Spring Equinox Ritual Ostara
2026-03-21 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Chicago)
Come Join us for a Family Friendly Ritual/Potluck Celebrating the Spring Equinox and celebrating the Goddess Ostara. Please bring a dish for the potluck and there will be a Egg hunt for the children. There is no cost for this event

The Art of Potions: Formulating and Crafting Magickal Mixtures with Christopher Penczak
2026-03-27 19:00 - 21:30 | Books, Beans, and Candles MS, 1620 Richard Arrington Jr Blvd S, BIrmingham, AL, 35205, United States
The arts of the cunning man and wise woman involve the use of herbs, oils, minerals and mummia to make magick and healing. The plants whisper their secrets to those who have the ears to hear their spirits and the eyes to see their magick. Modern Witches, pagans and healers reclaim the magickal traditions of old by creating their own potions and philters with magickal intention. In this class, learn different types of potions and powders, and how to formulate your own using a variety of ingredients for your own needs, desires and spiritual path. Topics include and overview of teas, tinctures, fluid condensers, oils, incense, spagyrics, essences and philters. Find your inner “alchemist” who will guide you in this exciting magickal technique. A potion will be made as a group in class and everyone will receive a sample. Please bring a small vial or bottle to bring home a sample potion.

Breaking Curses: Cleansing, Clearing, Lifting, and Breaking Malediction Day Long Intensive With Christopher Penczak
2026-03-28 10:00 - 18:00 | Books, Beans, and Candles MS, 1620 Richard Arrington Jr Blvd S, BIrmingham, AL, 35205, United States
A day long experiential workshop on examining the roots of hexes and curses, from others and yourself, through generations and past lives, their distinctions and their remedies. Learn techniques of cleansing and clearing harmful energies as well as clearing the way, lifting the burdens, and breaking bindings and chains. Learn about the role of spirits and entity attachment in these experiences. Techniques are drawn from a variety of sources from both folk magick and modern magick, advanced energy healing, and the master builder temple traditions. We will break into small groups and experience the rituals of healing and clearing, including a special anti-spell tablet ceremony involving the principles of sacred geometry. The day culminates with a simple yet powerful guided clearing ritual for the group. Come and gain clarity and healing for yourself, and learn how to help others in your own community.

Evocation and Invocation of Spirits: Conjuration, Channeling and Speaking to and for the Unseen World Day Long Intensive With Christopher Penczak
2026-03-29 10:00 - 18:00 | Books, Beans, and Candles MS, 1620 Richard Arrington Jr Blvd S, BIrmingham, AL, 35205, United States
Magickal practitioners commune with unseen forces known to us as the spirits. We do so for guidance, teaching, and magickal aid from the spirits, service to our community, and to offer reciprocity for their wants and needs. Collectively our spirits might be from the realms of ancestors, angels, faeries, land spirits, masters, and the gods. Our methods range from the process of journeying to the spirits to communicate with them in their natural environment through meditation and pathworking, or bringing them more fully into our world to communicate with us. Learn how to prepare the ritual environment conducive for spirit contact, often through a magick circle, and the method by which we to draw the spirit into a human oracle who will speak for the spirit, or into a vessel such as a crystal, mirror, flame, or smoke. Drawing from modern Witchcraft, grimoire traditions, tantric theurgy, mediumship, shamanism and the master builder tradition, learn adapted modern, safe(r) techniques to make these beings and practices a part of your spiritual life. Class will have one evocation of a spirit group ritual and one invocation oracular ritual, with some practice sessions in small groups to explore the techniques
