Coven Celeste
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Founded | 1966 |
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Founders | |
Services | Witchcraft |
Website | www |
Coven Celeste was the first official
History
Origin
Development and growth
Coven Celeste and came to full development after the Bottings moved to Alberta in 1970.
Commencing in 1975, the Alberta coven began to "hive", with different members of the coven moving away, taking Coven Celeste's traditional brand of Gardnerian witchcraft with them. Pagan-oriented visitors who had heard of Coven Celeste were made welcome either as observers or participants, and Coven Celeste's influence spread.[
Coven Celeste today
The Bottings were divorced in 1999, and the following year Heather married Denis O'Brien, the high priest of Circle of the Moonsong; whereupon Coven Celeste was transferred to Alexander Astarte,[10] along with the secrets of its sacred tools, the athame, white handled knife, pentacle, scourge, cauldron, candle holders, candles, censor, Book of Shadows, and wands cut and manufactured by them under the supervision of their founder. In 2010, Lady Aurora was still conducting a prison ministry and as High Priestess of ATC was officially recognized by the Province as an officiator of pagan weddings.[11] As a professor of anthropology at the University of Victoria, Heather Botting was an officially recognized Wiccan chaplain there for more than a decade, the first officially recognized Wiccan chaplain in any university in North America.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b Todd, http://blogs.vancouversun.com/2010/12/16/pagans-celebrate-solstice-with-yule-rituals/ Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-05-10. Retrieved 2013-03-27
- ^ Gary Botting, Harriott! (Edmonton: Harden House, 1972); The School of Night, first produced at Crestwood Theatre, Peterborough, Ontario, 1969
- ^ Heather and Gary Botting, The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984), pp. 48, 50, 63, 66–70, 90–92, 97, 127–128, 133–135, 144, 146, 149, 159, 161–165, 188–189, 192, 196
- ^ T. Gagnon, "Introduction" to T. Gagnon, ed. Streaking! The Collected Poems of Gary Botting (Miami: Strategic, 2013)
- ^ (St. Paul's, Minnesota: Llewellyn, 1972
- ^ The Spiral Dance, 1979
- ^ MacIsaac; Champagne, Ron; Anne (1994). Clayoquot Mass Trials: Defending the Rainforest. Gabriola Island: New Society Publishers. pp. xi.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Douglas Todd, "University of Victoria chaplain marks solstice with pagan rituals," Vancouver Sun, 16 December 2010
- ^ "University of Victoria chaplain marks solstice with pagan rituals | Vancouver Sun". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-03-31.
- ^ "Spell Casters Online | International Council of Witchcraft". Spell Casts.
- ^ "Home | Vancouver Sun". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2013-03-31.