Announcements

2022 New Year Message

While the Witches’ new year is Samhain, I’ve always felt the time between Samhain and Yule is a time between, a time before the new solar year for resting, reflecting, dreaming, and planning before the solar and secular New Year.

Now we enter into the new and we want to share with you some plans for the year. Our plans to celebrate Yule in-person here in New Hampshire were cancelled by bad weather and looming concerns about the omicron variant. Temple leadership continues to keep a close eye on recommendations and best-practices to keep everyone in our community safe. We have continued our online Sabbats for those not near any local Temple of Witchcraft community and plan to move forward offering sabbat rituals both online and (eventually) in-person. You can find more about our sabbats and other events here.

We are nearing the time of our second annual online gathering of TempleHearth, with an online Imbolc ritual included. Registration is still open to enjoy our many presenters, specifically from our community. Our hope is TempleFest will be in-person again this coming August.

We obtained bids for the approved plans to build our Community Center and will be unrolling our ambitious multi-year fundraising efforts for it, as the price of modern town-approved structures is estimated as 1.7 million dollars, but this fulfills our mandate to create accessible community resources that will last for generations of Witches and Pagans. Those who want to make a direct donation here can do so and mark the donation “community center” in the note. A video presentation at TempleHearth will unveil some of the designs for the Community Center.

Plans continue with our development of the land, trails, and future ritual and healing sites on the property and we have Dominique Susani and Karen Crowley-Susani coming out to New Hampshire in April to educate us more on the sacred geometry and energetic forces of the land. Workshop is open to the public and can be found here.

And for those interested in starting or continuing their education in the Temple online, we continue to offer courses and classes, such as the upcoming Path of the Moon year-long course. The current session of the Temple Mystery School ends in March, with registration opening for the September 2022 session soon thereafter, in the Spring of this year. The Temple of Witchcraft series of books continues to be updated with 20th Anniversary Editions, including a forthcoming The Outer Temple of Witchcraft, and I know the Mystery School staff and I look forward to entering a new era of our education with you all.

Looking forward to an exciting new year with everyone as we move into 2022! 2022 is a six year (2+0+2+2=6) and in the Tree of Life six is the number of the Sun. Together let’s invoke a year of health, happiness, harmony, and prosperity for all.

Blessed be,

Christopher Penczak
Co-Founder of the Temple of Witchcraft

New Texas Mystery School Classes

The Temple’s Sagittarius Ministry is pleased to announce the opening of three new in-person Mystery School classes in Porter, Texas (near Houston): Witchcraft I, Witchcraft III, and Witchcraft V, taught by Temple High Priestess Airmid Plantwalker. See the individual class pages for details, dates, class fee, and links to the online application forms.

Please note these are in-person classes, open only to students able to attend the classes in the Houston, Texas, area. Applications for the next year of online Mystery School classes will open in the Spring of 2022. Those interested in being notified when online registration opens should visit the Education page and sign up for our first-call list.

Request for Rites of Passage Online Form

The Temple’s Capricorn Ministry has added a Request for Rite of Passage form to our website, whereby members of the community can contact them seeking particular rites of passage (see our Services page for details). Capricorn Ministry can then make referrals to available Temple ministers. While we cannot fulfill all rites of passage requests—as there may not be an available Temple minister for the place, time, or ritual requested—we will do our best to do so. Those with questions can follow-up at [email protected].

Energetic Geometry Weekend Workshop

With Special Guest Teachers: Dominique Susani and Karen Crowley-Susani

The Temple of Witchcraft will be hosting a weekend intensive with Dominique Susani and Karen Crowley-Susani, the founders of Energetic Geometry, co-authors of Secrets of Sacred Geometry: Solar Geometry for Health and Life and teachers of the master-builder traditions that are the foundation of sacred temple construction around the world.

