The A.R.T. of Becoming a Witch
How to Awaken, Remember, and Trust
The Power and Truth
of Our Original Dragon Voice
7th Original WitchArt Gift
7th Mystica InnerVersity Intensive
7th Circuit on The Witch Sequence Labyrinth
Welcome to the registration page for ART 7 Dragon
The sacred purpose of The Witch Sequence is to heal the wasteland and seed the return of Her Garden of Reverence by awakening, remembering, and trusting all seven of our original sacramental WitchArt gifts. Dragon is the culmination, not just one of the gifts but the fusion of the first six into the rebirth and return of the original Goddess Dragon energy in every one of us.
Prerequisites
When we began three years ago, I did not set any prerequisites. But once we started walking the path of ART 5 Divination and began to pray The Remembering Ceremony and open Her Libraries, things shifted. It became clear that to fully embody Dragon, we must have activated both Divination in ART 5 and Devotion in ART 6. If you have not walked those two labyrinth paths, follow the links to purchase them OnDemand. If you have been in both of those, but not Myrrhophore Anointing, and would love to experience deep Cariad, I’ll include that link as well.
Here is an overview of the seven intensives:
The first three intensives awakened our internal mystical birthright gifts of intuition, threshold crossing, and prayer. These are WitchArts you have to activate and explore for yourself. To recognize if you would benefit from taking any of the first three intensives, reflect on your personal mystical life and ask yourself:
- Do I trust my intuition? Do I know how to see what my eyes do not, hear what my ears do not, know what my brain does not? If you wish to strengthen your intuition, you will benefit from ART 1 Full Body Intuition. (Plus, it’s the most fun you can have!)
- Do I know how to drop into mystical theta in multiple ways around the clock? If not, consider taking ART 2 Threshold Crossing.
- Have I discovered real prayer? Prayer that explodes way beyond the tiny box patriarchy stuffed it in to control people and stifle access to transcendental magic. I spent six years redefining prayer as love songs, sacred medicine, and five other delicious definitions. If you are not yet in love with real prayer, consider taking ART 3 The Power, Beauty, and Joy of Original Prayer.
The next three labyrinth walks awakened WitchArt gifts that we can give in service to others:
- ART 4 Myrrhophore Anointing awakened the memory of living in a sacred state of Cariad, as Magdalen and her beloved Yeshua modeled. They were not founders of a new religion; they were mystics demonstrating the ancient healing mysteries of anointing in the Myrrhhophore tradition of Isis. https://janetconner.com/art-4/
- ART 5 Divination awakened our natural oracular and prophetic gifts. In ART 5, we followed the example of the Oracle of Delphi and began our Remembering Ceremony by opening the Libraries of Mother Gaia’s four sacred elements. Following Cathy Steven’s Pratt voice in her profound experiential journeys, we entered those Libraries, recognized the personal elemental sigils we carved into the stone thousands of years ago, and discovered the mystical depths of divination. https://janetconner.com/art-5/
- ART 6 Reverence and Devotion expanded everything. Our hearts’ desire was to remember how to live in a state of reverence and devotion. For that, we knew we needed to jump past the five thousand years of patriarchal religions that instilled and enforced male hierarchy and created a world of endless violence. So we began by travelling to pre-patriarchal Crete, where we discovered a matrifocal culture that lived without weapons, war, or kings for over a thousand years. From there, we leapt back in time to bask in thousands of years of Neolithic Goddess cultures. Next, we entered the Paleolithic caves where mysticism, artistry, and the labyrinth were born. We completed our intensive remembering the life forms born in the womb of Mother Gaia and Mother Ocean. In Cathy’s journeys we returned to the Libraries carrying our Sigils and were welcomed into the vaults to discover deeper mysteries of each element. In each we were given sacred seeds for Her Garden of Reverence. https://janetconner.com/art6/
If you are moving through ART 5 and 6 to prepare for Dragon, you can complete them in February, March, and the first half of April. Cathy and I will host special cafes in February and March for those taking 5 and 6 so you can talk about your experiences with friends.
A Review of Our 7 Original WitchArt Gifts
“[T]he oldest names for witch in European languages emphasize their spiritual gifts: powers of prophecy, divination, and incantation; of healing, herbal knowledge, shapeshifting and shamanic flight…the old witch-titles honored women as cultural authorities.”
Max Dashu, Witches and Pagans
Women and witches have been silenced and controlled under patriarchy for so long that it’s hard to remember that women were once the beating heart of matrilineal, matrifocal societies, revered for serving, healing, and blessing their communities with a profusion of sacred talents and gifts. There are many witch gifts, but these seven are our most sacred WitchArts.
