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Pagan Pioneers: Founders, Elders, Leaders and Others
Fiona Horne
Written and compiled by George Knowles
Fiona Horne is an author, model, journalist, radio and television celebrity, singer/song writer, actor and a Witch. She has been practicing Wicca/Witchcraft since the early 1980’s and now has 16 books to her credit. Fiona was born on the 24th June 1966 under the astrological sun sign of Cancer (June 22 - July 22) in Sydney, Australia. At an early age she was given up by her biological mother, adopted and raised in a strict Roman Catholic family. She received her early education at a school for girls run by nuns. Her earliest ambition was to become a nun herself, but after studying the bible, she concluded it was full of inconsistencies. The more she studied, the more she felt that many of the myths and stories it contained had been borrowed from elsewhere, and many portrayed women as the subservient inferiors of men, there simply to be used and cast off as chattel, and so she turned her attention to alternative religions. After a brief rebellious period in her teens exploring Satanism, she found it not at all to her liking, and turned her attention to various other forms of metaphysics, eventually she came upon Wicca/Witchcraft. Fiona is now a self-taught, self-initiated Witch who practises a solitary eclectic tradition with leanings towards the Alexandrian tradition. In an interview about Wicca she says: “that she felt very attracted to the fact that Wicca acknowledges many different Gods and Goddesses, but most importantly recognises that they can exist within the individual, not just in the sky out of reach”. In a later interview she says she was inspired on her path as a witch by the Australian artist “Rosaleen Norton” (1917-1979) “The Witch of Kings Cross”, stating that: “she had never been afraid to follow an unconventional spiritual path and expressed that in her art. She had carved a unique and potent niche for herself in a world when women were afforded far less opportunities than they are today. Her braveness and defiance of social norms and expectations inspires me to trust my own voice and vision of the world”. From 1990 through to 1997 Fiona was the lead singer of a popular Australian techno rock band called Def FX. During her time with the band they released three albums, toured Australia and visited America, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and New Zealand. In the US, Def FX achieved a Top 20 American Billboard Dance chart listing with their hit single “Space Time Disco”. Fiona wrote most of the bands songs herself, and in the lyrics expressed some of her Pagan beliefs and feeling. Since 1997 when the band broke up, she has continued her singing career as a solo artist, and in 2007 released a solo album called “Witch Web”, an album of witchcraft related music.
The
Band - Def FX
Initially Fiona kept quiet about witchcraft, but when she left Def FX in 1997 “she came out of the broom closet” in an article written for the Australian Rolling Stones magazine, which kick-started her career as a writer. In March 1998 she published her first book “Witch – A personal Journey” (Random House Australia). The book was an immediate success and sold-out it’s first print-run in just six weeks, it is now in its third reprint. Since then Fiona has worked as a journalist writing for Australian, UK and USA magazines, including: Marie Claire, Rolling Stone, HQ, New Woman, Cleo, Cosmopolitan, ‘B’ Magazine, Complete Woman, the Australian Women’s Forum, Sugar and Smash Hits magazines. She has also written for daily broadsheet newspapers such as Melbourne’s The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, among others. In her modelling career Fiona has posed for nude and erotic photo layouts in the Black + White magazine (October 1994), Ralph magazine (September 1998), FHM magazine (1998), as well as the Australian Playboy magazine (November 1998). Later after moving to Los Angeles in 2001, she posed again for the US edition of Playboy (October 2005). In the November 1998 Australian Playboy shoot, she was pictured fully nude with a 12 foot python slithering and crawling all over her naked body.
