PantheaCon

Welcome to the PantheaCon 2008 Program Schedule!

Peruse our wide ranging list of panels, workshops, concerts, discussions, and rituals offered by our many fabulous presenters.

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FRIDAY — 1:30 PM

Baba Yaga and Psychotherapy — George Hersh — Pine
Opening Ritual — Rabbit — Oak
Mental Health Advocacy for Pagans — Lia M Salciccia, MA, LMFT — Santa Clara
When We Call, Who Comes? A Look at Pagan Thea/ology — M. Macha NightMare — Carmel
The Possession Experience — Kenaz Filan — Monterey
Shamanic Perspectives on Relating with Our Blood Ancestors — Daniel Foor — San Carlos
Secrets of Time and the Celtic Cross — Joseph Martin — San Juan
Reiki Healings and Divinations — OSOGD — Upper Mezzanine

FRIDAY — 3:30 PM

Discordian Magic — Elf Half of Elfwreck — Cedar
Seeking the Center — Orion Foxwood — Pine
Experience Your Past Lives — Donald Michael Kraig — Fir — Doors Closed at Start
Masks in Ritual — Althea Christine Wilson — San Jose
Filidecht: Poetic Madness and Healing — Erynn Laurie — Santa Clara
Circlesinging: Group Vocal Improvisation — D. J. Hamouris — Monterey
Path of a Warrior — Dennis Ford — San Carlos
The Power, Impact and Responsibility of Personal Choice — LaSara FireFox — San Martin
Trance Dance: Unlocking the Door Between the Worlds — Sylvia Brallier — San Simeon

FRIDAY — 7:00 PM

Sensual Shamanic Trance Dance — Fontain's M.U.S.E. — Cedar/ Pine
Rebel Shamans: Indigenous Women Confront Empire — Max Dashu — Fir
Oracles from the Living Tarot — Limerent Arts — Oak
Geomantic Divination:16 figures & the Shield Chart — Vicki Solomon — San Jose
Elemental Hexagons Oracle Deck — Calyxa Omphalos — Santa Clara
Druid Ritual with Danse Macabre — Druids of O.B.O.D. — Carmel/ Monterey
Magic and Activism — Darryl Cherney — San Carlos
Orisha 101 — Baba Esu Wemimo — San Juan
Discordian Marriage of Opposites — Theodore Prodromou — San Martin/ San Simeon

FRIDAY — 9:00 PM

AXIS MUNDI Flame Within -Trance Dance — AXIS MUNDI Sonic Shamanic Trance Groove — Cedar/ Pine
Theatre of the Word — Mysterium OM — Fir
The Morrison Ritual 2008 — Jason Mankey — Oak
The Pagan Lonely Hearts Club — Pagan Lonely Hearts Club — San Jose — Doors Closed at Start
Boundaries 101 — Lia M Salciccia, MA, LMFT — Santa Clara
WomenSpirit Ritual to Honor Triple Goddess — Elderflower WomenSpirit Festival — Carmel/ Monterey — Doors Closed at Start
Guided Meditation Basics — Eric Lethe — San Carlos
Magical Ethics: Feri Tradition Perspectives — Feri Witches — San Juan
Silk and Honey: Erotic Tales from the African Diaspora — Luisah Teish — San Martin/ San Simeon — Door Access Monitored

FRIDAY — 11:00 PM

Pomba Gira Masked Fete! — American Magic Umbanda House — Cedar/ Pine — Door Access Monitored
Pagan Unity — Elise Fisher/The Association of United Pagans — Oak
The Coven of the Cards — S. Rune Emerson — San Jose
Pantheacon Bedtime Stories — Steven Thor Abell — Santa Clara
Magdalene, Priestess or prostitute? — Eclipse Dance Theater — Carmel/ Monterey
Intentional Ordeals: Ritual Consecration of Embodiment — D. Christopher Dryer — San Carlos
Magical Experience or Mental Illness? — Cathy Barber — San Juan
Drum Circle 101 — Don Schulz — San Martin/ San Simeon

