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Pagan Community Notes: Week of January 15, 2026

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In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, we remember Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, a pioneering teacher and mentor whose influence shaped generations within the esoteric community. We also report on a new safeguarding initiative announced by the Police Pagan Association in the United Kingdom, highlight new Spring courses from Cherry Hill Seminary, share the latest episode of Spelling the Heka-Tea with Marcus and Evanne, and elevation in ATC’s Southern Delta Church of Wicca, and bring you Star’s Tarot of the Week.

Pagan Community Notes

Pagan Community Notes: Elizabeth Warren, National Poetry Month, TempleFest and more

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BOSTON – In March, Senator Elizabeth Warren sent an email to her supports that was titled “Murder, drugs, and pagan rituals.” Warren begins, “If you believed everything you read on the internet, you’d know that I was a serial killer who participated in [P]agan rituals to honor the gods of wind and fire. . . .  These stories that snake through the sewer of the internet have popped up all over Facebook, Twitter, and Google over the past year – and they’re getting worse.”

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Conversations with Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki (Part 2)

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Today we continue our two part interview with renowned occultist, teacher and author Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki. Last week, journalist ZB spoke with Ashcroft-Nowicki about her childhood and influences, as well as the journey that led to the creation of the Servants of the Light (SOL). In part 2, Ashcroft-Nowicki speaks more specifically about her writing, her beliefs and practice, and her teachings. She offers suggestions for those people just beginning their own personal spiritual journey, and she shares personal anecdotes from her many years working with students. ZB: You’ve written a prolific amount of books on many subjects in the magical arts and spiritual development.

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Conversations with Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki (part 1)

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[Guest journalist ZB joins us to share part one of a two part extensive interview with renowned occultist Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki. ZB is a poet, and a journalist for the San Francisco Herald. She has written two books, “Women of the Underground,” featuring female musicians and artists. She also has five books of poetry on the themes of esoterica and surrealism available exclusively at City Lights Bookstore. In all her work, ZB focuses on feminism, radical outcasts, surrealist art, social activism, and the esoteric.]

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, is a British occultist, author, third generation psychic and esoteric practitioner with focus on Hermetic Qabalism. Since 1978, she has been the Director of Studies for the Servants of the Light School of Occult Science in the Western Mysteries Tradition. As SOL’s director, Dolores acts as consultant for the school, teaching workshops, lectures and seminars internationally.