https://astromagia-org.zoom.us/j/83007657445

Kristin Mathis

Bolt-Hurler, Birth-Seeder: Esoteric Revelations from the Orphic Hymn of Zeus

While mainstream ancient Greek mythology often presented Zeus through narratives of sexual violence and coercion that can be difficult for modern readers and practitioners alike, the Orphic Hymn of Zeus offered a different vision. The Orphic hymn-writer brought together many different traditions from the ancient Mediterranean: the well-known Greek stories from Homer and Hesiod that presented Zeus as an Olympian storm god, traditional titles and associations from the deity's many worship sites throughout the Greek-speaking world, and the emerging insights of the pre-Socratic philosophers. Perhaps most boldly, the Orphic Hymns also drew on extremely ancient Babylonian, Egyptian, and Phoenician temple and star traditions that preserved thousands of years of closely guarded secret teachings on many topics.

Kristin Mathis's translation of the Orphic Hymns is the first to take the ancient art of hidden meanings seriously, using it as a modern interpretation and translation strategy. Her work "opens up" the original Greek text to today's readers by translating its wordplay, puns, and hidden references—associations that ancient initiates would have immediately recognized as being concealed in plain sight. The result reveals meanings lost for centuries but once clear to the Orphics themselves: a Zeus whose cosmic scope extends far beyond the planet Jupiter, both more primal and more philosophical than the figure in conventional myth.

mysteriamundi.substack.com

Kristin Mathis is a translator, poet, and scholar whose work focuses on the Orphic Hymns—ritual texts from the Greek Mystery traditions that flourished in Sicily and Southern Italy around 500 BCE. Her translations illuminate the sophisticated wordplay and esoteric knowledge embedded within these poems. She studied ancient Mediterranean esoteric religions and cultural anthropology at Brown, Princeton, and Columbia Universities, where her teachers included Elaine Pagels, Hans Dieter Betz, John Gager, and David Pingree. In 2022, she founded the Mysteria Mundi translation project, pursuing her passion for the Orphic Hymns while adapting to the challenges she faces living with Long Covid.

Kristin’s understanding of the cosmos as a living being was shaped by her childhood in 1970s Borneo, where she grew up alongside indigenous animist traditions. Now based in Brooklyn, NY, she's a single mom to one teenage son, two cats named Venus and Comet, and an ever-expanding collection of herbs, plants, and books.

https://astromagia-org.zoom.us/j/86017787876

Daniel MacDonald

Every [Saint] Is A (Wandering) Star: Ascending and Descending in the Arms of The Saints

This talk proposes that the Saints represent an accessible and underexplored avenue of knowledge and assistance in matters of astral magic, and points towards ways we can begin to consider this idea with initial explorations. It is a contemplation as and leading to praxis, an invitation into an unfolding relationship. It offers avenues of thought for how to see in Saints their potential celestial correspondences and virtues, and therefore how to build relationship with them to potentially deepen one's own astrological magic pursuits. 

Many systems of magic focus on the acquisition of or congress with a spiritual guide, a tutelary spirit, an intermediary. From the Olympic Spirits of the Arbatel, to the Angels of the Solomonic Pentacles, to the Agathos Daimon of the 11th House, and the Holy Guardian Angel. Ceremonial magic is replete with many guides that can help in our work with the Spheres. This is one avenue of approach. To begin above the horizon, in the realm of star and spirit given primacy. Saints offer a more direct link to ancestry, the once human. Breath within clay returned to dust and lived on in legends and stories and a role of the bone-bothered elevated ancestor. 

Saints contain within their iconography and associated symbols hints towards planetary associations. Their hagiography and the lore they accrue through time and folklore offer further links. With this in mind, Saints are a category of spirits with great potential to teach and assist the astrological magician. We will consider examples of specific Saints and how to call forth their virtues as it relates to astrological magic. Especially in how they may function as tutelary daimons and magical assistants in the broad work of astrological magic or witchcraft, and relating to the stars and celestial spirits in an operative animist worldview. 

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Daniel MacDonald traces his astrological background and learning starting with the work of Demetra George, continuing via Austin Coppock in his Fundamentals of Astrology course, and now sustained with personal explorations and fed by the ongoing scholarship of Dr. Ali A Olomi. Astrology sits under the broader umbrella of Animism as a primary way to understand and relate to the world. From this flows an interest in magic as a means to exist within this ecosystem. The primacy of spirits as ontologically distinct beings and personalities that can be related to, with a language and perspective that can be learned and changes you with contact drives his work and projects now. 

