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IMPORTANT NOTES Site Map See the center of this booklet for a map of the festival site. Cell Phones Please keep your phones in silent mode when attending workshops and rituals, and also while camping overnight. Photographs Before taking a picture, please ensure that you have the subjects’ permission. If you plan to post any of your TempleFest pictures online or via any social media, again please double-check that you have subjects’ permission to do so. Once you have permission, carry on! Feel free to tag the Temple of Witchcraft and TempleFest Facebook pages, and tweet photos to @TOWitchcraft. Security and First Aid In case of emergencies, attendees can be paged by request at the information booth. There will also be a nurse available on- site for medical emergencies. Aries Ministry is handling security for the weekend. Speak with any member of Team TempleFest—identifiable by their red STAFF t-shirts—if an issue arises that requires security assistance. Questions? Ask your questions at the information booth or speak with a Team TempleFest member. WELCOME TO TEMPLEFEST! Greetings! This is the Temple of Witchcraft’s sixth annual summer festival, and we are delighted that you have joined us. The Temple welcomes Orion Foxwood as our keynote speaker for 2015, along with Temple Founder Christopher Penczak. For many of us, TempleFest is a well-earned weekend respite from the stresses of the mundane world. It also represents an opportunity to network with other witches, expand our knowledge, and feel part of a larger community. While taking your ease, please keep in mind that TempleFest is at its heart a working retreat. Approach it as if you were vacationing at a sacred site; this is a special place that we are calling our home for three days but—please—don’t forget to have fun! We strive to combine the seriously playful and the playfully serious into our routines. Thank you for attending TempleFest. We look forward to making this a meaningful, safe, and joyful spiritual event for all. Merry meet – and may you enjoy your stay! Blessings, Team TempleFest and the Temple of Witchcraft 1 DAILY SCHEDULE Friday Evening Schedule 6:30 – 7:30 Opening and Protection Ritual (Sacred Fire Ritual Area) 7:30 – 10:00 Ministerial Student Initiations (Main House Labyrinth Room) 7:30 – 8:40 Workshops (see page 6) 10:00 (approximately) The Dance of the Peacock Angel (Sacred Fire Ritual Area) Saturday Schedule 9:00 – 9:30 Morning Attunement and Announcements (center of merchant area) 9:30 – 12:30 Children Parent Open Play (white/apple trees) 9:45 – 10:45 Keynote with Christopher Penczak, “Witchcraft, the Holy Grail, and the Age of Aquarius” (Main Tent) 11:00 – 12:10 Workshops (see page 8) 12:30 – 1:30 Lunch/Shopping 1:30 – 2:00 Children’s Lammas Ritual (center of merchant area) 1:30 – 2:40 Workshops (see page 11) 3:00 – 4:30 Lammas Ritual with Alix Wright (Main Tent) 2 DAILY SCHEDULE Saturday Schedule 5:00 – 6:30 Keynote Speaker Orion Foxwood, “Circle of Witchery” (Main Tent) 6:30 – 8:00 Dinner/Social Time 8:00 – 9:10 Workshops (see page 15) 9:30 – 10:30 Bardic Circle (Sacred Fire Ritual Area) 10:30 – 11:30 Drumming Circle (Sacred Fire Ritual Area) 11:30 – 12:30 Dance of the Mighty Dead ritual with Alix Wright and Christopher Penczak (Sacred Fire Ritual Area) Sunday Schedule 8:00 – 9:30 Continental Breakfast for Campers (Main Tent) 9:00 – 9:30 Morning Attunement and Announcements (center of merchant area) 9:30 – 10:40 Workshops (see page 15) 11:00 – 12:10 Workshops (see page 17) 12:30 – 1:30 Lunch/Shopping/Workshop Tent Breakdown Musical Guests Green Lady and Willowfire 1:30 – 3:00 Keynote Speaker Orion Foxwood, “Holy Trinity” (Main Tent) 3:00 – 4:00 50/50 Raffle Drawing, followed by Closing Ritual (center of merchant area) 3 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: ORION FOXWOOD Orion Foxwood is a witch, conjure-man and faery seer; and, the author of The Faery Teachings (RJ Stewart Books), The Flame in the Cauldron, The Tree of Enchantment and The Candle and the Crossroads (Weiser Books). Orion is the founder, and primary teacher, of the House of Brigh Faery Seership Institute, a multi-year teaching program; and a co-founder of Conjure Crossroads (CC), a collaboration between five seasoned root-workers and witches focused on preserving and promoting the healing and helping benefits of southern root-work, witchcraft and other folk traditions. He is the Founding Elder of Foxwood Temple, a coven dedicated to passing on the traditional witchcraft of his elders. He holds a Master’s Degree in Human Services. His website is orionfoxwood.com. A Circle of Witchery Saturday, 5:00–6:30 pm • Main Tent One of the most utilized yet generalized and misunderstood