Date: Tuesdays, April 11, 18, 25 and May 2, 9, 16
Time: 7 - 9 pm ET
Admission: $135 Patreon Members / $155 General Admission

PLEASE NOTE: All classes will also be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time. Students can register after the start time and receive a streaming link to class recordings via email.

How do we connect with the dead of deep time, who may be some of our most powerful guides and companions? Traditionally, such ancestors have been known as “saints,” individuals who for one reason or another are seen as having areas of expertise which they can wield from beyond the veil to help those in the the land of the living. St. Anthony, for example, helps us find things, St. Christopher protects our cars on the road, St. Rita and St. Jude show up when all hope seems lost.

In this six-week journey we’ll explore the saints as ancestors. We will try to determine what saints might be reaching out to us, and how we can respond best to access their magic. We’ll revel in the diversity and multiplicity of helpers available to us from the other side—from saints and pagan deities to the many manifestations of The Virgin Mary as well as modern figures who, upon death—and with the right devotions—can function like the saints of old. We’ll look at traditional devotions, spells and prayers, and folk traditions, which we’ll adapt to our own use. We will look at what it means to become devoted to the dead, and how that devotion can change lives and the world we live in.

• Week One: Summoning Our Patron Saints

• Week Two: Secular Saints in Need of Prayers and Pilgrimages

• Week Three: Beatifying Our Own Ancestors

• Week Four: The Ancient Mothers Beneath Our Feet

• Week Five: The Magical Guidance of the Natural World

• Week Six: The Lost Dance of Devotion

Perdita Finn is the co-author of The Reluctant Psychic (St. Martin’s Press, 2015) and, with her husband Clark Strand, The Way of The Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary (Spiegel & Grau, 2018.) Her book Take Back the Magic: Getting to Know the Dead (Running Press) will be published in Fall 2023. A longtime devotee of the earth, Perdita has studied with mystics and shamans, Zen masters and naturalists, but her greatest teachers have been the dead themselves. She is the co-founder of The Way of the Rose, an international rosary fellowship dedicated to the earth and the Lady by any name you like to call Her. You can find out more about her work at wayoftherose.org

Image: Holy Women from the Hours of Louis de Laval, France ca. 1480; several cynosephalic Saint Christopher and a group of pop saints devotional candles.