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PANTHEACON 2014 STAFF This will be a wonderful gathering, but it could not have been done without a tremendous amount of help from a lot of heroines and heroes. Here is a list of some of our staff. • Ringmaster: Glenn Turner, producer and director • Conference Assistance Team: Caradwen von Braskat (Dept. Head), Gene Hertel & Cruz Arellanes (Dept. Seconds), Kimberly Allbee, Darrin Barnett, Dorie Bernstein, Laurel Beyl, Erin Bradley, Beth Buschbaum, Alan Carbonaro, Ted Ellis, Kaerla Fellows, Larcie Fitzmorris, Kelly Gallagher, Peggy Glosser, Merelan Jones, Durelle Kurlinski, Eric Liter, Chris Martin, Joe Martin, Odette, Cynan Roberts, Sally Robinson, Martha Storm, Jenna Strong, James Sullivan, Nicole Terry, Terrence Terry, Robert Tharp, Robert Toland & Erica Vonasek • Green Room: Christa Osier (Dept Head), Brad Lee (Dept 2nd), Alex Beachy, Tina Beachy, Sara Moore, Terrie Wolfe-Lee, Sean Wolfe_Lee, Chris Fregosi • Gryphons & Ravens: Angela T. Carlson (Dept. Head), Maia De Bono, Nan Edwards Boyster (Dept. Seconds), Gnowun Uno, Cara, Thorfinn Skullsplitter, Rose Teathyme, Jennifer Boyster, Caitlin ni Manannan, Grammy Kitty, Starlight, Freyaschild, Dearbhail, Grim, Funnilayo & Iwasina Tyler • Hospitality (Con Suite): Sandra Benson (Dept Head), Esther Bamberg, Geoffrey Bayley, Jonathan Kaufman, Maxwell Bernstein, Perry Lyons. • Hotel Liasion, on-site: Thalassa • Information Desk: Sage DeRosier (head), Alicia Moore (2nd), Bob DeRosier (3rd), Shanda Gatlin, Dave Held, Amy Rose, Christina “Glyph” Mahr, Sarah Tuning, Banzai Bezaire, Indigo Prizm, Kimmie Lamfers, Tristissima et alia, Gwenn Moyer, Rhiannon Laakso • Logistics: David Isler (Dept Head), Arthur Penngrath, Kreature, sinnergee • Newsletter: Helena Handbasket (Dept. Head), Michelle McNeill • Pre-Registration: Teri Davis (Dept Head), Bob Orser (Dept. 2nd), Don Simpson • Programming: Jamie (Dept. Head), Mike (Dept.Head), David Shultz (Second), David Cooke, Donna Kay, Ellen Faulkner, Joseph Ishoy, Julie Vayda • Registration: Janelle Tassano (Dept. Head), Acanita Lucero, Callie the Geowytch, Christina Hodgkinson, Christina Jeffries, Deborah Moyer, Blondie, Uasail, Janine Nelson-Hoffman, Jo Ashburn, Justin Parker, Kelli Melocik, Triskele, Laurie Lee, Lew Finzel, Mary Scott, Felicity Grove, Michele Gillaspie, Roarii Anderson • Staff Lounge: Jack Passadore (Dept Head), Dianne Shaw, Krista Jones, Loni Smith, Joi Wolfwomyn, Tanya Peterson, Salt, Kenneth Winter, Heather Major, Kreature, Synergee • Technical Services: Don Barks (Dept Head), Sue McCUllough (Dept Second), Shadi (Dept Third), Cameron Nelson,Ryn Serenity, Techno, Mike Charboneau, Justin Philbrook, Absentee, Kenton Barks, Mike Cowen, Alec Barks, JT, Fenris • Vendors: Thalassa (Dept Head), Rydell Downward (Dept Second), Gareth Storm, Edward, Marc Minion • Web Site: Mike, Jamie, Dewey Worth • Program design & layout: Jim Ward

CONTENTS PantheaCon 2014 Staff................................................................... 3 Welcome to PantheaCon 2014....................................................... 5 Welcome from the Programming Staff........................................... 6 Information Desks 2014................................................................. 6 The Green Room, Presenters Check In ............................................ 6 Technical Services.......................................................................... 6 Volunteers (AKA Gryphons)............................................................ 7 Convention Operations................................................................... 7 Peace Bonding............................................................................... 8 Hotel Survival Guide....................................................................... 8 While You Are Here......................................................................... 8 Event & Ritual Etiquette................................................................. 9 PantheaCon FAQ........................................................................... 10 Parties & Hospitality Suites.......................................................... 11 Friday Afternoon Schedule........................................................... 21 Friday Evening Schedule.............................................................. 24 Saturday Morning Schedule......................................................... 26 Saturday Afternoon Schedule....................................................... 29 Saturday Evening Schedule.......................................................... 32 Sunday Morning Schedule........................................................... 36 Sunday Afternoon Schedule......................................................... 38 Sunday Evening Schedule............................................................ 41 Monday Morning Schedule.......................................................... 43 Monday Afternoon Schedule........................................................ 45 PantheaCon 2014 Presenters........................................................ 46 PantheaCon Vendors.................................................................... 62 Event Floorplans...............................................................back cover Past PantheaCon Covers by Thena MacArthur 3

Welcome to PantheaCon 2014 W elcome to the Twentieth Annual PantheaCon. Our wonderful gathering of the tribes has become the largest annual pagan convention in the United States or possibly the world. The Bay Area has a wide range of pagans, re-constructionists, and nature religions that meet and mingle here. We are pleased to have made the hard choice among so many fine applications to do great events by knowledgeable speakers. Each morning has two 90 minute sessions (9 AM–10:30 AM & 11 AM–12:30 PM) and each afternoon has two (1:30 PM–3 PM. & 3:30 PM–5 PM), with a one-hour lunch and a two-hour dinner break. In the evening events are scheduled at 7 PM, 9 PM and 11 PM. You can find scholarly, ritual and entertainment presentations in almost every time slot. So no matter what mood you are in, there will be something to get you excited and get you going. The Con runs from 1 PM on Friday to 4 PM on Monday and has over 200 events. Registration for the Conference opens at 10 AM on Friday, Feb. 14th, and is at the Convention Center Entry on the ground floor farthest from the hotel elevators. After you become a member of the conference and pick up your badge, you will receive a complete program guide, pocket program, and up to date changes. Look each day for our PantheaCon Daily Oracle for the latest about changes to the program and upcoming evening parties. Badges will be required for participation in any presentation and for admittance to any official PantheaCon party floor. Badges will be checked. Please wear your badge at all times. Lost badges will have to be purchased again, but your money will be refunded if you find the old one. [See badge policy] A short Opening Ritual with Glenn Turner and friends starts the Conference at 1 pm (Hotel room check in is typically at 3 PM, but bags can be left with the hotel bell service people.) Then at 1:30 PM the Con gets going with lots of wonderful presentations. We will have up to 14 different simultaneous workshops going on at any time. Keep your eyes open on the official posting spots to hear about parties or informal meetings. Every time slot is full of magical and fabulous presentations. One of our biggest complaints is that there is no cloak of bi-location available for people. So try to pick out 2nd and 3rd choices in case your first choice is full. And don’t forget Monday, it may be the last day of Con but it has some of the best stuff. You can wrap up the weekend with the Closing Ritual at 3:30 PM. Dress up, have fun. We have three great dance bands with a different one each night; bring your dancing shoes. Wear red and black for the Friday night Pomba devotional, and for ceremonies wear ritual robes or white or finery we can only wear in a hotel, but not outside. (A word of caution: we share the hotel including the elevators and First floor areas with a few non-Con hotel guests. Please, be covered as if for the street when traveling through the

public areas of the hotel. This is not to discourage dazzling costuming.) You may also want to bring a drum to join in a drum circle one evening, or bring ritual robes, or a kilt, or pirate garb, or finery for parties or just relax as your self. We have new function rooms (Willow 1 and Willow 2) on Saturday for programming events in the official overflow hotel,the San Jose Airport Garden Hotel. The shuttle among the overflow hotels will run more often on Saturday to allow more travel between the hotels. Look for the Shuttle Van just outside the Convention Entrance near Info and Reg. We have chairs for waiting for the van. Also check at the Info desk for more information about the shuttles. Food—The Ballroom Mezzanine area on the 2nd floor above Reg will have a tables and chairs to eat at with the food cart downstairs between Reg and Sprigs. Menus for Sprigs and Spengers ($$$) will be posted on the website, at Info and at the restaurants. A Book Signing table is in the hallway outside the Vendor room and next to the Ancient Ways booth. Find the schedule of the authors doing signings at the Vendor Central table. Books can be bought at the Ancient Ways booth where you can also find books and CDs the presenters bring to us to sell for them. (Presenters wanting to sign up to do book signings do so at Vendor Central. Presenters, please check ahead with us by email store @ ancientways.com; don’t just drop off books or CDs at the Ancient Ways booth without prior permission.) The City Foyer Hallway near the elevators has tables and chairs and can be used as a place to go after an exciting workshop to continue the discussion. Sometimes the Con Suite is a good place to gather to discuss a good topic. Check with them first by phoning 7954. Don’t forget to take breaks, eat and rest. The Conference Hospitality Suite (Con Suite) is in the Ninth floor Presidential suite, Room 954, and has snacks, tea and coffee and is a place to go to relax a bit. It is open much of the time or as we can staff it. If you wish to bring something to contribute, by all means, do so. We also have a nearby Kid Friendly room – kids must be with an adult. As requested by a Teen petition, we again have a Teen Lounge on the 2nd floor in Chardonnay next door to the Health Club. It will be open from about 9 am till midnight. Party Rooms and Hospitality Suites: The 2nd, 9th and 10th floors are where parties are held. All will host discussions, gatherings and parties. Look for the details of these groups with their times and days further on in the program book, and at the Information table and Bulletin board. All groups hosting parties should give their information to the Info table and check in with Ops for guidelines. Please help us make this Convention better by using our General Event Evaluation form and send it back when you’ve filled it in. We want you to have the best possible time with your peers as possible. You can always send us feedback at feedback@pantheacon. com. We will have a feedback form posted on the website too.

WELCOME FROM THE 2014 PROGRAMMING STAFF! We’ve scheduled more than 200 presentations from many different traditions, so we think there will be plenty to keep everyone involved, busy and having fun. You can find the presentation schedule elsewhere in the program guide or online at pantheacon. com. You’ll also find a list of party room events. If late-night parties aren’t your thing, we’ve started offering selected scholarly presentations in the evening hours.

Some important notes: 1. All presentations and party floors are monitored, so remember to wear your badge at all times. If you don’t have your badge you will be asked to retrieve it before being allowed to enter a presentation or party. 2. If you are attending a presentation with adult content, make sure you bring your state-issued ID with you as we will be checking ages at the door. 3. Please be aware that as our attendance grows some popular presentations may fill to capacity. We will be turning people away if the rooms are too full. If you think a presentation might be really popular, we highly recommend that you arrive early. PantheaCon is doing its part to combat the condition known as Pagan Standard Time. Please be prompt to all your events, especially those that are marked as closed or restricted entry - if you’re late, you may not get in! All closed/restricted events are marked with a special symbol in the program. If you are in a hallway outside presentations in progress, please be respectful of your fellow con-goers and keep it quiet. There are plenty of places in the hotel where loud, happy people are welcome and where you won’t run the risk of disturbing a presentation. We encourage you to make the Info desk a regular stop every day for message board postings such as cancellations, room changes and late additions to the schedule, and copies of our amazing newsletter. The newsletter also contains schedule changes, as well as helpful hints on staying healthy, ritual etiquette, local restaurants, interviews and daily divination readings. We hope you will fill out a PantheaCon feedback form before you head home. You can find them at the info desk, or you can email your comments to feedback@pantheacon.com. We do listen to your suggestions and comments and use them to help make every year a little bit better. See you around the Con! — The PantheaCon Programming Team

INFORMATION DESKS 2013

Got questions? Come by one of the Information desks and our ultra friendly staff can help direct you to where you want to go, give you suggestions for places to eat, tell you about the hotel shuttle, give you a daily newsletter and a pocket program guide, and so much more! Last year for your convenience we added a Secondary Information desk located near the main bank of elevators. The Primary Information desk will still be located between the Registration table and the Vending room. You can bring Lost and Found items to either of the Information desks and we will make sure it goes to ConOps for safekeeping. Check with us first to see if something you lost was turned in. We can direct you to Con-Ops, if your lost item isn’t with us.

If you have flyers, you want to post, you must bring them to the Primary Information desk so we can approve for posting and give you the right kind of tape to post with. Also, you can find PantheaCon’s fabulously helpful Feedback forms at the Information desk. PLEASE, take a little time to give us your feedback - we use it to improve the Con each year. Oh, and let us know if this is your first time at PantheaCon—we love to help you have an outstanding experience. (We are developing a “New to PantheaCon” essay and could use your questions and suggestions.) Information desk hours are as follows: Friday, Saturday, & Sunday–8:00 AM to midnight, Monday–8:00 AM to 3:00 PM.

THE GREEN ROOM (for use of the presenters)

Where Presenters Check In

(in the Capitola room opposite the San Jose and near Club Max) Thank you for joining us to present at PantheaCon! First, please pick up your conference badge at Registration, located at the lobby level. Then, go to the Green Room, located opposite the San Jose room on the first floor and near Club Max. Please check in at least 90 min before your presentation. Those who do will receive a special ribbon. This can also be done a day or two ahead if you are already attending the conference. Green Room will be open: Friday–10:00 AM to 11:00 PM Saturday–8:30 AM to 11:00 PM Sunday–8:30 AM to 11:00 PM Monday–8:30 AM to 2:00 PM In the past, some of our presenters have experienced lines at Green Room check in, mainly because of the high volume of participants on Friday night and Saturday morning for check in. To help smooth this process, we ask that the contact person and only the contact person come into the Green Room to sign in for their event. The contact person will be given all of the “Presenter” ribbons allocated for their event. All other members of a workshop or ritual will be able to get their ribbons from the contact person. Any discounts or compensation will also be given to the contact person only. Any technical changes, scheduling, or room changes will be made with the contact person only. We hope this will make things much faster and smoother so that we can make the best possible convention for everyone, especially for our presenters! If you have Assistants that are there to help in ONLY your event, they will get a special badge from the Green Room. Come early, so they are not delayed and late to the presentation. You will need to pick it up for them. This will give them access to your event, NOT any other presentations at P-Con. They are welcome to purchase a day pass at registration to attend other events, if they become interested. If you need additional copies of your handout, there is a business center in the hotel where they are already set up for exactly this type of service. We look forward to your presentation!

TECHNICAL SERVICES

Greetings from the Tech Dept (aka Engineering). We are the folks responsible for providing Technical support to presenters at PantheaCon. Our primary magickal skill is invisibility; if you can “see” us then something has gone wrong.

Presenters please be assured that we are doing our best to support your needs. Some presenters opt to bring their own equipment (LCD projectors, PAs, etc.) If you decide to bring you own gear, please let us know. We do provide screens for anyone bringing their own projector. For those requesting LCD projectors, we do NOT provide video adapters for Mac computers. Con-Goers: The Tech department asks that you be careful and respectful of any equipment in presentation rooms. Do not move or adjust any equipment unless instructed directly by the Tech Staff. We appreciate your good intentions, but prefer to handle the gear ourselves. And, oh yes... we are the prettiest ones.

VOLUNTEERS (AKA GRYPHONS) ROOM 245

https://pantheacon.com/wordpress/faqs/ how-can-i-volunteer/ As Gryphons (Volunteers), we can be called upon to assist any other department or to do our own specific duties such as monitoring access to presentations and parties. Volunteers can *earn back* their Registration fee and may be considered for open Staff positions at future Cons. Important notes: 1. You must be at least 16 years old to be a Gryphon 2. The minimum shift length is two hours 3. You must work at least eight hours to earn any refund 4. The number of hours required to earn back your Registration fee varies by the amount you paid. At this year’s rates, it will take eight hours to earn back a $55 dollar registration and 10.5 hours to earn back a $75 registration 5. No one but you can work hours towards your refund 6. You cannot earn more money back than you paid to get into the conference 7. Unfortunately, we do not have crash space for people to sleep 8. Volunteers are responsible for feeding themselves throughout the Con Here’s how the process works. On arriving at Con, visit Registration to register and pick up your badge. With badge in hand, please come to Gryphon Central (in Room 245 on the 2nd Floor behind the elevators). You will need to fill out a Volunteer Form and have your picture taken (for our records only), and you will be given a Gryphon number and a time sheet. Your time sheet will be used to determine your refund amount. To ensure that you receive credit for all hours worked, you MUST check in at Room 245 at least 15 minutes prior to your shift and after the end of your shift – your time sheet must be updated and initialed by a Staff member. We have an immediate reimbursement policy, which means that you will receive a check on-site after you’ve worked your specified number of hours. Our work trade agreement also specifies that once you are assigned a shift and have agreed to work it, you must show up or face serious repercussions (e.g. losing all hours previously worked on that day). Current work trade rates will be available at the Gryphon’s Lair and on your Volunteer form. To get started, start by checking the online Schedule of Events https://pantheacon.com/wordpress/at-pantheacon/whats-happening/

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Please keep track of your badge!

You will be asked to show your badge at the entrance to most con events. If you do not have your badge, you will be asked to retrieve it before entering. Our policy for lost badges is that if you have lost your badge, you will need to purchase another con membership at full price. If you later find your original badge, you can bring both badges to the registration desk and we will refund the cost of your second badge. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS!

program-guide/>to determine the days and times you’re available. Once you’ve done that, please come upstairs to *Room 245* as soon as you get your badge and sign up for your shifts. Please remember that Friday, Saturday and Sunday shifts are very popular and will be filled quickly. Monday shifts have a special added bonus: work 3 hours and have it count for 4. Most Monday shifts involve assisting with load-out and require volunteers to to lift up to 40 pounds. In 2014, we are going back to on-site only Volunteer shifts to keep everything fair – just visit the Gryphon’s Lair during the following hours: • Friday: 9:30 am – 1:00 am • Saturday & Sunday: 7:45 am – 1:00 am •Monday: 7:45 am – 4:00 pm

CONVENTION OPERATIONS—ROOM 268

Convention Operations (commonly called ConOps) can be found in the Zinfandel Room on the Second Floor of the hotel (just past the Boardroom and the Riesling room on the left side of the taller tower of rooms), and it will be open almost 24 hours a day, starting early Friday 2/14 and closing late afternoon Monday 2/17. A Special Request—when entering ConOps for assistance of ANY kind please try to keep your voice down—ConOps is a small room already full of people, ringing phones and two-way radios. We DO want to help you, that’s what we are there for, we just ask that you help us help you and everyone else who needs our assistance. We apologize in advance if we seem terse or abrupt with you, it is not at all our intention.

Getting Assistance

The most visible facet of the Operations crew is called the “Conference Assistance Team” or “CAT” and they are our version of event security. There will be CAT people wandering about the convention, so if you need assistance with a problem, feel free to approach any of us as we are here to make things run as smoothly as possible. All Operations/CAT people will have a special badge, which is red metallic printing on black background with the Ancient Ways logo, so that they can be easily identified. Remember: If you have a problem, need assistance or want to turn in or claim a “lost and found” item, you can: 1. Talk to a CAT member 2. Go to the Information Table 3. Go to the ConOps (Board Room—Second Floor). PLEASE: do not go to the Registration Table, as they are often too busy or not prepared, or even not able, to assist you and they will most likely refer you to ConOps or the Information Table anyway.

Lost and Found All lost and found items should be taken to one of two places, either the Information Table (located in the foyer outside the Vendor Hall and across from Registration) or ConOps (2nd floor Zinfandel Room). Anything turned into the Information Table will be taken to ConOps for safekeeping. If you want to claim a lost and found item, you MUST go to ConOps. The Information Table will only be collecting lost and found items. At the end of the convention all unclaimed items are taken to the Ancient Ways store.

PEACE-BONDING

Peace-bonding weapons is a common convention practice. We strongly suggest that any athames and other ritual tools, which might be mistaken for weapons, be peace-bonded. After all PantheaCon is a peaceful gathering of the tribes, and to that end we will be offering to peace-bond your weapons as a symbol of your “intent of non-use.” Also, having your weapon peace-bonded can help to avert misunderstandings with non-attendees and hotel staff who may not know or understand a “costume” or “ritual” use for a weapon. If one of our CATs offers to peace bond your weapon, or suggests that you should have it peace bonded, please consider it seriously. You will be able to get peace-bonds from wandering CAT people or ConOps. NOTE: Please use common sense when displaying any weapon. Move away from crowded areas, do not allow it to be brandished about and make certain that it is securely put away when you are finished showing it. —Caradwen von Braskat, Operations Manager

HOTEL SURVIVAL GUIDE

We’ve put together this guide to let you know what some rules and expectations are for yourself and your fellow attendees. We hope you have a wonderful time!

Checking in/Check-out Hotel check-in starts at 3pm. Standard check-out time is 12:00 noon. If you need a later check out you can call the Front Desk to see if one can be arranged, however if the room is already booked it may not be possible. If you arrive earlier than 3pm, or wish to stay later than Noon, the Bell Captain may be able to store your baggage for you for a short period of time.

Being a Guest As a guest of both PantheaCon and Doubletree it is expected that you will follow the hotel’s posted rules. There is no sleeping in any of the public areas of the hotel. There is no-smoking in any of the rooms. All the rooms have sensors installed to detect heat and smoke, so the use of incense, candles, etc., is strictly prohibited. Smoking is permitted only on the balconies or other outdoor areas. The hotel’s policy on e-cigarettes is the same as it is on smoking of any kind: in designated areas and no closer than 10 feet of any outside doors. Maids start cleaning and refreshing rooms very early in the morning, around 7am. Please use the “Do Not Disturb” sign on the door where the maids can see it and not wake you. If you want maid service after their normal rounds (generally after 9am) you should call Housekeeping and leave the “Please Make Up Room Now” sign on the door. Please make sure that your baggage and any other personal belongings are out of the way when maids come in so they can work safely and easily. Please be sure to tip the maid for her work, especially if you’ve had a party and there’s a lot to do beyond their usual routine. Since this may not be the same person over the course of your stay, we suggest that you leave a tip every day. A couple of dollars is a good base rate, and at least double this if there is a lot for the maid to do. In the top drawer of the desk in each sleeping room you will hopefully find hotel stationery—the tip can be put in one of the envelopes with “for the maid” written on it and left in a prominent place on the desk or on the pillow. Do not leave money lying loose about or taped to the mirror, they will not pick it up unless it is clearly marked for them.

WHILE YOU ARE HERE

Pets

The convention no longer allows pets in any function spaces— including the Vendor Room and the Function Rooms. Occasionally a presenter may have a dog at their own event. Pets are also not allowed in any food establishments due to food safety laws. In order to reduce misunderstandings we request that Service Animals be visibly “In Service”, i.e. wearing their service vest or other highly visible and licensed identifying items.

Pet Policy (from the Hotel website)

Pets are permitted Allowed Maximum size: Large Maximum weight: 100 lbs Deposit: USD $50.00 Services Pets must be crated/caged when owner away. Registered guests are responsible for any damage caused by pets. Housekeeping personnel will inspect accommodations upon departure.

In consideration of other guests, we ask pet owners to ensure guest room noise levels are kept to a minimum. Refunds to guests inconvenienced by noisy pets (up to $100) will be charged to the registered pet owners. Housekeepers are prohibited from entering rooms occupied by pets unless guests are present or unless pets are crated.

No private vending All vending is done through the Vendor’s space in the ballrooms and other permitted public vending spots. There is no private selling of any kind allowed. There are California State Laws dealing with selling anything out of a hotel room (it is considered “Pandering”) and being found doing so may mean the involvement of the local authorities and expulsion from PantheaCon.

Restaurants, Lounges, etc Always check at the restaurants, bars, and lounges for the most current hours (we have provided our best approximations below). These may have changed over the last year. Also be aware that the extra wait-staff brought in to serve during our event may not be used to large, changing groups in the restaurants and can get overwhelmed and backed up. There is usually a large line for lunch and dinner at the café, please factor in both your time in line and eating so you don’t run late or miss a presentation or ritual. Check the Info table for lists of local restaurants (10 to 15 min away) or call Waiters on Wheels for food that can be delivered to your room. • Espresso Bar brewing Starbuck’s—Open 6am–8pm daily. Serves only basic Starbucks coffee & Espresso as well as pastries and snacks. • Sprigs—from 6am until 1am on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and 6am to 2pm on Monday during the con and hopefully during the rest of Monday. (This venue normally only serves Breakfast and has limited hours.) It has moderate to high prices, but it will often get backed up and run slow. When Sprigs is not open there is a limited menu available in the Lobby Lounge (aka 2050 Bar). • Spencer’s for Steaks & Chops—Open 11:30am to 10pm Monday through Friday, and 5pm to 10pm Saturday and Sunday (no lunch on weekends). Reservations are strongly suggested. Offers a wide array of options and is more expensive than Sprigs. • Sushi & Sake Bar—Open Friday and Monday from 5pm–10pm. On Saturday and Sunday lunch from 12pm to 2pm and for dinner 5pm to 10pm (based on demand). It is located in the Lobby Lounge overlooking the pool. As a captive clientele you can expect to pay market prices. • Snack Cart—Near Sprigs/ PantheaCon Registration for quick “grab and go,” inexpensive meal options. 11 am to 10 pm for lunch and dinner. Healthy food and vegetarian options should be available there. • Room Service—In-room dining service features an extensive menu served from 6 am to 11 pm. From a continental breakfast of freshly baked pastries and fresh fruit juices to a pizza or five-course dinner.

Pool and Hot Tub The pool and hot tub are available for your use between 8am and 11pm. Please be aware that there is no life guard on duty. There is no nudity or sexual behavior allowed. Bathing suits are required.

Clothing/Costumes Please feel free to dress up! However, please keep in mind that we share the hotel with guests who are not attending the convention as well as the hotel employees themselves. If you have a scanty costume please bring a cover-up for the public places in the hotel, including the elevator.

EVENT & RITUAL ETIQUETTE

The essence of paganism is diversity, but one consequence of this is the fact that we can’t always assume everyone shares the same ideas about what is acceptable behavior. Please extend the same courtesy to others as you would want; if you are having a problem with someone please speak to a staff member. To remind old timers and inform newcomers, here are some of the unwritten “rules.” • A ritual is a religious service, and one in which considerable power may be raised. Participants should behave reverently and be careful. • A ritual is not a spectator sport. Those who don’t wish to take part should go far enough away so that their conversations, etc. will not disturb participants. Those who are participating should pay attention and guard their tongues. • A ritual need not be solemn, but it should be serious, in the sense that humor should be used purposefully. • Gratuitous funny remarks can be disruptive. Even those rituals that appear to be informal have been planned carefully. • Look to those who are leading for cues on how and when to join in chanting, drumming, dancing, etc. so that you will contribute to the build-up and flow of energy, rather than dispersing it. • Once the circle has been cast, enter or leave it only in an emergency. Bouncing in and out of a circle may disperse the energy, and will certainly distract the other participants. If you must leave, “cut” and exit or get one of the ritual officers to do so. • Ritual tools (including drums) are personal and powerful. Don’t handle, use or play without specific permission from the owner.

Getting High The presence of illegal substances can jeopardize everyone participating in the Convention. So, please don’t! Also, the general atmosphere of release and excitement at a Convention can sometimes lead to problems with drugs or alcohol. If you find yourself losing control, ask for help from Staff, or another experienced person.

Food and Sleep The excitement of four days with our own tribe sometimes makes it hard to remember the body’s needs. A contact high can be as exhausting as the drug-induced kind. Remember to eat and sleep! If you find that your emotions are running away with you, check your physical condition, and if necessary get someone to help you ground and center.

Sex It can be a powerful force, especially in an atmosphere of freedom. Respect it, and remember the following: —among pagans, nudity is an affirmation, not an invitation! —Be sure you interpret signals correctly. A loving touch is not necessarily an invitation either. If your attempt at closeness and caring makes someone uncomfortable, STOP, and if someone touches you in an unwelcome way, don’t hesitate to tell him/her how you feel. Be sensitive to how your well-meant affection is being perceived. Practice Safe Sex!

BLOOD HEROES: PANTHEACON 2014 BLOOD DRIVE Coru Priesthood and Solar Cross Temple have joined forces with Blood Centers of the Pacific to host a Blood Drive at PantheaCon 2014. We invite all Pagans to donate blood at the “Blood Heroes Blood Drive” being held Friday, February 14 through Sunday, February 16 at PantheaCon. Visit the Blood Drive table in the lobby to sign up for blood donation! Every three seconds someone in the U.S. needs blood. The Coru Priesthood and Solar Cross are hosting this blood drive as an act of kinship, hospitality and devotion to our community and to the Morrígan, Celtic Goddess of sovereignty, prophecy, and battle. We encourage all people to donate the gift of life, whether in the name of your own deities, the Morrígan or without devotional intent. The Convention won’t last forever. When making commitments and forming relationships, consider how they will affect your life when you go home.

Networking The Conference is a wonderful opportunity for pagans from various traditions to share knowledge and ideas. A freebie table will be available for groups to put out literature on what they are doing. When talking to newcomers, avoid a “hard sell” approach. People who recruit too intensely make pagans suspicious. It is also counterproductive to boast about your magical powers, spiritual advancement, initiations and degrees. Newcomers should judge teachers and groups by their deeds, not their words. Don’t let anyone pressure you into joining a group or doing anything you are not ready for. Thanks to the “Rites of Spring” and Diana Paxson for originating and rewriting this material.

PANTHEACON FAQ (FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS) Hotel Parking Be aware that parking is in short supply and you may have to park at a distance. ATTENTION: The Doubletree Parking is a pay parking lot at $18 a night. However, the hotel has agreed to the following: Parking charges for all attendees and overnight guests with PantheaCon will be $8 a night. Overnight guests present the ticket form the machine and the front desk agent will program the tickets at the Special $8 rate per night; the charges will be posted to the hotel bill. For Conference attendees, not staying in a room, a scanner at the Pcon Registration area can scan the parking ticket for the Special rate and a second one should be situated near Club Max. Parking is now fully automated. Be sure to get your parking ticket scanned! We cannot reserve a specific parking space for you. There are no charging stations for electric cars at this time.

Hotel Check In/Check Out times Like most hotels the Doubletree check in time is 3 PM with check out at 12 noon. You can ask for early check in and late check out and also store

your bags with the bellman. If you are planning to split the room rate tell them at check in so check out is swift and easy.

Convention Registration Our Registration tables will open at 10 AM on Friday, Feb. 17. After you register you will receive a program book that includes a map of the hotel showing locations of our hospitality room, vendor rooms and where the events will be held. You may acquire a pocket program, scheduling changes in the Daily Con Newsletter, and other useful information, like places to eat from the Info desk adjacent to Registration.

Programming Great people from all over the Bay Area, California and from other parts of the country are coming, and other countries! Programming starts Friday afternoon at 1:00 PM and continues through Monday afternoon till 4:00 PM. We will have up to 14 simultaneous workshops going on during the day. At night we will have up to ten different programs plus postings for parties and possibly some discussion groups that can reconvene at night in some ìextraî rooms (inquire in Green Room).

ASL Options ASL interpreters may be available if requested by Feb. 10. We ask that anyone needing ASL interpretation at the con please let us know as soon as possible, before the con, so that we can arrange this service.

Accessibility in Program Spaces We include open space in each of the programming rooms for those of you with mobility devices such as wheelchairs or motorized scooters. The exact space available will vary as we have a wide variety of spaces and layouts that we use throughout PantheaCon. The seats immediately adjacent to those open spaces should be held for any able-bodied companion of those who need assistive devices to get around the convention. We aim to make the convention easy to access for everyone. Any programming staff you see at the convention will be happy to answer questions or help you as best we can as our process evolves.

Photography Please no photos. Many people need their privacy. We request that you not snap photos and post them on the web. People can lose jobs over such things and certainly, no photos in rituals, parties or even halls. We trust you to honor this policy. We may have a Conference Recording and Video Dept., but they will be well designated and only filming planned events with all participants agreeing.

Food We will have lists of Restaurants located nearby at the Information table but, in truth, there is little in walking distance except what you find at the hotel. The hotel has an expensive restaurant (Spencer’s) and a cafe, Sprigs. Sprigs has a fair amount of staff turnover, so there may staff waiting on you who are not used to large ëfluidí groups of people at tables—tip generously. During the day there is a snack cart with sandwiches etc. We have set aside one hour for lunch, and two hours for dinner and half an hour between the two sessions each morning and afternoon.

Convention Parties The Conference has a Hospitality Suite (room 954) where you can go for a snack, coffee, etc; it has a second room that

is kid friendly—kids must be with an adult. Many groups have Party Rooms and Hospitality Suites. They will be hosting parties at various times which will be posted at the Information area. If you wish to have a private party in your room that’s fine, but parties for the whole Con should be held on the second, ninth and tenth floors, and should be arranged with PantheaCon well before the event.

What to wear?!? This is always an important question! Swimsuits are required in the Pool and Hot Tub. Every night at 9 PM you might want to wear your dancing shoes for the bands Woodland (Friday), Pandemonaeon (Saturday) and Avalon Rising (Sunday). On Firday at 11 PM wear something red, black, and strumpetlike for the PombaGira devotional. On Saturday everyone is encouraged to wear their kilts! Certainly on Saturday night dress in a fun costume or a ritual robe or bring a drum for the drum circle. On Sunday night dress in ritual robes for more rituals or dress up for the parties. Monday has a more relaxed pace to it.

PARTIES & HOSPITALITY SUITES

For your security the 2nd, 9th and 10th floor areas are monitored for Badge wearing Con attendees only. This prevents visitors to the hotel bar or other non-attendees from “crashing” our parties.

The PantheaCon Hospitality Suite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 954 Hospitality is open throughout the whole convention, beginning on Friday at noon and closes on Monday after the Closing Ritual. We are open 20 hours a day, with four hours for “reset” in the early morning. Come in, introduce yourself. Take time to grab a snack, a cup of coffee, tea, meet friends, make new friends, sing and enjoy yourself. This is the place to meet, leave messages on our message board, take a break. It is what we are here for. The Hospitality suite has always been child-friendly, and will continue to be. If you’re looking for a place to sit and have a quiet conversation without the pitter-patter of little feet, the main room which has comfortable seating and snacks, will have the added feature of being an adult-only room; this is the main room. In addition we have a “Kids room”. When you come into the main doors of the Suite, turn to your right, instead of to the left- through that door will be the Kids Room– and welcome! All children in this room MUST be accompanied by their responsible adult.

• Hospitality is GREEN!!! To our fellow coffee, tea and hot chocolate drinkers, please bring your own coffee cup, if you can. Remember to keep it with you too. You might want to include a spoon, a nice linen napkin, maybe a small bowl or plate, to be green.

• Some Guidelines The Staff asks that you do not store your belongings in the suite. Hospitality is not responsible for anything left in the suite, nor are we lost and found (Operations handles Lost and Found). There will be no showering, nor dish washing in the suite. There will be a community altar set up. Everyone is welcome to add to it (please put your name and phone number on your item if you want it back). Our altar is for all Pantheons. The Hospitality Suite is also used for overflow from a class or

workshop. Whatever the activity, anyone can come in. This is important to note as in the past some folks thought they were walking in on a class. • Hours: Open 12:00 PM Friday to 6:00 PM Monday, closed 3–7 AM for cleaning.

