The Hidden Path

Raven Grimassi is a Neo-Pagan scholar and award-winning author of more than eighteen books on Witchcraft, Wicca, and Neo-Paganism. He has been devoted to the study and practice of witchcraft for over forty years. Raven is co-founder and co-director of the Ash, Birch, and Willow tradition. Grimassi's background includes training in old forms of witchcraft as well as Brittic Wicca, the Pictish-Gaelic tradition, Italian Witchcraft, and Celtic Traditionalist Witchcraft. Raven was also a member of the Rosicrucian Order, and studied the Kabbalah through the First Temple of Tifareth under Lady Sara Cunningham. Raven currently lives in New England with his wife and co-author Stephanie Taylor-Grimassi. Together they direct The Fellowship of the Pentacle, a modern Mystery School devoted to preserving pre-Christian European spirituality. Stephanie Taylor has been a Witch at heart for all of her life, and a tarot reader and spiritual counselor for over fifteen years. A Third Degree initiate of both the Italian Witchcraft Tradition and in the Irish Celtic Wiccan Tradition, she is also a minister of the First Celtic Wiccan Church. A sought out professional in her craft and an expert in her field, she has appeared in several discussion panels related to Witchcraft and on regional news media. Currently a teacher and co-director of the College of the Crossroads, a Mystery School dedicated to preserving and passing on the Old Ways, Stephanie makes her home in southern California with her partner, scholar and writer Raven Grimassi. "A Traveler's Guide to the Well Worn Path" is her first book. Mickie Mueller is an award-winning and critically acclaimed artist of fantasy, fairy, and myth. She is an ordained Pagan minister and has studied Natural Magic, Fairy Magic and Celtic tradition. She is also a Reiki healing master/teacher in the Usui Shiki Royoho Tradition. Mickie enjoys creating magical art full of fairies, goddesses, and beings of folklore. She works primarily in a mix of colored pencil and watercolor infused with magical herbs corresponding to her subject matter. Mickie is the illustrator of The Well Worn Path and The Hidden Path decks, the writer/illustrator of The Voice of the Trees and A Celtic Divination Oracle, and the illustrator of The Mystical Cats Tarot. Since 2007, Mickie has been a regular article and illustration contributor to several of the Llewellyn periodicals. She resides in Missouri. To learn more about Mickie, check out her online gallery and blog.