Fiona
in the US Playboy magazine
After her successes as a singer, model and writer, the next natural step in her career progression was Radio and Television. She started in 1999 by hosting two popular National Radio shows “Home Grown” and “Planet Rock” for the Triple M Network, and for two years from 2000 – 2002 hosted her own top rated “Spell-casting Show” on MIX FM. The show entailed her answering calls from people requesting magical advice for their personal dilemmas. On television she hosted a prime-time 13-part series called Party! shown on Australia’s number one commercial network Channel 9 in 2000. Also in 2000 she appeared as a guest presenter on the Russell Gilbert Live show, before presenting her own music show Ground Zero, during which she interviewed Britney Spears, Melissa Etheridge and Tom Jones. In 2002 she did a UK television show called Sexy Spells for Granada/Sky Broadcasting, this proved to be popular when people from all over the UK wrote to her asking for magical help with their love and sex lives. For two years she made regular appearances on Australia’s top rated daytime talk shows Beauty and the Beast, and Good Morning Australia, and in 2004 starred in the Sci Fi Channel’s (USA) original reality show “Mad Mad House” as part of the regular cast. Her role highlighted her life as a Witch, and had her living in a house with four other people practising alternative lifestyles, while 10 guest/contestants competed for a grand prize. In 2006 back in Australia she starred in the popular Celebrity Survivor show for Seven Network Australia. Also in 2006 back in the US, she was invited to talk about Witchcraft and Paganism as a guest speaker at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As an actor, in Melbourne during August 2001, Fiona starred in the sell-out opening season of the hit theatre production The Vagina Monologues. Back in the US she appeared in the 2005 film Unbeatable Harold by independent US film, in it she played a good time girl called Cherry, the film also starred Dylan McDermont and Henry Winkler. In January 2006 she finished filming Cult, in which she plays the role of Professor Diane Estabrook, the film also starred Rachel Miner and Taryn Manning. Cult was released internationally in March 2007. With so much happening for her in the United States, Fiona made a permanent move to Los Angeles in 2002, although she travels frequently to the United Kingdom and back home to Australia for work commitments. Recent opportunities has seen Fiona featured on prime-time USA television, including: the Los Angeles KTLA5 Morning News, Good Day New York, Chicago’s WGN Morning News and The Other Half (NBC national). On radio she has appeared in The Mark and Brian Show (national), L.A.’s Star 89.9 with Ryan Seacrest/Lisa Foxx and The Valentine Show on L.A.’s KIIS FM/ national. Fiona’s personal interests include Herpetology - she is a licensed snake handler, Skydiving – she is a licensed skydiver with over 100 solo jumps to her credit, and Scuba diving - she is an expert scuba diver and works regularly for the scuba accreditation organization PADI, hosting, demonstrating and doing voice over for their instructional videos, television and radio commercials, including voicing the National Geographic/PADI Underwater Explorer DVD series. Her favourite charity is Project Aware – an international ocean conservation effort.
Fiona Horne the PilotToday Fiona works as a commercial pilot for a charter company based in the Caribbean from where she also co-ordinates and executes humanitarian aid missions. When not busy with that, in her spare time she works as a yoga instructor and professional fire dancer - she also performs regularly in the Caribbean at resorts and private events, as well as special engagements in New Orleans and Los Angeles. End
Bibliography: Witch: A
Personal Journey (Random House Australia - 1998) Witch: A Magickal Year (Random House Australia - 1999) Life's a Witch: A
Handbook for Teen Witches (Random House
Australia - 2000) Witch: A Magickal Journey: A Hip Guide to Modern Witchcraft (Thorsons
- 2001) 7 Days to a Magickal New You
(Thorsons - 2001) In 7 Tagen magische Kräfte wecken
(hardback in German, Bauer, Freiburg - 2002) Magickal Sex: A Witches' Guide to Beds, Knobs, and Broomsticks (Thorsons - 2002) Witchin': A Handbook for Teen Witches (Thorsons - 2003) Pop! Goes the Witch: The Disinformation Guide to 21st Century Witchcraft. Disinformation (Self ed - 2004) The Coven: Making Magick Together (Random House Australia - 2005) Bewitch a Man: How to Find Him and Keep Him Under Your Spell (Simon Spotlight Entertainment - 2006) L.A. Witch: Fiona Horne's Guide to Coven Magick (Llewellyn Publications - 2007) Witch-A Summerland Mystery
(Allen & Unwin - 2012) The Naked Witch; An Autobiography
(Rockpool Publishing - 2017) The Art of Witch (Rockpool Publishing - 2019) The Magick of You Oracle (Rockpool Publishing - 2019) Sources: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/spirit/stories/s660531.htm http://www.abc.net.au/rn/relig/spirit/default.htm http://www.bitememagazine.com/fiona-horne.html http://www.greengalactic.com/witchinbio.html http://www.scifi.com/transcripts/2004/fhorne2.26.html http://mag.girl.com.au/fiona-horne-witch-web.htm The
Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-paganism - By Shelley Rabinovitch The Witch Book - The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft, Wicca, and Neo-paganism - By Raymond Buckland
Written
and compiled on the 13th October 2007 © George Knowles
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Site Contents - Links to all Pages
A Universal Message:
Let there be peace in the world - Where have all the flowers gone?
