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Coven Celeste
Founded
1966; 58 years ago (1966)
Founders
Heather Botting
Services
Witchcraft
Website
www.spellcasts.com
Coven Celeste was the first official Gardnerian Wiccan coven in Canada, founded in the late 1960s by Heather Botting, then wife of the grandson of Gerald Gardner's London-based High Priestess Lysbeth Turner, Gary Botting. Following Heather's initiation by Turner in 1966, she became a founding priestess of Aquarian Tabernacle Church and later, as a professor of anthropology, became the first Wiccan chaplain to be recognized by an accredited university (University of Victoria).[1]
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CovenCeleste was the first official Gardnerian Wiccan coven in Canada, founded in the late 1960s by Heather Botting, then wife of the grandson of Gerald...
University of Victoria in British Columbia. The original high priestess of CovenCeleste, she is a founding elder of the Canadian Aquarian Tabernacle Church...
A coven (/kʌvən/) is a group or gathering of witches. The word "coven" (from Anglo-Norman covent, cuvent, from Old French covent, from Latin conventum...
chaplain of a public university. She is the original high priestess of CovenCeleste. In the 1990s, amid ever-rising numbers of self-initiates, the popular...
Bricket Wood coven Children of Artemis Church and School of Wicca Circle Sanctuary CovenCeleste Covenant of the Goddess New Forest coven New Reformed...
Both receive more power. It is an uncommon ritual in a full coven, as it is used when the coven is in need of powerful spiritual intervention. Most often...
Bricket Wood coven of English occultist Gerald Gardner. Gardner said he had been initiated by a group of pagan witches, the New Forest coven, whom he said...
of the Gardnerian tradition, claimed that Gerald Gardner's Bricket Wood coven referred to the god as Cernunnos, or Kernunno, which is a Latin word, discovered...
Universal Eclectic Wicca Wiccan organisations Aquarian Tabernacle Church CovenCeleste Children of Artemis Church and School of Wicca Circle Sanctuary Covenant...
Universal Eclectic Wicca Wiccan organisations Aquarian Tabernacle Church CovenCeleste Children of Artemis Church and School of Wicca Circle Sanctuary Covenant...
seasonal festival calendars in the twentieth century: the Bricket Wood coven, a Wiccan group led by Gerald Gardner, and the Order of Bards, Ovates and...
been initiated into a surviving tradition of Witchcraft, the New Forest Coven. The athame was their most important ritual tool, with many uses, but was...
originated in the early 20th century, when it developed amongst secretive covens in England who were basing their religious beliefs and practices upon what...
affiliated covens (or congregations). It was founded in 1975 in order to increase co-operation among witches and to secure for witches and covens the legal...
lover and her child. This is reflected in the traditional structure of the coven, wherein "the High Priestess is the leader, with the High Priest as her...
derived from ancient Greek and British mythology. Coven Esbats are usually held skyclad, (Some covens do choose to work robed.) and focus on the working...
Martello, who encouraged Anderson to found his own coven. Circa 1960, the Andersons founded a coven, naming it Mahealani, after the Hawaiian word for the...
Universal Eclectic Wicca Wiccan organisations Aquarian Tabernacle Church CovenCeleste Children of Artemis Church and School of Wicca Circle Sanctuary Covenant...
Universal Eclectic Wicca Wiccan organisations Aquarian Tabernacle Church CovenCeleste Children of Artemis Church and School of Wicca Circle Sanctuary Covenant...
language as the byproduct of inner conflict within Gerald Gardner's original coven over the issue of press relations, to justify Gardner's own authority over...
Universal Eclectic Wicca Wiccan organisations Aquarian Tabernacle Church CovenCeleste Children of Artemis Church and School of Wicca Circle Sanctuary Covenant...
Universal Eclectic Wicca Wiccan organisations Aquarian Tabernacle Church CovenCeleste Children of Artemis Church and School of Wicca Circle Sanctuary Covenant...
homophobia by Lois Bourne, one of the High Priestesses of the Bricket Wood coven: "Gerald was homophobic. He had a deep hatred and detestation of homosexuality...
This is the form of the blessing used by most Gardnerian and Alexandrian covens. In other Wiccan Traditions, the blessing is as follows:[citation needed]...
by Richard and Tamara James in 1979, along with other members of their coven. The name of the tradition was inspired by Homer's Odyssey, and is meant...
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