ConVocation 2025: Explore and Build Pathways to the Divine: Full Schedule

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9:30am EST

Animism Lessons from Avatar the Last Air-Bender

Friday February 21, 2025 9:30am - 11:00am EST

Since its release 20 years ago, Avatar the Last Air-Bender has become a beloved cultural phenomenon inspiring a sequel series, several graphic novels, a live action movie, and a live action Netflix series. Its magical world based in the concept of elemental balance, and its impressive character arcs have won awards and made it a favorite series for people of all ages. But is there more we can gain from Avatar than exciting and heartwarming stories? In this class we will explore select elements of Avatar's depiction of the Spirit World as a way to understand real life lessons in animism and how these lessons can inspire our own connections with the spirit world.

Speakers

BJ Swain

BJ Swain is the author of Living Spirits: A Guide to Magic in a World of Spirits, Luminarium: A Grimoire of Cunning Conjuration, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions. He was a contributing editor for Heaven and Hell 2018: The Grimoire Issue, and has had... Read More →

Friday February 21, 2025 9:30am - 11:00am EST
Auditorium 1 (Lecture Hall)

Lecture/Discussion

Age Level All Welcome – Acceptable for all age levels to be present in the class.
Experience Focus All – This class is intended to speak to a broad audience, regardless of skill/experience.

11:30am EST

The Sphinx and the Four Princesses: A Vision of Malkuth

Friday February 21, 2025 11:30am - 1:00pm EST

Auditorium 1 (Lecture Hall)

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The Sphinx is a mythic figure popularized in Egyptian and Greek lore. Magician's look at the Sphinx as the guardian of the Powers of the Magus and keeper of the Witch's Pyramid of the four fold principles To Know, To Will, To Dare, and To Be Silent. The Four Princesses of the Elements, the Four Pages of Tarot, are the teachers of earth, fire, air, and water in the material world. Learn to work with the Sphinx as guardian and teacher in the occult traditions, and the many permutations of the four fold way through the guidance of the Princesses through a visionary meditation. Together, they lead to the Kingdom, the Garden, and the Mystery of the Earth Goddess.

Speakers

Christopher Penczak

Christopher Penczak is a modern Witch working in the Temple of Witchcraft tradition and community he helped co-found. His practice focuses on the intersection of Love, Will, and Wisdom as an ethos for today’s Witch, and focuses upon relationships with the plant realm, the patterns... Read More →

Friday February 21, 2025 11:30am - 1:00pm EST
Auditorium 1 (Lecture Hall)

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2:00pm EST

Malkuth and Alchemy: As Above, So Below

Friday February 21, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm EST

Auditorium 1 (Lecture Hall)

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We will examine how the concepts found in Malkuth come into play in both historical and modern alchemical practices. Malkuth is the first symbolic connection point between the physical and the spiritual, the created and the creator(s), it is first contact point of the corporal and the divine. As such, Malkuth is the one Sefirah believed to emanate not from the divine, but from us. Malkuth sits at the base of the Tree of Life symbol and connects directly to Keter at the top, which we will discuss through the hermetic principle; As above, so below. We will discuss historical alchemists and how they employed hermetic concepts of these connections in their life and work and then move to modern practice and how to employ these concepts into our daily lives, rituals, and plans.

Speakers

Meg Raphoon

Meg Raphoon grew up gazing at the ocean and climbing trees on the north shore of Long Island. She currently resides in Detroit Michigan with her amazing son and the cats who have adopted them. She is on the Board of Directors for the Magical Education Council and one of the Convention... Read More →

Friday February 21, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
Auditorium 1 (Lecture Hall)

Lecture/Discussion

Age Level All Welcome – Acceptable for all age levels to be present in the class.
Experience Focus All – This class is intended to speak to a broad audience, regardless of skill/experience.

