May 25th and 26th, 2024
Our Sorcery Hour
A virtual session of Sorcery collectively hosted by LGBTQIA members of the Craft promoting solidarity between our communities.
About
Our Sorcery Hour is not an expensive/inaccessible event for many, but a series of workshops in webinar format collectively hosted, organized and promoted for members of the LGBTQIA community and other minorities within the esoteric community.
The low costs of each ticket, although accessible to most, will help us cover the work of the designers, coordinators, rental platforms, presenters, and webinar services used, making possible a series of short classes (50~60 minutes per class) of the hand of different sorcerers, brujas, witches, and expert teachers on the subject, with a variety of presenters who are here to represent different faces of the community.
Creating a series of virtual classes accessible to the majority in different topics of magic and sorcery where diversity, respect among our members, collaboration, and creating a safe space for all is vital.
Featuring: Yvla Mara Radziszewski, Mawiyah Kai EL-Jamah Bomani, Alysha Kravetz, Laura Davila, Nicholas Pearson, Moss Matthey, Elhoim Leafar, and various special Guests to be confirmed.
A virtual session of Sorcery entirely focused on minorities and collectively hosted by BIPOC & LGBTQIA Witches reclaiming their power.
Sponsors
Saturday 11:00am
Saturday 1:00pm
Saturday 2:00pm
Saturday 4:00pm
Saturday 6:00pm
Explore the archetypes of your dreams through the tarot and sink into a renewed self-care practice for sleep with Jezmina Von Thiele.
Dive into dream work and dream interpretation, using the archetypes of the tarot and Jezmina’s Romani-Sinti framework. In this workshop, we will discuss ways to approach sleep and dreaming as a magical, healing, and cathartic space to integrate the many parts of the self, and to connect to ancestors. These methods will include:
Event will include:
● ritual
● soothing bedtime self care practices
● meditation
● dream tea recipes
Together, we will overview dream interpretation and dream journaling, and how to use tarot as a tool in this context. At the end of our time together, we will use the tarot to interpret our own dreams through journaling.
Make sure to bring the following items to class:
● a tarot deck
● a journal
● something to write with
Saturday Night
Sunday 1:00pm
Fnord and Void (or, A Comedy of Eris): An Introduction to Discordian Cosmogony
Generally known as a parody religion based on the worship of the Greek Goddess Eris, Discordianism offers a surprisingly nonsense-free worldview, as well as a practical, postmodern take on occultism. Since its inception, Discordianism has quietly influenced everything from fiction and literature to electronic dance music… AND NOW IT CAN INFLUENCE YOU. (But only with your consent. Discordianism totally respects boundaries.)
Topics explored will include the Discordian creation myth; the Five Discordian Elements; the Apostles of Eris; the Law of Eristic Escalation; and the Curse of Greyface and how to defeat it. We will also discuss why cockroaches make the best psychopomps.
Sunday 2:00pm
Mawiyah Bomani
Healing Altars Creating Revolutionary Spaces for Social & Emotional Change.
In this spiritual warfare workshop, we will examine how to use altar spaces honoring deities, or sheroes and heroes of our lineage and cultural backgrounds, in the fight for equality for Black and Brown people everywhere.
Sunday 3:00pm
Sunday 4:00pm
Bimboyaga | Ylva Mara
Foundations of Ritual Eroticism: Establishing Consensual & Sacred Spaces of Erotic Exploration
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Magic is inherently sensual. The power of the Witch is sourced from the undulation of the elements pulsing through our lives. Harnessing this energy is a foundational technique, useful in fueling and empowering any ritual or spell… particularly those centering healing, manifestation, growth, protection, boundaries, and empowerment.
Accessing the energy of the elements within the body allows the Witch to draw and focus its magic into their altars, relationships and actions with more potency. It’s important to note that this workshop will explore queer eroticism as a conduit for raising, focusing, and using magical energy.
Sunday 5:00pm
Jonathan Martinez
A Fool’s Journey, A Study of the Major Arcana Cards & Their Story.
A mystical exploration of the major Arcana and their deep relationship with Joseph Campbell’s theory of “the hero with a thousand faces”
Sunday Night
Pre-Recorded
Full Calendar (TLDR)
Preliminary calendar is subject to change due to availability of presenters. All classes will be recorded and made available to all paid audience members for a year after the event is concluded.
Saturday May 25th | Sunday May 26st |
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Aly Kravetz 11:00 am | Thumper Forge Start: 1:00pm |
Break | Break |
Emma Kathryn Start: 1:00pm | Mawiyah Bomani Start: 2:00pm |
Break | Break |
Nadia Romanov Start: 2:00pm | Laura Davila Start: 3:00pm |
Break | Break |
Laura González Start: 4:00pm | Ylva Mara Start: 4:00pm |
Break | Break |
Jezmina Von Thiele Start: 6:00pm | Jonathan Martinez Start: 5:00pm |
Meet and Greet Zoom Meeting with all the presenters and assistants | Meet and Greet Zoom Meeting with all the presenters and assistants |
Elhoim Leafar Pre-Recorded |
Meet the Presenters
Mawiyah Bomani
I Am Mawiyah Kai El-Jamah Bomani.