With a background in academic Theology, Psychology, and Art, he seeks always to be learning in service to this goal of not just understanding spirits intellectually but in striving to ever better walk alongside them. To this end his current work and services are centred around divination, having spent two years in an extended ritual with a teacher to learn one perspective of the Norse Runes as a means to understand both self and the world around us, then a further year digesting this and applying it in a divinatory context. This focus on system agnostic divination as a language by which spirits may speak informs his use of other tools and systems, and allows his blending of approaches while maintaining respect and rigour for the traditions and lineages he is involved in.

https://astromagia-org.zoom.us/j/85865463504

Rory Keys

Hephaestion of Thebes Katarchē for Ritual Magic

In Book III of Apotelesmatika, Hephaestion details the electional parameters for magicians to observe when undertaking their work. Protocols for divination through ritual sacrifice, consecrating statues, and petitioning the gods are all described. Much is left unsaid, prompting further contemplation and speculation. By referencing Dorotheus - who heavily inspired Hephaestion - we seek to fill in the gaps, and fortify our ritual elections by doing so.

keys2astrology.com

Rory Keys is a professional Astrologer, based in London. His research revolves around the revival of Traditional Astrological techniques, specifically innovations emerging from Hellenistic Egypt. When consulting with clients, Rory’s specialty is in helping them mitigate difficult natal placements with novel remedial techniques, helping them alter the trajectory of Fate.

https://astromagia-org.zoom.us/j/88491864044

David Rankine

The Influence of the Wandering Stars: How the Classical Planets underpin the Grimoire Tradition

This presentation will explore the hugely significant role of the planets throughout the grimoire tradition from the first grimoires through to the modern day. The influence of the planets in the angelic and demonic hierarchies, pentacles, tools, timings, fragrances and other areas will all be considered.

davidrankine.com

David Rankine is an author, esoteric researcher and sorcerer who has been practising magic and grimoires for over 45 years. He works as the editor-in-chief for Hadean Press and lives in Spain with his family. In recent decades he is best known for his work on titles like The Grimoire Encyclopaedia, Claves Intelligentarium, The Goetia of Dr Rudd, The Veritable Key of Solomon, Clavis Inferni and Claves Spirituum.

https://astromagia-org.zoom.us/j/82012123904

Ben Jeans Houghton

MEANDERMANCY; LUNA ET JOVE

Meandermancy: Luna et Jove, is a collection of black and white photographs made by night and day in the spirit of adventurous reflection. For as long as I can remember, I have been a meanderer; walking, wandering, wondering. In our relinquishing the linearity of A to B, the wyrd readily rushes to meet us, and the world's symbolic fabric unfurls.

These images were made over two years of wandering my star-spun karmas between Devon and London: through protest camps to free the night skies, nocturnal woods etched by flash, to the torn edge-lands of the coasts opera, and the filthy tarot of the seething metropolis. They were made first, before I knew why, and only later found their belonging beneath this theme of Moon and Jupiter: the reflectivity of Luna's alchemy ambulated by the expansive faith of Jove’s quest to know.

The work speaks to that Möbius garden of time, where futures seed their beginnings. Art often knows before its maker's meaning ripens. These photographs are waymarks from wanderings, traces of a dialogue between light and shadow, fate and curiosity, solitude and the wyrd world that adores our witness when we wander our transits as bodied light.

benjeanshoughton.co.uk

Gnostic Animist, Artist, Author and Astrologer Ben Jeans Houghton’s multidisciplinary practice spans votive-sculpture, architectural-installation, oneiric film-essay, self-reflexive writing, ritual costume, improvised performance, mantric-glossolalia and esoteric lectures. The work explores and expresses magic; the art of transformation and its methodologies, technologies, agencies, and implications, through art-praxis, as-gnosis, informed by astrological, philosophical, and metaphysical perspectives.

