initiate’s Path. She’s also a fantasy artist and author of several urban fantasy and paranormal romance novels. Her mythic artwork and designs are used for magazine covers, book covers, and illustrations, as well as decorating many walls, shrines, and other spaces. www.ShaunaAuraKnight.com • Designing Intensive Rituals Friday, 7:00 PM �������������������������������������������������������������������� San Jose • Leadership: Boundaries, Communication, and Groups Sunday, 7:00 PM ��������������������������������������������� San Juan/ San Carlos

Shirl Sazynski

Shirl Sazynski was trained by the Gods and has been practicing the Norse shamanic arts of sei√∞ and utiseta for over a decade. A wife of Odin, oracle, icon painter and member of ADF, her work has appeared in Sacred Hoop, Idunna, Oak Leaves, Eternal Haunted Summer, and volumes from polytheistic press Bibliotheca Alexandrina. She recently taught a workshop on solitary seidh at Southwest Frithmoot and helps lead rites for Sandia Mountain Grove. Follow her column and blog for Witches and Pagans, “One-Eyed Cat” at: witchesandpagans.com/pagan-paths-blogs/one-eyed-cat.html.

• House Wights: Making a Spiritually Welcoming Home Friday, 1:30 PM ��������������������������������������������������������������� Santa Clara • Solitary Seidh & Utiseta Friday, 9:00 PM ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Riesling

Silence Maestas

Silence Maestas is an author and educator based in Salt Lake City, Utah. A pagan with a background in witchcraft, modern Heathenry, and bhakti yoga, Silence has maintained a devotion-oriented practice for nearly twenty years.

• A Thousand Ways: Exploring Devotional Rituals Sunday, 3:30 PM �������������������������������������������������������������������� Riesling

Soli Johnson

Soli has been actively involved in magical practices for 20 years and a polytheist for 15.

• Juggling the Gods: syncretism in theory and practice Sunday, 9:00 AM ������������������������������������������������������������� Boardroom

Spark Collective

Spark Collective is a magical community that meets monthly in Berkeley. Our circles bring people together to inspire personal transformation, foster community, and celebrate spirit. Our rituals are modeled on the diverse sacred fire circles that have sprung up around the country in the past 20 years. Come find a home in the Bay Area for your music, your dance, your poetry, your heartsong.

Start the journey at sparkcollective.org.

• Spark Collective Fire Circle Sunday, 11:00 PM ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Oak

Starhawk

Starhawk is the author of twelve books on Goddess religion, earth based spirituality and activism, including The Spiral Dance, The Fifth Sacred Thing, The Earth Path and The Last Wild Witch, and her latest, The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, on power and process for circles. She is one of the founders of Reclaiming. www.reclaiming.org. Starhawk also teaches workshops in earth-based and feminist spirituality and courses in permaculture and regenerative design. www.earthactivisttraining.org. She blogs at www.starhawksblog.org and her website is www.starhawk.org.

• Ritual and Story-telling Sunday, 1:30 PM ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Cedar • Working with Diverse Traditions Monday, 11:00 AM ������������������������������������������������������������������������ Fir

Stephanie Woodfield

Stephanie Woodfield has been a practicing Witch and Priestess of the Morrigan for over seventeen years. She is a Reiki practitioner as well as a natural clairvoyant and empathy. She is one of the founding members of Morrigu’s Daughters, an online sisterhood dedicated to the Morrigan, the Irish goddess of sovereignty and battle. She is the author of Celtic Lore and Spellcraft of the Dark Goddess: Invoking the Morrigan and Drawing Down the Sun: Rekindle the Magick of the Solar Goddesses. Her articles have appeared in SageWoman magazine and on the Witches Voice website.

• The Solar Feminine: Rekindle the lost side of the Goddess Monday, 1:30 PM ������������������������������������������� San Jose/ Santa Clara

Suzy Peltier AKA Lady Red Hawk

Suzy Peltier, aka Lady Red Hawk has served the Goddess and Wholism for nearly 30 years as a Third Degree Priestess, Reiki Master Teacher, Hypnotherapist, Psychic, Spiritual Coach, Internet Radio Host, founder of the 20 year-old Neo-Wiccan Tradition of Taoist Wicca and author of the forthcoming book: “Ancient Wisdom for Modern Needs: Seasonal Self-Coaching.” With a background in medical anthropology, Suzy pursued a burning question: “How is ritual used for healing?” Over twenty years ago she established a Wiccan Sabbat Circle. One lasted 7 years, and the other continues to expand internationally. www.suzypeltier.com • Priest/Priestess Chat: Building Circles and Community Friday, 7:00 PM �������������������������������������������������������������� Boardroom