CAW (Church of All Worlds) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241,243

Hey you! Come on in to enjoy water sharing, scintillating convesation, altar items auction, snackraments, Goddess Herstory, a Relationship Magic. Initially inspired by Heinlein’s novel, “Stranger in a Strange Land,” CAW is informed by the past and called forth by envisioning a fabulous future. This year Oberon & Morning Glory are releasing their biography, “The Wizard & the Witch; Seven Decades of Counterculture, Magick, & Paganism” by John Sulak. We are the oldest incorporated Neo-Pagan church in the World, the first church to legally ordain Priestesses as well as the first to sanction gay and poly marriages. Oberon Zell is the founder of CAW & “The Grey School of Wizardry.” Morning Glory Zell is a lore mistress extraodinaire with a Goddess collection of over 300 statues from around the world. Mingle with them & other CAW community luminaries such as Francesca Gentille, Queen Michelle, King Zack, & Tim Emert. The Church of All Worlds is inclusive, scholarly, action orientated, embraces immanent Divinity, and cutting edge spiritual choices. Let’s co-create! ROOM OPEN: 11am to 8pm. Activities: Rituals, Workshops, Tarot, Conversational Salon, Snuggles. See White Board OR Daily Newsletter for events & changes Water Sharing Ceremonies: Friday 7 PM. Sat, Sun, Mon 11:00 AM

Grypons -Volunteers for the Con. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 See page 6 for details on how you can help with our mammoth gathering.

Teen Lounge. . .2nd Floor Chardonnay room (next to the Health Club)

This is a place for teens to gather and enjoy their own space. It will be open from about 9 am till midnight. Activities are NOT supervised. This is not a babysitting or drop-off service. There is no scheduled programming.

Hanta Yo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247

HANTA YO! We’re the “I Got Tits!” ladies. Since 2008 we’ve been strengthening our inner feminine divine by embracing women’s mysteries and developing our Authentic Selves. We’ll be sisters and brothers together here. Our door will open starting at 6:00 PM, and we’ll go until we drop, on Saturday and Sunday. Learn what we do, why we do it, and how you can do it, too. Open to all genders.

Elderflower Womenspirit Festival. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249

We are women, loving the woods, and celebrating Goddess, ourselves, and our diversity! We gather annually in the beautiful Mendocino Woodlands for rituals, workshops, self-created entertainment, and catered meals. We honor the Goddess as Maiden, Mother, Crone, and Amazon. This year’s festival will be held August 13-17th and all women and girls are welcome! Register online at elderflower.org. Come visit to learn more about our community of wonderful welcoming women and the festival that joins us together. The room will be open for visiting, sharing, and chatting throughout the Con. If the door is open come in, say hello, and sit a spell!

As we are a women’s festival we welcome ALL women to join us. While Elderflower is Women only, if any men are interested in information to share with women in your lives, we will have information available. Feel free to stop by and pick up a flyer on the information tables or outside our room. Finally, check the party room door often and/or Con bulletin boards/tables for open hour changes and/or additional activities planned. *Friday--5pm to 11 - Meet and Greet Open Hours *Saturday--2 to11 - Meet and Greet Open Hours 9pm–Women’s Drum Circle-Please bring your own drums and/ or instruments or use few of ours. *Sunday--12 to 9 - Meet and Greet Open Hours 3:30pm Women’s Stitch’n’Bitch--Bring your own craft(s) and sit a spell with us.

FoDLA (Fellowship of Druidism for the Latter Age) �� 251

FoDLA is a fellowship of American polytheistic Pagans following the path of Draíocht Nua or Neo-Druidism. The fellowship is organized as a church, after the Internal Revenue Code’s use of the word, and is not dogmatic, but limits its membership to American polytheist Neopagans who seek to follow the central spiritual values of traditional pre-Christian Celtic societies, best exemplified by the figure of the ancient Druid. These include, most particularly: • A commitment to study: To honor the past and the path that has shaped us • A commitment to piety: To honor the gods and spirits that guide us

• A commitment to hospitality: To honor the community and the Land it shares Our Hospitality room will be open from noon-midnight, unless we are attending a session. Our daily schedule will be posted on the outside of our door. We will hold informal sessions about Druidism and related topics through convention. See the door for specific offerings.

Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship (ADF) �� 255 Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship (ADF) is an international fellowship devoted to creating a public tradition of Neopagan Druidry. The Irish words, pronounced “arn ree-ocht fane”, mean “Our Own Druidism”, and that’s just what ADF is—a completely independent tradition of Neopagan Druidism. This year, come and experience our druid hospitality room for refreshments and stimulating conversation. We will be scheduling various educational workshops on ADF cosmology and ritual throughout the weekend. Our hospitality room hours are Noon to 2 AM (or longer), except Sunday when we will be open from 11:00 AM to 1 AM.

Heathen Hospitality Hall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

We welcome all those who are friendly to the Heathen/Germanic Faiths. We are open most of the day throughout the Con; join us for conversation & snacks, blots & workshops. Sponsored by Othala Hearth and the larger community of Heathens in the SF Bay Area

• Friday—1 PM: Hall Opens 3 PM: Opening Blot 6-7 PM: Meet & Greet – food, drink and conversation with fellow heathens. 7-8 PM: Freyablot led by Cara & Dara 8 PM: Heathen Storytelling with Steven Abell – Bring your stories, poems and songs to share. 9 PM-??: Friday Night Social • Sa turday—8:30 AM: Hall opens – stumble on in for coffee before the 9am workshops 4 PM: Armanen Runes with Stefn Thorsman 5-6 PM: Skadhiblot led by AJ & Leticia 6-7 PM: Raffle to support the Hall. 8-9 PM: Scotch Tasting – Closed event limited to 15 people, sign up early in the Hall. Bring a bottle of Scotch for the tasting or a small donation for the Hall. MUST BE 21! 9:30 PM-??: Saturday Night Social • Sunday—8:30 AM: Hall opens 11 AM-12 PM: Troth Open Forum with the Steer, Steve Abell 1 PM: Living with Loki, Mikki Fraser 7-8 PM: Sumbel – ritual toasting and boasting 8 PM-??: Sunday Night Social • Monday—8:30 AM: Hall opens 10 AM: Loading out and Closing Blot: Volunteers Welcome!

The Pagan Alliance Hospitality Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257

Please join us for community building, networking, & relaxation. Be “Green”! Bring your own chalice. Photo ID to drink spirits. Donations are welcome. A beloved dead altar will be set up in the suite. Bring pictures or mementos if desired. Follow us on Twitter. Replies to twitter.com/paganalliance. Info- www.thepaganalliance.org • Friday 8:00 pm–10:30 pm: Queer Cocktails: LGBTIQQ2s-identifying meet & network in a casual, safe environment. All are welcome! • Saturday 10:00-11:00 am: Magical Mimosas! Come socialize with other magical folks, sip mimosas and plan your day 12:30-2pm: Pagans in Captivity! An eye-opening power point presentation by Dr. Barbara McGraw from the Center of Engaged Religious Pluralism disclosing the discrimination and brutality experienced by inmates who attempt to practice Pagan beliefs, followed by a panel discussion involving our Elders, and Pagan volunteer prison visitors. 5:30-6:30 pm: Clothing SWAP! Bring your clean ritual, fancy evening and interesting day wear and accessories to trade with other Pagan folks. All sizes and gender identities welcome. Left over clothes will be donated to charity. Clothes can be dropped off during Magical Mimosas, if desired. 9:00 pm-2:00 am: Bacchanal - Cohosted by the Circle of Dionysos. An LGBTIQQ2S-Friendly event. 21+ to drink spirits. • Sunday 4:00 -5:00 pm: “Whiskey Tasting” - Space is limited to 20, sign up in advance. Bring a bottle of single malt to share and sample the other offerings. A little convivial drinking on a Sunday afternoon. 21+ with ID Please. 8:00 pm-11:00 pm+: Pajama Party. Wear your best nightie, robe or comfy onesie! 21+ to drink spirits. Enjoy a last evening here together.

Sisterhood of Avalon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259

Bendithion a Croeso! The Sisterhood of Avalon is an international Celtic Women’s Mysteries organization which seeks to balance intuitive wisdom with scholastic achievement. Among our activities, we sponsor the Avalonian Thealogical Seminary; facilitate international training intensives; host Spiritual Pilgrimages to sacred sites in the British Isles; produce devotional anthologies and keepsake datebooks through Ninth Wave Press; and provide a variety of learning opportunities both through our local hearth groups and our online community. We invite you to spend some time around our hearth fire; come join us in building community, learn more about who we are and what we do , and share in a cup of tea and some light snacks. Our room will be open from 12:00 - 6:00 PM every day. Throughout the weekend, we will be hosting some powerful women whose work we support and appreciate to share their work with you, including: Linda Rosewood, creator of “Le Tarot des Femmes Erotiques - The Vintage Erotica Tarot”; Rebecca Besbris, Pagan crafter; and Jhenah Telyndru, founder of the Sisterhood of Avalon and author of “Avalon Within.” Please visit our hospitality room for more information. Additionally, we are pleased to present the following: • Sunday, 4:00 - 5:00 - Sisterhood of Avalon SisterSpace All members of the SOA are invited to join us in Sisterhood for a group working and chanting circle. 5:00 - 6:00 - Introduction to the Avalonian Tradition, presented by Jhenah Telyndru. Everyone is welcome to join us for an overview of the Avalonian Tradition and to learn more about the Sisterhood of Avalon. Bring your questions and an open heart.

The Haven . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261

Hosted by Solar Cross & Morningstar Mystery School • Friday, 9 to 10:30pm: Welcome to PantheaCon Mixer 5-7pm: Dog Eat Dog: A Game of Colonialism and its Consequences Jonathan Korman will lead this RPG about power, colonialism, ethicial challenges, & injustice. 7:30-9:30pm: Morningstar Mystery School & Solar Cross Meet & Greet Come hang with T. Thorn Coyle, Crystal Blanton, Morningstar practitioners, Solar Cross Temple members, & our friends. • Sunday, 1-2:30pm: Racialist Paganism: What It Is and What to Look For? Amy Hale & Ryan Smith help us identify the frameworks that can potentially promote racialism in Paganism, and provide suggestions to help change the way we think about culture, race & tradition. 5-7pm: Golden Gate Kindred Blot 7:30-9:30pm: Wild Hunt/Pagan Media Meet & Greet Have a blog? Host a podcast? Interested in Pagan news & writing? Drop by and talk with Jason Pitzl-Waters, Cara Shulz, Crystal Blanton, Sam Webster, P. Sufenas Virius Lupus, Niki Whiting, and others from Patheos, the Pagan Square, and the PNC.

Hexenfest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263 Hexenfest is a San Francisco Bay Area music and arts festival that caters to the mythic imagination in a way that appeals to adults. Sensual and fierce, and willing to explore darker themes,

Hexenfest seeks to awaken inner archetypes in all their aspects. Gothic, Pagan, and Tribal belly dance themes are featured prominently, evoking the forbidden forest more than than the enchanted wood. If you feel at home in dark fairytales, join us in the realm! OPEN HOURS - noon-4pm Saturday and Sunday.

The Ifa Orisha room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265

The Ifa Orisha Room will focus on introducing PantheaCon guests to the Orisha (Divine Spirits) through the indigenous spiritual traditions of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria. The Ifa Orisha Room will be a festive room focused on spiritual destiny; including, but not limited to several social events and learning opportunities throughout PantheaCon. The Ifa Orisha Room will be open from 11:00 am until we close with several presentations about Orisha. Other topics may include: divination, spiritual elevation methodology, song workshops, dance steps for spirit, and spiritual growth through apprenticeship, that is learning by direct mentorship. The Ifa Orisha room will offer snacks, beverages and spiritual surprises. For more information, contact Baba Esu at 408655-8500 or email at esuwemimo@gmail.com

Come and honor the Great Queen, and get to know us better! Hospitality Room: Want to know more about the Coru priesthood? Looking to meet and talk with others who are drawn to the Morrígan? Interested in Celtic heroic spirituality? Join us in our hospitality room for conversation and fellowship with our community. Temple Room: A dedicated sanctum for reverence of the Morrígan and the family of Celtic Gods and heroes. Join us for collective worship at the scheduled times below. Or, visit our Temple during open hours for solitary worship. Friday 9-11 pm: Temple dedication rites, followed by social time in the Hospitality Room. Saturday 10 am – 7 pm: Temple and Hospitality Rooms open 10 am: Temple opening prayers; 6:30 pm: Temple closing prayers Sunday 10 am – 7 pm: Temple and Hospitality Rooms open (except during Coru Great Queens ritual, 3:30-5:00) 10 am: Temple opening prayers; 6:30 pm: Temple closing prayers

Pagans of Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273

Fire Family, Spark & Gaia’s Oasis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 Pagans of Color Hospitality room invites all attendees to visit Pass through our magical portal and leave the mundane behind as you enter a soothing and beautiful place where you can relax and commingle with the greater Fire Family. Our transformative space is sponsored by groups that host Sacred Fire Circle gatherings, including The Spark Collective and Gaia’s Oasis. SparkCollective.org; GaiasOasis.org • Friday - Open 8 to 10 PM - “Welcome Home” reception for fire family folk & friends. • Saturday - Open 10 AM to 5 PM & 7 PM to Midnight 1:30 PM - DiversiFire - Experience spontaneous music, song, and dance in an informal, fire-circle like setting. 7:00 PM - Chocolate Ritual - Ostara Foods & Evermore House invite you to a ritual for Ixcacao and the healing of the colonized cacao bean and our world. Ostara chocolate and the traditional “drink of the Goddesses” will be served. 8:00 PM - Our famous Chocolate Party! • Sunday - Open 11 AM to 9 PM 3:30 PM - DiversiFire - Commingle and co-create music, song, and dance! As always there will be lots of spontaneous music making, singing and advanced hanging-out at the Fire Family Suite! Please check the schedule of events posted outside the door and join us for tea and light snacks during our open hours. Come play with the greater Fire Family community at The Spark Collective Sacred “Fire” Circle at 11 PM on Sunday in the San Martin - San Simeon Room.

Coru Cathubodua Priesthood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269, 271

Service, sovereignty, kinship and warriorship are the values that guide the Coru Cathobodua Priesthood, a priesthood dedicated to the Morrígan. We are Pagan priests on the move, ready to take action to advance our mission to bring about sovereignty and kinship to the world through acts of community and individual service. Guided by our the matron the Morrígan, Celtic Goddess of sovereignty, prophecy, and battle, we welcome all who share this vision of service to bringing these values to life for all people. For information about Coru Cathubodua, visit www.facebook.com/CoruCathubodua.

us. We will have dedicated times for mingling, sharing and breaking bread, and an ability to talk about social justice issues as well as general topics of interest to pagans of all stripes, trads, paths, and views. The space is a safe zone and is considered sacred. Friday is our casual meet and greet following the PoC Caucus in Silicon Valley at 3:30pm. Please join us afterwards to continue the discussion and meet the attendees and collaborators! Saturday is our big sit-down to follow the Pagans and Privilege Panel at 3:30pm in Oak. We will head from Oak to the PoC Hospitality room, please join us there as well! Sunday is a general day with open hours til 6pm

Cornerstone Pagan Fellowship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 947

The cornerstone or foundation stone is the first stone set in the foundation of a building in masonry work. This stone is the most important stone set since all other stones will be set in reference to that first stone. The entire structure is based off that first stone... The Cornerstone. We have taken the name of that all-important stone and used it for the name of our spiritual fellowship. We feel that, as in building a sound structure, so too should you build that solid foundation in your life. Let your spirituality be your cornerstone. Let us help you build the fellowship and piety that helps you build your life. www. cornerstonepagans.org Cornerstone believes in the power of our Neopagan brothers and sisters to organize for a better tomorrow, to become a mainstream religion with worship centers available to our people in every major city and to be a force for change in the environment and our society, but we expect you’ll find a whole lot more, a place to call home. Come, be a part of what we are building, tell us what you want from your Pagan community. • Friday 5:15-6:45: “Group Dynamics for Neopagan Leaders” 11:00: Dessert reception/”What is Cornerstone?” • Saturday 5:15-6:45: “Strategic Planning for Neopagan Leadership” 11:00: Dessert reception /”What is Cornerstone?”

• Sunday 5:15-6:45: “Creating Lasting Legacies in Neopagan Groups” 11:00: Dessert reception/”What is Cornerstone?”

Brushwood Folklore Center, LLC.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 949

Brushwood’s “Sanctuary for the Open Mind” is a clothing optional campground set in the rolling hills of Western New York State featuring eclectic events including 20th Annual Sirius Rising (1200 attendees) and the newly-named Sankofa Festival (500 attendees). Join us here and enjoy coffee hour with stories and photographs. Let’s share our experiences at Brushwood, which was founded over 40 years ago as place for artists to live and work, and which has now evolved into a neo-pagan friendly campground and event center promoting creativity and spiritual growth. Saturday, Sunday, and Monday 8:00 – 9:00 am: Coffee and Conversation

Kemetic Temples of San Francisco, San Jose, Sacramento, & Colorado. . .951

We will host a ritual dedicated to Ma’at, Lady of Kindness. Please join us as we honor this wonderful goddess with prayers and praises dating back to the time of the pharaohs. Participants are invited to present written requests to Ma’at throughout the evening. Refreshments follow the ritual. Please come and learn more about our Reconstructionist communities. Open Hours: Friday, from 7 PM to 10 PM Saturday, from 5 PM to 10 PM; Ritual for Ma’at at 7:30 PM Refreshments will be served both evenings.

CoG / NROOGD/ NWC Hospitality Suite �� 957

Three Witches’ groups sponsor this Hospitality Suite, which offers a place to relax, chat, enjoy a snack, or attend some of our in-suite programs. See our ad listing this year’s offerings of discussions, lectures and programs in suite and in the PantheaCon program by present and past members. The Covenant of the Goddess (CoG) includes covens and individual members of many Craft traditions, organized in 13 Local Councils across North America. We are a national organization of Witches, founded in California in 1975 as a non-profit 501(c)3 religious corporation, making us one of the oldest and most diverse Witches’ organizations. We offer legally-recognized clergy credentials to qualified members, and form a network of support and information for Witches. CoG has been representing the Craft in interfaith work for nearly 40 years around the world. View our national website at www.cog.org. The New Wiccan Church, (NWC) was established in 1973, so it is among the oldest of established Pagan Churches. NWC was established to support members in all the needs of a religious community, supplying credentials for clergy as well as education and outreach to the wider community. We are specifically a British Traditional Wiccan church with members from many branches of these practices. We are currently in the process of applying for 501(c)3 non-profit status. Please visit us at the Hospitality Suite at the Convention or on our website at www.newwiccanchurch.org NROOGD, the New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn, is a Witches’ tradition originating in 1968 in the Bay Area. We have celebrated over 45 years of open Sabbats throughout the Greater Bay Area. Let us know if you want to attend any. Please drop by at the Hospitality Suite, or catch up with us at www.nroogd.info

American Magic Umbanda House. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 960

We are followers of Umbanda African, an Afro-Brazilian spiritual tradition working with the Orixa of the Yoruba people of West Africa. We are a mixed pantheon house, meaning we also work with other powers. The House, under Mai d’Orixa Maeva, resides in Oakland California. Our suite will be open to everyone from noon to midnight on Saturday and Sunday and noon to 5pm on Monday. Because of our work on the Pombagira ritual, there is no open suite time on Friday. There will be snacks and conversation during the open hours. Please check the sign by the suite door talks and other more structured events. http://www.amumbanda.org/

House of Brigh Faery Seership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 962

The House of Brigh Faery Seership™ tradition is a collection and system of lore, customs, techniques and prohibitions, which are influenced by the age-old practices of the conjurers, seers, cunningmen, and hedge-witching women of America and northern and western Europe. It focuses on the living inner common wealth of the sacred land, and humanity’s spiritual cousins (the Faery) in the other world and our relationship with deep ancestral currents of contact. It is a philosophy, way of life and a paradigm through which we, as humans can re-enter alliance with the Earth, other living creatures, the plant/ tree kingdom and other races of spirit-beings which share the Earth’s surface and underworld life with us. This tradition includes some lore and techniques that are quite old and have survived to date in many areas of Europe and America in folk traditions, ballads and lore. It also includes contemporary techniques and lore developed through the co-creative relationship between Orion and his faery-wife, Brigh. For more information about Faery Seership, Orion Foxwood’s books and workshops, and his Conjure Root-Doctoring work, see www.orionfoxwood.com. Please stop by our suite for additional programming and events related to the Faery Seership tradition facilitated by seers from across the United States. A schedule of events and suite hours will be posted on the door.

Temple of Witchcraft . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 964

Co-founded by Christopher Penczak, Steve Kenson, and Adam Sartwell, the Temple started in 1998 as a system of magickal training and personal development, and eventually developed into a formal tradition of Witchcraft. Now, as an outgrowth of the work of students, initiates, and graduates of the programs, the Temple of Witchcraft has evolved into an organization based on traditions of modern magick, Witchcraft, and neopaganism. The work of the Temple seeks to strengthen the connections between spirit and matter through inner transformation and public service. The Temple of Witchcraft’s goal on an individual level is to awaken the potential of the human soul to its natural gifts of psychic awareness, communion with nature and the spirits, and magick. We seek an expansion of consciousness through the alignment of our souls with Love, Will, and Wisdom to further the Great Work. On a greater scale, we seek the restoration, maintenance, and evolution of humanity to the Garden of the Gods, the cooperative consciousness where all things are in harmony and community. Our myths define this awareness as the First Garden. We manifest this vision through both our inner workings and service to the greater community. By these actions, we plant the seeds and tend the garden of Witchcraft culture, tradition and community. For

Covenant of the Goddess, New Wiccan Church & NROOGD Welcome you to our Hospitality Suite

Room 957

Please see our description in the Hospitality Suite section of the Program and come join us for sparkling conversation and mediocre (if plentiful) food. This year we are offering a great set of programs as well as well as the virtual auction and various raffle prizes. This Year’s Schedule of Presentations Friday 1 pm 5-‐6:30 pm Saturday 9 am 11 am 12 noon 3 pm 6-‐7 pm 7:30 pm After midnight Sunday 9 am 12 noon 3:30 pm

6-‐7:30 pm 7:30 pm Monday 9 am

Suite opens

COG Meet & Greet

Meeting and reception for COG members and interested Witches.

Suite opens Children’s Magical Belt of Protection Ritual with Hillary Bring your own lunch and hang out Your identity is the connection you have to the universe and the manifestation of your Taylor Ellwood: Magical Identity reality in this world. Morgana is a Gardnerian HPS and the Coordinator of Pagan Federation International, the Reception with Morgana Sythove BTW gathering with Morgana Late Night Gathering, hosted by Dark Forest Coven

international branch of the Pagan Federation, founded in the UK in 1971. (Session closed to BTW Initiates. If we don’t know you, we may ask for a vouch.) Usually the Suite closes around midnight. This year we are staying open late Saturday night—come hang out and chat.

Suite Opens Bring your own lunch and hang out Engaging “Wiccanate Privilege” (Discussion) Chaired by Don Frew Wiccan Elder Reception with Geraldine Beskin

Fundraising Auction & Raffle

Suite packing up to go!

Follow-‐up meeting with NWC and interested others on suite operations

Recent discussions on the Wild Hunt and other “Pagan” blogs have questioned the extent to which “Paganism” is no longer viable as a name for our movement, and even if we are similar enough to be described as a “movement” at all. Geraldine runs London’s oldest independent occult bookstore, The Atlantis Bookshop, which is over 90 years old

For a full description of the workshops listed above and those of the folks listed below, please check with the information desk for a complete schedule In Addition: In addition to programs in the Suite, COG / NROOGD / NWC members are giving many other presentations at this year’s PantheaCon. Look for these names in the program. Sorry if we overlooked anyone!

Margot Adler:, Diana Paxson Crystal Blanton , Hexeba Theaux Dark Forest Coven Ruth Temple Dragon’s Weyr Circle Glenn Turner Don Frew Valerie Voigt Amber K & Azrael Arynn K Brandy Williams Anna Korn Sabina Magliocco

AND of course we are once again hosting our 2nd annual virtual Auction. Bid via smart phone, computer, or come into the suite and use our computer. We’ll be glad to help you learn to find and track your bids and to monitor your bidding progress. 16

more information about the Temple, explore our site, http://www. templeofwitchcraft.org/. Open Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 7pm-12am. • Friday 7-8pm - a talk on basic protection and protection shields. 8pm-12am - an open social evening. Refreshments will be available. • Saturday—open for socializing from 7pm-12am. • Sunday—closed from 7pm-9pm for a private function. Open again at 9pm 9pm - 10pm - a talk on cleansing auras and balancing chakras 10pm-12am - more social time.

Circle of Cerridwen. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 966

The Circle of Cerridwen Suite is open to everyone regardless of gender identity, affectional or sexual orientation, age, religious affiliation or any other identity. The suite will be alcohol and drug free in respect for those who are in recovery. General hours are 4pm-around 1 am. Thursday night: Film night for anyone showing up early. We’ll be showing various films including The Wicker Man, Barbarella, and other weird and wacky stuff. Please call the room for admission. Friday: open around 4pm. In the evening, there will be an informal concert by Mage of Machines (Sarah Thompson’s musical alter-ego). 9pm - 10.30pm: Spirit Babies ritual by our member Denise Cicuito. The suite will most likely be closed during this time. 11pm - midnight-ish: Socializing in the suite (will probably close by 1 am at the latest) Saturday: 4pm: Suite open to the public. 7pm: Open 4=7 initiation ritual by the Witches Order of the Golden Dawn (which is comprised of several of our coven members). We intend to do a full Golden Dawn 4=7 Philosophus working, open to anyone who wants to show up and take part. 8pm - Midnight-ish: Socializing in the suite. Possibly some more Mage of Machines live music and possibility of a special event. (close by 1 am) Sunday: 4pm - Suite open to the public. 7pm: Between the Worlds Wiccan-Christian Church Ritual by Rev. Gina Pond. 8pm - midnight: Socializing in the suite. (Close by 1 am)

Pagan Scholars’ Suite. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967

Hosted by Cherry Hill Seminary, The Conference on Current Pagan Studies, the Pagan History Project, and The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies. Broach the Ivory Tower and rub elbows and shoulders with pagan scholars in the Pagan Scholars’ Suite! Discover or rediscover academic programs and projects, find and enter into the conversation. Presentations on Cherry Hill Seminary, The Conference on Current Pagan Studies, and the Pagan History Project will occur in the room, as well as a round table discussion. We will post a short schedule on the door. Cocktails and conversation, nibbles and hobnobbing! We look forward to your attendance and participation!

The Hammer of Thor Kindred . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1051 We are a traditional Asatru kindred based in California, with members ranging from Los Angeles to Yuba City and San Fran-

cisco to Reno, NV. We practice traditional ancestral-based Asatru and also are involved in community outreach and networking. • Friday Open House 9 am to 8:30 pm. 2:00 pm - Blot 2:30 pm - Rune Workshop 5:00 pm - Sumbel 6:00 pm - Open Discussion on Asatru • Saturday Open House 9 am to Midnight 4:00 pm - Blot 5:00 pm - Sumbel 6:00 pm - Hexerei Workshop 8:00 pm - Introduction to Mead Workshop • Sunday Open House 9 am to Midnight 4:00 pm - Blot 5:00 pm - Sumbel 6:00 pm - Germanic Magic Workshop

Green Fairy Absinthe Parties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1054

Friday and Saturday, 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. Necronomi.com and friends invite you for Bacchanalian respites and indulgence in our magnificent party room. Some say we are possessed by the spirit known as the Green Fairy, which we do not deny. Nor do we deny that we, in turn, possess her. In fact, if you would honor us with your presence, you may soon say the same of yourself! This year, the delirious pixie is expected to be exceptionally generous with her charms. But that is not the end of — nor the end to — our merriments. A veritable tavern of refined beverages awaits your sampling, as well as a sumptuous banquet — a feast fit for kings and queens, or at least the Fairy’s most devoted acolytes and companions. There shall be song, decadence, and contemplation of topics profound… an environment ideal for the relief of the weary spiritual explorer or a copious enhancement to their visions and dreams. The night of Venus is suited to all acts of love and passion, and the night of Saturn shall be our Saturnalia. Please be advised that both photo IDs and convention badges will be required at the door, and that these are 21+ parties.

Llewellyn Worldwide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057

As the world’s oldest and largest independent publisher of books for body, mind, and spirit, Llewellyn has been dedicated to bringing our readers the very best in metaphysical books and resources since 1901. We provide instruction and new perspectives on a wealth of topics, including witchcraft, Paganism, astrology, tarot, earth-based spirituality, magic, and the paranormal. We are excited to be hosting a hospitality suite for the first time at PantheaCon this year, so please drop by for a visit! We’ll be hosting book launch parties, author panels, informal discussions, a book publishing workshop, author presentations, and much more. We plan to be open Saturday and Sunday from 12:30pm to 10pm except during the dinner hour. Here are some of our events; for a complete listing of all our author presentations please check our door poster, daily updates from the con, or www.llewellyn.com/blog/paganism. • Friday 7-10pm: Llewellyn Mingler – meet Llewellyn authors and staff, enjoy refreshments with us! • Saturday 11am-12pm: How to Get Published. Learn about our publishing house, how to submit manuscripts and proposals, and much more!

12-12:30pm: Speed Pitching. Pitch your proposal to Llewellyn’s senior acquisitions editor, publicist, or publisher, 5 minutes each. Sign up early! 3pm: Ceremonial Magic Panel - The Way In - with authors Brandy Williams, Lon Milo DuQuette, Chic and Tabatha Cicero, and John Opsopaus (Bruce MacLennan, PhD). Pagans interested in ceremonial magic need a way in. There are so many books and groups, how to understand where to get started? This panel of experts in Thelema, Golden Dawn, Theurgy, and Women’s Rituals provides a portal to enter into the world of ceremonial magic. 8-10pm: Book Launch Party - ! Join Oberon Zell, Morning Glory Zell, and John Sulak as they launch Oberon and MG’s life story, “The Wizard and The Witch: Seven Decades of Counterculture, Magick and Paganism!” Giveaways, door prizes, refreshments, and a special reading from the book! • Sunday 11am-12:30 pm: Llewellyn Death Panel - with authors Kenny Klein, Lauren DeVoe, Lupa, Stephanie Woodfield, Mambo Chita Tann, Tess Whitehurst, and Tony Mierzwicki. No matter what your path, all Pagans have dead people — and different ways of revering or working with them. Join us to talk about communication, offerings, and rituals; plus rites for death and dying and Pagan end-oflife choices. 3pm: Book Launch – “ A Witch’s World of Magick” by Melanie Marquis. Find out what kinds of magical theories and techniques can be found in cultures across space and time, and how to use them today! 8-10pm: Closing Reception and Salon. We’ll try to pinpoint the most interesting developments at PantheaCon this year and host a comfortable space to continue the discussions.

OSOGD. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1060 The OSOGD invites you to our hospitality suite to enjoy good company, libations and refreshments, lively conversation, and chill space. The suite will be open Friday evening, Saturday afternoon and evening, and Sunday afternoon and evening. Members of our Bay Area and Seattle Lodges will be present during the weekend. Two special events will be held in the suite: • Friday—7:00 p.m. - Hermes worship & Gathering of the Caucus. Following on the last two years workshop and major ritual, we gather the followers of Hermes for a moment of worship and discussion of our latest projects to fulfill the needs discussed two years ago at our first meeting in 2012. Worship will be proceeded by a brief Dharma teaching in support of Saturday’s Tantric Invocation of Hermes class at 1:30pm in Silicon Valley. • Saturday—9:00 pm Introducing the Pantheon Foundation reception. We are a new Pagan religious non-profit in process of earning its 501(c)3. Our Mission: To provide organizational support for the practice of Pagan religion and the fostering of Pagan Ministry. To study the history, promote the culture, and advance the social welfare of Pagans and the Pagan community. Come meet the team working to build a Pagan future. The Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn is a group of Pagans who have come together to study the Mysteries of Hermetic Magick. Our goal is to normalize adeptship: to make the art of magick more prevalent in the world. Contact us at: cancellarius@ osogd.org or the learn more about us here: www.osogd.org

Sosyete Fos Fe Yo We’s Vodou Lounge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1066

Look for The Vodou Store (Docteur Caeli D’Anto and Hellfurian Leontari’s incredible shop) in the vendors area, too! • Friday: 7pm to ?? - Suite Closed for sosyete dinner, meetings, and ceremonies - invitation only • Saturday Afternoon: meetings, readings/book signings in the vendors area, ritual preparation, open hours. See the door for an up to date schedule! 7pm “Vodou 101” in the suite. Come talk with Mambo T and the Sosyete about what it’s like to be a Vodouisant, and practice for tonight’s Danbala sevis. 9pm in the Con - Mambo T and the Sosyete present the Danbala Sevis. See the program book for what to bring and what to wear. 11pm to ?? - “Vodou 102” in the suite. Come back after the sevis to talk about what you saw and did, or join us to talk about Vodou if you couldn’t attend. • Sunday 9am in the Con - Osiris ritual with Mambo T (as Rev. Tamara of the House of Netjer) 1-3:30pm Open Hours TBA 3:30-5pm Readings with Mambo T and Book Signings - pick up your copy of Haitian Vodou or any of her other books at The Vodou Store’s vendor booth beforehand 5-7pm Suite Closed for sosyete dinner 7-10pm Vodou Lounge - open hours to meet and greet with Mambo T and Sosyete members. Everyone welcome. • Monday Hours TBA. See you next year!

House of Danu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1067

• Saturday 12–1:30pm: Learning About Becoming A Druid -The House of Danu invites you to interact with Pan Druid Culture. Seize this opportunity to experience Druidry from a variety of traditions including ADF, OBOD, FoDLA, and RDNA following the historic Pan Druid Panel discussion and ritual that took place at 9:00am • Sunday 7:30 am–8:30am: Morning Twilight Meditation—To the Celts and the Druids the twilights were sacred times, the veils would thin as shadow approached or vanished. Most practitioners have experience with the evening twilight and its workings. Join Murias, the House of Danu Presider, as he sets you about a morning meditation exploring the various workings of the veils of the morning twilight and its significance on a Druid or Celtic path, a waking druid meditation. 9:30pm–1:00am: House of Danu Reception–Join members of the House of Danu for music, dance, and mead. ID required.

LLC

sanctuary for the open mind

Come Enjoy 2 Weeks Of Festivals During July 2014! Promoting creativity and spiritual growth in a community setting

Sankofa Festival

“Celebrate the Creative Spirit”

July 7 - 13

20th Annual

SIRIUS RISING

“Home Is Where the Spirit Is”

July 14 - 20

“You can feel the energy of the land; it moves like it!” – Festival Participant

Longest event of its kind in the USA Sherman, NY - Brushwood.com

Over 100 Workshops: Mind-Body-Spirit, Art, Drumming, Dancing, Sacred Fires, Hands-On Crafts, Kids' and Teen Programs Activities: Nightly Performances, Rituals Labyrinth, Sweat Lodge Enjoy: Camping (free with festival entrance), Hot Showers, Hiking Trails, Pool & Hot Tub, Nearby Bed-n-Breakfasts and Hotels

PRICES: Sankofa $150 (7 days/6 nights) $70 Weekend Only (Fri – Sun) Sirius Rising $180 (7 days/6 nights) $80 Weekend Only (Fri – Sun) Go to Brushwood.com for campground information and more details.

Magick Old and New: Wisdom and Practice Available wherever books and ebooks are sold.

