Workshop Offerings

• 75 to 90 minutes
• Requires projector and screen
• Need tables for participants to write on, high table at the front for my laptop with speaker notes

The dominant overculture celebrates a few notable rites of passage, most of them related to milestones of age, academics, relationships, and careers. These rites of passage are largely celebratory in nature, but ritualizing rites of passage in the context of our magickal practice can serve even deeper functions. They can move us forward, with courage and confidence, into something new; help us leave behind that which no longer serves our greatest good; affirm our identities; and deepen our spiritual connections with ourselves and the most important people in our lives. In this interactive workshop, we will explore different types of rites of passage, the building blocks of a rite of passage ritual, ways to make your ritual unique and deeply meaningful within your own personal magickal context, and tips and tricks for collaborating with groups. Through guided meditation followed by journaling prompts, each participant will leave the workshop with an initial draft of a rite of passage ritual. Please bring paper and a writing utensil (or a laptop or tablet) to create your draft ritual.

• 75 to 90 minutes
• Requires whiteboard or easel with notepad and markers
• Need tables for participants to write on

Sigils have the power to focus our magickal intent to create change commensurate with our Will. Combined with ritual, they are potent tools in our magickal toolboxes. In this workshop, we will learn a few different methods of creating sigils for magickal purposes. We will then develop techniques for empowering temporary body art sigils to target specific types of magickal work through ritual. The last half of the workshop will feature a group ritual with a guided pathworking for individuals to find the components needed for an empowering sigil, and then draw and energize those sigils on ourselves with temporary tattoo pens while in sacred space. Please bring paper and a writing utensil for testing out different sigil designs.

• 90 to 120 minutes
• Requires whiteboard or easel with notepad and markers
• Round tables or chairs arranged in rounds

For LGBTQIAP2S+ people, certain “traditional” aspects of various magickal practices may feel somewhat alienating. When spiritual groups and texts lean on myth cycles and ritual aspects focused on fertility and virility and use heteronormative symbolism, it becomes difficult for us to see ourselves in the magick. In this highly interactive and discussion-based workshop, explore how myth cycles, ritual structures, and traditional magickal practices can be adapted and viewed through a queer lens to be more all-inclusive and empower everyone, particularly people who are too often marginalized in our society.

• 75 to 90 minutes
• Requires projector and screen
• Theater/ lecture style, with a high table at the front for my laptop with speaker notes

The Hermetic Qabala is often perceived as an old-fashioned, patriarchal magickal tool full of absolutes and gender binaries. However, a deeper look within reveals all kinds of complicated, multi-faceted, and fluid gender and magickal polarities. This class will provide a brief introduction to Hermetic Qabala, including a pathworking where participants can experience the energy of each sphere on the tree, followed by an analysis on the use of gender and polarity in magick. We will then look at the use of gender and polarities on the Tree of Life and consider how this can relate to our magickal perspectives and practices. The class will conclude by offering a sample model for applying a queer lens to the Tree of Life, offering participants the tools necessary to develop their own.

• 75 to 90 minutes
• Requires projector and screen
• Theater/ lecture style, with a high table at the front for my laptop with speaker notes

Qabala has historically been taught from a very cisgender, heteronormative, patriarchal perspective, but it’s actually a profoundly queer magickal tool. This workshop will look at each of the ten Sephiroth through a queer lens and relate them to life experiences many queer people share in common. At the end of the workshop, we will do a group meditation and journaling exercise to reconnect with our deeper selves and claim our unique power and perspective through the Tree of Life. Note: This workshop builds on content from the Genderqueer Tree of Life workshop.

• 75 to 90 minutes
• Requires microphones for panelists, depending on room size
• Theater/ lecture style, with long table at the front with enough chairs for panelists

Pagan, polytheist, and magickal communities naturally draw many seekers from the fringes of society, including people who are nonbinary, genderqueer, agender, and transgender. How can communities co-create spaces that are not just welcoming, but affirming, of non-cisgender people? Panelists will discuss ways in which their gender identity interacts with their magickal work, and practical suggestions for magickal communities to think “beyond the binary” in symbols, ritual, and structure.