Sylvia Brallier

Sylvia Brallier is an author of the award-winning book: Dancing in the Eye of Transformation, the founder of the ShamaSoma Method for Spiritual Healing, and the Tantric Shamanism Mystery School. She has been teaching tantric shamanism workshops nationally and internationally for over 20 years. Her work is based on her own experiences with both ancient and new techniques for the evolution of consciousness. She has a deep commitment to creating safe space for the deepest of transformations.

• Tantric Shamanism Breathwork Ceremony Saturday, 11:00 PM ��������������������������������������������������������������������� Oak

T. Thorn Coyle, Chandra Alexandre, Crystal Blanton, & Friends

Crystal Blanton, Elena Rose, Christopher Bradford, Chandra Alexandre, and Patricia St. Onge are a diverse panel representing Wicca, Palo Mayombe, 6 Nations/Mohawk traditions, Hermeticism, and Shakta Tantra. Moderated by T. Thorn Coyle.

• Honoring or Appropriation? What is the Difference?

Sunday, 3:30 PM ����������������������������������������������������������������������������� Fir

Taffy Dugan

Taffy Dugan enjoys creating rituals for children that incorporate Celtic mythology and traditional stories in ways that children understand, participate, and enjoy. She has been running South Bay Pagan Kids’ Circle for almost 2 years and is an Event Organizer for the Witches of Silicon Valley Meetup Group. She has 2 small children and is a member of Waxing Moon Circle • Childrens’ Ritual and Circle Saturday, 11:00 AM ������������������������������������������������������������� San Jose

Tamara L. Siuda

Tamara L. Siuda is the Nisut of the Kemetic Orthodox Religion (kemet.org). She is a professional Egyptologist (M.A. 2000 U Chicago; M.A. 2008 Macquarie; Ph.D in process, Claremont Graduate University) and author of numerous articles and books on Egypt.

Rev. Tamara appeared in the History Channel documentary “Egyptian Book of the Dead,” and Kickstartered an ancient Egyptian calendar project in 2013 (egyptiandaybook.com). @tamarasiuda on Twitter & Facebook.

• It’s About Time: Kemetic Festivals Sunday, 9:00 PM ������������������������������������������������������������������� San Jose

Taylor Ellwood

Taylor Ellwood lives in Portland, OR with his magical Partner Kat, and his cats Sun Ce and Ember. He is the author of Pop Culture Magick, Space/Time Magic, Inner Alchemy, and Multi-Media Magic. Taylor is also the managing non-fiction editor of Immanion Press, which specializes in esoteric Non-Fiction. To learn more about him visit http://www.magicalexperiments.com • Ritual Sonics: How to use Vocalization and Sound Saturday, 9:00 PM ������������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley • The Elemental Balancing Ritual Monday, 9:00 AM ������������������������������������������������������������ San Carlos

Tempest & Nathaniel Johnstone

Tempest & Nathaniel Johnstone are a dance-&-music duo from Seattle, WA. Tempest is a world-renown bellydance performer and instructor, focusing on sacred and darkly inspired fusions that pull from the traditions of North Africa, the Middle East, and the

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Mediterranean. Nathaniel is a multi-instrumentalist virtuoso (violin, viola, guitar, banjo, mandolin) whose music pulls from myth, fantasy, and folklore with a vibrant sound crosses boundaries & borders, resulting in a blend of multicultural folk rock. He has also performed with Abney Park, Paul Mercer, Ego Likeness, Jill Tracy & more.

• Merging Movement With Ritual Saturday, 11:00 AM ��������������������������������� San Martin/ San Simeon

who works for Social Justice, Reproductive Health, LGBTI Rights, and basic equality and fairness for all. Elena Rose is a writer, religion scholar, medic, and survivor. Athena Nikai is a Priestess with CAYA Coven.

• Turning The Wheel: Nurturing Young Leaders & Embracing Change Saturday, 1:30 PM ����������������������������������������������������������������������� Oak

Tess Whitehurst

Timotha is a lifelong torch bearer on Hekate’s path. With a background in Thelema, she is also a Vajrayana practitioner and Chodpa. She is a poet, and she is queer. Kristen is a senior priestess in the Chthonian Craft Tradition, and has begun training with Patrick McCollum in the Sacred Path Tradition. She studies Public Policy and Religion at Mills College and is President of Mills Pagan Alliance.

