Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation Paperback - 2018

Ruth Barrett is an ordained Dianic High Priestess, seasoned ritualist, and award-winning recording artist. She inherited Z Budapest's Los Angeles ministry in 1980, and has taught Women's Mysteries, magic and ritual arts at women's festivals and conferences in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. She co-founded and served the Los Angeles goddess community of Circle of Aradia for two decades before relocating to Wisconsin in 2000, where she and Priestess Falcon River, co-founded Temple of Diana, Inc., a national and federally recognized Dianic temple. Ruth received the 1997 L.A.C.E. award for community service at the Gay and Lesbian Center in Los Angeles. Her writings on women and ritual are included in several anthologies including, Daughters of the Goddess (Wendy Griffin, editor), Stepping Into Ourselves: An Anthology of Writings of Priestesses, (Anne Key and Candace Kant, editors), Foremothers of the Women's Spirituality Movement: Elders and Visionaries (Miriam Robbins Dexter and Vicki Nobel, editors). Ruth is the editor of Female Erasure: What You Need to Know About Gender Politics' War on Women, The Female Sex and Human Rights. Ruth directed the Candlelight Concert at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival from 1992 - until the closure of the festival in 2015. Ruth resides in Michigan with her life companion, Falcon River.