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

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7:00pm EST

OPENING RITUAL!

Thursday February 20, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm EST

Join the MEC Board, ConVocation Staff, our Guests of Honor, Featured Presenters, teachers, and all of our guests as we create sacred space and kick start the weekend!

Thursday February 20, 2025 7:00pm - 8:00pm EST
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8:30pm EST

Grand Emotions

Thursday February 20, 2025 8:30pm - 10:00pm EST

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As a witch, you know your emotions are powerful. That they charge - or change - spellwork. You also know how important it is to be in the right frame of mind and body before energy work. Easier said than done sometimes! Especially when that rage is really fuming! Or when your sorrows feel too overwhelming. In this greatly shortened version of my favorite workshop to facilitate, participants will explore Rage, Joy, Sorrow and Fear, moving and transforming these emotions physically. Wake up your body, heart and soul to be open and malleable for ritual, ConVocation and beyond. Suitable for all abilities, ages 8 and older.

Speakers

Kate (or Neowise)

Founder, Group Tarot

"For years Kate Mura has been one of the most multifaceted theatre artists in Portland. Her extensive skill set includes actor, deviser, writer, director, puppeteer, mask-maker, dancer, mover, carpenter, ground rigger and union stage hand. Oh yes, and Tarot card reader.” — Bobby... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 8:30pm - 10:00pm EST
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Lecture/Discussion Movement/Music

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.

10:30pm EST

Goetia for Beginners: Calling the Demon Lord Shax

Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30pm - Friday February 21, 2025 12:00am EST

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Following a brief lecture on the history and theory of goetia I will teach you how to conjure the demon Shax Together, we will oblige him to enter into a triangle, and then request him to teach us further magic. This ritual is safe, easy, and fun. There will be no explicit sexual or violent content, although demons sometimes get a little spicy, and I cannot entirely control what Shax will say. Please do not come to intoxicated or otherwise out of your right mind.

Speakers

Sara Mastros

WitchLessons.com

Sara Mastros, author of Orphic Hymns Grimoire, The Big Book of Magical Incense, and The Sorcery of Solomon: A Guide to the 44 Pentacles of the Magician King, is Pittsburgh's leading Witch for Hire. She teaches Tarot, Witchcraft, Greek and Near Eastern mythology, Pan-Levantine folk... Read More →

Thursday February 20, 2025 10:30pm - Friday February 21, 2025 12:00am EST
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Ritual Lecture/Discussion 18+ Restricted

9:30am EST

Treadin the Path to the Divine with Elen of the Ways

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

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Elen of the Ways is a shamanic crossroads deity. As an antlered Fire goddess, transformation and soul journeys are her purview. Just as her herds migrate, Elen guides humans on the path of life. Many roads in Britain were named after Elen, and after becoming Christianized, she became the patron Saint of roadbuilders and travelers. Let Elen guide you on your soul journey to the divine! Whether you are a seasoned practitioner, or just starting out on your path, Elen’s wisdom and guidance will aide your “migration.” Part instruction and part ritual, this class includes a guided meditation for you to explore your pathway. After the conclusion, you will be able to take Elen’s light with you into the mundane world so your journey continues.

Speakers

Merrie Maeven Hutchins

Merrie “the Magickal Maeven” Hutchins helps people to transform the mundane into the magickal in their daily lives. As a former Pagan Pages columnist and a current YouTube content creator, her “clear headed and knowledgeable explanations of all things mystical and marvelous... Read More →

Friday February 21, 2025 9:30am - 11:00am EST
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Ritual Lecture/Discussion

Age Level All Welcome – Acceptable for all age levels to be present in the class.
Experience Focus Beginner – Requires little to no previous knowledge or training on the topic; introductory courses.