• Hekate: Witness and Ally Friday, 9:00 PM ��������������������������������������������������������������������������� Oak

Tess Whitehurst has been a pagan for nineteen years and a professional feng shui consultant for ten. She is the author of a number of books, including Magical Housekeeping, The Good Energy Book, Magical Fashionista, The Art of Bliss, and The (award-winning) Magic of Flowers. Her articles have appeared in Circle magazine and Witches and Pagans, and she’s a regular contributor to Llewellyn’s annuals. She’s also appeared on the Bravo TV show Flipping Out. Learn more about her at www.tesswhitehurst.com.

• Feng Shui for Pagans: Magical Housekeeping Monday, 1:30 PM ������������������������������������������������������������� San Carlos

Thalassa

Thalassa has been working with the Tarot, divination and the arts magickal for over 45 years. She is the producer of the San Francisco Bay Area Tarot Symposium (SF BATS), founder of Daughters of Divination, and publisher of The Flying Squirrel. She speaks widely on Tarot and Divination at events across the country. She is also active in historical recreation and theatre. Visit www.dodivination.com for more info and divinatory hijinks. She is currently working on a book (on Tarot, of all things).

• What You Need More Than A Tarot Deck Sunday, 1:30 PM ������������������������������������������������� Carmel/ Monterey

The Nathaniel Johnstone Band

The Nathaniel Johnstone Band hails from Seattle, WA, lead by multi-instrumentalist Nathaniel Johnstone (violin, viola, banjo, mandolin, and guitar). Their vibrant sound crosses boundaries and borders, resulting in a blend of European, Middle Eastern, and South American music with Jazz, Rock, Surf, Folk, Gothic, and Steampunk influences.

• The Nathaniel Johnstone Band in Concert Sunday, 9:00 PM ������������������������������������������������������������� Cedar/ Pine

The Temple of Aphrodite

The Temple of Aphrodite gathers monthly at the Full Moon at the Sacred Well in Oakland to serve the Goddess of Love. Members are a mixture of traditions and practices, but we join together to call blessings of beauty, joy, abundance, and passion into all our lives. www.templeofaphroditeoakland.com/ • Salon d’Aphrodite Saturday, 11:00 PM ����������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley

Thorn, Jason, David, Courtney, Shauna, Luna, Elena, Athena

T. Thorn Coyle is a magic worker and author of Make Magic of Your Life: Purpose, Passion, and the Power of Desire. Jason Pitzl-Waters is editor emeritus of The Wild Hunt. David Salisbury is a queer, vegan, Witch experiencing life in our nation’s capital.

Courtney Weber is a Wiccan Priestess, writer, and Tarot Adviser.

Shauna Aura Knight is an artist, writer, event planner and community builder. Luna Pantera is a practicing Witch in the Bay area

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Tom Swiss

Tom Swiss describes his spiritual path as “Zen Pagan Taoist Atheist Discordian”, which usually baffles questioners enough to leave him alone. He is the author of “Why Buddha Touched the Earth” (Megalithica Books, 2013) and writes a monthly column, “The Zen Pagan”, for the Patheos Pagan Channel. He has previously served as President of the Free Spirit Alliance. Since the turn of the century Tom has built a reputation as a lecturer on subjects spanning the gamut from acupressure to Zen and from self-defense to sexuality.

Find out more about his wacky adventures at www.infamous.net • Feeling Good with Acupressure and Shiatsu Sunday, 1:30 PM ���������������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley

Tommie StarChild

Tommie StarChild, a spirit worker, witch, and Feri initiate. He was born with faerie companions (Simms), gifted with spirit sight, and comes from a family of conjure workers. StarChild is also a teacher, presenter, published writer/artist, owner of My Authentic Self, founder of Sacred Moon, Sacred Self Temple of the Old Ways; and sits on the Board of the Zuni Mountain Sanctuary. He has over 22 years experience as a witch, over 10 years as a Feri initiate, professional spirit worker for the past 7 years, and currently studying Faery Seership with Orion Foxwood and the House of Brigh.

