Foxwood Orion
they settled on land near Barneveld and Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, and created Circle Sanctuary, a nature preserve, organic herb farm and church headquarters.
Fox and Alan ended their common-law relationship in 1984, and Alan eventually left Circle Sanctuary to devote himself to a writing career. In 1986, Fox married Dennis Carpenter, a Wiccan priest and former school psychologist and now a renowned Pagan scholar. Fox and Carpenter live on Circle Sanctuary and work together to coordinate Circle Sanctuary's diverse activities and responsibilities: networking, publishing, research, counseling, education and nature preservation.
In 1995, Fox earned a master's degree in counseling at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and became certified as a clinical psychotherapist. Soon after graduation, she was invited into a public practice in a mental health facility in Madison, where she works as a staff psychotherapist with a mainstream clientele. She also has a private spiritual counseling practice at Circle.
Fox travels extensively throughout the world, participating in interfaith dialogue and networking, and working for various environmental, peace, social, civil rights and women's studies efforts. She also works to preserve sacred sites in North America and elsewhere. Her involvement with the interfaith and academic communities has increased dramatically since the late 1980s, in response to interest in and study of contemporary Pagan traditions. In 1995, she was the first to publish a study on Pagans as a distinct cultural population with special needs in terms of recovery therapy.
In addition, her public work includes lectures, workshops and seminars on Paganism, spiritual growth and psychology to all kinds of audiences in colleges and universities, learning centers, conferences, churches and Pagan gatherings. She does nature therapy, psychic healing, Tarot readings, dream work, guided creative visualizations and other types of spiritual healing services. For the media, she is a leading spokesperson on Wicca and Paganism and was a leading activist in the veterans' PEN-tacle Quest.
Fox has been a prominent religious freedom activist in the Pagan movement. She has worked successfully on cases involving the right of Wiccans and Pagans to worship, allowing Wiccan priestesses to minister as clergy in prisons, securing paid Pagan holidays for a Canadian employee (see CHARLEs Arnold) and helping Native American Indians protect sacred burial grounds and other types of sites, including rock art, in North America. In 1985, Fox was a leader in the effort to defeat the Helms AMENDMENT in Congress, which sought to strip Wiccan churches of their tax-exempt status.
Fox founded wiCCAN shamanism, an interfaith blend of Wicca, cross-cultural shamanic practices and transpersonal psychology.
Through genealogical research, Fox has traced her Welsh and Scots family lines back several centuries and found a family tradition of "religious radicalism," which she feels she is part of and continues in her life. Ancestral land in Scotland includes caves decorated with Bronze Age artwork. Fox is descended from St. Margaret (ca. 1045-93), wife of King Malcolm III of Scotland.
Foxwood, Orion Wiccan, author and CUNNING MAN in the Faery Faith. Orion Foxwood is founder of the Foxwood Temple of the Old Religion, a legal church in Maryland dedicated to the Elder Gods. He is well known for his teachings in WICCA, ritual, practical MAGIC and psychic development and the Faery Faith, a spiritual path of seership attunement with the faery realm.
Foxwood holds a master of human services degree from Lincoln University in Pennsylvania and a doctor of divinity degree from Ravenwood Church and Seminary of the Old Religion, Inc., in Atlanta, Georgia. He is trained in transactional analysis. He works as a licensed professional counselor and hyponotherapist, specializing in chemical dependency, AIDS and AIDS education and public health. Foxwood also works as a spiritual counselor, especially for life passages and grief and loss.
Foxwood is a high priest in Celtic/Traditional and Alexandrian Wicca as well as a priest in the Welsh Cymric Tradition. At Foxwood Temple, he teaches an oathbound and initiatory tradition. He is the elder and teacher to the groves and covens around the United States who have received their Wiccan lineage from him.
Foxwood has studied with R. J. Stewart and the Lady Circe, a hereditary witch and founder of Sisterhood and Brotherhood of Wicca in Toledo, Ohio. With Lady Circe, he established the Alliance of the Old Religion (AOTOR), a network of traditional covens and elders in the Craft that draw lineage from Lady Circe. The Alliance membership includes elders in eight states. Lady Circe named three mantle carriers: Foxwood (Lord Orion); Lady Me-shalamthea of Toledo, Ohio; and Lord Malachi of Ke-wadin, Michigan. Lady Circe, who died in 2004, is the Queen of Foxwood Temple lineage.
Foxwood founded Foxwood Temple in 1990. The curriculum is a syncretic Mystery tradition, drawing from teachings, lore, and practices from Prytani Celtic, Strega, Alexandrian Wicca, Faery and Southern Conjure traditions. These are blended together into a unified spiritual path, Traditional Witchcraft or "The Old Religion."
The tradition emphasizes service to the divine through participation in sacred work, honoring of and communion with ancestors of the past, present, and future and adherence to a strict ethical code.
The Faery Faith teachings focus on reattunement to the spirits of the land, sea, wind, flame, human ancestry and the Elder race, known as the Faery. The attun-ement is achieved through the application of age-old lore, techniques, folk practices, inner contacts and wisdom of Faery Seership.
Foxwood was codirector of the Moonridge Center, a land-based nature sanctuary and mystical educational center located near Beltsville, Maryland. He also co-founded the Amber Web, an Internet spiritual resource for men.
Foxwood lectures widely. He is the author of The Faery Teachings (2003; 2007) and The Tree of Enchantment: Wisdom of Faery Seership (2008).
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