As we look towards the development of the land we steward here in Salem, NH, we look to the wisdom of the experienced builders of sacred geometrical sites. They will be offering:

How to Heal your Home

Weekend Workshop – East Coast Training
April 22–24, 2022

Over three days, you will learn these practical, effective and proven techniques and tools to harmonize your home:

  • Body dowsing.
  • Basic energetic solar geometry.
  • How to draw and calculate the solsticial quadrilateral for your latitude.
  • How to preform earth acupuncture to neutralize water veins and faults.
  • How to harmonize the energy of your bed.
  • Earth Energies

Explore How the Energies of the Earth Affect Us

  • Subterranean influences – Explore how they affect your health and how to neutralize them with earth acupuncture.
  • Surface influences – Hartmann Nets are filled with electricity and are everywhere. Learn how to make them vanish.
  • Your bed is the most important place in your home – learn how to make it a place of rest and restoration.
  • Dowsing for water

The Secret Weapon to Harmonize the Energies of Your Home

You will discover the magical healing qualities of the solsticial quadrilateral. You will experience the energetic healing qualities found in a solsticial quadrilateral, which is a big ‘aha’ moment for students. You will learn how to draw the solar mandala of your home and latitude. It is connected with the solar rhythms and the energy of the earth. It is a harmonious space and is considered a living structure. Your energy recharges inside. You are connected to the cosmos and earth. The energy inside feels good, balanced, and harmonious. Plants grow better, animals and humans are relaxed and happier. It is a sacred space and helps us access a stronger and clearer connection to spirit.

After this weekend workshop you will have all the tools to Heal your Land ~ Heal your Home ~ Heal yourself.

This 3-day workshop will be held at Grandview, home of the Temple of Witchcraft, in Salem, New Hampshire, only 50 minutes from Boston Logan International Airport, 25 minutes from Manchester-Boston Regional Airport. This weekend provides the foundation for deeper training and the construction of sacred spaces, stone circles, and harmonizing your home inside and out.

$299. For more details and to register, please visit
https://energeticgeometry.com/workshops/ to register directly with them.

See more of the work and webinars at:

https://www.facebook.com/EnergeticGeometry

https://www.instagram.com/energetic_geometry/

Mystery School Roundup

With a new year of online Mystery School classes beginning, as well as advanced classes like the Society of the Temple, it seemed a good time as we look forward to the year ahead to take stock of the “in-person” Mystery School courses being offered by Temple teachers as well.

That “in-person” is in quotes, of course, because these courses are planned to be held online for now as a covid-19 precaution, but will hopefully transition back to being held in-person once it is safe to do so. For that reason, only students who will be able to attend these classes in-person should apply—these are not a substitute for the Temple’s online Mystery School program! If you want to be on the “first-call list” for when online Mystery School registration reopens, please sign up here.

Visit the individual class pages for more information about these upcoming classes, including registration information and links.

Witchcraft One

  • Southwest Houston, TX with HPS Airmid Plantwalker: Class begins in June 2021, registration closes in May.

Witchcraft Two

  • Glastonbury, CT with HP Dan Lupacchino: Class begins in March 2021, registration closing soon!
  • Southwest Houston, TX with HPS Airmid Plantwalker: Class begins in June 2021, registration closes in May.

Witchcraft Three

  • Los Angeles, CA with HP Scott K. Smith: Class begins in March 2021, registration closing soon!
  • St. Louis, MO with HPS Kelley Ross: Class begins in May 2021.

Witchcraft Four

  • Bellingham, MA with HP Adam Sartwell: Class begins in May 2021, registration closes in April.
  • Southwest Houston, TX with HPS Airmid Plantwalker: Class begins in June 2021, registration closes in May.
  • Porter, TX with HPS Virginia Villarreal: Class begins in June 2021.

Witchcraft Five

  • Salem, NH with HPS Alix Wright: Class begins in March 2021, registration closing soon!
  • Columbia, MO with HPS Cat Kelley: Class begins in April 2021.
  • Porter, TX with HPS Virginia Villarreal: Class begins in May 2021.

Witchcraft I Online Registration to Close Early

Due to the unusually high volume of applications for the March 2021 session, exceeding the number of positions in the class, we are planning to close registration for the online session of Witchcraft I: The Inner Temple earlier this year, by the end of November 2020, to give us time to process all of the applications.

We limit the number of people in this already very large class because there is required monthly homework where each student is paired with a mentor and/or teaching assistant who offers feedback. We are looking for students up to the challenge of such work and interested in progressing through the system and potentially being involved in the greater community of the Temple of Witchcraft. Please realize that if you are not serious about the work, you could be taking a space away from someone who is. If you haven’t read about the general ethos of our Mystery School, please visit the Education page of our website and read about it in detail.