About me: My Personal Page / My Place in England / My Family Tree (Ancestry)
Wicca & Witchcraft
Wicca/Witchcraft / What is Wicca / What is Magick
Traditional Writings:
The Wiccan Rede / Charge of the Goddess / Charge of the God / The Three-Fold Law (includes The Law of Power and The Four Powers of the Magus) / The Witches Chant / The Witches Creed / Descent of the Goddess / Drawing Down the Moon / The Great Rite Invocation / Invocation of the Horned God / The 13 Principles of Wiccan Belief / The Witches Rede of Chivalry / A Pledge to Pagan Spirituality
Correspondence Tables:
Incense / Candles / Colours / Magickal Days / Stones and Gems / Elements and Elementals
Traditions:
Traditions Part 1 - Alexandrian Wicca / Aquarian Tabernacle Church (ATC) / Ár Ndraíocht Féin (ADF) / Blue Star Wicca / British Traditional (Druidic Witchcraft) / Celtic Wicca / Ceremonial Magic / Chaos Magic / Church and School of Wicca / Circle Sanctuary / Covenant of the Goddess (COG) / Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS) / Cyber Wicca / Dianic Wicca / Eclectic Wicca / Feri Wicca /
Traditions Part 2 - Gardnerian Wicca / Georgian Tradition / Henge of Keltria / Hereditary Witchcraft / Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn (H.O.G.D.) / Kitchen Witch (Hedge Witch) / Minoan Brotherhood and Minoan Sisterhood Tradition / Nordic Paganism / Pagan Federation / Pectic-Wita / Seax-Wica / Shamanism / Solitary / Strega / Sylvan Tradition / Vodoun or Voodoo / Witches League of Public Awareness (WLPA) /
Other things of interest:
Gods and Goddesses (Greek
Mythology) / Esbats &
Full Moons / Links
to Personal Friends & Resources / Wicca/Witchcraft
Resources / What's a spell? /
Circle Casting and
Sacred Space / Pentagram
- Pentacle / Marks
of a Witch / The Witches
Power / The Witches Hat
/ An
esoteric guide to visiting London / Satanism
/ Pow-wow
/ The
Unitarian Universalist Association / Numerology: Part 1
/ Part 2 / Part
3 / A
history of the Malleus Maleficarum: includes: Pope
Innocent VIII /
The
papal Bull /
The
Malleus Maleficarum /
An extract from the Malleus Maleficarum
/ The letter of approbation
/ Johann
Nider’s Formicarius /
Jacob
Sprenger /
Heinrich Kramer /
Stefano Infessura
/ Montague Summers /
The Waldenses
/ The Albigenses
/
The Hussites / The
Native American Sun Dance
/ Shielding (Occult
and Psychic Protection) /
Sabbats and Festivals:
The Sabbats in History and Mythology / Samhain (October 31st) / Yule (December 21st) / Imbolc (February 2nd) / Ostara (March 21st) / Beltane (April 30th) / Litha (June 21st) / Lammas/Lughnasadh (August 1st) / Mabon (September 21st)
Rituals contributed by Crone:
Samhain / Yule / Imbolc / Ostara / Beltane / Litha / Lammas / Mabon
Tools:
Tools of a Witch / The Besom (Broom) / Poppets and Dolls / Pendulums / Cauldron Magick / Mirror Gazing
Animals:
Animals in Witchcraft (The Witches Familiar and Totem Animals) / Antelope / Bats / Crow / Fox / Frog and Toads / Goat / Honeybee / Kangaroo / Lion / Owl / Phoenix / Rabbits and Hares / Raven / Robin Redbreast / Sheep / Spider / Squirrel / Swans / Unicorn / Wild Boar / Wolf / Serpent / Pig / Stag / Horse / Mouse / Cat / Rats / Unicorn
