JUNE 29TH 2013

ELLEN DUGAN

NATIONAL AUTHOR

Ellen Dugan is the award winning author of fifteen books, and is known as the “Garden Witch”. A psychic-clairvoyant, she has been a practicing Witch for thirty years. Well known for her candor and humor, she is a Master Gardener, and is the High Priestess of her Coven in the St. Louis area. Ellen teaches classes both online and locally on Witchery, Psychic Protection and Magick. Please visit her website  – www.ellendugan.com and her popular and syndicated blog www.ellendugan.blogspot.com

11am – 12noon – BUILDING A CIRCLE OR COVEN:   Adventures of a High Priestess- What does it really take to build and run a successful Circle or Coven? Author Ellen Dugan has some down to earth advice to share, as well as some tips and ideas to get your group motivated and organized. Get ready to laugh and to learn in this fun and informative workshop.

1:30 – 2:30 -  WITCHES TAROT: ches Tarot- Join award winning author and Tarot reader Ellen Dugan for a workshop on her newest release, the Witches Tarot. Learn how and why Ellen created the deck and the story behind the cards. This workshop also includes helpful hints and tips for performing polished readings for the general public, as well as techniques you can employ in your own readings. If you would like to gain a deeper illumination of the magick and mystery of the tarot, please join us.

4:30 – 5:30  – GREEN MAGICK:  Join award winning author and Master Gardener Ellen Dugan for a lecture on Green Magick & Herbalism. Ellen will discuss the fundamentals of the green path, and the magickal tools of the green trade- which may surprise you. Discover the magick of plants, trees, flowers and herbs that can be easily incorporated into your own style of witchery, in practical and profound ways. This class will inspire, and motivate you to take your magick to the next level.

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REV. DON LEWIS

Rev. Don Lewis is an accomplished clairvoyant and Tarot reader with over a quarter century of experience as a professional psychic reader.

Rev. Don Lewis is co-founder of Witch School -the worlds largest online school of metaphysics- and author or Witch School’s First, Second, and Third Degree courses as well as Ritual in Theory and Practice. Rev. Don has appeared on numerous television and radio programs over the last thirty years and is the host of Magick TV’s Living the Wiccan Life and Interactive Grimoire series.

Author of the Witch School’s series of books 1^st through 3^rd Degree Books and Ritual in Theory and Practice and Living the Wiccan Life.

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GALINA KRASSKOVA

Galina Krasskova is a free range tribalist Heathen who has been a priest of Odin and Loki for close to twenty years. Originally ordained in the Fellowship of Isis in 1995, Ms. Krasskova also attended the oldest interfaith seminary in the U.S. – the New Seminary where she was ordained in 2000. She continues as a guest lecturer and mentor at the New Seminary, and is part of a team of ministers for the Interfaith Fellowship in NYC. She is the founder of Urdabrunnr Kindred (NY), a member of Ironwood Kindred (MA), Asatru in Frankfurt (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), the First Kingdom Church of Asphodel (MA), the American Academy of Religion, and the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. She has been a state contracted expert on the Asatru faith, and is currently involved in prison ministry. Additionally, she took vows as a Heathen gythia in 1996 and again in 2004.

Ms. Krasskova holds diplomas from The New Seminary (2000), a B.A. in Religious Studies from Empire State College (2007), and an M.A. in Religious Studies from New York University (2009). She’s presented at prestigious academic conferences including those held at Harvard, Santa Barbara University, and Ohio State University. Her Master’s thesis, titled “Race, Gender, and the Problem of ‘Ergi’ in Modern Heathenry” explored concepts of gender roles within contemporary Heathen ritual structure and their impact on contemporary ideological fault lines. She is currently pursuing a second Masters degree prior to taking a PhD in Classics.

An experienced diviner, ordeal master, and conjure woman, her primary interest is in devotional work and the reconstruction of Northern Tradition shamanism. Her book The Whisperings of Woden was the landmark first devotional text to be written in modern Heathenry. In addition to her own books, she’s also contributed extensively to Raven Kaldera’s shamanism series.