11:30am EST

Breaking Your Bonds Community Ritual

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

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Many of us now stand at a crossroads. We know that what is happening in our life is not working anymore, but we don't know how to move forward. Maybe the task of creating change seems unimaginable, or maybe we can't see any alternatives. This ritual is designed to magically and psychologically break bonds that are binding us to unhealthy and unfulfilling situations. Warning: this ritual has been known to produce massive change in the lives of those who participate in it. Change is often painful and scary, but instructions will be given in class for ways to word and shape intentions to create the reality you know is waiting for you.

Speakers

Catherine Carr

Catherine Carr earned her Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience from the University of Michigan in 2011. She spent five years working in clinical research before leaving to pursue the path of a writer and priestess. She is now the author of "World Soul: Healing Ourselves and the Earth... Read More →

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

Age Level Mature – Geared towards both adults and some of our more mature/older teens.
Experience Focus All – This class is intended to speak to a broad audience, regardless of skill/experience.

2:00pm EST

Awakening The Witchblood: How do I Hollow my Tool?

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

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To Hallow/Hollowing is the act of making something sacred. How and why did the ideas surrounding magickal consecration come about? How do you hollow a tool? What does it mean to enchant, charm, and create something magical? Join author and Witch-Priest Nathan King for a deep dive exploring the hands-on ways of hollowing tools, self, and space!

Speakers

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 →

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

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

The Rite of Cosmic Dragons

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

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In traditional occultism we are taught to work with the divine elements of Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit but those aren’t the only elemental energies available to us as magickians. The Rite of Cosmic Guardians invite you to commune with the Dragons (Guardians) of Space, Time, Matter, Energy, and Quintessence at their altars and to let your path be cleansed and empowered in their name. Suitable for practioners of all skill-levels, this ritual will include music, chanting, and optional ecstatic dance.

Speakers

Devin Hunter

Devin Hunter is the multi-award winning and bestselling author of The Witch's Book of Power, The Witch's Book of Spirits, The Witch's Book of Mysteries, the critically acclaimed Modern Witch, Crystal Magic for the Modern Witch, and the forthcoming Houseplant HortOCCULTure. Initiated... Read More →

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

7:00pm EST

CommUnity Ritual

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

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This CommUnity ritual was performed for the first time at ConVocation 2024. It was created by Pat Camarena Rose Barbary and Sage Hart along with others with the hope that it would be performed each year. In alignment with the mission of ConVocation, we hope to weave a feeling and belonging even within our diversity. We create a togetherness by celebrating all our differences in ritual space. The holly branch that holds the tokens of our joint efforts the first year will be returned and expanded upon this year. There will be drumming and some movement and song. In our ritual space, each quarter and all other offices are led by various groups or leaders of different paths to represent our unity as a diverse but coherent community of magickal and spiritual practitioners. This year, Mara Evenstar is joining Pat and Sage in leadership.

Speakers

Pat Camarena-Rose Barbary

Pat is co-owner of Artes and Craft in Hartford, MI. She is HPS of MoonFire Coven begun in 1986 in Cambridge, MA and later resurrected in Coloma, MI. As a Mexican American, she has explored many alternative sects of Witchcraft and Paganism. As an Alexandrian and OTO member, she... 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 →

Sage Blackhart

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

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.

9:00pm EST

Invoking the Archangel of the Earth

Friday February 21, 2025 9:00pm - 10:30pm EST

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The Initiation of Malkuth, a key step on the path of many magickal traditions, is some form of Knowledge and Conversation of your Holy Guardian Angel, either an outside force or an inner higher soul, this being guides the magician upon the path of illumination. Just as we have an angel, so does the Earth herself, taking many forms in magick and mythos. Seen as Michael, Gabriel, Sandalphon, Uriel, Lumiel, Melek Taus, and more, an angel above or an angel below, and angel within or an angel all around, we seek the Archangel of the collective humanity and the Archangel of the planet in which we are one of many parts. Through this invocation, in an act of sympathetic magick upon ourselves to the world, we cleanse the collective miasmas, we heal the many wounds, invoke our own Bornless selves, and we manifest collective guidance for humanity, becoming the angel for ourselves, each other, and all the worlds.

