Katrina Messenger is a poet, priestess, warrior and witch. Katrina is a full time Wiccan mystic and an ordained minister. In 1999, she founded Connect DC, a Wiccan based public ritual group that seeks to heal and transform the city of Washington DC through magic, mystery and celebration. In 2004, Katrina opened the Reflections Mystery School in order to offer a structured apprenticeship program plus continue to offer quality magickal instruction to the Washington Metro area and to the entire MidAtlantic region. In 2012, she incorporated the Order of Elemental Mystery (OEM) as a church in Washington, DC.  OEM, now the umbrella for both Connect DC, and Reflections, is located in Two Rivers Sanctuary — pagan owned land in the nation’s capital.

Katrina is a DC native with over fifty years of experience as a grassroots activist and community leader. She has taken on leadership roles in almost every group she has joined, including her election to the state presidency of Maryland NOW and later when she served eighteen months as the acting minister for the Sojourner Truth Congregation of Unitarian Universalists.

Katrina has studied mythology, esoteric sciences and human development for over thirty years. Katrina is a certified Archetypal and Dream Patterning Analyst.  She is the author of Elemental Psychology: Using Jungian Psychology and the Sacred Elements for Spiritual Development, Descent: A Journey for Women, and Dark Beauty. She has published articles in the Assisi Institute Journal, and the Reclaiming Quarterly. She contributed to the highly successful Twelve Wild Swans, and taught at Reclaiming witch camps from 1997 to 2003. She is an elder in her community and a recognized leader and teacher worldwide

BJ Swain is the author of Living Spirits: A Guide to Magic in a World of Spirits, Luminarium: A Grimoire of Cunning Conjuration, Familiar Unto Me: Witches Sorcerers and Their Spirit Companions. He was a contributing editor for Heaven and Hell 2018: The Grimoire Issue, and has had essays published in the devotional anthology for Persephone, Queen of the Sacred Way, and the short story collection, Tales of the Darkening Year. He runs the website, The Unveiled Sky, the blog Glory of the Stars, and hosted the podcast, In the Company of Stars.

He has been practicing magic for over 30 years. In addition to practical work with magic, BJ focused his education on Classics but also took several courses covering magic, the paranormal, mysticism, and mythology as part of his academic studies. He was trained in a branch of the A∴A∴, a hereditary line of witchcraft, and the Order of the Celestial Academy in addition to his own independent studies and explorations of the occult and Paganism. BJ served as Deputy Master of an OTO body, a Priest in the Gnostic Catholic Church, and as the Bishop of Maryland for the Church of Light and Shadow.

He currently works with a small group of magicians who have completed the Abramelin working and who work to spread interest in more traditional magic and is organizing a Dionysian Mystery Tradition called New Orpheum. BJ was the 2019 recipient of the Black Crozier award, and his work has been nominated for other awards and repeatedly achieved top ten spots in Amazon category listings.

Raven Kaldera is a Northern Tradition shaman, herbalist, astrologer, polyamorous transgendered intersexual, homesteader, and founding member of the First Kingdom Church of Asphodel. He has been a practicing shaman for almost two decades now, and is an activist for everything he believes in.

He is the author of 45 books, including the Northern-Tradition Shamanism series, Myth Astrology, Pagan Astrology, Dealing With Deities: Practical Polytheistic Theology, and Hermaphrodeities:  The Transgender Spirituality Workbook.

‘Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.