Lectures. Workshops. Community-building.
Upcoming Events
Decolonizing Death
Free Spirit Gathering
August 5-10, 2025
Camp Ramblewood, Darlington, MD
Mainstream Western cultures have often sought to sanitize, minimize, and even erase death. Colonialism, capitalism, and de-enchantment have separated us from our histories and community legacies, and have often made our relationships to death and the dead oversimplified, transactional, or even weaponized. In this workshop, attendees will unpack their own relationship with death in their spiritual practice and examine their biases when it comes to honoring and grieving the dead. Through this workshop, we will confront how we ignore our obligations to the dead to safeguard our own comfort, and begin the process of healing the rift between worlds.
Designing Queer-Inclusive Ritual
Free Spirit Gathering
August 5-10, 2025
Camp Ramblewood, Darlington, MD
In this workshop attendees will discuss ways contemporary paganism, occultism, and spirituality engage with queer identity and experience. This workshop will discuss the ways the queer community has faced obstacles within these environments, how they have engaged with these traditions to find space within them, and how they have created their own spaces. Special emphasis will be given to discussing inclusive ritual design, with time allotted for attendees to work on designing, refining, or brainstorming a queer-inclusive ritual of their choice. Attendees will have the opportunity to solicit feedback from both the presenter and peers in designing their ritual. Attendees should bring a journal, notepad, etc.
Personal Healing Integration Ritual
Free Spirit Gathering
August 5-10, 2025
Camp Ramblewood, Darlington, MD
This guided healing ritual will connect you with a part of yourself trapped in a pattern of negative energy or emotions. Participants will connect with a part of themselves most in need of attention in this moment, and learn what specific type of care is necessary. Please note, this ritual is intended to be the start of an integrative healing process that could take days or weeks. Participants are encouraged to bring a journal, notepad, or something to take notes in,
Community Ancestral Healing Ritual
Free Spirit Gathering
August 5-10, 2025
Camp Ramblewood, Darlington, MD
This guided healing ritual will create space to be in community with your ancestors. Together, we will raise energy to share with those who have made it possible for us to be here, to walk our paths and live our lives. Together, we will help to heal the wounds they still carry from the trauma, oppression, and harm they experienced in life. As we work to heal them we in turn help heal our communities in the present and stretching back through time. Attendees are encouraged to bring an item to place on the Ancestor Altar for the duration of the ritual.
Ancestral Pathways Conference 2025: The Works of the Dark
October 31 - November 3, 2025
Online
The Ancestral Pathways Conference is a meeting point for diversity, it is a crossroads, between worlds and times, between our ancestors and ourselves.
Join Rev. Ron Padrón of White Rose Witching for the following workshop:
RISE UP: NECROMANCY AND SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM
The strongest way to resist oppression is in community, and the strongest communities are those that remember their dead. In this workshop, attendees will learn about the practice of spiritual activism as a tool for social change, particularly when it invokes the spirits and legacies of our ancestors. Through ancestral veneration and myth-making, attendees will learn how the dead have been used as weapons, protectors, and messengers in liberation movements. Attendees will be challenged to reflect on their own relationship with spirituality for social change, and asked to imagine how they can begin to ally themselves with those who have come before us.