ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT SPIRITUAL CHURCHES
HOODOO HERITAGE FESTIVAL 2018
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Association of Independent Spiritual Churches and Ms. Robin Present
2018 Hoodoo Heritage Festival For the eleventh consecutive year, the Association of Independent Spiritual Churches is sponsoring our annual Hoodoo Heritage Festival in Santa Rosa, California. Join presenters Jon Saint Germain, Catherine Yronwode, Miss Phoenix, Deacon Millett, Mama E. and Clayton James, Angela Marie Horner, Devi Spring, Valentina Burton, Ms. Robin, and other special guests for classes, hands-on workshops, and panel discussions in African-American folk magic, rootwork, and hoodoo. These classes will teach you practical tricks and tips to take your conjure work to a new level of confidence and knowledge. In addition to spell-casting, we also showcase the mystery and magic of worldwide folk religions. Make your travel plans now to attend this unique 2-day Festival of Hoodoo Heritage, African-American folk magic, and spiritual spell-casting! REGISTRATION FOR CLASSES Registration for classes begins during the month of January, 2018. Pre-payment is by Paypal. We encourage folks to sign up well ahead of the event - and offer price discounts for early registration. PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS NOW!
ALL TICKETS include FREE Admission to the Santa Rosa Mystic Fair, featuring more than 60 vendors of magical, spiritual, and metaphysical goods, plus access to the world's best psychic readers and rootworkers. |
ON THIS PAGE: Workshop Program Schedule: See below! Presenter Biographies: Readings at the Fair: RELATED PAGES:
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Hoodoo Rootwork Apprenticeships (April 9th-13th, 2018):
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Regular 1-Day Ticket Prices! SAVE $15.00 OVER DOOR-PRICE ADMISSION! |
SATURDAY-ONLY 1-DAY PASS TICKET: $100.00
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Regular 1-Day Ticket Prices! SAVE $15.00 OVER DOOR-PRICE ADMISSION! |
SUNDAY-ONLY 1-DAY TICKET: $100.00
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Regular Weekend Pass Ticket Prices! SAVE $30.00 OVER DOOR-PRICE ADMISSION! |
FULL WEEKEND PASS 2-DAY TICKET: $200.00
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Saturday, April 14, 2018 |
Sunday, April 15, 2018 |
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Saturday, April 14, 2018 Patron Saints with Papa Newt Our festival opens with a workshop that sets the tone for charitable assistance to the victims of last October's wildfires. Papa Newt will lead a participatory presentation on the veneration and powers of saints in Catholic folk magic, both European-American and African-American, their patronage, and how to develop a working relationship. Along the way he will introduce us to a few of his favourites, including Saint Expedite, sometimes called the saint of the Internet. He'll also facilitate the creation of a community altar where we can approach Saint Joseph the Carpenter with appeals for help in rebuilding the homes and business buildings of our devastated town. The altar will be kept up throughout the festival and people can leave petitions and donations for contribution to the Redwood Credit Union's rebuilding fund. TAKE-HOME:A two-page flier on Patron Saints. |
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Sunday, April 15, 2018 Destroying Relationships with Deacon Millett A workshop on folkloric sorcery. You will learn how to use candles, oils, powders, nails, vinegar, and needles to cast spells to drive off rivals, break up lovers, and hot foot your adversaries out of town. Deacon Millett covers the gamut, providing instructions on how to break up illegitimate love affairs, cause former friends to hate one another, dissolve business partnerships, expel co-workers from the job site, and banish your foes to the ends of the earth. TAKE-HOME: A 96-page book "Destroying Relationships: Hoodoo Spells to Break Up, Separate, Hot Foot, and Drive Off Your Foes and Rivals," by Miss Aida. |
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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Saturday, April 14, 2018 Readings at the Fair You will be able to Pre-schedule an appointment with your favourite reader |
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM Sunday, April 15, 2018 Readings at the Fair You will be able to Pre-schedule an appointment with your favourite reader |
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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Saturday, April 14, 2018 Lithomancy with Jon Saint Germain For centuries, stones and crystals have been valued for their pretty colours and inherent magical qualities, and certain gifted individuals have employed them for divination. But unlocking the secrets of Lithomancy has been difficult and obscure, often requiring years of research and frustrating trial and error. Jon Saint Germain, "The Voice of the Crystal Silence League," will guide you through every aspect of fortune telling with stones and coins, including how to:
* Answer questions with common river rocks Teach you how to select your stones, train them for divination, and use them to read for yourself and others. Beginning with simple two and three stone castings, and working up to multiple-stone layouts. TAKE-HOME: Jon Saint Germain's brand new 96-page book, "Lithomancy". |
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Sunday April 15, 2018 Cash Box Conjure with Miss Phoenix LeFae Those attending this workshop will learn old-school hoodoo methods for drawing luck and increasing cash flow in your home or business, as well as how to get that winning edge in gambling, lottery play, or at the casinos, and how to use authentic African-American candle lights, money mojos, floor washes, roots, herbs, and magical talismans to bring in and retain the wealth you want. TAKE-HOME: Phoenix LeFae's brand new 96-page book, "Cash Box Conjure: Hoodoo Spells for Luck and Money". |
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12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Saturday, April 14, 2018 Take a lunch break!
