Gail Wood has been a Witch and Wiccan priestess for more than twenty years, practicing a shamanic path celebrating the Dark Moon. �She is clergy, teacher, ritual leader, tarot reader and Reiki Master. �She teaches workshops and classes on alternative spiritualities, Wicca, tarot, ritual, shamanic journeywork, and Reiki. �She is the author of Rituals of the Dark Moon: 13 Lunar Rites for a Magical Path (Llewellyn, 2001); The Wild God: �Meditations and Rituals on the Sacred Masculine (Spilled Candy, 2006); and articles in a variety of pagan publications. �She is eagerly anticipating the publication of The Ecstatic Witch on shamanic Wicca from Weiser. ��She is �High Priestess of… the Coven of the Heron of the RavenMyst Circle.