Trees:
In Worship of Trees - Myths, Lore and the Celtic Tree Calendar. For descriptions and correspondences of the thirteen sacred trees of Wicca/Witchcraft see the following: Birch / Rowan / Ash / Alder / Willow / Hawthorn / Oak / Holly / Hazel / Vine / Ivy / Reed / Elder
Sacred Sites:
Mystical Sacred Sites - Stonehenge / Glastonbury Tor / Malta - The Hypogeum of Hal Saflieni / Avebury / Cerne Abbas - The Chalk Giant / Ireland - Newgrange /
Rocks and Stones:
Stones - History, Myths and Lore
Articles contributed by Patricia Jean Martin:
Apophyllite / Amber / Amethyst / Aquamarine / Aragonite / Aventurine / Black Tourmaline / Bloodstone / Calcite / Carnelian / Celestite / Citrine / Chrysanthemum Stone / Diamond / Emerald / Fluorite / Garnet / Hematite / Herkimer Diamond / Labradorite / Lapis Lazuli / Malachite / Moonstone / Obsidian / Opal / Pyrite / Quartz (Rock Crystal) / Rose Quartz / Ruby / Selenite / Seraphinite / Silver and Gold / Smoky Quartz / Sodalite / Sunstone / Thunderegg / Tree Agate / Zebra Marble
Wisdom and Inspiration:
Knowledge vs Wisdom by Ardriana Cahill / I Talk to the Trees / Awakening / The Witch in You / A Tale of the Woods / I have a Dream by Martin Luther King /
Articles and Stories about Witchcraft:
Murdered by Witchcraft / The Fairy Witch of Clonmel / A Battleship, U-boat, and a Witch / The Troll-Tear (A story for Children) / Goody Hawkins - The Wise Goodwife / The Story of Jack-O-Lantern / The Murder of the Hammersmith Ghost / Josephine Gray (The Infamous Black Widow) / The Two Brothers - Light and Dark
Old Masters of Academia: (Our Ancestors)
Pliny the Elder / Hesiod / Pythagoras / Paracelsus / Abramelin the Mage / Archimedes / Agrippa / Socrates / Aristotle / Albertus Magnus - “Albert the Great” / Biographies
A "Who's Who" of Witches, Pagans and other associated People (Ancient, Past and Present)
(Departed Pagan Pioneers, Founders, Elders and Others)
Pagan
Pioneers: Founders, Elders, Leaders and Others
Aidan A Kelly / Aleister Crowley - “The Great Beast” / Alex Sanders - “King of the Witches” / Alison Harlow / Allan Bennett - the Ven. Ananda Metteyya / Allan Kardec (Spiritism) / Alphonsus de Spina / Amber K / Ann Moura / Anna Franklin / Anodea Judith / Anton Szandor LaVey / Arnold Crowther / Arthur Edward Waite / Austin Osman Spare / Balthasar Bekker / Biddy Early / Barbara Vickers / Bridget Cleary - The Fairy Witch of Clonmel / Carl " Llewellyn" Weschcke / Cecil Hugh Williamson / Charles Godfrey Leland / Charles Walton / Christopher Penczak / Christina Oakley Harrington / Cornelius Loos / Damh the Bard - "Dave Smith" / Dion Fortune / Dolores Aschroft-Nowicki / Donald Michael Kraig / Doreen Valiente / Dorothy Morrison / Dr. John Dee & Edward Kelly / Dr. Leo Louis Martello / Edain McCoy / Edward Fitch / Eleanor Ray Bone - “Matriarch of British Witchcraft” / Eliphas Levi / Ernest Thompson Seton / Ernest Westlake / Fiona Horne / Frederick McLaren Adams - Feraferia / Friedrich von Spee / Francis Barrett / Gavin and Yvonne Frost and the School and Church of Wicca / Gerald