John Beckett, is a Druid in the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, and a member of Ár nDraíocht Féin. He served 12 years as the Coordinating Officer of the Denton Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans and 3 years on the Board of Trustees of CUUPS Continental. He calls his personal practice “ancestral, devotional, ecstatic, oracular, magical, public, Pagan polytheism.” His authors the popular blog, Under the Ancient Oaks, and authored two books, The Path of Paganism (2017) and Paganism In Depth (2019) and is an Editor of “the Book of Cernunnos (2023). He has been writing, speaking, teaching and leading public rituals since 2003.
Thista Minai is an educator, author, priestess, and ordeal facilitator. She uses her professional background in education to create high-quality classes on a wide variety of topics, including ritual design, energy work, sacred sexuality, and the ordeal path. With more than twenty years of experience designing and conducting rituals, Thista travels the world championing the value of inclusivity and authenticity in contemporary Paganism.
Jason Mankey pens the popular blog ‘Raise the Horns’ on Patheos Pagan and many books including The Witch’s Athame (2016), The Witch’s Book of Shadows (2017), The Witch’s Altar with Laura Tempest Zakroff (2018), Transformative Witchcraft: The Greater Mysteries (2019), The Witch’s Wheel of the Year: Rituals for Sabbats, Circles, and Covens, Llewellyn’s Little Book of Yule, The Horned God of the Witches, and many more including editing The Book Of Cernunnos with John Beckett in 2023. Jason is a third-degree Gardnerian High Priest, practicing the Craft for over twenty-five years now, he and his wife help lead two covens in Northern California. Jason is a popular speaker at Pagan and Witchcraft events across North America and Great Britain and has been recognized by his peers as an authority on the Horned God, Wiccan history, and occult influences in rock and roll and heavy metal music. When not reading and researching Pagan history he likes to crank up the Led Zeppelin, do rituals in honor of Jim Morrison (of The Doors), and sing numerous praises to Pan, Dionysus, and Aphrodite.
Rhonda Alin is a Tarot Reader, Tarot Instructor, and Intuitive. She purchased her first deck of divination cards at age 12 and fell in love with the imagery and messages found in them. Rhonda is now a professional Tarot Card reader, instructor, and the founder of Northern New Jersey Tarot. She has studied Tarot with some of the most respected and accomplished readers, authors, and deck designers in the Tarot community and continues her studies by attending and presenting at annual international conferences.
David Shi is a shamanic worker and folk magic practitioner who primarily engages in traditional North Asian forms of shamanism. He is primarily of Manchurian descent, but can also trace ancestry to Mongolian, Chinese, Korean, as well as a little Tungus Siberian and ancient Central Asian Turkic heritage as well. Raised in a household that incorporated both Southeast Siberian and North Chinese practices, David has dedicated his spare time to the study of the spiritual traditions of his ancestors and of greater Eurasia. Recognized as a sagaasha/ongodtengertei, a future shaman prior to initiation, among both Mongolian and Korean shamans, David’s practices are deeply rooted in spirit work in which ancestral and land spirits are called to empower all workings. David’s readings incorporate a combination of Tarot, Runes, Bones, Jaw-harp, as well as Mongolian stone divination (known as Kumalak in Turkic Central Asia). David is the author of the new book “Spirit Voices: The Mysteries and Magic of North Asian Shamanism”, and currently resides in Manhattan, New York where he occasionally provides spiritual services, products, and workshops to his immediate communities. Follow him on Instagram @davidjshi311.
Laura Tempest Zakroff is an artist, author, and fusion bellydance performer, Rhode Island-based Renaissance Witch. She is a simmering cauldron of talents and projects.
She penned the award-winning “Sigil Witchery,” as well as a library’s worth of tomes on modern witchcraft. A professionally trained visual artist as well, her talent in weaving meaning into design shines through in her oracle decks, which feature her original mystical folklore-inspired artwork. Her musical collaborations and transcendent dance round out the performance layer of her multidimensional artistry.
Although her craft may cover a wide range, she ties it all together as a steadfast mentor in modern witchcraft. She is a facilitator of social change for witches and pagans, and founded the grassroots movement We Are Aradia to inspire others to take a stand through both magical and mundane activism. The many events and festivals she has produced have done much to educate the public and foster community among modern witches everywhere. Tempest’s “Witchual Workout” videos help foster physical and energetic strength through ritually-inspired movement. Come, watch her weave the threads of visual, auditory, verbal, and somatic art into a movement to take back our power as witches.