Weiser Books has been publishing important and informed esoterica and occult literature for more than 60 years; popular with practitioners of all stripes and sizes. Two new titles from Weiser not to be missed this year include:

Oakland, CA in July, 2014

Vampires Are Us Margot Adler “An illuminating and fascinating work!” –Starhawk, author of The Spiral Dance and The Fifth Sacred Thing 9781578635603 $18.95 • March 2014

Grimoire of the Thorn Blooded Witch Raven Grimassi As practical as it is enchanting, this book will show students the ways of the Thorned Path.

9781578635504 $18.95 • August 2014

MEET OUR AUTHORS AND EDITORS! Friday, February 14 at 3:30pm, the Weiser panel: In Service to the Muse: Rituals in Writing and Publishing. The craft of writing and magic often intersect. Learn what Weiser authors do, worship, and reveal in their writing process. Want more? Visit our website and you’ll find a whole lot more! Weiser Books www.redwheelweiser.com 800.423.7087 orders@rwwbooks.com

theurgicon

What is Theurgy? t is the use of magick to contact the One or a particular God by use of appropriate signs and symbols and thereby achieving information or enlightenment. Personal spiritual development and happiness are generally the goals. The West Coast has many practitioners of magick; our goal is to provide a place for practitioners to exchange ideas and strategies for accomplishing the Great Work.

For more information, visit the website: www.TheurgiCon.com or contact glenn@ancientways.com.

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1:00 PM — Opening Ritual....................................................................................................Glenn Turner & friends............................. Oak 1:30 PM — The Ephesia Grammata.......................................................................................P. Sufenas Virius Lupus............................. Cedar 1:30 PM — Juggling the Gods: syncretism in theory and practice.........................................Soli Johnson............................................. Fir 1:30 PM — Binding Intentions: The Art of Fiber Magic..........................................................Lee Harrington......................................... Oak 1:30 PM — Shaman Practices: Calling In Prayer and Ho’ Oponopono.....................................Jeanne McLaughlin.................................. San Juan/ San Carlos 1:30 PM — A Thousand Ways: Exploring Devotional Ritual Models.......................................Silence Maestas....................................... San Martin/ San Simeon 1:30 PM — The Tradition of Lothlorien..................................................................................Charly McCreary....................................... Santa Clara 1:30 PM — Mojo and Magic in Blues Music...........................................................................Kenny Klein.............................................. Silicon Valley 3:30 PM v Key Mastering- Using Keys for Magickal Purporses.............................................Puck......................................................... Boardroom 3:30 PM — In Service to the Muse: Rituals in Writing & Publishing.......................................Weiser Books............................................ Carmel/ Monterey 3:30 PM — Finding the God: Male Archetypes of Deity in the Craft.......................................Jason W. Mankey...................................... Cedar 3:30 PM — Village Witchery 101...........................................................................................Hexeba Theaux......................................... Fir 3:30 PM — Energy Healing: Basic to Intermediate.................................................................Gus diZerega............................................ Oak 3:30 PM v The Many Faces of Aphrodite...............................................................................Temple of Aphrodite................................ Pine 3:30 PM — Introduction to Indigenous Ifa & Orisha..............................................................Baba Esu.................................................. San Jose 3:30 PM — Anubis and Wepwawet: Gods of Many Aspects...................................................Richard Reidy........................................... San Juan/ San Carlos 3:30 PM — The Bornless One: Invocation and Shapeshifting.................................................Chic Cicero & Sandra Tabatha Cicero......... San Martin/ San Simeon 3:30 PM — Pagan Theurgy....................................................................................................Brandy Williams....................................... Santa Clara 3:30 PM ¡ PoC Caucus..........................................................................................................Xochiquetzal Duti..................................... Silicon Valley

1:00 PM

Opening Ritual

Oak

Glenn Turner & friends We protect and bless this space with a short ritual. We are face to face with our community again. Welcome home. 1:30 PM

The Ephesia Grammata

Cedar

P. Sufenas Virius Lupus The Ephesia Grammata or “Ephesian Letters” were said to have been written on the statue of Artemis of Ephesus, and consist of six (or occasionally seven) words that are somewhat like other voces magicae; they are often used in spell formulae in Graeco-Egyptian magic. They were also used in the ancient world for both protection, and possibly for divination. Learn about the system, and how it can be used for these purposes today. Bring at least six notecards, paper, pieces of wood, stones, or other small objects as well as writing materials appropriate to them to possibly make your own! 1:30 PM

Juggling the Gods: Syncretism in Theory & Practice

Fir

Soli Johnson Whether by chance or fate, some modern pagans and polytheists find themselves honoring Gods and spirits from more than one tradition. Here we will discuss the hows and whys of syncretism, the role of history, navigating ways to keep Everyone happy, avoiding cultural appropriation, and still having a life outside of the shrine.

FRIDAY

1:30 PM

Binding Intentions: The Art of Fiber Magic

Oak

Lee Harrington Fiber magic has been a part of sacred mysteries for ages, the Fates measuring our lives, weaving them into the tapestry of life, and then cutting our cords when our time has run out. Let’s discuss the applications of this magical form, from intention setting to connection building, blessings to curses, weaving lives together and relaying the strands of our own lives into the patterns we desire. Cingulums, dream catchers, restraint ordeals, laying astral cords, and creating “haunted” rope, rope and fiber magic comes in a thousand forms and we’ll touch on as many as we can. 1:30 PM

San Juan/ San Carlos

Shaman Practices: Calling In Prayer and Ho’ Oponopono

Jeanne McLaughlin Shaman Ways are about Walking the Beauty Path, Living in Harmony with the Collective and exploring alternate realities. Using the Calling In Prayer calls in all the powers of the Universe to assist you in your life. We’ll do a a brief meditation that gets you to your Heart Center where you can be safe and work with your own personal guides. The Ho’ Oponopono practice clears negative energies - for you as well as the collective. It also heals old wounds and experiences. You will leave the workshop knowing both practices, and will be able to start using them immediately. You’ll see a positive change in your life within a month... or less!

1:30 PM

San Martin/ San Simeon

A Thousand Ways: Exploring Devotional Ritual Models

Silence Maestas Ritual allows for ecstatic emotional connection between worshiper and the divine Beloved. In this session we will look at models of devotional ritual and consider how these models support the development of a personal devotional practice. Personal, community, and universal implications of devotional ritual will also be considered as we finish with a look at how ritual reaffirms our connection with the numinous. 1:30 PM

Santa Clara

The Tradition of Lothlorien

Charly McCreary Founded in 1977 by renowned herbalist and Wiccan author Rev. Paul Beyerl, the Tradition of Lothlorien is a neo-Alexandrian trad currently based in Seattle, Washington. Lothlorien has its own unique set of ritual texts, blessings, and ceremonies for all occasions. In this presentation, Lay Minister Charly McCreary will discuss the history of the tradition and share some of the ritual practices and enchanting poetic versus used in the Ritual of Lothlorien. 1:30 PM

Mojo and Magic in Blues Music

Silicon Valley

Kenny Klein Blues is an American musical culture with roots in African, Irish and English folklore. Kenny Klein talks about the origins of Blues music, and its roots in voodoo lore and Southern magic, the essential Blues rhythms derived from Afro-Cuban drum patterns, and the magic and tribal origins of chant-and-dance traditions like the Mardi Gras Indians and Talking Blues. 3:30 PM

Key Mastering- Using Keys for Magickal Purporses

Boardroom

Puck

Whether they are made 100 years ago or within 5 minutes at your local hardware store, keys play a very important part in both the mundane and magical world. Cultures, religions, and magical practices use keys to help unlock paths to destiny and fate. In this class you will learn how Keys are represented in cultures around the world and how you can use an average key to work your magick in a snap! Skeleton Keys will be provided for the class.

3:30 PM

Carmel/ Monterey

In Service to the Muse: Rituals in Writing & Publishing

Weiser Books The Craft of writing and magic often intersect. Learn what Weiser authors do, worship, and reveal in their writing process,plus tips from Weiser editors on wrangling your own muse into creating something that will be publishable. Hear from Weiser all-stars including Lon Milo DuQuette, Thorn Coyle, Jen McConnel, Diana Paxson, Margot Adler, Orion Foxwood, Raven Grimassi, & Mary K. Greer. Basic tips on proposal writing and submission guidelines will be on hand. Come kick-off Pantheacon 2014 and get inspired to write your own way!

3:30 PM

Finding the God: Male Archetypes of Deity in the Craft

Cedar

Jason W. Mankey Trickster, Lord of the Sun, Oak King, Horned One . . . many of us are familiar with these titles, but how did these particular god archetypes come to be a part of Modern Paganism? Come explore the history and attributes of these familiar figures (and more) and how they continue to be an important and vital part of many contemporary Pagan practices. 3:30 PM

Village Witchery 101

Fir

Hexeba Theaux As witches, we have a hybrid heritage: ceremonial magic and other elements of the Western Mystery Tradition, modern scholarship, the Counterculture, European Shamanism and folk tradition. If we come out of the broom closet, we quickly learn that it is the practical magic of folk tradition that comes foremost in the minds of our non-Pagan neighbors! What do you do when they start coming to you asking for help with their love life, their children and their lost cats? Come learn about the nuts and bolts of Village Witchery. 3:30 PM

Energy Healing: Basic to Intermediate

Oak

Gus diZerega This workshop assumes no previous knowledge. Topics are flexible, but will include: what is energy healing?, seeing healing energy, moving healing energy within your own body, the importance of motivation, ‘yin’ and ‘yang’ energy, auric cleansing, chakra stimulation, relieving energy coagulations that lead to physical symptoms such as pain and stiffness, and self-cleansing. This workshop integrates the basics of what I learned studying six years with a Brazilian shaman as well as twenty-five years of healing work. 3:30 PM

The Many Faces of Aphrodite

Pine

Temple of Aphrodite In this immersive and interactive ritual experience facilitated and hosted by the Oakland based Temple of Aphrodite, participants will explore different aspects of Aphrodite, leading to successively deepening encounters. She is known as the Goddess of love, sex and beauty, but seekers find so much more within, frequently defying expectation. Participants must be over 18.

3:30 PM

Introduction to Indigenous Ifa & Orisha

San Jose

Baba Esu The Yoruba culture and language offers a deeply rooted unbroken lineage of spiritual knowledge and wisdom from which birthed Santeria, Lucumi, and Umbanda. In this talk, we will focus on an overview of Ifa cosmology, the creation story, and all of the wellknown Deities or Orisha of the Yoruba Pantheon: Esu, Ogun, Osoosi, Oshun, Yemoja, Oya, Obatala, Aganju, Osain, as well as The Ancestors. The perspective of this talk will be highlighting spiritual elevation techniques through the ritual technology, beauty-filled, wisdom based tradition as it comes to us from West Africa, especially Nigeria.

FRIDAY

3:30 PM

San Juan/ San Carlos

Anubis and Wepwawet: Gods of Many Aspects

Richard Reidy We will examine the many and varied roles of these jackalheaded gods, how they interacted with the people as well as with other gods in Egypt. Anubis is much more than solely the psychopomp leading souls of the dead into the next world. Wepwawet is more than the god at the head of royal processions. Join us as we examine ancient texts to gain a deeper understanding of these gods. Everyone will have an opportunity to interact with Anubis and Wepwawet in a brief ritual based on ancient texts. 3:30 PM

San Martin/ San Simeon

The Bornless One: Invocation and Shapeshifting

7:00 PM

The Guardians: A Ritual of Calling

T, Thorn Coyle & Morningstar Mystery School We invoke the Guardians of Matter, Space, and Time. We call them from their vast and distant realms, from the edges of the edgeless worlds. We invoke them from the chambers of our hearts, reflections of their vastness. We meet “as within, so without” unlocking Mystery. To summon the Guardians, we must summon the sparks that burn likes stars at the core of the soul. In summoning the Guardians, we find our place in the cosmos itself. What is our role? What will we risk? What becomes possible? Please join us as we chant the Names of Power. This ritual is for adults. Doors closed at start.

Chic Cicero & Sandra Tabatha Cicero One of the most powerful and best-known rituals used by ceremonial magicians today is quite ancient in origin. The “Invocation to the Bornless One” was found in a collection of ancient magical papyri dating from Greco-Roman Egypt which included a number of magical spells, hymns, and ritual techniques. The “Bornless Ritual” incorporated an excellent method for Divine Invocation and Godform Assumption, wherein the magician would first invoke and then “shapeshift” into the form of a High God in order to perform magic. This lecture explores the various incarnations of this potent ritual.

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Pagan Theurgy

Santa Clara

Brandy Williams Hellenic Neo-Platonists called the gods into statues, each other, and themselves. Modern theurgists adapt their use invocation, image, sound and breathing to bring the gods into our lives today. This introduction covers the Egyptian/Kemetic origins of theurgy, the Neo-Platonic teaching lineage, the theurgic understanding of the soul, and basic theurgic techniques, including solar breathing. 3:30 PM

PoC Caucus

Silicon Valley

Xochiquetzal Duti Back for its THIRD year, we are continuing our discussions around what it means to be Pagans of Color; how we engage the world around us, what our magic looks and feels like and where we can find solidarity to strengthen our personal workings as we navigate a subculture as a person of Color. As a conscious decision by the organizers, this year we are limiting entry to the Caucus to those who identify as NONWHITE ONLY. We are holding a separate meeting for allies to discuss during a different timeslot in the Pagans of Color Hospitality Suite. ALL are invited to that on Saturday during lunch.

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Pagans in recovery—Serenity first

Boardroom

Frank Johnstone Serenity first is a open, 12 step recovery meeting. We will share our experience, strength, and hope, in an Earth based format. All spiritual paths/and programs of recovery welcome Walk-ins are welcome

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Cedar/ Pine

Fir

Magick Incense Making 101

Carl F. Neal Learn to make all-natural incense for your rituals or as gifts! There are no synthetic fragrances here, only the gifts that Nature has given to us. Learn to combine herbs, resins, and woods with natural gum and wood binders to create your own sticks, cones, coils, and much more, that are infused with your own energy. You will leave this workshop with natural incense you have crafted with your own hands. If you haven’t had a chance to attend this workshop before, don’t miss out! Doors close at start time.

Oak

Your Body as the God/Goddess

Sarah Astarte Our body is a reflection of the Divine. This workshop focuses on body image and integrating healing, positive messages and gender identity to overcome negative messages, wounding, and socio-culturally assigned gender roles. Body maps will be made by participants and shared in a group setting, with feedback and support for each. Facilitated discussion on self-image, distorted body image, cultural beauty ideals, gender roles, and personal empowerment, and a ritual blessing will be included. Love your body as the God/Goddess!

7:00 PM

San Jose

Tales from Anatolia - a personal encounter with Hekate

Morgana Sythove Since 2004 I have had a close connection with Anatolia, Modern Turkey. Hekate called me and in 2005 I, along with a 12-strong delegation, visited Lagina, the oldest sanctuary dedicated to Hekate in the world. This was called “Hekatesia 2005” organised by PFI Turkey. Since 2005 many things have happened all connected to Hekate. I have been back to Turkey a number of times and in 2012 revisited Lagina. In “Tales from Anatolia” I would like to present some of the findings I have made. As it turned out this was not just an encounter with Hekate but also the unfolding story of the Sacred Bees... 7:00 PM

A Different Kind of Seidh

San Juan/ San Carlos

Freyja’s Gift Join Freyja’s Gift Trance Team as they send several Seeress and Seers into Trance to find answer to questions you may

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7:00 PM — Pagans in recovery-Serinity first..........................................................................Frank Johnstone....................................... Boardroom 7:00 PM v The Guardians: A Ritual of Calling........................................................................T, Thorn Coyle & Mystery School............... Cedar/ Pine 7:00 PM v Magick Incense Making 101................................................................................Carl F. Neal............................................... Fir 7:00 PM ¡ Your Body as the God/Goddess............................................................................Sarah Astarte........................................... Oak 7:00 PM — Tales from Anatolia - a personal encounter with Hekate.....................................Morgana Sythove..................................... San Jose 7:00 PM ¡ A Different Kind of Seidh.....................................................................................Freyja’s Gift............................................... San Juan/ San Carlos 7:00 PM v The Herald, The Father, The Sage.........................................................................CAYA Coven’s Brotherhood of the Moon.... San Martin/ San Simeon 7:00 PM — Exploring Plant and Fungus Totems.....................................................................Lupa......................................................... Santa Clara 7:00 PM — Faultlines: The 60s, the Culture Wars, and the Return of the Div..........................Gus diZerega............................................ Silicon Valley A Black Woman Speaks.......................................................................................Luna Pantera............................................ Carmel/Monterey 7:00 PM v 9:00 PM — Blot to the Heathen Gods....................................................................................Hammer of Thor Kindred.......................... Boardroom 9:00 PM — Ruth Barrett and Holly Tannen in Concert............................................................Holly Tannen & Ruth Barrett..................... Carmel/ Monterey 9:00 PM — Woodland Valentine’s Night Concert....................................................................Woodland................................................ Cedar/ Pine 9:00 PM v The Rite of Love and Delight................................................................................Sacred Fires and CAYA Coven.................... Oak 9:00 PM v Spirit Babies........................................................................................................Denise Cicuto........................................... Riesling 9:00 PM — The Turtle Moves: Introduction to the Wit & Magick of Discworld........................Oberon Zell & Devi Lanphere.................... San Jose 9:00 PM — The Horned God in the British Isles......................................................................Jason W. Mankey...................................... San Juan/ San Carlos 9:00 PM v Taoist Inner Alchemical Breathing Meditations...................................................Taylor Ellwood.......................................... San Martin/ San Simeon 9:00 PM — Experimental Reconstruction..............................................................................Finnchuill................................................. Santa Clara 9:00 PM — Drum Circle 101...................................................................................................Don Schulz............................................... Silicon Valley 11:00 PM — The Great Goddess: syncretism in the Roman empire..........................................Max Dashu............................................... Carmel/ Monterey 11:00 PM ¡ Pomba Gira 2.0: Red is the New Black!!!..............................................................American Magic Umbanda House............ Cedar/ Pine 1 1:00 PM v Trance Dancing with the Jinn..............................................................................Yasmin Henkesh....................................... San Martin/ San Simeon 11:00 PM — Bardic Circle.........................................................................................................Valerie E. Voigt......................................... Silicon Valley have about your future from the Gods, from your Beloved Dead, and from the Spirits of the Land. Because some participants may have emotional releases due to their answers, we recommend ages 13 and older. Controlled Exit. People will be checked at the door like Poomba Gira 7:00 PM

The Herald, The Father, The Sage

San Martin/ San Simeon

CAYA Coven’s Brotherhood of the Moon CAYA Coven’s Brotherhood of the Moon invites self-identified men to a ritual exploration of the archetypes of the Divine Masculine and the Gods that inspire, guide and assist us in achieving our personal goals of excellence. Let us stand tall and proud alongside one another with mutual respect, fidelity, camaraderie and devotion as we reveal the faces of the God within (This ritual is designed to be received by self-identified men)

7:00 PM

Exploring Plant and Fungus Totems

Santa Clara

Lupa Many pagans are familiar with animal totems, but what about their plant and fungus counterparts? Join Lupa as she explores how to meet these earthy beings, what you should know when working with them alone and with the animals, where plant and fungus totemism crosses over with herbalism and other such practices, why

the fungi get their own special mention, the problem with lichens, and much more! 7:00 PM

Silicon Valley

Faultlines: The 60s, the Culture Wars, & the Return of the Div

Gus diZerega My book “Faultlines: The Sixties. the Culture Wars, and the Return of the Divine Feminine” was published in November, 2013. Much of the book relates how contemporary Neopaganism fits into the serious political, religious and cultural tensions shaking our country. I will discuss themes of particular importance to NeoPagans such as why we emerged so prominently in the 60s, why we are so influential in many mainline religions despite our small numbers, particularly the Feminine and Nature, and how our broad sensibility fits in with America’s needs. Audience discussions and questions are encouraged. 7:00 PM

A Black Woman Speaks

Carmel/Monterey

Luna Pantera In 1950 Beah Richards performed a one-woman monologue that shocked The Chicago Women for Peace, an all white liberal organization. Now, women are still trying to come together to heal ourselves, our love ones, and the world; and sometimes unity is not possible until we remember and acknowledge our history. A Black

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Woman Speaks brings Ms. Richards monologue into a six woman ritual piece that calls on the energies of the Ancestors, Descendent, and the Ancient Ones; presenting the bitter pill of our past and the sweet honey wine of what our future could be! Discussion after the performance. 9:00 PM

Blot to the Heathen Gods

Boardroom

Hammer of Thor Kindred This Asatru Blot will be conducted to honor the heathen gods and ancestors for their service to the community and to ask for further blessings upon the community, particularly for increasing a sense of community and sense of duty to serve the community. 9:00 PM

Ruth Barrett and Holly Tannen in Concert

Carmel/ Monterey

Holly Tannen and Ruth Barrett Dianic priestess Ruth Barrett sings original and traditional songs of the Goddess and Amazon women, accompanying herself on mountain dulcimer. From “Suburban Shaman” to “The Battle Hymn of the International Subversives,” Holly Tannen satirizes Californian neo-paganism and life on the Internet. Plus! more adventures from The Cronicles of Great Aunt Sophie and the Wikid Witches of West Yorkshire, in their magical quest to save the opalescent Australian anarchist, Julian Assange. 9:00 PM

Woodland Valentine’s Night Concert

Cedar/ Pine

Woodland 9:00 PM

The Rite of Love and Delight

Oak

Sacred Fires and CAYA Coven Come celebrate the deepest of human magic at the Rite of Love & Delight! Bring an open heart to the altar of Aphrodite and dance to primal beats as you surrender to L-O-V-E. Sacred Fires and CAYA are back this year as they merge five covens to present this ritual royale! In 2012 we healed the soul with Rite of the Bear Mother, in 2013 we declared ourselves to be whole with Rite of 1,000 Crowns, we invite you to join us in 2014 as we exalt the Queen Love Most High!

9:00 PM

Spirit Babies

Riesling

Denise Cicuto Our ritual is for people to remember and honor their “spirit babiesî: the unborn who were lost due to miscarriage, abortion, or stillbirth. It is for people to come together in sacred space to honor themselves, their lost spirit babies, and one another. All are welcome whose lives have been touched by pregnancy loss. Please bring a note to your spirit baby, flowers or something you’d like to put on the altar.

9:00 PM

San Jose

The Turtle Moves: Introduction to the Wit & Magick of Discworld

Oberon Zell & Devi Lanphere You have seen the quotes; but where do you start in your journey through the Discworld? We will introduce the four major

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groups and their interactions as well as lesser-known novels. Delight in Mr. Pratchett’s wry observations on magic, religion, and the human condition while discovering “Small Gods” and “The Colour of Magic.” This will be informative and fun as you sing along to the long-lost words to “A Wizard’s Staff has a Knob on the End” and “A Hedgehog Cannot Be Buggered.” Books, maps, DVDs, models, and artifacts of the Discworld will be displayed for your edification and amusement. 9:00 PM

The Horned God in the British Isles

San Juan/ San Carlos

Jason W. Mankey For thousands of years the Horned God has been honored in the British Isles and throughout the Celtic World. Before the rise of the Christian Church he was known as Cernunnos and seen as a god of hunting and the underworld. In the Middle Ages he whispered to his followers as the Green Man from high church walls, and as the god Herne he became an English icon. Some have argued that can be seen in literary figures such as Robin Hood and that he is the oldest of all deities. Learn the real history behind some of Paganism’s most revered deities and how their worship was reintroduced into the Modern World. 9:00 PM

San Martin/ San Simeon

Taoist Inner Alchemical Breathing Meditations

Taylor Ellwood In this class, Taylor will teach participants Taoist breathing meditation techniques that can be used for inner alchemical work, as well as discuss what Taoist Inner Alchemy is and how the breath work is related to helping a person achieve a state of being that is in alignment with the Tao. He’ll also discuss how the Earth and the cosmic energy is connected via the breathing and used to create an alchemical crucible for the birth of a spiritual embryo that represent the beginning stage of the Taoist Alchemical processes. Doors close at start time.

9:00 PM

Experimental Reconstruction

Santa Clara

Finnchuill Reconstructionism is often seen as something overly tied to a distant past, to ways of life that are far from our own. What are some ways we can use recon methodologies but in an experimental way: taking practices as far as we can understand them and then trying them out in our own context? Example: River goddesses were worshiped in ancient Celtic cultures--how to apply that here and now? Discussion meant to further participants’ own experiments. Applicable to various other cultural traditions too. 9:00 PM

Drum Circle 101

Silicon Valley

Don Schulz Love Drums? Love drumming? Hate doing it in public? Do you play on the down-low so no one can hear you? Do Drum Circles make you sweat? Wait, you’ve NEVER played before but want to? Feel you “have no rhythm”? Then this is the class for you! Bring your drum, shaker, rattle, whatever and join us! No drums? No problem, we always have something to share!

11:00 PM

Carmel/ Monterey

The Great Goddess: syncretism in the Roman empire

Max Dashu Isis of 10,000 Names, Kybele, the Magna Mater, Upis, Artemis Ephesia and Black Diana; Bona Dea, Ceres, Fortuna; Epona, the Matronae, Rosmerta and Sirona; Tanit-Caelestis, Atargatis and alUzza. We look at how these goddesses blended and shared symbols and attributes in the hybridized cultural mashup under an earlier globalized empire. This rich visual presentation takes in a surprisingly cohesive Goddess iconography from Jordan and Turkey to Britain, France and Spain to Tunisia and Ptolemaic Egypt. 11:00 PM

Pomba Gira 2.0: Red is the New Black!!!

Cedar/ Pine

American Magic Umbanda House Come to the revamped Parlor Of Pomba Gira, and join us as we drum, sing, dance and bask in the power and hard earned wisdom goddess of love and lust. Pomba Gira teaches us self -confidence, love of thyself, acceptance of others and how to pay your bills. Wear your finest red and black and be ready to whomp up a mountain of energy to bless this Con! Remember street legal in the halls and beach legal on the floor, your figs and berries must be covered at all times. This Ain’t your mama’s Pomba!!! No Photography, No One Under 21 - ID required at the door.

11:00 PM

Trance Dancing with the Jinn

San Martin/ San Simeon

Yasmin Henkesh Learn how to induce a trance using elements from Egyptian sacred dance. The method combines techniques from Sufi whirling, popular zikr and zar traditions. This meditation format burns serious calories!

11:00 PM

Bardic Circle

Silicon Valley

Valerie E. Voigt Love to lift your voice in song about that Old Time Religion? Want to learn more songs or sacred chants? Don’t want to sing, but want to recite poetry, or dance--or listen? Come share the fun. Format will be “Pick, pass, or play:” pick a song (or singer), pass (skip your turn), or play--that is, perform!

SATURDAY MORNING 9:00 AM

Carmel/ Monterey

Secrets for how to get published at Immanion Press

Immanion Press Have you ever wondered how to get your book published? In this presentation, we will share what Immanion Press looks for from potential authors, share what really stands out to us in book submissions, and explore what the author needs to do to be successful once the book is published. 9:00 AM

Wake Up to Spirit!

Cedar

CAYA Coven Join the Clergy, Initiates, and Dedicants of Come As You Are Coven for a joyful morning stretch, dance, and song ritual. This rite, a favorite for the past several years among PantheaCon attendees,

stirs the heart, mind, body and spirit in with its gentle, centering, enlivening energy. Adaptations gladly made for individuals with mobility issues. Come as you are and wake up to spirit with us! 9:00 AM

The Philosopher’s Stone: Spiritual Alchemy and Magic

Fir

Chic Cicero & Sandra Tabatha Cicero Alchemy is concerned with purification and transformation. The initiatory schools of magic teach that spiritual, or inner alchemy, is concerned with the transformation of the human soul from a state of baseness to one of spiritual enlightenment. It is psychological as well as mystical transformation. This lecture will explore the Hermetic art of alchemy, with particular emphasis on the symbolism of inner alchemy and how this symbolism is used in the rituals and magical work of the Golden Dawn. 9:00 AM

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Pan Druid Panel and Ritual

Pan Traditional Druids A Pan-Druid event. ADF, FoDLA, OBOD, RDNA come together for a short panel discussion to highlight the diversity of the traditions. Followed by all the traditions unifying for a combined ritual demonstrating the similarities and strength when Community comes together for purpose.Join them as they bring roots together to create a “Grove of Life” from all the individual trees. Doors close at start time.

9:00 AM

Power of Love Ritual for Healing and Happiness

Pine

Melanie Marquis Each and every one of us has had experiences that have left us scarred, shattered, broken, or empty. This healing ritual is designed to help you move past these pains and step forward into a happier, more beautiful life. Mature attendees only, please (18 and up or 15 and up with a parent or guardian), as this one is likely to get emotional.

9:00 AM

Paganism and Hate

San Carlos

Dragon’s Weyr Circle and friends As a minority Faith tradition, many Pagans encounter hateful behavior and even hate crimes against them because of their beliefs. However what we don’t often acknowledge is hate that comes from within our own ranks. This panel will explore hate against other faiths, against Wiccans, within Heathenry and other traditions, and even racism at the edges of some traditions within Paganism and Reconstructionist groups. Panel will include Lisa Morgenstern, a Heathen, Wiccan HPS, and Pagan Prison Chaplain, Nan Edwards Boyster, Heathen, Family Tradition Witch who has experience with White Supremacist groups in Michiga., and DJ Jenkins, aka Thorrfin, who is an Asatruar with experience with discrimination and the SoCal Steward for The Troth. Other panelists may be added. 9:00 AM

Pagan Family Meet & Greet

San Jose

San Francisco Pagan Parents and Families Where are all the other families with kids? Bring the kids and come on down and meet other Pagan families! We will do brief

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9:00 AM — Secrets for how to get published at Immanion Press...........................................Immanion Press....................................... Carmel/ Monterey 9:00 AM — Wake Up to Spirit!...............................................................................................CAYA Coven.............................................. Cedar 9:00 AM — The Philosopher’s Stone: Spiritual Alchemy and Magic........................................Chic Cicero & Sandra Tabatha Cicero......... Fir 9:00 AM v Pan Druid Panel and Ritual..................................................................................Pan Traditional Druids.............................. Oak 9:00 AM ¡ Power of Love Ritual for Healing and Happiness..................................................Melanie Marquis...................................... Pine 9:00 AM — Paganism and Hate.............................................................................................Dragon’s Weyr Circle and friends.............. San Carlos 9:00 AM — Pagan Family Meet & Greet.................................................................................S.F. Pagan Parents & Families................... San Jose 9:00 AM v Croning’s not for sissies........................................................................................Victoria Slind-Flor.................................... San Juan 9:00 AM — Ritual Facilitation: Raising the Sacred Fire...........................................................Shauna Aura Knight................................. San Martin/ San Simeon 9:00 AM ¡ Men’s Spirituality................................................................................................Ivan Richmond......................................... Santa Clara 9:00 AM — Manly P Hall The Murdered Magician..................................................................Geraldine Beskin...................................... Silicon Valley 11:00 AM — Exploring the Lover Within: An Archetypal Flirtation Workshop..........................Sarah Astarte........................................... Boardroom 1 1:00 AM v Invocation of Pan.................................................................................................Tony Mierzwicki....................................... Carmel/ Monterey 11:00 AM v Brigid Healing Ritual...........................................................................................Selena Fox................................................ Cedar 11:00 AM — Turning toward Justice with Song.......................................................................Turning Earth Singers............................... Club Max 11:00 AM v Working with Plant Spirits & the Greenwood Realm...........................................Raven Grimassi & Stephanie Taylor.......... Fir 11:00 AM — Sacrifice and Modern Paganism: A Panel Discussion...........................................Coru Cathubodua..................................... Oak 11:00 AM v Kali Puja: Devotions to the Dark Goddess............................................................Chandra Alexandre & SHARANYA............. Pine 11:00 AM v Giving to the Giver...............................................................................................Zephyre.................................................... Riesling 11:00 AM — The Ancient Art of Memory as a Magical Practice................................................John Opsopaus......................................... San Carlos 11:00 AM — Rethinking Community for the Solitary Pagan....................................................Carl F. Neal............................................... San Jose 11:00 AM — Animal Spirits in Pagan Religions........................................................................Sabina Magliocco..................................... San Juan 11:00 AM v Psychic Techniques - Practical Magic...................................................................Drew Ward............................................... San Martin/ San Simeon 11:00 AM v Divine Relationships............................................................................................Diana Paxson........................................... Santa Clara 11:00 AM — Introduction to Rhythm and Drumming for children...........................................Don Schulz............................................... Silicon Valley introductions, and then let the kids play and everyone get a chance to connect with like-minded folks. We had great fun last year. Hope to see you there!

9:00 AM

San Juan

Croning’s not for sissies

Victoria Slind-Flor This ritual, for self-defined women, celebrates the journey we are taking into the final third of our lives. We will let go of that which no longer serves us, remember those who are no longer with us on the journey, and prepare to go forward with new energy and zest.

9:00 AM

San Martin/ San Simeon

Ritual Facilitation: Raising the Sacred Fire

Shauna Aura Knight How do you raise energy in ritual? Building ecstatic energy creates potent rituals and transformative experiences. But how do you engage participation? How do you keep people chanting? We’ll explore techniques to work with energy with hands-on practice including: ritual structure/flow, intention, strengthening charisma, and engaging participation with chanting, movement, rhythm, and group connection. Participants in the workshop will have the opportunity to practice ritual skills. Experienced ritualists will learn tools to facilitate stronger rituals. New ritualists will learn foundations.

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Men’s Spirituality

Santa Clara

Ivan Richmond Thiasos Olympikos, a Hellenic group open to both genders, has been doing Men’s Mysteries (in addition to Women’s Mysteries) for over 35 years, yet too often they hear from Pagan men that there’s plenty of women’s spirituality in the Pagan community but not a whole lot for the guys. Ivan Richmond, one of their initiates, will present on men’s spirituality. He will explain how men’s spirituality is completely aligned with the goals of women’s spirituality and Feminism, and talk about the spiritual landscape of men’s spirituality. Open to men and trans female to male only. 9:00 AM

Manly P Hall The Murdered Magician

Silicon Valley

Geraldine Beskin Manly Hall worked all his life to keep America a spiritual country. He wrote and lectured extensively, was Honoured for his contribution to esoteric work and was murdered by someone who wanted control of all Hall had created.

11:00 AM

Boardroom

Exploring the Lover Within: An Archetypal Flirtation Workshop

Sarah Astarte There are many kinds of archetypal energies that are associated with being a Lover, to connect with others, and know pleasure. This is an interactive workshop open to those who wish to expand and hone their flirtation and communication styles. A diversity of archetypes will be utilized, such as the ingenue, the coquette, the vixen, and the bombshell. People will be set in small groups to roleplay with these archetypes, observe, and give each other feedback. Personal boundaries and safety will also be addressed. Come and let your inner lover out to play! 11:00 AM

Invocation of Pan

Carmel/ Monterey

Tony Mierzwicki The rather memorable Pan was portrayed as a man with goat feet, ears and horns, and usually ithyphallic. He invented the panpipe (seven-reed syrinx) and was fond of singing and dancing with the nymphs. Pan was the Arcadian god of shepherds and their flocks, as well as goatherds and their herds. He was venerated in caves and symbolized procreation. Pan was capable of causing panic in individuals, animals and armies. While Pan has been invoked by Aleister Crowley and Dion Fortune in relatively recent times, we will explore his invocation using ancient poetic hymns and GraecoEgyptian magick.