tools of the witch, is the magical space referred to as “the circle of the old art.” The circle is a powerful tool for shifting into the Mill of Magic and is a gateway into the spirit world and so much more. In this workshop, Orion will share insights, lore and techniques that he has gleaned in 30 years of circle-work. We will move ourselves between the worlds where we make the magic that made the world. The Holy Trinity of Witchery The Knowing, Flame & Blood • Sunday, 1:30–3:00 pm, Main Tent The core of Orion's traditions focuses on what he calls “the Holy Trinity” of witchcraft: the witch-knowing (deep inner wisdom), the witch-flame (the power and vitality of nature) and the witch-blood (a genetic propensity for other-ness and natural magic). In this workshop Orion will cover each of the three in a deeply personal and profound fashion. Welcome home! 4 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: CHRISTOPHER PENCZAK Temple co-founder Christopher Penczak has written numerous books, including the foundational Temple of Witchcraft series for Llwellyn Publications. A long-time teacher of the Craft, Christopher helped to found the Temple as a pagan religious nonprofit to answer current and former students’ calls to service for the community. Christopher maintains a website at christopherpenczak.com and continues to travel and teach widely. Witchcraft, The Holy Grail and the Age of Aquarius Saturday, 9:45–10:45 am, Main Tent From the depths of myth and legend, to popular books, movies and television, the story of the Holy Grail has fascinated us, but why? What is the Grail? Why should we, as modern Witches, Pagans and Magicians, care? Dig deeper than the popularized notions of the Grail to understand its many manifestations as a stone, plate, spear, severed head, cauldron and of course, cup. Learn about its guardians and keepers encountered on the quest. Ask "Whom Does the Grail Serve?" and find out why it is a perfect image for the divine connection in the Age of Aquarius, for the Glastonbury Zodiac Phoenix hold the Grail in its beak, pouring its waves out upon the Earth. Dance of the Mighty Dead Ritual Saturday, 11:30 pm–12:30 am, Sacred Fire Ritual Area Pay the Coin and light the candle that guides the way to the Dance of the Mighty Dead. Pass through the gates between worlds and cross the bridge to gain an audience with She who is the Queen of Fate. Gaze into the silver Moon pools of your chalice and drink your fill of the sacred cup. Dance in the fire light of the Phosphorous Grove with the kin of our Timeless Tradition, the Mighty Dead and remember the way back beyond this mortal life. Limited number of participants and participants will be chosen by lottery. Please bring a chalice. Though a number of chalices are available. Special Silver Coin will be provided. 5 WORKSHOPS & RITUALS Slot 1 • Friday 7:30 pm – 8:40 pm Priest of the Goddess Devin Hunter • Main Tent Those who identify as male have a rich part in the history of Goddess worship. The Goddess is still worshipped by many men and new mysteries have been cultivated to meet the needs of Her modern priesthood. Join Devin Hunter as he shares stories, prayers, chants, and rituals for contemporary priests of the Goddess. Topics include a history of male Goddess worship, the contemporary Goddess movement and our place within it, the roles of a priest of the Goddess, and more! This workshop is for anyone who identifies as male and works with Goddess energy. The Great Work Elements, Sun, Moon and Stars for Magickal Advancement Heron Michelle • Red Tent This workshop offers an approach for spiritual and magickal work by integrating the tides of Elemental, Solar, Lunar and Astrological cycles, thus laying out a year-long map of energetic tides, and planning magickal workings within the Wheel of the Year to experience a deep spiritual exploration, with balance, for the advancement of your personal evolution. Proto-Indo-European Religion Ceisiwr Serith • Yellow Tent Long before there were the Celts or the Norse; long before there were the Romans or the Greeks; long before there were the Balts or the Slavs, the Iranians or the Vedic Indians, there were their ancestors, the Proto-Indo- Europeans. Their culture lies at the base of all of those others, and at the base of our own. By comparing the descendant traditions, we can recreate to a large extent the ancestral one. When we do, not only do we find one with great beauty and depth of insight, but also a lens through which we can understand its descendants and ourselves. In this presentation, I will be concentrating on Proto-Indo-European cosmology, ritual, and values as ways to increase our understanding of myth, reality, and how we can relate to the cosmos in a harmonious way.