When contemplating spiritual metamorphosis, many unwittingly overlook certain aspects of the process in their excitement to reach the butterfly state.

In this workshop, participants are encouraged to more closely focus on:

• The components of the chrysalis shell that has contained them

• The catharsis of emerging from within it

• Gaining insight into how we might tend our newly emerged, still-wet wings, and navigate the sudden expansion of options afforded by having wings

This workshop allows for:

• Deep introspection

• Empowered action through movement

• Receiving healing energy through channeled sound

• A live channeled spiritual journey led by Samael, spoken by Tava, and supported by live sound, music, and energy transmissions, with the use of color and intention to anchor these new discoveries in the physical plane.  All of this unfolds while immersed in collective strength and support.

This is profound work, undertaken within consciously created sacred space, held by experienced energy workers and magical practitioners, and supported by a host of angels and divine beings.

Lilith and The Lost City: The Four Mirrors is an introductory class on the philosophy and practices of Lilithian Magick. Centered on improving self-worth and the recognition of the Divine Self, participants put Lilithian Philosophy into practice by constructing a Lost City Scapegoat Poppet and taking it through a guided ritual meant to help participants recognize their eternal nature. You don’t have to be perfect to be divine, and once you accept the messy, Human, and impure parts of yourself, a new sense of power emerges.

The Holy Roots is a unique Lilithian Magick class that blends second-level Lilithian philosophy, Dae divination, and ritual gesture. It is recommended that participants have either attended the Lilith Path at Mystic Fire or have taken Lilith and The Lost City: The Four Mirrors before taking this class. 

Participants will experiment with a unique divination set exploring the edges of states of being and observe energies moving in the seen and unseen worlds. The philosophy used to read the set is then applied to Lilithian dance and social engagement and Lilithian ritual dress. 

A not-yet-published Holy Roots cartomancy layout will also be introduced, for use either with The Deck of Rebellion or other cartomancy systems.

There is a $35 materials fee for this workshop that covers a one-of-a-kind handmade Holy Roots divination lot-casting set in a bag hand-stamped with the Black Moon Lilith symbol. There is also a little guidebook that comes with the set.

To sign up for this workshop, please click here.

Everywhere you go - from the middle of the city, to the depths of a forest - you are surrounded by the Spirits of Place. They go by many names. They can be benevolent or malicious, but most of the time, they just want to be treated with respect. Join Christa for a practical lesson in Spirit Etiquette, as we take a nighttime stroll around the park. Learn how to sense the presence of the Spirits of Place, how to distinguish between an actual spirit and your body's natural fight-or-flight instinct kicking into overdrive in the dark, and most importantly, how to foster a sense of mutual respect across the veil.

As we emerge from the darkest days of the year into light, we take stock and realize that there is still some heavy lifting to do. After months of introspection, of creating and plotting, of tending to our souls in the dark, we have a suspicion that we have forgotten something. We want to launch from the chrysalis, unburdened. In order to do so, we must face our fears. 

This workshop invites participants to sit with their mortality in a way that will make them able to appreciate life more fully. Discussion will include beliefs about death and dying, the good and bad ways that we have witnessed death ritualized, and how we want our own ends marked. 

Participants will have an opportunity to identify the most important considerations for their end-of-life (burial or cremation, green cemetery or traditional, prom dress or shroud) and will make a basic plan for a ritual to mark their lives and death. Additionally, attendees will have an opportunity to reclaim and perform rites for anyone they have seen misrepresented by conventional belief systems or lack of understanding. 

Death workers Jennifer Jurlando and Tava Baird offer humor and compassion in the face of one of our greatest fears. Participants should plan to reflect, draw, write, and craft in this surprisingly joyful and empowering workshop.

The process from emerging from the chrysalis can be challenging.  How will the person I am becoming fit into the world?  How will I be safe and secure around other people, even those I don't know?  How can I take charge of the flow of my own personal energy in a way that facilitates my emergence, fosters my growth, enhances my sense of safety, and provides me with a secure foundation for my working as I continue to become who I wish to be?

We all live (and participate) in a constant flow of energy, every single day.  Energy flows into us and out of us, into and out of the people around us, into and out of our environment.  It happens all the time, and many of us never even take the time to notice.

In this class, we will discuss, first of all, what that energy is.  Then we will learn and practice techniques to become consciously aware of the flows into and out of and around us.  We will learn to identify and become familiar with our own energetic centers, the places within us from which our personal power radiates.  We will practice connecting ourselves to a stable place in the earth in order to ensure that we remain steady even when the energy flows we find ourselves in are powerful or even overwhelming.  And we will work to develop a way to shield ourselves from the flow of unwanted energies; energies from outside that we do not wish to reach us, and energies from within that we do not wish to share.

Over the dark half of the year, we have done the shadow work.  We have formed the chrysalis around ourselves and reformed ourselves into what we are ready to become.  We have looked inward in order to give ourselves the understanding and insight we need to look outward.  We've done the hard work, so breaking free of the shape of our past should be easy...right?  But what if it's not easy?  What if we find ourselves at the threshold of our emergence, and we find that the next step is more frightening than we thought?