11:00 AM

Brigid Healing Ritual

Cedar

Selena Fox Connect with the Celtic Goddess Brigid for healing self, others, and Planet Earth. Work with Her magic of Land, Wind, Fire, Water, and Healing Light with chants, meditations, and ritual.

11:00 AM

Turning toward Justice with Song

Club Max

Turning Earth Singers Turning Earth Singers invites people to join us in singing songs for a better world. We set a magical intention of empowering all marginalized communities. We wish to manifest consciousness and connection with one another, including those not present at PantheaCon, and create a world where all our rights are respected and our differences honored. As we blend our voices in song, we open our hearts and senses to prepare ourselves to be allies. While singing, we will join in some ritual activities to help bring this vision to reality. 11:00 AM

Working with Plant Spirits & the Greenwood Realm

Fir

Raven Grimassi & Stephanie Taylor This presentation offers methods of contacting and working with Plant Spirits of Old World Witchcraft. Highlighted is a view of how plants communicate, along with lore about trees as gateways between other worlds. Included is a discussion of the Organic Memory of the Earth and its role in transmission through minerals into the Greenwood Realm of Magic. Also included is a guided imagery journey to the Cavern of the Old Magic.

11:00 AM

Sacrifice and Modern Paganism: A Panel Discussion

Oak

Coru Cathubodua From offering the best wine and grain to the finest animal or tribal member to the Gods, sacrifice was a central part of many ancient cultures. But as modern Pagans we must ask ourselves: what is the role of sacrifice today? Join us as we explore these questions with panelists Jeff Albaugh (Cherry Hill Seminary and Conference on Current Pagan Studies), Crystal Blanton (Wild Hunt and Patheos.com), Rynn Fox (Coru Cathubodua), Amy Hale (PhD, St. Petersburg College), and Sam Webster (M. Div., author, & blogger at “Arkadian Anvil”). 11:00 AM

Pine

Kali Puja: Devotions to the Dark Goddess

Chandra Alexandre & SHARANYA Let this ritual break open your heart that you may sing Her praises, dance Her mysteries, and deepen into self-reflection toward your own Divine nature. Come ready to dive into shadows of your resistance and re-surface renewed. Surrender through meditation, mantra and movement as we engage Her mysteries. Jai Maa! Doors close at start time.

11:00 AM

Riesling

Giving to the Giver

Zephyre How do we give to ourselves? How do we remember to minister to our own spirit when we are constantly giving? Although intended for clergy, this would be appropriate for parents, educators, health professionals, and those who are constantly giving to others.

11:00 AM

The Ancient Art of Memory as a Magical Practice

San Carlos

John Opsopaus You might be familiar with the ancient Art of Memory (Ars Memorativa), invented by Simonides (556-468 BCE), as a useful way to remember things, but did you know that it is a magical practice that can restructure your mind to increase its power? In this presentation I will teach and demonstrate the technique of building an astral Memory Temple in order to improve your powers of divination, invocation, and magical intuition. This is a valuable tool for magical and spiritual practitioners of all traditions. 11:00 AM

Rethinking Community for the Solitary Pagan

San Jose

Carl F. Neal You don’t hear the words “Solitary” and “Community” together often enough. There are logical reasons for that, but there are incredible opportunities for Solitary Pagans to make a significant impact on the Greater Pagan Community that allow us to connect while remaining true to our Solitary paths. Come and learn about some approaches to Community building you might never have considered before.

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11:00 AM

San Juan

Animal Spirits in Pagan Religions

Sabina Magliocco Animal spirits play an important part in the modern Pagan religious imagination, just as they did in the spiritual lives of our ancestors going back 30,000 years. Come and explore all the ways we imagine and interact with animal spirits based on research I conducted at PantheaCon 2013 as well as through a widely-distributed survey. How do Pagan views compare with those of practitioners of mainstream religions and non-religious people? You’ll be surprised by the results! 11:00 AM

Psychic Techniques - Practical Magic

San Martin/ San Simeon

Drew Ward An audience-participation workshop which also includes a detailed handout for practice at home. The techniques in this workshop are designed to be useful in both magical and mundane situations.

11:00 AM

Divine Relationships

Santa Clara

Diana Paxson One of the attractions of paganism is the opportunity to experience a relationship with one (or more) goddesses and gods. We can relate to them as children or lovers, worshippers or friends. But how do we make the connection, and how do we make sure the relationship will be positive? In this workshop we’ll explore what makes a healthy spiritual relationship and work with ways to make a solid contact.

11:00 AM

Silicon Valley

Introduction to Rhythm and Drumming for children.

Don Schulz Back by popular demand! For kids under 12 with parental supervision. I’ll bring one of my mother drums, some hand drums and other noisy toys to introduce your children to a world of rhythm and community.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON 1:30 PM

Oracle Deck Co-Creation Ritual

Boardroom

Calyxa Omphalos Last year in the Circle of Cerridwen suite, a group of 13 artists co-created a wonderful oracle deck. Cards are drawn with black pen and then photographed. Short readings will be done. You will leave with the card(s) you create. The completed deck will be available from a third party printer a few weeks after the event.

1:30 PM

Hekate in Turkey: Past meets Present

Carmel/ Monterey

Don Frew & Anna Korn The worship of Hekate began in Caria, in southwest Turkey. Here, Her oldest temple is being uncovered & restored and Her rites revived. This presentation will explore the origins of Hekate and her development from Caria through Greece and Rome to modern Paganism. It will feature images and information about

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the restoration efforts at Her oldest temple. (This is a reprise of a presentation from PantheaCon 2006, updated with new material & images of restoration work at the temple.) 1:30 PM

Treading the Mill of Magic: Calling Heaven Here!

Cedar/ Pine

Orion Foxwood The first witchcraft practice I ever learned was the Mill of Magic. It involves plugging into the force that “grinds the stars into all living things”. The mill exists at the center of all life and is timeless. Its presence opens inner space and starlight. Orion will discuss the Mill, and lead us in an opening of a power that belongs to all life; with the intent of “unifying heaven in the earth, in the skies and within ourselves”. Come ready to either move or sit in the center and hold the flow. Together, lets grind off our inner-conflicts and restraints and make the magic that made the world.

1:30 PM

CircleSinging

Club Max

Deborah J. Hamouris CircleSinging is vocal “jamming”, a “voicestra”, a “drum circle” for singers. Simple vocal warm-ups lead into improvised choral parts for all. We make a groove & singers solo or experience the sound from the community of voices. Dancing happens. Joy happens. Sweat happens. CircleSinging is highly participatory and a “mistake-free-zone.” 1:30 PM

The Ole Time Good Spell Feri Pagan Tent Revival

Oak

Dustbunny Feri Initiates, Students and Guests Brothers and Sisters and all! The Revival is delighted to be back again, raising the roof with our own special blend of deep meaning and wild magick. Y’all know how it works: we sing, laugh, dance and pray in a mystical congregation where we invite the Gods to come on in, kick off Their shoes, and set a spell. So dust off your church hat and come lift up your hearts and voices as we make a joyful noise unto the Lords and Ladies and all between! 1:30 PM

The Ifa Concept of Extended Family

Riesling

Awo Falokun You can’t experience joy without experiencing grief. You can’t experience grief without the support of family. There is no family without trust. Ifa scripture offers guidelines for developing trust and medicine for persons and families that have experienced dysfunction and abuse. 1:30 PM

Introduction to Traditional Astrology

San Jose

Clifford Hartleigh Low From 200BC to 1700AD, from Ancient Babylon to Early America, Traditional Astrology held sway as the primary outlook of the Western Civilization; defining science, civil society and magic alike. This class will provide a basic grounding in the history, logic, and method of this most influential system which is now making a comeback. In addition to a review of the seven traditional planets, the Tropical Zodiac, aspects, essential and accidental dignities, examples will be given of how these conceptual components are used to navigate the seas of destiny.

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1:30 PM ¡ Oracle Deck Co-Creation Ritual............................................................................Calyxa Omphalos..................................... Boardroom 1:30 PM — Hekate in Turkey: Past meets Present..................................................................Don Frew & Anna Korn............................. Carmel/ Monterey 1:30 PM v Treading the Mill of Magic: Calling Heaven Here!................................................Orion Foxwood......................................... Cedar/ Pine 1:30 PM — CircleSinging.......................................................................................................Deborah J. Hamouris................................ Club Max 1:30 PM — The Ole Time Good Spell Feri Pagan Tent Revival.................................................Dustbunny Feri Initiates & Co................... Oak 1:30 PM — The Ifa Concept of Extended Family.....................................................................Awo Falokun............................................ Riesling 1:30 PM — Introduction to Traditional Astrology...................................................................Clifford Hartleigh Low.............................. San Jose 1:30 PM — Teacher’s Toolbox.................................................................................................Moss Magill.............................................. San Juan/ San Carlos 1:30 PM v Lupercalia 2014!..................................................................................................Ekklesia Antinoou.................................... San Martin/ San Simeon 1:30 PM ¡ Ritual Facilitation: Trance Journeys & Meditations...............................................Shauna Aura Knight................................. Santa Clara 1:30 PM — Tantric Invocation of Hermes...............................................................................Sam Webster............................................ Silicon Valley 1:30 PM — Village Witchery 102...........................................................................................Hexeba Theaux......................................... Willows 2 3:30 PM ¡ I Ching Divination Salon......................................................................................Rose Shannon.......................................... Boardroom 3:30 PM v Daily Practice Sucks: Moving Daily Spirituality Forward......................................Lisa Spiral................................................. Carmel/ Monterey 3:30 PM — Oracles from the Living Tarot...............................................................................Aurea Arcana............................................ Cedar/ Pine 3:30 PM — Pendragon’s Get..................................................................................................Pendragon’s Get....................................... Club Max 3:30 PM — Pagans and Privilege: Let’s Talk About It..............................................................T. Thorn Coyle, Crystal Blanton & Co......... Oak 3:30 PM — Woodsman and the Goblins: Working with Folktale............................................Jeffrey Albaugh........................................ Riesling 3:30 PM — Woman Shaman: the Ancients............................................................................Max Dashu............................................... San Jose 3:30 PM — Introduction to Wheat Weaving...........................................................................Woven Circle............................................ San Juan/ San Carlos 3:30 PM v Hekate: Witness and Ally.....................................................................................Timotha Doane and Kristen Oliver............ San Martin/ San Simeon 3:30 PM v Learning to Flex Your Oracular Muscles................................................................Thalassa................................................... Silicon Valley 3:30 PM — Make your own drum!.........................................................................................Don Schulz............................................... Willows 1 3:30 PM v Intermediate Incense Making..............................................................................Carl F. Neal............................................... Willows 2

1:30 PM

Teacher’s Toolbox

San Juan/ San Carlos

Moss Magill Best practices for delivering engaging workshops, seminars and other learning experiences We will discuss what makes an effective workshop and how to include interactivity that encourages full attendee participation. We will also explore varying learning styles and behaviors as well as how to create effective learning presentations. This highly interactive session is perfect for those who have been thinking about venturing into the realm of conference workshop leadership as well as for those experienced facilitators wanting to share their stories and improve upon their skills. 1:30 PM

Lupercalia 2014!

San Martin/ San Simeon

Ekklesia Antinoou Ianus and Venus, Mars and Quirinus, Faunus, Silvanus, and Antinous Lupercus...As is Roman custom, on the Fifteenth of February, come and celebrate the holy day of Lupercalia--a festival of purification and communal integrity--by running with the wolves in all their milky-and-bloody glory! All (and all ages) are welcome to attend, but doors will close after the ritual begins.

1:30 PM

Ritual Facilitation: Trance Journeys & Meditations

Santa Clara

Shauna Aura Knight Anyone can read a meditation. How do you facilitate potent trance journeys that deeply engage participants in a trance state? Many transformative rituals use trancework, bringing participants to profound spiritual places through words, voice, sound, and rhythm. Explore tools for leading effective trances through presentation, discussion, and hands-on, focusing on techniques of dual voice, open language, rhythm/music/movement, ritual structure, and space setup. We’ll also address resources from educational therapy, NLP, educational theory, shamanic roots of trance, and ethics. Adults only.

1:30 PM

Tantric Invocation of Hermes

Silicon Valley

Sam Webster Come learn a tantric practice for invoking Hermes (Greek Messenger of the Gods) in his All-Liberating form, suitable for daily use. Hermes is the Greek god of commerce, good luck, sudden or unexpected enrichment, crossroads, and hospitality. He may be called upon to remove obstructions to successful commerce and communication, and has a playful, joyous presence. This Hermes

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invocation may be used to cultivate divine vision, develop inner yogas that clear energy blocks, and explore ‘secret’ yogas that liberate the mind. 1:30 PM

Village Witchery 102

Willows 2

Hexeba Theaux This class is a continuation of Village Witchery 101. Presentation includes principles and techniques for Witches who may find themselves needed as community practitioners in a mostly nonPagan community; further discussion on the most common problems that clients bring to Witches, and ways to approach solutions. Focus on issues concerning Community Relations and our multicultural neighborhoods. Join us for a little magic, a little Hoo Doo, and a lot of idea sharing. Bring your questions, and a notebook if you like. 3:30 PM

I Ching Divination Salon

Boardroom

Rose Shannon Discussion and practice with the I Ching method of divination in an open, salon setting

3:30 PM

Carmel/ Monterey

Daily Practice Sucks: Moving Daily Spirituality Forward

Lisa Spiral Who has time for a daily spiritual practice? While many spiritual paths recommend some form of Daily Practice, for many people, this is often an impossible task. Whether due to a career, kids, school, family or even health, the commitment to daily practice can be overwhelming. Author and High Priestess Lisa Spiral has spent much of her teaching and writing in this very area. Even though she also recommends finding a daily spiritual practice in her book, Manifest Divinity, Lisa Spiral understands that DOING this is often a complex and difficult thing. Join us in this workshop. Doors close at start time.

3:30 PM

Oracles from the Living Tarot

Cedar/ Pine

Aurea Arcana The cards come to life once again in this epic PantheaCon Tradition: Oracles from the Living Tarot...this time, with a twist! What was formerly a sit-down theatrical performance gets a makeover this year as an interactive dance party with themed music for each card, roving performers, and on-the-spot readings delivered by players representing the Major Arcana. Come dressed as your favorite tarot card, or in other fanciful costume, and let’s revel in the Mysteries together! 3:30 PM

Pendragon’s Get

Club Max

Pendragon’s Get Electro-acoustic mythcraft - original and traditional songs celebrating the depth of our mythic roots and the ripe modern fruits of that harvest. Pendragon’s Get offers songs of love, strife, worship, and the turning seasons; songs of gods and heroes, of goddesses and heroines; songs of the rich and subtle magic in everyday life.

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3:30 PM

Oak

Pagans and Privilege: Let’s Talk About It

T. Thorn Coyle, Crystal Blanton & a Kick-Ass Panel Privilege is the ability to not have to stare oppression in the face. Unexamined Privilege can make oppression hard to see & to talk about, sowing pain & discord. Can we compassionately examine racism, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or economic disparity within Paganism? Join our distinguished panelists in exploring the many different questions around privilege, intersectionality, & social justice. Let’s look at our differences & seek out common ground.†Panelists are Crystal Blanton, Elena Rose Vera, Charlie Glickman, & Xochiquetzal Duti Odinsdottir. Moderated by T. Thorn Coyle. 3:30 PM

Woodsman and the Goblins: Working with Folktale

Riesling

Jeffrey Albaugh Actively working with numinous images and mythic narratives can yield new perspectives on lived experiences and serve to connect us more deeply to stories of the divine. Using depth psychological techniques, we will engage the folktale of the Woodsman and the Goblins to see what insights into family, community, and our relationships with the other worlds that this tale may hold. Techniques used in this workshop pull from the works of C. G. Jung, James Hillman, and Robert Johnson, and include both individual and group activities. 3:30 PM

Woman Shaman: the Ancients

San Jose

Max Dashu Max screens selections from her double dvd Woman Shaman. This unprecedented survey of the cultural record—in rock art, sculpture, ceramics, seals, bronzes, and codices—draws back the veil that obscures our view of medicine women: the oracles, healers, trance-dancers and shape-shifters, drummers and dreamers. Youíll experience women making ceremony in the rock art of the Sahara, southern Africa, Azerbaijan, Spain, and Baja California; dancing with tigers on Indus seals, with serpents on Iranian ones, and in ecstatic ceremonies on Aztec codices, Chinese bronzes, and Cretan seals. 3:30 PM

Introduction to Wheat Weaving

San Juan/ San Carlos

Woven Circle This class focuses on beginning weaving techniques along with straw preparation and sources on books, materials, and local groups. In this class, each student will make at least two weaving: a Bridget’s Cross and Harvest Knot to bring home. Children must be accompanied by an adult. All materials and supplies are provided. For an example of the projects go to www.paganhumanist.com 3:30 PM

Hekate: Witness and Ally.

San Martin/ San Simeon

Timotha Doane and Kristen Oliver Hekate: Dark Moon Ritual and Shadow work. We will acknowledge our shadows, what we fear and reject, invoke Hekate and work with her as witness and ally. We will move out of the bonds of silence, fear and anger into that courageous place of fierce

compassion. In strength, we will return to the power and deep connection of Hekate’s cave. The door will close once the ritual has started, about 15 minutes after the program’s stated time. 3:30 PM

Learning to Flex Your Oracular Muscles

Silicon Valley

Thalassa When you learn a divination system, you develop a set of divinatory muscles which can be adapted or even retrained to learn other systems. We will review a variety of techniques and systems with an eye towards how to make the best use not just of your preferred divination system but any device, tool or method you choose to pick up. Cards! Runes! Cocktail napkins! The infamous Lenormand! Let’s get Metaphysical! All levels of interest and experience welcome. Spandex not required.

3:30 PM

Willows 1

7:00 PM

Cedar/ Pine

The Sabbat of the Mighty Dead

Christopher Penczak The Mighty Dead, the enlightened ancestors in the traditions of Witchcraft gather at the eternal sabbat between the worlds in the realm of Witchdom. Today we can peel back the layers of meaning around the Medieval Sabbat and join in the timeless celebration. Learn the formulas of the sabbat, including the rituals of procession, pact, dance, feast, sex, battle and return. Experience a meditative ritual of the sabbat. Seek the Lord of Three Faces for deeper understanding of your path and receive the blessings of the Lady of the Deep. Doors close at start time.

7:00 PM

Club Max

Pagan Humor 6: Do not go gentle into that good night

Don Schulz Make a natural wood and hide drum of your own and take it home! Contact Don at The Different Drum (drummaker@ thedifferentdrum.net) for available sizes and pricing. This course sold out fast last year, so don’t hesitate! Limited spaces available, pre-registration by internet recommended for the first 8 Spaces. 4 additional kits/spaces will be made available on site beginning Friday. Recommended for 12 and over. Limited to 12 participants.

Angus McMahan There was a day (last year) when I attempted to squeeze the seminar into a vaguely Pagany format. But it is not this day. There may come a day when Pagan Humor accidentally coincides with Pcon’s theme of “Networks of Community & Diversity, Pleasure & Service” But it is not THIS Day! An hour of waiting for the elevators or odd food at cafe Ho-Hum when the age of Pagans comes crashing down, But it is not THIS DAY! By all that you hold dear in this good hotel, I bid you come to Club Max, Witches of the West!

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7:00 PM

Make your own drum!

Intermediate Incense Making

Willows 2

Carl F. Neal Already taken the Magick Incense Making 101 class a few times? This much more intimate workshop has very limited space. This year we will explore using wood binders, including some that might be found in your backyard. We will also work with the most precious of incense ingredients: aloeswood.

SATURDAY EVENING 7:00 PM

FFRASS : Garden Info, Social & Seed Swap

Boardroom

Ruth Temple Back by popular demand! Interested in gardening, in deepening your roots in permaculture design, ready to swap some seeds and maybe some starts for your Spring garden? The Flower Fruit Root and Seed Society (FFRASS) brings a spirited approach to gardening and our sacred relation with our dwelling places. 7:00 PM

Carmel/ Monterey

Dancing with the Elements: A Magical Bellydance Show

Didi Gordon/Sarah Astarte This year’s show is themed “Dancing with the Elements” doing bellydance performances that represent the various elements of air, fire, water, earth, and ether. There will be numerous dancers featured, utilizing diverse dance styles, costumes, and music from all over the world. Each performance will be unique, and a sacred homage to an element. Doors close at start time.

Oak

Love Songs of the Goddess

Bloodroot Honey Priestess Tribe A high-energy, joyous, ecstatic ritual in celebration of the Goddess and Her many faces. Featuring both shared and original songs from years of public ritual, this rite is conducted entirely in song, with no words spoken. For this ritual, we welcome people of any and every gender and identity to join us in reverence. Attendees are invited (but not required) to disrobe from the waist up. Let your heart be lifted as our voices rise!

7:00 PM

Community Healing for Margot Ritual

San Jose/ Santa Clara

Selena Fox Join with those of many spiritual paths in sending love, support, healing and well-being for Margot Adler.

7:00 PM

San Juan/ San Carlos

Construct A Discordian Psychic Battle-Tank!

Ted Prodromou Build a psychic fortress within your own mind, home, or museum! Construct more pylons! Turn your psychic plowshares into psychic Howitzers! Try to figure out what a psychic plowshare may be! Expand to the size of a planet-devouring dragon and sponsor galactic peace! Authentic Discordian ceremony, different every time. All ages, genders, and levels of experience welcome -- especially yours. 7:00 PM

A Wake for Hyperion

San Martin/ San Simeon

The Unnamed Path Brotherhood

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7:00 PM — FFRASS : Garden Info, Social & Seed Swap...........................................................Ruth Temple............................................. Boardroom 7:00 PM v Dancing with the Elements: A Magical Bellydance Show....................................Didi Gordon/Sarah Astarte....................... Carmel/ Monterey 7:00 PM v The Sabbat of the Mighty Dead...........................................................................Christopher Penczak................................. Cedar/ Pine 7:00 PM ¡ Pagan Humor 6: Do not go gentle into that good night.......................................Angus McMahan...................................... Club Max 7:00 PM v Love Songs of the Goddess..................................................................................Bloodroot Honey Priestess Tribe............... Oak 7:00 PM ¡ Community Healing for Margot Ritual.................................................................Selena Fox................................................ San Jose/ Santa Clara 7:00 PM — Construct A Discordian Psychic Battle-Tank!........................................................Ted Prodromou........................................ San Juan/ San Carlos 7:00 PM — A Wake for Hyperion............................................................................................The Unnamed Path Brotherhood.............. San Martin/ San Simeon 7:00 PM — Vibrant Colors in Ancient Egyptian Temple Art....................................................Don Frew................................................. Silicon Valley 9:00 PM — Taking Up the Veil................................................................................................Xochiquetzal Duti..................................... Boardroom 9:00 PM — Vampires Are Us..................................................................................................Margot Adler............................................ Carmel/ Monterey 9:00 PM — Pandemonaeon Live Concert...............................................................................Pandemonaeon........................................ Cedar/ Pine 9:00 PM — Kenny Klein In Concert........................................................................................Kenny Klein.............................................. Club Max 9:00 PM ¡ Pansensual Ritual for Love and Liberation...........................................................Melanie Marquis...................................... Oak 9:00 PM — Introduction to Ifa & Orisha: The Warriors............................................................Baba Esu.................................................. Riesling 9:00 PM v The Copper Decagram.........................................................................................Anaar....................................................... San Jose/ Santa Clara 9:00 PM v The Magic of Mother Holda.................................................................................Diana Paxson and Hrafnar kindred........... San Juan/ San Carlos 9:00 PM — Danbala Sevis - Honoring the Serpent & the Rainbow.........................................Mambo Chita Tann................................... San Martin/ San Simeon 9:00 PM — Mystical Love: Encountering the Divine Other.....................................................Robert Allen and Lasara Firefox Allen....... Silicon Valley 11:00 PM — Dreaming the Raven: A Morrigan Dance Ritual...................................................Tempest & Nathaniel Johnstone............... Carmel/ Monterey 11:00 PM — Hexenfest Dance Party........................................................................................Hexenfest................................................. Cedar/ Pine 11:00 PM — Pagan Open Mike................................................................................................Afalarian.................................................. Club Max 11:00 PM — Saturday Night Drum/Dance Jam........................................................................David Gibbons.......................................... Oak 11:00 PM — Sekhmet Empowerment Ritual: Claim Your Power..............................................Didi Gordon/Sarah Astarte....................... San Jose/ Santa Clara 11:00 PM — Skeletor Affirmations..........................................................................................Discordian.com........................................ San Juan/ San Carlos 11:00 PM — Beyond Tantric Sex and Paganism - Surf the Blisswave.......................................Jaya Vajra................................................. Silicon Valley 7:00 PM

Vibrant Colors in Ancient Egyptian Temple Art

Silicon Valley

Don Frew The bas-reliefs on the walls of the temples of Ancient Egypt were originally painted in vivid colors. In a few temples this paint survives. Focusing of the rarely-visited Cenotaph Temple of Rameses II at Abydos, Frew will present examples where the surviving paint provides information about the past that carving alone does not convey. Additionally, he will teach the audience how to read the Offering Formula, the most common hieroglyphic inscription found on tomb walls & objects. 9:00 PM

Taking Up the Veil

Boardroom

Xochiquetzal Duti A growing movement among pagan women is a turning towards modest apparel, veiling, or in some way shielding the corporal body as honor to the Divine. In this exploratory class we’ll try some veiling techniques, discuss methodology of veiling from a Pagan perspective and some of us might even develop a deeper meaning to our practices. Bring a scarf or two (pashmina sized) and a bandanna if available.

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9:00 PM

Vampires Are Us

Carmel/ Monterey

Margot Adler Every society creates the vampire it needs. Ever since Dark Shadows, most of our vampires have been conflicted, desperately struggling to be moral despite being predators. As are we. It’s something we have known intuitively since 1968, when we first saw the Earth from space, and realized our vulnerability and moral complicity. Our blood is oil; our prey is the planet. Margot Adler read 270 vampire novels, and has presented this as a sermon at six churches. Now it’s a new book. Despite the seriousness of the topic, this is a very fun presentation. 9:00 PM

Pandemonaeon Live Concert

Cedar/ Pine

Pandemonaeon Pagan tribal rock band Pandememonaen describes their music as “A dark tribal faerytale in folk, rock, and metal”. Made up of career musicians and fronted by nationally touring Celtic singer Sharon Knight, Pandemonaeon is pleased to bring their fierce and sensual songs to Pantheacon.

9:00 PM

Club Max

Kenny Klein In Concert

Kenny Klein Kenny Klein is a well known musician and author. Join Kenny for songs from old and newer CDs, played on fiddle and guitar. Kenny will be joined by Lauren DeVoe on washboard, making the show a jugband extravaganza. 9:00 PM

Pansensual Ritual for Love and Liberation

Oak

Melanie Marquis Strict and rigid gender roles and sexual orientations can be limiting; those of us who choose to deviate from the norm are breaking boundaries and opening doors for the emergence of a greater love that transcends the body as well as mankind’s restrictive, intolerant nature. Let’s combine our powers and break through these bonds of intolerance and needless restriction for good! Ages 18 and up only. Skyclad optional for those who wish.

9:00 PM

Riesling

Introduction to Ifa & Orisha: The Warriors

Baba Esu Calling all Warriors! The Yoruba culture and language gives us a deeply rooted unbroken lineage of spiritual knowledge and wisdom from which birthed Santeria, Lucumi, and Umbanda. While every Orisha (Deity) has a warrior aspect, you will be learning about The Warriors on a deeper level, much more than you can read about in a book or on the internet. This talk will focus on: Esu, the Divine Spirit of the Trickster; Ogun, the Divine Spirit of War; Osoosi; the Divine Spirit of the Hunt; and Osun, the Divine Spirit of the Head. 9:00 PM

The Copper Decagram

San Jose/ Santa Clara

Anaar The Feri tool of Balance and Liberty. This is a simple and direct workshop in which we will work with the Iron and Pearl Pentacles as a combined star. By exploring it’s fundamental symbolic nature, we will balance the Pentacles to access Liberty in the Copper Decagram. After decades of intense and practiced study of Victor Anderson’s Copper Decagram, Anaar is now able to present these original teachings as a pathwork. Be prepared to spend the majority of our time in meditation. Doors will close 30 minutes into the workshop.

9:00 PM

The Magic of Mother Holda

San Juan/ San Carlos

Diana Paxson and Hrafnar kindred After hiding for many centuries in folktales, the Germanic goddess Holda is regaining popularity as a living goddess today. In this ritual drama, we share the initiatory experiences of a young girl who encounters Mother Holda and finds her destiny.

9:00 PM

San Martin/ San Simeon

Danbala Sevis - Honoring the Serpent & the Rainbow

Mambo Chita Tann Mambo T and La Sosyete Fos Fe Yo We welcome you to a Haitian Vodou ceremony in honor of Danbala-Wedo, the world-serpent, and Ayida-Wedo, his wife, the rainbow. This will be a formal Rada rite in the Haitian Vodou tradition. Respectful non-partic-

ipating observers and participating guests are welcome! Participants are expected to dance and are required (mandatory) to wear all white, modest clothing. Women need a white kerchief, scarf, or hat to cover their heads. For the traditional presence of Danbala, participants may not be actively bleeding (including menstruation) but may observe. 9:00 PM

Mystical Love: Encountering the Divine Other

Silicon Valley

Robert Allen and Lasara Firefox Allen This workshop will move through the territories of spiritual love and devotion. Looking at the stories of Mystical Love through the ages, we will come to understand love both divine and personal. The tools and practices of Bhakti yoga (devotion), I/Thou awareness, and the practice of dual/nondual consciousness will lead you to the path of The Beloved. Please bring something comfortable to sit on; pillow, blanket, zafu, etc. Chairs will also be made available as needed. 11:00 PM

Carmel/ Monterey

Dreaming the Raven: A Morrigan Dance Ritual

Tempest & Nathaniel Johnstone Experience a performance ritual dance presentation inspired by the mythical aspects of the Raven and the Morrigan, featuring the dancing of world-renown fusion performer Tempest and live music by multi-instrumentalist Nathaniel Johnstone. The performance will be followed up with discussion about the ritual presentation, including the myths that inspired it, the incorporation of dance and ritual, improvisation, and the creation of the music. 11:00 PM

Hexenfest Dance Party

Cedar/ Pine

Hexenfest Pagan Music and Arts Festival Hexenfest offers a DJ dance party to immediately follow the Pandemonaeon show, for a seamless evening of dancing and dark revelry. Featured DJ will be Jason PitzlWaters of Wild Hunt and Numinosis. Music from the darker side of Paganism, sensual, exotic, and forbidden. As well as dance there will be an altar-building station where participants can help craft theatrical pieces that will be used for the Hexenfest festival 2014. (Held at the end of April in Oakland). 11:00 PM

Pagan Open Mike

Club Max

Afalarian Do you have a passion for music and a willingness to share in community? If so, bring your voices, instruments, and love for music to an open mike session hosted by musical duo Afalarian. Share your original songs, favorite chants, evocative beats, and improvisational jams in a safe and supportive environment open to singers and musicians of all levels. Join us for group singing and spirit-led jam sessions, as we let the Awen flow! 11:00 PM

Saturday Night Drum/Dance Jam

Oak

David Gibbons This is our traditional drumming and dancing event for all who want to make happy noise, shake it on the dance floor, or just partake of the energy and magic that comes from many people letting it loose! Bring a drum, if you like.

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11:00 PM

San Jose/ Santa Clara

Sekhmet Empowerment Ritual: Claim Your Power

Didi Gordon/Sarah Astarte Sekhmet, the ancient Egyptian Lion Goddess, is the deity that represents power, strength, and healing. We will have a short lecture on Sekhmet. Everyone will reflect about their sense of personal power. The ritual will begin, and includes disclaiming and releasing that which holds one back (negative messages, destructive tendencies, fear), walking through a veil (overcoming an obstacle), receiving blessings, and roaring and growling to claim one’s power! Priestess Astarte has worked closely with Sekhmet, and played her in “Yes They Are” in 2011. 11:00 PM

Skeletor Affirmations

San Juan/ San Carlos

Discordian.com The first step to healing the world is healing the self, and the first step to healing the self is conquering Castle Grayskull and using its ancient secrets to rule all of Eternia. The Skeletor Affirmations ritual inverts the Death/Life structure and offers new affirmations and hope that we can all use in our daily life. Some of us have skull faces, and some of us have dozens of oddly-themed incompetent minions, but we can all benefit from the wit and wisdom of Skeletor. All the power is yours! 11:00 PM

Silicon Valley

Beyond Tantric Sex and Paganism - Surf the Blisswave

Jaya Vajra Everybody wants an intimate relationship with deeper connection. Yet all too often we get stuck in uninspired ruts. Explore the ancient roots of Tantra and Kamasutra and the principles behind them from the perspective of an instructor of Applied Kinesiology. Jaya’s cameo appearance at last year’s Pantheacon had rave reviews to a packed room! This time he’s on the roster! Don’t miss it!

SUNDAY MORNING 9:00 AM

Second Generation Paganism

Boardroom

Eric O. Scott Today, most people convert to Paganism from some other faith, but their children know nothing else. What challenges do Pagan children face, both from the outside world and within the Pagan community itself? What’s life like for a young adult who has always been Pagan? And what questions do Pagan parents have about raising their children inside our faith? Together we will discuss the gifts and hardships of being born Pagan from a variety of perspectives. 9:00 AM

Living within Heathenry 2.0

Carmel

Angela T Carlson What does it mean to be an “experienced” Heathen in the 21st Century? After many hours and/or years of practice and discussion, how do we fulfill our purpose on Midgard? Have your relationships with our Gods/Goddesses/Land Spirits grown and changed as your practices have evolved? Are the things/practices

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you started out thinking were really important still part of your every day life? Let’s have an honest discussion about the state of our beliefs & Community and how we as individuals can move the Folk forward. Blot to follow if it feels appropriate. 9:00 AM

Offerings to Osiris: Sharing with the Dead

Cedar

Tamara L. Siuda Osiris (Wesir in the ancient language), Lord of the Blessed Dead, oversees the Unseen World and its people. Join Rev. Tamara Siuda of the House of Netjer Kemetic Orthodox Temple for a ritual where we will sing, dance, drum, and honor the Blessed Dead and Their presence in our lives. Feel free to bring musical instruments, drums, offerings of food and drink, and photographs or tokens of your ancestors to place on the altar. Observers are welcome. 9:00 AM

Fir

ADF: Ritual Dedicated to Hospitality and Community Service

ADF Ar’ nDraiocht Fe’in: A Druid Fellowship (ADF) is an international druid organization devoted to creating a public tradition of NeoPagan Druidry based on honoring the polytheistic religions of the Indo-European peoples. The Irish words, pronounced “arn reeocht fane”, mean “Our Own Druidism”, and that’s just what ADF is - a completely independent tradition of Neopagan Druidism. This year ADF presents a druid ritual based on the virtues of hospitality and community service. Join us as we open the gates to the Otherworlds, and celebrate serving our community. 9:00 AM

Pagans and Institution Building

Monterey

Amy Hale What are Institutions? Do Pagans need them? How do we develop appropriate institutions that will reflect our values and meet our needs? There are many ways to build institutions depending what our communities require. After setting the terms of the discussion, we will open the floor and explore what it means to build meaningful, sustainable institutions, how they function both inside and outside the community, and why they are important to developing a strong and vibrant Paganism in the 21st century. 9:00 AM

Yoga Nidra Drum Trance

Oak

Albert Robles Drum and trance event Yoga Nidra (alert trance) techniques will be employed In spiritual traditions all over the world drums are used to align the body into a relaxed state of higher awareness. Through the use of the techniques of yoga nidra we will drum our way through a deep meditative journey of alert awareness, visions, visitations, oneness and bliss. Beginners to experienced drummers and meditators welcome No instruments other than drums please Dress comfortably BYOD, although some drums may be provided.