1. Intuitive Senses—Trustworthy intuition flows effortlessly when you awaken your natural 
ability to see what wants to be seen, hear what wants to be heard, feel what wants to be felt, know what wants to be known, and go where you are called.
Witches rely on and trust our innate full body intuition. Intuition is our foundation.
2. Threshold Crossing—The mystical theta brainwave state is the gateway, the only gateway, into The Mystic, the liminal, the 
threshold Rumi describes so eloquently: “People are going back and forth across the threshold where the two worlds meet. Don’t go back to sleep.” When we wake and cross that threshold, we access our personal divine Voice, radical creativity, the presence of the past, the Imaginal Realm, Morphic, and Akashic Fields.
Witches know how to drop into theta around the clock. Mystical theta is our portal between worlds.
3. Original Prayer—Original prayer is powerful witch medicine that infuses both the one who prays and all who are prayed 
for—present, past, and future—with healing, love, forgiveness, strength, and joy. Our prayers are spells. Prayer as defined by patriarchy is lifeless in comparison to the power, beauty, and joy of this sacramental WitchArt. Real prayer is a powerhouse and it is alive in every cell of our bodies.
Witches are the original magicians of prayer. Prayer is our core strength.
4.Myrrophore Anointing—Anointing is the ancestral sacrament of remembering which has been passed down through 
the lineage of Myrrhophore witches. Myrrhophores serve the mysteries of life, death, and rebirth with original vision, sacred touch, consecrated oils, loving words, and holy breath, all radiating from an open and expanded 360° Cariad Heart. This memory is returning to us through the long-forgotten original purpose of the 7-circuit labyrinth.
Witches serve the mysteries of life, death, and rebirth. Anointing is the heart and heartbeat of the whole and holy witch.
5. Divination—The original oracles were women. They knew that everything is alive, conscious, intelligent, and
communicating. We connected, then and once more, with cosmic, mystic, ancestral, and mythic wisdom to be shared for the healing of individual hearts and the collective wasteland.
Witches are oracles and seers. What wants to be known is made known through our sacred voices.
6. Devotion—For millennia before patriarchal religions arrived with their disembodied male gods spewing laws
and 
judgments, we were devoted to the Mother, the Goddess, in the heavens, in the land, and in our life-giving, life-sustaining female bodies. We who walk the witches’ labyrinth path hear Her call to live once more in a reverence structure, the antithesis of power, hierarchy, and domination. Reverence is how we heal the wasteland.
Witches are the embodiment of the Goddess. We are Her Sacred Treasure of Life.
7. Dragon—Patriarchal religions denigrated this magnificent powerful serpent from the ultimate symbol of the Goddess 
to the embodiment of evil. Every statue of St. George or Archangel Michael killing the dragon, and every tale about knights killing dragons, are reenactments of the patriarchal command to destroy the Goddess.
Witches know that when the Dragon in all her power and beauty comes to life in each of us, the Gate to Her Garden of Reverence will open.
Who Is Dragon?
Since the 7 WitchArt gifts first surfaced onto the 7 circuits of the labyrinth in 2023, Dragon has been a mystery. All the others are mystical abilities, talents, ways of living—things you can learn. But Dragon? We think of Dragon as a mythical creature, not as a mystical ability. It has taken till now for Dragon to come to life and teach us who and what she is. And who and what we are here to become. This is how Dragon has asked to be presented and defined.
Who is Dragon? We are creatures who:
Trust our bodies’ exquisite intuitive senses
Effortlessly cross the threshold between worlds
Delight in the power, beauty, and joy of original prayer
Stand proud and sovereign in our Myrrhophore lineage
Share our prophetic, oracular, divination powers
Live in reverence and devotion
Three Prequel Experiences before Dragon
In ART 7 we will not just learn about Dragon or even meet Dragon, we will become Dragon. The Witch Sequence fulfills its promise only when we step into our fullness as the whole and holy mystic witches we came here to be—Dragons.
Before we can begin such an intense mystical experience there are three things we will do as a community to prepare.
Sunday, March 1, 2-4 pm eastern—Oracle Preparation
For the first time, Cathy will invite us to experience a full Tarot spread laying out how the Oracle wants us to prepare to walk this final circuit path and her guidance on how it will transform us. After the full spread, Cathy will ask the Oracle to select a personal guiding Tarot card for each one of us. Your special personal oracle will be with you throughout ART 7.