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 9:00pm - 10:30pm EST
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Ritual

11:00pm EST

The Mysteries of the Horned One

Friday February 21, 2025 11:00pm - Saturday February 22, 2025 12:30am EST

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The Horned One is the keeper of the wild spaces, the soul of nature, and a source of connection to the natural world. He is also joy; urging us to drink deeply from the cup of life, and to live a life free of guilt and shame simply for being our carnal selves. As the Dread Lord of Shadows the Horned God is a part of this world and the next, offering us a way to connect with our beloved dead and promising that all who die shall be born again. Experience his mysteries and feel the full power of the Horned One.

Speakers

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 →

Friday February 21, 2025 11:00pm - Saturday February 22, 2025 12:30am EST
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Ritual

9:30am EST

Spiritual Hygiene: Chakra Alignment and Cord Cutting

Saturday February 22, 2025 9:30am - 11:00am EST

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Regular chakra alignments keep the energy flowing freely in your body, while cord cuttings remove excess weight, energy vampires and aura blockages. In this meditation we will activate and connect to each chakra, create an energy circuit with the universe to recharge your lifeforce, remove any energetic cords connected to your aura utilizing the violet
flame of transmutation and finally coat your vessel with the pure golden light of the sun to give you some spiritual armor before you head back out into the world.

Speakers

Zephyrine

High Priestess, Temple of the Triple Goddess

Zephyrine (also known as Karen Quinn) has been practicing spiritual witchcraft since 1995. She is the founder and high priestess of The Temple of the Triple Goddess in Southeast Michigan and specializes in spiritual coaching, divination, energy work, spell crafting and yoga. In her... Read More →

Saturday February 22, 2025 9:30am - 11:00am EST
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Ritual

Age Level Mature – Geared towards both adults and some of our more mature/older teens.
Experience Focus Beginner – Requires little to no previous knowledge or training on the topic; introductory courses.

11:30am EST

The Dance of Cosmic Harmony

Saturday February 22, 2025 11:30am - 1:00pm EST

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As we ritually move through an ancient pattern from the stars, called the Domeia Mandala, also known as the Map of the Star Maiden, we will open the Gate into another dimension and feel the rush of primordial energy as it infuses all the life around us, including our core beings. You will learn some of its history and legends down through the ages and how you can use this mandala in your personal life. Easy movements for all ability levels.

Speakers

Bonadea Lyonesse

Bonadea Lyonesse (Patricia DeSandro) has served the larger Pagan community as a wisewoman, elder high priestess of Wicca, and a teacher/presenter for more than 35 years. She founded the Circle of the Sacred Grove Temple of the Old Religion, an active teaching coven, in 1999. Bonadea... Read More →

Saturday February 22, 2025 11:30am - 1:00pm EST
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Ritual Movement/Music

Age Level Mature – Geared towards both adults and some of our more mature/older teens.
Experience Focus All – This class is intended to speak to a broad audience, regardless of skill/experience.

2:00pm EST

Despacho: Dispatching Prayers Q'ero-style

Saturday February 22, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm EST

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To the Q’ero people of the high Andes, a despacho is an offering to Mother Earth filled with symbolism and prayer, a gesture of reciprocity and affection. Each mandala-style despacho is different and carries the gratitude and praise of the moment. Come send prayers and love to Pachamama / Mother Earth in our community ritual, learning a little Andean cosmology along the way. Everyone will have a chance to contribute at least one blessing or intention.