Ben has delivered exhibitions, screenings, presentations, performances and publications internationally in Germany, Greece, Africa, Japan, South Korea, and America and nationally across the UK with CCA, Gymnasium Gallery, Bloc Projects, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Generator Projects, Whitstable Biennale, BFI and Channel Four. Ben has also been commissioned to author and orate esoteric lectures for Trans-States, Astromagia, Occulture and IAAM.

https://astromagia-org.zoom.us/j/85315356089

Skyler Bruinsma

Jupiterian Labyrinths for Windfall Fortune

Labyrinths, as immemorial earthworks, are a common heritage across many cultures… 

As we step into them and the logic behind these artifacts, epitomizing the most ancient of rites: weather magic and the perambulation of sacred precincts, I will outline how to apply the sixteen starry figures of Geomancy to the telluric currents typified within the bounds of forty-two meandering vortices; focusing on a practical analysis of three distinct labyrinths, which evince a special affinity for manifesting Jupiter’s face of Acquisition, I seek to raise an experimental initiative for all so inclined to utilize and substantiate this science as a veritable methodology, one which applies alchemical mathesis and bodily gesture to manipulate sublunary elements and stir the etheric tides of incarnation and environment.

guildwizard.org

Skyler Bruinsma has been practicing ceremonial rites and studying philosophical traditions for more than a decade. Founded upon asemic arts and the barbarous speech of word cyphers, he currently specializes in the idiosyncratic theurgy of archangels and chant of ritual languages. As an autodidact of many mysteries pertaining to esoteric religion and revelation literature, he has long sought to establish tenets of a humanist unity among spiritual disciplines; recently envisioned under the exalted Jupiter kazimi, he has set to reviving itinerant wizardry as a noble and recognized profession in the postmodern age.

https://astromagia-org.zoom.us/j/89786604745

JD Kelley

Heavenly Bodies: Divinity, Imagination, Embodiment, Theurgy, & Telestic Art

Heavenly Bodies journeys into the mystery of divine embodiment — the ways in which gods are given form, breath, and body through art, ritual, and devotion. Across cultures, the making of statues and images has served not as imitation but as invocation: a remembering of the world’s living divinity. This talk opens a pathway through these traditions, exploring how the body itself — human and cosmic — becomes a field of consecration.

Drawing from Tantric Buddhist ritual, where statues are enlivened as the living Buddhas, and from the somatic magic of witchcraft and ecstatic movement, the inquiry follows the winds and channels that shape inner and outer space alike. Here, the microcosm pulses with the macrocosm; the flesh bears the signs of the zodiac; the breath turns with the stars.

Through the theurgic vision of Iamblichus, the body is revealed not as a prison to be transcended but as a divine instrument— the place where parts and wholes are reconciled, and matter itself becomes luminous. When we open up ourselves to the gods, allowing them to inhabit and instill our imaginations, we remember that they have never left us — that their substance flows through blood and stone, through rhythm, ritual, and the ever-living dance of the heavens made flesh.

cunningasfolk.com

John-David (JD) Kelley is the chairman of the Scottish Astrological Association, having served since 2020; the founding president of the International Association of Astral Magic (IAAM), and the organiser of Astro Magia.

JD is a professional natal and electional astrologer, as well as a practicing astral magician and talisman crafter. His astrological leanings are both traditional and modern alongside a deep interest in astrological and astral magic. JD is influenced by historical approaches to magic, the mixing of magical traditions throughout the world, by an animist view of the Cosmos, by art and art-making, and by visionary and ecstatic practices. You can find him at Cunning as Folk where he teaches and practices his range of esoteric and interpretive arts, or you can follow his dance on instagram @cunningasfolk.

https://astromagia-org.zoom.us/j/88275017168

Iatromathematics & Astral Magic: Similitude & Difference

A panel discussion on the methodological similarities between medical astrology and astral magic, historically. 

What are the confluences, convergences, and separations?

Panel Organiser: Mary Gaterud

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Mary Gaterud is a consulting astrologer, artist, and DJ homesteading in the wilderness of Northern California. She holds a BA from New College of USF in Psychology and French Literature and received an MA in Counseling from Seattle University. Mary's astrological studies include achievement of the Horary Practitioner’s Certificate with the STA. She is a regular contributor to The Evolving Astrologer and has served on the Executive Board of the Kepler Astrologers Toastmasters Club. She works as the Creative Content / Operations Coordinator for Kepler College, as well as a Teaching Assistant for Horary, Mundane, and Medical Astrology courses.

Fellow Panellists: Lee Lehman, William Morris, Kira Sutherland, Marcos Patchett, and JD Kelley

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Dr. J. Lee Lehman has a Ph.D. from Rutgers University. She has written eleven books, on horary, electional, mundane, medical, and solar returns.  She taught every year during Kepler College's academic period, where she was Academic Dean. She teaches at Kepler College, Astrologia Campus Virtual (Spain), and New Moon School (China). Her private practice spans the globe, where she is primarily known for horary, medical, electional, and mundane.

