536 Grand Avenue, Oakland, CA 94610   510-444-WELL
Open Tue-Fri, Sun 12-8 & Sat 11-8; Closed Mon

Classes & Events

At The Sacred Well, we aim to share our wide knowledge of different spiritual traditions and practices by presenting classes and events to our community. Classes commonly offered cover topics such as tarot, astrology, wicca, herbs, crystal healing, candle magic, and rituals to increase abundance or attract love. We also regularly host monthly spiritual services, tea and chanting evenings, Reiki healing shares, art shows, and musical performances.

Current Events

4 Sunday night classes: June 2, 9, 16 and 23th, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Intermediate Tarot with Rabbit
$35 per class or $125 for all 4 classes

If you have taken Rabbit’s Art of Tarot Class, and you’d like to take the next step as a reader, consider taking Intermediate Tarot. This class is designed to help the student of tarot begin to explore creativity, shift the internal landscape, and integrate the wisdom of the tarot more fully into daily life choices. Prerequisite: Art of Tarot with Rabbit

  • June 2nd: The Unwelcome Guests:
    “Bad” cards and how to deal with them
  • June 9th: Designing your own spreads:
    Building effective spreads to answer your questions
  • June 16th: Intuitive Listening:
    The temporary autonomous relationship is everything
  • June 23rd:Tarot Rituals:
    Shaping your life with the tarot
Sunday June 2 (1st Sundays), 12:30 pm -2:00 pm Conscious Goddess:
Priestesshood in the New Age
$35 per class

This class also has a free Temple Service, open to all women, from 11:00 am -12:00 pm on the day above. Come just for the Temple, or stay and take the class!

June 2nd: Worship in the Boudoir
To be the Goddess in the bedroom is to worship at the altar of the body. Whether you are offering reverence at your your altar or the altar of another person, your mindset, approach, joy, compassion, humor and good boundaries are of utmost importance. Your pleasure makes the world a better, healthier, happier place! Join your sisters in this class to explore the Temple of Pleasure you carry within you.

Sunday June 2 (1st Sundays), 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm The Witch’s Garden:
A year of Herbal Studies with Rabbit
$35 per class

June 2nd: Edible flowers and magical fruits & veggies

A series of classes for the budding herbalist.

If you have been studying or practicing on your own, or are curious and seeking to deepen your knowledge of how to use herbs magically and
for personal healing, this class is for you!

Four Thursdays, June 6, 13, 20 and 27th, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Fundamentals of Astrology 1:
Learning the Language with astrobarry

$140 for all 4 classes (registration required)

In Part One of astrobarry’s 4-part astrology course, we will master the essential building-blocks of astrology. In addition to covering the different facets of what astrology is, we’ll conduct in-depth interpretive explorations of each of the zodiac signs, the planets, the houses, and the aspects (geometric angles between planets).

This class provides a wonderful entry into the world of astrology, introducing the archetypal symbols which comprise this centuries-old system of divination and celestial insight.

Tuesday June 11 (2nd Tuesdays), 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Tarot Salon - with Grey
Donations gratefully accepted

This month’s cards: The Hierophant and the Two of Pentacles

A Tarot discussion group for beginners and experienced readers alike. Join us in a roundtable discussion where we discuss our two cards for the month and learn, share insights and gain inspirations from one another. Bring your favorite Tarot deck with you, and be ready to share, learn (and maybe even teach) some new ideas!

Wednesday June 12, 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Intuition for Self-Empowerment
A Workshop with Nina
$15-20 suggested donation

Inner wisdom is a natural gift that can assist in decision making, overcoming obstacles, and leading a happier, more fulfilling life. In this talk you will learn a simple, relaxing meditation to strengthen your connection with your inner voice. This technique can be practiced anytime you seek information from a higher source. Free hand-outs with supportive suggestions will be given to each participant.

Nina has followed her intuitive impulses since childhood. While traveling in the Amazon and SE Asia her intuition was her guide. This has lead to a life lived with courage in the spirit of freedom.

Friday June 28, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Sacred Hearth Classes With Lady Maia
$35 per class

Making Housework Magical

Few people enjoy doing chores, but what if you could make those chores magic? Regular household chores provide a wide variety of possibilities for magic and fun. In this class we will discuss a multitude of ways to bring the sacred into these mundane activities. At the end of the class we will be making raffia brooms to remind us that there is magic in the mundane.