B. Gardner - The father of contemporary Witchcraft / Gwydion Pendderwen / Hans Holzer / Helen Duncan / Hermann Löher / Herman Slater - Horrible Herman / Heinrich Kramer / Isaac Bonewits / Israel Regardie / Ivo Domínguez Jr. / Jack Whiteside Parsons - Rocket Science and Magick / James "Cunning" Murrell - The Master of Witches / Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone / Jean Bodin / Jessie Wicker Bell - “Lady Sheba” / Johann Weyer / Johannes Junius - "The Burgomaster of Bamberg" / Johann Georg Fuchs von Dornheim - the “Hexenbrenner” (witch burner) / John Belham-Payne / John George Hohman - "Pow-wow" / John Gerard / John Gordon Hargrave and the Kibbo Kith Kindred / John Michael Greer / John Score / Joseph “Bearwalker” Wilson / Joseph John Campbell / Karl von Eckartshausen / Lady Gwen Thompson - and "The Rede of the Wiccae" / Lambert Daneau / Laurie Cabot - "the Official Witch of Salem" / Lewis Spence / Lodovico Maria Sinistrari / Ludwig Lavater / Madeline Montalban and the Order of the Morning Star / Margaret Alice Murray / Margot Adler / Michael Howard and the UK "Cauldron Magazine" / Margaret St. Clair - the “Sign of the Labrys” / Marie Laveau - " the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans" / Marion Weinstein / Martin Antoine Del Rio / Matthew Hopkins - “The Witch-Finder General” / Michael A. Aquino - and The Temple of Set / Monique Wilson / Montague Summers / Nicholas Culpeper / Nicholas Remy / M. R. Sellars / Mrs. Maud Grieve - "A Modern Herbal" / Oberon Zell-Ravenheart and Morning Glory / Old Dorothy Clutterbuck / Old George Pickingill / Olivia Durdin-Robertson - co-founder of the Fellowship of Isis / Paddy Slade / Pamela Colman-Smith / Patricia Crowther / Patricia Monaghan / Patricia “Trish” Telesco / Paul Foster Case and the “Builders of the Adytum” mystery school / Peter Binsfeld / Philip Heselton / Raven Grimassi / Raymond Buckland / Reginald Scot / Richard Baxter / Robert Cochrane / Robert ‘von Ranke’ Graves and the "The White Goddess" / Rosaleen Norton - “The Witch of Kings Cross” / Rossell Hope Robbins / Ross Nichols and the " Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids" (OBOD) / Rudolf Steiner / Sabrina Underwood - "The Ink Witch" / Scott Cunningham / Selena Fox - founder of "Circle Sanctuary" / Silver Ravenwolf / Sir Francis Dashwood / Sir James George Frazer and the " The Golden Bough" / S.L. MacGregor Mathers and the “Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn” / Starhawk / Stewart Farrar / Sybil Leek / Ted Andrews / The Mather Family - (includes: Richard Mather, Increase Mather and Cotton Mather ) / Thomas Ady / T. Thorn Coyle / Vera Chapman / Victor & Cora Anderson and the " Feri Tradition" / Vivianne Crowley / Walter Brown Gibson / Walter Ernest Butler / William Butler Yeats / Zsuzsanna Budapest /
Many of the above biographies are briefs and far from complete. If you know about any of these individuals and can help with additional information, please contact me privately at my email address below. Many thanks for reading :-)
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