SassyCon 2025: Full Schedule

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9:00am CDT

All Acts of Love and Pleasure: Let's Talk about Sex, Baby!

Sunday May 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am CDT

Sex, both the enjoyment of it and the use of it as a means to an end, have been demonized and maligned in organized religion and our larger culture for thousands of years. Ideas such as associating virginity with innocence and celibacy with purity are deeply ingrained in our culture. But as followers of pagan traditions, we can learn to see sex not only as healthy, natural, and enjoyable: a sacred act in and of itself. Witchcraft is a religion of fertility and nature. All of us are, at our core, natural and sexual beings. It is in harnessing the power of this birthright that we find its inherent creative power. In this spicy workshop, Ashara Mayim examines sex magick through a Witchcraft lens: its history, theory, and practice.

Speakers

Ashara Mayim

Ashara Mayim is an ordained High Priestess in the Temple of Witchcraft and a teaching assistant for the Witchcraft 1 Online Mystery School. She has been an educator by trade for 16 years and deeply enjoys using her educational background to further education, understanding, and acceptance... Read More →

Sunday May 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am CDT
St. Ann's Cottage #2 717 Orleans St. Bourbon Orleans Hotel

Lecture

9:00am CDT

Designing Effective Rituals

Sunday May 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am CDT

St. Joseph's Room

The creation of new rituals that are safe, moving, and efficacious is both an art and a science. We will start with a quick listing of sources for inspiration, guidance, and power for the creation of rituals. In this workshop, several models for describing, testing, and balancing ritual outlines will be presented. Methods for dealing with small groups and large public rituals will also be shared. We will also talk about why rituals work and how they have the potential to touch and change us. The methods and paradigms offered will be applicable to a wide range of traditions.

Speakers

Ivo Dominquez Jr.

Sunday May 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am CDT
St. Joseph's Room 717 Orleans St. Bourbon Orleans Hotel

Lecture

9:00am CDT

The Secrets of the Four Ms: Advanced Astrological Magic

Sunday May 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am CDT

St. Ann's Cottage #1

Traditional Astrological Magic (based primarily on the work of Agrippa, Ficino, and the Picatrix) is immensely complex and profound. It is far more than the creation of talismans and petitions that warp reality; it is a stepping stone towards a deeper understanding and mastery of the cosmos. Clifford Hartleigh Low has been a pioneer of Astrological Magic for the past twenty years, longer than nearly anyone else alive. He has made more talismans than anyone on Earth and performed more petitions—a practice that he revived. In the process, he has made discoveries that radically rewrite the history of this tradition and its context, as well as powerful techniques that expand the range of the possible beyond providing health, immense wealth, and delicious romances. The subject of his secret research over the past twenty years, he calls the Four Ms. What they are and how they work will be revealed fully for the first time in this lecture, true secrets that will unlock greater magical power than ever before. It will be a journey through ancient literature, Dante’s Divine Comedy, world politics, spirit possession, and much more. Because everything you know about Astrological Magic is wrong.

Speakers

Clifford Hartleigh Low

Clifford Hartleigh Low is the impossible man who does impossible things. He’s been described as a living encyclopedia of the arcane, and is recognized by his peers as one of the most accomplished practitioners of magic and divination alive; summoning spirits in front of witnesses... Read More →

Sunday May 11, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am CDT
St. Ann's Cottage #1 717 Orleans St. Bourbon Orleans Hotel

Lecture

10:45am CDT

Tadeáš Hájek’s Alchemical Life

Sunday May 11, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm CDT

St. Ann's Cottage #1

Tadeáš Hájek was a naturalist, physician, and astronomer in the late 16th century who fashioned his career using hermetic philosophies during the reigns of Maximillian I and Rudolf II. He declared himself the leading authority and authenticator of true alchemists and through his service to the Holy Roman Emperors and their Courts he transformed his own life, eventually becoming ennobled at the highest titles. We will examine careers like his and modern success stories through the lens of alchemical and astronomical practices to uncover how the lived practice of hermetic magic results in success and elevation of status and power.