SATURDAY — 9:00 AM

Sacred Circle Dance — Bay Area Circle Dancers — Cedar
Liturgy of Lady Liberty — Fellowship of the Spiral Path — Pine
Pagan Permaculture: Spirituality and Sustainability — F.F.R.A.S.S. — Fir
Life As a Dream — Mary Greer — Oak
Yoni self-portraits — Victoria Slind-Flor — San Jose — Door Access Monitored
Sekhmet and Set: the Misunderstood Deities of Ancient Egypt — Richard Reidy — Santa Clara
Introduction to Graeco-Egyptian Magick — Tony Mierzwicki — Carmel — Doors Closed at Start
Spiritual Spring Cleaning:Preparing for the Season Ahead — Deborah Blake — Monterey — Doors Closed at Start
Turbulent Times Ahead: The Astrology of 2008-2012 — astrobarry — San Carlos
Hatha Yoga — Holly Allender — San Juan
Healing Community Spirit - Puja — Francesca Gentille and Zoe Kunstenaar — San Martin/ San Simeon — Doors Closed at Start
Reiki Healings and Divinations — OSOGD — Upper Mezzanine

SATURDAY — 11:00 AM

The Mill of Magic — Orion Foxwood — Cedar — Doors Closed at Start
The Hidden Path — Raven Grimassi & Stephanie Taylor — Pine
Ask "BABA-LON"™ — Lon Milo DuQuette — Fir
Women's Self-Blessing Ritual — Z Budapest — Oak — Door Access Monitored
Introduction to Wheat Weaving — Angela and William — San Jose
Chainmail Basics — Dave Shultz — Santa Clara
Channeling Gaia's Consciousness — Dana Dunn — Carmel
Asclepios Healing Ritual — Thiasos Olympikos — Monterey
Olokun - Finding Your Treasure Within the Deep — Uzuri Amini & Vance Williams — San Carlos
Psychic Techniques — Practical Magic — Drew Ward — San Juan — Doors Closed at Start
Children's Costume Parade and Earth Play — PantheaMoms — San Martin/ San Simeon
Pagan Clergy: Mandated Reporting — Anna Korn,Crystal Blanton,Jutta Barrion,Sabrina Miller,Don Frew — Zinfandel

SATURDAY — 12:30 PM

Drum Circle 102 — Albert Robles — San Martin/ San Simeon
Norton's Guard Ritual Longsword Dance — Emperor Norton's Guard — Quietbar foyer

SATURDAY — 1:30 PM

Singing, Chanting and Creating Ecstatic Connection through Sound — Margot Adler — Cedar
Weiser Books Presents: The Ritual of Writing — Weiser Books — Pine
The View from Colleges and Cauldrons — Raven Grimassi & Sabina Magliocco — Fir — Doors Closed at Start
Imbolc of Brig Ambue — Brigid's Irregulars/West Coast CR Folks — Oak — Door Access Monitored
Designing Bind-runes — Ember Cooke — San Jose
Saving the World, One Murder at a Time. — David Skibbins — Santa Clara
Black Magic and Dark Paganism — Clifford Hartleigh Low — Carmel/ Monterey
positively poly; negotiating poly dynamics and safer sex — joi wolfwomyn, gwen templeton, amelia hogan — San Carlos
Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth — Anne Lenzi — San Juan — Doors Closed at Start
Grandfather Volcano: Shamanic Journey of Fire & Wisdom — Thena MacArthur — San Martin/ San Simeon — Doors Closed at Start
Filming Your Vision — Christophe Pettus — Zinfandel
WOW Besom Brigade — M. Macha NightMare — Upper Mezzanine

SATURDAY — 3:30 PM

The Rollright Ritual — R J Stewart — Cedar — Doors Closed at Start
Theory and Mechanics of Initiation — Valerie Voigt — Pine
What's new, what's different, what's changed — Margot Adler — Fir
Nowruz: The Persian Rite of Spring — Tandemonium — Oak — Doors Closed at Start
Ogam for Divination and Magic — Erynn Laurie — San Jose
Tarot - The Soul's Health Club — Thalassa — Santa Clara
Magical Music to Save Mother Earth — Darryl Cherney — Carmel/ Monterey
Pombagira - Power Passion Intent — Heart of the Rose Temple — San Carlos — Doors Closed at Start
The Best and Worst Rituals Ever — Azrael Arynn K — San Juan
Days In Midgard: A Thousand Years On — Steven Thor Abell — San Martin/ San Simeon