SUNDAY MORNING AT A GLANCE v

9:00 AM — Second Generation Paganism..............................................................................Eric O. Scott.............................................. Boardroom 9:00 AM — Living within Heathenry 2.0................................................................................Angela T Carlson...................................... Carmel 9:00 AM — Offerings to Osiris: Sharing with the Dead...........................................................Tamara L. Siuda........................................ Cedar 9:00 AM — ADF: Ritual Dedicated to Hospitality and Community Service.............................ADF.......................................................... Fir 9:00 AM — Pagans and Institution Building..........................................................................Amy Hale................................................. Monterey 9:00 AM v Yoga Nidra Drum Trance......................................................................................Albert Robles........................................... Oak 9:00 AM — Sacred dance in a circle; no experience needed...................................................Bay Area Circle Dancers............................ Pine 9:00 AM — The Magpie Oracle: Casting shiny objects for a bright future...............................Carrie Paris............................................... San Jose 9:00 AM — Hypatia’s Ancient Spiritual Magic for Modern Times............................................Bruce MacLennan..................................... San Juan/ San Carlos 9:00 AM — Bring on the Rain! Mojo for Parched CA...............................................................Petra, Kitchen/Gard witch, & others......... San Martin/ San Simeon 9:00 AM — The Etruscan Discipline and the Oracle of Geomancy...........................................Murtagh anDoile...................................... Santa Clara 11:00 AM ¡ Pagan Activist Forum..........................................................................................Ryan Smith.............................................. Boardroom 1 1:00 AM ¡ Pagan Kids’ Song and Story Time.........................................................................Turning Earth Singers............................... Carmel 11:00 AM — Margot’s Non-Stop Ritual Chanting Workshop....................................................Margot Adler............................................ Cedar 11:00 AM — Practical Guising..................................................................................................Peter Paddon........................................... Fir 11:00 AM — The Rosary of Mary Magdelene...........................................................................Luna Pantera............................................ Monterey 1 1:00 AM v Tarot Reading Circle.............................................................................................Mary Greer............................................... Oak 11:00 AM — Yes They Are! Meeting and Greeting the Queerest of the Gods............................Circle of Dionysos..................................... Pine 11:00 AM v Stars in the Company of Stars: Thelema-Individuality-Connection......................James A. Eshelman.................................. San Jose 11:00 AM — Herbs, Oils and Medicine Bags.............................................................................Urban Goddess......................................... San Juan/ San Carlos 11:00 AM — The Horned Goddess and the Green Lady............................................................Caroline Wise........................................... San Martin/ San Simeon 11:00 AM v Our Grandmothers as goddesses.........................................................................Victoria Slind-Flor.................................... Santa Clara 11:00 AM — Village Witchery 201...........................................................................................Valerie E. Voigt......................................... Silicon Valley 9:00 AM

Sacred dance in a circle; no experience needed.

Pine

Bay Area Circle Dancers Simple and powerful sacred dances done holding hands in a circle. Every dance taught first; no dance experience needed. Dances from Britain, Greece, Israel, the US, elsewhere. The closing dance, to Burning Times, is extraordinary. We’ve been at Pantheacon 10 times in the past 12 years. 9:00 AM

San Jose

The Magpie Oracle: Casting shiny objects for a bright future.

Carrie Paris Diviners are a resourceful lot and for thousands of years they’ve made use of everyday items for oracle casting. Objects like bells, seeds and shells were incorporated as divining resources that provided accurate results. In this gathering we will look at the rich history of collection oracles and how many were put to use. We will also discover the hidden forecast existing in the everyday by taking up the Magpie Oracleó a shiny modern oracle with an ancient kick. Sample Magpie Oracles and casting sheets will be available on a first-come, first served basis. All levels welcome.

9:00 AM

San Juan/ San Carlos

Hypatia’s Ancient Spiritual Magic for Modern Times

Bruce MacLennan Hypatia was the most important female spiritual master of ancient Alexandria. Although she was a Pagan accused of witchcraft and martyred by a Christian mob, she had many devoted Christian and Jewish students, for she taught Neoplatonic spiritual practices that are central to the mystical traditions of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Western magical and Hermetic traditions. Her teaching was inclusive and tolerant. I will explain several simple Neoplatonic theurgical practices for communication and negotiation with the Gods. They are drawn from my new book, “The Wisdom of Hypatia.” 9:00 AM

San Martin/ San Simeon

Bring on the Rain! Mojo for Parched CA

Petra, Kitchen/Gard witch, Dark Forest/NROOGD Eclectic, focused circle and power raising to bring Rain to our much needed land. Water workers, dousers, water fairy-speakers, weather witches, cloud bringers, rain makers, rain nymphs, etc, are invited to come and create circumstances for bringing rain. Please wear something that reminds you of “rain, wet, winter, green”, bring noisemakers and objects for the central altar that do the same. Specific intent will be set at the time of ritual. All ages, creeds (or not) very welcome.

SUNDAY

9:00 AM

Santa Clara

The Etruscan Discipline and the Oracle of Geomancy

Murtagh anDoile This is an exploration of the interrelationship of the Oracle of Geomancy, with its origins in the Middle East, with the Etruscan Discipline, the celestial rules used to divine the will of the Gods. The Etruscans (The Rasenna) believed their Arte was given by Divine Revelation. Coming from Anatolia or places East, the Etruscan celestial system shows marked similarities to Mesopotamian magic. We compare the 16 stations of the sky in Etruria with the 16 figures of the Geomancy, and discuss both systems and their uses. 11:00 AM

Pagan Activist Forum

Boardroom

Ryan Smith This is an forum for all Pagan activists in political causes, social causes, or Pagan community organizing to discuss social & political issues and ideas as Pagans, share best practices, and talk about the future of our community. Advocates of racism and racist ideologies are not welcome and will be asked to leave.

11:00 AM

Pagan Kids’ Song and Story Time

Carmel

Turning Earth Singers Sing Pagan children’s songs with rhythm and movement, and read culturally diverse children’s books celebrating naturebased spirituality. We’ll start with songs and stories for the littlest ones and then move to material for older children. Music and book list will be given as handouts. All families and all ages are welcome! Kids under 7 should come with an adult.

11:00 AM

Margot’s Non-Stop Ritual Chanting Workshop

Cedar

Margot Adler We gather - In the past more than 200 people have come - for an hour and a half of non-stop ritual chanting. The first chants create the circle, sacred space, purification, etc., then it takes off with familiar and new, formal and free-form, ecstatic chants, filled with harmonies. A time for joy, energy, community and connection. This is ritual chanting, not performance, so the only requirements are your voice, your energy, and your ability to listen and to be attuned to what others do as well as what you do. 11:00 AM

Practical Guising

Fir

Peter Paddon Guising is the art of working with masks in ritual and crafting, in order to make use of the lore, personality and power of creatures of myth and nature, gods, and other spirits. This workshop looks at the practical techniques of guising in the British Isles, discussing various methods for making the masks from paper, leather and plaster. Peter Paddon, author and witch, has been working with ritual masks for many years, and his new book, Practical Guising: the Witch’s Art of working with masks, will be launched at this year’s PantheaCon.

SUNDAY

11:00 AM

Monterey

The Rosary of Mary Magdelene

Luna Pantera Having been raised Catholic for the first portion of my life there are some things I missed once the Goddess called me. At a spiritual ritual, Mary Magdalene, a Goddess in Her own right, gave me a rosary of love and healing a broken heart. Come and let me share it with you. Please bring your own rosary. Prayers will be provided. 11:00 AM

Oak

Tarot Reading Circle

Mary Greer Working together intuitively increases everyone’s skills as you will discover in this reading circle. You will give and receive impressions from Tarot cards for the benefit of all - whether you’ve ever read a Tarot card before or not. No matter your expertise, you will learn new skills and deepen your divinatory awareness. Suitable for everyone.

11:00 AM

Pine

Yes They Are! Meeting and Greeting the Queerest of the Gods

Circle of Dionysos After a two year hiatus, Yes They Are! returns to PCon with new performers, new Deities, and new messages. Yes They Are! is a rite of Out-rageous ferocity and fabulosity, giving voice to the gender shifting and same sex loving Deities found in Pantheons around the world. Join us as we play, rage, mourn, dance, and laugh our way through this rite celebrating the uniqueness found in each of us. 11:00 AM

San Jose

Stars in the Company of Stars: Thelema-Individuality-Connection

James A. Eshelman We are each an individual (Hadit) in the context of universal community (Nuit) - a star within the company of stars, Will in the embrace of Love. Mature individuality flourishes best in the context of intimate connection, and we are all the context for each other

11:00 AM

San Juan/ San Carlos

Herbs, Oils and Medicine Bags

Urban Goddess The Story of Herbs is an important one, as it connects us to the old ways of our ancestors. Early in my nature path I was drawn to the magikal properties of plants and how dried herbs and essential oils could charge my intentions. The variety of uses and the endless blends has kept me intrigued for many years. This workshop includes a short lecture and then some practical hands on applications to get you started. Reference handouts are included. 11:00 AM

San Martin/ San Simeon

The Horned Goddess and the Green Lady

Caroline Wise We all know of the Horned God and the Green Man. Here we will be exploring and restoring the often forgotten figures of the horned goddesses and green ladies from around the world. Looking at how we can connect to them and showing their relevance today. We can find them in most pantheons, but sometime we need to mine for these treasures. Illustrated presentation.

11:00 AM

Santa Clara

Our Grandmothers as goddesses

Victoria Slind-Flor Often we forget that the first experiences we have of sacred unconditional love were right in front of us when we were children. We will make poppets to honor these special people in our lives and hold a brief ritual bringing them to mind and sharing their stories.

11:00 AM

Silicon Valley

Village Witchery 201

Valerie E. Voigt Intermediate level issues and techniques in working with nonPagan clients who seek out the help of their local Witch. Solutions to some of the most common problems people bring to a Witch. Distinguishing different types of curses/hexes, and ways of neutralizing them. Dealing with spirit entities. Some heuristic techniques will be included. PREREQUISITES: VILLAGE WITCHERY 101 AND 102 OR EQUIVALENT. PREREQUISITE FOR VILLAGE WITCHERY 202.

SUNDAY AFTERNOON 1:30 PM

Rethinking the Language of Health for Clergy

Boardroom

Rev. Gina A. Pond This workshop looks at the abusive language that is used to describe health and weight in our society, and how that even the language that is used in our own groups and circles can be damaging or even abusive to those who have eating disorders and body image issues. We will also discuss ideas on how clergy can create safe space for people of all sizes, and how to talk about health without resorting to shame and discrimination. Since this workshop will talk about abuse (and other triggering topics), there will be no admittance once the doors are closed. All are welcome.

1:30 PM

Carmel/ Monterey

Empowerment - Ideas from the Ancient Egyptians

Tony Mierzwicki So you’ve been studying magick or witchcraft and want to improve your skills? Sometimes it helps to think outside the box. The ancient Egyptians were renowned as being powerful magickians, so why not apply their paradigm? The ancient Egyptians followed a code of behavior to assure themselves of a successful afterlife. This code involved aspiring to a state of balance through having a proper relationship with the divine and with humanity, as well as an awareness of their rights and responsibilities towards animals and the environment. 1:30 PM

Making Rituals that Matter

Cedar

Starhawk As Witches and Pagans, we create rituals for the turning wheel and the passages in our own lives, for help in facing challenges and for celebration of our triumphs. But if we’re honest, we know that sometimes our rituals work better than others. What makes the difference? A ritual that moves us tells a story. It has a clear, simple intention that matters, where something is at stake. We translate that intention into symbols, imagery and actions. Starhawk shares the wisdom she’s gleaned in more than four decades of crafting ritual, and guides us in taking our ritual skills to the next level.

1:30 PM

Fir

A Pagan Mythos

Raven Grimassi & Stephanie Taylor This presentation offers an “ever ancient and ever new” cohesive model of the core deity forms of modern Paganism in connection with the theme of the Wheel of the Year. This unifying mythos includes mystical connections intertwined with Goddess and God themes. Drawn from over 40 years of study and practice this model can enrich your practice and understanding of the foundational elements at the core of Pagan spirituality as rooted in pre-Christian European themes. 1:30 PM

Healing with Plant Spirit Familiars

Oak

Christopher Penczak Explore traditions of plant spirit healing that go beyond herbal medicine and folk magick to work directly with the entities of the plant world. Learn to perform ceremonies and shamanic workings to activate the spirit medicine of your allies for yourself and for others without necessarily ingesting the plants. Use the Doctrine of Signatures to understand how the plants are communicating their healing virtues and learn how homeopathy/flower essences can support the process. Work with these entities as you would any other spirit ally - in mutual partnership for the benefit of all. Doors close at start time.

1:30 PM

The Faery Magic of Rudyard Kipling

Pine

R J Stewart In the early 1900’s Rudyard Kipling, already a famous author, bought a derelict farm in England. He witnessed folkloric faery magic and old Sussex witchcraft among the country people, and wove them into his “children’s” stories...that hold a wealth of magic for us today. Join us for a powerful ritual of The Land, based on folkloric faery magic from 1905. Bring some leaves of Oak Ash and Thorn, respectfully gathered, a small amount earth from your own garden or dwelling place (even if it is from a planter), and a small natural stone. No crystals please! Not suitable for children under 12.

1:30 PM

Riesling

Two Paths, One Heart(h). Creating a Multitradition Household.

Paula Meier and J Mann (Bfly and Runes) An open discussion of ways to coexist with other belief systems in one household. Not limited to pagans, the blending of traditions, holidays and teachings is a concern in many households. Join us for chance to share ideas and create solutions to the issues that come from individual practices sharing space. 1:30 PM

Dance for the Greenman

San Jose

Ari Mankey Channel your inner wood-sprite, nymph or satyr and dance in celebration of nature! Learn a Belly Dance inspired scarf dance set to “Greenman” by XTC. Dance experience is not necessary, and people of all dance levels are welcome.

SUNDAY

SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT A GLANCE v

1:30 PM v Rethinking the Language of Health for Clergy.....................................................Rev. Gina A. Pond..................................... Boardroom 1:30 PM — Empowerment - Ideas from the Ancient Egyptians.............................................Tony Mierzwicki....................................... Carmel/ Monterey 1:30 PM — Making Rituals that Matter.................................................................................Starhawk................................................. Cedar 1:30 PM — A Pagan Mythos..................................................................................................Raven Grimassi & Stephanie Taylor.......... Fir 1:30 PM v Healing with Plant Spirit Familiars......................................................................Christopher Penczak................................. Oak 1:30 PM v The Faery Magic of Rudyard Kipling....................................................................R J Stewart............................................... Pine 1:30 PM — Two Paths, One Heart(h). Creating a Multitradition Household...........................Paula Meier and J Mann (Bfly & Runes).... Riesling 1:30 PM — Dance for the Greenman.....................................................................................Ari Mankey............................................... San Jose 1:30 PM ¡ Creating a Tarot Pocket Book...............................................................................Woven Circle............................................ San Juan/ San Carlos 1:30 PM — Dances for the God..............................................................................................Amy Baldwin........................................... San Martin/ San Simeon 1:30 PM — Kid-Powered Ritual for Peace and Joy.................................................................Melanie Marquis...................................... Santa Clara 1:30 PM — Queering Conjure: Reimagining Hoodoo in the 21st Century...............................Lou Florez................................................. Silicon Valley 3:30 PM ¡ Dismantling Gender............................................................................................Rev. Lee Whittaker................................... Boardroom 3:30 PM — The DulciMates in Concert...................................................................................The DulciMates........................................ Carmel/ Monterey 3:30 PM v The Great Queens: An Ancestor Ritual.................................................................Coru Cathubodua Priesthood................... Cedar 3:30 PM v Tranquil Sound Gardens......................................................................................Sound Gardens......................................... Club Max 3:30 PM — CREATING YOUR SACRED HOME............................................................................Amber K and Azrael Arynn K.................... Fir 3:30 PM — Heart of the Sun: A Ritual in Exaltation of Sekhmet............................................Heart of the Sun....................................... Oak 3:30 PM — Legal and Organizational Requirements for Pagan Groups..................................Brian Ewing............................................. Riesling 3:30 PM — In The Palm Of Your Hand....................................................................................Kooch Daniels.......................................... San Jose 3:30 PM v Intermediate Wheat Weaving..............................................................................Woven Circle............................................ San Juan/ San Carlos 3:30 PM v Oracular Seidh.....................................................................................................Seidhjaller................................................ San Martin/ San Simeon 3:30 PM v The Alchemy of Sacred Androgyny......................................................................Moss Magill.............................................. Santa Clara 3:30 PM — Grimms Fairy Tales: What Your Mother Didn’t Tell You!.........................................Kenny Klein.............................................. Silicon Valley 1:30 PM

Creating a Tarot Pocket Book

San Juan/ San Carlos

Woven Circle N. Marie will be leading this class in creating a pocket book for use with Tarot Cards. This accordion fold book will hold four pockets to reflect on seasonal changes. Students will work with collage and paper craft techniques to create a piece that can be displayed on their alter to read the passing of the Seasons. All materials will be provided.

1:30 PM

Dances for the God

San Martin/ San Simeon

Amy Baldwin Across the world, dance produces mystical experiences. From Europe to Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas, folk dance unites communities and fosters experiences of the gods. Come celebrate the God in all his forms with delightful dances, awesome music and the mesmerizing power of movement. This workshop is open to all. Both novice and experienced dancers welcome.

SUNDAY

1:30 PM

Kid-Powered Ritual for Peace and Joy

Santa Clara

Melanie Marquis Kids of all ages are welcome to join in for a fun and powerful ritual to help bring peace and joy to Pantheacon and to the world at large. Bring something that makes you happy, such as a toy, special jewelry, a favorite shirt, a book, etc. 1:30 PM

Silicon Valley

Queering Conjure: Reimagining Hoodoo in the 21st Century

Lou Florez Born from divergent cultural, economic, political, and spiritual upheavals in American history, the Southern rootwork tradition supplies a language that we can utilize in our investigations of spiritual experience and development. It also offers a place where personal power can be employed in magical workings. Join Lou Florez, for a glance at what elements make up the Southern Tradition and where it can be enhanced through the use of a Queer Theory lens. Enjoy educational demos deconstructing traditional Southern spiritual workings and techniques, re-imagining them for the 21st Century. In this class you will create and take home a working of your very own!

3:30 PM

Dismantling Gender

Boardroom

Rev. Lee Whittaker Talking with people who are not knowledgeable about gender variances is not easy. In this interactive workshop we will look at how views of gender, sexuality and sensuality are informed and biased by our own antiquated and unauthentic beliefs that come from a variety of places. By learning what we subconsciously know, we can begin to engage in creating a more welcoming world for everyone regardless of where they fall on the gender spectrum. Please bring a notebook or pad to this workshop.

3:30 PM

The DulciMates in Concert

Carmel/ Monterey

The DulciMates The DulciMates, Deborah Hamouris & Buffalo, bring their 30+ years of Pagan song smithing to bear in a concert of traditional folk music and original compositions with traditional flair. Two voices, two mountain dulcimers and possible guest artists will provide harmony and lots of opportunities for singing along. 3:30 PM

The Great Queens: An Ancestor Ritual

Cedar

Coru Cathubodua Priesthood They fought, they stood strong, they overcame, and they were victorious. The past is radiant with great Queens. Yet much of history remembers only the stories of Kings. Thus we are all impoverished, men and women, losing the wisdom of half our human lineage. In this ritual we reclaim the ancestral power of the great Queens with Macha, ancient Lady of Queenship, as our guide. Join us as we invoke the ancestral Queens of all tribes and nations as we seek the strength they drew upon to do their great deeds; that we too may walk tall as sovereigns.

3:30 PM

Tranquil Sound Gardens

Club Max

Sound Gardens Sound Gardens offers a meditative journey with the intention to cultivate tranquility. Our gongs, chimes, bells, and mother drum create a unique environment, which can dispel the noisiness of everyday life. Participants can use their time in our gardens to create and explore what they wish: finding their still center, working at healing, unwinding, or simply enjoying the experience. We hope to provide something unhurried, gentle to vibrant, wordless, and sensitive. Walk, drift, amble, or float with us amongst the flowerbeds, arbors, and pools of sound. Doors close 10 Min. after scheduled start

3:30 PM

CREATING YOUR SACRED HOME

Fir

Amber K and Azrael Arynn K Take the space where you dwell, and transform it from a mere house or apartment into a center for rest, healing, and renewing your spirit. Learn techniques to alter and repurpose each area so that it is functional, comfortable, beautiful, and spiritual. The lead facilitator, Azrael Arynn K, has her Master’s in architectural design and has spent the past ten years helping to design and create Ardantane Pagan Learning Center. With Azrael and Amber K, authors of Ritualcraft, How to Become a Witch, The Heart of Tarot and other books.

3:30 PM

Heart of the Sun: A Ritual in Exaltation of Sekhmet

Oak

Heart of the Sun A ritual to honor and celebrate the ancient Egyptian Goddess Sekhmet and to empower participants to connect with Her energy through chant, song, guided meditation, visualization, invocation and offering. 3:30 PM

Riesling

Legal and Organizational Requirements for Pagan Groups

Brian Ewing As Pagan groups become larger, they might wish, or even need, to become “official” so they can network, expand nationwide, give back to society, raise funds, etc. But the mundane details and paperwork can seem daunting. This class covers what is needed to incorporate as a nonprofit organization, and other legal, paperwork, and mundane requirements to keep your organization running in the future. 3:30 PM

In The Palm Of Your Hand

San Jose

Kooch Daniels Informative and fun, this palmistry discussion gives insightful guidelines for learning to read the hand. Kooch Daniels, author of The Art And Magic of Palmistry, will share essential techniques to help you build your skills and gain confidence in your practice. Using hands of willing participants, weíll explore palmistry symbols and interpret their potential meanings. More than a ìhow toî talk, this is a show and tell class that answers questions about your hands. 3:30 PM

Intermediate Wheat Weaving

San Juan/ San Carlos

Woven Circle For those of you who have taken wheat weaving classes or are advanced hand crafters, this class focuses on intermediate weaving techniques. In this class, each student will make a Sunspray using braiding straw and building techniques. All materials and supplies are provided. For an example of the project go to www.paganhumanist.com

3:30 PM

Oracular Seidh

San Martin/ San Simeon

Seidhjaller Now, as in the time of the Vikings, seers and seeresses journey to the spirit world to find answers to your questions. This practice comes from the heathen tradition, but all are welcome as we support each other with our energy and learn what wyrd has woven. This session is limited to 60 people. For more information about Seidh, see www.seidh.org, or The Way of the Oracle by Diana L. Paxson.

3:30 PM

The Alchemy of Sacred Androgyny

Santa Clara

Moss Magill There are many traditions that recognize and honor a blending of solar and lunar consciousness. Why is this symbolism so powerful and how can we use it to realize our highest potential? Join us for an interactive session about combining your own mascu-

SUNDAY

SUNDAY EVENING AT A GLANCE v

7:00 PM — The Magic of Writing: how to use writing to manifest reality..............................Taylor Ellwood.......................................... Boardroom 7:00 PM — Concert with R J Stewart.....................................................................................R J Stewart............................................... Carmel/ Monterey 7:00 PM v The Green Mist: Riding the Breath of Earth’s Guardian........................................Orion Foxwood......................................... Cedar/ Pine 7:00 PM — Former Tempest Fiddler Michael Mullen’s Solo Show..........................................Michael Mullen’s Trio Of One.................... Club Max 7:00 PM v The 1899 Ritual...................................................................................................Jason W. Mankey...................................... Oak 7:00 PM — Walking Down Awen’s Path.................................................................................David P. Smith.......................................... Riesling 7:00 PM — Wand Magick: Before “Expecto Patronum”..........................................................Amber K and Azrael Arynn K.................... San Jose/ Santa Clara 7:00 PM — Druid Procession and Ritual: Protecting the Web of Life......................................House of Danu.......................................... San Juan/ San Carlos 7:00 PM v Feraferia Celebrates the Feast of Ostara...............................................................Jo Carson and Feraferia............................ San Martin/ San Simeon 7:00 PM — The Woman Magician..........................................................................................Brandy Williams....................................... Silicon Valley 9:00 PM — The Evil Eye - Folk Magic of the Silk Road............................................................Tandemonium.......................................... Carmel/ Monterey 9:00 PM — Avalon Rising Celtic Rock Concert........................................................................Avalon Rising........................................... Cedar/ Pine 9:00 PM — The Gentle Heretic...............................................................................................Lon Milo DuQuette................................... Club Max 9:00 PM v The Dark Ones: No Way Out But Through.............................................................Dark Forest Coven..................................... Oak 9:00 PM v Runes of the Ancestors: A Journey to the Roots of Runic Power...........................Lipsky, Guindon, & Ravenna..................... San Jose/ Santa Clara 9:00 PM v Tantric Shamanism Breathwork..........................................................................Sylvia Brallier........................................... San Juan/ San Carlos 9:00 PM — Devotional Parade and Ceremony for Lady Inanna..............................................Temple of Inanna and Dumuzi................. San Martin/ San Simeon 9:00 PM — Depth Hypnosis: Inner Transformation for Collective Good..................................Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.................................... Silicon Valley 11:00 PM v Sacred Dance for Ritual and Trance Induction......................................................Dakini Uma Amitabha.............................. Carmel/ Monterey 11:00 PM ¡ Taking of the Veil.................................................................................................The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence......... Oak 11:00 PM — Spark Collective Fire Circle...................................................................................Spark Collective........................................ San Martin/ San Simeon line and feminine energies and embodying the Sacred Androgyne through discussion and contemplation of an alchemical diagram known as the Tabula Smaragdina. In this closed session, you will create a unique roadmap that can guide you along the pathway to reaching your highest levels of transformation. All are welcome. Doors close at start time.

7:00 PM

3:30 PM

7:00 PM

Silicon Valley

Grimms Fairy Tales: What Your Mother Didn’t Tell You!

Kenny Klein Growing up, we all heard the stories of Snow White, Red Riding Hood, and Beauty and the Beast. But each of these tales comes from older, darker tales, and carries with it dark, erotic underpinnings. Kenny Klein explores the deep meanings of the tales collected by the Grimms, adding material from traditional songs and older myths to give a view of the real stories of these characters. Kenny Klein is a well known performer and presenter, and author of Through the Faerie Glass (Llewellyn 2010) and Fairy Tale Rituals (Llewellyn 2011).

SUNDAY EVENING 7:00 PM

Boardroom

The Magic of Writing: how to use writing to manifest reality

Taylor Ellwood In this class, we’ll explore writing as a magical tool, and how it can be used to manifest possibilities into reality. Even if you are a non-writer, this class can provide useful tips for learning how to use writing as a magical tool. We’ll discuss journaling, sigils, and writing techniques you can use with your magical practice

SUNDAY

Concert with R J Stewart

Carmel/ Monterey

R J Stewart A concert of original songs, ancient magical ballads, and music on unique instruments. With R J playing 73 stringed psaltery, guitar, flute, bouzouki and lavta. Cedar/ Pine

The Green Mist: Riding the Breath of Earth’s Guardian

Orion Foxwood In Faery Seership, the plants are the original source of humanity and the key to our potential. Most of what we eat to stay embodied comes from the plant world in some way. To become whole in the garden of life, we must reach back to these powers as elders and allies. In Faery Seership, we re-invite this co-creative alliance by soul-reaching into the fabric of the planetary vision and unifying with the breath of the planetary Guardian called “the Green-Mist”. Orion will discuss the Guardian, Mist, and re-emmerse us in the river of green-fire to consecrate this ancient union again!

7:00 PM

Former Tempest Fiddler Michael Mullen’s Solo Show

Club Max

Michael Mullen’s Trio Of One Michael Mullen’s Trio Of One is a multi-faceted solo show: Looped jigs and reels and rocking acoustic folk that bring a uniquely Celtic twist to the term One Man Band. Using “live looping” for more impact as a solo musician, when performing as the Trio Michael is a musical hydra with many heads and arms. Whether

performing exhilirating Scottish fiddle tunes, rambunctious Irish drinking songs, the odd classic rock cover that he performs in his own inimitable way, or memorable originals--Michael’s musicianship and energy drive the music forward like race horses being chased by a formula car.

The Goddess of Nature gives birth to the God of the Year. Delivery transforms the Goddess into a Maiden. She and the young God exchange the joys of childhood. Join us as we call in the Faerie and journey to discover the secrets of the new flowering year.

7:00 PM

The Woman Magician

Oak

The 1899 Ritual

Jason W. Mankey While Modern Paganism (probably) didn’t really start until the middle of the 20th Century, the pieces were in place long before that. The 1899 Ritual is an attempt to figure out what “Pagan Ritual” might have looked like at the end of the 19th Century. Weaving together the threads of the grimoire tradition, Freemasonry, Leyland, and English Romantic Poetry, the 1899 Ritual is a step backwards in time. Join us to see what ritual might have looked like before people were even calling themselves Pagans or Witches.

7:00 PM

Riesling

7:00 PM

Silicon Valley

Brandy Williams Always the priestess, never the magician...until now! Western metaphysics assumes philosophers, geniuses and magicians are men. This presentation explores changes in metaphysical language and imagery to include women’s language and culture. Rethinking gender in the tradition begins the process of opening Western Traditional Magic to people who have traditionally been marginalized and excluded. 9:00 PM

The Evil Eye - Folk Magic of the Silk Road

Carmel/ Monterey

David P. Smith In this presentation we talk about the topic of Awen which is prevalent in modern Druidry. It is about working with the inspiration of the world around us. We will discuss its origins and how to directly work with it.

Tandemonium Pre-Islamic beliefs about the “Evil Eye” permeate every part of modern Central Asian society. Learn about the Evil Eye, its causes and effects and how the people of Central Asia protect themselves. Presentation includes a display of Central Asian talismanic jewelry and costumes and concludes with a performance of shamanic dance.

7:00 PM

9:00 PM

Walking Down Awen’s Path

San Jose/ Santa Clara

Wand Magick: Before “Expecto Patronum”

Amber K and Azrael Arynn K Magick wands are the stuff of fantasy and fairy tales, but they are also serious ritual tools that few practitioners know how to use effectively. Join Amber K to explore the origin, varieties, and uses of this extraordinary tool (and related tools such as the staff, scepter, and stang), and practice exercises to strengthen your skills with the wand. Amber is the author of True Magick, CovenCraft, RitualCraft, and other highly regarded books on magick and Pagan spirituality, and serves as Executive Director of Ardantane Pagan Learning Center. 7:00 PM

San Juan/ San Carlos

Druid Procession and Ritual: Protecting the Web of Life

House of Danu The Druid House of Danu presents their popular Druid ritual celebrated with the visual and performing arts. Expect to make props for the grand opening procession to live music, chanting and drumming. This year we heed the Warrior’s Call from Pagans in Europe joined by our Druid order in East Sussex (OBOD). After over a thousand years, Avalon emerges from the mists for ongoing works of magic to protect the web of life. Bring your drums, your voice, and your creativity as you join us in an ending spiral dance. Ritual is not something you watch. It’s something you do. 7:00 PM

San Martin/ San Simeon

Feraferia Celebrates the Feast of Ostara

Jo Carson and Feraferia Ostara celebrates the coming Spring Equinox. This festival of rising sap, plunging roots, and bare buds heralds the natural beginning of the Sacred Year. The days grow longer than the nights.

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Avalon Rising Celtic Rock Concert

Cedar/ Pine

Avalon Rising Join Celtic rock band Avalon Rising for a mystical, magical, danceable night of Celtic/Medieval-flavored rock! Shimmeringly original, vibrantly rhythmic, music to transport and enchant you! With Pantheacon favorites Kristoph Klover (vocals, guitar, octave mandolin), Margaret Davis (vocals, harp, flute), Mark Ungar (bass, vocals, mandocello), Scott Irwin (drums, vocals), and Robert Hill (mandolin, fiddle, vocals). 9:00 PM

The Gentle Heretic

Club Max

Lon Milo DuQuette Come and sit a spell with award winning songwriter Lon Milo DuQuette as he invites you to join him while he plays songs from his new album along with his other beloved albums. 9:00 PM

The Dark Ones: No Way Out But Through

Oak

Dark Forest Coven An intense musical journey to the dark side; through music and dance we will explore our attraction the Dark Ones and how this work is necessary to understand each other and better serve our diverse community. Only by knowing and embracing the dark can you work in the light. We will take you all the way there and bring you back; because true power lies in the balance between light and dark. Come Join us on the dark side, we have cookies! No-one under 18. Come ready to bring the ooga to our booga!

SUNDAY

9:00 PM

San Jose/ Santa Clara

Runes of the Ancestors: A Journey to the Roots of Runic Power

Hannah Lipsky, Grant Guindon, Morpheus Ravenna In this ecstatic ceremony, we evoke the primal power of the runes through ancient guardian animals. Algiz and Dire Elk ward; Eagle and Ansuz open the way. With Gebo and Dire Boar we make offerings to Odin; the untamed power of Aurochs and Uruz lend us strength. Raidho and Wild Horse draw us along our path; Cave Bear and Perthro open the deep mysteries. The bright torch of Kenaz brings Sabertooth cunning; Othala and the clan call of Dire Wolf carry us home. Come explore these runes with us and leave with their magic in your head, heart and hands.

9:00 PM

Tantric Shamanism Breathwork

San Juan/ San Carlos

ment? Dakini presents tools and techniques that will help you create your own sacred dance practice. Learn to express the Divine through movement, to let your own Light shine from within. We will also sample from specific traditions throughout the world, giving you a glimpse into other cultures and sacred path work. Come experience a world of possibilities and free your body, mind and spirit through Dance. 11:00 PM

Taking of the Veil

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Join the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for a ritual of sacrifice, transformation, and rebirth as we pass through the veil to take on the MANtle of the Goddess. Participants may enter liminal space in various states of (un)dress. All participants are expected to make a sacrificial offering. Drummers welcome. 18+.

11:00 PM

Sylvia Brallier Ecstasy is a divine gift that lifts us out of ordinary reality and into an exalted state ~ a direct experience of the sacred. The transformative fires of ecstasy burn away the blocked energy held in our shadow selves and transmutes it into pure energy that may be used for the healing of our world and ourselves. This ceremony is a profound opportunity to drop away what has been binding you and move forward towards your bliss. This form of tantric breathwork is done within the context of a circle. You do NOT need a partner to participate in this work.