Speakers

Mikki Baloy

Mikki Baloy is a shamanic practitioner and ritualist. She is the author of "Conversations with Mother Mary: Loving Wisdom from Her Life to Yours," having cultivated a relationship with Mary outside of the usual context of the church through animist and shamanic practice. Since 2009... Read More →

Saturday February 22, 2025 2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
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Ritual

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

Shared Light: A Ritual for Community Healing and Protection

Saturday February 22, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST

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Join us for Shared Light, a powerful contact-directed ritual designed to bring our community together in healing, harmony, and protection. This sacred ceremony focuses on collective restoration, safeguarding, and the sharing of positive energy. Participants will engage in guided meditations, energy work, and communal blessings to foster unity, well-being, and resilience. This ritual aims to promote healing and protection for individuals, our local community, smaller groups, and the larger pagan and magickal communities. Whether you seek personal healing and security or wish to contribute to the collective good, this ritual offers an empowering experience of connection and fortification. Come together as we share our light, strengthen our bonds, and cultivate a shield of mutual support within and beyond our community.

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 →

Saturday February 22, 2025 4:00pm - 5:30pm EST
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Ritual

8:00pm EST

Children's Masquerade Ball!

Saturday February 22, 2025 8:00pm - 9:00pm EST

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Saturday February 22, 2025 8:00pm - 9:00pm EST
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Children (Age 5-12)

9:00pm EST

The 2025 ConVocation Masquerade Ball!!

Saturday February 22, 2025 9:00pm - Sunday February 23, 2025 12:00am EST

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As we celebrate our 30th year of ConVocation, let's all prepare for a beautiful ball!
As the theme of the Con is Malkuth, the Sephira that emanates from us toward the divine, let's channel the inspirations that brought us to our magical work!
The ConVocation Ball theme is Characters that inspire your magical journey.

Saturday February 22, 2025 9:00pm - Sunday February 23, 2025 12:00am EST
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Movement/Music

11:00am EST

Embodying Imperfection: Nurturing Haunted Ruins

Sunday February 23, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST

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Does your Bodily Temple feel more like crumbling, desolate, haunted ruins? All temples deserve to be nurtured with loving kindness. Allow this accessible movement practice to serve in dusting off the cobwebs and infusing your space with light. We will remain seated in our chairs or mobility devices as we move through guided meditation, gentle movement, and close with a sound bath to rejuvenate Body, Mind, and Spirit.

Speakers

Andrea Anzalone

Astral Dragon

Andrea Anzalone earned her Associate of Arts in Liberal Arts with a certificate in Health Care Foundations from Washtenaw Community College in 2009 at the tender age of 17. Unsatisfied with the chasm in allopathic medicine between pharmaceutical or surgical intervention and the maintenance... Read More →

Sunday February 23, 2025 11:00am - 12:30pm EST
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Movement/Music Teens (Age 13-18)

Age Level Mature – Geared towards both adults and some of our more mature/older teens.
Experience Focus All – This class is intended to speak to a broad audience, regardless of skill/experience.

1:00pm EST

Spiritual Cleansing: Personalizing Your Practice

Sunday February 23, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm EST

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Do you feel the potential energy in spiritual cleansing & purification? Perhaps you’ve dabbled in purification practices and want to go deeper. Perhaps you’ve never engaged in cleansing because you don’t know how or have avoided it because you don’t want to stray into cultural appropriation. Maybe you have a dedicated practice already and would like to cultivate a more specific practice personalized to evolving needs. All are welcome to this exploration of cleansing. We’ll discuss how to cleanse in a way that is authentic to you, how purification helps us reclaim our sovereignty, why folx of different genders may experience different needs, and how to approach purification without cultural appropriation. We'll co-create a cleansing ritual to help us embody and integrate through experience.

Speakers

Kallie England

Soul Tender, Tree Song Soul Tending

Kallie England, LMSW, is an Adventure Therapist, Transformational Facilitator, Yoga Teacher, University Instructor, Psychedelic Expert, Occasionally Successful Gardener, Temple Tender, & Devoted Seeker of the Divine who has been hosting transformational events since 2015. She is passionate... Read More →

Sunday February 23, 2025 1:00pm - 2:30pm EST
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Ritual Lecture/Discussion