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2:45pm EDT

Building Sustainable Cross-Pagan Communities

Sunday March 30, 2025 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT

Join Katrina Messenger, Wendy Mata, Irene Glasse, and JR Mascaro for a panel discussion about building pagan community, moderated by Ron Padrón. Panelists will share insights from founding and running a variety of cross-pagan communities both large and small, in-person and online. This discussion will share challenges, lessons learned, best practices, and solutions ranging from the mundane to the esoteric to the technological that can help build and sustain these communities. If you are interested in establishing and/or growing pagan community where you live, this discussion is sure to provide great resources.

Speakers

Irene Glasse

Irene Glasse is a Heathen witch based in Western Maryland. She is a longtime teacher of witchcraft, meditation, and magic in the mid-Atlantic area. She is the co-author of Blackfeather Mystery School: The Magpie Training (Dragon Alchemy, 2022), a contributing writer of Gemini Witch: Unlock... Read More →

Wendy Mata

Wendy Mata, the founder of Bruja Power Botanica, is a devoted guide on the journey to reclaiming one’s inner power. She believes that awakened souls have the potential to inspire transformative change. As a Lunar Priestess, Wendy’s path includes initiation in Shamanism in Yucatan, Mexi... Read More →

Katrina Messenger

Katrina Messenger is a poet, priestess, warrior, and witch. She is also a full-time Wiccan mystic and an ordained minister. For over thirty five years, she has studied mythology, esoteric sciences, and human development. She is the founder of Connect DC (1999) and Reflections Mystery School (2004) in... Read More →

Rev. Ron Padrón

Rev. Ron Padrón (he/him/his) is the creator of White Rose Witching. He is a gay Cuban-American hedge priest from the swamps of Florida, now living in the mid-Atlantic with his husband and their small werewolf. He is specifically interested in divination, Queer Ancestor veneration, necromancy, hedge... Read More →

Sunday March 30, 2025 2:45pm - 4:15pm EDT
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