Spark Collective Fire Circle

9:00 PM

MONDAY MORNING

San Martin/ San Simeon

Devotional Parade and Ceremony for Lady Inanna

Temple of Inanna and Dumuzi The people of Sumer parade before you. The women adorn their right sides with men’s clothing....The men adorn their left sides with women’s clothing. The people of Sumer parade before you. So sings an ancient cuneiform hymn to Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth, to Whom belong all the arts and joys of civilization. We will parade for holy Inanna and celebrate Her and Her husband Dumuzi. All are invited. Glitz, glam, drag, semi-drag, and/or your most glorious attire suggested. 9:00 PM

Silicon Valley

Depth Hypnosis: Inner Transformation for Collective Good

Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D. Depth Hypnosis, pioneered by Isa in the 1990s and now practiced throughout the United States and in Europe, provides powerful tools for individuals interested in transforming themselves so they can participate in the transformation of the collective more coherently and purposefully. In this workshop, we will explore how healing the trauma hidden behind such personal symptoms of depression, anxiety, and fear can be the catalyst for clarifying what gifts we may be able to offer the collective in order to help bring balance to these challenging times. 11:00 PM

Carmel/ Monterey

Sacred Dance for Ritual and Trance Induction

Dakini Uma Amitabha When you think of Sacred, what does that mean to you? The exact answer is invariably different for everybody. So, what IS sacred dance and how can you explore deep meaning through move-

MONDAY

Oak

San Martin/ San Simeon

Spark Collective Transform yourself! Enter the circle through the sacred portals: music, voice, movement, and nurturing. We invoke the directions before beginning our journey around the center. Then the magic begins as we open ourselves to deep witnessing and sacred play. The ritual is a cauldron of spontaneous motion, emotion, magic, and song -- all serving to connect us more deeply with our personal intentions and our fellow travelers. Join us by listening to what the moment needs. This is a safe space to stretch your spirit and try new things. 9:00 AM

Beard Blessing Ritual

Carmel/ Monterey

Ekklesia Antinoou These are the prohibitions of a beard... So goes a medieval Irish text that tells the expectations of a mature adult. Hadrian was the first Roman Emperor to have a beard, and every Emperor after him followed suit. This ritual will involve the blessings and the injunctions of the bearded and the non-bearded as well. To be part of the beard blessing, one must have a beard (whether real or fake), otherwise one will be part of the non-bearded blessing. For absolutely anyone who has a beard, may have one in the future, or who doesn’t have one, regardless of gender or age! 9:00 AM

Pop Culture Magick for Geeks

Cedar

Emily Carlin Do you love Doctor Who, Star Wars, World of Warcraft, Superheroes, and Dungeons and Dragons? Want to learn how to harness that geekery into effective magick? In this workshop we will explore how to use the characters and iconography we love from sci-fi, fantasy, and gaming to perform magick that takes advantage of the pathways already seared into our brains by geeking out. This workshop is appropriate for people of all paths and ages, at any level of nerdiness. 9:00 AM

Healing the Wounded Queen

Oak

Jhenah Telyndru The path to wholeness is the ultimate women’s quest, yet no knights on horseback are needed to retrieve this Holy Grail, for it has never been anywhere but in the keeping of women. Explor-

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9:00 AM — Beard Blessing Ritual..........................................................................................Ekklesia Antinoou.................................... Carmel/ Monterey 9:00 AM — Pop Culture Magick for Geeks..............................................................................Emily Carlin.............................................. Cedar 9:00 AM v Healing the Wounded Queen..............................................................................Jhenah Telyndru....................................... Oak 9:00 AM — Village Witchery 202...........................................................................................Valerie E. Voigt......................................... Pine 9:00 AM — Flower Magic: Working with Our Blossoming Allies.............................................Tess Whitehurst........................................ San Jose 9:00 AM — Reiki for magical people: Introduction to Reiki 1.................................................Jessica Reiki Miller................................... Santa Clara 11:00 AM — Youth Blessing Ritual..........................................................................................Ekklesia Antinoou.................................... Carmel/ Monterey 11:00 AM v Safer Sex Magic, Magical Safer Sex......................................................................Lee Harrington......................................... Fir 11:00 AM v Sonic Alchemy: To Re-Enchant the World............................................................Sharon Knight.......................................... Oak 11:00 AM v Dynamic Stick Stretching.....................................................................................Kim Makoi, D.C., M.Sc............................... Pine 11:00 AM — Women of the Golden Dawn...............................................................................Geraldine Beskin...................................... Silicon Valley ing the hidden pathways encoded in the symbolism found in myth and legend, learn how to reclaim this inner Vessel of Transformation which will revive the Wasteland of woundedness and, with one sip of it’s sacred elixir, restore our inner Sovereignty. We will embark upon a trance journey as part of the reclamation of our inner Queenship. 9:00 AM

Village Witchery 202

Pine

Valerie E. Voigt Final tips and techniques for working with non-Pagan clients who seek the help of a Witch. Precautions and community relations in non-Pagan neighborhoods. Q&A plus recommended supplies and resources, including sources for further study. Plus anything not already covered in the Village Witchery 101, 102, and 201 classes! PREREQUISITES: VILLAGE WITCHERY 101, 102, AND 201 OR EQUIVALENT. 9:00 AM

Flower Magic: Working with Our Blossoming Allies

San Jose

Tess Whitehurst While each flower’s vibration is unique, what it expresses is universal: it’s available to all of us and is already a part of us. Flower magic, then, might be defined as the employment of a flower as a focal point for an intention, or as a window into one’s divine aspect, in order to affect a desired positive change. This class will give you everything you need to begin communicating with (and receiving healing from) flowers, and will provide a number of tools and techniques that will help you establish a basic framework for your flower magic practice. 9:00 AM

Reiki for magical people: Introduction to Reiki 1

Santa Clara

Jessica Reiki Miller Reiki is a popular holistic healing energy originating in early 19th century Japan. For magical people, it’s a source of ki, that can be used for manifesting, healing work and spiritual offerings, always for positive intention. Soothing energy usable on yourself and others to relieve stress, ease headaches, aches and pains, and promoting bodies ability to heal itself. Similar to ‘chi’ energy used by Martial Artists, Reiki be easily attained by anyone guaranteed. Learn some Reiki basics, special techniques for relieving shoulder tension, lessening headaches, improving circulation.

11:00 AM

Youth Blessing Ritual

Carmel/ Monterey

Ekklesia Antinoou The Ekklesia Antinoou recognizes the wisdom and blessings inherent in youth, and in this ritual will bless and protect youth (and all others present), and demonstrate the wisdom of youth by having those youths present (i.e. anyone under 20) help to create the ritual and bless others by doing so. The ritual will involve Antinous, as well as the family of Polydeukion and Herodes Attikos. For anyone to attend, but particularly for young people. 11:00 AM

Safer Sex Magic, Magical Safer Sex

Fir

Lee Harrington How do we as sacred sex explorers protect ourselves energetically and physically during acts and journeys that involve our bodies, will and desire? Join us (adults over 18) as we discuss body fluids and prana (and getting our energy to move beyond latex barriers), choosing what parts of ourselves intermingle with our partners, dedication or cleansing/grounding of our erotic props, energy ethics, sacred spaces, and the why behind some of these interactions. A background in sex magic and energy working is useful to be an active part of the conversation, but is not required for attendance.

11:00 AM

Sonic Alchemy: To Re-Enchant the World

Oak

Sharon Knight Come and sing along with Celtic faerytale songstress Sharon Knight. Experience the ability of song to free your energy and lift your spirits! In this improvisational song journey, we’ll shake loose what’s stuck and rekindle a sense of enchantment in our lives.

11:00 AM

Dynamic Stick Stretching

Pine

Kim Makoi, D.C., M.Sc. Who doesn’t like exercising in a room full of pagans with long sticks?! Dynamic Stick Stretching incorporates elements of yoga, tai chi and martial arts and will magically stretch, strengthen, relax and energize you! All fitness levels are welcome. We will be providing the 4’ and 6’ sticks, but feel free to bring your own!

MONDAY

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1:30 PM — Divination with the Lenormand Deck..................................................................Mary Greer............................................... Carmel/ Monterey 1:30 PM — Meet the Santa Muerte/Diga hola a la Santa Muerte..........................................Dr. Stephanie Rendino............................. Fir 1:30 PM v The Healing Power of Co-Creation: Restoration of Creative Unity........................Orion Foxwood......................................... Oak 1:30 PM — Holy Smoke! The Return of Iron Priest/ess...........................................................Angela T Carlson...................................... Pine 1:30 PM — Hands-On Tablet Weaving...................................................................................Ruth Temple............................................. San Jose 1:30 PM v Candy Ritual........................................................................................................Lydia M N Crabtree................................... Santa Clara 1:30 PM — Introduction to Magickal Drumming...................................................................Don Schulz............................................... Silicon Valley 3:30 PM — Closing Ritual......................................................................................................Glenn Turner & friends............................. Pine 11:00 AM

Women of the Golden Dawn

Silicon Valley

Geraldine Beskin Four women whose magical lives span 100 years. Creative, artistic and bold with magic the beating heart of their being, these women led public lives too. Florence Farr, Georgie Yeats, Ithel Colquhoun and Moina Mathers.

MONDAY AFTERNOON 1:30 PM

Divination with the Lenormand Deck

Carmel/ Monterey

Mary Greer Originating in the late 18th century and valued for generations in Europe, the 36-card Petit Lenormand cards are experiencing a huge renaissance. Readings are more succinct, accurate and practical than Tarot. I’ll de-mystify the “Grand Tableau” spread and demonstrate how to start reading these remarkable cards to find lost objects, solve problems, and predict the development of events. 1:30 PM

Fir

Meet the Santa Muerte/Diga hola a la Santa Muerte

Dr. Stephanie Rendino Santa Muerte is a syncretistic deity (or angel, or saint) associated with the underside of Mexican and southwestern American society. Is this association fair or accurate, though? Dr. Rendino will unpack the origin and meanings of this controversial religious figure. 1:30 PM

Oak

The Healing Power of Co-Creation: Restoration of Creative Unity

Orion Foxwood Why is it “imperative” that humanity partner with the unseen company? Why was it ALWAYS core to living in-balance? Understanding and responding to these question has never been more important than it is now. Join with Orion and Brigh and the the “spirits that walk with you” in this declaration of co-creation. Orion will share intimate insights from his relationship with Brigh and engage us in a “United State of Spirit”. It is time to move from the battle-field of life onto the dancing floor”. Come ready to co-create an energetic healing salve for the soul.

MONDAY

1:30 PM

Holy Smoke! The Return of Iron Priest/ess

Pine

Angela T Carlson In celebration of PantheaCon’s 20th anniversary, we’re bringing back our favorite fun way of ending the Con. A “magical” spoof of the original “Iron Chef ”, two teams compete to come up with the best ritual within a limited time frame while using the “secret ingredients”. A panel of wacky judges and a Japanese translator help set the scene while the Honorable Chairperson facilitates the event. Bring your sense of humor and be prepared to laugh. 1:30 PM

Hands-On Tablet Weaving

San Jose

Ruth Temple Come learn about handweaving, historical and present, and its uses in sacred practice, as you make and take a small project of your own. Materials are provided. Handouts including information and resources for further exploration. 1:30 PM

Candy Ritual

Santa Clara

Lydia M N Crabtree This wildly popular ritual is back with a tactile learning experience for practitioners of all ages. This is an opportunity to see, smell, taste and touch the elements, divinity and ritual in a completely child appropriate way. As always, there is free candy.

1:30 PM

Introduction to Magickal Drumming

Silicon Valley

Don Schulz Basics of drumming for ritual, healing, mediation, and shamanic work. Includes types of rhythms, volume, pitches, appropriate drum styles and timing. 3:30 PM

Closing Ritual

Pine

Glenn Turner & friends Join us as we gather together one last time to thank and say goodbye to the guardians and protectors of our event. We can also share highlights of our gathering of the tribes.

PANTHEACON 2014 PRESENTERS ADF

ADF provides a flexible structure for a Neopagan Druidic religion based on the practices of the ancient Indo-Europeans, adapted to the needs of a modern people. It’s a non-profit religious, scientific, educational, artistic, and charitable corporation whose members practice the full range of activities practiced by most religious organizations. We are dedicated to the preservation of our Holy Mother Earth, the full achievement of human potential, the revival of the worship of the Goddesses and the Gods in a modern context, and the creation of world peace, freedom, health, prosperity for all intelligent beings. • ADF: Ritual Dedicated to Hospitality and Community Service Sunday, 9:00 AM �� Fir

Afalarian

Afalarian is a musical collaboration by Lori Schneider; celebrated musician, vocalist, composer, and founding member of Crystal Rose, and Jhenah Telyndru; author, singer/songwriter, and founder of the Sisterhood of Avalon. Blending musical styles ranging from Celtic traditional, medieval chant, Renaissance instrumentals, and modern Pagan Folk with a touch of Gothic influence, Afalarian seeks to express some of the blessings of Awen, the Divine Spark of Inspiration, through music and as a reflection of the soul’s journey. They invite you to come along... • Pagan Open Mike Saturday, 11:00 PM �� Club Max

Albert Robles

Albert Robles and Claire Medeiros are musical collaborators who work on everything from drum trance to electronica together. They each bring over a decade of experience making popular and ritual music to this workshop. Learn more about Albert’s band, Bones Quigley, at jack-quigley.com and listen to Claire’s music under the name Fluxture on Sound Cloud. • Yoga Nidra Drum Trance Sunday, 9:00 AM �� Oak

Amber K and Azrael Arynn K

Amber K and Azrael Arynn K are Wiccan priestesses, authors of True Magick, Ritualcraft, Covencraft, How to Become a Witch, and other books. They are active with Ardantane in New Mexico. Ardantane, PO Box 307, Jemez Springs NM 87025. www.ardantane.org. • Creating Your Sacred Home Sunday, 3:30 PM �� Fir • Wand Magick: Before “Expectro Patronum” Sunday, 7:00 PM ��San Jose/Santa Clara

American Magic Umbanda House

The members of the AMUH have been practicing our version of American Umbanda for over 20 years in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. We are what is called a mixed house, meaning that we have a variety of pantheons that we work with, but our primary pantheon is the Orixa of West Africa, and Brazil. For more information, please contact Mama Maeva at: AMUHinfo@Gmail.com • Pomba Gira 2.0: Red is the New Black!!! Friday, 11:00 PM �� Cedar/ Pine

Amy Baldwin

Amy Baldwin has nearly forty years experience in performing and teaching folk dance on both coasts. She is a founding member of Mayfield Morris and Sword and the founder and artistic director of Mad Molly, a morris dance team in Palo Alto. She is also a founding member of South Bay Circles, one of the South Bay’s longest-running open circles. When not dancing she enjoys reading about the history of science. • Dances for the God Sunday, 1:30 PM �� San Martin/ San Simeon

Amy Hale

Dr. Amy Hale is an anthropologist specializing in contemporary Celtic cultures, with an emphasis on Cornwall and esoteric cultural history. She is the co-editor of New Directions in Celtic Studies (2000) and Inside Merlin’s Cave: A Cornish Arthurian Reader (2000) in addition to over 30 other articles ranging from Neo Druidry to Celtic cultural tourism. She is past co-editor of the Journal of the Academic Study of Magic and is currently working on a biography of Ithell Colquhoun for Francis Boutle Press. • Pagans and Institution Building Sunday, 9:00 AM �� Monterey

Anaar

Anaar is a long time practicing witch in the Feri Tradition and brings to her performances a large body of dark lore and ritual. Her body of work focuses on sensual ecstasy and expressionistic storytelling. She walks between the worlds, dancing between technique and passion. Every performance is an homage to her Triple Muse; Mystery, Power and Ritual. Fear not to step into the circle, Fear not to dance with the Fey. • The Copper Decagram Saturday, 9:00 PM �� San Jose/ Santa Clara

Angela T Carlson

Angela T Carlson has been actively serving as a Gythia within the Heathen community for over 15 years. She is involved in the larger Interfaith community as well as being a working Mom and helping to run conferences and events on the side. • Living within Heathenry 2.0 Sunday, 9:00 AM �� Carmel • Holy Smoke! The Return of Iron Priest/ess Monday, 1:30 PM �� Pine

Angus McMahan

Angus McMahan is a gregarious solitary who can usually be found playing strange drums strangely at various Community Seed rituals. He is a lego sculptor, a cross-country marcher, a crop circle inspiration, a breathtakingly slow triathlete and a writer of no great renown. www.angus-land.com • Pagan Humor 6: Do not go gentle into that good night Saturday, 7:00 PM �� Club Max

Ari Mankey

Ari Mankey is a teacher, dancer, and High Priestess. Dancing under the stage name “Ayperi” (Turkish for “Moon Fairy”), Ari specializes in Egyptian cabaret style bellydance, while also indulging her interests in folkloric dance from the Middle East and North

Africa. Ari believes that dance can be a vehicle to find our higher selves and commune with the gods. When she’s not dancing, she can be found officiating rites in the infamous Morrison Clan with her husband Jason. • Dance for the Greenman Sunday, 1:30 PM �� San Jose

Aurea Arcana

This revolving, roving group of witty and wry fools, wisemen, queens, and mathemagicians gather annually, as they have under many names and directors, to present to you the divine mysteries of Oracles from the Living Tarot. This year, OLT is directed by Yeshe Rabbit. • Oracles from the Living Tarot Saturday, 3:30 PM �� Cedar/ Pine

Avalon Rising

Progressive Celtic/Medieval rock band Avalon Rising has been rocking audiences worldwide since 1993, including performances in Jinan, China at the Euro-American Festival. Avalon Rising is Kristoph Klover: electric guitar, octave mandolin, vocals; Margaret Davis: Celtic harp, flute, vocals; Mark Ungar: bass, mandocello, vocals; Scott Irwin: drums; Robert Hill: mandolin, fiddle, vocals. http://www.avalonrising.com, stoph@flowinglass.com • Avalon Rising Celtic Rock Concert Sunday, 9:00 PM �� Cedar/ Pine

Awo Falokun

In 1989 Awo Falokun Fatunmbi traveled to Ode Remo and received initiation into Ifa, the indigenous religion of the Yoruba culture located on the Western central rain forest of Africa. Awo Falokun has been a prolific author of books and online materials pertaining to Ifa and how to incorporate spirituality, family and life balance according to African Example. He regularly travels the world training students in the concepts he’s learned. • The Ifa Concept of Extended Family Saturday, 1:30 PM �� Riesling

Baba Esu

Baba Esu (esuwemimo@gmail.com) is an initiated Priest of Esu and was initiated by Chief Luisah Teish & Ile Orunmila Oshun 12 1/2 years ago. Baba works as a Senior Financial Analyst and holds a B.S. in Accounting and Finance from San Jose State University and holds an A.S. in Culinary Arts. Baba is trained and accredited as a professional chef and is the CEO of Yummy Tummy Farms LLC in San Jose, CA. • Introduction to Indigenous Ifa & Orisha Friday, 3:30 PM �� San Jose • Introduction to Ifa & Orisha: The Warriors Saturday, 9:00 PM �� Riesling

Bay Area Circle Dancers

We’ve been dancing in the Bay Area for 28 years. We offer a participative workshop in Circle, or Sacred Dance: a means of experiencing and celebrating our connection to the rhythms of the earth, to each other, and to our sources. No dance experience necessary. We teach simple meaningful beautiful dances from Greece, Scotland, Israel, the Incas, the Shakers, etc. all done to splendid music, holding hands in a circle. • Sacred dance in a circle; no experience needed. Sunday, 9:00 AM �� Pine

Bloodroot Honey Priestess Tribe

The Bloodroot Honey Priestess Tribe is a group of wild, wise and witty women living in service to the Great Goddess in many of Her forms. Warriors, Queens, Mothers...each Tribe member offers her sacred gifts in her own self-defined Legacy projects, while also fulfilling tribal lineage requirements. All of the Tribe’s members are High Priestesses ordained in the Pan-Dianic Tradition by lineage holder Yeshe Rabbit. • Love Songs of the Goddess Saturday, 7:00 PM �� Oak

Brandy Williams

Brandy Williams has been practicing and teaching magic for over 30 years. Her work spans magical orders such as Ordo Templi Orientis and the Golden Dawn as well as Witchcraft and Pagan reconstruction. Her newest book, The Woman Magician, examines and challenges the Western understanding of women’s bodies, energies, and powers, articulating a new metaphysics which frees and empowers women to act authentically as women and as magicians. • Pagan Theurgy Friday, 3:30 PM �� Santa Clara • The Woman Magician Sunday, 7:00 PM �� Silicon Valley

Brian Ewing

Brian Ewing is the Secretary/Treasurer/co-founder of Pagan Pride Los Angeles, Inc., President of the Pagan Pride Project, and Secretary/Treasurer of the Grey School of Wizardry, Inc. He is an Attorney practicing Labor and Employment Law, but in law school he also studied nonprofit law. He advises Pagan nonprofits on financial, incorporation, and legal issues. • Legal and Organizational Requirements for Pagan Groups Sunday, 3:30 PM �� Riesling

Bruce MacLennan

Bruce MacLennan PhD has studied and practiced ancient Greek religion and spiritual disciplines for more than forty years. He has also studied the relationship between Neoplatonic spiritual practices, Jungian psychology, and neurotheology and has published journal articles and book chapters on these topics. MacLennan is invited regularly to give international presentations and offers regular workshops on Neoplatonic spiritual practices, Pythagoreanism, theurgy, divination, ancient Greek Paganism, and related topics. • Hypatia’s Ancient Spiritual Magic for Modern Times Sunday, 9:00 AM �� San Juan/ San Carlos

Calyxa Omphalos

Calyxa Omphalos created the Elemental Hexagons deck close to 25 years ago out of a long time interest in art, science, and the Tarot. Through connections to an alchemical community, Calyxa expanded the deck and made it available to all at the beginning of 2008. She has been a follower of the spiral path for over 30 years. • Oracle Deck Co-Creation Ritual Saturday, 1:30 PM �� Boardroom

Carl F. Neal

Carl Neal has been fascinated with incense since childhood. Since planting his feet firmly on a Pagan path, he has researched and experimented to better understand incense - a ritual object to which few of us pay attention. For nearly 20 years he has been a

dedicated Solitary deeply committed to the needs of the Greater Pagan Community and has worked to give voice to those needs. To that end, he is the producer of The Pent O’clock News and Magick Moment television shows (www.PaganTV.org). Carl has books in print with Llewellyn Worldwide and Red Wheel/Weiser (www.IncenseBooks.com). • Magick Incense Making 101 Friday, 7:00 PM �� Fir • Rethinking Community for the Solitary Pagan Saturday, 11:00 AM �� San Jose • Intermediate Incense Making Saturday, 3:30 PM �� Willows 2

Caroline Wise

Caroline Wise is a member of the steering committee of The Fellowship of Isis, an international multi-faith body that promotes the Divine Feminine. Since 1990 she has presented goddess talks and workshops in Europe and USA. In the 1980s she began to explore the goddess Elen, who she named Elen of the Ways, and gives talks and workshops on her in Germany, Italy and the USA. She presents workshops in London with Vivianne Crowley and has presented at the Seattle Esoteric Book Conference on Florence Farr of the Golden Dawn. In 1993 she produced a theatre performance of Farr’s Magical plays. • The Horned Goddess and the Green Lady Sunday, 11:00 AM �� San Martin/ San Simeon

Carrie Paris

Carrie Paris maintains a full time practice that cultivates divining solutions. She was in the first class to receive a Masters in the Cultural Study of Cosmology and Divination from the University of Kent, UK, is creator of the Magpie Oracle, the Dark Salon Lenormand (to be released in 2014), and is co-creator of the Lenormand Revolution deck and, iOS app. Carrie presents her work globally and can often be found wherever there is a gathering of diviners. She enjoys dividing her life in Santa Fe, California and Europe with her husband, artist Rob Hampson and the World’s most psychic terrier, Rose-shine. • The Magpie Oracle: Casting shiny objects for a bright future. Sunday, 9:00 AM �� San Jose

CAYA Coven

Come As You Are (CAYA) Coven is an eclectic, open, drop-in coven with branches in the Bay Area. Our mission is to create safe, loving, magical, celebratory, warm, family-friendly community rituals. All are offered opportunities to participate, and everyone’s talents and gifts are honored. Visit us in the East Bay, or online at www.cayacoven.com • Wake Up to Spirit! Saturday, 9:00 AM �� Cedar

CAYA Coven’s Brotherhood of the Moon

The Brotherhood of the Moon is a Full Moon ritual circle open to all self identified men. These full moon circles are offered to create sacred space, a spiritual community, and support for the Divine Masculine that is found in every man. These circles are held in most months where there is not already a separate Come As You Are coven ritual honoring the turning of the wheel. • The Herald, The Father, The Sage Friday, 7:00 PM �� San Martin/ San Simeon

Chandra Alexandre & SHARANYA

SHARANYA is home to (R)evolutionary Shakta Tantra. We are a federally-recognized devi mandir (goddess temple) based in San Francisco working to facilitate the blossoming of radical truth, healing and wholeness through individual sadhana (spiritual practice), devotion, and the Dark Goddess. • Kali Puja: Devotions to the Dark Goddess Saturday, 11:00 AM �� Pine

Charly McCreary

Charly is a ritual theater artist and practicing occultist based in Seattle, WA. She has studied neopagan and ceremonial magick traditions for over 15 years and works with the Cabiri, a circus performance troupe that depicts ancient myth through ritual theater, and the Rowan Tree Church, a Wiccan church founded by renowned author and herbalist Paul Beyerl. • The Tradition of Lothlorien Friday, 1:30 PM �� Santa Clara

Chic Cicero & Sandra Tabatha Cicero

Chic Cicero and Sandra Tabatha Cicero are Chief Adepts of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Chic was a close personal friend and student of Israel Regardie, and he was one of the key people to help Regardie resurrect the Golden Dawn in the United States in the early 1980s. In Masonic circles Chic is a REPGC of Florida. Tabatha is Imperatrix of the SRIAm. The Ciceros have written numerous books including The Essential Golden Dawn, Self-Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition, Secrets of a Golden Dawn Temple, Tarot Talismans, The Golden Dawn Magical Tarot, and The Babylonian Tarot. • The Bornless One: Invocation and Shapeshifting Friday, 3:30 PM �� San Martin/ San Simeon • The Philosopher’s Stone: Spiritual Alchemy and Magic Saturday, 9:00 AM �� Fir

Christopher Penczak

Christopher Penczak is a modern witch with a full time teaching and healing practice in New England. He is the cofounder of The Temple of Witchcraft nonprofit and Copper Cauldron Publishing. He is the author of many books, including the Temple of Witchcraft series and The Plant Spirit Familiar. • The Sabbat of the Mighty Dead Saturday, 7:00 PM �� Cedar/ Pine • Healing with Plant Spirit Familiars Sunday, 1:30 PM �� Oak

Circle of Dionysos

The Circle of Dionysos is dedicated to the exploration and celebration of spiritual traditions that honor gender fluidity and sexual variance. We believe that universal diversity is purposeful, and thus that members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Community possess wisdom that is of vital importance to the community at large. Through public ritual performances, small study groups, and personal spiritual guidance, we seek to help both individuals and our community in discovering, developing, and expressing that wisdom. For More information about the Circle of Dionysos, please visit our website at http://circleofdionysos.org/. • Yes They Are! Meeting and Greeting the Queerest of the Gods Sunday, 11:00 AM �� Pine

Clifford Hartleigh Low

Clifford is a practitioner of black magic and dark paganism, the latter term which he coined in 1993. Raised an Orthodox Jew, he became fascinated by kabbalah in his youth; he has since been practicing magic of many varieties for over twenty years, most recently focusing his attention on ancient astrological magic. He is the founder of Necronomi.com, one of the first websites dedicated to magic. • Introduction to Traditional Astrology Saturday, 1:30 PM �� San Jose

Coru Cathubodua Priesthood

Service, sovereignty, kinship and warriorship are the values that guide the Coru Cathobodua Priesthood. We are Pagan priests on the move, ready to take action to advance our mission to bring about sovereignty and kinship to the world through acts of community and individual service. Guided by our the matron the Morrigan, Celtic Goddess of sovereignty, prophecy, and battle, we welcome all who share this vision of service to bringing these values to life for all people. For information about Coru Cathubodua, visit www.corupriesthood.com. • Sacrifice and Modern Paganism: A Panel Discussion Saturday, 11:00 AM �� Oak • The Great Queens: An Ancestor Ritual Sunday, 3:30 PM �� Cedar

Dakini Uma Amitabha

Dakini has been a performing artist and student of the Mysteries for over thirty years. Drawing from a variety of traditional Mid Eastern, North African, & Central Asian as well as classical western dance styles, Dakini combines these disciplines with shamanic exploration, trance induction, authentic expression & divine nature spirituality. She transfers these eclectic traditions with integrity and reverence. Sacred Dance instruction with Dakini will inspire and help entrain the body/mind/spirit. Wholeness and pleasure are common side-effects! • Sacred Dance for Ritual and Trance Induction Sunday, 11:00 PM �� Carmel/ Monterey

Dark Forest Coven

Dark Forest is a wiccan coven practicing the NROOGD tradition in public and private ritual for ten years in the South Bay. Dark Forest is currently a twelve member coven with elders in multiple traditions with roots in Feri, Gardnerian, Umbanda, Kemetic, and Ceremonial Magick. We are a fun loving group of heretics with deep groove of coyote. We strive to produce meaningful work while filling our circles with mirth. Dark Forest runs a teaching circle called Shadowed Grove. • The Dark Ones: No Way Out But Through Sunday, 9:00 PM �� Oak

David Gibbons

Hello, I’m David Gibbons of Santa Rosa, CA. I am a longtime drummer who loves to drum at rituals, in circles, and for dancers. I have assisted Don Shultz in putting on the Saturday night drum/ dance event at the Con for the last 2 years, and you may recall seeing my gongs and chimes during those events. My intention for this event is to create well-defined high energy rhythms that will be fun to dance to, and fun to drum along with. • Saturday Night Drum/Dance Jam Saturday, 11:00 PM �� Oak

David P. Smith

David P. Smith was born on November 3, 1977. He received his bachelors degree in Psychology and Religious Studies in 1999 from Salve Regina University. He is a practicing Druid Priest, spiritual person, and member of many Druidic Organizations including The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, and The Ancient Order of Druids In America. He has spent most of his life as a seeker to try to find himself and enhance his spiritual development. He is very interested in all forms of religion and spirituality. When not working and studying he likes to travel to sacred places around the Earth and spend time with his loving wife and son. He currently resides in Rhode Island. • Walking Down Awen’s Path Sunday, 7:00 PM �� Riesling

Deborah J. Hamouris

Deborah Hamouris (“DJ” to her friends) is a singer-songwriter with a long performance and recording history in the Pagan community. Musically versatile, she performs as both a jazz vocalist and (on her mountain dulcimer) as a traditionally-influenced songsmith. In 2012 Deborah released “Snapshots,” recorded with jazz guitarist Mimi Fox, as well as “The Green Man” with husband, Buffalo. She currently directs Women & Song and the Unconditional Love Choir in the East Bay, teaches mountain dulcimer, and is preparing for the 2nd Berkeley Dulcimer Gathering in May. In her spare time, and when the cat allows, she knits. • CircleSinging Saturday, 1:30 PM �� Club Max

Denise Cicuto

Denise Cicuto is a Witch and Healer. She is a member of the Circle of Cerridwen, a coven in the Open Source Alexandrian tradition. Denise was a co-founder of the Spirit Babies ceremony in San Francisco in 2011. • Spirit Babies Friday, 9:00 PM �� Riesling

Diana Paxson

Diana L. Paxson is the author of many novels on pagan themes, and a number of popular non-fiction books, including Taking up the Runes and The Way of the Oracle. She writes a regular column on goddesses for Sagewoman. She is also an elder and former Steerswoman of the Troth, whose journal Idunna, she edits. Visit her website at: http://www.diana-paxson.com/, or like her on Facebook! • Divine Relationships Saturday, 11:00 AM �� Santa Clara

Diana Paxson and Hrafnar kindred

Finding Freyr was written by Diana L. Paxson, author of Taking up the Runes and Essential Asatru, and is presented by Hrafnar kindred, one of the oldest Heathen groups in the San Francisco area. Be sure to like Hrafnar on Facebook to be informed of upcoming events! • The Magic of Mother Holda Saturday, 9:00 PM �� San Juan/ San Carlos

Didi Gordon/Sarah Astarte

Doreet (Didi) Gordon is a dark fusion bellydancer based out of Santa Cruz, CA. She began her love affair with belly dance in 2004. Doreet is a founding member of Raks Hakohaveem and creative director of student troupe, Nahaash Raqs. She is also co-producer

of the yearly Dark Fusion event Lumen Obscura. Doreet offers classes at Serpent’s Kiss in Santa Cruz. Sarah Astarte, Ph.D., is a spiritual guide and interfaith chaplain. She specializes in shamanic healing, body image and sacred sexuality. She is an initiated priestess of the Goddess, and has been bellydancing for over a decade. • Dancing with the Elements: A Magical Bellydance Show Saturday, 7:00 PM �� Carmel/ Monterey • Sekhmet Empowerment Ritual: Claim Your Power Saturday, 11:00 PM �� San Jose/ Santa Clara

Discordian.com

Discordian.com was created by the Church of No Dead Saints to further their purpose of promoting Discordianism as the thinking prankster’s religion. The Church believes that Discordianism will die without an influx of modern thought, semi-belief, and Erisian events. By creating this site with its writings and ideas, St. Mae and St. Fox hope to revitalize Discordianism as an intense, throbbing centre of laughter, defiance, and lunacy. • Skeletor Affirmations Saturday, 11:00 PM �� San Juan/ San Carlos

Don Frew

Don Frew is High Priest of Coven Trismegiston in Berkeley CA. He has been investigating the origins of modern Wicca for the past 25 years & has traveled the ancient world in search of the texts & artifacts that illuminate our past. He serves as a National Interfaith Representative of the Covenant of the Goddess and has been doing interfaith work on behalf of the Craft for 27 years. • Vibrant Colors in Ancient Egyptian Temple Art Saturday, 7:00 PM �� Silicon Valley

Don Frew & Anna Korn

Don Frew & Anna Korn are HP & HPs of Coven Trismegiston in Berkeley CA. They are well-known in the Gardnerian community as historians who have been investigating and presenting on the origins of the modern Craft movement for the past 25 years. This work often takes them to interesting and out-of-the-way parts of the world. • Hekate in Turkey: Past meets Present Saturday, 1:30 PM �� Carmel/ Monterey

Don Schulz

Creating hand made “ancient style” drums of simple wood and hide since 2001, I consider myself a “Rhythmic Evangelical”, wanting everyone to pick one up and play. My hope is that we can all return to the heart of our Mother - no matter how old or experienced. • Drum Circle 101 Friday, 9:00 PM �� Silicon Valley • Introduction to Magickal Drumming Monday, 1:30 PM �� Silicon Valley • Introduction to Rhythm and Drumming for children. Saturday, 11:00 AM �� Silicon Valley • Make your own drum! Saturday, 3:30 PM �� Willows 1

Dr. Stephanie Rendino

Dr. Rendino earned her Doctorate in Sacred Theology at Universite de Montreal in 2008. She specialized in Mexican syncretistic religion. She splits her time between San Diego, CA and Tucson, AZ. • Meet the Santa Muerte/Diga hola a la Santa Muerte Monday, 1:30 PM �� Fir

Dragon’s Weyr Circle and friends

Dragon’s Weyr Circle is a British Traditional Wiccan coven since 1995, with their leaders practicing over 20 years. They work with Heathens and others in their community, Antelope Valley, to put on Pagan Pride Day and other workshops and teachings • Paganism and Hate Saturday, 9:00 AM �� San Carlos

Drew Ward

Drew Ward credits family tradition and hereditary gifts for the foundation of his psychic work and Heathen spirituality. He is a member of Hammer of Thor Kindred, and serves as a Seer with the Kindred’s Seidh team. Drew operates a “cottage industry” business, Just Rewards, specializing in the finest Baltic amber. He and his husband Jim, reside in Berkeley. • Psychic Techniques - Practical Magic Saturday, 11:00 AM �� San Martin/ San Simeon

The DulciMates

The DulciMates, Deborah Hamouris and Buffalo, play traditional and traditionally-inspired tunes, including music from their recordings (“Welcome to Annwfn” with Rick Hamouris; “The Chorus of Life” with Gaiaís Voice, and Moonrise; “Songs of Love, Magic and Other Mysteries” with Robin Dolan). They aim to create dulcimers without borders, stretching the limits of traditional mountain dulcimer playing. The DulciMates recorded “The Green Man” in 2012, just after DJ finished her first solo CD, “Snapshots”, with jazz guitarist Mimi Fox. She directs Women & Song and teaches mountain dulcimer in the SF Bay Area, while Buffalo has a private psychotherapy practice. • The DulciMates in Concert Sunday, 3:30 PM �� Carmel/ Monterey

Dustbunny Feri Initiates, Students and Guests

The Dustbunnies are a working circle of Feri initiates and practitioners that meet to work Magick and celebrate direct connection with the Gods. The Pagan Tent Revival celebrants include Valerie Walker (aka veedub), Ron Miller, Timothy E.M. Williams, Philip Wells, Jenya T. Beachy and beloved others. • The Ole Time Good Spell Feri Pagan Tent Revival Saturday, 1:30 PM �� Oak

Ekklesia Antinoou

The Ekklesia Antinoou (“Citizenry of Antinous”) is a queer, Graeco-Roman-Egyptian syncretist reconstructionist polytheist group dedicated to worship of Antinous, the deified lover of the Roman Emperor Divus Hadrianus, and related divine figures. This form of modern Antinoan practice has been functioning since 2002. P. Sufenas Virius Lupus will be conducting this session, with assistance from several other Ekklesia Antinoou members and friends. • Beard Blessing Ritual Monday, 9:00 AM �� Carmel/ Monterey • Youth Blessing Ritual Monday, 11:00 AM �� Carmel/ Monterey • Lupercalia 2014! Saturday, 1:30 PM �� San Martin/ San Simeon

Emily Carlin

I am a lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest, living in the greater Seattle area. I have been a practicing witch, both solitary and in groups, for more than a decade. I have a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Wellesley College and a Juris Doctor from Seattle University School of Law, am a member of the Washington State Bar, and am a trained mediator. I am a former faculty member and Dean at the Grey School of Wizardry. My book “Defense Against the Dark” is available at major retailers including amazon.com. For more info on me go to http://about.me/ecarlin. • Pop Culture Magick for Geeks Monday, 9:00 AM �� Cedar

Eric O. Scott

Eric Scott is a second-generation Pagan writer and memoirist. His work concentrates on the unique situation of being born Pagan in the Midwest. He is a PHD candidate in Creative Nonfiction at the University of Missouri and regularly writes for Killing the Buddha, Pagan Square, and the Wild Hunt. His first novel, THE LIVES OF THE APOSTATES, was recently published by Moon Books. He once played guitar in a Taoist glam rock band. • Second Generation Paganism Sunday, 9:00 AM �� Boardroom

Finnchuill

Finnchuill is a polytheist who works primarily with Celtic and Hellenic pantheons. He is an ordained Druid of FoDLA, and a filidecht practitioner. He takes an experimental reconstructionist approach toward practice. A writer, poet, and educator with an MFA in creative writing and BA in History, he lives in San Francisco. He’s the author of From the Prow of Myth, and is on the review board of Air n-Aithesc magazine. Finnchuill blogs at finnchuillsmast at wordpress. • Experimental Reconstruction Friday, 9:00 PM �� Santa Clara

Frank Johnstone

I have been on this Pagan path since ‘04. I am a 3rd degree in the Celtic tradition. I’ve also been in recovery since April of ‘06. My email address is fpjcfj@yahoo.com for any other questions. • Pagans in recovery-Serinity first Friday, 7:00 PM �� Boardroom

Freyja’s Gift

Freyja’s Gift Trance Team is an eclectic group of Heathens, Wiccans and Traditional Witches who do trance work for their community. Some do Seidhr, some have other practices. Freyja’s Gift is led by Seidhkona Lisa Morgenstern, and is the Seidh team for Hrafn Skjoldr Kindred. • A Different Kind of Seidh Friday, 7:00 PM �� San Juan/ San Carlos

Geraldine Beskin

Geraldine Beskin and her daughter Bali run London’s oldest Independent Occult Bookshop - as did her parents. The Atlantis Bookshop is 91 years old and Aleister Crowley, Austin Spare and Gerald Gardner were friends of the original owner. Indeed, modern witchcraft started in the basement of Atlantis Bookshop. Geraldine’s lecturing manner is refreshingly un-academic involving lots of improvisation and no strict adherence to her extensive notes.

