“Witchcraft awakened my magic… It’s been a path home to a re-enchanted world, a path to my place and purpose in that world.”
Phyllis W. Curott, J.D. H. Ps.
Phyllis Curott is a spiritual pioneer. As one of America’s first public Witches, teachers and advocates, she has spent more than 40 years helping Witchcraft become the fastest growing spirituality in America and expanding its reach across the globe. Phyllis is an attorney whose groundbreaking cases secured the legal rights of Witches, including the right to form religious organizations, perform legally binding marriages, perform rituals in public places, have religious holidays off from work, retain custody of children, wear or display symbols of faith, and more.
Phyllis is also an internationally best-selling author and the most widely published Witch/Wiccan priestess in the world. The creator of the acclaimed Witches’ Wisdom Tarot with artist Danielle Barlow, her YouTube series What is Wicca? has 3 million views, and her online course Awaken the Witch Within has helped countless seekers discover and deepen their practice of Witchcraft as the modern rebirth of Euro-Indigenous wisdom traditions.
Inducted into the Martin Luther King Jr. Collegium of Clergy and Scholars, Phyllis was honored by Jane Magazine as one of the Ten Gutsiest Women of the Year, by One Spirit Seminary and Learning Alliance’s with their 2018 Service to Humanity Award, and by Kindred Spirit’s Person of the Year Award in 2020. TIME published her in its IDEAS column as one of America’s “leading voices,” and New York Magazine described her teaching as the culture’s “next big idea.” Within the Pagan community she is notable for her rejection of the Wiccan Rede and Threefold Law, and her teachings of Nature’s divine magic as the divine organizing principle of Creation and the moral compass for our future.
Phyllis is the founder of the Temple of Ara, America’s first and oldest shamanic Wiccan tradition with a growing Italian and international community.She continues to teach, to initiate, and to train clergy within the Ara Tradition. Phyllis is a Trustee and the Program Chair of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, served as its Vice Chair and creator of the historic 2015 Inaugural Women’s Assembly and drafted the Declaration for the Dignity and Human Rights of Women adopted by the 2015 Parliament. She was the Wiccan representative to the Harvard University Religious Pluralism Project’s Consultation on Religious Discrimination and Accommodation, at the Religions for the Earth Conference, is First Officer Emerita of the Covenant of the Goddess, serves on the Advisory Board of Cherry Hill Seminary, the first Pagan seminary, and has taught and spoken at numerous universities, churches, organizations, seminaries and conferences.
After a hiatus from the public limelight and an apprenticeship with Mother Earth, she has published several new books and the Witches Wisdom Tarot, and teaches in person and online. She conducts a monthly circle for her Patreon community and is working on her next book on Nature’s divine magic and developing a new teaching protocol to guide people in experiencing that magic and their own.
Phyllis received her B.A. in Philosophy from Brown University and her J.D. from New York University Law School.
Learn more about Phyllis’s journey into Witchcraft and her perspective, passion, and purpose.
