Witches Confluence 2024: Spiritual Activism
Engage with your spiritual path in ways that are creative, curious, and community driven. Cultivate kinship with a network of magically engaged folks and foster networks of care and connection. Leave empowered and fortified for the next stage of your personal evolution and our collective transformation.
Our 2024 Witches Confluence...
refilled our spiritual cups! Thank you to all our vendors, attendees, teachers, and sponsors for making our 2024 gathering such a memorable event.
DIGITAL WORKSHOPS
DIGITAL WORKSHOPS
There’s still time to tune in!
Witches Confluence workshop recordings are now available to purchase, if you missed our live events in the Autumn of 2024.
Art of Divination with the Oracle Divination Board with Isis Indriya
Astro Activism: Harnessing the Power of the Zodiac for Social Justice with Jeff Hinshaw
A conversation with: Layla K. Feghali and Sanyu Estelle
A QUEER LIGHT: The Art of Alchemy with Eliza Swann
CONFLUENCE WORKSHOPS
CONFLUENCE WORKSHOPS
Our Confluence keynote speaker:
Energetic Boundaries in Times of Chaos with Jessica Lanyadoo
Join renowned psychic medium and astrologer Jessica Lanyadoo for an insightful keynote talk, Energetic Boundaries in Time of Chaos. Over the course of one hour, we will explore how to create healthy energy boundaries in such unstable times. Learn from her expertise on how to engage with the world energetically without merging with it and losing your own energy. Jessica will host a 30-minute Q&A session, offering you the chance to ask questions and receive personalized insights into maintaining your energetic health.
Jessica’s keynote will take place in-person at the SF County Fair Building on November 2nd, and is included in your Confluence admission. This talk will be recorded and shared with the community after the event.
Our stellar line-up of teachers and workshops will empower you to cast spells for collective liberation and personal growth.
Cosmic Plant Power with Star Feliz
Plants are our faithful guides on life’s transformational journeys. Plants have always been at the front lines of change and they’re waiting for all of us to re-learn their language so that we can listen to their cosmic insights. Join Star Feliz of Botánica Cimarrón, the creator of the LA Times-featuredGreen Gold Oracle Deckfor an enlightening introduction into the realm of plant spirits. From an Afro-Indigenous botanical perspective, we’ll explore the power of plants to heal, transform, and create new life – and come away with practical tools to initiate and integrate sacred plant relationships in your everyday life.
Multi-dimensional Protection Magic for Witches + Activists with Kiki Robinson
In this workshop, we will focus on protection magic in the spiritual, digital, and physical realms when engaged with magical activism. This workshop will be part lecture, part experiential.
Raising Power: Techniques of Transformation with Amanda Yates Garcia
Understanding power: how it works, what it means, and how to call it in, is foundational to the practice of witchcraft. However, many of us only have a vague understanding of what we mean when we use the word. Physicists say power is the amount of energy available to do work, while Ojibwa elders say power lives in the strength and breadth of our relationships. Power comes in many forms: personal, political, collective, ecological, ideological, magical. In this workshop, participants will: develop a definition of power that works for them; get a somatic sense of how power feels as it runs through their bodies; learn techniques for raising power collectively; and gain practical, applicable tools for raising power in their own rituals.
COLLECTIVE CONJURING: sharing spells for liberation with Dori Midnight
Chanting, enchanting, re-enchanting! Awakening, summoning, conspiring, making, breaking! Speaking, breathing, humming, screaming, moaning, singing!
In this workshop we will read and explore existing spells, incantations, poems, and prayers, invoke and share our longings for liberation and justice, and weave a collective spell-poem for protection, inspiration, and resistance. We will ground our intentions in/into our bodies with the prayer to become living spells (knowing that spellwork and prayer is not enough) as we cast ourselves like seeds towards a liberated, thriving world of which we dream of and work for. Participants will be invited to cast our collective spell the closing ceremony.
Special guest performance from:Rohini Moradi
Utilizing modern sound technologies to weave the energetic vibrations of both plants and humans in real time, Rohini Moradi creates an auditory oasis of soothing frequencies that stimulate the senses of body, mind and soul. The harmonious blend of plant frequencies and synth melodies serve as a vehicle for transcendence that allows for the immersed to ditch the b.s. constructs of ‘civilization’ and encounter the profound reality of our interconnected nature.
Rohini’s live orchestration of various waveforms is not a performance nor a concert; it’s an interactive adventure through the inner and outer cosmos. Honoring each listener’s unique journey, the individual energies in the room are received and channeled through the plant itself - meaning each trip in this medium has its own distinctive spiritual imprint from the collective. Whether you're seeking solace, inspiration, or simply a moment of tranquility, Rohini’s music promises to deliver a deeply moving and rejuvenating experience where each note resonates with healing energy. This is an invitation to pause, breathe, and reconnect with the natural world around you.
