Profiles

Ananni is a Deputy for the Aquarius ministry where she focuses on community service. She has just completed her 4th degree in the Temple of Witchcraft and continues to mentor students in Mississippi. She has previously served as a Light Bearer for the Temple of Witchcraft Community and is the current Shadow for the Blue [...]

Jason Nadeau is a High Priest and Ordained Minister in the Temple of Witchcraft. His primary place of volunteering in the Temple is as Ministerial Deputy for the Taurus Ministry where he leads and trains volunteers for the Animal Healing Ministry, sending healing to animals and their human companions and also works to aid animals [...]

Tracey Pletz is a High Priestess in the Temple of Witchcraft and a Ministerial Deputy for the Capricorn Ministry. Her focus is the Inmate Pen Pal Program, but she continues to volunteer as a mentor to students in the Ministry School. Tracey has served previously as a Light Bearer for Aries. Tracey lives in northern [...]

Mur is a High Priest in the Temple of Witchcraft, a Reiki Master Teacher, Yoga Instructor, and Spiritual Life Coach. He has a background in Buddhism, Energy Medicine, Core Shamanism, and Traditional Chinese Medicine. As a Teacher & Healer, he leads talks, classes, and workshops both in his community and internationally. Mur is a Ministerial [...]

Vicky is a High Priestess, Ordained Minister of the Temple of Witchcraft, Reiki Master/Teacher, Certified Sound Healing Practitioner, and intuitive reader. Vicky’s passions are rooted in ancestral healing, herb crafting, and vibrational sound healing. Vicky is a Deputy for the Capricorn Ministry with a focus on Rites of Passage. She leads public Sabbat rituals and [...]

Vittorio Benetti, also known as Evil Vick, is a High Priest and Ordained Minister with the Temple of Witchcraft. Currently, he’s a Teaching Assistant for students in the online Mystery School under the Sagittarius Ministry and volunteers for the Scorpio Ministry. He’s also a Light Bearer of the Temple. Living in Italy with his wife, [...]

Lisa Maddry is a Deputy for the Aquarius Ministry and just completed her 4th degree in the Temple of Witchcraft. Lisa has over 20 years of experience in the field of Emergency Management and is working on advancing her knowledge and training in mental health and spiritual care. In addition to her Temple work, Lisa [...]

Varuni Lai Pui Ting, also known magickally as Varuni Athena Phoenix,  is a Witch, Healer, Astrologer, and Tarot Reader based in Hong Kong. She has studied with the Temple of Witchcraft Mystery School since 2012, is a High Priestess and Ordained Minister in the Temple of Witchcraft, and has been a part of the education [...]

RaeJean is a High Priestess of the Temple of Witchcraft and a Deputy Minister for the Libra Ministry. In addition, she helps in the Sagittarius Ministry where she is a mentor to students in the Mystery School, along with moderating a variety of online classes.  She has served as a Light Bearer for Gemini and is [...]

Erica Baron is Gemini Deputy Minister for Queer Spirit. A graduate of the Temple Mystery School, she is also ordained in the Unitarian Universalist Association, where she served for 12 years as minister to congregations. She has presented classes and rituals at Templefest and Templehearth and helps to facilitate deeper studies of Queer Spirit within [...]

Karen Spinney is a High Priestess of The Temple of Witchcraft. She is the Children’s Deputy minister in the Cancer ministry and a Reiki Master teacher. She is a natural born Witch and Intuitive, discovering the craft in her late thirties. Karen has a passion for children and families. Her work in the children’s ministry [...]

Renee Bedard is a Deputy Minister for the Virgo Ministry and currently working on her 4th degree in the Temple of Witchcraft. Renee is a Reiki Master Teacher and has a passion for the healing arts. She co-leads the Healing Case Study Group and leads some of the Healing Deity rituals. In addition to her [...]

As an Ordained Minister and High Priestess with the Temple of Witchcraft, Karen has been a Teaching Assistant for Shamanic Witchcraft and High Magick (Witchcraft III and IV, for HPS Kelley Ross). Beyond her role as TA, she has created a 10-month Reiki Master Practitioner program that meets once a month. In her program, you [...]

Seven Wolfe is from the Pacific Northwest where the magick of old growth forests meets the ocean. He is a graduate of the Temple of Witchcraft. Seven has studied witchcraft and the occult since he was a child. He co-owns Ritual Arts in Portland, Or. He is a High Priest in the TOW tradition, a [...]

Asteria Dominy is a High Priestess and Ordained Minister of the Temple of Witchcraft, based in St. Peters, Missouri. Her Mother was psychic and as a teenager, the process of discovering her own skills sparked Asteria’s interest in the unseen and inspired her to become a lifetime student of all things metaphysical, magickal and spiritual. [...]

Amy Dove is a High Priestess and Ordained Minister within the Temple of Witchcraft, and an active energy worker and practitioner for the larger community. Amy works as a certified Sound Healer and Reiki Master Teacher, offering both in-person and remote sessions.  As part of her practice, she offers personalized meditations and creates custom flower essences [...]

