Lady Pandora second generation Gardnerian High Priestess of Sacred Crossroads Coven.

I’m here to help guide you on your own journey in the Wica and witchcraft.  As the Wica have no true dogma, rather than tell you what to see, I will help you learn to see for yourself the many opportunities that lie ahead of you in what I hope to be your long and happy life. May your path be long and crooked!

Merry Meet! I am Lady Kaleah Wise Woman, Founder of and (Late)High Priestess of Sacred Crossroads Coven. I am, first and foremost, wife to my wonderful husband of almost 40 years — our High Priest Dagda — and also mother to two incredible, grown children. Although I am now retired from my profession as an interior designer, I still maintain an interest in feng shui and the creation of healing environments. I now enjoy being a full-time witch, tending my rather large garden, teaching, writing and fulfilling the duties of running Sacred Crossroads Coven.

I first found my way to this magickal path many years ago through a study of hypnotherapy and experimenting with trance states. I learned to connect with the divine via my subconscious mind. I had one of those “aha” moments and suddenly my spiritual path became very clear to me. I continued my study of hypnosis, becoming a Certified Hypnotherapist, not beginning a private practice, but choosing to use my knowledge to increase the success of my magickal work.

I’ve been involved in the Craft for over 20 years, first as a solitary, then as an eclectic witch involved in the local pagan community. I am a graduate of the Earthwise “Woman WisdomTM” program. After I had begun my training in Boston, I was asked to begin teaching a Wicca 101 class at a local Pagan shop. Some of these first students waited for me to complete my training so that we could begin a coven together.

After working first alone, then in the eclectic local pagan community, it became clear to me that I wanted to work in a Tradition that was older, more structured and was one of the traditions that was the foundation for the many eclectic covens that were springing up. I wanted to be a Gardnerian Witch. I searched for a long time to find a Gardnerian coven in the Philadelphia area but found that at the time, there were none. So through networking, I found a coven in Boston Massachusetts that taught British Traditional Witchcraft, a mixture of Alexandrian and Gardnerian Wicca.

I began my training in Boston via phone, hundreds of emails and a trip to Boston once a month to circle with what had become my coven up there. This training continued for a full three and a half years. I learned about the roots of modern Wicca and experienced how the Craft was practiced by Gerald Gardner, Alex Sanders, Doreen Valiente and the others who were responsible for the preservation and revival of our religion. In Boston, I learned a lot about Traditional British Witchcraft, but at the end of my Craft training, it was a valid Alexandrian third Degree which I
received.

With feelings of both joy and sadness, I hived from the coven where I originally trained. I then formed the Sacred Crossroads Coven in Wayne with my husband, Dagda, who eventually became my High Priest. We practiced for many years as an Alexandrian Coven and were successful in our magick, contacted deity together and loved one another in perfect love and perfect trust. Our coven has been in existence for many years and although members have come and gone, we have remained a group with true caring for one another. But we still yearned to be Gardnerians.

Shortly thereafter, Dagda and I found a Gardnerian coven, also in Boston, and decided to retrain as Gardnerians. Once again we trained via email, phone and monthly trips to Boston. In the end, we received our valid Gardnerian Third Degrees. We were thrilled. We retrained our coven and now we practice purely as a Gardnerian coven. Now when we cast an initiatory circle, we know we will be casting a circle that will carry with it a precious and valuable legacy.

There is one piece of my story that I can’t leave out because it means so much to me. I had several people leave my coven to form their own covens. It is called hiving off. This is both a sad and joyous thing as it is how the Craft continues to grow. After I had hived the required number of covens I became eligible to become a Witch Queen, the highest level of Witchcraft there is in Gardnerian Wicca. Everyone came to the ritual, including all my local covens, my former coven in Boston, a covenmate from Boston who has since moved to northwestern, PA and two folks from my coven in Topeka, Kansas.

They performed for me the most beautiful ritual I had ever been a part of. After the ritual they gifted me with a traditional garter which had a beautiful buckle on it for each of their covens. It is the most special thing that has ever happened to me in the craft. We cried and hugged for a long time.I continue to lead Sacred Crossroads Coven along side my husband, Dagda, with the help of all the coven members, especially Réalt, the Coven’s, Maiden. I couldn’t continue as I had been without their help and it is greatly appreciated.

Sacred Crossroads Coven is open to new members who have taken our course and show that they are truly interested in practicing the Gardnerian Tradition. The coven members must feel that it will be a good fit and that they could love you in perfect love and perfect trust.

Well, that is the story of my magickal path. I know it was a long story, but I enjoyed sharing it with you. I hope in some way you have been inspired by it.

Blessed be, Lady Kaleah, HPS, Sacred Crossroads Coven

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