HEALING & MAGIC WITH THE ANCESTORS with Madre Jaguar
When DEATH shows up, she’ll speak to us about LIFE… Having a relationship with those who came before, honoring and acknowledging our own lineages and ancestry allows us to show up with deeper presence, heart and courage to the human experience.
In this class you will learn ways to contact and connect with your ancestors, how to create a spiritual connection with the other side, how to create sacred space to honor your ancestors and make offerings for the purpose of healing, guidance and empowerment in your current lift
Tactical and Spontaneous Divination Practices with Edgar Fabián Frías
Divination is a diverse and widely practiced tradition across the world. People use it for various purposes, including personal, communal, political, strategic, creative, and collaborative reasons. This hands-on workshop will explore the ancient art of divination in a modern context. My goal is to equip you with the skills and knowledge to develop your own divination practice, tailored to your unique needs and environment. Please bring a notepad, a pen, and any divination tools you find helpful (such as crystals, flower essences, or amulets).
Tarot for Hope: Building Liberated Futures with The Tower and The Star
In times of upheaval and crisis, hope can be hard to find. How do we cultivate hope amidst grief and uncertainty? In this workshop, Radical Tarot author and Fifth Spirit Tarot creator Charlie Claire Burgess will lead us through ways to partner with the tarot for dismantling systems of oppression and building liberated futures. Using The Tower and The Star as our guides, we will explore what the tarot can teach us about revolution and radical change, the simultaneity of grief and hope, cultivating resilience through openness and vulnerability, and creating the future we need through transformative action. Please bring a tarot deck.
Awakening the Ancestral Spirit with Aja Daashuur
Join renowned psychic and medium Aja for an extraordinary experience designed to guide you on a profound ancestral journey. This immersive experience offers a sacred space to give thanks to your ancestors, inviting their guidance, medicine and protection into your life as we navigate a world filled with uncertainty.
By honoring our ancestors, we invite their protective energies to support us in times of need. This relationship with our ancestral guardians is not only protective but also nurturing, providing a sense of belonging and continuity. The rituals and practices you will learn in this workshop create a sacred space for ancestral communication, allowing you to build a lasting and meaningful relationship with your lineage.
Aja will lead you through powerful rituals and meditative practices to connect with your ancestral lineage. You will have the opportunity to honor those who have come before you, acknowledging the wisdom and strength they offer. This connection facilitates deep healing on both sides of the veil, creating a bridge between the physical and spiritual realms.
MARKETPLACE WORKSHOPS
MARKETPLACE WORKSHOPS
The Art of Coffee Reading: From the Kitchen to Communal Kinship with Ani Carla Kalafian
The transformative alchemy of coffee reading and ceremony promotes healing, community connection, the awakening of intuition, and the habit of ritual. I take this to a whole other level in group settings as I guide guests through an elemental energy healing and grounding meditation, we make and brew the coffee together infusing a myriad of flavors in heirloom copper pots and intentions to drink in sacred space with an open-hearted unraveling conversation of all things mystical. Together, we evoke all the senses and embrace the healing benefits of the the special mystical brew. I present wisdom and teachings about the origins of the craft and the ancestral origins. Delve into the rich tradition of coffee divination and ritual in Armenian and SWANA cultures. Explore how reading coffee grounds fosters community, healing, and storytelling. Learn about the significance of preserving this intuitive craft in the face of genocide and cultural erasure. Discover how to brew and savor coffee with mindfulness and understand how your coffee choices contribute to your well-being and the planet.
NATURE’S CROWN ~ a Witch's Head Wreath with Katie Chirgotis
Join Katie of Eothen to learn how to weave a head wreath in celebration of Nature and all Her beauty. We will be working with seasonal, forest ephemera such as dried vines, foliage, blossoms and berries to create ceremonial circlets. Perfect to wear at the confluence and maybe dance into a grove - urban or boreal - afterwards!
Limpias for Spiritual Cleansing with Napaquetzalli
Limpias are a spiritual practice used in many cultures indigenous to this continent, especially in Mexican curanderismo/folk medicine. Limpias are done with fresh plants, flowers, prayers and intention. They are traditionally done to heal from emotional and spiritual imbalances, or after acute shock and trauma to support the spirit and emotional body. Limpias can help during any major life transitions, to help shed stagnant energy, and to call in healing and clarity. It is a beautiful process that helps one release emotions in a safe space with the guidance of plant spirits and ancestors. In this hands-on class, indigenous herbalist and healer Napaquetzalli will lead the group in a self-limpia ritual and instruct participants in how to facilitate this practice for themselves.