Christopher Penczak
Christopher Penczak is a modern Witch working in the Temple of Witchcraft tradition and community he helped co-found as a writer, teacher, and minister. 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 of astrology, traditional occultism, and the use of trance in the Craft. He is the author of many books, including the award winning Temple of Witchcraft series, The Plant Spirit Familiar, and The Mighty Dead, as well as co-owner of Copper Cauldron Publishing. As a community leader, Christopher has taught Witchcraft and meditation courses since 1997, and was first ordained in 2000 as an independent minister. He was later initiated as High Priest in the Cabot Tradition of Witchcraft in 2008. Christopher keeps an office in New Hampshire and sees clients in-person and online for readings, healing, and personal consultations. His vision is of an evolving Witchcraft culture making magick accessible to all, yet preserving the heart of the mystery. The Temple of Witchcraft offers in-person and online mystery school and seminary training based upon his teachings.
More information may be found here: https://christopherpenczak.com
Yeshe Matthews
Yeshe Meryemana Matthews is Mandala Priestess of the Mt Shasta Goddess Temple, Pilgrimage Steward at Caravan Sophia, and owner of The Sacred Well metaphysical shop in Dunsmuir, CA. Yeshe has dedicated her life to female mysteries and sacred healing practices, with ongoing study and practice in Tibetan Buddhism, Central Asian Shamanism, Ifa, Mayan Cosmology, herbal healing, and Dianic Goddess Spirituality. With a Master’s degree in Women’s History from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, she has studied women’s mysticism, shamanism, and matriarchal communities for over twenty years. She maintains a public shrine to Kuan Yin that thousands of people visit each year. She is a professional diviner with over 20 years of experience and has performed more than 20,000 readings for clients worldwide. She also takes people on small group pilgrimages to holy sites of the ancient world to experience the landscapes of the divine. She offers classes & Priestess Trainings for intermediate to advanced practitioners of Goddess Spirituality who are intent on embodied, historically, and culturally sensitive devotion.
You can find more about Yeshe at www.priestessyeshe.com.
Jean-Daniel Lafontant
Born with the gift of clairvoyance, Jean-Daniel Lafontant was initiated in 1997 as a Sèvitè (servant) of the lwa (spirits). Soon after, he co-founded the sacred Temple Na-Ri-VéH 777 in downtown Port-au-Prince. For 25 years, he was a professional marketing executive. After Haiti’s devastating earthquake in 2010, he joined the humanitarian NGO Catholic Relief Services, a welcome shift from a long career in the financial sector. For years he has promoted Haitian art influenced by Vodou, and has worked as a consultant for various museums, universities, art institutions, and media productions. Among the most successful of these are the award-winning documentary In the Eye of the Spiral; CNN Believer with Reza Aslan; and the documentary Hidden Caribbean with Joanna Lumley for ITV UK. Lafontant has produced and helped shape dozens of documentary films, art exhibits, articles, research projects, conferences, podcasts, and other productions and events related to the culture and religion of Haiti. He now dedicates all his energy to healing, Vodou, and the promotion of Haitian art and culture.
Kara Williams
Kara is the current Dean of Woolston-Steen Theological Seminary (WSTS) and one of their faculty members. She is a 3rd Degree ordained minister of the Aquarian Tabernacle Church in the WISE Tradition under Lady Belladonna Laveau. She holds a master’s degree in education (M.Ed.) and a Bachelor of Art in sociology and a Bachelor of Ministry in Wiccan ministry. Kara spent many years in the Society of Creative Anachronism and was a professional belly dance instructor and performer. She is currently the Spring Mysteries Festival Choreography Director and teaches Dancing the Divine at WSTS. She has a background in Theatre and she has held the roles of Thalia at Spring Mysteries Festival 2021 and Ceridwen at Hecate’s Sickle in 2016. In 2013 she began the study of Sacred Sexuality, and later co-wrote and co-taught the Introduction to Sacred Sexuality class at WSTS with Lord Talyn. Kara and Talyn conducted workshops on Sacred Sexuality at Three Gates Festival in Arkansas and Phoenix Festivals in Florida as well as locally in the Atlanta Area.
Kirk White
Kirk White, M.A., L.Ac., is a healer, teacher and author. Kirk has been a practicing Witch and Magician since 1973, a psychotherapist for over 25 years, and a licensed East Asian medical practitioner since 1994. A past co-president of Covenant of the Goddess (North America’s oldest and largest association of Witches and Wiccans), and past director of the University of Vermont’s Parapsychology Program, he also founded Cherry Hill Seminary, a professional Pagan ministry program with faculty and students worldwide, and Standing Stone Academy, a Pagan healer training program. Kirk brings magick and healing together as a licensed acupuncturist/ Chinese herbalist, registered psychotherapist, legal Pagan minister, Freemason, and adept in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. He is the author of Adept Circle Magick: a Guide for the Advanced Wiccan Practitioner (Kensington Press 2006) and Masterful Magick: A Guide for Advanced Wiccan Practice (Five Gates Publishing, 2016) among many others.