Lee was the recipient of the 1995 Marc Edmund Jones Award, the 2008 Regulus Award for Education and the 2023 Charles Harvey Award.

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William Morris, DAOM, PhD brings a transdisciplinary approach spanning magic, medicine, and music. He has practiced astrology professionally since 1977 in multiple systems including Hellenistic, Medieval, Jyotish, and Vibrational traditions. Formally initiated into Egyptian Mystery Schools, Golden Dawn, and Eastern spiritual traditions, he studies Dasha Mahavidya under Maa Gyaan Suveera. He holds a doctorate in Chinese medicine (1988) and a PhD in transformative inquiry from CIIS, with recognized expertise in pulse diagnosis and herbal medicine. Since 1980 he has combined Daoist herbal practices with astrology, and since 1991 has used Lilly horary techniques learned from Olivia Barclay, work he continues with Lee Lehman. Author of Cycles in Medical Astrology, Li Shi-zhen Pulse Studies, and the forthcoming Sky and Meridian, he serves on the board of Kepler College.

astrologyofhealth.com

Kira Sutherland is a highly experienced, award-winning naturopath, nutritionist, herbalist and medical astrologer living in Sydney, Australia. She divides her time between clinical practice and writing/lecturing on these subjects and is known and loved for her vibrant, straightforward teaching style. She has lectured worldwide and uses her 25 years of clinical experience and vast knowledge of healing, combined with her passion for medical astrology, into a wonderful mix of mind-body medicine. She can be found at www.astrologyofhealth.com or on socials @astrologyofhealth.

nocturnalherbalist.com

Marcos Patchett has practised as a medical herbalist for twenty years, initially specialising in complementary care for people living with HIV, and practicing from Neal’s Yard Remedies’ Therapy Rooms in London. He worked as a dispenser in Middlesex University’s training clinic for their Western Herbal Medicine BSc in 2009-2010, and later as a clinical supervisor for the Western Herbal medicine BSc and MSc courses at Middlesex from 2013-18, and for Westminster University in 2021-22, and for Heartwood online in 2020-23. Marcos is a student of Renaissance and classical astrology, an affiliate tutor for Kepler College in the U.S.A., the UK Qualified Horary Practitioner (QHP) school, and a faculty member of the Academy of Astrology UK. His first book, The Secret Life of Chocolate (thesecretlifeofchocolate.com), was released in 2020, and the smaller “paperback edit”, Pharmakakawa, was released in November 2024. He launched Plantarium, a school of medical astrology for herbalists, therapists and medical practitioners, in September 2024 (plantarium.uk/).

cunningasfolk.com

John-David (JD) Kelley is the chairman of the Scottish Astrological Association, having served since 2020; the founding president of the International Association of Astral Magic (IAAM), and the organiser of Astro Magia.

JD is a professional natal and electional astrologer, as well as a practicing astral magician and talisman crafter. His astrological leanings are both traditional and modern alongside a deep interest in astrological and astral magic. JD is influenced by historical approaches to magic, the mixing of magical traditions throughout the world, by an animist view of the Cosmos, by art and art-making, and by visionary and ecstatic practices. You can find him at Cunning as Folk where he teaches and practices his range of esoteric and interpretive arts, or you can follow his dance on instagram @cunningasfolk.

https://astromagia-org.zoom.us/j/89968492813

Michael Ofek

Emotions, Virtues, and Astral Magic

In this lecture, we will explore the vital role of emotions as the living bridge between the soul and the stars. Far from being mere disturbances of the psyche, emotions are the dynamic — and daemonic — forces that attune the human spirit to the greater harmonies of the cosmos.

Drawing on Platonic, Hermetic, and Neoplatonic theurgical traditions, we will consider the transformative function of emotional purification and exaltation, giving rise to the virtues that elevate the spirit and open it to the divine influx and intelligence.

