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.

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.

This workshop will focus on how to use dream magick to work with the Underworld for greater understanding of one's self and spiritual and magickal growth. This workshop includes the following topics: *What Underworld Dreaming is *How to tell if you are having a dream visitation from the other side *How to use dream magick in shadow work *How to tell if a dream is truly a visitation from ancestors , deceased loved ones, and/or one's shadow self *How to incubate an Underworld dream *Using tarot card dreamscapes to access the Underworld This workshop will include a powerful guided meditation to the Underworld.

Are you interested in getting to know yourself from a soul perspective? Are you wondering about your soul's purpose or why you choose to incarnate in this place at this time? The Akashic Records have the answer! This workshop will provide general information about the records and guide you in accessing your own records.

 Modern Norse practice has many different forms of mysticism  which can offer practitioners new ways of gaining insights into them selves and the world around them. One of these forms of practice, Utiseta, is an effective tool for initiating trance journeys through the Nine Worlds of Nordic Myth. Join the  author of “The Way of Fire & Ice” and "Spinning Wyrd" for a hands-on workshop on Utiseta and embark on your voyage through the cosmos.

Asclepius, the great-grandfather of medicine and very possibly the first psychotherapist, had a unique and effective approach to healing, offered in the over 300 asclepieia (healing centres) which flourished in Greece for an astounding 1,000 years between the 6th century BCE and the 6th century CE: recognizing the power of the liminal to offer healing wisdom. So important and respected was his approach that asclepian healers were a significant part of the Eleusinian Mysteries. The fourth day of the Mysteries were marked by the Festival of Asclepius during which initiates undergo “dream incubation” in preparation of the march to Eleusis. This presentation is an introduction to Asclepius, asclepian dream healing, and the power of the liminal spaces to transform.

Philosopher Sara Ahmed defines a "feminist killjoy" as someone who is willing to get in the way, disrupt what is harmful, find joy in building a more just world, and refuse to stand by in the face of misinformation or injustice. In this session, we'll discuss the importance of countering misinformation and injustice in our Pagan and Craft communities, along with techniques for doing so. Susan draws on her own experiences as a feminist killjoy disrupting transphobia, biological essentialism, and misrepresented history in her own Feminist Witchcraft tradition, as well as her work to build a more just, inclusive, and joyful community.