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H. Byron Ballard, BA, MFA, is a ritualist, teacher, speaker and writer. She has served as a featured speaker and teacher at Sacred Space Conference, , Pagan Unity Festival, Southeast Women’s Herbal Conference and other gatherings. Earlier this year, she presented “Gnarly Roots: Exploring the British Sources of Appalachian Folk Magic” at the Appalachian Studies Association Conference and will facilitate a workshop on Deep Grounding at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference in August. Her writings have appeared in print and electronic media. Her essays are featured in several anthologies, including “Birthed from Scorched Hearts“ (Fulcrum Press), “Christmas Presence“ (Catawba Press), “Women’s Voices in Magic” (Megalithica Books), “Into the Great Below” and “Skalded Apples” (both from Asphodel Press). She blogs as “Asheville’s Village Witch” (myvillagewitch.wordpress.com) and as The Village Witch for Witches and Pagans Magazine (witchesandpagans.com/The-Village-Witch). Her pamphlet “Back to the Garden: a Handbook for New Pagans“ has been widely distributed and her first book “Staubs and Ditchwater: an Introduction to Hillfolks Hoodoo” (Silver Rings Press) debuted in June 2012. Byron is currently at work on “Earth Works: Eight Ceremonies for a Changing Planet”. She facilitates the Mountain Area Interfaith Forum in Asheville, NC and was active for many years in the United Religions Initiative.

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Cracking Wise About Trees

I had a question about trees and described myself as a genuine... read more

Default Settings

I've written about this before and will, no doubt, write about it... read more

Interfaith, Intrafaith, Multifaith--All in the Cornfields of Illinois

Interfaith is good work, hard work, and in my opinion, necessary work.... read more

Laying on of Hands

A couple of weeks ago, I was pleased and quite honored to... read more

What Does Interfaith Mean?

When I am tempted to dump all my grievances onto the adherents... read more

Approaching the Season of Balance

With Imbolc and a polar vortex behind us, we are entering the... read more

MLK Day and Your Average Wiccan Priestess

There is a huge ambivalence in this community--and I suspect in others--between... read more

We Are All Travellers Along Life's Tricksy Ways

We need to remember that we are all walking paths of wonder... read more

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