Morwynna began a self-dedicated neo-pagan practice in 1971, and attended her first group ritual at The Temple of the Pagan Way in Chicago at Imbolg 1974. Her solitary practice continued another 12 years; partly because she didn’t know anyone else to practice with, and partly out of a philosophical dislike of “organized” religion. In 1986 she met a magickal partner and resumed her research of group practice. They began helping out at Harvest, a local pagan periodical, and there met members of the greater Boston Wiccan community. This led to study and initiation with Amaltheia Coven. She started her first coven (Grove of the Mists) in 1999 and her current coven (Llwyn Bedw Arian – Grove of the Silver Birch) in 2006.
Always passionate about outreach, she started leading public Esbats and Sabbats (as well teaching classes about the Sabbats) with her ritual partner in 1994 at Arsenic and Old Lace in Cambridge, and later at Arsenic and Old Lace in Brookline, Taproot in Worcester, Open Doors in Brighton and in Weymouth, as well as larger Sabbat events at the Brigham Hill Barn in Grafton. The photo above right is from our Beltain 2011, with covener Mannanan.
Currently, Morwynna lives north of Boston with her husband David. They met in 1994 at the Woolman Hill Quaker Retreat Center, during a regional meeting of the Covenant of the Goddess, and they married there in 2005. She continues to do public outreach, by volunteering with Wiccan groups in prisons and also through involvement in the Unitarian-Universalist church. She has represented Earth-Based clergy at large interfaith services, led services for Samhain, Yule, Imbolg, Midsummer, and Lammas, and spoken at various UU venues (including Religious Education classes) about our religion.
She enjoys lifelong passions for music (especially early music), folklore, and historical research; she continues to work on a book about the history of Sabbat practices, a Coven Cookbook, and a historical novel. (Writing seems like a multi-lifetime endeavor!) She founded the Æring Early Music Ensemble in 2009. Although she is new to the Board, she joined SEF in 1997 and has been the official Administrative Witch since 2001.
