Schedule
Schedule so far… watch this page for updates as presentations continue to come in.
Wednesday, Sept 24
Early arrivals in the afternoon and evening to setup camp and be ready for festival start on Thursday.
Thursday, Sept 25
Festival starts with opening ritual and full day of presentation programming.
Friday, Sept 26
Another full day of presentations with games and entertainment around main fire in the evening.
Saturday, Sept 27
Final day of festival with main ritual and closing in the evening.
Sunday, Sept 28
Pack up camp and head out. No planned programming.
Presentations
23/93 Current
A dive into the history of Chaos Magick with a focus on its thelemic roots and how it may be seen as both an extension and rejection of thelema.
Presented By: Nia Ain
Competent Correspondences
What makes Nightshades Saturnine? Do any of your yard plants substitute for mugwort? We are going to walk through why the stars and the plants relate and how to work with the energies carried into your practice.
Presented By: Pythia
Consent-based governance for Occult Groups
Discussion of lessons learned the hard way about governance of occult groups. From the the OTO, to the IOT, and even governance of this festival! We'll talk about and what has worked, what hasn't, and how to use the consent-based governance to distribute power in occult groups.
Presented By: Nia Ain
Feast of Shadows
A blend of Chaos Magick, Jungian Archetypes, and emotional intelligence work to face the human shadow in a small group. This is a great opportunity to bond deeply with fellow festival attendees in an authentic and accepting way. All participation is voluntary. We’ll share six rounds to first form a container of sacred trust, then perform inner alchemy with one another using introspective techniques derived from ManKind Project and amplified with Chaos Magick. Some of ShadowEater’s most profound magick on himself and others has been in this sacred circle.
Presented By: Shane Shadoweater
Find your Personal Meaning of Life
We’ll enter a light trance through breathwork, answer three questions that Harvard Psychology Professor Arthur Brooks suggested can reveal your personal meaning of life, craft statements to aspire toward our discoveries, sigilize them, then charge our new servitors with thirty minutes of continual breathwork!
Presented By: Shane Shadoweater
Glossolalia Oracle
Ask a question of your choice to the Glossolalia Oracle and receive answers in this participatory divination ritual. Inspired by the spiritualist seances of old along with modern techniques of spirit contact like the Estes Method, participants can approach and ask a question of the oracle, surrounded by helpers speaking in tongues who will channel into the answers into your deepest, most mundane, or ridiculous questions.
Presented by: Skella
I Ching Divination And Pathworking
Learn divination with the oldest document in continual use in all of human culture, the Book of Changes! We’ll practice the three coin toss method. Then learn a technique to become the oracle! Pathworking blends, study, introspection, and use of the Imaginal senses to merge one’s identity with sacred wisdom.
Presented By: Shane Shadoweater
Introduction to Emanant Void Magick
An introduction to the system of Emanant Void Magick, the philosophy behind it, and the narrative ontology of void emanation.
Presented By: Nia Ain
Pagans in Recovery
PIR is a 12 step group open to anyone working the steps for recovery from any addiction. This is not a ‘homegroup’ but it’s a place to get a dose of recovery in the context of polytheism or a magickal practice.
Presented By: Shane Shadoweater
Plants as Servitors
Let someone else do the work for you. How to grow your own servitors so you don't have to worry about the background. We will walk through starting seeds, selecting plants, and training them on long-term work so you can iron out details.
Presented By: Pythia
Pragmatic Magic
Chaos Magick has often been called "result based" magic. It has also often failed to live up to this, and much of its history has a firm focus on things that are not practical nor rooted in utility. This talk will focus on what may be some useful avenues for approaching magic to get practical results, pulling ideas from American Pragmatism, Phenomenology and some less discussed ideas from the greater occult tradition.
Presented By: s.m. Kennedy
Rituals of Emanant Void Magick
Ritual practice informed by the system of Emanant Void Magick, jumping right into practical application of the numeric vocalizations and how the narrative ontology translates into casting in three-dimensional ritual space.
Presented By: Nia Ain
Sigilized Sin-Eating (A Competitive Ritual)
Yara will lead a presentation that begins with a brief history of the practice of sin-eating and internal alchemy. After this, the attendees will be taught the basics of the Russian card game дурак. Participants will then compete against each other to determine who will be the day's "sin-eater" and alchemically convert undesired elements into a net positive.
Presented By: Yaramarud
Surrealism and Magick
From its origin in 1920s France to its utilization in art throughout the world, Yara will discuss the inception, principles, and development of surrealism from its pre-Dadaist origins and its ties with spiritualism and the occult. Examples of this art movement’s early beginnings as a literary conjuration will be shared before moving on to practical applications for what Yara has termed “applied dreaming”.
Presented By: Yaramarud
Surrealist Sigil Working
Inspired by surrealism and existentialism this ritual inverts the normal formula of sigil magick by creating the sigil using automatic processes that engage the unconscious.
Presented By: Nia Ain
Toasting and Cursing
A ritual game of randomized toasting and cursing. Each take turns drawing cards naming some random thing, person, or concept and offering a toast to whatever it says. All present either drink to it or discard the now cursed beverage into the curse bucket. At the end participants add additional targets to curse and toss them in the foul brew.
Presented By: Lara D. & Nia Ain
Toxick Magick
Siddhartha Wetzel will begin this lecture with a brief overview of his most recent book, Ill Thoughts, Ill Words, Ill Deeds: A Toxick Magick Primer: Vol 1. In this book, Siddhartha recognizes that our world is ruled by amoral psychopathy, in utter disregard of the environment and the populace, and provides the reader with tools to begin the counter-assault. Siddhartha will finish the lecture with an outline on the further tactics and strategies that will be presented in Throwing Rocks at God: Toxick Magick Vol. 2.
Presented By: Siddhartha Wetzel
Xtremme Cut-Ups
From the Dadaist movement, this technique cut up lines of text to reform and bring forth new meanings from banal segments of the daily news. In this lesson, we give the text to total chaos and work with the shredded disaster birthed forth.
Presented By: Pythia