Ms. Krasskova currently writes as a columnist for BBI Media’s Witches and Pagans Magazine, and she has a variety of published books available running the gamut from introductory texts on the Northern Tradition, runes, prayer, and devotional practices, with more books on the way.

Ms. Krasskova currently works as a Dean for second year students at The New Seminary in New York, the oldest interfaith seminary in the US. She also teaches at the College of Brigantia, a Pagan adult-education program and part of the First Kingdom Church of Asphodel. She heads up three departments there. She also occasionally lectures around the country on topics of interest to contemporary Heathenry and Paganism. For more information, please contact her directly at krasskova at gmail.com.

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DAWN HUNT

Tastes From the Temple

Cucina Aurora Witchery provides Dawn Hunt’s NEW cookbook.

Come create meal time magick with Dawn the Kitchen Witch!  Cooking with intention has never been easier with the new book “Tastes From the Temple”.  Learn the secrets of Heirloom Magick and Witchy Entertaining as she takes you through the witches pantry!

www.CucinaAurora.com

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Lexa Roséan is a priestess, psychic, and leading pagan author ~ not to mention poet, playwright, and performer. Her first job was as a dancing snake charmer known as the SnakePoet. Andy Warhol photographed Lexa during this time. Along with her own poems, Lexa recited great works of poetry from the likes of Poe, Shakespeare, D.H. Lawrence, and Coleridge while hanging from a tree across from the Delacort Theatre in Central Park. In 1982, the NYPD escorted the poet and her 13-foot python Lilith, out of the park at gunpoint thus forcing her to get a “real” job for several subsequent years.

Thus began her formal magickal tutelage in the occult arts by Lord Hermes and Lady Rhea. Lexa was the manager of the original Enchantments in the East Village and Priestess for the Minoan Sisterhood training circle from 1982 – 2000. During those years, Lexa taught courses on Astrology, Tarot, Kabbalah, Wicca, Astral Projection and Spellcraft in addition to giving astrology and psychic readings. She also served as the official oracle in her own coven and channeled the word of the Goddess.

Lexa Roséan is the author of The Supermarket Sorceress, The Supermarket Sorceress’s Sexy Hexes, The Supermarket Sorceress’s Enchanted Evenings (St. Martins Press), Easy Enchantments, (St Martin’s Press), PowerSpells, and ZodiacSpells (St Martins Press). Her newest books are TarotPower: 22 Keys to Unlocking Magick, Spellcraft, and Meditation (Citadel Press July 05) and The Encyclopedia of Magickal Ingredients (Simon & Shuster Sep 2005) She currently writes the Celebrity Astrology Forecasts and BackPack Astrologer for CosmoGirl magazine and is the astrological advisor for Seventeen magazine.

Her plays The Prisoner, The Swim, and I Married a Lesbian Witch were produced at the WOW Café. Lexa has also performed her work at La Mama, Dixon Place, P.S. 122, and other downtown Venues. Her writing has been included in the anthologies Celebrating the Pagan Soul (Citadel Press 2005), and Women on Women 2 (Plume 1993). A Kosher Megila, an excerpt from her soon to be published novel Spinoza’s Daughter, was included in Women on Women 3 A New Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction (Plume/Penguin1996). Her poetry is included on The Knitting Factory 100 Greatest Poets cd. Michael Musto reviewed Lexa’s poetry in the Village Voice.

In addition to her many other talents, Lexa is an accomplished dancer. She studied jazz, ballet, and tap. In 1995 she discovered Argentine tango and fell in love with the dance. Lexa taught Argentine Tango and Milonga at DanceSport in NYC and she continues to teach privately. In July 2007, she placed 3rd (dancing the lead) in the U.S. Tango Salon Championship and was the first woman leader officially invited to dance in the Mundial Competition in Buenos Aires. In July 2008, Lexa and partner Gayle Madeira won 1st place in the U.S. Tango Stage Championship and Lexa held on to her 3rd place standing in Salon Tango. Lexa also writes TangoStars, the astrology column for dancers for Reportango magazine.

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