Ruth Barrett

Ruth Barrett (born in Los Angeles in 1954) is a Dianic Wiccan High Priestess in the direct lineage of Z Budapest.

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

• Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Intuitive Ritual Creation. Llewellyn Publications (2007).
• Women's Rites, Women's Mysteries: Creating Ritual In The Dianic Wiccan Tradition. Authorhouse (2004).

Discography

Solo

• Parthenogenesis. (1991).
• Year Is a Dancing Woman, Vol. 1. Dancing Tree (2003).
• Year Is a Dancing Woman, Vol. 2. Dancing Tree (2003).
• Garden of Mysteries. Dancing Tree (2008).

Collaboration

• Invocation to Free Women. Dancing Tree (1997).

With Cyntia Smith

• Aeolus. Aeolus (1981).
• Music of the Rolling World. Aeolus. (1982).
• Deepening. Aeolus (1984).
• A Dulcimer Harvest. Aeolus (1991). (Instrumental compilation from the first 3 albums, with some new tracks)
• The Heart is the Only Nation. (1993)
• The Early Years. Dancing Tree (2001). This album is a combined re-issue of "Aeolus" and "Music of the Rolling World".

External links

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