I was at Pantheacon this last weekend, up in San Jose. If you’ve never been, it’s a marvelous collection of pagans of all flavors, gathering for workshops and lectures and ritual and fellowship over the long Presidents’ Day weekend. I didn’t get to see all the people I wanted to see (at the con or outside of it), nor did I manage to attend all the events I wanted to, and I found out this morning that I also managed to miss being part of something that would have meant a lot to me; but overall, the weekend was marvelous!

I got up there pretty close to the time I wanted to arrive, immediately ran into a student of mine and got to talk to her for a bit. Sat in on a rather disappointing lecture, got tickets to the event I wanted to attend on Saturday, and attended two wonderful rituals/workshops. Saturday was back to back to back events all day and into the evening, punctuated by managing to get some one-on-one face time with a teacher/colleague of mine. On Sunday, I escaped for the morning to have brunch with some non-attendees, hot one more workshop, and met up with dear friends for dinner up in San Mateo. I had intended to drive home Sunday night after dinner, but it went so late, I ended up driving back on Monday.

If you’re interested, this is whatI attended:
The Sacred Arts of West Africa with Helena Domenic
Oshun: The Daughter of Promise with Chief Luisah Teish
Conjurers, Root Women, Vodou Queens and Hoodoo Mamas with Szmeralda Shanel and The Iseum of Black Isis
Creating & Leading Life Passage Rites: Leadership Intensive with Selena Fox
Reading the Stones and Bones with Thena MacArthur
Drawing Forth the Light: Creating Magical Talismans with Chic Cicero & Sandra Tabatha Cicero
Awakening Living Memory: Magic and the Art of Conscious Ceation with Orion Foxwood
Oracular Seidh with Diana Paxson
Entering the Luminous Landscape with Orion Foxwood

I have 31 pages of workshop notes to digest and process and assimilate.

I also have some great ideas for workshops I would like to offer next year. I would call that a great weekend.