Beth is a High Priestess of the Temple of Witchcraft and has been a member since 2014. She is a Deputy in the Libra ministry, focusing on mediation, and a mentor in the online Mystery School. She is a Level II practitioner of Usui Reiki and enjoys exploring the beauty of tarot decks. Beth is [...]

M.T. is a High Priestess at the Temple of Witchcraft in Salem, NH. She works as a Deputy in the Libra ministry and volunteers with the Sagittarius Ministry as a mentor in the Mystery School. She would say how many years she has been intrigued by and involved with various forms of self-development and spirituality but [...]

Lori Ouellette is a 4th degree Initiate and has been a member of the Temple of Witchcraft since 2016. She is a Deputy minister for the Scorpio Ministry and focuses on hospice care, bereavement, pastoral care and ancestor work. She is a mother, teacher of many years, and has been employed as a hospice pastoral [...]

Ravenstarr DeFisser is a High Priestess at the Temple Of Witchcraft in Salem NH. Ravenstarr is a Deputy Minister of Cancer Ministry. She runs the kitchen at Temple rituals and helps organize donations to the community. She enjoys connecting with her spiritual sisters in Women’s Circle. Ravenstarr has been a witch all her life. She’s [...]

Michael Usher is a High Priest of the Temple of Witchcraft and Capricorn Lead Minister. He has served as a Light Bearer for the Temple of Witchcraft community, continues to volunteer as a mentor to students in the Mystery School, works with the Pisces Ministry offering public sabbat celebrations and is a member of Team [...]

Dawn Marie Costorf is a High Priestess, ordained minister and the Cancer Lead Minister for the Temple of Witchcraft.  Dawn has been a witch since 1992 and she is a practiced ritualist and teacher. She is a Pisces Deputy Minister, leading  Sabbats and Full Moon rituals for the Temple in NH. She is an accomplished [...]

Ashara Mayim has been studying with the Temple of Witchcraft since 2012 and is a recent graduate of the seminary program. She is a former Pilgrim of the Sun and Stars, a light-bearer for Leo, and a teaching assistant for the Witchcraft 1 Online Mystery School. She has been a teacher in her daily life [...]

Jade is a black bi woman and modern witchcraft practitioner, living in Mi’Kmaqi territory (Nova Scotia). She is a 4th degree initiate within the Temple of Witchcraft. She is a mother, NCGR-certified natal astrologer, author, and land steward. She is a contributing author to The New Aradia: A Witch’s Handbook to Magical Resistance by Laura [...]

Jason Gamache is the Lead Minister of the Taurus Ministry, with a focus on the development of the sacred sites on the temple property in Salem, New Hampshire. He is a graduate of the Temple’s seminary program and a former Pilgrim of the Sun and Stars. Prior to accepting the lead minister role, Jason worked as a [...]

Shell is a High Priestess and Ordained Minister of the Temple of Witchcraft. Her favorite type of magick is kitchen witchery but she considers herself eclectic, as she loves to learn and try new things. Shell is an active participant in her coven and enjoys hosting and occasionally leading esbats and sabbats. She calls her [...]

Kelley Ross is a High Priestess and Ordained Minister of the Temple of Witchcraft.  She has actively served the St. Louis Pagan community for the past 10 years as a Walker between the Worlds by teaching the Crystal and Gemstone Series, Candle Magick, and Star People originally taught by her first mentor, Rev. Deborah Ann [...]

Niklas (Blue Parrot) lives at a Nature Reserve in the south of Sweden. There he is known as a spiritual teacher and adviser for therapists in natural medicine. Niklas started his path in the mid ’90s. His interest in health has taken him from Orthomolecular Medicine and the pH levels effects on our health, to worlds [...]

Karin Ugander (Spirit Talker Turtle Red) is a spiritual channeler living in the south of Sweden. In Scandinavia she is known for the AstroNumerology and psychic readings she’s been doing for over 20 years. Together with her husband Niklas, she runs KaniSkolan, a school of astrology, numerology, tarot, StarCode Healing, and natural medicine. They are [...]

Tristol Boehlke is a High Priestess and an ordained minister with the Temple of Witchcraft and a teacher within the Sagittarius Ministry. Tristol is a walker between the worlds and teaches psychic development courses encompassing the Three Rays. She is also a shamanic practitioner and Usui Reiki Master. Tristol incorporates her psychic abilities into her [...]

For the Scorpio Month Volunteer Spotlight, the Scorpio Ministry would like to thank Lori O for her work in hospice volunteering, crossing over mediation, and ancestor veneration. Lori is a Temple Mystery School student who has completed Witchcraft III and is an active member of the Temple community in Connecticut. The work of Scorpio includes [...]

Sellena is a High Priestess and Ordained minister of the Temple of Witchcraft. She is Aquarius Lead Minister and works with the Sagittarius Ministry as a Teacher and Student Mentor online as well as moderating the Temple’s Runic Stones Study group. She also works with Pisces Ministry facilitating sabbat and ritual events in Jackson, MS. [...]

Storm is a High Priest and an Ordained Minister of the Temple of Witchcraft. As a Walker Between the Worlds, he loves communicating with spirits and practicing martial arts. He describes himself as eclectic, absorbing what’s useful from all spiritual modalities and disciplines. Teaching experience includes three years of Mystery School courses in St. Louis [...]

