Charge of the Goddess
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The Charge of the Goddess is an inspirational text often used in the neopagan religion of Wicca. The Charge of the Goddess is recited during most rituals in which the Wiccan priest/priestess is expect
The goddess Isis, holding a sistrum and oinochoe.
Doreen Valiente
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Doreen Edith Dominy Valiente was an English Wiccan who was responsible for writing much of the early religious liturgy within the tradition of Gardnerian Wicca. An author and poet, she also published
Charge of the Goddess
…Equinox (1919) which includes all of the Crowley quotations transferred by Gardner to the Charge of the Goddess. There are also two versions written by Doreen Valiente in the mid-1950s, after her 1953 Wiccan initiation. The first was a poetic paraphrase which eliminated almost all the material derived from Leland and…
Valiente with ritual paraphernalia
During the Second World War, Valiente worked at Bletchley Park
The Witches' Cottage, a ritual space used by Valiente's Bricket Wood coven, as it appeared in 2006.
Altar statues of the Horned God and Mother Goddess crafted by Bel Bucca and owned by Valiente