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

Deconstructing Crowley: Don't fear the Beast

No figure in the history of occultism has been more controversial or misunderstood than the infamous Aleister Crowley. He has made invaluable contributions to modern paganism that have been overshadowed by his dark reputation. During this talk we will take an honest look into the life and work of the much maligned magician, piercing the veil of his infamy to reveal a Magus whose occult legacy endures to this day, while decoding some of the more cryptic and challenging symbols of his magical system of Thelema along the way.

Speakers

James Stone

James Stone has practiced neo-paganism and ceremonial magick for more than 25 years and is a longtime member of Ordo Templi Orientis. Known for his entertaining workshops, James is an experienced facilitator of public rituals, a presenter at events throughout the Northeast, and is... Read More →

Friday February 17, 2017 1:30pm - 3:00pm PST
San Juan/ San Carlos

Ceremonial, Workshop

Tags Magic-Psychic, Techniques, Scholarly, Lecture-Panel, Introductory

3:30pm PST

Honoring Spirits of Place and the Home

All places, wild and domestic, have spirits. Get to know the ones most likely to be around you, how to connect to them, and how to respect them. When we are in harmony with our house spirits, and the spirits of the land around us, we tend to find our lives in general run more smoothly.

Speakers

Morgan Daimler

Morgan Daimler is an Irish Reconstructionist with Heathen tendencies who has been a polytheist since the early ’90′s. Morgan is a witch who follows a path inspired by the Irish Fairy Faith and teaches classes on Irish myth and magical practices, fairies, and related subjects in... Read More →

Friday February 17, 2017 3:30pm - 5:00pm PST
San Juan/ San Carlos

General-Pagan, Workshop

Tags All-ages

5:15pm PST

Activist Meetup

Come meet your fellow activists in this low-pressure meet and greet. Exchange information, discuss ways to resist and thrive under Trump's presidency.

Friday February 17, 2017 5:15pm - 6:15pm PST
San Juan/ San Carlos

Unlisted-tradition, Workshop

7:00pm PST

Self-Defense for Women

Assault on women is unfortunately all too common in our culture. Attackers tend to target women they know, and an attack can happen anywhere, including at a festival or convention. Self-Defense for Women is intended for self-identified women who do not see themselves as martial artists or fighters, but would also not like to become victims if they are targeted. This is a hands-on, no-nonsense, highly practical workshop; come prepared to move and engage our instructors who will teach specific techniques for ending an assault. Workshop will be closed ten minutes after the program starts.

Speakers

Scott H. Rowe

Scott H. Rowe is polytheistic in both philosophy and practice. In addition, he is a spirit worker, a martial artist, and an initiate of a distinctly American witchcraft tradition. He is a columnist for Polytheist.com. He is a practitioner of multiple healing arts including Chinese... Read More →

Friday February 17, 2017 7:00pm - 8:30pm PST
San Juan/ San Carlos

General-Pagan, Workshop

Tags How-To, Movement-Dance-Yoga

9:00pm PST

Healing the Ancestral Lineage

In this experiential workshop, we will look at how trauma is passed down through generations, and we will connect with the archetypal energy of our bloodlines, bringing that back into the present, and shift the energy of everything in between. In doing this, we honor and heal our ancestors, and we can break through strong patterns that may have baffled us, allowing us to respond differently to the world around us. Ages 16+. No entry after 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 →

Friday February 17, 2017 9:00pm - 10:30pm PST
San Juan/ San Carlos

Shamanic, Workshop

Tags Counseling-Psychology, Meditation-Trance

11:00pm PST

The Art of Invocation: A Path of Worship

The Aquarian Tabernacle Church has mastered the art of invocation as seen at our festivals and at shrine visits around the world. Come learn the art of invocation, and see how deep connection to deity can transform your life and the lives of others.

Speakers

The Aquarian Tabernacle Church

The Aquarian Tabernacle Church, founded by Pete Pathfinder Davis, provides big church resources to small covens and local Wiccan church congregations around the world. We have been on the forefront of pagan rights since 1979, working on issues such as RFRAs, Veterans Rights, Prison... Read More →

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

General-Pagan, Workshop

Tags Magic-Psychic, Techniques

1:30pm PST

Heathen Open Assembly

In the past year enormous changes have taken place in the Heathen community, culminating with the release of Declaration 127. In this forum we ask all participants to offer their ideas on what this means for Heathenry and our future.

