TempleFest 2025 – Legendary Witchcraft Festival USA
📍 Location: Prindle Pond Conference Center, 19 Prindle Pond Road, Charlton, MA 01507, USA
📅 Dates: August 29 – September 2, 2025
TempleFest Returns to the Land
Every August, a clearing in the woods of New Hampshire becomes a living altar. TempleFest isn’t a marketplace of wares or a weekend retreat — it’s a pilgrimage site for contemporary witches, mystics, and seekers grounded in authentic, working craft. Organized by the Temple of Witchcraft, this annual celebration has become a touchstone for earth-based spiritual communities across the Northeast and beyond.
But TempleFest 2025 isn’t coasting on tradition. This year’s lineup speaks to the urgent pulse of modern occultism — identity, ethics, sovereignty, and the evolving relationship between human spirit and spirit world. While the core remains ceremonial and devotional, its offerings stretch across the astral and ancestral, the embodied and the ecstatic.
The Roots of TempleFest
Founded by author and High Priest Christopher Penczak, the Temple of Witchcraft festival has grown from a local spiritual gathering to one of the most respected witchcraft conferences in North America. It weaves together the formal teachings of the Temple’s mystery school with open invitations to the wider esoteric and pagan public.
There’s a quiet confidence to this festival — no marketing hype, no celebrity spectacle. Instead, the magic is in the land, the ritual, and the people who return year after year, forming a network of practitioners who value depth over trend.
What to Expect in 2025
TempleFest offers three full days of ritual, teaching, and connection. The site itself is sacred — ringed with trees, filled with sacred spaces, and animated by the shared intent of the community. Vendors line the central paths, tents rise for workshops and circles, and the main ritual field becomes the stage for both ceremony and starlight.
This year brings powerful keynotes, new workshops exploring advanced occult theory, and expanded offerings in queer witchcraft, ancestral healing, and spirit arts. The current of 2025 is electric — and deeply grounded.
Keynotes & Visionaries
The core of TempleFest 2025 lies in its spiritual leadership — a curated constellation of voices shaping modern witchcraft’s future.
Christopher Penczak: Founding Fire
Author of over two dozen books and co-founder of the Temple of Witchcraft, Christopher Penczak will once again anchor the event’s spiritual current. This year, his teachings will explore the ethical tensions of modern magic, the sovereignty of the practitioner, and the inner alchemy of ritual.
Penczak’s presence here is priestly, not performative — grounding the weekend in the Temple’s tradition while opening the gates to diverse magickal streams.
This is a Christopher Penczak event, yes — but not one that revolves around a single voice. TempleFest thrives on chorus, not monologue.
Ivo Dominguez Jr.: Architect of the Astral
One of the East Coast’s most respected occult teachers, Ivo Dominguez Jr. returns with a keynote focused on “Working with Astral Servitors and Egregores.” Expect deep dives into psychic architecture, magical hygiene, and the ethics of co-created entities — a longtail theme rarely handled with this level of clarity.
The egregores and servitors workshop will guide advanced practitioners through frameworks for building and dismantling spiritual constructs with intention, not ego.
Esoteric Workshops & Ritual Practice
At the heart of TempleFest lies the circle — not just metaphorically, but in practice. These workshops aren’t lecture halls; they are spaces of transmission, friction, and resonance. TempleFest 2025 expands its esoteric range with sessions that dive into folk traditions, energy systems, divination, and psychospiritual exploration.
Dr. Al Cummins: Geomancy & the Grinning Skull
Occult historian, magician, and co-host of Radio Free Golgotha, Dr. Alexander Cummins returns with two standout offerings.
His folk necromancy workshop, rooted in transatlantic conjure traditions, explores the role of the dead in magical life — not as aesthetic, but as collaborators. It’s not spooky-season theatre; it’s spiritual technology.
He also leads a geomancy for tarot readers session, showing how this often-overlooked method can inform, challenge, and deepen contemporary divinatory practice.
Kamden Cornell: The Brimo Current
Temple Priest and devotional sorcerer Kamden Cornell channels the lesser-known faces of Hekate through “Witches Working with Brimo.” This ritual intensive leans into the raw and unfiltered power of the chthonic — confronting taboos, reclaiming agency, and exploring witchcraft through the lens of holy rage.
Expect smoke. Expect shadow. Expect breakthrough.
Renee Bedard: Healing with the Morrigan
Priestess Renee Bedard invokes sovereignty in another sense — through her ritual on healing with the Morrigan. Working with the battlefield goddess not as destroyer but as restorer, this session opens a path to reclaim strength after trauma, loss, or spiritual fatigue.
Paul Rowan: Sound and Drum as Portal
In “The Five Elements and the Gong,” Temple teacher Paul Rowan guides participants through a sound healing witchcraft session that blends elemental energy work with resonant frequencies. Later, his ritual drumming pagan workshop harnesses rhythm as a trance tool — not entertainment, but entrainment.
These are not performances. They are portals.
Sacred Craft & Living Tradition
TempleFest foregrounds the craft as it is lived: practical, rooted, and ritual-based. These sessions focus on the enduring practices that anchor modern witchcraft in ancestral memory, folk magic, and devotional service.
Madame Pamita: Slavic Spirit Dolls & Spellcraft
In a workshop grounded in Eastern European tradition, Madame Pamita introduces participants to Motanka, the Slavic spirit doll. Crafted without stitching or knots, each figure is constructed through wrapping, weaving, and focused intention. The doll becomes both protective talisman and ancestral emissary — part art object, part spell.
Participants are guided through the history, lore, and energetic purpose of the Motanka, learning to infuse thread and fabric with memory, prayer, and presence.
Enfys J. Book: Queer Magick & Sacred Sovereignty
Enfys J. Book leads a ritual exploration of sacred sexuality through a queer esoteric lens. Drawing on principles from Queer Qabala, the session blends energetic alignment, consent-based practice, and sovereignty work. This is space-making for gender-expansive witches to work with erotic current as a sacred, transformative force — within themselves and in community.
The ritual structure emphasizes personal agency, group safety, and the invocation of divinity in all forms.
Michael G. Smith: Ethics in Modern Witchcraft
Michael G. Smith brings decades of ministerial experience to a workshop on ethics and priesthood. With clarity and compassion, he addresses boundaries, leadership, and the nuances of spiritual service in evolving communities.
Discussions include the ethics of visibility, priesthood conduct, the role of consent in ritual work, and how to navigate teaching and authority with integrity. This isn’t theoretical; it’s based on real-world experiences from long-term magical leadership.
Closing Rites and the Road Ahead
The Temple Closing Ritual
As TempleFest 2025 draws to a close, the energy in the field shifts. The final ritual is not a spectacle but a grounding — led by ministers of the Temple of Witchcraft, it weaves the threads of the weekend into a cohesive whole. Guardians are released, altars disassembled, intentions sealed. What was opened with fire and voice is closed with breath and stillness.
Final Fire and Drum
The Temple’s fire tenders and ritual drummers form the spine of the send-off. This isn’t a crescendo — it’s a heartbeat returning to rhythm. The coals are cooled, the rhythm slows, and the shared silence becomes the final offering.
Carrying the Work Forward
The threads of TempleFest continue beyond the tents and firelight. For many, this witch festival in Massachusetts 2025 is a touchstone — a yearly reconnection with path, practice, and people. The conversations begun in workshops evolve into coven rites, solitary reflections, and shared circles across states and traditions.
The work doesn’t end — it settles into the body, ready to rise again.
🎟️ Tickets: Available via templefest.templeofwitchcraft.org
🌐 Hosted by: The Temple of Witchcraft
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