An Award-winning Writer, Cartomancer, Educator, and Spirit Woman, and Author of
‘Conjuring The Calabash’.
Nadia Romanov
Nadia Romanov (California), also known as The Librarian Witch, is a Tarot reader, mystical consultant, educator, and creator of Romanov Manor, a magical source for services, study, and products. Nadia’s podcast, ‘A Magical Life with Nadia’ is debuting at the start of summer.
Emma Kathryn
Author of ‘WITCH LIFE: A Practical Guide to Making Every Day Magical’ (2022) and ‘SEASON SONGS: Rediscovering the Magic in the Cycles of Nature’ (2024).
Emma Kathryn (Nottinghamshire, UK) is a staff writer at Witch Way Magazine, The House of Twigs blog, Stone, Root, and Bone blog, the Spiral Nature blog, and Gods & Radicals. She hosts Wild Witch Podcast and has spoken at several UK Pagan events, including the Magickal Women Conference in London.
Laura González
Rev. Laura González (México, United States) is a bruja, psychic, activist, teacher, and published writer. Also she is a priestess for the ‘Fraternity of the Goddess’, minister and podcaster for ‘Circle Sanctuary’ where she hosts Lunatic Mondays & Lunes Lunáticos podcast(s) in English and Spanish respectively.
She will be teaching this Year at Our Sorcery Hour 2024.
Thumper Forge
Thumper Forge (Houston, TX) co-author of VIRGO WITCH: Unlock the Magic of Your Sun Sign.
Thumper is a Gardnerian High Priest, an initiate of the Minoan Brotherhood, an Episkopos of the Dorothy Clutterbuck Memorial Cabal of Laverna Discordia, and a notary public. Thumper Forge also blogs for Patheos Pagan in their own page FIVEFOLD LAW.
Learn more at ThumperForge.com
Ylvadroma Marzanna Radziszewski
Ylva Mara Radziszewski is Bimbo Yaga, the Witch MILF of your wet dreams. She is a traditional witch and artist of Romani and Eastern European heritage currently living in New Orleans, traditionally known as Bulbancha; ancestral Chitimacha land. Her ritual and art practice are interwoven; for them magic is art and art is healing. Founder of the School Of Traditional Magic, author of A Practical Guide for Witches, co-creator of The Living Altar, featured in WITCHCRAFT by TASCHEN for LIBRARY ESOTERICA.
Jezmina Von Thiele
Jezmina Von Thiele (they/she) is a writer, educator, performer, and fortune-teller in their mixed Sinti Romani tradition.
Jezmina reads tarot, palms, and tea leaves online as well as in person at @deadwicks Ethereal Emporium in Portsmouth, NH.
They also teach classes and workshops on divination, spiritual wellness, and the creative arts. Jezmina often tells fortunes and performs poetry with The Poetry Brothel, and also cohosts the @romanistanpodcast, a space celebrating Romani culture, and owner and operator of the online vintage Etsy shop @evileyeedit. Her book ‘Secrets of Romani Fortune-Telling: Divining with Tarot, Palmistry, Tea Leaves, and More’ comes out in Oct 2024.
Jonathan Martínez
Jonathan Martinez is a lifelong Learner, Educator, and Artist native to New York City, and working in the Florida Area. His work with Crystals, Tarot, and Divination offers clients a safe and loving place to receive intuitive messages and work on the development of their Highest Self. Jonathan also offers personal oils, hand wrapped jewelry, candles, and facilitates workshops around topics such as Shadow work, Shaman, Inner Child Healing, and the development of one’s own Spiritual Practice.
Jonathan will be teaching this Year at Our Sorcery Hour 2024.
Sponsorships
Our Sorcery Hour is proudly organized, hosted and promoted by a very small group of LGBTQIA members of the Witchcraft Community, and our focus is creating a whole set of virtual classes under a very accessible price for everyone interested.*
A virtual program will be created for our attendees and distributed for free in a dozen different pages (including websites and blogs), this program will be filled with information from the presenters and a long list of curated resources, books, and blogs; including also six Spells.
Sponsors will have a chance to be in our program for a fee which will help to continue this project, bringing accessible workshops to our community and also giving us the chance to continue paying for the time of our team, including presenters, media managers, and designers.
Sponsorship Plans:
GOLD $150
Gold Sponsors will have a complete page in our virtual program, logo and name will be present in our main website page, mentioned in live both days of classes, posted three times in our Facebook page, and be added to our list of resources in the program.
SILVER $80
Silver Sponsors will have half a page in our virtual program, name will be present in our main website page, tagged in social media, and be added to our list of resources in the program.
*Our Sorcery Hour reserves the right to choose which sponsorship to accept, people interested will be notified of our answer.
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