Speakers

Open Forum

This event will be a group open forum to encourage free flow of discussion. This event will be facilitated by Jamie Morgan.

Saturday February 18, 2017 1:30pm - 3:00pm PST
San Juan/ San Carlos

Asatru-Heathen, Discussion

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

7:00pm PST

Healing Ancestral Wounds

Do you have patterns in your family line that have been pasted down generation after generation of: abuse, addictions, depression, etc? Do you feel along with any “curses” there might be blessings in your lineage of: healers, entrepreneurs, artists or more? In this workshop we will learn how to “inspect” the four lines of: Mother’s/Mother, Mother’s/Father, Father’s/Father and Father’s/Mother. Using the system crafted by Daniel Foor 10+ years ago. Discover a “safe and effective” method to heal the tears in your lineage, and reconnect with your very own “Elevate Ancient Ones.”

Speakers

Luna Pantera & Leni Hester

Luna Pantera is a Priestess and Witch whose path includes opening up the line of communications with the Ancestors to all who are willing and ready to listen. Luna's personal work with her Ancestors has rekindled her magikal gifts and started healing of deep family wounds. She is... Read More →

Saturday February 18, 2017 7:00pm - 8:30pm PST
San Juan/ San Carlos

Shamanic, Workshop

Tags How-To

9:00pm PST

Jailbreaking the Goddess: Crafting a Spirit Possession Practice

Spirit possession can deepen your spiritual practices, enrich your relationship with the gods you’re devoted to, & accelerate your spiritual trajectory. Allowing a spirit to enter into deep communion with you opens doors to aeons worth of stored information, opens your mind to new vantage points, and your heart to deeper love for the Ones you are devoted to. In this workshop with Lasara Firefox Allen, author of Jailbreaking the Goddess, you will learn spirit possession " best practices" so you may learn to wield this powerful practice with honor, deftness, respect, and more safety. 13+, closed

Speakers

Lasara Firefox Allen

Lasara Firefox Allen is the best selling author of Jailbreaking the Goddess: A Radical Revisioning of Feminist Spirituality (7/2016), and Sexy Witch (2005), both published by Llewellyn Worldwide. A wild hearted change agent, Lasara delivers tools for transformation, provides strategies... Read More →

Saturday February 18, 2017 9:00pm - 10:30pm PST
San Juan/ San Carlos

Unlisted-tradition, Workshop

Tags Magic-Psychic, Techniques

11:00pm PST

Blood, Tradition & Tribe: An Ancestor Celebration Ritual

Some ancestors are connected to us by blood. Some through various spiritual traditions. Some are linked by “tribes” we feel a kinship with. The traditional Roman festival of Parentalia was a 9 day festival held each February to honor family ancestors. Naos Antinoou invites you to honor all these different types of ancestors with us in a modern Antinoan celebration of the ancient Roman Parentalia festival where we will invite attendees to participate in a devotional ritual that honors Antinous and the diversity and variety of our ancestors of all kinds. Doors will close at start of ritual.

Speakers

Naos Antinoou

Naos Antinoou is a queer, Graeco-Roman-Egyptian devotional polytheist community dedicated to Antinous and related deities and divine figures. Antinous was the young lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian who was deified after drowning in the sacred waters of the Nile River. The Naos is... Read More →

Saturday February 18, 2017 11:00pm - Sunday February 19, 2017 12:30am PST
San Juan/ San Carlos

Hellenic-Roman, Ritual

Tags LGBTQIA

7:00pm PST

Trance Dancing with the Jinn

A traditional Egyptian trance dance ritual preceded by a half hour explanatory lecture and half an hour of instruction of the method's unique movements. Please do not eat prior to the ritual.

Speakers

Yasmin Henkesh

Yasmin Henkesh is a world-renowned belly dancer with forty years of performance and teaching experience - from Washington DC and New York, to London, Paris and Cairo. While living in Egypt she obtained a Masters degree in Arabic (AUCairo) and researched Egyptian sacred dance. Through... Read More →

Sunday February 19, 2017 7:00pm - 8:30pm PST
San Juan/ San Carlos

Egyptian-Kemetic, Ritual

Tags How-To, Meditation-Trance, Movement-Dance-Yoga

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

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