Upcoming Talks, Conferences & Classes
(Calendar updated as talks are added or have already occurred!)
November 2025
Os Sete Reinos de Exu- The Seven Kingdoms of Quimbanda
A Nine Week Class Series
Speaker: Jesse Hathaway Diaz
Date: Mondays, November- December 2025 | Time: 9pm ET
Location: Live Online
The spirits of Quimbanda are found all around us- they are, by nature, spirits of fire and friction, of the choice and agency present at every Crossroad. But the reach of Exu and Pombagira extends far beyond the Road. Wherever movement and exchange and choice find expression, Exu is there staring. Wherever ambition and attraction pull us, Pombagira is there…
Exu is the blurring of opposition through integration and incorporation, the spark of power and will met with desire and action in every step. How do we kindle this living flame and the spirits who dance in its fire? It is a balance hard won through tempering our relationship with our devils and dead; it is in how we express our desires and fight for what we want in the world around us, wrestling with demons both internal and external. It is through tracing the footsteps of our choices that we come to know these Devils and Companions, and we begin to see their força in the world around us, in the those areas most saturated with their power and presence. Within Quimbanda, these realms have solidified as seven distinct Kingdoms: the Beach, the Woods, the Cemetery, the Cross, the Harp, the Crossroads, and the Souls.
Os Sete Reinos de Exu- these Seven Kingdoms of Quimbanda–each have their own hierarchy, affinities, and influences. Each expresses itself differently, tempts us and empowers us differently. These details and nuances color the spirits, and in turn, how we might approach them, and work with them.
Over nine weeks, we will explore these Kingdoms in depth. First starting with an overview and introduction, we will then spend a week on each Kingdom, exploring not only the Kingdom as its own force, but the rulers of each and the notable spirits found therein, the quality of the kiumbas in that Kingdom, herbs and minerals and animals that, by affinity and rulership, contain the força of each Kingdom. We will then conclude with a final week of integration as we discuss further mapping the sacred onto our landscape, bringing conscious fire to the land we walk to engage with Exu and Pombagira in a deeper, more practical way.
PRE-REQUISITE: To take this course, it is highly recommended you have completed Foundations of Quimbanda (any year its been offered, previously through Wolf & Goat or at The Pact).
Cost: $349. Register here.
Serpent Cunning: The Lore and Spirits of Snakes in Traditional British Magic
Speaker: Dr Alexander Cummins
Date: Sunday 16 November 2025 | Time: 7pm ET
Location: Live Online
A part of The Serpentine Path series this class examines the pre-modern magical natural history of snakes, including their virtues in the 'physick' of humoural healing; their emblematic meanings and mysteries in traditional alchemy, heraldry, and iconography; ophidian components in various traditional Books of Natural and Supernatural Secrets; and the conjuration of various serpentine spirits in folk magic and grimoiric sorcery alike.
Cost: $35. Register here.
Doctor Universalis: The Natural Magic of Albertus Magnus
Speaker: Dr Alexander Cummins
Date: Saturday 22 November 2025 | Time: 7pm ET
Location: Live Online
Saint Albertus Magnus, that is, Albert the Great (aka Albert of Swabia and Albert of Cologne) is widely regarded as one of the most influential clergymen and writers of the medieval European world. He was also, by his own account, an occult philosopher and magician, who left behind an arcane body of work and influence which we may simply call “Albertine magic”.
This class will begin with introductory biographic study of the life and writings of Albert the Great himself, including survey of the various ways this important occult philosopher has been interpreted by subsequent generations of scholars and practitioners.
We will examine works of particular note: especially the important lapidary of his Book of Minerals, and his compendious studies on the occult virtues of animalia contained in various Albertine Book of Secrets. We will also explore more extensive and variegated collections of folk magic, latterly and more legendarily attributed to the patronage of Albert of Cologne, such as the Egyptian Secrets and the Petit Albert.
Finally, we shall discuss various practical observances of saint veneration and operative spiritwork with the tutelary shade of this venerable Doctor of the Church, including his guidance and empowerment of work with other dead magicians.
Cost: $35. Register here.
The Tongue is the Wing of the Serpent: The Stellar Inheritance & the Serpents of Light in Traditional Witchcraft
Speaker: Jesse Hathaway Diaz
Date: Sunday 23 November 2025 | Time: 7pm ET
Location: Live Online
The currents of traditional craft are never from a single source, they are a brood of vipers commingled in a chalice we willingly drink from: some seeking liberation, others seeking power, and still others seeking knowledge. We crawl upon our bellies through the mud of the world, and look to the heavens for portent, for inspiration. In Neo-pagan craft the Sun and the Moon have become primary, and the western inheritance of astrology has let the ecliptic dominate, that path of the Sun through the firmament. But what if the stars are directly engaged with, whenever they cast their light, wherever they gleam between branches and clouds? The witch flies free in this starlit world that always anchors itself in the landscape, creating intimacies with the stars, their light, and where their light shines upon the earth. Here gods, spirits of the dead, and the Others fair and foul in our world dance and shine. They are not only distant, not only immediate, but mediating and pulsing, each shedding the light of before and replacing it with the light of what is. This class is an exploration of this forked tongue of starlight and the serpent-wisdom of the stars that can seduce, beckon, teach and poison, each reminding us “and ye shall be like gods…”
Cost: $35. Register here.
This Spectered Isle: Traditional British Folk Necromancy
Speaker: Dr Alexander Cummins
Date: Monday 24 November 2025 | Time: 7pm ET
Location: Live Online
The folklore and ritual magic of the British Isles is a deeply haunted body of observances and practices. Its rainy melancholy lands have a long history of ghostly hauntings and apparitions, tales of necromancers prowling old graveyards, and practices of Dumb Suppers, soul cakes, and consulting tutelary shades which all trace a diverse hauntological record etched in pamphlets and headstones alike.
From these encounters and legends emerge rich traditions of operative necromancy: from the use of grave dirt for dream incubation and ghost-laying, to the employment of both grimoiric conjuration and planetary sorcery in various cunning work with the dead.
In this illustrated presentation, we will approach traditional pre-modern practices of folk necromancy, exploring the intersections of ghosts, ghostlore, and both folk magic and ritual magic concerning the returning dead in early modern Britain – from helping souls pass on to calling forth spirits of the deceased – concentrating on the magical ways the living and dead can help each other.
Cost: $35. Register here.