The Next Delmarva Pagan Pride Day is:
June 30th, 2024
9am to 7pm
Located at the Legislative Mall in Dover, DE.
The Next Delmarva Pagan Pride Day is:
June 30th, 2024
9am to 7pm
Delmarva Pagan Pride Day - A Community Tradition
What is the Delmarva Pagan Pride Day?
We are a group of volunteers working to create an outdoor community day at Legislative Mall in Dover, DE. We invite everyone - Wiccans, Pagans, Heathens, Alternative Traditions and Faiths, and all manner of Solitary Practitioners, and anyone located in the Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia Peninsula area and beyond - to create a safe space to enjoy and support our community, learn together, and network as we have done for the last 23 years.
What will I find there?
- We host vendors and non profit groups in a massive outdoor market.
- We invite authors and teachers for classes free to the public to encourage and enrich personal practice for everyone.
- We offer performers and bands to showcase community talent.
- We hold public rituals to create sacred space together.
- We provide a children's program to support our children and their parents with learning opportunities.
How can I be a part of the Delmarva Pagan Pride Day?
When you arrive please stop by our registration desk, located on the MLK Jr BLVD N side, with a canned or boxed shelf stable food donation for the local shelter! We will have schedules available there to view.
Please make sure that you wear sunscreen and stay hydrated for the duration of the event!
You are invited to bring folding chairs and other portable seating and blankets for classes, performances, or just relaxing in the space.
Delmarva Pagan Pride Day 2024: Teachers & Classes
Katrina Messenger
Katrina Messenger
Katrina Messenger
Elemental Psychology for Spiritual Development
What is the link between modern psychology and the ancient elements of Air, Earth, Fire, and Water? Are we each born with a predisposition toward an element? How does this affect our mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, and magical evolution? And what is the inner conflict (Earth/Air or Fire/Water) driving our creativity, passions, delusions, and projections?
In this workshop, Katrina Messenger will share the elemental sources for both the Jungian and Myers-Briggs personality typology systems, and provide an overview of her elemental psychological theory from her book Elemental Psychology.
Katrina Messenger is a poet, priestess, warrior, and witch. She is also a full-time Wiccan mystic and an ordained minister. For over thirty years, she has studied mythology, esoteric sciences, and human development. She is the founder of Connect DC (1999) and Reflections Mystery School (2004) in Washington, DC. Katrina is a certified Archetypal and Dream Patterning Analyst through the Assisi Institute. She is the author of Elemental Psychology: Using Jungian Psychology and the Sacred Elements for Spiritual Development, Descent: A Journey for Women, and Dark Beauty. Katrina is an elder in her community and a recognized leader and teacher worldwide.
Ivo Dominguez, Jr.
Katrina Messenger
Katrina Messenger
The Elements As Four Minds
This is a class about the Four Elements that includes is a meditative ritual. First, I’ll talk about how the Four Elements describe styles of consciousness. Then I’ll ask you to come up with a question or a problem to work on in the ritual. If you don’t want to use this ritual for problem solving, then use it to meet the Elementals. The ritual is a guided journey to the realm of the Four elements and then back to Spirit with the intention to explore a particular aspect or seek guidance on a particular thing for each person.
Ivo Dominguez, Jr. has been active in Wiccan and the Pagan community since 1978. Ivo is a founding member and former High Priest of Keepers of the Holly Chalice, the first Assembly of the Sacred Wheel coven. He currently serves as one of the Elders of the 14 ASW covens. Ivo has been published in numerous periodicals and is the author of The Four Elements of the Wise; Keys to Perception: A Practical Guide to Psychic Development; Practical Astrology for Witches and Pagans; Casting Sacred Space; and Spirit Speak, among other works. He is the anchor author for the new twelve book Witch’s Sun Sign Series. In his mundane life, he has been a computer programmer, the executive director of an AIDS/HIV service organization, a bookstore owner, and many other things. He is queer, poly, and lives in the woods of Southern Delaware with his family of choice. www.ivodominguezjr.com
Ron Padrón
Katrina Messenger
Kitty Bronson
A Lavender Path: Honoring Queer Ancestors
Our queer ancestors can show up in many ways. They can be blood-relatives who were known to be queer. They can be historical figures who lived a life in open defiance of the norms of their time, or who lead a quieter existence with questions of their sexuality left to rumor and gossip. They can be mythic figures who embody themes outside the binary. This workshop will discuss ways to incorporate Queer Ancestor veneration into a spiritual practice. Participants will learn how to find Queer Ancestors in history, and various ways of connecting with them ranging from shrine-tending to developing a personal Queer Ancestor pilgrimage.
