Laura Tempest Zakroff An artist, author, and fusion bellydance performer, Rhode Island-based Renaissance Witch Laura Tempest Zakroff is a simmering cauldron of talents and projects. She penned the award-winning “Sigil Witchery,” as well as a library’s worth of tomes on modern witchcraft. A professionally trained visual artist as well, her talent in weaving meaning into design shines through in her oracle decks, which feature her original mystical folklore-inspired artwork.  Her musical collaborations and transcendent dance round out the performance layer of her multidimensional artistry. Although her craft may cover a wide range, she ties it all together as a steadfast mentor in modern witchcraft. She is a facilitator of social change for witches and pagans, and founded the grassroots movement We Are Aradia to inspire others to take a stand through both magical and mundane activism.

Morgan Daimler A priest of the Aos Sidhe, Morgan Daimler teaches classes on Irish myth and magical practices, fairies, and related subjects in the United States and internationally. They have been published in multiple anthologies as well as articles in various magazines, and is one of the world’s foremost experts on all things Fairy. Besides the titles available through Moon Books Morgan has a high fantasy novel ‘Into Shadow’ through Cosmic Egg and has an urban fantasy/paranormal romance series called Between the Worlds. Morgan has also presented papers on fairies and on fairies and witches at several university conferences.

David Shi is a traditional shamanic worker and folk magic practitioner who primarily engages in ancestral North Asian forms of shamanism. He is primarily of Manchurian descent, but can also trace ancestry to Mongolian, Chinese, Korean, as well as a little Tungus Siberian and ancient Central Asian Turkic heritage as well. Raised in a household that incorporated both Southeast Siberian and North Chinese practices, David has dedicated his spare time to the study of the spiritual traditions of his ancestors and of greater Eurasia. Recognized as a sagaasha/ongodtengertei, a future shaman prior to initiation, among both Mongolian and Korean shamans, David’s practices are deeply rooted in spirit work in which ancestral and land spirits are called to empower all workings. David’s readings incorporate a combination of Tarot, Bones, Jaw-harp, as well as Mongolian stone divination (known as Kumalak in Turkic Central Asia).

David is the author of the book “Spirit Voices: The Mysteries and Magic of North Asian Shamanism”, and currently resides in Manhattan, New York where he occasionally provides spiritual services, products, and workshops to his immediate communities.

Aeptha Since establishing the contacted mystery school, Light Haven, in 1993, Aeptha has been actively engaged in community as a teacher, presenter and mentor. As a ceremonialist, mystic and mediator, she serves as a guide to the deep currents of esoteric wisdom, creating opportunities for direct spiritual experiences and breakthroughs. Her initiatory path and training with the late Shakmah Winddrum combined with a lifelong devotion to the mysteries, has cultivated a deep and evolving gnosis that continues to inform and enrich her work. Aeptha’s ceremonial work is deeply guided by her Inner level contacts and has also been influenced by her Solomonic Magick initiation and training, Hermeticism, and Egyptian Mysteries. Her teachings come from vigorous research, a curious mind and a mystical leaning. Aeptha has a workijng Lodge in the North Carolina Mountains. Now fully retired from her counseling practice she is focused on new projects and her ongoing spiritual directives.

Amy Blackthorn is the award-winning author of the best-selling Blackthorn’s Botanicals series. She has been described as an “arcane horticulturalist” for her lifelong work with magical plants and teaching. She incorporates her experiences in British Traditional Witchcraft with her horticulture studies. She has a certification in aromatherapy and is ordained through the Order of the Golden Gryphon. Amy’s company, Blackthorn’s Botanicals, creates tea based on magical associations. She has appeared on HuffPoLive, Netflix’s Top Ten Secrets and AP News.