Speakers

Meg Raphoon

Meg Raphoon grew up gazing at the ocean and climbing trees on the north shore of Long Island. She currently resides in Detroit Michigan with her amazing son and the cats who have adopted them. She is on the Board of Directors for the Magical Education Council and one of the Convention... Read More →

Sunday May 11, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm CDT
St. Ann's Cottage #1 717 Orleans St. Bourbon Orleans Hotel

Lecture

1:30pm CDT

Ensouling the Effigy: Image Magic, Poppetry, and Enspirited Objects

Sunday May 11, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm CDT

St. Joseph's Room

The creation of humanoid figures is an act with origins which predates recorded history. Such work aligns us with the art of the gods as conjured by humanity's earliest imagining, and creates both a conduit for power and an anchor for spirit. In this discussion we will explore the use of the dolls and effigies in various magical traditions throughout history, as well as examine practical ways that we may meaningfully incorporate them into a contemporary practice based upon sound tradition. Going beyond the often misunderstood “voodoo dolls” presented through horror tropes, we will discuss the use of poppets, doll babies, and effigies for all manner of spellwork from healing and love drawing to reversal magic and of course hexing. We will then explore the deeper realms of this art by discussing techniques and approaches towards employing effigies as spirit houses and devotional objects. And finally, we will conclude by discussing the various materials and methods we might use for the construction of effigies, as well as methods for consecration and enlivening them for magical purposes.

Speakers

Matthew Venus

Teacher, Author, Apothecary, Diviner, Spiritus Arcanum

Matthew Venus is an artist, folk magician, and traditional witch based in Salem, Massachusetts whose craft is centered around a deep heart of animism and a dedication to ancestral and land-based traditions. His practice is further enriched by his role as Tata Ndenge in a lineage of... Read More →

Sunday May 11, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm CDT
St. Joseph's Room 717 Orleans St. Bourbon Orleans Hotel

Lecture

1:30pm CDT

In His Dark Garden: Plants of the Underworld

Sunday May 11, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm CDT

St. Ann's Cottage #1

When it comes to re-enchanting our modern world, myth and story contain instructions hiding in plain sight. Greek mythology is full of plants and animals, and these beings are important parts of the story — they not only have the power to enrich our magical and ritual practices, but they can also enhance our understanding of complex, multifaceted mythological figures like the gods. In this presentation, Jamie will introduce a surprising variety of plants associated with the Greek god Hades and his Underworld. She’ll share her methods for identifying and investigating the magical properties of these plants, while also discussing their usage and mythic origins. (Here’s a hint: it's way more than just that infamous pomegranate!)

Speakers

Jamie Waggoner

Priestess & Author

Jamie Waggoner is an author, Pagan priestess, and occult expert. She has been a practicing witch for 25+ years. Jamie is the author of Hades: Myth, Magic and Modern Devotion (Llewellyn, 2024), and contributor to Witchology Magazine, Haunted Magazine, and The Feminine Macabre, among... Read More →

Sunday May 11, 2025 1:30pm - 2:45pm CDT
St. Ann's Cottage #1 717 Orleans St. Bourbon Orleans Hotel

Lecture

3:15pm CDT

Capturing Lightning In A Bottle

Sunday May 11, 2025 3:15pm - 4:30pm CDT

St. Joseph's Room

This class explores the whys and wherefores of practices that imbue physical objects with spiritual powers. This is one of the most prevalent yet little discussed part of esoteric work. Whether this be charging a crystal, consecrating a magickal tool, preparing oils, or storing a spell in a knotted cord, there are underlying principles that connect the practices. The nature of different materials and the difference between inherent and imparted attributes will be explained as well. The use, storage, and ethical disposal of materials that contain magick will be presented.

Speakers

Ivo Dominquez Jr.

Sunday May 11, 2025 3:15pm - 4:30pm CDT
St. Joseph's Room 717 Orleans St. Bourbon Orleans Hotel

Lecture

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