4:00pm EST

Mirth and Reverence Panel Discussion

Friday February 21, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST

Auditorium 1 (Lecture Hall)

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“And therefore let there be … mirth and reverence within you.” – Doreen Valiente. What does it mean to have mirth and reverence? How do modern day practitioners exemplify these virtues and weave them throughout their practices? Come explore with us the balance between joy and solemnity in our spiritual practices, and how we see and work with these elements in our rituals, community gatherings, and daily lives.

Speakers

Sarenth Óðinsson

Sarenth Óðinsson is a Heathen spiritworker, erilaz, goði, and Priest of Odin and Anubis. He compiled and edited the devotional anthology Calling to Our Ancestors released by Asphodel Press and has contributed to several devotional books by Bibliotheca Alexandria. He has written... Read More →

Nathan King

Crossed Crow Books

Nathan King is a Witch, performer, and owner of Witch-Path Magick & Occult. Nathan is a Minos (3-degree High Priest ) of The Minoan Brotherhood Tradition and an initiate of British Traditional Witchcraft. He carries the inspired currents for traditional practices with a deep passion... Read More →

Paul Barbary

Paul is the Owner of Artes And Craft along with his wife, Pat. Artes And Craft is the largest and most specialized Pagan and Witchcraft store in Michigan and one of the most important in the Midwest. Paul has been pagan and a practitioner of magick since he was 11 years old and ran... Read More →

Jason Mankey

Jason Mankey has been coming to ConVocation for over twenty-five years and eventually became a prolific Witchcraft author (ten books and counting!). A former resident of Lansing Michigan, today Jason resides in California’s Silicon Valley with his wife Ari. For fun Jason enjoys... Read More →

Rhiannon Zell

Rhiannon Zell has been a Wiccan Priestess teaching the Craft for over 50 years, and is co-founder ofthe eclectic SerpentStone tradition. For 25 years, she helped organize grassroots Pagan gatheringsthroughout North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia, with attendance up to 2,000. With... Read More →

Lord Solinox Silverstar

High Priestx, Weavers of the Web, ATC

Lord Solinox Silverstar is a 3rd-degree High Priestx in the WISE-ATC tradition of Wicca with a BM in Wiccan Ministry from Woolston-Steen Theological Seminary. Originally from Texas, Solinox has lived in Michigan for more than two decades, and has dedicated their life to building... Read More →

Mara Evenstar

Owner, Evenstar's Chalice

Ordained Priestess, Educator, Healer and Scholar, Mara Evenstar, MTP, holds a Masters in Transpersonal Psychology with specialization in Spiritual Psychology as well as Organizational Development. She is a doctoral candidate at Meridian University in Leadership and Social Transformation... Read More →

Figment Poe

Dusty Dionne

Friday February 21, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST
Auditorium 1 (Lecture Hall)

Lecture/Discussion

Age Level All Welcome – Acceptable for all age levels to be present in the class.
Experience Focus All – This class is intended to speak to a broad audience, regardless of skill/experience.

7:00pm EST

Psychic Skills For Tarot

Friday February 21, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST

Auditorium 1 (Lecture Hall)

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Enhance your tarot readings by integrating powerful psychic skills in this workshop based on Mat Auryn’s newest book, The Psychic Art of Tarot. Designed for all levels, this class focuses on using psychic abilities such as scrying, mediumship, remote viewing, and engaging your “clairs” during tarot readings. Participants will learn techniques for developing intuition, connecting with psychic symbols, and applying these skills during tarot sessions. Guided by Mat Auryn’s expertise, you’ll discover how to trust your psychic impressions, interpret cards with greater depth, and provide more insightful and accurate readings.

Speakers

Mat Auryn

Author

Mat Auryn is an accomplished and award-winning author known for his best-selling books, which have been translated into over thirteen languages. As a retired professional psychic and Bay Area-based Witch and Occult teacher, with experience as an initiate of multiple Witchcraft traditions... Read More →

Friday February 21, 2025 7:00pm - 8:30pm EST
Auditorium 1 (Lecture Hall)

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