In this class we will discuss and share those things that are holding each of us back, the parts of our pasts (or our past selves) that we cling to, which make it difficult (and sometimes almost impossible) to fully embrace the person we tell ourselves that we want to be.  While no one in the class will be required to speak, it is not a class for those who wish merely to observe and absorb.  Each of us will be expected to participate, delving deep and sharing and discussing our needs and fears.  We will explore and uncover those things which drive us to stand at the precipice of becoming...and to hesitate and retreat and make excuses.  Come prepared to speak and to listen, in sacred space, as we all help one another unfurl our wings

This workshop centers on the quiet, steady work of herbs in times of change. Drawn from folk herbal traditions, we will explore plants long used to steady the nerves, soften the heart, and support the body during periods of waiting, shedding, and becoming. Together, we will prepare simple herbal teas for meditation, transformation, and everyday self-care. You’ll learn how to listen to plants through taste, scent, and body response, and how to blend herbs with intention—without hurry or excess. The focus is on approachable, home-scale plant work: leaves, flowers, roots, and the old knowledge of how they hold and guide us. This is not about forcing change, but about being held while it happens. Like a chrysalis, the work is inward and slow. Participants will leave with practical tea blends, foundational folk herbal skills, and a deeper understanding of how plants can support reflection, rest, and quiet transformation in daily life. No prior herbal experience is required, only a willingness to sit, sip, and listen.

The Hero's journey is the story of leaving the nest, venturing out into the world and being transformed. Sometimes you can return home with a bag of gold and some great stories to share. Other times, you may find that you no longer fit your old mold. 

Everyone looks at tarot's Major Arcana in relation to The Hero's Journey, but what about the Minor Arcana? If the Majors are the big rocks, then the Minors are the everyday actions that guide us. This workshop is a walk through how the Minors align with The Hero's Journey. Tarot is a great reflection of where we are and what we need to look to in order to take our next steps.

Bring a song, a poem, an instrument, your voice, a dance, or anything else you'd like to share with the group. We will sing and play songs of Awakening, whatever that may mean to you. Of emergence, of rising up, Of self, of new beginnings... Alyssa will bring her guitar and several songs to get the group started. From there she will follow the group's lead to continue making music in the moment. Your ideas are welcome!

Jewish mystics called writing, black fire on white fire, such was the power of the very word. In this special Beltane ritual, we will invoke our writing guides and higher selves from beyond the veil to access the wisdom of the collective unconscious as well as our own subconscious, allowing guidance and wisdom to flow through our roots, our hearts, our hands, and our pens. Using signs and symbols, repeating patterns and recurring themes from our dreaming as well as waking lives, we will enter the liminal space where thought meets form in the sacred chrysalis where all magic begins. Wherever we are in our current or past incarnations, wherever we want to go or have been, every experience and emotion we carry is sacred fuel for our writing and the act of creation. Each participant will leave with a handcrafted Writing Fire candle, a spellcasting journal, and their own powerful invocations for future blueprints and visions. No prior writing experience required, just curiosity, willingness, and imagination.

Spaces for this workshop are limited to 12 participants.  Click here to sign up and save your spot!

There comes a time in each person's life where they feel the need to go inwards. It is only natural to build ourselves a secure refuge to rest, recover and reflect. Sometimes though, the snow melts, the sun invites the flowers to emerge from the soil, the birds and the bees begin their annual dance through the budding trees, and yet we remain safely tucked inside our cocoon. In this workshop Ashley shares moments from her life’s journey as we explore together why we may get stuck inside what feels familiar, even when we feel the call to spread our wings and fly. Maybe your past has taught you that it is unsafe to show the world who you truly are. Or perhaps your cocoon, meant to only be a temporary fixture in your life, still remains to shield you from painful or uncomfortable thoughts and feelings. Unfortunately, if we numb our hearts to pain we also numb our hearts to joy. You are invited to emerge from your fortress of solitude, if only to stick out a hand and wave “hello!”. It is a step that takes tremendous courage, but you deserve to live as your true authentic self, to know the all vibrant sensations of the human experience, and feel the sun warm your skin once again. If you’ve ever been nervous to make a phone call, you’ll be in good company here.

An initiation is a ceremony or ritual which a candidate for a particular organization or society must undergo. There are challenges to the candidate, which that candidate must successfully overcome in order to proceed to becoming an active member of that particular society or organization. There are many varieties of initiations, but today, we will only look at four of them which have been prominent in history, and several are still in practice today. Since initiation rituals are supposedly secret, some information on them has come out. We will first look at Freemasonry, then the Knights Templar, and then Mithraism, a stream which goes back through the ages to before the common era. Finally, we'll take a look at the Navy's King Neptune ceremony for sailors crossing the equator for the first time.

Just as a caterpillar and a butterfly have different perspectives from their different experiences and places in life, so do we.  This class is designed to explore some of the results from those different perspectives while encouraging everyone to engage with perspectives that both align and differ from their own.  In this class, we will engage with the world around us and explore different perspectives using various tools to fracture, magnify, and reflect nature to get a sense of their impact on us individually and how multiple individual perspectives weave together to form the shared reality we all experience.  Camp chairs are recommended as we will be spending time outside the craft cabin.