Here at Instant Magick we are hoping to provide those on the path to enlightenment answers to help them overcome the obstacles and ease their journey.
Members of our meetup and yahoo groups are welcome to join for free, at this time, and access files and information will shall be, gradually, adding to the site.
As the site grows we hope to make both online, as well as, real world training available to members as well as free games to play, along with the possibility to join working coven's and groups that have been vetted.
At present the group who run 'Instant Magick' is made up of members who organize the events and raise awareness and funds in order to give our members both the entertainment and education that will help them further their knowledge and enlightenment.
At the earliest opportunity we plan to seek charity status to allow us to run the group as a non-profit for members which will allow us to offer members tax deductible option for donations.
At present we operate solely on the voluntary donations from meetup events, members free time work and fund raisers.
Anyone wishing to give a donation may do so at our meetup events throughout the year and via the Amazon.com donation link on this site.
Star was born in Louisiana January, 1959, to a Catholic family the third child to two boys. In 1977 she moved to England to study her early love of horses becoming a horse master, whilst training she met her first husband after becoming 'officially' pagan after having to 'hide' her fledgling beliefs from her Christian family.
In 1978 she encountered tree spirits and so begun her study of tree talking, tree working, spirit talking and elemental working. That same year she felt drawn to visit Glastonbury and started to study the goddess of Avalon.
As a solitary witch she has studied the pagan paths of Norwegian witch craft, Irish Celtic, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Asatru, Cherokee and Comanche' American indian, Inuit, Sami, Santeria and The Quaballah.
As a solitary she pursued the Celtic path through the 80s to the present day. Upon returning to the USA in 2003 she left two sons and two grand children to start a new life with her new, pagan, husband in Orlando where they joined the local pagan community. In 2004 Star received recognition as a high priestess from Morgaine of the coven of the Crystal Moon.
Between 2005-6 she became the assistant organizer for the Orlando witches and pagan meetup groups and later, in 2007, became the organizer. In 2007 she created the Orlando Goddess meetup group, shortly after forming the Association of Eclectic Witches and Pagans, in January of 2007 she formed and became high priestess of the coven of the Ancient Path.
Born in London a year before the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, in 1953, Quiet Pagan grew up in the South of the city within the sound of Bow Bells, shortly after his birth his father left the family to run off with his secretary leaving his mother to care and provide for her two boys. At this time London was still recovering from WWII so she was forced to live with her children's grand parents.
His grandmother was a garden witch whom the neighborhood came to to solve problems, be they physical or marital, his grand father twice a war hero and career soldier. During his formative years, his mother having to work long hours and travel for her job, he was often left in the care of his great aunt Maud, a stern Victorian lady, in her youth she had been an active and passionate suffragette and loved the theatre mixing with notables such as the Pankhurst's and many actresses including Lily Langtry to whom she corresponded till her death.
In society many of her set were involved with the Golden Dawn tradition which also held her interest. Over the years the young Quiet Pagan received a training regime, up until she died around his eleventh or twelfth birthday, as a Dreamweaver. Letters, subsequently found after her death, showed her research into the subject with Madame Lavatsky and later Dion Fotune (Violet Firth).
Around 1980s, having seen his great aunt's letters, he became interested in esoteric philosophy and came to find his first tarot deck, the Thoth, self-taught, and in conjunction with his higher-self whilst dreamwalking, he started to use the tarot as a divination tool.
Over the years his interests have been mainly within his dreamwalking discipline with use of tarot but has also studied most religious texts looking for answers to his questions. He has studied works from the Judeo-christian paths, including the Quaran, as well as Buddhism, the Ancient Greek and roman, European sun and goddess religions and the Golden Dawn.
Today he lives in Orlando and is both a member of the coven of the Ancient Path and Treasurer of A.E.W.P.. He has a son living happily in the UK and two wonderful grand daughters. During the 1980-90s he reconciled with his father whom he still maintains a relationship with.
His tarot card is the Ten of Disks (Wealth) the last card in the tarot which has correspondence with his higher self who have informed him that he is making his last journey in this realm and should ascend.
