Raven Grimassi is a Neo-Pagan scholar and award-winning author of over twelve books on Witchcraft, Wicca, and Neo-Paganism. Raven is also the co-creator of the oracle decks known as The Well Worn Path, and The Hidden Path. He is a member of the American Folk Lore Society and is co-founder and co-director of the Crossroads Fellowship (formerly known as the College of the Crossroads).

Raven’s background includes training in Italian witchcraft as well as several Wiccan systems such as Pictish-Gaelic Wicca, and Celtic Traditionalist Wicca. He also studied with the Rosicrucian Order as well as a study of the Kabbalah through the First Temple of Tifareth under Lady Sara Cunningham. His early magical career began in the late 1960s and involved the study of works by Franz Bardon, Eliphas Levi, William Barrett, Dion Fortune, William Gray, William Butler, and Israel Regardie.

Today Raven is the directing Elder of the tradition of Arician Witchcraft, and together with his wife Stephanie Taylor, he is developing a complete teaching system known as Ash, Birch and Willow. This system is the culmination of over 35 years of study and practice in the magical and spiritual traditions of the indigenous people of pre-Christian Europe.

Stephanie Taylor is a teacher of traditional witchcraft and holds the 3rd degree level in the Arician Tradition (Italian Witchcraft) and the Celtic Traditionalist system of Wicca. She is the co-creator of the oracle systems known as The Well Worn Path, and The Hidden Path, and is the co-author of the companion books for each deck. She is also a Tarot reader and teacher with many years of experience. Alongside her husband, Raven Grimassi, Stephanie Taylor co-founder/co-director of the Crossroads Fellowship (formerly the College of the Crossroads) and is developing a complete teaching system known as Ash, Birch and Willow. This system is the culmination of over 35 years of study and practice in the magical and spiritual traditions of the indigenous people of pre-Christian Europe.

Stephanie has been a guest speaker on several discussion panels alongside such noted figures as Monty Farber, Amy Zerner, Rachel Pollack, and Ray Buckland. She has also appeared on television and in several short film documentaries on Witchcraft. In addition, Stephanie worked as a consultant for the movie pilot film Mind Forest, in which she likewise appears. Of the many hats worn by Stephanie, she is also the owner and operator of the online store called Raven's Loft, which was originally a physical store founded in 1998.

GWAERON views his three core roles as that of Warrior/Mage, Seer, and Healer/Priest. These practices encompass a broad five fold weave of a myriad of skills and trainings, including: Celtic Witchcraft and Wicca, Northern European Magicks, Martial Arts and Tibetan Bön Buddhism/Sorcery, Wilderness focused Shamanism, and Western Mysteries/Ceremonial Magick.

As a martial artist of many years, he has attuned himself to the flow of energies/Spirit that a Ninjutsu+ artist needs to direct and control. His education in the manipulation and control of energy fields (Chi/Ki/Magick) was greatly enhanced by Buddhist teachings. The meditative techniques of mind control that he learned, along with his engagement of Tibetan Sorcery, Necromancy, and Shamanism, form key portions of his magickal foundations.

In addition to his Eastern mystical-martial background, Gwaeron has studied the Western Mysteries for many years, receiving several initiations, including his third degree in Celtic Witchcraft. Gwaeron practices his various arts in the NJ- NYC region, and is the Steward of a networking/training community known as The Northern NJ Pagan Fellowship. He is a current and/or past member of a Gardnerian coven, The Assembly of the Sacred Wheel, The Foundation for Shamanistic Studies, The Builders of the Adytum, Ltd, The Rosicrucian Order, The Fraternity of the Hidden Light, Ár nDraíocht Féin (ADF), the OTO, the Bujinkan Dojo, and a few other private magickal groups and dojos.

Kirk White, M.A., L.Ac., is a healer, teacher and author. He has been a practicing Witch since 1973, a psychotherapist for 14 years, and a licensed oriental medical practitioner for 15 years. A past president of Covenant of the Goddess (North America’s oldest and largest association of Witches and Wiccans), and past director of the University of Vermont’s Parapsychology Program, he also founded Cherry Hill Seminary, a professional Pagan ministry program with faculty and students worldwide, and co-founded the National Association of Pagan Schools and Seminaries. In 2006, Wildhunt.org named him one of the “25 most influential modern living Pagans today”. In addition to working as a consultant with Pagan seminaries nationwide such as the Heronwood Institute and the Aquarian Tabernacle Churches' Woolston Steen Theological Semianry, he is a licensed acupuncturist/ Chinese herbalist, registered psychotherapist, and legal Pagan minister.  His skills and interests include traditional healing modalities, various magickal and spiritual traditions, and models of Pagan leadership and ministry.  A contributor to “Exploring the Pagan Path: Wisdom from the Elders” (2005), he is also author of “Adept Circle Magick: a Guide for the Advanced Wiccan Practitioner” (Kensington Press 2006), and its companion volume “Advanced Circle Magick: Essential Spells and Rituals for Every Season” (Kensington Press, 2008). For complete bio info, go to www.revkirkwhite.com

John has been a practicing witch for twenty years. He has practiced within both an eclectic and a traditional format. He is a Thelemite, and an initiate of the Caliphate OTO. He is a 32nd degree initiate of Freemasonry, as well as being a Past Master. John is the Ipsissimus, and one of the founders of Temple Of The Serpent Flame (a Thelemic organization currently located in New York). John is also one of the founders and Co-Chair of Harvest Home Gathering.
John has appeared as a guest speaker on the television show Sacred Circles. In 2004 he was interviewed by the late Marion Weinstein for Radio Free America. He spoke on the subject of Paganism and community. John has been published in Green Egg Magazine, The Wiccan Read, & WitchVox. He was also published in German for WurzelWerk; an Austrian website for Pagans. John has lectured at both CraftWise and AkashaCon. He occasionally lectures at local high schools and universities on the subject of Paganism. In addition, he lectures to private spiritual groups on a wide range of topics. John received his Master’s Degree from Norwich University, and he received his Baccalaureate from SUNY New Paltz. He can be contacted at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Christopher Kimball is a National Council of Geocosmic Research certified level 1 Astrologer, published fantasy author and member of the Connecticut Pagan community for more than twenty years. Currently he is a Heathen, an Anglo-Saxon Theodish reconstructionist. He has lived a varied and geminian life, having fought in the SCA, learned equestrianism and fencing, white-water canoed the Pine River in Michigan, Piloted a research vessel in the Atlantic, hiked the Grand Canyon and the lower Colorado River and grown up in the woods and fields of rural New England.