~~Women Leadership Goddess Ruled~ Isidora Forrest~~

M. Isidora Forrest has been a devotee of the Goddess Isis for more years than she will officially admit to. She serves Isis as Her priestess and was formally ordained by Olivia Robertson of the international Fellowship of Isis in 1997. She has been a member of that organization since 1994. Isidora also serves as a maenad priestess of the Wine God Dionysos and sees no contradiction whatsoever in serving both these Deities. (Ask her about Pompeii.) Isidora is skilled in the creation and facilitation of ritual experiences and often guides ritual in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. On occasion, she teaches classes to introduce people to Isis and on an even more occasional occasion, she and her maenad pals teach classes on “How to Be A Maenad in Five Not-So-Easy Lessons.” With her husband, Adam Forrest, she is a founder of the Hermetic Fellowship, an organization devoted to education in the Western Esoteric Tradition and to spiritual development through the use of myth and ritual. The Fellowship began as a monthly lecture and discussion group addressing topics in the Western Esoteric Tradition. During the past twenty years, it has grown into a legally recognized, non-profit religious organization. In addition, Isidora is trained in a 100-year-old, Hermetic magical tradition. With over twenty years of study in this tradition, she has earned the title of Adept. Isidora is the author of the books Isis Magic: Cultivating a Relationship with the Goddess of 10,000 Names and Offering to Isis, Knowing the Goddess Through Her Sacred Symbols, both from Llewellyn Publications. She has also authored several articles in the Golden Dawn Journal series edited by Chic and Tabatha Cicero: “Divination in the Græco-Egyptian Magical Papyri” in Book I; “The Equilibration of Jehovah” in Book II; “The Hermetic Isis” in Book III; and “Pagans and Neo-Pagans, Five Elemental Reasons to Claim our Pagan Polytheistic Heritage” in Magical Pantheons, a Golden Dawn Journal.