If you have some prior experience and are not looking for the pace of a monthly homework-required degree course, please check out our Mysteries of the Wheel of the Year course. We’ll also be reopening the Path of the Moon course for next spring. These are low-pressure, go at your own pace classes. While filled with meditations, exercises, and rituals, nothing is required to be submitted for review.

The Temple also offers a variety of one-time events, festivals, rituals, and short series classes available at various times on our website, social media, and newsletter. We try to accommodate various levels of learning and committment. If you are ready for a long-term course with monthly accountability, we look forward to your application before registration closes. If you have applied and have not yet sent in your deposit, please do so, or your application won’t be processed. If you are not accepted, your deposit will be returned. If you have applied, but have not heard back from us, please be patient, as we have a lot of applications to process!

Thank you so much and we are looking forward to the next year together in the Temple Mystery School.

New Mystery School Classes in Texas

The Temple’s Mystery School is pleased to announce open registration for a new year of Mystery School classes in Porter, Texas, with High Priestess Virginia Villarreal. Please visit the Mystery School page of the website or the individual class pages for details, dates, and links to the online application forms.

Also, please note that these in-person classes, like the Temple’s other classes and events may initially take place online (via Zoom video conferencing) or require pandemic precautions such as masks and social distancing when and if they do take place in-person, as needed to ensure the safety of the participants and community.

New Class Offerings

In addition to our new in-person and online Mystery School classes now open for registration, the Temple is pleased to announce the following new class offerings:

The Mysteries of the Wheel of the Year, online with Christopher Penczak: In this year-long class, go deeper into the soul and spirit world through the Turning of the Wheel of the Year. Examine specific mystical teachings involving the approach towards the Wheel found in the Temple of Witchcraft, yet adaptable and inspiring for your own personal practice and traditions. Class begins November 2020.

Uniting Our Archetypes, online and in-person with JT Mouradian: In this series of classes we will explore four archetypes of mature masculinity. We will delve the concepts of the Sovereign, the Warrior, the Magician, and the Lover as four elements that, when combined in due measure, produce men of great value. Class begins January 2021.

The Queer Mysteries, online with Erica Baron: Dive into the Queer Mysteries through this 11 month online class. Queerness and Witchcraft have many points of connection, from the creativity that comes from a spirit of transgression, to the insight available from an outsider position, to the magick of speaking truth about ourselves and our experiences. Class begins January 2021.

Kitchen Witchery & Crafting for the Home, online with Karen Ainsworth: Each class in this nine-month series will seek to connect us with Gods, Goddesses, and seasonal spirits, and will include recipes for foods, medicines, self-care remedies, gifts for others, as well as crafts and ideas for the home. Class begins May 2021.

Be on the lookout for more exciting learning opportunities from the Temple and its teachers in the year to come!

Mystery School Registration for 2021 Now Open

The Temple’s Sagittarius Ministry is pleased to announce that online registration for the 2021 session of the Temple Mystery School is now open!

Interested applicants should visit our Education page for complete class policies and information, along with links to the individual class levels. The individual class pages have full descriptions of that class, along with links to the online registration form.

Next year’s year-long Mystery School classes begin in March of 2021. We are looking forward to reviewing all of the applications and welcoming our new classes of students! For technical questions concerning the website, application forms, or payment, please email [email protected]For questions concerning the Mystery School programs, please email [email protected]As always, please allow our volunteers time to process your inquiries, your patience is appreciated.

Witchcraft I–III in Jackson, Mississippi

The Temple’s Sagittarius Ministry is pleased to announce open enrollment for Witchcraft I, II, and III in-person with High Priestess Sellena in Jackson, MS. The year-long monthly classes begin in March of 2021.

Please note that in-person classes may initially take place over video conferencing and may later require social distancing, masks, and other protective measures for the safety of all involved. The Temple makes an effort to follow all public health safety guidelines.

See the individual class pages of the Temple Mystery School page for details on the class and links to the online registration forms. Interested parties with questions for the instructor can email [email protected].

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