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Vox ID: 372734
Clergy Id: 7856
Posted: Apr.5.2009
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Pagan Clergy
Ruth Barrett
Located in: Hollandale, Wisconsin
Clergy Profile: Ruth Barrett is a Dianic high priestess, ritualist, educator, author, and award winning recording artist of original Goddess songs. Ruth's numerous recordings, beginning in 1980 with musical partner Cyntia Smith, have been among the pioneering musical works in the Goddess Spirituality Movement.
Go to www.dancingtreemusic.com for information on Ruth's music and her book, Women's Rites, Womens Mysteries.
Ruth began her formal Goddess studies with founding Goddess Movement muse Shekhinah Mountainwater in 1975. Since inheriting Z Budapest's Los Angeles ministry in 1980, Ruth has taught magical and ritual arts in the Dianic tradition at festivals and conferences across the United States, in Canada, and Great Britain.
Ruth served the Los Angeles women's community as co-founder and as the religious director of Circle of Aradia (CoA) for two decades, creating and teaching a Dianic curriculum of classes and providing open seasonal rituals with women of her community. In 1997 Ruth was honored as recipient of the L.A.C.E. award for outstanding contributions in the area of Spirituality from the Gay and Lesbian Center in Los Angeles.
In 2000, Ruth relocated to the Midwest where she founded Temple of Diana with life partner, Falcon River. Ruth is author of Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation (Llewellyn, 2004) .
Ruth contributed a chapter on The Power of Ritual which was published in Daughters of the Goddess (ed. Wendy Griffin, Alta Mira Pub, 2000) , and a chapter titled Lesbian Rituals and Dianic Tradition in Lesbian Rites: Symbolic Acts and the Power of Community (ed. Ramona Faith Oswald, Harrington Park Press, an imprint of The Haworth Press, Inc. 2003) . Excerpts from Ruth's book, Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries will be included in Creating Circles & Ceremonies: Rituals for All Seasons and Reasons by Oberon and Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart (New Page, summer 2006) . Ruth is a featured writer for the holy days sections in the We'Moon 2007 date book.
Rates: Fees by mutual agreement on a case by case basis.
Mailing Address: PO Box 6425, Monona WI, 53716-0425
Website: http://www.templepfdiana.org
Telephone: (608) 577-7863
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