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With their help and training, I was initiated into the mysteries and made rapid progress as a ritual magician and High Priestess.
I was initiated into Wicca by Jim Bennet under the supervision of Alex Sanders in 1980, I then in April that year got involved with a
Gardnerian coven and from there formed my own coven with the High Priest Lionel Hornby. This coven was active for a number of years.
The next major turning point for me was a life-changing spiritual and magical experience: an intense, spontaneous invocation of the God Woden. I took this to be a calling to open up the Northern pathway, which until then, was virtually non-existent within the occult community.
I embarked on an intensive study of the runes and began work on my first book, "Leaves of Yggdrasil" (revised and updated in 1998 under the
title, "Northern Mysteries and Magick") Within Pagan circles, this initiative was at first viewed with scepticism and suspicion as to whether
I had a covert political agenda (which at that time was often the case with some Odinists).
I soon overcame these perceptions and won the respect and affection of the majority of the Pagan and occult community.
Over the last 14 years I have been extensively involved with lecturing and giving talks all over the world. It was my great fortune to
become acquainted with ‘Hrafnar', a women's Asatru group where I was taught Seidhr or Spea craft. I have may loving friends in the US.
On a social level, realizing that I was not suited to living in a normal nuclear family, I became actively involved in 1981 with a community
of which I was a founding member and ran for a number of years as Managing Director, together with my partner Lionel Hornby and a good friend,
a well known pagan-friendly Jewish feminist-activist and a supporter of gay and bisexual rights.
In 1993 I decided to choose a celibate path, for my own spiritual reasons.
After Lionel's death in 1994, I sold the house and with my share I bought a large farmhouse in Scotland in 1996.
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