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.

I discovered tarot before I discovered witchcraft or Paganism, but it is absolutely the tool that led me to this eclectic path I’ve been following for twenty years. The cards can lead anyone willing to listen down the best spiritual path for them. It is an endless friend who will hold our hand through all of our spiritual quandaries and lead us to right where we need to be. This presentation will discuss the tarot’s place in modern day Paganism and teach several tarot techniques so that attendees (at all levels of tarot knowledge) will walk away knowing where the tarot is guiding their spirit.

The Wheel of Fortune card from the tarot is often called, “the wheel of becoming.” This card often forces us to face the existential dilemma: do we control our own fate? Is humanity truly bound to the wheel of life that is seemingly turned by the gods? Unlock deeper questions for yourself in this lively, fun and exploratory talk. Discover what manifestation has to do with tarot. How can tarot facilitate a deeper sense of acceptance, grace and power in our lives? Learn about Jupiter’s influence in the Wheel of Fortune, experience a brief guided visualization to deepen your relationship with the tarot, and learn a powerful tarot spread for guiding your future. Bring a deck of tarot cards and a journal! Chanda will have a few extra decks in tow as back-ups.

In this 90 minutes , we will explore ourselves as the Tarot - both elemental beings and Divine to our very core. Once we define our very being as a human spirit with Tarot insights, we will make contact with our Destiny Self. This much older version of yourself has completely manifested this life’s destiny from your present moment to the time that remains of this time on the planet. There is much to learn from that part of you who has fulfilled the incarnation with ease and success. Bring your cards and some paper and crayons for doodling.

Join award winning Tarot designer and author of The Celtic Tarot, Yuletide Tarot and The Bee Tarot - Kristoffer Hughes - on a journey into the branches of the Tree of Life. Discover how the mysteries of the Kabbalistic Tree can enhance and heighten your experience and understanding of the Tarot. Often perceived as complicated and sometimes bewildering, the Tree of Life is essentially a map of Tarot, that once understood will elevate your readings to new heights of insight and clarity.