• The Warrior and the Healer Friday, 1:30 PM �������������������������������������������������������������� Boardroom

Tony Mierzwicki

Tony Mierzwicki is the author of “Graeco-Egyptian Magick: Everyday Empowerment” and a primer available in December 2014 reconstructing Classical Greek religion, “Hellenismos: Practicing Greek Polytheism Today”. He has contributed to various anthologies and magazines. He has presented workshops recreating ancient magickal practices in the United States and the east coast of Australia since 2001, drawing on his practice of ceremonial magick which he began in 1990. Tony completed three degrees at the University of Sydney - MA, BE and BSc. • Divination in the Ancient World Sunday, 11:00 AM ���������������������������������������������������������������� San Jose

True Thomas the Storyteller

A traditional storyteller for over 25 years, True Thomas has been a featured performer and workshop leader throughout S. Califor-

nia. He is well known as the go to person on Celtic Folklore, and has been featured at a variety of Scandinavian festivals, and many other events. He has taught storytelling to Disney Animators, and has been featured on NPR, and at the Getty Museum and the Armand Hammer museum.

• Performing for kids, Storytelling, Singing and more Sunday, 1:30 PM �������������������������������������������������������������� Santa Clara

Turning Earth Singers

The Turning Earth Singers are a Bay-Area-based ensemble that sings for rituals and other pagan events. We have taught workshops at PantheaCon for several years and have sung at venues including the Spiral Dance, the SF Free Folk Festival, farmers’ markets, and private homes. Our members - Corby Lawton, Mariah Sparks, Max Ventura, Meg Yardley, Robin Dolan, & Vicki Solomon - come from a variety of magical and musical backgrounds, and several members have performed on various Pagan musical recordings. In 2014 we released “Offerings,” a recording of our original songs and chants.

• Music for Life Cycles and Rites of Passage Friday, 1:30 PM ��������������������������������������������������������������������������� Pine • Pagan Kids’ Song and Story Time Sunday, 9:00 AM �������������������������������������������������������������� Santa Clara

Valerie Voigt

Valerie Voigt has been active as a Pagan priestess and networker for over 35 years. She studied with family tradition Witch “Grandma Julie” Tower, was initiated into the Feri Tradition in the late 80’s, and is a third degree Gardnerian. She coordinated the Pagan/Occult/Witchcraft Special Interest Group of Mensa for 13 years and has practiced as a village Witch for some decades. She is High Priestess of the Temple of Inanna and Dumuzi in Santa Clara, and also of a Wiccan coven in the South Bay. She runs Palo Alto Area Pagan Meetup group in Palo Alto. Witchvox profile: http://snipurl.com/si1ec • Bardic Circle Friday, 11:00 PM ���������������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley • Village Witchery 201 Sunday, 11:00 AM ������������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley • Village Witchery 202 Monday, 11:00 AM ��������������������������������������������������������� San Martin

Victoria Slind-Flor

Victoria Slind-Flor is a Dianic crone who lives, works and makes art in Oakland. In her mundane life she is journalist specializing in intellectual property law. She is a founding member of the Coven of the Sacred Feminine, a group committed to the empowerment of women and the celebration of the work of women’s hands. She’s taught many art-related workshops at Pantheacon over the years, and has also been a presenter for Gaia’s Womb in Illinois and the Minnesota Sacred Harvest Festival. She works in textiles, and ceramics, and the workshops she offers contain an element of handson craft.

• Celebrating our grandmas as our first goddesses Sunday, 11:00 AM ����������������������������������������������������������� San Martin

Warding and Ritual Safety Panelists

Branwen is a High Priestess in the Bloodroot Honey Priestess Tribe and has been facilitating and leading public rituals with CAYA Coven since 2008. Maia DeBono has been warding rituals since the mid-80’s and has seen most of what can go wrong in more

than ten traditions. River Devora is a Gydhja, Seidkona, healer, and Sentera. Shauna Aura Knight is the author of The Leader Within, Ritual Facilitation, and other works. Panel moderator Ted Infinity runs raucous Discordian rituals that get cleaned up and finished on time. Facilitators Hannah Storyteller and Foxfire Kells have Seen Some Things.

• Warding and Ritual Safety Saturday, 3:30 PM ������������������������������������������������������� Silicon Valley

Witches’ Order of the Golden Dawn

The W.O.G.D. was founded on the belief that magick can be worked by anyone with an open heart and honest intent. Rather than adhering to a stringent grade structure, we allow anyone access to any ritual at any time. All of our rituals have been redacted from primary sources (the Cypher Manuscript and Israel Regardie’s “Black Brick”), updating those rituals to reflect our personal principles of “radical inclusion.”