Friday, June 21, 7:30 p.m - 9:00 pm VortexHealing® Group Healing
with Dragonfly Adularia H.P.

$20 donation requested - no one turned away

This session, Dragonfly asks that each person bring a crystal that they work with in their own magickal or manifestation practice. He will lead us in a guided crystal attunement meditation, teaching us how to be in clear communication with our crystal allies.

Through VortexHealing® Divine Energy Healing and help from the Angelic healing realm. Dragonfly, Wizard of the Merlin Lineage will facilitate a dynamic session for unfolding magical transformation. This is your chance to learn more about this amazing and very powerful form of energy work, designed to transform the roots of emotional consciousness, heal the physical body, and awaken spirit within the human heart.

Wednesday June 26, 7:00 p.m - 9:00 pm Post-Solstice Bardic Circle
Free, donations gladly accepted.

Come join us as we share in circle our sacred, creative expression in the form of songs, poems, prayers, dance, jokes, skits etc. Bring a brief piece or two of your creation to share with other Pagans. One by one we will be heard and in turn listen to what our Muses have inspired for us to bring forth and share. This is a participatory, no-experience-necessary, get-together moderated by Ximena Terrean.

Saturday June 15, 7:00 pm Lake Merritt Pagans!
Free Gathering

A group for Pagans of all stripes who live near Lake Merritt to socialize and touch base about life on the lake in all its aspects, practical and spiritual.

Activities may include: full moon lake walks, altar building, volunteering at the city’s regular lake clean-ups, and other good ideas you bring!

Monthly Spiritual Services at The Sacred Well

First Sundays of each month, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Conscious Goddess Temple Services
Next: Sunday June 2 (1st Sundays)
Donations gratefully accepted

June 2nd: Worship in the Boudoir

Women! Join our spiritual circle for an empowering start to your day, bringing alive the wisdom of the Goddess within! We are a holy community of sacred sisters, encouraging one another through our challenges and celebrating our triumphs.

Monthly within the three day Dark Moon window, 8:00 pm Dark of the Moon Practice
for Hermes and Hekate

Next: Sunday, June 9
Donations gratefully accepted

Sam Webster (founder of the Open Source Order of the Golden Dawn, author of Tantric Thelema, and Priest of Hermes and Hekate) hosts an open Dark of the Moon practice at The Sacred Well each month, making offerings to Hermes and Hekate.

The large wooden representation of Hermes, classically called a Herm, was consecrated and worshipped at PantheaCon 2013 by Pagans, Magickians, and spiritual practitioners from many different backgrounds in a large ceremony that drew heavily on classical Greek material. The Herm now resides at The Sacred Well, and each month we gather to continue this sacred work with Dark Moon ritual for Hermes and Hekate, who were frequently honored at the crossroads together in ancient Greece.

The practice that Sam shares in this circle is one he has maintained without fail since the Dark Moon of January 1992. Study with Sam and more formal training in the Priestcraft of Hermes for those who desire to keep this rite are available. Please speak with Sam about this directly when you attend.

Second Fridays of each month, 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm The Temple of Aphrodite Book Club
Next: Friday June 14
Donations gratefully accepted

We are a group devoted to Aphrodite in all Her splendor. Please join us to learn more about Aphrodite’s presence in our lives through a roundtable discussion of her lore and literature. We begin on March 8th with Laurelei Black’s In Her Service: Reflections from a Priestess of Aphrodite.

Please come prepared to discuss chapters 4 and 5 of In Her Service, bringing any relevant questions and experiences you may have!

Second Sundays of each month, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm Temple of Aphrodite
Next: Sunday June 9
Donations gratefully accepted

June: Festivals of Aphrodite/Venus with Volpe

Men and women of all backgrounds are invited to participate in monthly rituals and activities dedicated to the benevolent Lady of Love.

These services help you tap into the ever-flowing fountain of love within, and to connect that love with your personal practices, work, relationships, and activities in the world.

Fourth Tuesdays of each month, 8:00 pm - 9:00/9:30 pm Tea and Chanting with Rabbit
Next: Tuesday June 25
$5 suggested donation

Join Rabbit for an evening of “the herbal and the verbal.” After sharing information about this month’s unique, delicious herbal tea, explaining this month’s mantra, and offering a brief dharma talk Rabbit leads the group in rhythmic, harmonic chanting for approximately 30-50 minutes.