Mantic Priestesses

Its been a while since I have written here.  Mostly because we have been so incredibly busy at home, both with personal life, finishing off a couple of writing projects which have approaching deadlines and also waiting for the production of Priestesses, Pythonesses & Sibyls to finally be complete.  And now it is!

This anthology, which is one of the most exciting projects I have worked on with other women, is now available for pre-orders from Avalonia books.  My own contribution to this project was both as editor and of an essay exploring the various ways in which trance prophesy manifests from the historical sources and accounts through to the modern day.  There are so many women who contributed to the resurgence of both the Divine Feminine and trance work as it is used in modern magickal and pagan circles today who seem to be forgotten or unheard of by most.  Even women like Mina Mathers, whose work will be known to students of the Golden Dawn, is rarely mentioned by women in what is the Goddess Movement today.  They often refer to relatively modern writers and activists as the people who awakened the movement, yet the movement was awakening long before.  Mina, like the other women of the Golden Dawn, worked with the Goddess – often as Isis – in the late 1800′s.  Their work directly inspired that of Dion Fortune and subsequently that of Gerald Gardner and the various priestesses who worked towards making Wicca into the worldwide movement it has become in recent years.

The contributions in this book are by some of the most phenomenal and amazing Priestesses of the twenty-first century.  There are many more and I hope that this anthology will encourage others to speak up and share their experiences and views – as it is through the diversity of many voices that we find the similarities and that which we have in common.

More information on Priestesses, Pythonesses & Sibyls can be found over at www.avaloniabooks.co.uk – I am hoping to do a lot more writing on this blog in the coming months, sharing some of my own views and experiences as a priestess along the way and look forward to hearing from more of those who read this!