• Enochian Chess of the Golden Dawn Monday, 11:00 AM ������������������������������������������������������������ Monterey

Woven Circle

The Woven Circle is a cadre of Pagan craft teachers from various traditions. We feel strongly about keeping both traditional crafts and the creative process alive in our modern world. Our talents include beadwork, fiber arts, wheat weaving, straw, book and paper arts.

• Creating a Tarot Pocket Book Saturday, 9:00 AM ������������������������������������������������������������ San Carlos • Introduction to Wheat Weaving Saturday, 1:30 PM ������������������������������������������ San Juan/ San Carlos • Intermediate Wheat Weaving Sunday, 9:00 AM ��������������������������������������������������������������� San Carlos

Xochiquetzal Duti

Strict Catholic upbringing was a pathway to polytheism with a draw towards sacred sexuality and ecstatic practices. Having been raised from a tender age to focus and work on social justices issues, Xochiquetzal has not looked back at finding ways to mix the two together. The long list of adjectives: genderqueer, Priest/ess, kinky, polyamorous, homesteader, and wife coupled with the vast array of intersections embodied make Xochiquetzal an open book willing to talk with anyone about these and many other topics. Feel free to reach out!

• Pagans of Color Caucus Sunday, 9:00 PM ������������������������������������������������������������� Boardroom

Yasmin Henkesh

Yasmin Henkesh is a world-renowned belly dancer with forty years of performance and teaching experience, from Washington DC and New York, to London, Paris and Cairo. While living in Egypt she obtained a Masters degree in Arabic (AUCairo) and researched Egyptian sacred dance. In 2001 The Washington Post named her the areas most sought after Egyptian dance teacher.

Through her music label, Sands of Time Music, she released Zar Trance Dancing for Women, a compilation of authentic Egyptian trance music. Llewellyn will release her first book, Trance Dancing with the Jinn,in late 2015.

• Trance Dancing with the Jinn Saturday, 3:30 PM ������������������������������������ San Martin/ San Simeon

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August 15-16, 2015

The Doubletree Hotel â&#x20AC;˘ San Jose, CA PRODUCED BY THALASSA AND THE DAUGHTERS OF DIVINATION

Two Days of Tarot-Drenched Fun and Frolic Workshops, presentations, readings in the Pagan Science Reading Room, fabulous schmoozery, legendary shopping in the Tarot Bazaar, and the Saturday Night Bats in the Belfry Magickal Mystickal Myxer!

A UNIQUE EVENT NOT TO BE MISSED!

Visit www.dodivination.com for speakers, special events, and so much more, including special hotel and pre-registration rates.

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Welcome to Vendor Land!

A Convention membership is not required to visit the Vendor Room. All are welcome to explore this exciting and vibrant marketplace.

The artisans and vendors selected by PantheaCon have been carefully selected, and offer a splendid and varied array of wares reflecting the color and creativity of our Community. Clothing, books, jewelry, art, ritual tools, and so much more are offered by an assortment of Pagan and Pagan-friendly vendors from all over the West Coast and beyond. Each year the mix is a little different, blending the familiar and well-loved with the fresh and new.

A map of the Vendor Room is also posted in several locations, including inside the main entrance to the Room. The Vendor Room Staff (located at the Vendor Coordinator table, just inside the main entrance to Vendor Room) will be happy to assist with questions.

Vendor Room hours:

Friday: 1:30 (approximately)–6:00 Saturday & Sunday: 10:00–6:30 Monday: 10:00–2:00

Vendors in the area outside of the Ballroom (listed as “Bayshore Foyer”) may have different hours.

PLEASE NOTE THAT VENDING BY PERSONS NOT SPECIFICALLY AUTHORIZED BY PANTHEACON, AND VENDING IN AREAS NOT AUTHORIZED BY PANTHEACON, IS NOT PERMITTED. YOUR COOPERATION IS APPRECIATED. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SERVICE DOGS, WE ASK THAT NO ANIMALS BE BROUGHT INTO THE VENDOR ROOM!

entrance to the room, immediately to your right as you enter) noting readers and their time availability. Be aware that compensation must be negotiated directly with the readers.