Sunday, March 15, 2-4pm eastern—The Truth about Patriarchy’s 3 Masculine “Monsters”
We met the Minotaur in the Paleolithic caves in ART 6 and discovered who he really is and that the story told by patriarchy is a lie. We met Lucifer in 2022 when Freddy Gerow shared Lucifer’s true identity as revealed to her by Archangel Michael. Finally, as we began to prepare for ART 7, Cathy and I scoured the literature to find anything about Dragon’s true nature, but like Lucifer and the Minotaur, Dragon is painted in the West as a violent monster who threatens maidens and must be killed by a brave and heroic warrior. Think St George spearing the Dragon, Michael piercing Lucifer, Theseus stabbing the Minotaur. As I reflected on these three, I pondered what their stories have in common, where they live in our consciousness, and why they must be redeemed and fully restored to their original truth and beauty before we can walk the Dragon path.
Sunday, March 29, 2-4pm eastern—Extricating the god Figure
In his Red Book, Carl Jung said we all have a “god figure” within who was planted in our left brain by parents, religion, and the patriarchal culture. By the time you were five years old, that god figure had so fully infiltrated your subconscious, that it began to silently manipulate your decisions, poison your relationships, and convince you that silence is the same thing as safety. That god figure stands guard in front of the door to a transcendental mystical life, blocking the way. Your particular guard might be a god, like that cranky old white guy spewing commandments, but it could also be a non-religious figure such as an abusive grandmother, narcissistic father, sexual predator…. Only you can discover who is lurking at the entrance to the door to your true freedom. This is an essential step. We cannot meet or become Dragon until we recognize our personal god figure and extricate it from our left brain.
Our Schedule
After our 3 Prequel gatherings in March, ART 7 will meet in the Theatre of the Miraculous for 77 days with an array of gatherings including:
Opening and Closing Ceremonies
5 Learning Gatherings
5 Experiential Journeys
5 or more Witch Café Story Salons
2 or more Special Witch Cafés
Learning Gatherings and Ceremonies meet on Sundays, 2-4:15 pm Eastern
Experiential Journeys meet on Thursdays, 2-3:30 pm Eastern
Watch Parties for Gatherings and Journeys are held every Tuesday, 6pm Eastern to accommodate friends in the Pacific Rim, where it will be Wednesday morning. But anyone in any time zone is welcome.
NOTE: There will be time changes around the world. The US and Canada shift ahead an hour into daylight savings time on March 8. New Zealand and Australia will revert an hour to regular time on April 5. Check the world clock to confirm the time in your home.
2pm Eastern = 1p Central, 12 Mountain, 11a Pacific, 8a HI (after time change), 7p UK, 8p EU, 9p Eastern Europe. If you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, check the Watch Party schedule every Tuesday at 6p Eastern.
Sun April 12 Opening Ceremony
Sun April 19 Learning Gathering 1
Thurs April 23 Experiential Journey 1
Sun May 3 Learning Gathering 2
Thurs May 7 Experiential Journey 2
Sun May 17 Learning Gathering 3
Thurs May 21 Experiential Journey 3
Sun May 31 Learning Gathering 4
Thurs June 4 Experiential Journey 4
Sun June 14 Learning Gathering 5
Thurs June 18 Experiential Journey 5
Sun June 28 Closing Celebration
Witches Cafés (not recorded) meet on various days with rotating times in an effort to accommodate all time zones.
Special Witch Cafés (recorded) dates to be announced. Topics will include:
- Meeting the new Lunar Year and writing a Lunar Vow for the New Moon in Aries which falls on April 17
- Working with asteroids Minotaur, Lucifer (Luci), and Ceto (Mother of Dragons) in your natal chart with Shamanic Astrologer Emma Kupu Mitchell
What will you receive?
Zoom Invitations to all:
- Prequel events
- Ceremonies, Learning Gatherings, and Experiential Journeys
- Watch Parties
- Witch Cafés and Special Witch Cafés
Resource Page:
Access to a password-protected Resource Page filled with recordings of all gatherings in both video and audio formats, plus a feast of support materials.