Her lighthearted style comes from a mind full of esoteric knowledge, strange facts and being a Gemini! • Women of the Golden Dawn Monday, 11:00 AM �� Silicon Valley • Manly P Hall The Murdered Magician Saturday, 9:00 AM �� Silicon Valley

Glenn Turner & friends

Glenn Turner - Glenn, and her available friends who can help, will lead the group. Glenn Turner has been a witch since 1968 and a founder of NROOGD and Covenant of the Goddess. Current master of Sirius Encampment OTO and a member of the OTO since 1983. She is the owner of Ancient Ways store in Oakland CA since 1988, originator and organizer of PantheaCon in February at the DoubleTree San Jose and TheurgiCon in July in Berkeley. She can be reached at glenn@ancientways.com • Opening Ritual Friday, 1:00 PM �� Oak • Closing Ritual Monday, 3:30 PM �� Pine

Gus diZerega

A Gardnerian Elder for over 20 years, Gus diZerega has conducted workshops on healing, shamanism, ecology and politics at Pagan events in the US and Canada. His newest book (with Philip Johnson) is Beyond the Burning Times: A Pagan and Christian in Dialogue. He has just completed a book on the 60s, the Culture War, and the Sacred Feminine. A political scientist in the outside world, he writes often on political topics. He is Beliefnet’s first Pagan blogger: and also writes regularly for Patheos. • Energy Healing: Basic to Intermediate Friday, 3:30 PM �� Oak • Faultlines: The 60s, the Culture Wars, and the Return of the Div Friday, 7:00 PM �� Silicon Valley

Hammer of Thor Kindred

The Hammer of Thor Kindred is an Asatru Kindred which was founded in 1993 by Stefn Thorsman in Walnut Creek, California. Since then it has grown to include members throughout the State of California and even as far as Nevada. It hosts two large gatherings each year in Northern California, attended by individuals from throughout the western United States. Its base of operations has moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. • Blot to the Heathen Gods Friday, 9:00 PM �� Boardroom

Hannah Lipsky, Grant Guindon, Morpheus Ravenna

Hannah the Storyteller took up the runes by accident and can’t seem to put them down. She is a member of Coru Cathubodua and a regular attendee of Hrafnar Kindred and the Vanic Conspiracy. Grant Guindon is a carver of runes and Ceann-Iuil of the Sagh‚icTire Dhream. The power of runic symbols, sacred trees and primal beasts has ever been in his heart. Morpheus Ravenna is an artist, witch, and priestess of the Morrígan. She also studies the Runes and is an ally of Odin. Her contribution to this ritual was received in dreams. • Runes of the Ancestors: A Journey to the Roots of Runic Power Sunday, 9:00 PM �� San Jose/ Santa Clara

Heart of the Sun

Heart of the Sun is a group of women and men who have dedicated themselves to the service of Sekhmet. They devote themselves to exploring Sekhmet energy in all Her aspects. They may be contacted at novaembre@cox.net. • Heart of the Sun: A Ritual in Exaltation of Sekhmet Sunday, 3:30 PM �� Oak

Hexeba Theaux

Hexeba Theaux has been studying witchcraft and Wicca since she was a teenager, learning from several wonderful teachers (and a few bad ones); reading everything she could get her hands on; working solitary for many years; and working with groups for several more. She has belonged to circles or covens in Spain and California, been initiated into two Central Valley Wicca Traditions, and is a Gardnerian third degree. She is an apprentice to Valerie Voigt, and runs the Dandelion Circle in Sacramento. As a Cajun, Ms. Theaux has a special interest in Hoodoo and in historical witchcraft as a whole. • Village Witchery 101 Friday, 3:30 PM �� Fir • Village Witchery 102 Saturday, 1:30 PM �� Willows 2

Immanion Press

Immanion Press publishes experimental esoteric books for the intermediate to advanced practitioner about a wide variety of spiritual beliefs and magical practices. • Secrets for how to get published at Immanion Press Saturday, 9:00 AM �� Carmel/ Monterey

Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D.

Well loved by her students for her insight, humor and passion for teaching, Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D. is the Founding Director of the Foundation of the Sacred Stream. Isa is the developer of Depth Hypnosis. She has been a student of Buddhism for over 35 years and a teacher of Buddhist Psychology for 10. She spent much of her childhood in the Pacific, and has studied shamanic traditions from there and around the world for many years. She developed Applied Shamanism, adapting the power of ancient shamanic traditions into the modern therapeutic context. See sacredstream.org, depthhypnosis.org • Depth Hypnosis: Inner Transformation for Collective Good Sunday, 9:00 PM �� Silicon Valley

Ivan Richmond

Hexenfest is a Pagan/Pagan-friendly music and arts festival devoted to the shadow-side of magick. Predominantly Gothic in flavor, Hexenfest features magickally themed musicians and artists in an evening of dark exotica and revelry. More the forbidden forest than the enchanted woods, Hexenfest aims to create an Underworld atmosphere while celebrating some of the artistic expressions of Paganism. • Hexenfest Dance Party Saturday, 11:00 PM �� Cedar/ Pine

Ivan Richmond is an initiate of the Men’s Mysteries celebrated by the Men’s Lodge of Thiasos Olympikos, a Hellenic Reconstructionist organization that primarily has mixed-sex rituals, but also offers Men’s and Women’s Mysteries. He has been active in Hellenic Reconstructionism and in other aspects of the Pagan community since 2001. During this time he has worked to explore men’s issues and men’s spirituality, with a view to strengthening the Pagan community’s ability to address issues related to men, and increasing opportunities for Pagan men to find fellowship. • Men’s Spirituality Saturday, 9:00 AM �� Santa Clara

Holly Tannen and Ruth Barrett

James A. Eshelman

Hexenfest

Ruth Barrett is a recording artist of original Goddess songs, a pioneer musician in the pagan and Goddess Spirituality Movements since the 1980’s, and author of “Women’s Rites, Women’s Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation.” Her recordings include “Songs of the Otherworld,” “Garden of Mysteries,” “Parthenogenesis,” and “The Year Is A Dancing Woman.” Holly Tannen is a feminist folklorist, anti-censorship activist, and Reclaiming priestess of Brighid. Her CDs include “Between The Worlds,” “Rime of the Ancient Matriarch,” “The Flower of Australia,” and “Crazy Laughter.” • Ruth Barrett and Holly Tannen in Concert Friday, 9:00 PM �� Carmel/ Monterey

House of Danu

The House of Danu is an fellowship of California solitaries, seed groups, and groves of the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids (OBOD) centered in East Sussex, England. This presentation includes Manannan Mac Lir (San Francisco), Sacramento Grove of the Oak, Doire Bhrighid (East Bay), Croi na Gleann (South Bay), the Taliesin (North Bay), Llywn Swynedig, Spirit of the Acorn (Fresno), Ceridwen’s Cauldron (Modesto), Star and Stone Fellowship, Sleeping Dragon (Los Angeles), Coachella Grove of the Bran (Palm Springs), Draig de Garran Sequoia (Santa Cruz), the San Diego group, Quercus (Contra Costa) • Druid Procession and Ritual: Protecting the Web of Life Sunday, 7:00 PM �� San Juan/ San Carlos

JAMES A. ESHELMAN has been a writer and teacher of occult and metaphysical subjects for over 35 years, including astrology, magick, yoga, Qabalah, tarot, occult psychology, and related Hermetic subjects. His many writings include The Mystical & Magical System of the A.’.A.’. and 776Ω: Tables of Correspondences for Practical Ceremonial, plus numerous astrological books and articles. Mr. Eshelman is Chancellor of College of Thelema and Prolocutor General of Temple of Thelema. He has served as Deputy Grand Master General ofOrdo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), and Grand Imperator of Fraternitas L.V.X. • Stars in the Company of Stars: Thelema-Individuality-Connection Sunday, 11:00 AM �� San Jose

Jason W. Mankey

Jason Mankey is an internationally acclaimed speaker and writer. A devotee of history, The Horned God, and Led Zeppelin, Jason has given hundreds of talks on those subjects (and more) at various Pagan festivals across North America. He currently writes for Patheos.com on the blog “Raise the Horns,” attracting thousands of readers every month. Jason lives in Sunnyvale CA with his wife Ari and two small cats. • Finding the God: Male Archetypes of Deity in the Craft Friday, 3:30 PM �� Cedar • The Horned God in the British Isles Friday, 9:00 PM �� San Juan/ San Carlos

• The 1899 Ritual Sunday, 7:00 PM �� Oak

Jaya Vajra

I spoke last year during Pantheacon when the person who was scheduled to talk about ‘Tantra’ cancelled. I offered to teach the class instead and received rave reviews from it. My partner suggested I go speak formally this year... Jaya studied with the late Tantra Master Robert Frey, is a former Master/Wizard teacher of the Avatar Course, a certified specialized instructor of Applied Kinesiology. He studied Tantra, from many teachers, practiced Kama Sutra exercises and received initiations at sacred sites, including the Great Pyramid of Egypt, and many Mayan and Aztec temples in Mesoamerica • Beyond Tantric Sex and Paganism - Surf the Blisswave Saturday, 11:00 PM �� Silicon Valley

Jeanne McLaughlin

I study, practice and teach Shaman ways; learning to explore alternate realities, the Medicine Wheel, and Animal Medicine. My personal practice is about Walking in the Beauty Way and living in harmony. • Shaman Practices: Calling In Prayer and Ho’ Oponopono Friday, 1:30 PM �� San Juan/ San Carlos

Jeffrey Albaugh

Jeffrey Albaugh (Shade Fane) is a pagan mystic residing between the mountains and the sea on the west coast of Southern California. He holds a BA in Theater , a MA in Depth Psychology, and currently a PhD candidate investigating the emergent psychology of contemporary Paganisms in the United States. He serves as Program Manager for the Conference on Current Pagan Studies and Chairman of the Board of Cherry Hill Seminary. He has been engaged in Pagan practice for over 25 years. • Woodsman and the Goblins: Working with Folktale Saturday, 3:30 PM �� Riesling

Jessica Reiki Miller

Jessica first learned Reiki at Free Spirit Gathering in Maryland in 1992, and went on to train with multiple teachers here and in the Japan, and has been teaching Reiki full time for the last 15 years. A Reiki historian and technique innovator, her pagan give a much broader perspective on the versatility and use of the Japanese • Reiki for magical people: Introduction to Reiki 1 Monday, 9:00 AM �� Santa Clara

Jhenah Telyndru

Jhenah Telyndru is the founder and Morgen of the Sisterhood of Avalon, Academic Dean of the Avalonian Thealogical Seminary, and member of the Pagan music group Afalarian. She is the author of “Avalon Within: A Sacred Journey of Myth, Mystery, and Inner Wisdom” and creator of “Trancing the Inner Landscape: Avalonian Landscape Postures” DVD. She presents workshops across North America and facilitates pilgrimages to sacred sites in the British Isles with Mythic Seeker Tours. Jhenah is a graduate student in Celtic Studies at the University of Wales, Trinity St. David. • Healing the Wounded Queen Monday, 9:00 AM �� Oak

Jo Carson and Feraferia

Feraferia is a love culture for wilderness. We celebrate seasonal changes as a series of earth initiations. A faerie faith, Feraferia was founded by Fred Adams, based on a vision of Goddess in 1956. We draw inspiration from ancient Goddess-oriented Crete, the Eleusinian Mysteries of Mother and Daughter, troubadour and medieval practices of courtly love, and megalithic and faerie traditions of Europe and Polynesia. We celebrate the the Divine Daughter Kore, known as the Merry Maiden and Heart of the World, who at this time teases and tickles the God into accepting his cyclical role in the divine family. • Feraferia Celebrates the Feast of Ostara Sunday, 7:00 PM �� San Martin/ San Simeon

John Opsopaus

Dr. John “Apollonius” Opsopaus has practiced magic, divination, and Neopaganism since the 1960s. He has more than 30 publications in various magical and Neopagan magazines and designed the Pythagorean Tarot and wrote the comprehensive Guide to the Pythagorean Tarot (Llewellyn, 2001). Opsopaus frequently presents workshops on Hellenic magic and Neopaganism, Pythagorean theurgy, divination, and related topics. He is a member of the Grey Council and is past Dean of the Departments of Mathemagicks and Ceremonial Magick of the Grey School of Wizardry. Email: opsopaus@omphalos.org • The Ancient Art of Memory as a Magical Practice Saturday, 11:00 AM �� San Carlos

Kenny Klein

Kenny Klein is a well known musician, author, and lecturer in the Pagan community. Kenny has recorded many CDs geared toward Pagan and Renaissance Festival audiences; He is the author of Through the Faerie Glass (Llewellyn Worldwide, 2010), and Fairy Tale Rituals (Llewellyn 2011). Kenny has been a presenter and musical performer at dozens of festivals. Visit Kenny’s website at http://www.kennyklein.net. • Mojo and Magic in Blues Music Friday, 1:30 PM �� Silicon Valley • Kenny Klein In Concert Saturday, 9:00 PM �� Club Max • Grimms Fairy Tales: What Your Mother Didn’t Tell You! Sunday, 3:30 PM �� Silicon Valley

Kim Makoi, D.C., M.Sc.

Dr. Kim Makoi is a queer eclectic neo-pagan, hermeticist, Thelemite, metaphysician and San Francisco chiropractor in his 17th year of practice, specializing in the treatment of chronic stress-related conditions. He is also a longtime Enneagram enthusiast, certified Dynamic Stick Stretching instructor and a homeschooler! • Dynamic Stick Stretching Monday, 11:00 AM �� Pine

Kooch Daniels

My life in metaphysics started studying with NROOGD in early 70’s. When I was 22, I began giving readings for $1. as a Ghirardelli Square street artist. I traveled to India to study palmistry and made my living by giving thousands of readings at different events and Renaissance Faires for twenty five years. My experiences have taught me how to teach you to become a palmist. Some of her pub-

lications: lead author—Tarot D’Amour (Redwheel 2003); second author—Matrix Mediations (Inner Traditions 2009); and Theater of Karma (Tarot Media Co. 2012) • In The Palm Of Your Hand Sunday, 3:30 PM �� San Jose

eville, California, and works as a candle deacon and reader at the Missionary Independent Spiritual Church & Lucky Mojo Curio Company. • Queering Conjure: Reimagining Hoodoo in the 21st Century Sunday, 1:30 PM �� Silicon Valley

Lee Harrington

Luna Pantera

Lee Harrington is an internationally known educator, artist, spirit worker and award-winning author/editor on human sexuality and sacred experience. Part of the sex positive communities since 1995, and pagan communities since 1992, his stories make people laugh while showing you that eroticism and magic can be as serious, sexy, or silly as you make it. His books include Sacred Kink: The Eightfold Paths of BDSM and Beyond, Spirit of Desire: Personal Journeys in Sacred Kink, and many more, as well as numerous essays and pagan poetry in anthology collections. Learn more at PassionAndSoul.com • Binding Intentions: The Art of Fiber Magic Friday, 1:30 PM �� Oak • Safer Sex Magic, Magical Safer Sex Monday, 11:00 AM �� Fir

Lisa Spiral

Lisa Spiral is the author of Manifest Divinity through Immanion Press. She has been active in the Twin Cities Pagan Community for over 30 years. She has been a featured local guest at Sacred Harvest Festival. She is a member of Northern Dawn - CoG. She can be found at lisaspiral.com, followed on facebook at Lisa Spiral or reached via email at lisaspiral@gmail.com. • Daily Practice Sucks: Moving Daily Spirituality Forward Saturday, 3:30 PM �� Carmel/ Monterey

Lon Milo DuQuette

Lon Milo DuQuette is a best-selling author, lecturer, songwriter and folk artist. His books on Magick, Tarot, and the Western Mystery Traditions have been translated into 9 languages. He has three albums and currently working on his fourth. He travels the world sharing his love of Magick and Music. He is currently U.S. Deputy Grand Master of Ordo Templi Orientis and he is on the faculty of the Omega Institute in Reinbeck N.Y. and the Maybe Logic Academy. He lives in Costa Mesa, California with his wife Constance. • The Gentle Heretic Sunday, 9:00 PM �� Club Max

Lou Florez

Lou Florez is an internationally known speaker and lecturer of folk magic traditions of the South. He is a deeply rooted Spirit Worker, Priest, and Medium who has studied with indigenous elders and medicine holders from across the globe. Lou is graduate of Catherine Yronwode’s Hoodoo Rootwork Correspondence Course, and is a member of The Association of Independent Readers and Rootworkers, a gathering of professional practitioners of African American folk magic, hoodoo, conjure, and rootwork, who provide psychic readings and spiritual root doctoring services to the public. In 2008, Lou was confirmed as an Olorisha and Priest of Shango under Iyanifa Ifalade Ta’Shia Asanti of Ile Ori Ogbe Egun, and is a Tata Nkisi in the Bacongo Tradition. Lou also holds the title of High Priest through Neo-Egyptian Tradition in Dallas, and he has studied and apprenticed with Curanderos and Hoodoo Workers throughout the South. Lou currently resides in Guern-

Luna Pantera is a Priestess and Witch whose path includes opening up the line of communications with the Ancestors to all who are willing and ready to listen. Luna’s personal work with her Ancestors has rekindled her magikal gifts and started healing of deep family wounds. She is the Founder of the Theater of the Ancestors; which is a theatrical company that uses ritual performance to awaken people’s Higher/God/Goddess Self. She has written several blogs regarding the importance of working with the Ancestors, and is a featured author in Crystal Blanton Anthology, Shades of Faith.. • A Black Woman Speaks Friday, 7:00 PM �� Carmel/Monterey. • The Rosary of Mary Magdelene Sunday, 11:00 AM �� Monterey

Lupa

Lupa is a (neo)shaman, author, artist, and ecotherapist in Portland, OR. She is the author of several books on totemism and other nature-pagan topics, to include‚ Plant and Fungus Totems: Connecting With Spirits of Field, Forest and Garden‚ (Llewellyn, May 2014). She creates ritual costumes and other art from hides, bones, and natural and recycled items, and also maintains a private practice offering ecotherapy and counseling in Portland. She may be found online at http://www.thegreenwolf.com and http://therioshamanism.com and her art is available at http://thegreenwolf.etsy.com. • Exploring Plant and Fungus Totems Friday, 7:00 PM �� Santa Clara

Lydia M N Crabtree

Lydia M. N. Crabtree is a presenter, writer, high priestess, seer, and teacher. She is best known for her work around Family Coven. She is currently published through Immanion Press in Rooted in the Body, Seeking the Soul: Magic Practitioners Living with Disabilities, Addiction, and Illness and is featured in Crystal Blanton’s book Pain and Faith in the Wiccan World. She is anticipating her book Family Coven: Birthing Hereditary Witchcraft to be publish by 2015 (Immanion Press). Crabtree has a back ground in traditional craft and a degree in psychology with concentrations in theater/journalism. • Candy Ritual Monday, 1:30 PM �� Santa Clara

Mambo Chita Tann

Mambo Chita Tann (Mambo T, Tamara L. Siuda) has been priestess asogwe in Haitian Vodou for 11 years. She is the head of Sosyete Fos Fe Yo We, with members in Haiti, the U.S., and other countries. Her book, “Haitian Vodou: An Introduction to Haiti’s Indigenous Spiritual Tradition,” was released in February 2012. Internet: tamarasiuda.com, legba.biz, imamou.org. Twitter: tamarasiuda. Facebook: chitatann (Mambo T Chita Tann). • Danbala Sevis - Honoring the Serpent & the Rainbow Saturday, 9:00 PM �� San Martin/ San Simeon

Margot Adler

Michael Mullen’s Trio Of One

Mary Greer

Morgana Sythove

Margot Adler has been a Pagan and a Priestess of Wicca for more than 40 years. The Author of “Drawing Down the Moon”, the classic study of contemporary Paganism and Goddess spirituality, she has also written “Heretic’s Heart, a Journey Through Spirit and Revolution.” In her mundane life she is a correspondent for National Public Radio and is heard regularly on NPR’s news shows, All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Her newest book, Vampires Are Us, comes out just in time for Pantheacon. • Vampires Are Us Saturday, 9:00 PM �� Carmel/ Monterey • Margot’s Non-Stop Ritual Chanting Workshop Sunday, 11:00 AM �� Cedar Mary K. Greer specializes in using Tarot and Lenormand cards for guidance, personal insight and transformation. With 46 years experience in Tarot, she is the author of eleven books including Tarot for Your Self, Who Are You in the Tarot, and the biography, Women of the Golden Dawn: Rebels and Priestesses. • Divination with the Lenormand Deck Monday, 1:30 PM �� Carmel/ Monterey • Tarot Reading Circle Sunday, 11:00 AM �� Oak

Max Dashu

Max Dashu has been researching and teaching global women’s history since 1970, through her Suppressed Histories Archives (www.suppressedhistories.net). A foremother of the Goddess resurgence, Max brings the Old Ways to life through her inspiring visual talks on ancient iconography, global women’s history, witches and shamanic arts. Visit her booth at Pantheacon! for her new dvd Woman Shaman: the Ancients, and posters, prints, cards, and magnets of her art (www.maxdashu.net). She is back at work on her unpublished Secret History of the Witches, and is currently teaching an online course, Spiritual Heritages of Ancient Europe (www. sourcememory.net). • The Great Goddess: syncretism in the Roman empire Friday, 11:00 PM �� Carmel/ Monterey • Woman Shaman: the Ancients Saturday, 3:30 PM �� San Jose

Melanie Marquis

Melanie Marquis is the author of A Witch’s World of Magick (Llewellyn, Feb. 2014), The Witch’s Bag of Tricks (Llewellyn, 2011), and Bugbug and the Ants (Featherweight, 2012), a picture book for children. She’s the founder of United Witches global coven, the organizer of Denver Pagans, and a local coordinator for the Pagan Pride Project. Her work has appeared in many national and international Pagan publications including Pentacle Magazine, Circle, and Spellcraft. A mother, witch, author, artist, and tarot reader, she is passionate about finding the mystical in the mundane through personalized magick and practical spirituality. Www.melaniemarquis.com www.facebook.com/melaniemarquisauthor • Power of Love Ritual for Healing and Happiness Saturday, 9:00 AM �� Pine • Pansensual Ritual for Love and Liberation Saturday, 9:00 PM �� Oak • Kid-Powered Ritual for Peace and Joy Sunday, 1:30 PM �� Santa Clara

Michael Mullen’s Trio Of One is a multi-faceted solo show: Looped jigs and reels and rocking acoustic folk that bring a uniquely Celtic twist to the term One Man Band. Using “live looping” for more impact as a solo musician, when performing as the Trio Michael is a musical hydra with many heads and arms. Whether performing exhilirating Scottish fiddle tunes, rambunctious Irish drinking songs, the odd classic rock cover that he performs in his own inimitable way, or memorable originals—Michael’s musicianship and energy drive the music forward like race horses being chased by a formula car. • Former Tempest Fiddler Michael Mullen’s Solo Show Sunday, 7:00 PM �� Club Max Morgana is Anglo/Dutch and lives in the Netherlands. She is a practising Gardnerian HPS. Over the years, she has facilitated a variety of Wiccan groups. She is co-editor of the international and bilingual Wiccan Rede magazine, which was launched in 1980 and is coordinator of Silver Circle, a Wiccan network in the Netherlands. As International Coordinator for Pagan Federation International(PFI) she travels extensively giving talks and workshops about Wicca and Paganism. • Tales from Anatolia - a personal encounter with Hekate Friday, 7:00 PM �� San Jose

Moss Magill

Moss Magill has been a Learning and Development consultant for over 16 years with certifications in Situational Leadership and the Tarot. Moss is also an Occupy Chaplain, an Ovate student in the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids and the co-founder of the Circle of Coll Druidic Seed Group in Seattle. • Teacher’s Toolbox Saturday, 1:30 PM �� San Juan/ San Carlos • The Alchemy of Sacred Androgyny Sunday, 3:30 PM �� Santa Clara

Murtagh anDoile

Murtagh anDoile is an independent scholar; a Drui and Elder of the Tuatha De Danann (NECTW), an Irish Mystery Tradition; and the founder of Nemed na Morrigna. He has been published in various Pagan magazines. Through talks given in the early 80s, at diverse festivals, he is one of the progenitors of the Celtic Reconstructionist movement. He was interviewed in “Keepers of the Flame: Interviews with Elders of Traditional Witchcraft in America.” He has studied Geomancy for 35 years and written an Etruscan Magical system. He is the Director of the Pagan History Project. • The Etruscan Discipline and the Oracle of Geomancy Sunday, 9:00 AM �� Santa Clara

Oberon Zell & Devi Lanphere

Oberon co-founded the Church of All Worlds and several other Pagan organizations. First to apply the term ìPaganî to the new Nature Religions of the 1960s, and through his publication of Green Egg magazine (1968-), Oberon was instrumental in the coalescence of the modern Pagan movement. Oberon is the author of Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard and other books. He is also the Founder and Headmaster of the online Grey School of Wizardry. Devi Lanphere has been involved with the Wiccan path for over 20 years. She leads a closed circle in Santa Cruz and has taught

throughout the Bay Area. She melds creative energy into practice with magical crafts. Devi creates quilts and other textile manifestations for Pagans. • The Turtle Moves: Introduction to the Wit & Magick of Discworld Friday, 9:00 PM �� San Jose

Orion Foxwood

Orion Foxwood is an author, witch, conjure-man and faery seer. He is the author of “The Faery Teachings” (RJ Stewart Books), “The Tree of Echantments” and “The Candle and the Crossroads”(Weiser Books), a DVD set (Penraig Publications)called “Intro to Faery Seership” ,a CD with RJ Stewart called “Faery Seership” and a DVD called “An Introducation to Southerrn Conjure” (Pendraig Publications). He was born in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where he was first exposed to faith-healing, root-doctoring, and secondsight practices of southern and appalacian culture and has continued learning and teaching southern conjure and spirit-doctoring practices. He is the founder of the House of Brigh Faery Seership Institute, a co-founder of Conjure Crossroads, and the founding Elder of Foxwood Temple, a coven dedicated to passing on the traditional witchcraft of his Elders. He lectures throughout the USA and some locations in the U.K. teaching southern conjure and Faery Seership with his spirit-wife, Brigh. • The Healing Power of Co-Creation: Restoration of Creative Unity Monday, 1:30 PM �� Oak • Treading the Mill of Magic: Calling Heaven Here! Saturday, 1:30 PM �� Cedar/ Pine • The Green Mist: Riding the Breath of Earth’s Guardian Sunday, 7:00 PM �� Cedar/ Pine

P. Sufenas Virius Lupus

P. Sufenas Virius Lupus is a metagender person, and one of the founding members of the Ekklesia Antinoou as well as a contributing member of Neos Alexandria and a practicing Celtic Reconstructionist pagan in the traditions of gentlidecht and filidecht. E has written eight books, as well as numerous essays, articles, poems, and fiction contributions to a variety of anthologies and periodicals. • The Ephesia Grammata Friday, 1:30 PM �� Cedar

Pan Traditional Druids

The Pan Traditional Druids, is a coming together of Druids from the four major traditions, ADF, FoDLA, OBOD, and RDNA. This coming together combines the experience and knowledge of the ADF Vice-ArchDruid, RDNA ArchDruids, Presider of the House of Danu (OBOD), ordained priests of FoDLA and ADF, along with many Elders, Solitaries and practicing Groves. Forests are bound to listen when these Druids unite in ritual. • Pan Druid Panel and Ritual Saturday, 9:00 AM �� Oak

Pandemonaeon

Pandemonaeon is a tribal rock band founded by nationally touring musicians Sharon Knight and Winter. Dark, sensual, and hard hitting, their music has been described as “Dark tribal fusion with powerful vocals and metal accents” and “Music for bellydancers in combat boots”. Together with Anaar, Pandemonaeon produces the magick, music, and dance festival Hexenfest. www.pandemonaeon.net • Pandemonaeon Live Concert Saturday, 9:00 PM �� Cedar/ Pine

Paula Meier and J Mann (Bfly and Runes)

Bfly and Runes are a pair of solitaries who have walked different paths together for 20 years. Runes is a Van worshiping Heathen with Native American heritage and Bfly is a Dirt worshiping, Tree hugging Witch who was raised in a Conservative Jewish household. • Two Paths, One Heart(h). Creating a Multitradition Household Sunday, 1:30 PM �� Riesling

Pendragon’s Get

Gereg Jones Muller and Kimberly McKay practise arts variously musical, martial, marital, healing, priestly, fibre, and literary. This didn’t occupy enough time, however, so the both of them began teaching classes in their respective specialties. As Pendragon’s Get, they have performed at Highland Games, harvest festivals, pubs, and Renaissance Faires, as well as high school living-history presentations. Ruth Temple has played her fiddle from Minnesota to California, to the delight of Morris Dancers and audiences everywhere. • Pendragon’s Get Saturday, 3:30 PM �� Club Max

Peter Paddon

A Brit living in Los Angeles, Peter is the Magister of Briar Rose, a group of modern Cunningfolk. In addition to being an author and DVD creator (Craftwise series), he is the host of the Crooked Path podcast and owner of Pendraig Publishing. His books include The Book of the Veil and Through the Veil (Capall Bann), both on the Egyptian Mysteries, as well as the more recent A Grimoire For Modern Cunningfolk, Visceral Magick and Enchantment. His latest book, Practical Guising: The Witch’s art of Working With Masks, will be launched at PantheaCon. • Practical Guising Sunday, 11:00 AM �� Fir

Puck

Born and raised in San Diego, CA, Puck is a Counselor and Educator working with At-Risk and Homeless Youth. As a Magick worker, he is a trained Psychic through the Berkeley Psychic Institute’s Golden Rose Academy,a student in Orion Foxwood’s Faery Seership. • Key Mastering—Using Keys for Magickal Purporses Friday, 3:30 PM �� Boardroom

R J Stewart

R J Stewart is a Scottish author and composer now living in the USA and Britain. He is one of the leading writers and teachers of magical traditions, and author of 41 books on Magical Arts, Faery and UnderWorld tradition, Music and consciousness, Celtic tradition, and has recorded many CDs of original music and song. • The Faery Magic of Rudyard Kipling Sunday, 1:30 PM �� Pine • Concert with R J Stewart Sunday, 7:00 PM �� Carmel/ Monterey

Raven Grimassi & Stephanie Taylor

Raven Grimassi is an award-winning author of over fourteen books on Witchcraft and Wicca. He is also the co-founder and co-director of The Fellowship of the Pentacle, which is a Mystery School dedicated to preserving and teaching the ancestral knowledge and wisdom of pre-Christian European religion and spirituality. Raven and his wife, author Stephanie Taylor, are the directing elders of Ash, Birch & Willow (a training system in the Old Ways of Witchcraft for modern practitioners).