Enfys J. Book (they/them) is ??the author of Queer Rites: A Magickal Grimoire to Honor Your Milestones with Pride (Llewellyn, 2025) as well as the Gold COVR award-winning Queer Qabala, and co-author (with Ivo Dominguez, Jr.) of Sagittarius Witch. Enfys has taught classes on magickal practice around the world, including at the Omega Institute, Paganicon, ConVocation, Templefest, and the Glastonbury Goddess Conference. They are also the creator of majorarqueerna.com, a website devoted to queer magickal practice, and host a podcast called “4 Quick Q’s: Book Talk with Enfys,” where they interview pagan authors using questions determined by a roll of the dice.

Christian Brunner is an Austrian-born folklorist, author, and educator whose work brings the haunted winter traditions of the Alps into vivid, modern practice. Raised in small-town Austria, he grew up where the dark season was a living force—where Krampus prowled the streets, Perchten masks waited like sleeping spirits, and the Wild Hunt was spoken of as part of the natural world. These early encounters shaped his lifelong study of how Alpine communities navigated fear, shadow, and the unseen. Brunner is the author of Alpine Witchery and co-author of Krampus, Witches, and the Wild Hunt and of Perchten – Magie, Masken, Mythen (Perchten – Magic, Masks, Myths), exploring how magic, masks, and midwinter rites helped people confront both external dangers and inner darkness. He specializes in the “Rauhnächte,” the liminal nights after the Winter Solstice, when roaming spirits and ancestral processions were believed to move through the mountains. As a ritual leader and teacher, he blends scholarship with experiential work, guiding participants to engage with winter’s creatures—not as monsters but as mirrors of shadow, chaos, and renewal. Now based in Massachusetts, he continues to teach and write on Alpine witchcraft and the transformative power of the dark season.

T. Thorn Coyle (they/them) believes that magic is real, justice is worth fighting for, and love always wins. Their magical fiction includes The Witches of Portland, The Steel Clan Saga, The Rhymer of Ash Grove, and more. Thorn also pens two popular paranormal cozy mystery series featuring cats and corgis: Bookshop Witch and Pride Street.
Thorn’s non-fiction includes the award nominated oracle deck and companion book, You Are the Spell, the classic Evolutionary Witchcraft, plus Stars of Power, Crafting a Daily Practice, and Sigil Magic for Writers, Artists & Other Creatives among others.
Thorn has taught spiritual practice around the world and currently lives in Portland Oregon, where they go for long walks and talk to crows, squirrels, cats, and trees.

Christopher Croucher (Stormdancer) is an artist, performer, healer and witch. He weaves his passion for numerous artforms, his background in dance, and his experience as a massage therapist and energy healer together with his magickal practice of over twenty-five years to bring his work into the world in numerous forms. Stormdancer (as he’s known in magickal spaces) is the owner of Doorway In Arts LLC which offers “doorways” into deep connection with the Self and the World through workshops and retreats, performances, one-on-one and group healing, as well as art pieces and magickal creations.Stormdancer’s magickal training has been eclectic and often solitary, synthesizing lessons from various teachers, guides, and experiences with learning from books both practical and fantastical, and a healthy helping of playing in the woods. More than anything, he loves to share his passion for the magic of the world with those who feel it too.

Ivo Domínguez, Jr. has been a witch since 1978 and is one of the founders and Elders of the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel. He is the anchor author for the new twelve book Witch’s Sun Sign Series. Ivo is the author of The Four Elements of the Wise, Keys to Perception, Casting Sacred Space, Practical Astrology for Witches & Pagans, and Spirit Speak. In his mundane life, he has been a computer programmer, the executive director of an AIDS/HIV service organization, a metaphysical bookstore owner, and more. He is queer, poly, and lives in the woods of Southern Delaware with his family of choice.

Robin Fennelly is an Elder within The Assembly of the Sacred Wheel Tradition and serves as High Priestess of Coven of the Mystic Path. Her spiritual journey is strongly rooted in Eastern philosophy, Egyptian High Alchemy and the Western Magickal systems that form a core foundation that is diverse in knowledge and rich in spiritual practice. As a teacher of magickal studies she incorporates Energetic Anatomy, Hermetic Qabalah, Astrology, Egyptian High Alchemy, Planetary/Star Magick and more as the foundations of the diverse selection of workshops she has taught throughout the Pagan community for more than 25 years. Robin is the founder of the Pagan Experience Study group, now in its 14th year of offering online and in-person classes and ritual. She is a prolific writer and has authored several books incorporating her unique style of writing to enhance the concepts presented and is a contributing author to the Llewellyn’s Witch’s Sun Series-Aquarius.

