Speaker Spotlight: Tchipakkan
Tchipakkan is an artist, writer, healer, and eclectic pagan-heathen-rustic. Openly pagan since the 60s, she’s currently living on a small farm in NH aimed at self sufficiency and sustainability, with 3 adult children- all artists and writers, and a varying assortment of animals- friends and livestock. On weekends Tchipakkan teaches at SCA, pagan, SF and other conferences & festivals, while her daughters sell the family’s art through Cabochons, and they write, paint, sculpt, etc. the rest of the week. Her books include Divine Cookies, The Heathen Cookie Book, Anglo-Saxon Magic, and she paints book covers and portraits.
Having few other ways to thank our speakers than promoting their stories, books and events, Tchipakkan also found acting as chair made it difficult to attend the wonderful classes and panels at CTCW, (so I) started doing a weekly talk show called The New Normal on LifeParanormal. About the time when the Pandemic drove us all into our burrows, Zoom opened up new ways of sharing with each other and we switched over to the Otherworldly Show. Which still takes place live on Wednesdays 8 to 9 PM Eastern Time. At this point the CTCW Youtube channel has over 150 collected programs. (please check them out.)
Tchipakkan (pronounced Chip ah khan, the t is silent), was co-founder and Chair Emeritus of CTCW, with Jane Sibley. She is an avid student of history, especially history of religion and magick. She practices divination including reading cards, runes, palms, as well as dowsing, numerology, astrology and almost any sort of divination from “acceptable methods” like handwriting analysis and meterology to psychometry. While a talented soothsayer, she’d rather teach people how the systems work than read for them- to empower them, and demystify the occult. The world is weird and wonderful enough that we don’t have to pretend to make it seem more so; much better to facilitate being able to work within the mystery! She continues to study, and avidly teaches all forms of healing available from herbalism, nutrition, RúnValdr, Reiki, Huna healing, and anything else that works. She also teachers any other useful skill, from sewing to brewing, historical interests merging fun with practicality. For example, she focuses seidhr studies on healing rather than oracular seidhr. (While soothsaying works, even given more information people still need to make up their own minds, and often can’t accept messages from esoteric sources. Better to empower people.)
When we are living consciously- every act is a prayer.
2019 classes
Building on RunValdr
History of the Occult
2018
Tapping for Healing
Vampires in History
2017
Art, Magic and Religion: Sacred Images
Werewolves- history and legend
2016
Divination without Tools
Healing without Tools
2015
2014
RúnValdr (introduction and attunement)
RúnValdr (practice and other techniques)
2013
RúnValdr (intro, attunement, practice)
Runes
Practical Palmistry
2013
Practical Palmistry
Intro to Runes
RúnValdr Introduction
RúnValdr Activation
RúnValdr Practice
2012
RúnValdr Introduction –
RúnValdr Activation
RúnValdr Practice
2011
RunValdr Intro & attunement
RunValdr & practice
2010
RúnValdr: Intro & Attunement
RúnValdr Practice