Our first conference will be held in the historic Ballarat Mechanics Institute, Victoria, on the 16th of May 2026. This is the weekend associated with the date traditionally held in ancient Rome as Mercurialia: the feast day of the Egyptian-Greco-Romano God. Mercurialia will be the theme for our first year. At the conference, some presentations will be focusing on this energia, honouring the Hermetic current and all the teachings that spring therefrom.
Expect finely curated occult lectures on topics such as magick, alchemy, astrology, divination, kabbalah and more. A speaker Q & A panel, occult market and door prizes.
Our lectures:
Josephine Winter - “The Other Underworld: Witchcraft and Occultism in Australia, 1970s-Present".
Setken - “A Monumental Egyptian Tomb In Melbourne".
Benjamin Turale - “The Mercury Archetype in Alchemy".
Dr. David Waldron - “The Almanac of a Cunning Man".
Shu Yap - “Secrets of the Mercury Cycle".
Peregrin Wildoak - “Go Gentle into that Good Night: the Esoteric Dimension of Death”.
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