SELENA FOX

'Selena Fox' (born October 1949) is a Wiccan priestess, journalist, political activist, counselor, psychotherapist, author, educator and lecturer in the fields of Neo-Paganism, magic, Wicca, multi-culturalism and comparative religion.

Contents

Circle

Psychotherapy

Media appearances

Activism

Author and journalist

Discography

References

External links

Circle

Fox is the founder of the "Circle Craft" tradition of Wicca and of Circle Sanctuary, a Nature Spirituality resource center headquartered on the 200-acre Circle Sanctuary Nature Preserve in Wisconsin. Circle Sanctuary's quarterly journal, ''Circle Network News'' (now called ''Circle Magazine'') was first published in the late 1970s and is currently the most widely distributed Neo-Pagan publication in the world. Selena is also the founder of Pagan Spirit Gathering, one of the oldest Neo-Pagan festivals in the United States. She helped organize the first Starwood Festival, founded the same year (1981), and has appeared at many since. Fox co-directs Circle Sanctuary and Pagan Spirit Gathering with her husband, Dennis Carpenter, who is also the editor of ''Circle Network News''.

Psychotherapy

Fox is a trained counselor and psychotherapist and a member of the American Psychological Association, American Counseling Association, Association for Transpersonal Psychology, and American Academy of Religion.

Media appearances

Fox attended her first neo-pagan ritual at the age of 21 and has represented Neo-Paganism in the public sphere since 1973, making appearances on ''The Today Show'', ''Donahue'', ''Sightings'', ''Sally Jesse Raphael'', ''Larry King Live'', ''Morning Exchange'', various radio networks (NPR, BBC, ABC, CBC), and in ''Time'' Magazine[1][2] and ''The Wall Street Journal''. She has also been the subject of repeated negatively-characterized feature stories on Pat Robertson's ''The 700 Club''.

Activism

Fox is the founder and executive director of the Lady Liberty League, a networking organization dedicated to religious freedom for Wiccans, Neo-Pagans, and other nature religion practitioners worldwide. In 1992, she founded the Pagan Academic Network, an association for professors, students, and researchers with an academic interest in Neo-Paganism.

Author and journalist

Fox's writing has appeared in numerous publications. She is also a primary contributor to Circle Network News, and the author of ''Goddess Communion: Rituals and Meditations'' and ''When Goddess is God: Pagans, Recovery, and Alcoholics Anonymous''.

Discography

★ ''Circle Songs and Chants'' - Jim Alan & Selena Fox

★ ''The Magickal Movement: Present and Future'' - WinterStar Symposium Panel Discussion on Cassette with Isaac Bonewits, Margot Adler & Robert Anton Wilson (ACE)

★ ''Magick Changing the World, the World Changing Magick'' - WinterStar Symposium Panel Discussion on Cassette with Isaac Bonewits, AmyLee, Jeff Rosenbaum & Robert Anton Wilson (ACE)

References

★ People of the Earth: The New Pagans Speak Out, , Ellen Evert, Hopman, Destiny Books, 1996, ISBN 0-89281-559-0

★ Vale, V. and John Sulak (2001). ''Modern Pagans''. San Francisco: Re/Search Publications. ISBN 1-889307-10-6

★ Gill, Michael (2005). ''Circle of Ash'' in ''Cleveland Free Times'', July 7th, 2005 (Feature Article) referencing Selena Fox appearance at Starwood Festival[3]

★ Krassner, Paul (2005). ''Life Among the Neopagans'' in ''The Nation'', August 24, 2005 (web only).

External links

★ Official biography of Selena Fox

★ A second biography of Selena Fox

★ Circle Sanctuary official website