Paganicon 2025

This workshop offers participants a unique opportunity to explore the healing potential of tarot as a tool for reflection, emotional insight, and growth. Led by a licensed clinical psychologist and trauma specialist, participants will learn how to use tarot to support trauma recovery in a safe and structured environment. Tarot cards serve as powerful symbols for processing emotions, gaining personal insight, and fostering self-healing. The workshop will introduce specific tarot spreads that are carefully designed to address themes of trauma recovery, emotional awareness, and personal empowerment. Participants will gain practical tools for using tarot in a therapeutic way, without the need for prior experience or sharing personal trauma. To ensure an optimal learning space for everyone, the workshop is structured to be informative and experiential, rather than a venue for processing or discussing individual trauma narratives. The focus will remain on the reflective power of tarot, promoting emotional insight and healing while maintaining a supportive and balanced atmosphere. This trauma-informed approach to tarot is designed to empower individuals to use the cards as a means of personal growth. Through this hands-on learning experience, participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how tarot can be integrated into a self-healing practice, offering insight and clarity for their journey toward recovery.

“The dreaming body is that part of ourselves that is wild and uncontrollable, but houses our totality, or the rest of it, as well as our animal natures, knowledge without reason, seeing without sight - it is the part of us denied a place at the table since birth.” ~ Gary Mills Lorrie Adams will present an overview of the dreaming practices of the Maker shamanic tradition. Learn how Makers understand dreaming as an energy that one can learn to access and control. This will not be a discussion about how to have precognitive dreams, do dream interpretation or attain lucidity in dreaming. The focus of Maker dreaming practices goes deeper than these practices, although it could include them. The intent for Makers in dreaming is to ultimately move beyond the complex imagery of our dreaming minds and into the energy of dreaming itself. We will discuss how Makers seek to tear through the fabric of dreaming, which is made up of ones own reason, or rather the energy of our reason, in order to access what's behind that dreaming fabric.

Learn how to identify common Minnesota trees in all seasons! We’ll learn many different characteristics that can help you tell trees apart, even if they don’t have leaves. If it’s nice out, we’ll go outside and practice on trees around the hotel at the end. This session will build upon the one I did a few years ago, and will include more resources for “fir-ther” learning. Open to all paths and practices.

As each one of us navigates our 40s, we will be faced with some once-in-a-lifetime astrological transits. These transits are opportunities to up your game to move past the unconscious pieces that can slow you down, hold you stationary or even create regression. While astrology is a language of its own, Amiee will break it down into bite-sized pieces. She will help you explore what is collectively known as the mid-life crisis and show you how it is simply a cosmic upgrade when we can meet it with an open heart and a questing mind.