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Phyllis in the Media
Features & Interviews
The Wild Hunt: Multi-faith service for Ukraine held at the U.N. church center (3/5/2022)
Renewed Awareness: The Light is Returning and So Are the Witches: Wicca in the 21st Century—A Conversation with Phyllis Curott (December 2021)
The Wild Hunt: The Pope, the Patriarch, and the Priestess—Historica Parliament of the World’s Religions (11/4/21)
WIRED: Stripe Discriminates Against Witches (10/29/21)
Kindred Spirit: Wiccan Renaissance—Join Wiccan Priestess Phyllis Curott (12/14/2018)
The Wiccan/Pagan Times: The Love Spell—TWPT Talks to Phyllis Curott (2005)
The New York Times: Vows featuring Phyllis Curott and Bruce Fields (1/23/2005)
Bliss…New Age and Beyond: Interview with Phyllis Curott (1999)
Chicago Tribune: Bewitching Hour—Late ‘90’s See a Revival in Goddess Worship (11/12/1998)
New York Daily News: A Witch Explains Her Craft (10/31/1998)
The New York Times: Better Living Through Sorcery (10/26/1998)
Los Angeles Times: She’s Got That Old-Time Religion—Witchcraft (9/3/1998)
Videos
BeliefNet: Phyllis Curott: The Divine In Us
Contributions
Women, Spirituality, and Transformative Leadership: Where Grace Meets Power, edited by Kathe Shaaf et al. (SkyLight Paths Publishing, 2012)
Cakes and Ale for the Pagan Soul: Spells, Recipes, and Reflections from Neopagan Elders and Teachers by Patricia Telesaco (Crossing Press, 2005)
Pop! Goes the Witch: The Disinformation Guide to 21st Century Witchcraft edited by Fiona Horne (The Disinformation Company, 2004)
Wiccan Wisdomkeepers: Modern Day Witches Speak on Environmentalism, Feminism, Motherhood, Wiccan Lore, and More by Sally Griffyn (Samuel Weiser, 2002)
People of the Earth: The New Pagans Speak Out (reissued as Being a Pagan: Druids, Wiccan, and Witches Today) by Ellen Evert Hopman & Lawrence Bond (Inner Traditions, 1995)
Sourcebook of the World’s Religions: An Interfaith Guide to Religion and Spirituality edited by Joel Diedrik Beversluis (Sourcebook Project, 1995)
Articles & Essays
The Wild Hunt: Letter to the Editor—The World needs her Witches (6/16/2019)
Time Magazine: How Religious Women Can Fix Sexual Politics (10/14/2015)
The Wild Hunt: Various articles and mentions
Podcast Appearances
Between the Worlds with Amanda Yates Garcia: Witches' Wisdom with Phyllis Curott (7/29/2022)
The Secret Witch Show: How to Connect with the Sacred to Create an Enchanted Life (5/24/2022)
That Witch Life: A Sibyl In The Courtroom With Phyllis Curott (4/11/2022)
Women Who Howl at the Moon: Phyllis Curott (2/3/2022)
Circle Sanctuary Network Podcasts / Lunatic Mondays: Phyllis Curott talks new projects and the Parliament of the World’s Religions (1/25/2022)
Circle Sanctuary Network Podcasts / Nature Mystic with Selena Fox: Goddess Power & International Women’s Day with Phyllis Curott (3/8/2021)
The Witch Daily Show: Phyllis Curott on shamanism (2/10/2021)
The Witch Daily Show: Phyllis Curott on self care (2/5/2021)
The Witch Daily Show: Phyllis Curott answers your questions (2/4/2021)
The Witch Daily Show: Phyllis Curott on The Witches’ Wisdom Tarot (2/3/2021)
Conscious Conversion: Master the Medium—How Phyllis Curott found harmony between social media and spirituality (11/5/2020)
Circle Sanctuary Network Podcasts / Lunatic Mondays: Phyllis Curott, Author (10/27/2020)
The Witch Wave with Pam Grossman: Phyllis Curott, Pagan Pioneer (10/14/2020)
Circle Sanctuary Network Podcasts / Lunatic Mondays: Phyllis Curott and Twila York (8/12/2019)
Sunny in Seattle: Phyllis Curott (7/19/2019)
Around Grandfather Fire: Shaman, Witch, Wiccan, Elder, Phyllis Curott (7/17/2019)
Ask Herbal Health Expert Susun Weed: Phyllis Curott (5/7/2019)
Psychic Teachers: Wicca Made Easy with Phyllis Curott (2/11/2019)
Psychic Teachers: Meet Phyllis Curott—Spiritual Teacher, Advocate, Attorney and Writer (12/3/2018)
Witch School: Global Wicca Summit, Phyllis Curott Interview (9/5/2018)
Unity Online Radio / Soulstream: Parliament of the World’s Religions, with Phyllis Curott (10/28/2015)
Voices of the Sacred Feminine: Phyllis Curott and Modern Paganism (5/21/2014)
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