Learn more at: Kirk White
Amber Rae
Amber Rae Malott was born and raised in Florida and is the creator of an oracle deck getting lots of attention. Growing up with wetlands for a backyard shaped her love of nature, ecosystems and animals. Amber lets her passion for conservation shine in her second children’s book solely written and illustrated by her, “The Search for the Right Whale”, featuring the endangered North Atlantic Right Whale. In 2024, Amber designed and published the Floridian Mythos Oracle Deck which includes 40 oracle cards and a 100 page guidebook. Every card is hand-drawn and painted down to the letters. Every border is unique and inspired by Florida wildlife. Amber combines digital editing technology and bright overlays to bring a modern look to her traditionally done watercolor on cotton paper paintings. Amber’s love of the watercolor medium comes through in her work, showcasing the granulating textures and organic, unpredictable nature of the paint.
Check out her art and cards at Amber Rae Watercolor
Presenters
Aerik Arkadian is a witch, high priest, host of “Music, Myth, and Magick” and author of the book, Fluid Condensers: Unlocking the Mysteries of Gold, Alchemy, and Magick. You can find him online at www.AerikArkadian.com.
Angela Raincatcher is a spirit-led visual artist living and working in the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area. Consciously pagan since the late 1980s and a priestess and community organizer since the early 2000s, Angela is currently is the dean of students for Reflections Mystery School, head of the Artists’ Guild in the Order of Elemental Mysteries, the creator of the North American Animal Wisdom Oracle and The Well of Mimir oracle deck, and the host of the Polytheism Today podcast.
Ayanna Nyktos has walked her path as a Priestess for over 27 years. She is a 3* Initiate in the Alexandrian tradition and 1* Gardnerian Initiate. Ayanna is also a Priestess within the Mt. Shasta Goddess Temple – as a devotee of Isis and Aphrodite. A dancer for most of her life, movement is her medicine and she holds certifications in Kundalini Dance, Sacred Circle Facilitation, Reiki, Pilates, Personal Training and Group Fitness. Most recently, she founded The Temple of the Green & Golden Thread. You may connect with her at www.soulfireignited.com or @soulfireignited on most social media platforms.
Debra Burris holds a PhD in astrophysics, specializing in stellar nucleosynthesis and spectroscopy and is an Elder in the Georgian Tradition of Wicca.
Joseph is a consulting astrologer with two decades of experience with Stars By Joseph. He is 2º in the Georgian tradition, and holds ministerial credentials with Covenant of the Goddess (COG). Joseph is a certified Level 1 Professional Astrologer with PAA, certified Spiritual Life coach, and is completing his certification in Hellenistic Astrology with Chris Brennan.
Rev. Fr. Moonraven Iuvantas-Alexiares (ΔΝΜΙΑ) is Hierophant-Archmagos of Hellenic Alexandrian Witchcraft, practicing both Indo-Greek and Pan-African philosophies and magic. Moonraven is studying for both a BAS is Digital Media/Multimedia Technology and a Doctorate in Ministry, and currently practices as a spiritual and financial counselor.
Rowan’s love for the goddess Hekate took root in his teenage years and has since blossomed into a mystical theology centered on her worship. Informed by historical sources and contemporary polytheist and animist practice, his work emphasizes devotion as a living, reciprocal relationship expressed through both the sacred and mundane.
Priestess Shaylee Ayele has been a devoted Priestess of Hekate for more than 15 years, she is also a 3rd-degree Georgian High Priestess and a Priestess for the Mount Shasta Goddess Temple. Shaylee is a guidance reader who works with multiple modalities, including tarot and bones, and has written and led rituals, meditations, and workshops at festivals and metaphysical stores. Shaylee can be found on Instagram or Facebook @wytchyreader or at wytchyreader.com.
Stephanie and Scott Brown. Stephanie Brown is an artist, educated as an anthropologist, who has been a student of several branches of magick and metaphysical disciplines for over fifteen years, including eclectic paganism, witchcraft, and neo-shamanism, and is a founder of the tradition of Modern Totemism. She crafts fine art and original metaphysical tools that combine natural elements and primitive themes to honor the earth in both aesthetics and in function. Scott Brown is a wildlife and portrait photographer and owner of Dream Wolf Photography. He has been a student of several branches of magick and metaphysical disciplines for well over twenty years, including most types of eclectic paganism, and he is a founder of the tradition of Modern Totemism. His formal education is as an electrical and computer engineer. Together they are co-authors of the 2019 book The Modern Totemist.
Rev. Stephen Guenther is the High Priest of The Fellowship of Avalon – ATC, in Memphis, TN. The Fellowship of Avalon has a practice of supporting various food banks in their area as well as a Pagan prison ministry.
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