Pagan Prisoner Advocate's Guide: How to Aid & Advocate for Pagan & Wiccan Inmates & Institutionalized Persons (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781722490553)

Lady Passion (Dixie Deerman) has been a Witch since '76. She is a born seer and has been a Registered Nurse for three decades and counting. Third-degree Gardnerian clergy legally empowered to "marry and bury," she has served as High Priestess of the religious nonprofit Coven Oldenwilde in Asheville, North Carolina, since 1994. As featured in the seminal tome Drawing Down the Moon, Lady Passion has helped Pagan inmates throughout the United States and in its territories to resist institutional persecution of their faith and practices and secure their religious rights since 1995; thus, she is listed as a prisoner resource in both the digital legal library allowed in facilities nationwide and, in conjunction with the Department of Justice's Prison Project, the ACLU's Prisoner's Assistance Directory. Lady Passion aids inmates for many reasons, such as because many laws wrongly penalize traditional Pagan practices; the U.S. has long incarcerated more of its citizens than any other developed country; and "God-pod" confinement and rehabilitation has not proven to reduce recidivism -- whereas Witch ethics do. She maintains a daily-updated map of inmate requests for aid by state on Coven Oldenwilde's website. The Lady is co-author of the perennial bestseller The Goodly Spellbook: Olde Spells For Modern Problems as well as Rituals & Sabbats: Sacred Rites and Seasonal Celebrations, and is author of Candle Magic: Working with Wax, Wick, & Flame. She is also author of numerous eBook titles such as Ask-A-Priestess: Magic Answers & Spells From a Real Witch; It's in the Cards: How to Read Tarot Like a Pro; and Simply Savory: Magical & Medieval Recipes, often writes for magical magazines such as Pagans & Wiccans and Oracle 20/20. A gifted clairvoyant with a worldwide clientele, she also lectures on Witchcraft topics in universities and frequently works magic for media such as BBC London radio and series Extra! and United Shades of America, among other venues. Lady Passion teaches traditional magic with High Priest *Diuvei in their three-story Covenstead nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Appalachia. Their years of successful spiritual eco-activism are chronicled in pictures, news articles, and video and audio interviews on the popular Wiccan website they maintain.