This foundational aspect of internal planetary attunement is gracefully aligned with Jupiter’s light shining through the Moon’s watery temple. It invites us to reflect on the heart’s prolific power as a vessel of spiritual nourishment, awakening its exalted virtues in the cultivation of a living communion with the cosmos.

hermetic-astrology.com

Michael Ofek is a professional astrologer, philosopher, astral magician, and shamanic practitioner from Israel. He has been practicing astrology and magic for more than two decades, avidly researching all branches of the ancient tradition, with an emphasis on Hellenistic astrology and its connection with Greco-Egyptian cosmology, philosophy, theurgy, and magic. His passion lies in unveiling and reconstructing the roots of the tradition, and the practical refiguring of these ancient arts. Michael is also a student of the mysteries of Andean shamanism and of working and healing with entheogens.

In his work, Michael stresses the importance of direct experience of astrological processes, for which he has developed a unique system, drawing on and integrating magical, theurgical and shamanic practices. Michael is an international speaker, and gives workshops and lectures worldwide, including magical retreats. He is the co-founder of the Israeli professional astrology magazine “Urania”, which also produces yearly conferences and workshops.

https://astromagia-org.zoom.us/j/82331864881

Kadmus

On The Nature of the Winds

There has been a lot of attention given recently concerning the value and power of the winds in magical practice, largely triggered by the recent work of David Rankine with more expected in his forthcoming book “Claves Spirituum”. This discussion will consider how the winds can be understood as connected with astral forces such as the moon, planets, and related gods as well as diving into the more concrete and both culturally and geographically specific aspects of wind lore. What does it mean to really ground our investigation of the winds in embodied worldly specifics while using them, at the same time, to connect with the heavens?

starandsystem.com

Kadmus is a professor of philosophy, a writer, teacher, practicing occultists and dedicated pagan. He has taught classes for every year of both the Salem Witchcraft and Folklore Festival and the Astro Magia astrological magic conference. He has two new books out, “Learning from Legendary Practitioners: A Necromantic Journey into History, Myth, and the Practice of Magic” is published by Hadean Press and a book of short occult themed mystery stories “The Elucidations of Drake”, published under the pen name of Bill Koch, is out from Sul Books.

ALkistis Dimech

Living Crystal : Incarnate Cosmos - in conversation with JD Kelley

This conversation explores the occult body — the incarnate liquid crystalline field, where matter, memory, and imagination converge. Drawing on both scientific and hermetic perspectives, we’ll consider the body as an intelligent, living medium shaped by cosmic and terrestrial forces — lunar tides, solar weather, and the great cycles of planetary change.

At this moment of ecological and energetic transformation, what does it mean to be incarnate? To recognise that within us is an ocean, ancient waters, and the resilience of epochs past? The body becomes both archive and vessel — a place where the cosmos imprints itself, where consciousness and flesh evolves.

Through reflection and experiential practice, participants will attune to the intelligence of the flesh — the coherence of its crystalline structures, the imagination woven through matter — and glimpse the emergence of a new, luminous human form shaped through our ongoing dialogue with the world.

scarletimprint.com

Alkistis Dimech is an artist, dancer-choreographer and writer exploring the mysteries of the carnal body and its subtle anatomy through an archaeology and poietics of flesh. Her art and praxis is grounded in ankoku butô (dark dance), which she have practised since 2002.

She has performed, given workshops and spoken on my practice at events, conferences and research seminars in the UK, Europe and the United States.

With Peter Grey, Alkistis is the co-founder of Scarlet Imprint, channelling her creative energies into book design and typography.

https://astromagia-org.zoom.us/j/84034183858

Many/One;One/Many

It would not be too great of an exaggeration to say that Greek philosophy, and the dramatic cultural and intellectual revolutions it would give rise to, was born from the challenge to understand the relationship between the One and the Many. Parmenides, Heraclitus and Plato overtly wrestle with this problem, Empedocles is just as troubled by it, even if it hides a bit more beneath the surface. The Orphic Mystery tradition, which underlies all these philosophical “takes,” proposed its own unique solution to the problem through stories, songs, and rituals – rites which themselves related to the older wisdom traditions of Babylonian and Egyptian temples that had grappled with the same fundamental dialectic.  Through these many ancient Mediterranean influences, this problem - the question of how unity and plurality relate and whether one or the other is more fundamental - finds itself at the very heart of the development of astrology and astrological magic as we know it.

Panel Organiser: JD Kelley

cunningasfolk.com

John-David (JD) Kelley is the chairman of the Scottish Astrological Association, having served since 2020; the founding president of the International Association of Astral Magic (IAAM), and the organiser of Astro Magia.

