WCTG 2023 Presenters

Astrea Taylor is an eclectic pagan witch and the author of Intuitive Witchcraft, Air Magic, Modern Witchcraft with the Greek Gods, and the forthcoming book Inspiring Creativity Through Magick (coming July 8th, 2023). Her life goals include empowering other magical practitioners and encouraging them to use intuition in their craft. In her books and classes, Astrea shares her love of science, magic, history, mental health, and energy awareness. She also mentors magical people to help them walk their truest paths with more confidence and self-love. Learn more at AstreaTaylor.com. 

Presenting: Tarot by Number: Meaning, Movement, & Magic

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Laura Tempest Zakroff is a professional artist and author based in New England. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her artwork has received awards and honors worldwide. Laura is the author of several best-selling books and decks including Weave the Liminal, Sigil Witchery, Anatomy of a Witch, Visual Alchemy, the Liminal Spirits Oracle and the Anatomy of a Witch Oracle.

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Presenting: Magick of Divination with Tarot Cards; Spiritually Alchemical Reading 

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Monica Bodirsky BDES, CH (she/her) is a professional Tarot and oracle deck creator, divination specialist, and shadow worker. Her most recent decks include the acclaimed Shadowland Tarot deck and guide, the Shadowland Lenormand, and indie decks such as the Lucky Lenormand House of Shadows (editions 1 through 5) and the Bats Blood Ink Oracle deck. Her illustrative style is conceptual pen and ink with watercolor and is at times quirky, melancholy, and darkly humorous.

 

Presenting: Intuitive Tarot 101 & Witches' Herbal Walk

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Kris is a natural intuitive, vampyre witch, and magickal herbal practitioner with Lithuanian and Celtic roots. She grew up foraging the New England woods with her grandmother and shares her inherited gifts with a family of healers, psychics, and mediums. Kris teaches others how to reconnect to their inherent wisdom through tarot, herbalism, and magick.​ She is the resident herbalist at Maison Vampyre in Salem,  founded Dark Moon in 2010, and is the creator of the Witch City Tarot + Divination Gathering in Salem, MA.  

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Presenting: Oracle: The Art of Psychic Tarot Reading

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Gwen is a sex educator, tarot reader, and witch based in New York City. With nearly a decade of tarot reading experience, Gwen combines psychic and classical techniques for her international clientele. She currently reads and teaches tarot online, and attends Columbia University as a Psychology grad student.

Presenting: Working with Vampyric Energy - Guided Meditation

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The Vampire Benjamin is a cornerstone of the Witch City Halo in Salem, Ma. As the co-owner of Vampfangs and Maison Vampyre,  he is a staple of the vampyre community in Salem. Benjamin lends his magical abilities through guided mediations and energy clearings at Salem's only Vampyre parlour, Maison Vampyre.

Presenting: Tarot Yoga - Saturday & Sunday

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Chrissy offers a number of wellness modalities on the North Shore of Massachusetts including mindful vinyasa, restorative yoga, guided meditation, distance reiki, herbal workshops, and thai yoga bodywork. Her holistic wellness practice runs deep into the earth and universe, connecting her teaching to the elements, the earth, the sea, and the moon.

Presenting: Engaging The Muse: Art, Magick, and Inner Alchemy

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Coe Douglas is a multi-disciplinary artist, a speculative designer and writer, and a member of the art & design faculty at the Peck School of the Arts at the Unversity of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. He's currently co-director of Tending Tomorrow, a design futures initiative and podcast. Jean Roberts-Guequierre is best known for her detail rich, contemporary themed oil paintings which use the imagery and techniques of the Flemish Primitives, Bosch, and Bruegel. Her work focuses on themes of midlife rebirth, reimagining women in traditional male-oriented imagery, and psychological themes. All of her work is imbued with empathy, humor, and wry wit. In addition to oil paintings, she creates exquisite drawings, acrylic sketches, and watercolors.

Presenting: Herbs of Revealing: Plant Allies for Divination

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Jeremy Bechelli received his Ph.D. in infectious disease pathology from the University of Texas Medical Branch and his M.S. in microbiology from the University of Rochester. Jeremy is currently a scientist working on cancer immunotherapy and treatments. Jeremy is a long-time student of European folk magic and studies occult herbalism, folk medicine, and the traditional witch-lore and practices of the British Isles. Jeremy also owns Phytognosis, a business focused on plant-based spirituality, incense, resins, and botanical curious.

Presenting: Introduction to Tasseography (Tea Leaf Reading) 

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It's rare to find Rissa without tea. No matter where she is or what she's doing, a mug of green tea is her constant companion. She holds a deep reverence for plants and the answers they offer, whether as tasseographs in a teacup, smoke in the air, a healing salve for the skin, a plant on the windowsill, or nourishment for the body. She's also senior editor of a national magazine, published poetess/author, and is studying clinical herbalism. Rissa was born in the year of the Wood Rabbit and has been gazing into teacups for guidance for more than 30 years.

Performing:  A magical half-hour of luscious live vocals and bewitching burlesque

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Bianca Boom Boom (they/she) is a curvy, campy, queer, and vampy cabaret diva and burlesque bombshell. A true triple threat treat, this award-winning, Bi+ babe and high femme has dazzled stages across the cosmos and back again for over a decade, including the illustrious Burlesque Hall Of Fame Weekender in Las Vegas. In addition to her onstage theatrics, Bianca is a tutor of tease and self-love sorcery. They also serve on the committee of the annual Bi+ Arts Festival. They are a showoff show-pony of the highest degree, and as all who have seen her in action are sure to agree, will steal your heart and leave you spellbound.