Meals-to-go are available for purchase |
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Sunday, April 15, 2018 Take a lunch break!
Meals-to-go are available for purchase |
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Saturday, April 14, 2018 How to Make a Mojo, with Catherine Yronwode In this workshop you will find a treasure-trove of accurate, authentic, and easy-to-follow instructions that teach you how to craft and work with Conjure Hands, Trick Bags, Tobies, Gree-Grees, Jomos, Jacks, and Nation Sacks in the hoodoo folk magic tradition.
• Down-home Methods for Making Conjure Bags TAKE-HOME: Catherine Yronwode's brand new 96-page book, "The Art of Making Mojos: How to Craft Conjure Hands, Trick Bags, Tobies, Gree-Grees, Jomos, Jacks, and Nation Sacks." |
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Sunday, April 15, 2018 Working With Asian Deities with Devi Spring Devi Spring presents an overview of how hoodoo practitioners first encountered and honoured the gods and saints of Hindu and Buddhist traditions. She explains the popular and overlapping iconography, the protocols of the living religious traditions, rituals and tools of devotion, and how to integrate them into your rootwork. TAKE-HOME: A two-page flier on Asian deities! |
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2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Saturday, April 14, 2018 Readings at the Fair You will be able to Pre-schedule an appointment with your favourite reader |
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Sunday, April 15, 2018 Readings at the Fair You will be able to Pre-schedule an appointment with your favourite reader |
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Saturday April 14, 2018 Sigil Magic with Angela Marie Horner Combining Futhark runes, bind runes, and Solomonic seals with planetary and personal sigils and glyphs, Angela explains how to easily integrate them with traditional formulas and tools, adding them to rootwork and using them on spellcraft altars. Students will be guided to construct a specially-designed seal for their personal use. TAKE-HOME: A two-page flier on sigils and seals used in magic. |
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Sunday April 15, 2018 Tarot Card Magic, with Valentina Burton Valentina Burton, the Fortune Teller of Dallas, will provide tricks and techniques to move beyond basic tarot divination so as to add value to your readings by integrating astrology, nativity, and numerology; and to enhance and improve your results by including tarot cards in your spellcraft. TAKE-HOME: A two-page flier on Tarot in Magic. |
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3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Saturday, April 14, 2018 Readings at the Fair You will be able to Pre-schedule an appointment with your favourite reader |
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Sunday, April 15, 2018 Readings at the Fair You will be able to Pre-schedule an appointment with your favourite reader |
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Saturday, April 14, 2018 Candle Magic with Mama E. and Clayton James Mama E. and Clayton James present an introduction and overview of candle use in folk magic and divination, cataloguing the common types of candles; explaining how to prepare and charge candles for spells, when and how to use figural candles, what placement and arrangement of candles are optimal for altar work, and how to construct moving candle spells. Workshop participants will prepare and dress a candle to take home and burn. TAKE-HOME: A two-page flier on candles and magic, sample candles. |
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Sunday, April 15, 2018 Love Spells with Ms. Robin
TAKE-HOME: A two-page flier on love and magic. |
| READINGS BY AIRR MEMBERS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL READERS DURING The HOODOO FESTIVAL! | LEARN CONJURE AND FOLK MAGIC FROM NATIONALLY KNOWN HOODOO ROOTWORKERS! |
Saturday, April 14 - Sunday, April 15, 2018 The following members of The Association of Independent Readers and Rootworkers (AIRR) and other professionals will be on-site during the Apprenticeship Week and Workshop Weekend and will be offering readings. Take advantage of some great discount prices for attendees only, and the opportunity to get an in-person reading with someone you might not otherwise have a chance to meet. All daytime readings are scheduled at 20 minutes each, to allow time for you and your reader to leave the workshops and return to them. After the workshops close for the evening, longer readings may be accommodated ~~ just ask your reader or our Reading Wrangler, Deacon Millett!