Ron Padrón (he/him/his) is a gay Cuban-American hedge priest from the swamps of Florida now living in the mid-Atlantic with his husband and their small cryptid dog. He has been a member of the pagan community for two decades with specific interests in divination, Queer Ancestor veneration and necromancy, hedge witchery, and spiritual activism. He is an ordained cleric priest through Sacred Well Congregation, and is the creator of White Rose Witching through which he manages a blog sharing Queer Ancestor Spotlights and rituals. He has presented at gatherings such as the Salem Witchcraft and Folklore Festival, Hallowed Homecoming, Free Spirit Gathering, various Pagan Pride Days, historic sites, and small museums on topics ranging from colonial witchcraft politics to queer-affirming spirituality.
Kitty Bronson
Rev Máire Durkan
Kitty Bronson
The Vanic Gods and Goddesses of the Viking Age
Learn about the fertility and mystic gods and goddesses of the Norse pantheon.
Kitty Bronson is a Witch, a Freyja's woman and daughter of Njordhr. She is a High Priestess of the Assembly of the Sacred Wheel (ASW). She is a follower of the Norse gods, a Fire Keeper for Sweat Lodge, a Seidhrkona and worker of the runes. She is an artist, an armchair anthropologist and an environmental scientist. Kitty has a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Science in Oceanography and has studied Anthropology at Temple University. Her inspiration for her studies and her art work come from her spiritual life, believing that you can't follow your future fully without knowing some of your past. Her studies spiritually and in anthropology center on the ancient art, culture and folklore of the British Isles and Teutonic Lands from the Standing Stones through to the age of the Rune Stones. Kitty has taught workshops at a variety of places, including Bell Book and Candle and Delmarva Pagan Pride in Dover, DE; Spring Magick, Autumn Magick and Between the Worlds for the ASW; Free Spirit Gathering; The East Coast Thing Asatru Gathering; Winternights Asatru Gathering and Trillium Druid Gathering.
Rev Máire Durkan
Rev Máire Durkan
Rev Máire Durkan
Unconditional love: The goddess Lofn as defender of lovers and patroness of LGBTQ+
Lovn’s name means “permission “ and “loving.” As the patroness of banned or forbidden relationships Lovn desires the freedom of loving relationships for all people regardless of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. She is an ally and patroness of all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. Deepen your understanding Lofn and connect to her through a workshop and rite.
Rev Máire Durkan is a an ordained Godswoman, gythia and a clergy mentor for The Troth—an inclusive international Heathen community. Her spiritual work is deeply informed by her connection to deity, ancestors, and weal-working wights, and is deeply rooted in a The Troth’s inclusive philosophy and in her relationship to Frigg and the 12 goddesses connected to her. She is a birth doula, teacher, and the author of Circle of Frith:A Devotional to Frigg and her Handmaidens, and the children’s book Solstice Moon Solstice Sun.
April Coburn
Rev Máire Durkan
Rev Máire Durkan
Meet the Medicinal Weeds
In this class we will meet some of the weeds that most people can find easily growing in yards, gardens, and wild areas. We'll talk about how to identify these plants and how to use them as medicine.
April is a clinical herbalist and formulator at Nettlejuice Herbals. She practices functional herbalism in the Western tradition and teaches beginning and advanced herbal medicine making in southern Chester county, Pennsylvania. For more info, visit www.nettlejuice.com
Become a Vendor for The Delmarva Pagan Pride Day Today!
We love to see all of our incredible local vendors in the huge outdoor space at Legislative Mall. You only need to fill out a quick form and pay a one time flat fee to be a part of our market!
Please contact us separately if you have a food truck registered in the City of Dover.
Volunteer at the Delmarva Pagan Pride Day
We are looking for a few positions to help Delmarva PPD provide everything it does for the community. Showcase your talents or simply learn about Festivals behind the scenes. We accept all levels of experience.
We're looking for -
- Set Up/Clean Up
- Planning Assistants
- Registration Desk Greeters
- Ritual Role Volunteers
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