The 2010 Firefly Housewarming

Presenter Bios

David Salisbury
Presenting: Potion Making

David Salisbury has been studying spiritual and medical herbalism for 11 years. Throughout this time, David has taught workshops on herbal magick at Pagan Pride Festivals and for small groups and covens in the North Carolina area.

Frank Stormcatcher
Presenting: Spiritual Steel Protection and Spiritual Steel: The Gathering Protection

Stormcatcher watches and learns. Then he applies what he learns in doing his part to keep the Pagan and Magical communities safe and free to follow their stars. This comes from a degree in Anthropology of Religion and the History and Philosophy of Science, nearly two decades of practice, and a firm resolve that sometimes it takes more than a lullaby to keep the nightmares away.


Lady Corbee Willow
Presenting: Passing through the Veil, Pagan traditions, past, present and future

Corbee found her way to the path some 20 years ago, beginning with a class in Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada where she was first introduced to Paganism and Witchcraft. Shortly thereafter she moved to Northern California where she read and studied as a solitaire practitioner for the next decade, before moving out into community. She eventually found her way to her long time friend, mentor and High Priestess, Lady Wren. Corbee worked and mentored under Wren and was elevated to High Priestess in The Newly Revised Circle of the Mystic Grove on Imbolc, 2008. In a Passing of the Wand ritual at Alban Eiler, 2008, Corbee became the High Priestess of the Newly Revised Circle of the Mystic Grove. She moved to the DC area in that same year, while Wren moved to Hawaii. Although the last few years have been a series of life changing transitions, Corbee has been fortunate to find herself in community with Iris Firemoon and the Circle of the Spiral Moon, where she dedicated under Iris and is spending this period of her studies pursuing further knowledge in the area of clergy in order to work more effectively out in community. Corbee has long been interested in the topic of death, and how it is handled and celebrated by different traditions and cultures. She is particularly interested how we, as Pagans, perceive and celebrate this final journey as we accompany loved ones to its threshold, and that we eventually must take ourselves. Corbee is a member of Death Midwifery in Canada Digest, and she is awaiting the opportunity to complete her certification in Death Midwifery.

Lady Iris Firemoon
Presenting: Leadership Workshops, Closing Ritual

Iris is the founder of The Firefly House, The Firefly Academy, and the DC Firefly Meetup.  Iris has studied Wicca for since 1998. When she first stumbled onto Wicca, she got involved with a small study group. Eventually, she took a class at a local metaphysical shop. The woman teaching the classes took the students and formed a group called Coven Blossom.  Three years later, Iris moved across the state to go to colleve, and unfortunately had to leave the group.

She began teaching a basic Wicca class through email in 2003. That lead to in-person advanced classes. From those classes came Coven of the Spiral Moon. We had planned to offer basic Wicca classes in person to people in the Toledo, Ohio area. Just before we were slated to hold our first class, Iiris was offered her dream job, and moved to Washington D.C. Not long after that, one of the other circle sisters moved to Chicago, and another to L.A. In the summer of 2006, the group got together, and decided to open an online school to pick up where they left off. It would also be the best, because we are all so far away, and any of us could move at any time. TFA opened up in October of 2006. 

Iris is currently living in Northern Virginia. Her other interests include reading, writing, dancing, singing, scrapbooking, wine, and being outdoors. Her mundane job is in the exciting world of broadcast news.

Lord Rath
Presenting: Archetypes for Pagan Men