SATURDAY — 5:00 PM

Norton's Guard Ritual Longsword Dance — Emperor Norton's Guard — Quietbar foyer

SATURDAY — 7:00 PM

Musical performance — Kenny Klein — Cedar/ Pine
Intro to the Feri Tradition — Anaar — Fir
Minerval Initiation of the Illuminati — Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria — Oak — Doors Closed at Start
Nude Underwater Basket Weaving With Jen — Jennifer Robinson — San Jose
Walking with Freyja — Patricia Lafayllve — Santa Clara
Ascension Magick — Christopher Penczak — Carmel/ Monterey
Ritual of Sacred Play — Kindred of the Sacred Flame — San Carlos/ San Juan — Doors Closed at Start
Kali Puja: Worship of the Dark Goddess — Chandra Alexandre & SHARANYA — San Martin/ San Simeon — Doors Closed at Start
Going Greek — Thiasos Olympikos — Zinfandel

SATURDAY — 9:00 PM

Celtic Rock Concert with Avalon Rising — Avalon Rising — Cedar/ Pine
Goddesses in Aztec Art and Philosophy — Max Dashu — Fir
Self-Possession and the I am — T. Thorn Coyle — Oak
The Pagan Loney Hearts Club 2 — Pagan Lonely Hearts Club — San Jose
Earth Her Body — House of Hygeia — Santa Clara
In Concert: Holly Tannen and Ruth Barrett — Ruth Barrett — Carmel/ Monterey — Doors Closed at Start
Dangerous Herbs of the Witches — Rabbit — San Carlos
Moderation and Personal Fitness in Paganism — Todd Covert — San Juan
Oracular Seidh — Seidhjallr — San Martin/ San Simeon — Door Access Monitored

SATURDAY — 11:00 PM

Hauk: Live in Concert — Hauk — Cedar/ Pine
Discordian.com's Erisian Oracle & Entity Creation Pentagram — Discordian.com — Fir — Doors Closed at Start
Saturday Night Drum Jam — Don Schulz — Oak
Mahal in Concert!!! — Mahal {EthnoFusion Musik} — Santa Clara
Ghosts and Violins II — Paul Mercer — Carmel/ Monterey
The Spiritual Birthright of Men-who-love-men — Hyperion — San Juan

SUNDAY — 9:00 AM

Magical Stones Workshop — Kay Pannell — Cedar
Wake Up to Spirit — Come As You Are Coven — Pine
Llewellyn-BBI Pagan Fiction Award Ceremony and Prize Drawing — Llewellyn, BBI Media and Diana Paxson — Fir
30 Years of Wiccan Interfaith Work - What have we learned? — Don Frew — Oak
The Orisha Warriors: Esu, Ogun, and Osoosi — Baba Esu Wemimo — San Jose — Doors Closed at Start
Queen of Sheba Wisdom — Miri Hunter Haruach — Santa Clara
Manifesting Prosperity into your life through Wealth Magic — Taylor Ellwood/ Vince Stevens — Carmel
Initiation: Terror and Transformation — Kirk White — Monterey
Babaylan Healing and Music in the Philippine Shamanistic Tradit — Evelie Posch — San Carlos
Yoga for the Body of the Goddess — Dorie Peterson — San Juan
HO'OMANA - Traditional Hawaiian Spirituality — AUPUNI IWIULA — San Martin/ San Simeon — Doors Closed at Start
Dream Working — Jennie Wiseheart — Riesling
Pagans and publicity, working with the media — Alexia Retallack, Marketing/Public Relations Specialist — Zinfandel
Reiki Healings and Divinations — OSOGD — Upper Mezzanine

SUNDAY — 11:00 AM

Practical Angel Magick — Jason Augustus Newcomb — Cedar
Engaging the Warrior's Heart — T. Thorn Coyle — Pine
Walking Between the Worlds on Earth — Margot, Orion, Jerrie, Patrick & Kirk — Fir
Diving into the Spiral: Exploring the Life Path through Hypnosis — Laurel Kadish, Ewa Litauer, Rose May Dance — Oak — Doors Closed at Start
Little Altars....for Everywhere! — Patricia Allen (Brighde) — San Jose
Oshun: The True Nature of Inner Beauty — Iya Ayokumle — Santa Clara
The Question of Cweorth-- Exploring the Old English Runes — Diana Paxson — Carmel
Art, Idolatry and Apotheosis: Restoring the Earth in Europe — Michael York — Monterey
Steel and Silver: Activism and Magic — Amber K — San Carlos
Candy Ritual — Lydia M. Crabtree — San Juan
Women's Magical Chant: Gifts of Shekhinah Mountainwater — Ruth Barrett — San Martin/ San Simeon — Doors Closed at Start
Reiki Healing in a Pagan Context — Jenny Sill-Holeman — Riesling
The LBRP: Everything You Never Knew You Wanted To Know — Todd W. Spencer — Zinfandel