JD is a professional natal and electional astrologer, as well as a practicing astral magician and talisman crafter. His astrological leanings are both traditional and modern alongside a deep interest in astrological and astral magic. JD is influenced by historical approaches to magic, the mixing of magical traditions throughout the world, by an animist view of the Cosmos, by art and art-making, and by visionary and ecstatic practices. You can find him at Cunning as Folk where he teaches and practices his range of esoteric and interpretive arts, or you can follow his dance on instagram @cunningasfolk.

Fellow Panellists: Michael Ofek, Kadmus, and Kristin Mathis

hermetic-astrology.com

Michael Ofek is a professional astrologer, philosopher, astral magician, and shamanic practitioner from Israel. He has been practicing astrology and magic for more than two decades, avidly researching all branches of the ancient tradition, with an emphasis on Hellenistic astrology and its connection with Greco-Egyptian cosmology, philosophy, theurgy, and magic. His passion lies in unveiling and reconstructing the roots of the tradition, and the practical refiguring of these ancient arts. Michael is also a student of the mysteries of Andean shamanism and of working and healing with entheogens.

In his work, Michael stresses the importance of direct experience of astrological processes, for which he has developed a unique system, drawing on and integrating magical, theurgical and shamanic practices. Michael is an international speaker, and gives workshops and lectures worldwide, including magical retreats. He is the co-founder of the Israeli professional astrology magazine “Urania”, which also produces yearly conferences and workshops.

starandsystem.com

Kadmus is a professor of philosophy, a writer, teacher, practicing occultists and dedicated pagan. He has taught classes for every year of both the Salem Witchcraft and Folklore Festival and the Astro Magia astrological magic conference. He has two new books out, “Learning from Legendary Practitioners: A Necromantic Journey into History, Myth, and the Practice of Magic” is published by Hadean Press and a book of short occult themed mystery stories “The Elucidations of Drake”, published under the pen name of Bill Koch, is out from Sul Books.

mysteriamundi.substack.com

Kristin Mathis is a translator, poet, and scholar whose work focuses on the Orphic Hymns—ritual texts from the Greek Mystery traditions that flourished in Sicily and Southern Italy around 500 BCE. Her translations illuminate the sophisticated wordplay and esoteric knowledge embedded within these poems. She studied ancient Mediterranean esoteric religions and cultural anthropology at Brown, Princeton, and Columbia Universities, where her teachers included Elaine Pagels, Hans Dieter Betz, John Gager, and David Pingree. In 2022, she founded the Mysteria Mundi translation project, pursuing her passion for the Orphic Hymns while adapting to the challenges she faces living with Long Covid.

Kristin’s understanding of the cosmos as a living being was shaped by her childhood in 1970s Borneo, where she grew up alongside indigenous animist traditions. Now based in Brooklyn, NY, she's a single mom to one teenage son, two cats named Venus and Comet, and an ever-expanding collection of herbs, plants, and books.

https://astromagia-org.zoom.us/j/87341970006

Joey Cannizzaro

Chrono/Krater: Ritual Distributions, Vessels of Time, and the Time Lord as Symposiarch

What if Time Lords (“Chronocrators”) in ancient predictive astrology aren’t demagogues or kings, but symposiarchs mixing each of our fates according to their own unique natures, motives, and passions? Through semantic slippage and dream logic, this talk somehow arrives at a compelling historical root for this idea, reconsidering astrological time through the lens of the krater (or ancient Greek wine-mixing vessel) and extending this into a framework for divination and interpretation.

Beyond its application in predictive and natal astrology, this framework might contribute something valuable to practitioners of astrological magic and ritual, and inform larger discussions about the nature and quality of time. Also, it’s fun to think of the planetary gods this way—as our divine bartenders and masters of ceremony rather than authoritarian lords—and perhaps it can help us practice meeting the events of life without an attitude of control and domination ourselves.

chronosandchaos.com

Across disciplines and forms of media, Joey Cannizzaro works with metaphysics to cultivate radically different ways of thinking and being. Joey’s astrology practice is oriented towards both nurturing personal liberation and provoking societal transformation, weaving together ancient techniques and cosmologies with threads of anarchism, mysticism, crip theory, and queerness. In addition to their consulting practice, Joey is faculty in the Hellenistic astrology program at Kepler College, and author of the blog Chronos & Chaos. Following an intensive three-year course of study with Demetra George, they were awarded a Certification in Hellenistic Astrology in 2022. They also have a bachelor's degree from The New School and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts.

https://astromagia-org.zoom.us/j/85272892099

Jonah Emerson-Bell

Styx & Stars: Water in Nature, Soul and Cosmos

This talk explores the element of water through three interconnected lenses: ecological, psychological, and astrological.