Getting Started PDFs
- Welcome Handbook—introduction, bios, Mystica InnerVersity, Theatre of the Miraculous, The Witch Sequence, Lucia: Original One, bibliography
- Prayer Handbook—Remembering Ceremony and other prayers
- Labyrinth Handbook—The ongoing revelations from the labyrinth on each circuit, The Labyrinth Speaks, 7 Mysteries of the Labyrinth
- How to make a 7-Circuit Labyrinth and Seed Pattern
Bonus Videos
- Janet and Cathy on How to Draw a 7-Circuit Labyrinth
- Emma Kupu Mitchell, Cathy, and Janet on Mary Magdalen’s instructions for Dragon Voice anointing oil
- Emma Kupu Mitchell on How to Create a Natal Chart with Minotaur, Lucifer, Ceto
- Marcia Wade, Cathy, and Janet on the Draconis Constellation
- Jennifer DeVille Catalano and Cathy on the Song of the Labyrinth on Crystal Tones Alchemy Bowls
- Emma Kupu Mitchell and Janet on Pythagoras’ Karmic Numbers
- Janet on 7 Steps to Get into Theta plus 25-minute theta music audio
Optional
ART 7 members can purchase support materials including:
- R.T. 7 journal created by Cathy Stevens Pratt
- Posters of Lucia, all the Oracles, Archangel Luci and Michael, Draconis, and more
- 50” fabric The Witch Sequence labyrinth
- Wide array of items in Cathy’s Zazzle store
- Dragon Voice oil and spritzer by Emma Kupu Mitchell
Membership in a private Facebook discussion group
Registration
To cover the value of the three Prequel events, I’ve added $108 to the regular registration amount for those who have been in two or more intensives. Investment options are based on the sacred number of the Witch—27—multiplied by Pythagoras’ karmic numbers: 13, 14, 16, 19.
16 witches—$432—standard registration
Choose this if you wish to make one payment for the Prequels and the 77-day intensive.
16 is the Tower crumbling—the perfect card for this moment as patriarchy collapses.
16 reduces to 7, the number in The Witch Sequence!
16 x 27 = $432 or $5.61/day—12 Hanged One in Tarot
14 witches—$378—self-selected scholarship
14 is Art in the Thoth Tarot, how perfect is that. Sabin Bailey says 14 is “Joan’s card.”
14 x 27 = $378 or $4.91/day—14 again, looks like Joan approves!
4 witches—$108—4 monthly payments
If you wish to spread the standard registration over four months, select $108 and make a payment each month of Feb, Mar, Apr, May
2 witches—$54 Donation
If you wish to support Janet in offering scholarships, please add a $54 donation to your registration.
$ 432 pay in full
$ 378 self-selected scholarship
$ 108 4 monthly payments
$ 54 donation for scholarships
If you have any questions please email janetconner@tampabay.rr.com
You'll be experiencing becoming Dragon with:
Janet Conner
I am a Prayer Artist, Mystic Witch, and Fire Keeper, creator in the Theatre of the Miraculous, and mistress of the threshold—the mystical theta brain wave state. But first and always, a devoted daughter of the Sacred Feminine. My first book, Writing Down Your Soul, was a surprising success and led to The Lotus and The Lily, Soul Vows, and more. But all that was warmup. In the dark on February 24, 2018, I clearly heard prayer artist in my left ear. I knew prayer artist would change everything, but I said yes anyway. That yes led me to write a whole new genre of prayer as love songs, redefine prayer altogether, and begin to offer prayer intensives with sister mystics. Two years later, witch arrived via a stunning endorsement from Rabbi Tirzah Firestone. I was ecstatic; my agent was not. I ended that relationship to follow witch where she wanted to go. She knew exactly what she wanted: transmute witch from a word that strikes terror back into an honorific that awakens a bone-deep memory of being revered for our WitchArt gifts.
I trust witch. I trusted her when she told me to create The Return of the Witches Jeanne d’Arc Listening Pilgrimage. I trusted her when she asked for a year-long mystery school, Re-membering the Songlines of the Witches. I trusted her when she gave me my witch name: Whalebone and my medicine: sing the song of the whole and holy witch. I trusted her when she insisted my partners and I create Mystica InnerVersity and The A.R.T. of Becoming a Witch: How to Awaken, Remember, and Trust Your Body’s Natural Intuitive Senses. In the midst of that intensive, witch showed us that intuition was the first of 7 intensives in what morphed into The Witch Sequence. As we listened intently to what wanted to be created, we began to see a sacred purpose far beyond anything we could imagine. We are here to walk this path, embody these 7 sacred gifts, become whole and holy witches, and heal the wasteland.
To do this profound witch work, I need lots of silence and mystical theta. I think that’s why witch is holding me for now in Ozona, a tiny village on the Gulf of Mexico, where I am surrounded by screeching ospreys, swooping woodstorks, and one very protective Jer-hawk.
I’m an 8th house Gemini Sun, 12th house final degree Libra Moon, with Scorpio Ascendant. My Pars Fortuna is 16° Pisces. My lifepath is 35/8, attainment 5. My Essence for the remainder of The Witch Sequence is 19, the last of Pythagoras’ karmic numbers, embodying all the energies of 1-9 in a dance of surrender.