SUNDAY — 12:30 PM

WOW Besom Brigade Performance — M. Macha NightMare — Quietbar foyer

SUNDAY — 1:30 PM

The Horned God — Jason Mankey — Cedar
Ancestor's Celebration — Ile Orunmila Oshun — Pine — Doors Closed at Start
Commerce Magick in the Ancient World — Tony Mierzwicki — Fir — Doors Closed at Start
Kindling Ancestral Hearths — Caitlín Matthews — Oak — Doors Closed at Start
Amulets — Bari Mandelbaum — San Jose
A funny thing happened on the way to worship — Kaotic Order of Adventurers Seekers and Sorcerers — Santa Clara
Peeling the Cosmic Onion — Thalassa — Carmel
Loren Davidson - Pagan Beach Party Concert — Loren Davidson — Monterey
Hebrew lots-ways of sacred power. — Elisheva Nesher — San Carlos
The Pagan Home Companion — Janus Blume/Greenheart Grove — San Juan
A Different Kind of Seidh — Three Seidh Sisters — San Martin/ San Simeon

SUNDAY — 3:30 PM

An Inconvenient Truth: Movie and Discussion — Cathy Barber — Cedar
ADF Ritual — ADF — Pine
Leadership in a Community Without Leaders — Patricia Lafayllve — Fir
Introduction to Renaissance Magic — John Michael Greer — Oak
Pagan Fiber Arts — Lorrie Wood — San Jose
Spiritual Cliff Diving — Dave Shultz — Santa Clara — Doors Closed at Start
Leland, Maddalena, Aradia, et al. — Raven Grimassi — Carmel
Celia in Concert — Celia — Monterey
Light and Sound Mind Machines — Jason Augustus Newcomb — San Carlos — Doors Closed at Start
Sacrifice & Its place in modern Paganism — Sam Webster — San Juan
As I Do Will: An Iron Pentacle Working — Valerie Walker — San Martin/ San Simeon — Door Access Monitored
Mother and Daughter Goddess Tea Party — Bonni Cardoza — Zinfandel — Doors Closed at Start
PantheaCon Live Charity Auction — Pantheacon Charity Auction — Upper Mezzanine

SUNDAY — 7:00 PM

Gaia and the Spirit of Activism — Starhawk, Margot, Darryl, Patrick, Diana, LaSara, & Darrien — Cedar
Dancing in the Dark — Gwen Templeton — Pine — Doors Closed at Start
Catching the Promethean Spark — Feri Priests — Fir — Doors Closed at Start
Bending Fences with Ashes — PanGaia — Oak — Doors Closed at Start
Discovering Taoist Wicca and The Wisdom of the Seasons — Suzy Peltier AKA Lady Redhawk — San Jose
Fairy Lore in British Folk Music — Kenny Klein — Santa Clara
Online Wizardry for the 21st Century — Oberon Zell & Grey School of Wizardry — Carmel
Book Release Party: The Druid Magic Handbook — AODA — San Carlos
Asatru Blot — Hrafn Skoldr Kindred — San Juan
Pompeia: balancing the forces of earth and air — Thiasos Olympikos — San Martin/ San Simeon

SUNDAY — 9:00 PM

the Well of Song — Sharon Knight and Amelia Hogan — Pine
Garden of the Gods Ritual — Christopher Penczak — Fir — Doors Closed at Start
Concert with R J Stewart and Caitlín Matthews — R J Stewart — Oak
Tarot in 3 Dimensions — Angela Ember Cooke — San Jose
Blacksmiths & Chimney Sweeps: Luck-Bringers in British Folklore — Molly Carter — Santa Clara
Natural Witchery & Advancing your Craft — Ellen Dugan — Carmel — Doors Closed at Start
Temple Of Love — Miri Hunter Haruach — Monterey
Feminist Thelema — Brandy Williams — San Carlos
The Darkest Veil — Dana Runkle — San Juan — Doors Closed at Start
Ritual for Hekate — NROOGD-Dark Forest, Shadow Grove — San Martin/ San Simeon
AW Festival - Share the Vision — Ancient Ways Festival Commitee — Zinfandel

