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My mini-vita:
I completed a rigorous and rare seven year training to become a Faerie (Celtic) shaman. I also graduated from New College of California where I pursued Shamanic Studies.

In 1986, I founded The 3rd Road, a San Francisco based school for Shamanism and a center for personal transformation, where I earned the dubious distinction of being a professional witch, one of what was only five in the States at the time. At my center, I not only teach but enjoy being a global villager by offering shamanic counseling / psychic readings by phone for folks all over the world.

In the early nineties I received a mandate from the Goddess to use media to teach witchcraft (which meant that, instead of paying my way traditionally through my services as a shaman, I now get paid a bit for writing.) This media work includes my HarperSanFrancisco book on shamanism, "Be a Goddess! A Guide to Celtic Spells and Wisdom for Self-Healing, Prosperity and Great Sex which became available in stores as of Feb.1, 98, and is a do it yourself training in Celtic Shamanism, Faerie style. I also appear on radio. I have hosted occult specials on ABC's KGO radio; after priestessing a KGO Samhain rite for possibly 200,000 listeners, I'll admit that it's hard to ground sufficiently after something like that.

When I am not involved in the above activities, my copious spare time is filled with