Dave Gaddy, known as The Weathered Wiseman, is a folk practitioner, teacher, author, and healer whose work centers on helping people reclaim forgotten power and live with authenticity. Blending more than three decades of magical practice with storytelling, experiential learning, and Appalachian folk traditions, Dave creates immersive workshops that invite participants to move beyond theory and into direct experience. His teaching emphasizes practical witchcraft, ancestor veneration, spirit work, and the transformative power of living one’s Craft every day.

Ash Glasse (they/them) is a Heathen practitioner based in Western Maryland. They are the Gothar (spiritual leader) of Elk Ridge Kindred; an inclusive Heathen group based in Frederick, Maryland. Ash is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Frederick, where they are an active CUUPS (Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans) member, leader, and teacher. They also teach at many pagan events on the East Coast. Ash’s primary focus in Heathenry is to incorporate the practice into daily life. They try to break down the walls between the spiritual and the mundane, while keeping in touch with Heathenry’s historical roots. They consider their practice a revival more than a reconstruction. Ash also writes and performs with Pagan Folk Band, Kindred Crow and is currently serving on the Board of Directors of The Troth, a worldwide inclusive Heathenry organization. 

Irene Glasse is a Heathen witch based in Western Maryland. She is a longtime teacher of witchcraft, meditation, and magic in the mid-Atlantic. She is the co-author of “Foundations of Witchcraft: A Blackfeather Mystery School Training Manual” (Crossed Crow, 2026), a contributing writer of “Gemini Witch: Unlock the Magic of Your Sun Sign” and “Llewellyn’s 2024 – 2026 Sabbats Almanac” (Llewellyn Worldwide, 2023 – 2025), and a blogger and columnist. She is a Commissioned Lay Minister at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Frederick and is the lead organizer of the Frederick Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (Frederick CUUPS), offering events, rituals, classes and workshops to a large, vibrant community.

Cat Heath is a long-time Heathen Witch with a penchant for effing around with historical magic in order to find out. Originally from Lancashire, England, Cat traded the windswept moors and ancient burial mounds of that land for a life on the winds, eventually coming to call Maryland home after a decade and a half of magical and mundane adventures across three continents. A writer and teacher by trade, Cat now spreads the word of magical FAFO via her book Elves, Witches and Gods: Spinning Old Heathen Magic in the Modern Day, and her many online and in-person classes. You can also find her work at the Seo Helrune blog and Hel-Mail newsletter, as well as on the Feed the Fairies Podcast (co-hosted with Morgan Daimler).

J.R. Mascaro is an ink-soaked hallucination that has manifested to dispense portents and half-whispered facts about various and sundry subjects of great interest and dubious usefulness. He is a sorcerer, an author, a rogue waveform drifting through the cosmos whose signal can sometimes be received around teatime via a Marconi machine. He appears at events on occasion, and also appears in the background of several French daguerreotypes from the mid 1840s, but only if the viewer is squinting and exceedingly intoxicated.

J.R. can be found online here, or on Instagram at @jrmascaro.

Rev. Ron Padrón (he/him/his) is the creator of White Rose Witching. He is a gay Cuban-American hedge priest from the swamps of Florida, now living in the mid-Atlantic. He is specifically interested in divination, Queer Ancestor veneration and necromancy, bio-regional druidry, and spiritual activism. He has presented at gatherings such as the Salem Witchcraft and Folklore Festival, Hallowed Homecoming, Free Spirit Gathering, Sacred Space, Ancestral Pathways Conference, and the 2025 World Pride celebration in Washington, D.C. He is a co-founder and co-editor of a punk spirituality zine, ALTARPUNK, an interfaith project focused on reclaiming faith and spirituality from nationalist movements, and the founder of the PaganPunk Community Grimoire project, a collection of short zines on varying pagan topics.

