Paganicon 2025

Come join in creating the passageway to the spirit world found in Newgrange, Ireland. Experience when the light shines in on the winter solstice and highlights the triple spiral on the wall. We will co-create a ritual together, feeling the bond between human and nature. Visit the Oracle inside the chamber. What wisdom does the Oracle have for you? Stir up energy for your spiritual renewal with a spiral dance.

The descent of Inanna is a Sumerian myth generally thought of as an allegory to explain the turning of the wheel from summer to winter and back again. Yet I have found it to be a powerful metaphor for the process of addiction and recovery. In this programming session we will explore the myth and how it relates to addiction and the difficult process of recovery. For those who wish to participate, we will have a guided meditation of Inanna's and our, or our loved ones' descent into the underworld of addiction and reemergence into the world of recovery.

This session is designed for those who have ever felt too much or not enough to truly belong. Through our time together, we’ll explore what makes you feel like you don’t belong and simple practices you can do to help you recognize that you belong. Through the first guided meditation, you will explore anchors that reflect a deep sense of belonging, guiding you on a path of your ennate wholeness. The second guided meditation offers space to explore and uproot the root causes of not belonging, allowing you to reconnect with ever-unfolding layers of your true self and find your way home

Kispum is a ritual of relationships with the dead that began in Sumerian/Akkadian (2500 BCE) culture and continues today. The workshop explores practices and one-part rituals for the Pagan and occult communities to maintain connections with departed loved ones and honor ancestors. I incorporate the Continuing Bonds Theory as a modern (1970s) alternative to the Western Detachment Theory of "letting go" of the dead. This perspective embraces the idea of ongoing relationships beyond death, focusing on rituals, commemorations, and sacred practices that sustain these connections. My modern take emphasizes the significance of these enduring ties, providing insight into how such traditions and rituals within Pagan spirituality foster a sense of continuity and reverence for the deceased within the living world. It is a living practice with prayers that have ancient roots but are designed for seekers in modern times. The session includes an optional pouring water ritual, to which attendees are welcome to participate. Come with the names of beloved dead. The ritual will be explained.

Come and join us in honoring Brigid the three fold Goddess. In this ritual we will sing to her, we will journey with her, we will make pledges at her altar. Goddess of the forge, of the healing well, of the sacred songs, we honor you.

Step into the heart of darkness and lurch through the passages….only this time, it is not to slay Medusa. No, it will be to commune with Her; to encounter the power of untamed beauty, ancient rage, and transformation. Medusa, the once-beautiful maiden cursed by the gods, now stands as a symbol of defiance, shadow, and deep feminine power. Not just for women….for anyone who dares to embrace the chaos & allure to confront themselves in the eyes of the serpent-headed Goddess. This Medusa Ritual may not be for the faint of heart. It is a powerful and immersive confrontation with the shadows within—the suppressed rage, the buried pain, and the desires that lie coiled beneath the surface. We will proceed through a series of ritual invocations, offering, a dark meditation, and the summoning of the Medusian menagerie. Medusa embodies the raw, unchecked force of the feminine current - beautiful, terrifying, and misunderstood. She is not a monster, yet she is a Queen of monsters. Medusa’s darkness can offer you a passage to transformation, where your sorrows and rage can become sources of great wisdom and strength! For the ritual, you may bring small stones or crystals of colors: white, black, pink, grey. They will be charged for you during the ritual.

The Horned One is the keeper of the wild spaces, the soul of nature, and a source of connection to the natural world. He is also joy; urging us to drink deeply from the cup of life, and to live a life free of guilt and shame simply for being our carnal selves. As the Dread Lord of Shadows the Horned God is a part of this world and the next, offering us a way to connect with our beloved dead and promising that all who die shall be born again. Experience his mysteries and feel the full power of the Horned One.