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9:00am EDT

The Joy Map: Turning Tarot into a Guide for Rebuilding

Friday July 17, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am EDT

Grief is an initiatory experience that alters our energy, intuition, and relationship with joy. The Joy Map is a workshop that offers a gentle, embodied approach to reclaiming joy after loss or significant life transitions.Rooted in elemental wisdom, this class uses the tarot suits of Fire, Water, Air, and Earth as pathways through which joy naturally returns. Participants are guided through a four-card Joy Map spread to uncover hidden joy, identify energetic or emotional blocks, and receive intuitive guidance for the next supportive step forward.The session includes a short ritual, breathwork, and a simple somatic grounding practice to support nervous system regulation and deepen intuitive listening. Tarot is approached as a tool for rebuilding the self with compassion and intention.Open to all experience levels. This class honors grief as sacred while gently guiding participants back toward enchantment, meaning, and embodied joy.

Speakers

Jen Sankey

Witch.Author.Tarot, Stardust Wanderer Tarot

Jen Sankey is a tarot reader, author, professional witch, and dedicated teacher in the mystical arts. Jen has been featured in many publications as well as speaking at events. She is also the director of the World Spiritual Association.Some of her works include the self-published... Read More →

Friday July 17, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
Ravinia E

Workshop

Take aways: I would love attendees to learn how to honor grief as sacred while gently guiding themselves back toward magic, meaning, and embodied joy.

10:30am EDT

The Call of Cernunnos

Friday July 17, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am EDT

Ravinia E

We know relatively little about Cernunnos from ancient times. But this has done nothing to keep Cernunnos from becoming one of the most popular deities in modern Paganism. In this workshop we will cover what we know about Cernunnos, how modern Pagans understand him and relate to him, and what we can say about his work in our world today - a world that for all our technology, still needs a connection to Nature.

Speakers

John Beckett

Llewellyn

John Beckett is an OBOD Druid and a member of ADF, a member of Denton CUUPS, and a former Vice President of CUUPS Continental. He’s been writing, speaking, teaching, and leading public rituals since 2003. His books The Path of Paganism (2017) and Paganism In Depth (2019) are pu... Read More →

Friday July 17, 2026 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
Ravinia E

Workshop

Take aways: A deeper understanding of Cernunnos and how modern Pagans understand him

12:30pm EDT

Vampiric Energy Work: Feeding Exchange and Ethics

Friday July 17, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT

Ravinia E

Go beyond myth and media portrayals to understand vampirism as an energetic practice. This class covers ethical energy exchange, different feeding methods, and how vampiric dynamics function in real spiritual ecosystems, whether consciously practiced or unconsciously experienced. Participants will learn core concepts regarding vampirism and how to defend against vampiric attacks.

Speakers

Sean Wilde

Friday July 17, 2026 12:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
Ravinia E

Workshop

Take aways: Defend against vampiric attack.Understand core concepts of vampirism.Understand different ways to exchange energy and to be vampiric.Understand the ethical implications of energy exchanges and feeding.

2:30pm EDT

Introduction to Modern Druidry

Friday July 17, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT

Ravinia E

The modern druid revival movement expresses itself in many different forms and formats, from religious, spiritual, philosophical, deeply tied to nature, and even rooted in cultures. This workshop will examine the roots of modern druidry as well as discuss the various groups of druidry that someone can join in America as well as how to find a druidic organization that is right for you and what you want out of druidry.Druids were known in the ancient world as originating in Wales from Iolo Morganwg working to create a spiritual identity for Wales to British gentlemen's clubs to the various groups around the world. Whether it be Ár nDraíocht Féin (ADF), the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids (OBOD), the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA), Anglesey Druid Order (Urdu Derwyddon Mon), Reformed Druids of North America (RNDA), and others.

Speakers

J. Michael Rollins

Group affiliations: Druid with Ár nDraíocht Féin (ADF) and an Ovate with the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids (OBOD)

Friday July 17, 2026 2:30pm - 3:30pm EDT
Ravinia E

Workshop

Take aways: A better understanding of druidry, the modern druid revival, and the various druidry groups someone can be a member of.

4:00pm EDT

Battlefield Magick: Operational Enablement at the Tactical Edge

Friday July 17, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

Ravinia E

What does magical practice look like when it is stripped of ceremony, ideal conditions, and extended preparation—and forced to function under pressure, uncertainty, and risk? This workshop examines magic as an applied, embodied practice operating at the tactical edge, one that is embedded in daily life, trained, and judged by outcomes rather than theory. Drawing on over thirty years of military service across multiple continents and operational environments, WR Neumann explores how an animistic and folk-magical framework translates into real-world capability when time, resources, and margin for error are limited. Topics include divination under uncertainty, perceptual and psychological influence, probability shaping, healing and stabilization, camouflage and concealment, shielding and warding, and methods of maintaining magical readiness with minimal preparation. Historical and contemporary vignettes are used as case studies, not as mythic narrative, but as practical examinations of what holds up under stress and what fails. Rather than presenting magic as exceptional or separate, this session frames it as an integrated skill set and one that prioritizes perception, adaptability, and survivability, and that evolves through use rather than abstraction. The emphasis throughout is on responsibility, realism, and the ethics of power when practice moves from sacred space into contested terrain.

Speakers

WR Neumann

WR Neumann has been an animistic folk magic practitioner for nearly a half-century since being apprenticed by his mother into family practices and traditions preserved for over eight generations. His military career spans thirty years, from US Army special operations to the US... Read More →