Solomon Pakal is the founder of the Mayan Mystery School and Mayan Mystery Codex, a magical practitioner of over 20 years in numerous esoteric paths and oracular voice for the ancestral future. He is a historian, former United States Army Officer, former athlete and combat sports analyst. Descending from Kaqchikel Maya roots, Solomon works to grow and expand the frontier of Mesoamerican metaphysics. Growing up in the Afro-Latino Folk Magic scene of Washington D.C. and Baltimore MD, Pakal began practicing at a very young age and was fortunate enough to train with mentors from various backgrounds. A featured teacher across international platforms, his work fuses scholarship with sorcery—drawing from traditional Mesoamerican cosmovisions, diasporic innovations and the encoded language of ritual. With a voice that cuts through illusion and a presence that electrifies the unseen, Solomon Pakal stands not only as a speaker, but as a standard bearer—between the worlds, for the next evolution of magic.

Christopher Penczak is a modern Witch working in the Temple of Witchcraft tradition and community he helped co-found as a writer, teacher, and minister. His practice focuses on the intersection of Love, Will, and Wisdom as an ethos for today’s Witch, and focuses upon relationships with the plant realm, the patterns of astrology, traditional occultism, and the use of trance in the Craft. He is the author of many books, including the award winning Temple of Witchcraft series, The Plant Spirit Familiar, and The Mighty Dead, as well as the co-owner of Copper Cauldron Publishing. The Temple of Witchcraft offers in-person and online mystery school and seminary training based upon his teachings.

Angela Raincatcher is a spirit-led visual artist living and working in the Washington-Baltimore metropolitan area. Consciously pagan since the late 1980s and a priestess and community organizer since the early 2000s, Angela is currently is the dean of students for Reflections Mystery School, head of the Artists’ Guild in the Order of Elemental Mysteries, the creator of the North American Animal Wisdom Oracle and The Well of Mimir oracle deck, and the host of the Polytheism Today podcast. Angela’s canvas and studio are the crossroads and sacred circle where the physical meets the spiritual to create manifest forms of beauty, healing, and transformation.

Dr. Gwendolyn Reece is the high priestess of Theophania, a coven in the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel based in Washington, DC. She is the President of the Sacred Space Foundation (which runs the Sacred Space Conference) and is the author of The Waters of Mnemosyne: Ancient Greek Religion for Modern Pagans. She answered a call to service from Apollon and Athena and works to rebirth the aims of civic religion into contemporary magick and to reinvigorate the practice of philosophy (the practice of living as a lover of wisdom) within Contemporary Paganism. Gwendolyn is also a Theosophist and teaches for the Theosophical Society in America. She is a tenured faculty member at American University and, additionally, publishes scholarly works relevant to Paganism.

Nikki Wardwell Sleath MA has been a disciplined practicing occultist for over 30 years. She is the founder and leader of a private metaphysical training order, the Society of Witchcraft and Old Magick, which is a school of training in American Witchcraft that has been operating for 12 years. Nikki is a full-time professional magickal teacher, tarot and ogham reader, healing practitioner and author. Nikki is a dream facilitator trained in the Robert Moss School of Active Dreaming, was formally trained in the Religious Order of Witchcraft and is the direct 8x great-granddaughter of one of the Salem hanged. Nikki is the author of The Goddess Seals, Dream Sorcery: The Ritual and Magick of Lucid Dreaming, Seals of the Tuatha, and is the co-author of Ogham Sorcery. Find links to Nikki’s work, appearances and offerings at www.nikkiwardwellsleath.com.

Doctor Beverley – known in the mundane world as Beverley Smith – is a mother and a wife, a yogi, a social justice advocate, and a “two-headed conjure doctor” who enjoys living in the mountains in Southern California with her family and her cat. Her interest in the magical arts and conjure spans decades. She specializes in South African Sangoma-style Bone Reading and intuitive divination. Beverley Smith enjoys West African and Caribbean literature & folklore, and the ancient art of storytelling – both as a listener and a storyteller. She is an old-style Hoodoo Rootworker, an empath, a stained glass mosaic artist, a 10 time Burner (Burning Man participant), an organic gardener, a spoken word performer, and a relentless advocate for racial and restorative justice.

