Description
John Winthrop the Younger was an avid chemist, practical scientist, and famous for starting one of the first ironworks in its initial location of Quincy, Massachusetts. He was popular for what was considered the more mystical concoctions coined “strange medicines” for his time. Though John was not formally a doctor he had the trust of the hundreds of patients for which he diagnosed and treated. He held offices as: Assistant, General Court, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1631-1649; Governor, Colony of Connecticut, 1657, 1659-1676; Deputy Governor, Colony of Connecticut, 1658. During his tenure as Governor of Connecticut, he oversaw the acceptance of Quakers who were banned from Massachusetts. He was also one of the commissioners of the United Colonies of New England in 1675 and secured a charter for Connecticut, which was the first “constitution” in the colonies. As governor, Winthrop used his reputation as a learned man to turn the colony from the place most likely to execute people for witchcraft to completely eliminating the practice years before the Salem Witch Trials.
Elsa Elliott, HPs. is an ordained minister, seminary graduate of the Temple Mystery School, spiritual educator, a member of the Temple Board of Directors and has served as Lead Minister of the Temple Scorpio Ministry since 2011. She is also trained as a clinical mental health counselor with a specialization in Internal Family Systems and holistic care. She serves as a psychopomp, facilitates conversations about death and dying, provides pastoral care, officiates funerals, celebrations of life and memorial services, and teaches classes on grief theories and ritual practices, ancestor veneration, ancestral line healing, and crossing over. She enjoys singing and reading.
Lori Ouellette is a 4th degree Initiate and is currently enrolled in Witchcraft 5. She is a Ministerial Deputy for the Scorpio Ministry and focuses on hospice care, bereavement and ancestor work. Lori is a psychopomp and has trained as Death Doula. She is a mother, teacher and school administrator and has also worked as a hospice spiritual care coordinator and pastoral care aide. She volunteers with the Temple of Witchcraft in CT and as a mentor in the online Mystery School. In her free time, Lori enjoys communing with ancestors and plant spirits in her garden or in the kitchen.
