Paganicon 2025

In this programming session, we will contact the Archangels to create a sacred space for shamanic self-healing. We will ground ourselves in history, then jump right into shamanic practice! A shamanic journey will take you to a sacred space for deep self-healing. In any spiritual path we practice, our self-healing supports and enhances our work. The approach will be one of unconditional love for yourself. You will learn to call upon the Archangels when you need quick answers and assistance in your daily life, to build an angelic altar, and to contact the angels to guide and support you in a powerful and heart-centered path. Holly Holloway is a mother, intuitive, poet, and shamanic practitioner in the Maker tradition. Visit her at www.hollyholloway.com . Holly has a special love for nature, healing, and the angels. When she is not working with energy, she is a lawyer and a public speaker, writing her first book about uncovering her wild and wonderful spiritual path in the heart of the corporate world.

Weather magic is often considered to be either a way to bring rain or as a way to protect from severe weather. There is so much more that can be done! Weather is a powerful magical ally that is accessible to everyone. Understanding the science of weather can open doors of possibility. Using the energy in weather can enrich any magical practice.

The Elder Futhark create a beautiful system of divination, though finding good information about them can be difficult - especially for queer, progressive, modern heathens and witches. Norse mythology includes an incredible diversity of gender and sexual expression, but this has been largely excluded from books published on contemporary heathenry or runic divination. Even worse, the runes have been wrongfully co-opted by white supremacists and heathens have to actively fight against this stereotype of the rune reader. In recent years, rune readers have been reclaiming the feminine side of the runes, bringing nuance to the craft. In this talk, Siri will explore the queer qualities of the runes through understanding pre-Christian Nordic gender concepts, translating that through a simulation and simulacra, and carving from this root culture a modern future-facing divination system.

Common among practitioners of Traditional Witchcraft are three rituals: the compass round, treading the mill, and the housel. But what are these rituals and where do they come from? In this presentation, we will explore the historical development of these rites, their functions, and how they are performed.