• Working with Plant Spirits & the Greenwood Realm Saturday, 11:00 AM �� Fir • A Pagan Mythos Sunday, 1:30 PM �� Fir

Ruth Temple

Gina Pond is a 3rd Degree Wiccan Priest of the Open Source Alexandrian Tradition in the Circle of Cerridwen, a minister with the Progressive Christian Alliance, and a seminary student at Pacific School of Religion. She does a lot of work around radical inclusion and social justice. She writes a lot, too: http://worthyadvisor. wordpress.com • Rethinking the Language of Health for Clergy Sunday, 1:30 PM �� Boardroom

Ruth Temple traces a multi-generational background in fiber arts and still wears her first scarf woven at age 10. Weaving guilds are strong keepers of the flame of all the fiber arts; good contacts for finding your local fiberistas include: http://cnch.org in California, http://ravelry.com/, and http://hga.org. An avid gardener, Ruth is a member of the Flower, Fruit, Root, and Seed Society (FFRASS) found at FFRASS@yahoogroups.com with a widespread Pagan permaculture-gardening membership. • Hands-On Tablet Weaving Monday, 1:30 PM �� San Jose • FFRASS : Garden Info, Social & Seed Swap Saturday, 7:00 PM �� Boardroom

Rev. Lee Whittaker

Ryan Smith

Rev. Gina A. Pond

Lee identifies as a Progressive Christian, Jewish, Wiccan transman. He is an ordained minister with the Progressive Christian Alliance. He will be completing his Masters of Divinity at Starr King School for the Ministry. He will also be receiving a Certificate in Sexuality and Religion from the Pacific School of Religion. Lee also serves on the Advisory Board for the Coalition for Welcoming Congregations. His ministry is about helping people overcome and heal their spiritual wounds. He also does a great deal of work in teaching groups of people around the issue of gender, sexuality and the gender spectrum.. • Dismantling Gender Sunday, 3:30 PM �� Boardroom

Ryan Smith is a Heathen organizer, activist, and student living in San Francisco. He has been a practicing Pagan of one tradition or another for the last 15 years and an organizer for the last eight. He has been a practitioner of Asatru, the Scandinavian form of Heathenry, for the last six years. He has a BA in Medieval History, is currently pursuing an MA in Modern World History, and in between the two worked for three years at a tech startup. His first experience with activism was protesting the Iraq War in 2003 and is currently involved in the environmental and Occupy movements. • Pagan Activist Forum Sunday, 11:00 AM �� Boardroom

Richard Reidy

Sabina Magliocco is Professor of Anthropology at California State University - Northridge. A priestess in the Gardnerian tradition who has also studied Reclaiming witchcraft, she has an eclectic coven in the Los Angeles area. sabina.magliocco@csun.edu • Animal Spirits in Pagan Religions Saturday, 11:00 AM �� San Juan

Richard Reidy received his Master of Divinity degree in 1979 and is the author of Eternal Egypt: Ancient Rituals for the Modern World (available thru amazon.com), the first comprehensive collection of key ritual texts performed throughout Egypt during the time of the pharaohs, complete with commentaries and background information on each ritual. For the past fifteen years he has moderated the Temple of Ra in San Francisco, and, since 2006 an Egyptian Reconstructionist temple in San Jose, CA, meeting monthly for ritual, study and fellowship. He can be reached by email at rjreidy@hotmail.com. • Anubis and Wepwawet: Gods of Many Aspects Friday, 3:30 PM �� San Juan/ San Carlos

Robert Allen and Lasara Firefox Allen

Lasara Firefox Allen and Robert Allen are walking the path of the beloved together. As man and wife, best friends, partners, and parents, the devotional aspect of spiritual dedication manifests in their day to day life. Robert and Lasara live in northern California with their two amazing daughters. Robert and Lasara are teachers, leaders, and writers. They both offer coaching services, as a team or individually. Contact them for more info: www.lasarafirefoxallen. com and www.contactrobertallen.com. • Mystical Love: Encountering the Divine Other Saturday, 9:00 PM �� Silicon Valley

Rose Shannon

I am a Feri witch and Tantrika based in San Francisco, practicing divination and magic for the health and welfare of my community • I Ching Divination Salon Saturday, 3:30 PM �� Boardroom

Sabina Magliocco

Sacred Fires and CAYA Coven

Come As You Are Coven is an open, eclectic pagan Coven that offers many circles. Sacred Fires (The Living Temple of Diana) is a tradition of Dianic Goddess Consciousness open to all genders, and concentrated on helping pagans grow in relationship to the Goddess in all Her manifestations. For more information visit www.goddesswithoutborders.org • The Rite of Love and Delight Friday, 9:00 PM �� Oak

Sam Webster

Sam Webster, M. Div., Mage, has taught magick publicly since 1984. He graduated from Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley in 1993. He is now a PhD candidate at the University of Bristol, UK, studying Pagan history under Prof. Ronald Hutton. He is an Adept of the Golden Dawn, and an initiate of Wiccan, Druidic, Buddhist, Hindu and Masonic traditions, publisher at Concrescent Press, author of “Tantric Thelema” and the blog “Arkadian Anvil”. He founded the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn in 2001 (www.OSOGD.org), and serves the Pagan community principally as a priest of Hermes. • Tantric Invocation of Hermes Saturday, 1:30 PM �� Silicon Valley

San Francisco Pagan Parents and Families

We are a group of Pagan families in San Francisco. Our goal is to craft celebratory rituals that are designed specifically to be kid friendly, while being satisfying for the adults involved. We also hold non-ritual, nature-themed events, such as hikes and campouts for families. We aim to create a network of Pagan families in San Francisco and foster a sense of community. We welcome Pagans from all different traditions and are LGBTQA inclusive, Poly friendly and embrace all forms of consensual freakatude. http:// groups.yahoo.com/group/SFPaganParentsandFamilies • Pagan Family Meet & Greet Saturday, 9:00 AM �� San Jose

Sarah Astarte

Sarah Astarte, Ph.D., has a doctorate in transpersonal psychology. She is an interfaith chaplain, spiritual guide, shamanic healer, reiki practitioner, and priestess of the Goddess. She specializes in body image, sacred sexuality, empowerment, and death and dying. She is the author of “The Lover Within: Exploring Body Image in Adult Women and the Archetypes of the Lover.” • Your Body as the God/Goddess Friday, 7:00 PM �� Oak • Exploring the Lover Within: An Archetypal Flirtation Workshop Saturday, 11:00 AM �� Boardroom

Seidhjaller

Seidhjallr, founded by Diana L. Paxson, author of /The Way of the Oracle/, is the oracular group associated with Hrafnar kindred. We have served the Pagan community in Northern California since 1991. We also present smaller oracular rituals in Berkeley four times a year. • Oracular Seidh Sunday, 3:30 PM �� San Martin/ San Simeon

Selena Fox

Selena Fox is a priestess, writer, psychotherapist, green cemetery director, interfaith minister & Pagan rights activist. Her writings on Celebrating the Seasons, Ancestors, Nature magic, Spiritual healing, Rites of Passage & other topics have been widely published. She travels internationally presenting workshops & rituals. She teaches Circle Craft via a weekly internet radio show. Selena is executive director of Circle Sanctuary (www.circlesanctuary.org) serving Pagans worldwide since 1974 & is founder of Pagan Spirit Gathering, a national/global Summer Solstice celebration. • Brigid Healing Ritual Saturday, 11:00 AM �� Cedar • Community Healing for Margot Ritual Saturday, 7:00 PM �� San Jose/ Santa Clara

Sharon Knight

Nationally touring songstress Sharon Knight serves up Celticinspired folk tales that sound like they ran away with the Faeries at the turn of the century and took cover in an old trunk bound for the circus, which was then commandeered by pirates. Her Neofolk Romantique style combines a love of antiquity and romance with an affinity for the haunting and melancholy, adds a hearty dash of feistiness, and reminds us that we can all see the world through the eyes of enchantment. • Sonic Alchemy: To Re-Enchant the World Monday, 11:00 AM �� Oak

Shauna Aura Knight

An author, artist, ritualist, community builder, environmental activist, and spiritual seeker, Shauna offers intensive education in the transformative arts of ritual, community leadership, and spiritual growth. Her writing includes books, articles, and blogs on ritual facilitation, Pagan community leadership, and personal/spiritual transformation. She has also published everal Urban Fantasy and Paranormal Romance stories. Her mythic artwork decorates shrines, altars and is used for Pagan magazines and book covers. Shauna is passionate about creating rituals, experiences, spaces, artwork, and stories to awaken mythic imagination. www.shaunaauraknight.com • Ritual Facilitation: Raising the Sacred Fire Saturday, 9:00 AM �� San Martin/ San Simeon • Ritual Facilitation: Trance Journeys & Meditations Saturday, 1:30 PM �� Santa Clara

Silence Maestas

Silence Maestas is an author and educator based in Salt Lake City, Utah. A pagan with a background in witchcraft, modern Heathenry, and bhakti yoga, Silence has maintained a devotion-oriented practice for nearly twenty years. • A Thousand Ways: Exploring Devotional Ritual Models Friday, 1:30 PM �� San Martin/ San Simeon

The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

A worldwide Order of Queer Nun Priestesses who vow to expiate stigmatic guilt and promulgate universal joy through habitual manifestation. • Taking of the Veil Sunday, 11:00 PM �� Oak

Soli Johnson

Soli has been actively involved in magical practices for 20 years and a polytheist for 15. • Juggling the Gods: syncretism in theory and practice Friday, 1:30 PM �� Fir

Sound Gardens

David and Sandy Gibbons play their gongs, chimes, bells, and mother drum with the intention to cultivate tranquility in our audiences and ourselves. Based in Santa Rosa, we have played at various Bay Area events, and take especial pleasure in contributing musically to Northbay Reclaiming rituals. • Tranquil Sound Gardens Sunday, 3:30 PM �� Club Max

Spark Collective

Spark Collective has presented a Fire Circle at Pantheacon for the last several years. We do not use fire at the Pantheacon event, instead we use electric lights. • Spark Collective Fire Circle Sunday, 11:00 PM �� San Martin/ San Simeon

Starhawk

Starhawk is the author of twelve books on Goddess religion, earth based spirituality and activism, including The Spiral Dance, The Fifth Sacred Thing, The Earth Path and The Last Wild Witch, and her latest, The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups, on power and process for circles. She is one of the founders of Reclaiming. www.reclaiming.org. Starhawk also teach-

es workshops in earth-based and feminist spirituality and courses in permaculture and regenerative design. www.earthactivisttraining.org. She blogs at www.starhawksblog.org and her website is www.starhawk.org. • Making Rituals that Matter Sunday, 1:30 PM �� Cedar

Sylvia Brallier

Sylvia Brallier is an author of the award-winning book: Dancing in the Eye of Transformation, the founder of the ShamaSoma Method for Spiritual Healing, and the Tantric Shamanism Mystery School. She has been teaching tantric shamanism workshops nationally and internationally for over 20 years. Her work is based on her own experiences with both ancient and new techniques for the evolution of consciousness. She has a deep commitment to creating safe space for the deepest of transformations. • Tantric Shamanism Breathwork Sunday, 9:00 PM �� San Juan/ San Carlos

T, Thorn Coyle & Morningstar Mystery School

Morningstar Mystery School is comprised of dedicated magic workers and long-time seekers of Mystery. The school is under the head of author and teacher T. Thorn Coyle. • The Guardians: A Ritual of Calling Friday, 7:00 PM �� Cedar/ Pine

T. Thorn Coyle, Crystal Blanton & a Kick-Ass Panel

T. Thorn Coyle moderates this panel of powerful and insightful teachers and activists: Crystal Blanton, Xochiquetzal Duti Odinsdottir, Charlie Glickman, and Elena Rose Vera. • Pagans and Privilege: Let’s Talk About It Saturday, 3:30 PM �� Oak

Tamara L. Siuda

Tamara L. Siuda is the Nisut of the Kemetic Orthodox Faith (kemet.org). She is a professional Egyptologist (M.A. 2000 U of Chicago; M.A. 2008 Macquarie Uni; Ph.D in process, Claremont Graduate University) and author of numerous articles and books on Egypt. Rev. Tamara appeared in the History Channel documentary “Egyptian Book of the Dead,” and Kickstartered an ancient Egyptian calendar project in 2013 (egyptiandaybook.com). @ tamarasiuda on Twitter & Facebook. • Offerings to Osiris: Sharing with the Dead Sunday, 9:00 AM �� Cedar

Tandemonium

Claudia Immerzeel and Jean Duranti have studied and performed classical and folkloric dance of Iran and Central Asia as “Tandemonium” since 1991. They have studied with noted dance masters from Iran and Uzbekistan. Claudia has degrees in Anthropology from USC and UCLA and Jean has degree in Liberal Arts from San Diego State University and teaching credentials from Notre Dame College. They have a deep love of Persian culture especially the food! • The Evil Eye - Folk Magic of the Silk Road Sunday, 9:00 PM �� Carmel/ Monterey

Taylor Ellwood

Taylor Ellwood lives in Portland, OR with his magical Partner Kat, and his cats Sun Ce and Ember. He is the author of Pop Culture Magick, Space/Time Magic, Inner Alchemy, and Multi-Media

Magic. Taylor is also the managing non-fiction editor of Immanion Press, which specializes in esoteric Non-Fiction. To learn more about him visit http://www.magicalexperiments.com • Taoist Inner Alchemical Breathing Meditations Friday, 9:00 PM �� San Martin/ San Simeon • The Magic of Writing: how to use writing to manifest reality Sunday, 7:00 PM �� Boardroom

Ted Prodromou

Ted Prodromou hopes to learn more and find answers. He had a happy Episcopalian upbringing, is now perpetually unsure, likes Pagans very much, and is fairly tall. • Construct A Discordian Psychic Battle-Tank! Saturday, 7:00 PM �� San Juan/ San Carlos

Tempest & Nathaniel Johnstone

Tempest & Nathaniel Johnstone are a dance-&-music duo from Seattle, WA. Tempest is a world-renown bellydance performer and instructor, focusing on sacred and darkly inspired fusions that pull from the traditions of North Africa, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean. Nathaniel is a multi-instrumentalist virtuoso (violin, viola, guitar, banjo, mandolin) whose music pulls from myth, fantasy, and folklore with a vibrant sound crosses boundaries & borders, resulting in a blend of multicultural folk rock. He has also performed with Abney Park, Paul Mercer, Ego Likeness, Jill Tracy & more. • Dreaming the Raven: A Morrigan Dance Ritual Saturday, 11:00 PM �� Carmel/ Monterey

Temple of Aphrodite

The Temple of Aphrodite is hosted by the Sacred Well in Oakland. We celebrate monthly devotionals to our Lady, sponsor periodic events and outings, and the spirit of Love in all that we do. • The Many Faces of Aphrodite Friday, 3:30 PM �� Pine

Temple of Inanna and Dumuzi

The Temple of Inanna and Dumuzi is a semi-reconstructionist, Mesopotamian temple dedicated to the ancient Sumerian Goddess Inanna (known to the Babylonians as Ishtar) and God Dumuzi (known to the Babylonians as Tammuz). The rituals are based on the ancient Mesopotamian (primarily Sumerian and Akkadian) texts, with both inspiration and consultation with the Deities as glue. All persons of good will are welcome. http://groups.yahoo. com/group/Temple_of_Inanna_and_Dumuzi/ • Devotional Parade and Ceremony for Lady Inanna Sunday, 9:00 PM �� San Martin/ San Simeon

Tess Whitehurst

Tess Whitehurst is a feng shui practitioner, intuitive counselor, and the author of a number of books, including Magical Housekeeping and The Magic of Flowers: A Guide to Their Metaphysical Uses and Properties. Her work has also appeared in Witches and Pagans magazine and a number of Llewellyn’s annuals. She has a passion for writing and teaching about the connection between form and spirit, seen and unseen, known and unknown. Visit her at www.tesswhitehurst.com. • Flower Magic: Working with Our Blossoming Allies Monday, 9:00 AM �� San Jose

Thalassa

Thalassa has been working with the Tarot, divination and the arts magickal for over 45 years. She is the producer of the San Francisco Bay Area Tarot Symposium (SF BATS), founder of Daughters of Divination, and publisher of The Flying Squirrel. She speaks widely on Tarot and Divination at events across the country. She is also active in historical recreation and theatre. Visit www.dodivination.com for more info and divinatory hijinks. She is currently working on a book (on Tarot, of all things). • Learning to Flex Your Oracular Muscles Saturday, 3:30 PM �� Silicon Valley

Timotha Doane and Kristen Oliver

Timotha is a lifelong torch bearer on Hekate’s path. She is also a Vajrayana practitioner and Chodpa.In the 60’s she worked with Kenneth Anger. She has a background in Thelema. She works with the prison and death penalty abolition movement. She is a poet, and she is queer. • Hekate: Witness and Ally. Saturday, 3:30 PM �� San Martin/ San Simeon

Tony Mierzwicki

Tony Mierzwicki is the author of “Graeco-Egyptian Magick: Everyday Empowerment” and a forthcoming primer reconstructing Classical Greek religion. He has contributed to various anthologies and magazines. He has presented workshops recreating ancient magickal practices in the United States and the east coast of Australia since 2001, drawing on his practice of ceremonial magick which he began in 1990. Tony’s wife, Jo-Ann, has been co-facilitating his workshops since 2004. Tony completed three degrees at the University of Sydney - MA, BE and BSc. • Invocation of Pan Saturday, 11:00 AM �� Carmel/ Monterey • Empowerment - Ideas from the Ancient Egyptians Sunday, 1:30 PM �� Carmel/ Monterey

Turning Earth Singers

The Turning Earth Singers are a Bay-Area-based ensemble that sings for rituals and other pagan events. We have taught workshops at Pantheacon for several years and have sung at many different venues including the Spiral Dance, farmers’ markets, private homes, and others. Our members - Jim Gasperini, Joanna Manqueros, Mariah Sparks, Max Ventura, Meg Yardley, Robin Dolan, & Vicki Solomon - come from a variety of magical and musical backgrounds, and several members have performed on various Pagan musical recordings. We hope to make a recording this coming year. • Turning toward Justice with Song Saturday, 11:00 AM �� Club Max • Pagan Kids’ Song and Story Time Sunday, 11:00 AM �� Carmel

The Unnamed Path Brotherhood

The Unnamed Path Brotherhood (unnamedpath.com) is a shamanic path for Men-who-love-men founded by Hyperion. • A Wake for Hyperion Saturday, 7:00 PM �� San Martin/ San Simeon

Urban Goddess

Urban Goddess is a psychic, author & teacher of the divine nature path of the Witch. The creator of The Enchanted Tree Org which

includes a School of Magik, The Urban Goddess Festival, Witches Kamp and the Enchanted Circle Gathering group that is based in Sacramento, Ca. Her vision is simple and that is to share the golden threads of truth that she seeks through deep meditation and spiritual practice. Visit www.theenchantedtree.com for more info. • Herbs, Oils and Medicine Bags Sunday, 11:00 AM �� San Juan/ San Carlos

Valerie E. Voigt

Valerie Voigt has been active as a Pagan priestess for over 35 years. She studied with Julie Tower, Alison Harlow, and Victor and Cora Anderson. She is both a Feri initiate and a third degree Gardnerian. She coordinated the Pagan/Occult/Witchcraft Special Interest Group of Mensa for 13 years and has practiced as a village Witch for some decades. She is High Priestess of the Temple of Inanna and Dumuzi in San Jose, and also of a Wiccan coven in the South Bay. She runs Palo Alto Area Pagan Meetup group in Palo Alto. • Bardic Circle Friday, 11:00 PM �� Silicon Valley • Village Witchery 202 Monday, 9:00 AM �� Pine • Village Witchery 201 Sunday, 11:00 AM �� Silicon Valley

Victoria Slind-Flor

Victoria Slind-Flor is a Dianic crone who lives, works and makes art in Oakland. In her mundane life she is journalist specializing in intellectual property law. She is a founding member of the Coven of the Sacred Feminine, a group committed to the empowerment of women and the celebration of the work of women’s hands. She’s taught many art-related workshops at Pantheacon over the years, and has also been a presenter for Gaia’s Womb in Illinois and the Minnesota Sacred Harvest Festival. She works in textiles, and ceramics, and the workshops she offers contain an element of hands-on craft. • Croning’s not for sissies Saturday, 9:00 AM �� San Juan • Our Grandmothers as goddesses Sunday, 11:00 AM �� Santa Clara

Weiser Books

Weiser Books has a long history as one of America’s preeminent publishers of esoteric and occult teachings from traditions all around the world and throughout time. Metaphysics and magick, Kabbalah, astrology, tarot, we publish serious books for students from all walks of life. • In Service to the Muse: Rituals in Writing & Publishing Friday, 3:30 PM �� Carmel/ Monterey

Woodland

Woodland is a mythic world fusion ensemble featuring the songcraft of guitarist Emilio Miller-Lopez and singer/harpist Kelly Miller-Lopez. For more than 13 years, Woodland has been enchanting audiences throughout the US and Europe with an ornate blend of original and traditional melodies woven with meaningful bardic poetry. Across the United States, Woodland co-produces largescale themed events which are immersive concert experiences featuring vibrant lightshows, theatrical dance performances and live musical rituals led by their seasonal poetic invocations. The bandís music features a variety of folk and electric instrumentation, combining ambient and acoustic for an experience of potent live im-

provisational energy. Woodland has performed and headlined at events worldwide including The Labyrinth Masquerade in Los Angeles, An Evening in Elfland in Glastonbury UK, Earthdance in San Francisco, The Witches Ball in London, The Good Faeries/Bad Faeries Masquerades on both US coasts, and Faerieworlds festival events throughout the US. • Woodland Valentine’s Night Concert Friday, 9:00 PM �� Cedar/ Pine

Woven Circle

The Woven Circle is a cadre of Pagan craft teachers from various traditions. We feel strongly about keeping both traditional crafts and the creative process alive in our modern world. Our talents include bead work, fiber arts, wheat weaving, straw, book and paper arts. • Introduction to Wheat Weaving Saturday, 3:30 PM �� San Juan/ San Carlos • Creating a Tarot Pocket Book Sunday, 1:30 PM �� San Juan/ San Carlos • Intermediate Wheat Weaving Sunday, 3:30 PM �� San Juan/ San Carlos

Xochiquetzal Duti

Strict Catholic upbringing was a pathway to polytheism with a draw towards sacred sexuality and ecstatic practices. Having been raised from a tender age to focus and work on social justices issues, Xochiquetzal has not looked back at finding ways to mix the two together. The long list of adjectives: genderqueer, Priest/ess, kinky, polyamorous, homesteader, and wife coupled with the vast array of intersections embodied make Xochiquetzal an open book willing to talk with anyone about these and many other topics. Feel free to reach out! • PoC Caucus Friday, 3:30 PM �� Silicon Valley • Taking Up the Veil Saturday, 9:00 PM �� Boardroom

Yasmin Henkesh

Yasmin Henkesh is a world-renowned belly dancer with forty years of experience performing in Washington DC, New York, London, Paris and Cairo. While living in Egypt she obtained a master’s degree in Arabic (AU Cairo) and researched Egyptian sacred dance. In April, 2001 The Washington Post named her “the area’s most sought after teacher of the Egyptian style of dance.” Through her music label, Sands of Time Music, she released Zar—Trance Dancing for Women, a compilation of authentic Egyptian trance music. Yasmin will release her first book, Trance Dancing with the Jinn, with Llewellyn in 2014 • Trance Dancing with the Jinn Friday, 11:00 PM �� San Martin/ San Simeon

Zephyre

Zephyre (pronounced “sapphire”) is a 2nd Degree wiccan priestess living in Los Angeles, Ca. She began as a solitary practitioner of the Craft in 1994. In 1997 she met and later joined White Buffalo Clan with whom she continues to circle. She is a witch of the AmerCeltic tradition. • Giving to the Giver Saturday, 11:00 AM �� Riesling

AIR & FIRE

17 MAGICAL JOURNEY

CELTIC JACKALOPE

BEEGIRL

WINDWOLF STUDIOS

PHOENIX OBSIDIAN

MAGIC VELVETS

SIGN OF THE HAWK

SERPENT’S KISS

SPIRIT OF THE GODDESS

THE EVERYDAY GODDESS

DRAGONQUEST TREASURES

MARGARET MANNAT BOOKS

ARTEMIS ARCHERY

BLUESTAR CREATIONS

MYTHIC IMAGES

DRAGON’S TREASURE

6 STONE CIRCLE STUDIO

AMBER MOON

FIREBIRD FAE COUTURE

THE WEAVING MONK

ROB CARTER, INC.

FIELDS BOOKS

WASHBURN CELTIC ON CLOTH

CELTICA

74 SIMPLY SALMA’S TREASURES

ANCIENT WAYS

KITCHEN WITCH GOURMET

LODEMA THE POTTER

BUTTERFLY MOON

WREN’S RUNES/ MYTH & MAGIC

JUST REWARDS

ART BY MAX DASHU

COYOTE TALES

FEATHERY LEATHERY

EYESCREAM

ARDANTANE PAGAN LEARNING CENTER

DAYLIGHT ARTWORKS

READING SIGN-UPS

VENDOR ROOM MAIN ENTRANCE

VENDOR ROOM SECOND DOOR READINGS 3 & 4

PRACTICAL RABBIT

THE AMBER WOLF

THE DIFFERENT DRUM

BOOK SIGNINGS

WILLOWROOT WANDS

PANTHEACON VENDOR ROOM PROGRAM

ECLECTIC BY DESIGN

4 SEW MAGICAL

BLUE MOON DESIGNS

TOMBO STUDIOS

XCENTRICITIES CORSETS

SACRED WELL

GODDESS ZADIYAH

HOUSE OF WORMWOOD

FAERY ODD MOTHERS

THE MYSTIC DREAM MY CRYSTAL VISIONS

WOLF SISTERS CREATIONS

READINGS 1 & 2

THE VODOU STORE

WALKING MYTH MASSAGE

JEWELS BY OLIVIA

FEELING GREAT NOW BODYWORK

GAIAN ALLUSIONS POTTERY

HEART HENNA

BOOK SIGNINGS & AFTER HOURS READINGS

VENDOR COORDINATOR

BLOOD DRIVE SIGNUPS

Welcome to Vendor Land! A Convention membership is not required to visit the Vendor Room. All are welcome to explore this marketplace. The artisans and vendors selected by PantheaCon have been carefully selected to offer a splendid array of wares reflecting the colour and creativity of our Community. Clothing, books, jewelry, art, ritual tools, and so much more are offered by an assortment of Pagan and Pagan-friendly Vendors from all over the West Coast and beyond. Each year the mix is a little different, blending the familiar and well-loved with the fresh and new. In addition to the copy of the Vendor Room map in this programme book, the map is also posted in several locations, including just inside the main entrance to the Room. The Vendor Room Staff (located at the Vendor Coordinator table, “Thalassa Prime,” just inside the main entrance to Vendor Room) will be happy to assist with questions. This is also where you can schedule readings and

obtain information on booksigning with participating PantheaCon presenters Welcome and bright blessings from Thalassa, Vendor Coordinator/Onsite Hotel Liaison, and the Vendor Room Staff PLEASE NOTE THAT VENDING BY PERSONS NOT SPECIFICALLY AUTHORIZED BY PANTHEACON, AND VENDING IN AREAS NOT AUTHORIZED BY PANTHEACON, IS NOT PERMITTED. YOUR COOPERATION IS APPRECIATED.

Readings with PantheaCon Presenters

WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SERVICE DOGS, WE ASK THAT NO ANIMALS BE BROUGHT INTO THE VENDOR ROOM!

Booksigning by PantheaCon Presenters

Vendor Room hours:

Friday: 1:30 (approximately)–6:00 Saturday & Sunday: 10:00–6:30 Monday: 10:00–2:00

Vendors in the area outside of the Ballroom (listed as “Bayshore Foyer”) may have different hours.

Several of the PantheaCon presenters will be available for readings in the Bayshore Foyer. There will be sign up sheets at the Thalassa Prime/Vendor Coordination table (just inside the main entrance to the room, immediately to your right as you enter) noting readers and their time availability. Be aware that compensation must be negotiated directly with the readers. We ask that this exchange of service and energy be conducted respectfully.. There are Convention Booksigning Tables located next to the Ancient Ways tables in the Vendor Room in the Bayshore Foyer (across from the Information Area). A schedule of presenters signed up to do booksigning is available at the Thalassa Prime/Vendor Coordinator table. You may also find some of the presenters’ books and CDs for sale at the Ancient Ways booth.

 Air& Fire Candles, soaps, oils, ritual tools www.airandfire.com 831-338-7567  Amber Moon Amber, jet & ivory art & jewelry, coats & hats www.ambereva.com  Ancient Ways Books, magical tools & decorative items www.ancientways.com 510-653-3244  Ardantane Pagan Learning Center Emblems, buttons, books, information www.ardantane.org  Art by Max Dashu Art, posters, dvds, magnets, t-shirts maxdashu@lmi.net  Beegirlmetal han-crafted jewelry www.etsy.com/shop/beegirlmetal  Blue Moon Designs Fabric belts, hair accessories bluemoonkatherine.etsy.com  Blue Star Creations Amber, jet jewelry, sculpture bluestarpm.com 510-797-3486

 DragonQuest Treasures Crystals, magical tools, drinking horns Dqtreasures@ix.netcom.com

 Lodema the Potter Handmade pottery lodemathepotter@yahoo.com

 Dragon’s Treasure Handmade jewelry and sculpture www.etsy.com/shop/dragonstreasure www.dragont.com

 Magic Velvets Velvet cloaks, fantasy clothing, accessories www.magicvelvets.com

 Eclectic by Design Pagan & Pirate-themed gufts, clothing, accessories, & jewelry www.giftshrouds.com, www.sinistercandy.com  Eyescream Jewelry, headpieces, cds www.eyescreamjewelry.com  Faery Odd Mothers Masks, jewelry, fairy accoutrements sizzorwitch@yahoo.com  Feathery Leathery Leathercraft & masks www.featheryleathery.com  Feeling Great Now (Bayshore Foyer) Therapeutic massage www.feelinggreatnow.biz  Fields Books Books on magic, witchcraft, esoterica, &c www.fieldsbooks.com

 Butterfly Moon Jewelry and gift items www.butterflymoon.com

 Firebird Fae Couture Hand-dyed silk clothing & accessories www.firebirdfae.com

 Celtic Jackalope T-shirts,statuary, plaques & jewelry celticjackalope.com

 Gaean Allusions Pottery (Bayshore Foyer) Stonewear, pottery www.gaeanallusions.com pottery@gaeanallusions.com

 Celtica Silver and gold jewelry peter.celtica@gmail.com  Corset.net Ltd Corsets,related fashions and fabrics www.corset.net (505) 459-8733  Coyote Tales Symbol Makers Pagan & Metaphysical silver jewelry www.coyotesilver.com  Dancing Tree/Artemis Archery Bows, archery accessories, hair adorment, and music www.dancingtreemusic.com www.artemisarchery.com  Daylight Artworks Nightlights, candleholders, bone pins www.daylightartworks.com

 Goddess Z Beaded Goddesses, jewelry, clothing on Facebook - Sandra Escott  Heart Henna (Bayshore Foyer) Henna art www.katyamadrid.com  House of Wormwood Soaps, lotions, candles, hats, scarves www.houseofworwood.com www.mosshollowdesign.com  Jewels by Olivia (Bayshore Foyer) Jewelry, accessories, gift items  Just Rewards Amber jewelry, gifts www.4justrewards.com heathendrew@gmail.com  Kitchen Witch Gourment.com Tea, tea accessories, spices www.kitchenwitchgourmet.com

 Magical Journey Athames, chalices, scrying mirrors, and magical tools www.magicaljourney.net  Margaret Mannatt Fine Books Books, collectibles mmannatt@yahoo.com  My Crystal Visions Wire-wrapped crystal jewelry and wands mycrustalvisons@aol.com on Facebook at My Crystal Visions  Myth & Magic/Wren’s Runes Runes, altar pieces, magical tools www.wildnaturethemejewelry.com  Mythic Images Statuary, books, jewelry, ceremonial tools and artifacts www.mythicimages.com  Phoenix Obsidian Designs Native themed art, bones, fur, skulls, and natural jewelry www.obsidiandesigns.com  Practical Rabbit Handmade adult & children’s clothing, felt gnomes, & toys www.practicalrabbit.com  Rob Carter Inc Non-ferrous knives, wooden objects elfwreck@gmail.com  Serpent’s Kiss Ritual supplies & tools. Jewelry www.serpents-kiss.com 831-423-5477  Sew Magical Cloth art, quilts, fabroc goods, dried heads devilanphere@gmail.com  Sign of the Hawk Leatherwork and masks signofthehawk@gmail.com 541-5474418  Simply Salma’s Treasures Handmade jewelry, henna work www.simplysalma.etsy.com  Spirit of the Goddess Crowns, adronments, staffs http://www.etsy.com/shop/SpiritoftheGoddess rosieechelmeier@comcast.net

 Stone Circle Studio Crstals, gemstones, talismans www.stonecirclestudio.com  The Amber Wolf Woodburned art, hair ornaments, &c http://theamberwolf.com 209-601-3085  The Different Drum (Bayshore Foyer) Handmade drums and percussion www.thedifferentdrum.net drummaker@thedifferentdrum.net  The Everday Goddess Clothing and accessories aracina@sonic.net

Give Your Magic A Boost

 The Mystic Dream Talking boards, lamps, oils, crystals www.themysticdream.com

with Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Correspondences,

 The Sacred Well Crystals, jewelry, ritual tools www.sacredwell.com

Mixing Essential Oils for Magic, and more

 The Vodou Store (Bayshore Foyer) Voodoo/Vodou, Hoodoo, Witchcraft supplies, artwork, and statuary www.vodoustore.com

by Sandra Kynes www.kynes.net

“Essential reading...”*

 Tombo Studio Gothic & Pagan jewelry, accessories, and Feri tradition materials www.tombostudio.com  Walking Myth Massage (Bayshore Foyer) Bodywork, massage, didjerodo chakra balancing/activation walkingmyth@risevp.net  Washburn—Celtic on Cloth Woodcuts, Altar cloths, ritual tools loren@cabrillo.edu  Weaving Monk Cloaks, shawls, altar cloths www.weavingmonk.com  Willowroot Wands Wands, jewelry, statuary, crystals www.willowrootwands.com on Facebook as Willowroot Wands  Wolfsisters Creations Art, prints, shirts http://windwolf.com

• Deluxe, large-format • Soft or hard cover • Over 180 pages • More than 250 photos, over half in COLOR!

From ancient rite to modern profession. In this revealing autobiography, Jim Ward, considered by many to be the father of the modern piercing industry, tells the engaging and candid story of discovering his own fascination with body piercing, his founding of Gauntlet, the first body piercing studio, and how he transformed a personal fetish and closeted, amateur pursuit into a respected profession and spearheaded a worldwide, social phenomenon. Available at the Just Rewards table in the vendor room, the website, www.runningthegauntlet-book.com, and other fine outlets. *”Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how modern body piercing arrived at the place it currently occupies.”

James Weber, President Association of Professional Piercers

NOTES:

Andrieh Vitimus’s 30 day Challenges

More Magic, Less Talk • • Real life transformations Real life transformations

• • Strong Supportive Community Strong Supportive Community

• • Achievable, Fun and Adventurous Achievable, Fun and Adventurous • • 30 days of active magical work for 30 days of active magical work for 30 minutes 30 minutes

To the great work of magic http://www.magical30.com

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