Doctor Beverley is available for readings, Rootwork, and spiritual counseling. She can be found at www.DocBev.com where her website is undergoing an overhaul. Reach out at info@DocBev.com

Michael G Smith has been practicing Wicca, Magick, and various esoteric disciplines since 1989 and became active in the Pagan community in 1993 when he joined the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel, a Wiccan organization in the Mid-Atlantic region, and serves as an Elder of the ASW, responsible for the many covens of the Tradition and is heavily involved with the Tradition’s New Alexandrian Library. He is inspired by his studies of astrology, Qabalah, ritual, and the Fae. He lives in southern Delaware and is one of the stewards of Seelie Court, 100 acres of Pagan-owned land dedicated to the growth of the Pagan paths.

Lory Starling (she/her) has been a practicing witch for over 20 years. She is on the board for the Frederick Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (FCUUPS), and the Sacred Space Conference. Though a city witch at heart, she also loves time out in the woods and in the water. Lory is an avid traveler and has been to over 40 countries and territories all around the globe; her favorite part of travel is learning about other cultures and practices. As someone who has spent most of her adult life as a fat person and just about her entire life with a surgical injury and a large scar that she used to be really self-conscious about, Lory is passionate about helping others find both magickal and mundane ways to feel more comfortable in their bodies, and recognizing that their body is a temple… be it a shining golden paragon or something ancient, crumbling, and haunted..

Jhenah Telyndru (MA, Celtic Studies) is a priestess, author, and educator. She founded the Sisterhood of Avalon in 1995, and serves as Academic Dean of the Avalonian Theological Seminary. A formally
trained Celticist through the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, she also holds a BA (Hons.) in Archaeology from Stony Brook
University. Jhenah hosts residential training retreats around North America and the United Kingdom, presents internationally at
conferences and festivals, teaches online workshops and immersion programs, and facilitates pilgrimages to sacred sites in the British Isles. An Awenydd Druid in the Anglesey Druid Order (ADO), Jhenah has
been a priestess in the Avalonian Tradition for over thirty-five years, and has been following a Pagan path since 1986. To learn more about her and her work, she invites you to visit her online.

Velahtar An energy worker teaching about blending science, sacred geometry & cosmic flow with your energy work and magick.

Matthew Venus an artist, folk magician, and traditional witch based in Salem, Massachusetts whose craft is centered around a deep heart of animism and a dedication to ancestral and land based traditions. His practice is further enriched by his role as Tata Ndenge in a lineage of Quimbanda de Angola, and his experiences as an Aborisha in the Lucumí Orisha tradition. Over the past two decades Matthew has been sharing his teachings with students around the world through classes and courses which explore a diversity of topics related to witchcraft and folk magical traditions.

Matthew is the owner and lead apothecary of Spiritus Arcanum (@spiritus_arcanum) an online and brick and mortar shop which specializes in handcrafted ritual incenses, oils, and talismanic art. Additionally, he is the co-founder of the Salem Witchcraft and Folklore Festival (@SalemWitchFest) which hosts both in person and online events centered around magical education, community building, and activism.

Maria Wander is the NYC-based High Priestess to the coven Order of the World Tree and an initiate within the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel, Gardnerian, and Cabot Traditions. A practicing astro-mage, ritualist and herbalist, she creates talismanic remedies, herbal/gem tinctures, and flower essences. A CAPISAR-certified astrologer and Director for the National Council of Geocosmic Research, her foci includes Hellenistic, Medieval, and Uranian astrology. She is an adept reader of Tarot, Lenormand, and Chaldean/Destiny cards. Maria holds a Doctorate of Nursing Practice and is a Federal biomedical informaticist, hypnotherapist, fiber artist, and university professor. She is co-writer of The Capricorn Witch with Ivo Dominguez, Jr. published by Llewellyn.