Cathy Stevens Pratt
Once upon a time a little girl knew she was a witch. I played in the magical woods, prayed the rosary walking around the pond with my grandmother, and made magical potions with my cat. Then for decades I worked as a freelance illustrator and lived all over this country. Moving around taught me people are good, generous and kind and reminded me that the world is alive. Everything is alive. The trees, rocks, plants, creatures, clouds and stars all speak to me when I listen.
I am an oracle who takes human shape as an artist, mom, and partner. I live on the dark side of a mountain in the middle of Vermont. Here trees fall, winds howl, winter is brutal, summer is vibrant, water trickles and rages, and I am visited by many woodland creatures. The combination of being surrounded by wild beauty and a daily practice of Deep Soul Writing opens me to listen to my voices and to see into the unseen. This Imaginal Realm speaks through me so I may create sacred art in the form of paintings, words, fiber Mighty Dolls, rosaries and beads, and Visual Medicine™.
My offerings include:
- Oracle/Tarot readings using multiple decks, my own art and intuitive custom journeys
- One-of-a-kind fiber Mighty Dolls as talismans of power and healing
- Personal rosaries and mala beads dreamt into being for focus and joy
- Creative Journeys to inner realms to solve problems, open creativity, meet ancestors and guides, awaken inspiration
- Teaching Visual Medicine™ easily bridges the real world with the mystic and invisible
I love to share with my sister-witch collaborator Janet Conner. I create community, safe spaces, and conversations about creativity, the ancestors, deep deep time, and forgiveness work. Supporting others in their personal and creative journeys gives me great joy.
I have a 7th house Cancer sun, Taurus Moon, Capricorn Ascendant. My Pars Fortuna is Pisces 5°. I’m having a Jupiter return this year, something big is coming! My lifepath is 34/7—a seven of course! I’m in my first of six years in an Essence 10/1.
Emma Kupu Mitchell
Aloha! I am Emma Kūpua’ eikāwililā’au—which means in Hawaiian an increase in the blending of medicine—Kūpu to increase, A’e direction upwards, Kāwili Lā’au interweaving medicine. I am a Spiritual Guide and Creative Alchemist, a beacon of light for women navigating the rich tapestry of midlife and beyond. With over 35 years of experience as a highly skilled holistic practitioner and a profound connection to the mysteries of the universe, I seamlessly integrate a vast knowledge of shamanic traditions, astrological insights with an emphasis on the moon, and the holistic healing vibrational properties of plant medicine and sacred oils, to guide women in reclaiming their power and living their soul's path.
I grew up on a farm in Yorkshire England, where my love and reverence for the natural world began and deepened even more when I moved to Oahu (2001) to live fulltime and marry my native Hawaiian husband. Together we have 3 children, 4 grandchildren and, with family all over the world, we love to travel, spending quality time creating memories together. With roots in the lush landscapes and ley lines of Northern England and a heart intertwined with the spirit of Aloha, I now serve as a bridge between distant lands and timeless traditions in all that I offer. I value and celebrate creativity in all forms and the beauty of nature, living in alignment with the rhythms and cycles of Father sky and Mother earth.
My offerings include:
- Shamanic Astrology Consultations: A deep dive into the cosmic dance of the planets and stars, and the holistic nature of your birth chart to uncover the hidden patterns and potentials of your soul's journey.
- Numerology Consultations: I decode the mysteries of your life's purpose, strengths, and challenges through the ancient art of Pythagorean numerology, gaining profound insights into your soul's essence, destiny, and much more.
- Creative Visual Journaling™ workshops: Ignite your imagination and inner awareness, unleash your creativity, and embrace the joy of self-expression through transformative visual journaling practices.
- Plant Medicine & Sacred Anointing sessions: Experience the transformative power of sacred oils and plant allies, as I create custom blends to facilitate healing, purification, and soul alignment.
- Moon Medicine community: private monthly online community where I teach you to decode and live your birth chart. With a focus on the moon's cycles and their profound influence on your emotional and spiritual well-being, you will understand how to navigate life's transitions with grace, intuition, and inner wisdom.
- Who Am I?: private 12-month online community to create a personal memoir that includes deep explorations of your natal chart.
I am a Taurus Sun, Scorpio Moon, Sagittarius rising, with Pars Fortuna at Gemini 22°. My life path is 33/6 with attainment of 7—Pythagoras’s favorite number. Saturn (the teacher) is conjunct my North Node in Aries, demanding that I stand up for myself and lead the way. Neptune (the ethereal) is conjunct my moon, making me hyper sensitive to energies. After eight years of an Essence 18 (the Moon), I have just entered a 1-year walk of 15, an invitation into radical change.