Samhain Weekend Workshops with Orion Foxwood
The space is an intimate setting and with limited seating. Buy your tickets today as this event will sell out!
Cost is $40 for individual workshop.
Cost for both Workshops is $70.
Witch High Priest and well-loved author, teacher, conjure-man and Faery Seer, Orion Foxwood, has been a friend of our family and the Cosmic Connection Temple of Stars for many years. He is a brilliant man of many talents and abilities. Some of his published works include of “The Faery Teachings” (RJ Stewart Books), “The Tree of Enchantment”, “The Candle and the Crossroads” and "The Flame in the Cauldron" (Weiser Books). Born and raised in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, his exposure to southern and Appalachian culture inspired him to continue learning and teaching faith-healing, root-doctoring, faery lore and second-sight practices in workshops, intensives and lectures across America and other countries. He holds a Master’s Degree in Human Services.
Orion is an initiate in several Traditional Witchcraft families, including Alexandrian, Celtic, and more. He is the Founding Elder of Foxwood Temple and Coven, dedicated to passing on the traditional techniques and lore of his elders. He is the founder, and primary instructor, in the House of Brigh Faery Seership Institute, where he teaches a multi-year teaching program in the "Tree of Enchantment" lore, practices, traditions and skills. The Faery practices taught by Orion Foxwood and Brigh (his spirit-wife), introduce us to the divine forces of love, wisdom and power that blossom through us when we bring our three souls (known as “walkers”) into alignment with ancestral, planetary and universal streams of starlight and space (the original parents of creation).
As a co-founder of Conjure Crossroads (CC), which is a collaboration between five (5) seasoned root-workers and Witches focused on preserving and promoting the healing and helping benefits of southern root-work, Witchcraft and other folk traditions, Orion helps host the annual Folk Magic Festival in New Orleans. He is also a co-founder of Conjure-Craft along with Susan Diamond, which hosts an annual "Meeting of Magical Minds" conference in Santa Cruz, CA and he is a co-founder of the "Witches in the Woods" gathering also in Santa Cruz
We invite you to experience this magickal, mystical and spiritual presentation by Orion Foxwood in our consecrated star-temple.
The Potent Powers of the Witch:
Deepening Our Magic in Challenging
Saturday, October 27, 2018 • 7:00-10:00 pm
Orion was taught that there are two primary meeting points where the Witch, the magickal power and the lineage of wisdom meet: the Witch's Sabbat (specific seasonal tides) and the Sabbath (a luminary internal lineage of wisdom and power).
This Sabbath is an inner state-of-being where the Witch is taught by otherworldly beings to renew their power be one with the "sorcerous-tide". Though traditionally connected to Witches, it is also a place for all who seek the wild ways of natural magick. Orion will share lore, traditionally imagery and flight chants to take us beyond the hedge to an eternal source of magick and it is a unifying power. This magickal time of Samhain opens the veil for flight to a power older than time!
Please plan to arrive by 6:30-6:45 pm to check in. Shoes cannot be worn into the temple but you will be given bag in which to put them for workshop.
Samhain: Sabbatic Gateway to the
Ancestors & the Luminous Landscape
Sunday, October 28, 2018 • 7:00-10:00 pm
Samhain, also known as All Hallows Eve or Halloween, is the time when the etheric membrane separating the living from the dead thins; and, the interaction between the Spectral Landscape (the land of spirits) and the land of "the living" is heightened. Mysteries rise from wells of knowing as the division of senses blur and the seasons sit in a place of ambivalence.
With this veil lifted, we can traverse the realm often known as the Spectral Land, the Luminous Landscape, the Gray road, the underworld and many other names. This is the season for digging deep into our soul's soil, and into the roots of life and to and greet the ancestors at the threshold; and, walk with the Faery, spirits of fate and spirits of the in between.
This workshop will cover deep concepts, tap otherworldly magic and walk us to the edge of the under-country and will include:
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The thinned veil and other thinning times of the year
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The concept of Samhaintide Divinatiory and oracular tools for bridging the worlds
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The Anaon (unredeemed dead) and opening the western gate
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Who and where are the dead seeking the worlds Soul during between-time
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The Spectral Ride to the Witches Sabbat using traditional broom chants
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The Season of Dreaming
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Jumping the candlestick
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The night of the Wild hunt and the spectral rade
Please plan to arrive by 6:30-6:45 pm to check in. Shoes cannot be worn into the temple but you will be given bag in which to put them for workshop.