We begin in the physical realm, examining water's natural properties and its vital role within ecological systems. By tracing its movement through the water cycle, we gain insight into how water flows and functions in nature.

From there, we follow the river inward—into the depths of the unconscious. Drawing on Jung’s concept of the feeling function, alchemical symbolism, and the mythic rivers of the underworld, to understand water’s role in memory, emotion, and transformation within the unconscious.

Finally, we ascend to the celestial sphere to consider how the element of water appears in the astrological chart. We consider how water functions through the cardinal, fixed, and mutable signs and how these various expressions shape our inner experience and interpersonal dynamics.

Integrating insights from each stage of our journey, we explore magical and ritual applications to cultivate a more conscious and skillful relationship with the element of water in everyday life.

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Jonah Emerson-Bell is a Tarot Reader, Astrologer, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor with a background in Hypnosis and Integration Coaching. He holds a Master's in Mental Health Counseling from Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work uses the archetypal language of symbol to help make the unconscious conscious and incorporates myth, magick, and creativity as ways to support clients in creating meaningful change. Jonah has appeared on various podcasts, taught classes, and given talks on astrology, mythology, and psychology. He produces a weekly Astrology forecast called This Week in Space!!! that can be found on YouTube and Instagram.

https://astromagia-org.zoom.us/j/88224095775

Jupiter, The Moon, & the Revolutionary Power of Joy

Marcello Ficino wrote, “When you fear Saturn, use Jupiter.”

We are living in Saturnian times—marked by authoritarianism, repression, and rising xenophobia. This discussion explores how cultivating joy, both individually and collectively, can counteract the forces of control. Drawing on the symbols of Jupiter and the Moon, along with humor, mythology, and magical practice, we will consider ways to access and embody joy in daily life. In doing so, we place “Jupiter opposite Saturn” as a guiding image for balance and resistance—supporting personal well-being and collective renewal in challenging times.

Panel Organiser: Jonah Emerson-Bell

campwizardcamp.com

Jonah Emerson-Bell is a Tarot Reader, Astrologer, and Licensed Mental Health Counselor with a background in Hypnosis and Integration Coaching. He holds a Master's in Mental Health Counseling from Southwestern College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His work uses the archetypal language of symbol to help make the unconscious conscious and incorporates myth, magick, and creativity as ways to support clients in creating meaningful change. Jonah has appeared on various podcasts, taught classes, and given talks on astrology, mythology, and psychology. He produces a weekly Astrology forecast called This Week in Space!!! that can be found on YouTube and Instagram.

Fellow Panellists: Blair Bogin, Sarah Janes, Genie Raftopoulos, and Gray Crawford

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Blair Bogin is an astrologer, artist and hermetic mystery clown. Outside of formal consultations, she experiments with astrology through comedy theater and video art. She is the Director of Planets, Planets, Planets, an alt-comedy astrology theater troupe in LA and teaches astrology to fellow artists and healers.

themysteries.org

Sarah Janes is an author, researcher, curator, retreat/workshop facilitator and public speaker, specialising in the ancient history and culture of dreaming and has been an enthusiastic lucid dreamer since childhood. Sarah is passionate about the potential of dreaming for physical, emotional, creative and spiritual upliftment, not just for individuals, but for culture and society.

tidesoftethys.com

Genie Raftopoulos is a talismanic jeweler, multidisciplinary artist, and founder of Tides of Tethys. Her work bridges ancient metalsmithing traditions with astrological and magical practices, creating handcrafted talismans guided by celestial timing and inspired by esoteric wisdom.

graycrawford.net

Gray Crawford is a professional natal, horary, and electional astrologer. Gray brings a relational approach to astrology using techniques drawn from ancient and modern sources, synthesizing influences from Hellenistic, magical, mythic-archetypal, and psychological astrology. Gray has taught at UAC, NORWAC, and ISAR astrology conferences, various astrology associations around the USA, and is a member of the faculty at Kepler College. Gray’s astrological writing has been published on Astrology.com, in WellBeing Astrology, and by Ignota Press. Gray can be contacted on his site graycrawford.net where he also writes astrology articles and offers astrological education.