Availability: Will help find you an available reader.
Availability: April 14 - 15 from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, except when attending workshops.
Availability: April 14 - 15 from 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, except when attending workshops.
Availability: April 14 - 15 after 5:00 PM; one reading per evening only.
Availability: April 14 - 15 from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, except when attending workshops.
Availability: April 14 - 15 from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, except when attending workshops.
Availability: April 14 - 15 from 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, except when attending workshops.
Availability: April 14 - 15 from 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM, except when attending workshops. |
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Deacon Millett: 
Jon Saint Germain: 
Mama E: 
Miss cat: 
Miss Elvyra: 
Ms. Robin: 
Papa Newt: 
Angela Marie Horner: 
Valentina Burton:
The Dallas Psychic, Palm, Tarot, and Astrology reader, spiritual
counsellor and purveyor of hoodoo goods, Valentina will present a workshop
on Tarot Card Magic. She will also be available for Tarot and palmistry readings.
Devi Spring:
A member of the Association of Independent Readers
and Rootworkers (AIRR), Devi is also a moderator on the Lucky Mojo Forum.
She grew up in Florida, with a maternal family line that spans back into
at least the mid-1800s in New Orleans, and biological cultural ties
to Mexico through her father. She has a Religious Studies B.A. from
the University of Toronto and was trained in the Western ceremonial
magick tradition through Temple of Isis Urania. She was initiated in
the Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math lineage of Gaudiya Vaisnava Hinduism
and has taken lay Buddhist vows at Tengye Ling Tibetan Buddhist
Temple. Devi will be presenting the workshop this year on Working
with Asian Deities.
Miss Phoenix LeFae:
An intuitive Tarot reader, freelance writer, spiritual consultant,
rootworker, ritualist, and teacher of Goddess Spirituality. Miss
Phoenix is a candle server at Missionary Independent Spiritual
Church and a member of Hoodoo Psychics, where she is well-known for
clearing crossed conditions and healing work, as well as for
providing magical coaching to those who desire one-on-one training
in spellcraft. She will be teaching a workshop on Cash Box Conjure.
She will also be available for Tarot readings.
Clayton James:
As the surviving spouse of rootworker Dr. E. (1976-2014), Clayton,
alongside Mama E., has used his Entrepreneurial skills to keep the
legacy of Dr. E. alive through their candle ministry and rootwork
products and services. Clayton James learned alongside Dr. E. and
benefited from his knowledge and many years of experience across
countless traditions, practices, and spiritual circles. Using his
own words, "My singular mission in this community has been to keep
the voice and legacy of Dr. E. alive, as well as to maintain his
works and mission of education and authenticity." Clayton's biggest
role in Dr. E. Products has been one of tech and accounting but also
has helped to secure new herbal suppliers. In 2017, Clayton founded
the spiritual candle company Transcendent Candles after tireless bad
experiences with a national candle company. "Spiritual industries
are still industries and small shop owners and their customers
deserve the respect of consistent, quality candle inventory," he
says. Transcendent Candles currently specializes in an
ever-expanding line of figure candles with 12 models in production
and vigil lights in the works. Clayton will be presenting a workshop
on Candle Magic with Mama E. at this year's festival.SPONSORS
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