PantheaCon 2017: Full Schedule

Join our huge and varied Pagan, Heathen, Wiccan, Reconstructionist, Indigenous, spiritual and magical groups in education and celebration February 2016 in San Jose, CA. More information can be found about the conference at www.pantheacon.com

The schedule is complete as of October 23, 2016 - changes/cancellations will be entered as often as possible. If you sync a personal schedule with your phone it will auto update the next time you open the application.

Presenters: If you have a major change to your bio that you want reflected here please email programming@pantheacon.com after you have entered it in the database. Changes do not automatically from from there to here. Your changes, of course, will be reflected in the program book.

1:30pm PST

Creating Your Own Divination Tools

This is a hands on workshop exploring ways of creating divination tools from everyday items (poker chips, puzzle pieces, stones, coins, shells, etc.). Participants will receive worksheets to record their personal symbols, write out definitions and describe how they can be interpreted contextually in a reading. Using the worksheet as a guide, we will then draw, glue or inscribe the symbols onto the tools. If time allows we will pair up and practice using the tools in simple readings. Art materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own items to work with. Limited to 20 participants.

Speakers

Holly DeFount

I am an artist, author and solitary practitioner of the Craft since 1990. I am the creatrix of The Incidental Tarot and A Curious Oracle. Magic, folklore, mythology and history are intimately incorporated into my Art and my Craft.

Friday February 17, 2017 1:30pm - 3:00pm PST
Boardroom

Divination, Workshop

Tags Hands-on, Crafting

9:00am PST

Intro To Numerology

Numbers are far more than representations of value, dates and times. Numbers are also vibrations, archetypes and wisdom passed down through symbolic language. This workshop offers a guided visualization exercise to help you build an understanding and relationship with each number of the numerology cycle. We will also explore the numbers which have been attached to you since birth (your birthday) and what they can tell you about your personality & life's pursuits.

Speakers

Damona Kat

Damona Kat will now attempt to talk about herself in third person: Damona Kat (aka Mama Peacock) is a Priestess, Wife, Mother, and Teacher at Heart. She is passionate about learning and teaching symbolic language which includes a focus on Tarot, Numerology, Ceremony and Ritual. Damona... Read More →

Saturday February 18, 2017 9:00am - 10:30am PST
San Juan

Divination, Workshop

Tags Divination, How-To, Introductory

11:00am PST

Tarot Reading Circle

Working together intuitively increases everyone's skills as you will discover in this Tarot reading circle. You will give and receive impressions from Tarot images for the benefit of all - whether you've ever read a Tarot card before or not. No matter your expertise, you will learn new skills and deepen your divinatory and intuitive awareness. Plus, each person will receive several messages from the heart regarding a personal question. Suitable for everyone. Doors will close about 10 minutes into the workshop.

Speakers

Mary Greer

Mary K. Greer specializes in using Tarot and Lenormand cards for guidance, personal insight and transformation. With 50 years experience in Tarot, she is the author of eleven books including Tarot for Your Self, Who Are You in the Tarot, and the biography, Women of the Golden Dawn... Read More →

Saturday February 18, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm PST
Cedar

Divination, Workshop

Tags Divination, How-To, Magic-Psychic, Techniques

1:30pm PST

Tarotpalooza!

How does a deck of cards do such a good job illuminating so many situations? Why dies the juggernaut of Tarot creation show no signs of slowing down? Join Thalassa on a romp down the Royal Road exploring how - and more importantly - why the Tarot works so well under almost every conceivable situation. All levels of interest and enthusiasm are welcome.

Speakers

Thalassa

Thalassa has been working with the Tarot, divination and the arts magickal for over 45 years. She is the producer of the San Francisco Bay Area Tarot Symposium (SF BATS), founder of Daughters of Divination, and publisher of The Flying Squirrel. She speaks widely on Tarot and Divination... Read More →

Saturday February 18, 2017 1:30pm - 3:00pm PST
San Jose/ Santa Clara

Divination, Workshop

Tags Divination, Introductory

9:00pm PST

Divining Women: Talking to Your Female Ancestors with the Tarot

In this class, we combine elements of Ancestor reverence and Tarot divination to reveal the female side of our families to discover what wisdom our Wise Mothers have to give us using a few card spreads and guided meditations. We will go a few generations back and maybe farther, not co-opting anybody else’s Ancestors but working with our own people, whether we know them or not, awakening their presence in our lives and learn to make the most of the blessings and work on undoing the curses in our own female lineages. Bring a Tarot deck if you’ve got one.

Speakers

Karen Krebser

Karen Krebser is a cartomancer, diviner, oracle, and seer. She has been reading cards professionally for ten years, and studying various divinatory systems for longer than that. Her blog, The Muse's Darling (www.musesdarling.com), explores all kinds of divination for enlightenment... Read More →

Saturday February 18, 2017 9:00pm - 10:30pm PST
San Martin/ San Simeon

Divination, Workshop

Tags Divination

7:00pm PST

Meeting the Green Pulse Oracle

The Green Pulse Oracle has roots in the 1,700 year-old Irish Ogham language and the Feraferian version of the Tree Alphabet Calendar. Ogham, although briefly used as a language for public inscriptions, was primarily a secret language of Druids, poets and scholars, for use in divination and magic. Each Ogham letter holds vast amounts of ancient lore, since as an oral society Druids had to memorize all their cultural wisdom. Aligned with the Sacred Year, they give insight into Gaia's dance of the seasons. Learn to use these potent leaf-shaped symbols to divine your own present and future.

Speakers

Jo Carson and Feraferia

Feraferia is a love culture for wilderness. As a faerie faith, Feraferia connects you to living spirits of your particular surround. We draw from ancient Crete, the Eleusinian Mysteries, troubadour practices, and megalithic traditions. We celebrate the Goddess especially as Artemis-Persephone... Read More →

Sunday February 19, 2017 7:00pm - 8:30pm PST
Boardroom

Divination, Workshop

Tags Divination

9:00pm PST

The Futhark and Beyond!

If you are familiar with the Norse Runes, you know the 24 Runes of the Elder Futhark. Beyond that, there are the Younger Futhorc, The Anglo-Saxon Runes, and the Northumbrian Runes. Also, there are some random medieval Runes designated for magical purposes! Suddenly, we have 41 magical symbols to work with—which also conveniently spell words that can be used to create further magic! We'll mention a few other systems, such as the Gothic Runes. Come venture with me through the Aetts and meet the Runes old and new—or would that be old and older?

Speakers

Anastasia Haysler

Anastasia Haysler is a San Francisco writer and Northern Traditions pagan who runs Tarot Media Company and Black Swan Press. Her most recent book is Painting the Soul: The Tarot Art of David Palladini, an in-depth exploration of Palladini's art and symbolism of his two classic Tarot... Read More →

Sunday February 19, 2017 9:00pm - 10:30pm PST
Boardroom

Divination, Workshop

Tags Divination, Magic-Psychic, Techniques