Magical Gems and Jewelry for Healing, Honoring Deity, and Astrology
7
March 2020 (Online workshop)
Witches regularly wear
occult jewelry: pentagram pendants, amber, jet, moonstone, coral, or even acorn
necklaces; magical rings with special stones or symbolic designs; and lots of
silver, the metal of the moon. Wearing jewelry is a form of communication: to
the wearer, to other people, and to hidden forces attracted by certain colors,
substances and patterns.
Join Caroline Tully in a
workshop that includes:
Magical gems and jewelry
from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome
Gemstones in relation to
Ancient healing modalities and gods
Gemstones and Healing
astrology
Learn about the stone
amulets, empowering talismans, and protective jewelry of the Ancient World, and
the spells used to activate them. Through discussion and practical ritual,
contemporary approaches to healing magic will be revealed. Bring a piece of
your own jewelry and through ritual we will draw down the stars to consecrate
it to a healing deity.
This workshop will be held at WitchCon
Minoan
Snake Goddess and Altered States of Consciousness Workshop
April 2021 TBD (Online workshop)
According to Goddess-Feminist
history, the Great Goddess was the original, and only, deity of humankind from
the dawn of time up until around 3000 BCE, when Goddess-oriented cultures were
conquered by patriarchal, warlike worshippers of a sky god. Late Bronze Age
Minoan Crete (1750–1490 BCE) is considered to be the Goddess culture’s final
flowering, believed to exhibit the last gasp of the feminine values associated
with Goddess culture before it was wiped out by warlike, patriarchal Mycenaean
Greeks. Before this time Minoan Crete was peaceful, worshipped the Great
Goddess and her Dying and Rising Consort (who was also her son), and women and
nature were respected. Join Dr Caroline Tully in a workshop on ancient Minoan
religion, focussing on the Snake Goddess. Find out about the claim that on
Crete the snake appears in the worship of the female deity more repeatedly than
anywhere else in the Mediterranean. Focus will be on ancient artifacts that
depict female figures holding snakes in their hands or with them coiled about
their bodies, suggesting that they were an integral part of the religious
rituals. There will also be a practical component on methods to achieve altered
states of consciousness using techniques you can take away and practise at
home.
This workshop will be held at the Magickal Women Ancient Magick Conference
Caroline
Tully Bio
Caroline Tully is
interested in the practical side of magic and has been a modern Witch since
1985. She has written for many Pagan and occult publications and was a feature
writer for Australia’s Witchcraft Magazine for six years. Caroline is also an
archaeologist who studies ancient Mediterranean Pagan religions as well as
their manifestation in the modern world. She has many areas of interest
including ancient religions, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Thelema and
contemporary Paganisms, particularly Witchcraft and Pagan Reconstructionism.
Caroline is an expert on tree worship in the Bronze Age Aegean, Levant, Egypt
and Cyprus, and has strong interests in the Environmental Humanities, nature,
landscape, animism, ecology, ecofeminism, the Anthropocene, and posthumanism.
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