We ask that this exchange of service and energy be conducted respectfully

Booksigning by PantheaCon Presenters

There are Convention Book signing Tables located at the Ancient Ways table (the first vending area on your right as you enter the Ballroom) and in the Bayshore Foyer across from the entrance to the Ballroom.

A schedule of presenters signed up to do book signing is available at the Vendor Coordinator table.

You may also find some of the presenters’ books and CDs for sale at the Ancient Ways booth.

Readings with PantheaCon Presenters

Several of the PantheaCon presenters will be available for readings in the Bayshore Foyer. There will be sign up sheets at the Vendor Coordination table (just inside the main

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VENDORS 2015  Air & Fire Candles, soaps, oils, ritual tools www.airandfire.com 831-338-7567  Amber Moon Amber, jet & ivory art & jewelry, coats & hats www.ambereva.com  Ancient Ways Books, magical tools & decorative items www.ancientways.com 510-653-3244  Ardantane Pagan Learning Center Emblems, buttons, books, information www.ardantane.org  Awddog Studios Ceramics, prints, stationery 916-514-1731  Azalyne Chrysalis Design Masks, leather clothing and accoutrements www.astralchrysalis.com  Beegirlmetal Handcrafted occult jewelry www.etsy.com/shop/beegirlmetal 206-306-6489

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 Margaret Mannatt Fine Books Books, collectibles, hats, masks mmannatt@yahoo.com 619-283-3062  MehiaArts Henna, facepainting, caricatures www.mejiaarts.com  Myth & Magic/Wren’s Runes Runes, altar pieces, magical tools www.wildnaturethemejewelry.com  Mythic Images/Devera Publishinh Statuary, books, jewelry, artifacts www.mythicimages.com www.deverapublishing.com  Nicholas Lionberger Handblown glass, drinking vessels n_lionberger@yahoo.com  Practical Rabbit Handmade adult & children’s clothing, felt gnomes & toys www.practicalrabbit.com  Rare Earth Designs Ritual tools and trinkets, altars, wands www.rareearthdesigns.net  Serpent’s Kiss Ritual supplies & tools. Jewelry www.serpents-kiss.com 831-423-5477  Sew Magical Cloth art, quilts, fabric goods, dred heads devilanphere@gmail.com  Sign of the Hawk Leatherwork and masks signofthehawk@gmail.com 541-5474418  Spirit of the Goddess Crowns, adronments, staffs www.etsy.com/shop/SpiritoftheGoddess rosieechelmeier@comcast.net  Steven Overstreet Celebrational clothing, robes www.thestevenoverstreet.com 831-840-0825  Stone Circle Studio Crstals, gemstones, talismans www.stonecirclestudio.com  The Amber Wolf Woodburned art, drums,dangly bits, hair ornaments, &c http://theamberwolf.com 209-601-3085  The Book Roadie Blank books www.thebookroadie.com

 The Everday Goddess Clothing and accessories aracina@sonic.net  The Mystic Dream Talking boards, lamps, oils, crystals www.themysticdream.com  The Sacred Well Crystals, jewelry, talking boards, ritual tools www.sacredwell.com  Tombo Studio Gothic & Pagan jewelry, accessories, Feri tradition materials www.tombostudio.com  Washburn - Celtic on Cloth - Woodcuts Altar cloths, ritual tools loren@cabrillo.edu  Willowroot Wands Wands, jewelry, statuary, crystals www.willowrootwands.com on Facebook as Willowroot Wands  Wolfsisters Creations Art, prints, shirts http://windwolf.com  Xylographilia, LLC Woodcut prints, art, booksm t-shirts www.xylographilia.com

“Essential reading...”*

VENDORS IN THE BAYSHORE FOYER  Celtica (Bayshiore Silver and gold jewelry peter.celtica@gmail.com

• Deluxe, large-format • Soft or hard cover • Over 180 pages •M ore than 250 photos, over half in COLOR!

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From ancient rite to modern profession. In this revealing autobiography, Jim Ward, considered by many to be the father of the modern piercing industry, tells the engaging and candid story of discovering his own fascination with body piercing, his founding of Gauntlet, the first body piercing studio, and how he transformed a personal fetish and closeted, amateur pursuit into a respected profession and spearheaded a worldwide, social phenomenon.

Available at the Just Rewards table in the vendor room, the website, www.runningthegauntlet-book.com, and other fine outlets. *”Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how modern body piercing arrived at the place it currently occupies.”

James Weber, Past President Association of Professional Piercers

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