Workshop Presenters at Pagan Pride
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| Raven Grimassi
Raven Grimassi is a Neo-Pagan scholar and award-winning author of over fourteen books on Witchcraft, Wicca and Neo-Paganism. He has been devoted to the study and practice of witchcraft for over forty years. Raven is co-founder and co-director of the Fellowship of the Pentacle, a modern Mystery School tradition of pre-Christian European beliefs and practices. Grimassi's background includes training in old forms of witchcraft, as well as Brittic Wicca, the Pictish-Gaelic trasition, and Celtic Traditionalist Witchcraft.
Raven was also a member of the Rosicrucian Order, and studied the Kabbalah through the First Temple of Tifareth, under Lady Sara Cunningham. His early magical career began in the late 1960's and involved the study of works by Julius Evola, Franz Bardon, Gareth Knight, Kenneth Grant, Dion Fortune, William Gray, Austin Spare, William Butler, Israel Regardie, Elphas levi and William Barrett.
Raven currently lives in New England with his beautiful wife and co-author, Stephanie Taylor-Grimassi. He enjoys such things as collecting Silver Age comics featuring Dr. Strange, working in the herbal garden, and occasionally relaxing on the porch with a nice cigar on a warm summer night.
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Stephanie Taylor-Grimassi
Stephanie is a 3rd degree initiate of a Celtic Traditionalist system of Wicca, and is a 3rd degree initiate of Italian Witchcraft (the Arician Tradition). She is a legally ordained clergy of Witchcraft. Stephanie has studied, taught, and used the magical arts as tools of transformation throughout her lifetime. She is also a professional Tarot reader, astrologer, and a teacher of Old World Witchcraft through the Fellowship of the Pentacle.
Stephanie is the co-author and co-creator of the divination and teaching systems The Well Worn Path Oracle kit (2005) and The Hidden Path Oracle Kit (2007). She currently lives in New England with her husband (author Raven Grimassi) and divides her time between operating Raven's Loft cyber store, teaching workshops, managing the House of Grimassi project, co-directing the Mystery School known as the Fellowship of the Pentacle, and developing the Ash, Birch & Willow training system of Old World Witchcraft.
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