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.

11:00am PST

Opening Ritual

Join our blessing of our space and gathering. We will call to the quartes, to the ancestors and spirits of this place, to bring blessings and joy to our gatheing.

Speakers

Glenn Turner

Glenn Turner has become active in Sunflower Alliance and their local Bay Area actions to prevent massive influx of crude oil by rail. She has turned her skills to help organize a Bay Area Peoples Climate Rally on September 21 and a conference by 350 Bay Area. Her vision of the future... Read More →

Friday February 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm PST
Oak

General-pagan, Ritual

Tags All-ages

7:00pm PST

Choose Your Own Adventure Ritual for Pagan Youth

Choose Your Own Adventure Ritual for Pagan Youth, family, and the young-at-heart! Join the Fairy God-Mama Peacock and her flock of Fairy Godmothers from the Sacramento pagan community for this fun-filled interactive ritual-creation exercise! We will be asking for volunteers to help us choose how to build our ritual each step of the way. Be prepared to access your powers of imagination and creativity! You will find this exercise liberating, educational and empowering! No Admittance once the ritual begins.

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 →

Friday February 17, 2017 7:00pm - 8:30pm PST
Santa Clara

General-Pagan, Ritual

Tags Family-Kids, focused, How-To, Introductory

11:00pm PST

Familiar's Death: Fur, Feather and Scale

Americans love their pets but many Pagans have a deeper connection with certain animals that we often call “familiars”. The death of any fur/feather/scale friend is difficult, but losing a familiar is doubly difficult. This ritual is an opportunity to say goodbye to that special animal and reaffirm the connection between you. Although this ritual is focused on animals who crossed over in the last year, any animal (familiar or not) can be honored. Optionally, bring a photo or object you associate with your animal. Doors close at start time.

Speakers

Carl F. Neal

Carl Neal has been fascinated with incense since childhood. For decades he has researched and experimented to better understand incense. Beyond that, Carl is also a Guardian in our Community (at a time when Guardians are sorely needed) and has helped many others find their feet on... Read More →

Friday February 17, 2017 11:00pm - Saturday February 18, 2017 12:30am PST
San Jose

General-Pagan, Ritual

Tags Introductory, Lecture-Panel, Scholarly

11:00pm PST

Misa para La Santisima Muerte

Join Quetzal Kahlo and Tomás Prower (author of two recent books on this Dark Lady), with help from members of CAYA Coven, as they offer a ritual misa (mass) for La Santisima Muerte - the Mexican Goddess of Death - whose cult worship is quickly growing. Come learn about Her history and hear the messages She has to share with us. We will create sacred space, call upon La Santisima to come visit us and give us personal blessings, and culminate with a festive ritual dance. Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) attire is encouraged. Come, celebrate life by meeting Death Herself!

Speakers

Quetzal Kahlo and Tomás Prower

Quetzal Kahlo is a curandera, Tarot reader, herbalist, oracle, medium, artist, dancer, and musician. She has been studying Neo Pagan Polytheism for about 5 years and is currently working on becoming a High Priestess within Come As You Are Pagan Congregation in the Bay Area, CA. She... Read More →

Friday February 17, 2017 11:00pm - Saturday February 18, 2017 12:30am PST
Fir

General-Pagan, Ritual

Tags Female-deity-focused, Meditation-Trance, Movement-Dance-Yoga

11:00am PST

THE DOUBLE DRAGON RITUAL AND INCANTATION

Join us in this original group ritual, never performed in public before! Adapted for PantheaCon from RJ’s “Magical Arts” series, we will be invoking The Deep Mother, The Star Father, and the androgynous ageless Child of Light. Arousing the Red and White Dragons of the UnderWorld, source of all telluric power, magic, prophecy, and pagan wisdom. Everyone has a role in this ritual. Bring your ritual robes and implements to embody your pagan tradition. Wear a mask embodying a god, goddess, or spiritual creature. Or come as you are, ready for what you may become. (Not suitable for children under 12).

Speakers

R J Stewart

R J Stewart is known worldwide as the author of 45 books on magic, mythology, tarot, Celtic tradition, translated into many languages. He is also a composer for film theater and television and has made numerous recordings of music and original songs.

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

General-Pagan, Ritual

Tags Magic-Psychic, Techniques

3:30pm PST

Sacred Sun Ritual

Honor & celebrate the Sun in a variety ways & through Divine forms from cultures & spiritual traditions around the world in this Community ritual open to Pagans of Ages & Kinds. Attune to & work with the Sacred Sun for inspiration, empowerment, healing, joy, & well-being through inner journeying, chanting, & energy raising. If you wish, bring a Sun symbol and/or a piece of jewelry, amulet, or other object to be blessed during this ceremony.

Speakers

Selena Fox

Selena Fox is a priestess, writer, psychotherapist, green cemetery director, interfaith minister & Pagan rights activist. Her writings on Celebrating the Seasons, Ancestors, Nature magic, Spiritual healing, Rites of Passage & other topics have been widely published. She travels internationally... Read More →

Saturday February 18, 2017 3:30pm - 5:00pm PST
Cedar/ Pine

General-Pagan, Ritual

Tags Magic-Psychic, Techniques, Meditation-Trance, All-ages, Movement-Dance-Yoga

3:30pm PST

Working with our Ancestors of the spirit to Ward our Freedom

From ancient Greece to Viking Age Denmark, people honored the heroes whose lives blessed their lands. The monuments on the Capitol Mall are a place where people from every background remember and invoke them. But Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, the Roosevelts and Martin Luther King Jr. are only a few of the leaders, of every ethnicity and gender, who have fought for the rights of the citizens of our land. We have the magic! In a time when our country is polarized by factions and hate, let’s use it to work with our ancestors of the spirit for protection and healing.

