Drawing on her own forty years of experiences in Pagan organizing and networking, Selena Fox talks about the emergence of contemporary Paganisms in North America in the 1960s and 1970s, describes factors in its growth since that time, and then shares perspectives on emerging trends and possible future directions for Pagan spirituality and culture.

Selena Fox is High Priestess of Circle Sanctuary, an international Pagan resource center headquartered on a 200 acre Nature preserve in Wisconsin in the USA.  Selena is founder of the Circle Craft tradition, which emphasizes Nature communion and blends together ancient and contemporary European and American  folkways, Wiccan traditions, muliticultural shamanism, and transpersonal psychology.  Selena is founder of Circle Network, CIRCLE Magazine, and the Pagan Spirit Gathering.  Through her work as Executive Director of the Lady Liberty League, she is an activist for Pagan civil rights and religious freedom.  Selena has a M.S. in counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and does spiritual counseling and psychotherapy in private practice.  Selena facilitates rituals and workshops in her travels across North America and elsewhere.  Selena's writings, rituals, chants, photographs, media interviews, and meditations have been published on-line and in a variety of books and periodicals.  More information about her and her work is on-line: www.selenafox.com and at www.circlesanctuary.org

Selena Fox describes ways of working with ancient and contemporary harvest customs, symbols, chants, and lore in personal, small group, and large community rituals and seasonal celebrations.

Selena Fox is High Priestess of Circle Sanctuary, an international Pagan resource center headquartered on a 200 acre Nature preserve in Wisconsin in the USA.  Selena is founder of the Circle Craft tradition, which emphasizes Nature communion and blends together ancient and contemporary European and American  folkways, Wiccan traditions, muliticultural shamanism, and transpersonal psychology.  Selena is founder of Circle Network, CIRCLE Magazine, and the Pagan Spirit Gathering.  Through her work as Executive Director of the Lady Liberty League, she is an activist for Pagan civil rights and religious freedom.  Selena has a M.S. in counseling from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and does spiritual counseling and psychotherapy in private practice.  Selena facilitates rituals and workshops in her travels across North America and elsewhere.  Selena's writings, rituals, chants, photographs, media interviews, and meditations have been published on-line and in a variety of books and periodicals.  More information about her and her work is on-line: www.selenafox.com and at www.circlesanctuary.org

The concept of the home as spiritual center is found in many cultures and throughout many eras. The home, and in particular the hearth, has often served as a point of connection for gods and humankind. Many people today follow a spiritual path that can be enriched by recognizing their home as part of their spiritual practice and philosophy. This workshop explores the power that rests in the heart of the home, and how it can serve as support for nature-based spirituality.

 The workshop will explore these ideas, among others:

 •           The home as heart: using the home as the foundation of a spiritual practice

•           Concepts and symbols associated with hearth and home

•           The spiritual centre of a home

•           The kitchen as modern hearth

•           Techniques for enhancing the spiritual energy in the home

•           Deities and cultural folklore associated with hearth and home

Arin Murphy-Hiscock is a teacher, author, and editor who has been active in the Montreal pagan community since 1995. She is the author of Power Spellcraft for Life, Solitary Wicca for Life, The Way of the Green Witch, and the upcoming The Way of the Hedge Witch (spring 2009).

Brendan Myers has been a part of Ontario's pagan community for almost twenty years. He is the author of six books, including "The Mysteries of Druidry" (2006) and "The Other Side of Virtue" (2008). He has a doctorate in philosophy, specialising in environmental ethics, from the National University of Ireland. His life's ambition is to be the first philosopher to walk on the moon.

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Amy has been a pagan for over 20 years. She has been a professional Tasseomancer (tea leaf reader) for 18 years, however no longer reads in public anymore as her preference is to teach the art instead. 

Active in the pagan community, she is Co-Founder of the Toronto Pagan Conference and a member of Staff for Kaleidoscope Gathering. She also is a consultant, workshop presenter and supporter of other pagan events, causes & pub moots across Ontario. She has been interviewed on Paganism and aspects of Paganism for local newspapers, pagan podcasts and in 2006 did a piece for CBC radio on the show Tapestry.

Amy is very happily married, living in Hamilton, Ontario where she and her husband are proud servants to 3 cats. In her professional life she works in the Horticulture industry and in her spare time she studies & practices traditional herbalism, maintains an environmentally viable home and is an avid organic gardener both in winter and summer.

Many people are familiar with daily, weekly or monthly horoscopes.  Most people are not familiar with the wide range of systems available within this art.  Franco will provide some history, broach the topic of tropical and sidereal systems before letting you know about the natal charts, horary, mundane, financial, Jyotish (Indian) as well as others.

Franco Minatel is somewhat of a Renaissance man: an engineer, athlete, artist/musician.  He has been involved in the study of various esoteric arts such as energy work, tarot, runes, astrology, numerology, herbs, crystals and magick for the past decade.  Franco has noticed that all is interrelated.  He is a co-founder of The Oracle Cafe and VP of Astrology Toronto an organisation which promotes astrological knowledge in the GTA.

In this workshop, Franco will explore how to use astrological factors to set up your rituals to get maximum bang for your magickal buck.

Franco Minatel is somewhat of a Renaissance man: an engineer, athlete, artist/musician.  He has been involved in the study of various esoteric arts such as energy work, tarot, runes, astrology, numerology, herbs, crystals and magick for the past decade.  Franco has noticed that all is interrelated.  He is a co-founder of The Oracle Cafe and VP of Astrology Toronto an organisation which promotes astrological knowledge in the GTA.

In this workshop we discuss how important it is to release stress and how to stay in the here and now to ensure a stress free intent throughout the day. This basic practice, which is easier for some than it is for others, in itself, is the basis of all magick; a clear mind. Using mantras & chants we will learn to keep our minds focussed in the here and now.

A scientist / author  Ron Hubbard said something to the effect that once science becomes sufficiently complicated it will be indistinguishable from magic. Maybe magic is like electricity, once considered magic until we learned to measure it, its' nature now is understood and predictable under science. It works with metal magic, why not with other magics?

[**This workshop is a continuation of the presentation from last year entitled "The Importance of the Initiatory Process"**]

Everyone is familiar with the term "ritual".  Ritual, from an occult perspective is the completion of a magical act which utilizes words, actions and processes to focus the will of the practitioner to make real changes in accordance with that will.  It is liturgical drama.  But what is the ultimate goal?  Why go through the process, which in our modern lives seems silly at best, and eccentric at least?

Join ceremonialist Ralph Lembcke as he examines the true power and meaning of ritual, through the formulas and applications used over the ages and an exploration of the true power and meaning behind, as well as the importance of ritual.

Ralph has been an avid "discipulus veneficus" (Latin for "student of magic") for over 30 years.  He has facilitated many professionally presented occult workshops in the Southern Ontario area at various Pagan community events, Spirits of the Earth, PRISM, Hamilton & KW Pagan Pride Days, the Toronto Pagan Conference and many others.

He is an experienced ritualist and has written and contributed to rituals in various traditions and capacities.  He is a practicing ceremonial magician in the Golden Dawn & Solomonic Traditions, was initiated into a Wiccan tradition, and is also a 3rd degree master mason.  He is also a founding member of the former London Pagan Temple, the London Pagan Pub Moot and is the Grand Magister of the Order of the Temple of Archallem (OTA), a private ceremonial magic lodge for which he has developed Ritual Magic curriculum from Probationer through to Third Degree Initiate.  

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