Author and priestess Janet Callahan has had articles published in “Cup of Wonder,” an annual journal of Pagan Reconstructionism, and has had poetry published on paganliving.com. She had an article accepted in an upcoming Wealth Magick anthology, and has other writing projects in the works.
Ms. Callahan is a Mother priestess from White Mare Sisterhood, a Dianic coven in the suburbs of Detroit. Additionally, Ms. Callahan and her husband own QuickSilver Dragon Inc., a wholesale and retail metaphysical goods and fantasy artwork printing company. 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. While she is now fully trained and would be allowed to hive off, Ms. Callahan has taken a leave of absence from the group to work on personal projects.
Ms. Callahan has been happily married to her husband, Barry, for more than 7 years. While the Callahans have no children, it’s certainly not from a lack of trying. 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.