Hello Everyone,

I hope you are enjoying your visit to our site. Let me introduce myself to you.

I am an eclectic solitary Witch who mixes a little Celtic with a little Hindu and a sprinkle of Egyptian in my personal practice. I am a founding member of the FRED Circle here in New York and a former member of the Coven of the Black Wolf, Black Forest Clan.

I live in New York with my husband and our two cats. I make my living as a newspaper editor and am an aspiring author. I also spend a good deal of my time doing Tarot, oracle, rune and astrology readings and reports for clients and businesses.

I am active in the region's Wiccan and Pagan communities and have a study group based in Westchester, N.Y. I have also received my Level 2 Reiki certification.

Looking back through my life, I find that the Craft was always a part of it, I just didn't know it at the time.

Growing up in farmland, nature and the cycle of seasons were always prevalent. I always felt connected to nature and would often go for a walk the woods when I needed to get away or take an emotional break. That is still true today.

As soon as I was old enough to be trusted with matches, I was always lighting candles of specific scents to create certain moods. I grew up using herbal remedies for everything from itchy skin to sore throats to sunburn.

I've always had an infinity for astrology and tarot cards and mythology of the gods and goddesses from many cultures.

I gave up on organized religion when I was an early teen. I was never much of a churchgoer and I was turned off by the fact that so much of the violence in the world could be traced back to groups of people believing that their god is the one true god. I refused to believe that any one god is the right god and everyone else is wrong. So I sort of made up my own beliefs and went on my merry way.

Then one day, Maera, a very dear college friend of mine, invited me to attend a Wiccan ritual with the Ladies of the Mist. Afterward, Lady Phoenix MoonFlame explained exactly what it is that we had just done and what it all meant.

The light went on. This was it. This is what I was searching for! I picked up a book and ran with it. Instantly, everything made sense. It felt like I was doing it all my life.

Maera keeps saying I am a natural witch. Maybe that is so. Maybe some of us are predestined to follow a certain path. I don't know.

But I do know that Wicca has become more than a religion -- it is who I am.

Thank you for joining me on this journey!
Apythia