Ruth Barrett

Ruth Barrett (born 1954, in Los Angeles) is a Dianic Wiccan High Priestess in the direct lineage of Z Budapest.^[1][2][3]

She was a member of the Moon Birch Grove coven before becoming the spiritual director of the Circle of Aradia in Los Angeles, from its founding in 1985 until 2000. She then moved to Wisconsin and co-founded The Temple of Diana with Falcon River.

Ruth is a singer and songwriter, who plays the fretted dulcimer.

Bibliography

Self-published works:

• Female Erasure: What You Need To Know About Gender Politics' War On Woman, the Female Sex and Human Rights. Tidal Time Publishing. 2016.  (Edited anthology with a foreword by Germaine Greer.)
• Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation (2nd ed.). Woodbury, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications. 2007. ISBN 9780738709246. 
• Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Creating Ritual In The Dianic Wiccan Tradition. Bloomington, Indiana: Authorhouse. 2004. ISBN 9781418482961. 

Discography

• Parthenogenesis. (1991).
• Year Is a Dancing Woman, Vol. 1. Dancing Tree (2003).
• Year Is a Dancing Woman, Vol. 2. Dancing Tree (2003).
• The Early Years. Dancing Tree (2001)
• Garden of Mysteries. Dancing Tree (2008).
• Invocation to Free Women. Dancing Tree (1997).
• Aeolus. Aeolus (1981).
• Music of the Rolling World. Aeolus. (1982).
• Deepening. Aeolus (1984).
• A Dulcimer Harvest. Aeolus (1991)
• The Heart is the Only Nation. (1993)

References

External links

• Temple of Diana, biography of Ruth Barrett
• Dancing Tree Music, The creative expressions of Ruth Barrett
• LGBTran Oral History, Interview