Paganicon 2025

The ancient Greeks frequently called upon the Muses for inspiration and favor. Yet while we are familiar with the concept of the Muse, many don't know the depth and breadth of magickal and mundane assistance these nine sisters can provide. This workshop brings these goddesses to life and explores the gifts each Muse has to offer. These gifts include but are not limited to: *Assistance with creative efforts *Astrology *Water magick *Love magick *Protection tools *Divination guidance This workshop includes a powerful guided meditation to meet the Muses.

Join me for an engaging and informative session designed specifically for aspiring handmade business owners. This presentation will guide you through the essential legal considerations necessary to launch and sustain a successful handmade business. As a lawyer and entrepreneur, I will provide practical insights and actionable advice on choosing the right business structure, protecting your intellectual property, and ensuring compliance with relevant laws. This session is tailored to the unique needs of Minnesota residents, but the principles discussed are universally applicable. Attendees will leave equipped with the knowledge and resources to confidently navigate the legal landscape of their business ventures.

This is part workshop, part roundtable discussion. Join a Pagan leader who, after 30 years, emerged from the broom closet in 2017. Together, we’ll work through the nuances of staying in and out of the broom closet, one foot in or entirely in. We’ll explore what it means to live an authentic Pagan life while being part of the larger secular community and in business. What will this mean when discussing it with your family, friends, and others? We'll also touch on your Title VII rights in the workplace. Please come with questions and prepare for an interactive discussion of living your authentic Pagan life.

Queer people undergo many unique rites of passage in our journeys to become our authentic selves, from coming out to taking our first dose of hormones to celebrating chosen family. How can we honor these important milestones with a magickal ritual in a way that’s personal, profound, powerful, and affirming? In this workshop, we’ll look at techniques and ideas for potent rite of passage rituals for a wide variety of queer magickal practitioners, and end with a guided meditation for participants to find more ideas to craft their own rituals.

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.

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they’ve been is comfortable. A journey to spiritual discovery often is fraught with pitfalls and blessed with joys. Many come to various Pagan, Heathen, and polytheist traditions as already socialized adults, with the presumption that the rules learned in our homes and at school are sufficient for our encounters on our new chosen path. In reality, we are left vulnerable as we learn new norms, language, values, beliefs, and behaviors common in the earth-based Pagan/Heathen/polytheist communities that do not fall into a traditional monotheist perspective shared by Christianity, Islam, or Judaism. As more enter our communities, there is an need to avoid a norm of silence in favor of an embrace to speak openly before emotional and spiritual wounds drive an individual to express grief or remorse at joining our community or a particular path. As a minority religion, followers of Pagan/Heathen/polytheist traditions are vulnerable to the ravages of silence or the reality of only hearing news when it is a bad or harmful to our communities. This panel is a conversation, a starting point to engage with how to break this tendency towards silence within our various paths, and how to replace it with a reasonable openness that encourages speech in a positive manner. Just as children are socialized in families and at school, we need to address the socialization as a community to allow growth and permanence.

From grant funded research projects, to 501(c)3 nonprofit, to active archive, the Cultural Archive of Modern Paganism is now rolling along, not only with research centered in Minnesota, but it’s ready to start accepting digital submissions from around the country. Doc Murphy and Velvet Caponi, as well as other board members of CAMP, will be chatting about the mission, and answer questions about data collection, where we are in the process at this point, and where we are headed with next projects. In particular, we will be discussing the project grant that set up the archive online, and the Wiccan Church of Minnesota’s Oral Histories project. We'll also be taking questions and collecting perspectives from you regarding your interest, concerns, and ideas regarding educational needs, and hopefully engender your moral, community and financial support to keep this archive active and going strong.

The Mórrígan is an ancient Irish goddess frequently associated with warfare and Magick. Yet in many myths, the Mórrígan shape-shifts, influencing major events in Irish mythology. This class will begin with a brief introduction to the Mórrígan, with a special focus on the myths in which the Mórrígan changes shape. Through original exercises inspired by these mythologies, participants will have the opportunity to explore ways in which they can shift different courses of events in their personal lives.