SUNDAY — 11:00 PM

Sex Magick Rituals — Donald Michael Kraig — Cedar — Door Access Monitored
Kink Magic: Sex Magic Beyond Vanilla — Lupa — Pine
Erisian Ritual — AJMC - Avatar Jones Memorial Cabal — Fir
Bay Area Spark Fire Circle — Bay Area Spark Collective — Oak
Alchemy of the Word: the Magical Poetry of Arthur Rimbaud — Holly Tannen — Santa Clara
The Green Fairy Unchained: The Rise, Fall and Rise of Absinthe — Jeff Winters — Carmel
Bardic Circle — Kitty Crowe — Monterey
Symbols of the Mysteries — Daniel Gautier — San Carlos
Fire Drum Circle — Richard F. Man — San Martin/ San Simeon

MONDAY — 9:00 AM

Dreaming and Waking — Anne Hill — Cedar
The Guardians of the Feri Tradition — Storm Faerywolf — Pine — Doors Closed at Start
The Goddess Timeline — Constance Tippett — Fir
The Apple and the Thorn: Spiritual Choosing in a Violent World — Walter William Melnyk — Oak
Geomantic Divination: Interpreting the House Chart — Vicki Solomon — San Jose
The Science of Spiritual Consciousness — Dr. Todd Berntson — Santa Clara
Lady of the Land — Linda Costello — Carmel
Magickal Group Dynamics — Lisa Mc Sherry — Monterey
Introduction to the Shamanic Journey — Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D. — San Carlos
Healing Through Creative Expression — Caera — San Juan — Doors Closed at Start
Energy Healing: Beginning to Intermediate — Gus diZerega — San Martin
Rebalancing Society Through Healing the Land — Andrea Boone — San Simeon — Doors Closed at Start
Morning Rite to Caffeina — Brenda Daverin — Zinfandel
Reiki Healings and Divinations — OSOGD — Upper Mezzanine

MONDAY — 11:00 AM

Huna, the Shamanic Tradition of Hawaii — Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D. — Cedar
Devotional Ritual to the Queen of Heaven and Earth — Temple of Inanna and Dumuzi — Pine — Doors Closed at Start
Misplaced Continents! — John Michael Greer — Fir
The Melissa Ritual of Honeybees — Rayna Ardren Owens — Oak
Tarot by the Numbers — Anastasia Haysler — San Jose
Geologically Correct Grounding Tutorial — Richard Ely — Santa Clara
How to fight for Pagan rights and win, everytime — Patrick McCollum — Carmel
Building a neo tribal community-and making it last — Elisheva Nesher — Monterey
The Three Souls in Feri Craft — Morpheus Anima — San Carlos — Doors Closed at Start
Silicon Spirits — Lorrie Wood — San Juan
Co-Creative Herb Gardening for Pets — 'B' Dawson — San Martin
Restorative Harp Experience — High Priestess — San Simeon — Doors Closed at Start

MONDAY - 1:30 PM

From Witch to Wicked — Jessica Zebrine Gray — Cedar
How Can Pagans Make a Difference? — Starhawk and friends — Oak
Magic, Blogging & Web 2.0 — Discordian.com — San Jose
The Gjallarhorn Alliance:Working with the Gods to save the Earth — Diana Paxson — Santa Clara
Liturgy of the Lord as Steward of the Land — Fellowship of the Spiral Path — Carmel
Reflection of Ancient Bear Worship in European Celebrations — Jerry Duke — Monterey
Taking it Om — Mackay — San Carlos
Caring for our Beloved Dead - Rites and Rights — Nora Cedarwind Young — San Juan
Greek Catharsis in Magic — Althea Christine Wilson — San Martin
A Postmodern Pagan Tree of Life or Kabbalah after Madonna — Joseph Futerman PhD — San Simeon

MONDAY — 3:30 PM

Many Paths, One Path; Many Gods, One God — LaSara FireFox — Fir
Closing Ritual — Petra Pino — Oak
The Magick of Makeup — Fey Cooper — San Jose
The Nature of Sacrifice — Rev. Kirk S. Thomas — Santa Clara
Feral Holiness: BDSM & The Sacred — Janet Munin — Carmel
Listening to the Sacred Earth — Isa Gucciardi, Ph.D. — Monterey
Musicmaking as Ritual — Cathryn Bauer — San Carlos
Fire making for rituals — Joel Schonbrunn — San Juan