Author and priestess Janet Callahan has had articles published in “Cup of Wonder,” an annual journal of Pagan Reconstructionism and in the book, “Manifesting Prosperity: a Wealth Magick Anthology” and has had poetry published on the now defunct paganliving.com.

Ms. Callahan is a Mother priestess originally trained by White Mare Sisterhood, a Dianic coven in the suburbs of Detroit. She is currently a 2nd degree student with a more traditional Wiccan coven, and is starting her own local women’s circle, Spiral Moon Circle.

Additionally, Ms. Callahan and her husband own QuickSilver Dragon Inc., which used to be a medium-sized metaphysical goods wholesaler, but is now a much smaller home for a few small projects. She is the former Program Director of SpiralScouts International, an alternative Pagan-based scouting organization for children ages 3-18, and a former board member of several other Detroit area Pagan organizations.

Ms. Callahan grew up in what was then a rural community outside St. Louis, Missouri. As a child, she spent hours upon hours devouring every book in the library, and came upon books on ESP, witches, and ghosts in the adult section of the library by age 8. Her mother encouraged her to read anything that interested her, and related topics remained a part of her regular reading for much of her childhood, much to the chagrin of her conservative German Lutheran family.

In college, Ms. Callahan discovered the wide world of Pagan religions. After many years of solitary study and practice, she began to formulate her current spiritual view, which she refers to as Modern American Polytheism – a mixture of syncretistic polytheism, techno-Paganism, pop-culture magick, and Unverified Personal Gnosis (UPG). Then, feeling that maybe she’d missed something by remaining a solitary practitioner, she joined White Mare Sisterhood in 2004, and was initiated as a Daughter priestess at Imbolc, 2006 and as a Mother priestess at Imbolc 2007.

Ms. Callahan has been happily married to her husband, Barry, for nearly a decade. The Callahans are the parents of one boy, Alex (aka Acorn), who was a preemie, and has a tracheostomy due to breathing issues, which they hope will be resolved by spring 2011.. Ms. Callahan’s extended family-by-choice, both local and distant, is a large part of her support system no matter what is going on in her life.