Jae Aleenaja is a High Priestess and an Ordained Minister of the Temple of Witchcraft. As a Walker Between the Worlds, she loves communicating with nature spirits and spending time outdoors. She describes herself as eclectic, ranging from Ceremonial when she has a need to feel structure to Shamanic when nature calls. Teaching experience includes [...]

JT Mouradian is a panentheistic, monotheistic, pantheistic, polytheistic, animistic, and agnostic, eclectic witch, enamored with all things Irish, and with a healthy obsession around Jesus of Nazareth and his companion Mary Magdalene. He has been studying everything that he can get his hands on since he was a little boy. In his late teens, he focused [...]

Scott is a Healer, Writer, Witch, High Priest, and ordained minister in the Temple of Witchcraft. He is lead minister of the Aries Ministry and also works with the Temple’s Sagittarius Ministry. In Los Angeles, Scott runs a healing practice including energy arts (such as reiki), body work, ritual healing, meditation, public ritual, teaching groups [...]

Justin Gaudet is a High Priest of the Temple of Witchcraft. Working with the Sagittarius Ministry, Justin offered in-person training in the Temple’s Mystery School, and mentorship to students in the Online Mystery School. He also works with the Pisces Ministry, helping offer public rituals for the Wheel of the Year Sabbats for his local [...]

We at the Temple of Witchcraft have been looking for ways to do outreach so our distant members can feel connected to the greater work of the Temple. The Pisces ministry presents a full moon circle here at the Temple’s home in Salem, New Hampshire, every month. This year our focus for those moon circles [...]

Dan Lupacchino is a High Priest and Ordained Minister of the Temple of Witchcraft. He works within the Sagittarius Ministry as an ordained teacher, teaching assistant, and student mentor in the online Mystery School. He also helps co-facilitate the Connecticut TOW sabbat ritual events alongside Ryan Cucchi. Dan is a Licensed Massage Therapist and Healer in [...]

Allison Charron is a High Priestess of the Temple of Witchcraft. She serves as lead minister of the Leo Ministry, fostering and celebrating the arts within the Temple community. Allison has always been drawn to embodied spiritual practice: the ability of dance to induce trance states, the crafting and uttering of poetry to evoke the [...]

Chris is a witch, astrologer, student, aspiring polymath, and broad-ranging occultist living in New England. Drawn to religion and esotericism throughout his life, he discovered the Temple in 2014 and is a frequent participant and volunteer in its local and greater work. Fascinated by history and old things, his personal focus shifts with his studies [...]

Elizabeth (they/them) is a High Priestex and ordained minister for the Temple of Witchcraft. Working predominantly with Pisces and Aquarius ministries, they co-facilitate the Sabbath rituals in New Hampshire, run full moon and other rituals as needed, and serve as one of the main coordinators for TempleFest. As a multi-generational witch who grew up very [...]

Ryan is a High Priest, Ordained Minister of the Temple of Witchcraft, teacher & Deputy Minister of the Cancer Ministry. Ryan works with Community Outreach for the Cancer Ministry and is the author of “Round About The Cauldron Go” a monthly (ish) musing of Kitchen Witchery here on the Temple website. You can typically find [...]

Stevie Grant, a high priestess and ordained minister of the Temple of Witchcraft, is Dean of Students of its Mystery School and Seminary. Also a high priestess in another tradition, she brings knowledge from her career in psychology and many years of experience as a teacher of the psychic and metaphysical, a healer, spiritual counselor, [...]

I’m Raye Snover and along with my esteemed colleague, novelist Tina Whittle, I am co-editor of The Temple Bell. I’ve been studying Witchcraft for over twenty years and am a High Priestess in the Cabot Traditon and a member of the Sisterhood of Avalon.  I live in New York City where in my more mundane [...]

Merry meet! I’m a Witchcraft V graduate of the online mystery school, one of the Temple’s Southernmost members (I currently live in the Lowcountry of Georgia, along the Atlantic coast near Savannah). In my nine-to-five, I’m a mystery writer (my fifth book was released in March) and I also serve as co-editor of The Temple Bell, [...]

Christopher Penczak is the co-founder of the Temple of Witchcraft religious nonprofit organization and the creator of the Temple of Witchcraft Mystery School and Seminary education programs. Developed through his extensive work as an award winning author, ritualist and minister, the educational core of the program comes from his six book and CD set Temple [...]

Steve Kenson is a Founder of the Temple of Witchcraft with his partners, Christopher Penczak and Adam Sartwell, holding the Three Rays of Love, Will & Wisdom. Steve is also lead minister of the Gemini Ministry, in charge of the Temple’s communication networks, its Queer Spirit ministry, and the “insubordinate” or questioning aspect of its structure [...]

Jocelyn is a person of many hats: witch, student, equestrian, farmer, landlord, bookkeeper, eco-freak, teacher, and lover of life with a talent for not knowing when to stop talking. She came to the Temple of Witchcraft already partially self-taught, but studying intensively with Christopher from 2000 to 2003 solidified her identity as a witch and [...]