Speakers

Diana Paxson

Diana L. Paxson is the author of many novels on pagan themes, and a number of popular non-fiction books, including /The Way of the Oracle/ and /The Essential Guide to Possession/. She writes a regular column on goddesses for /Sagewoman/. She is also an elder and former Steerswoman... Read More →

Saturday February 18, 2017 3:30pm - 5:00pm PST
San Juan/ San Carlos

General-Pagan, Ritual

5:15pm PST

A Celebration of Keith Cynan Roberts

Keith Cynan Roberts - a celebration of his life. You are welcome to join us for a brief gathering. Bring joy, laughter and a beverage. It's what he would have wanted. Cynan joined the ancestors on January 11, 2016.

Saturday February 18, 2017 5:15pm - 6:15pm PST
San Jose/ Santa Clara

General-Pagan, Ritual

3:30pm PST

Journey to the Sacred Well: Seeking our Magic

Remember when we stood together under the starry sky, when we lifted our hands from the sacred well to drink? Join us for an ecstatic, participatory ritual to seek the magic of the ancient waters. If you could call out for the magic…the inspiration…life force and hope…would you dare? What incantation will you sing to wish on the stars? Seeking this magic means journeying down the roots of the world tree…gazing into the mirror of souls…seeking the mysteries of your very depths. What must you transform? And what is the dream in the center of your heart? Adults/mature teens only, closed at 15 min

Speakers

Shauna Aura Knight

An artist, author, activist, and community builder, Shauna travels nationally offering workshops on the transformative arts of ritual, community leadership, and personal growth. She’s the author of The Leader Within, Ritual Facilitation, Dreamwork for the Initiate’s Path, and... Read More →

Sunday February 19, 2017 3:30pm - 5:00pm PST
Oak

General-Pagan, Ritual

Tags Meditation-Trance, Introductory

9:00pm PST

Rainbow Moon Circle: Rite of the Sparkling Spectra

Priest/ess/xes and Dedicants of CAYA Coven invite people of any and all genders—or none—to join us in this sacred rite to recognize and celebrate gender diversity in our deities, in our communities, and in ourselves. We will invoke Panprosdexia (All-Acceptance); the Agender deity of the Tetrad++, to guide us in transforming the corrosive shrapnel of life's conflicts into glittering balls of magick to empower our work and play in the world.

Speakers

Rainbow Moon Circle

The Rainbow Moon Circle is a safe and sacred space for all people to explore the spectrum of gender and identity. We honor the holistic experience of self-determined identity and its infinite intersections. We celebrate the glittering prism of Divine existence that is Powerful, Delightful... Read More →

Sunday February 19, 2017 9:00pm - 10:30pm PST
San Juan/ San Carlos

General-Pagan, Ritual

Tags LGBTQIA

11:00pm PST

Singing Bowl Meditation

Sound Baths, or singing bowl meditations, are a powerful way to bring your body into a state of calm, using brass and crystal singing bowls as the conduit. The tones have been shown to balance out the brainwaves, enabling people to have a deeper, more healing, meditative experience. No small children, please. No admittance once we begin.

Speakers

Ayamanatara

Ayamanatara is a multi-denominational Shaman; an internationally-renowned author, healer, teacher, trance channel, clairvoyant, mystery school initiate, kabbalist, and animal communicator. She is a member of the Sound Healers Association, America Society of Dowsers, and the American... Read More →

Sunday February 19, 2017 11:00pm - Monday February 20, 2017 12:30am PST
San Juan/ San Carlos

General-Pagan, Ritual

Tags Meditation-Trance, Musical-Performance

9:00am PST

Sacred Conversations

A specific style for discussing race and privilege in a spiritual community context. The difference between talking and having Sacred Conversation includes the intention and gathering in Sacred Space to listen and be heard deeply with a focus on self-reflection in relationship to each other as a community and in relationship to the God and Goddess. The topic for this Sacred Conversation will be reflection on privilege and how this can consciously/unconsciously impact Pagans of Color with the goal of having something to take home to our local communities.

Speakers

Jacki Chuculate

Jacki Chuculate, a social worker and witch, has 20 years of experience in reconciliation work in St. Louis, MO. She has facilitated groups in the areas of: addressing violence, interpersonal conflict, anti-racism and effective communication. As a witch with a deep love for the Web... Read More →

Monday February 20, 2017 9:00am - 10:30am PST
Santa Clara

General-Pagan, Ritual

Tags Counseling-Psychology, Social-Justice

11:00am PST

Pagan Power for World Peace, featuring the World Peace Violin

A sacred ritual in partnership with the Patrick McCollum Foundation for Peace, Shaman Smith, and the Wisdom Council of the Starlit Well, featuring Scarlet Rivera on the World Peace Violin. In today's war-torn world, we are all too familiar with the feelings of Fear and Righteous Anger that boil up within us around acts of Terror and Injustice, and the overwhelming sense of helplessness that often accompany them. In this ritual we shall harness the profound power in the Anger and Fear, and channel it into the action of Healing, transforming Fear into Love, and ourselves into true Peacemakers

Speakers

Patrick McCollum

H.E. Venerable Rev. Patrick McCollum is a Pagan & Interfaith Minister whose international Peace & Justice accomplishments transcend cultural, religious, and political barriers. He serves in many capacities, from Executive Director of the Patrick McCollum Foundation for Peace, to interfaith... Read More →

Monday February 20, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm PST
Oak

General-Pagan, Ritual

Tags Social-Justice, Musical-Performance

12:45pm PST

Closing Ritual

Join us as we close out PantheaCon 2017

Speakers

Glenn Turner

Monday February 20, 2017 12:45pm - 1:15pm PST
Oak

General-Pagan, Ritual