Chaplain, High Priestess, Author - Lady Lyrion Voices on the Path

Voices on the Path-

A Collection of Interviews

Chaplain, High Priestess, Author

Lady Lyrion

Email: sbmillett@tds.net

Lyrion ApTower - biography
The Granite Tower ­at The Covenstead - Wilton, NH

      Lyrion ApTower is High Priestess of the (New Hampshire) Granite Tower and an accomplished ritualist who conducts all Rites of Passage for individuals and Covens throughout the New England area.  In addition to conducting or facilitating Wiccan Sabbats and Esbats, Lady Lyrion has written and led many dozen Wiccanings, Handfastings, over 57 legal weddings, Elderings or Croning rituals and rituals of passing, transition and loss of all types. She is regularly consulted by practitioners of different spiritual paths about life crises and she creates personalized ceremonies to help ease those crises.  

      Lyrion and her husband/Priest Raven ApTower host a series of open and free Salons on the 2^nd Sunday of each month on all aspects of Spirituality including archeological findings, scientific discoveries, religious /philosophical debates, essays, documentaries, current events and so on and how they impact spiritual inclinations in each attendee.

      Lyrion mentored a group of 16-20 Pagan/Wiccan students in the Franklin Pierce University campus’ Pagan Meet and Greet Club during the ‘07 and ‘08 scholastic years, and has kept in touch with most of the students and has been asked to marry three of them in 2012. She will be traveling to Ohio to perform one of the weddings.

      Because Lyrion is also a Chaplain in the Universal Life Church, she was asked to write and conduct a full Sunday Service for a (Christian) Unitarian Congregationalist Society in the area. The title of her sermon was "Filling the Emptiness". She has been asked to return as guest minister in the future.

      Lyrion and Raven teach classes about Wicca and are regularly interviewed by local and state media, frequently invited to present the Wiccan worldview at ecumenical discussion panels as well as at civic / fraternal organizations and to contribute to Spiritual/Religious editorials in the New England media.  They currently host a series of monthly Salons covering topics related to myriad aspects of Spirituality. She hosts an annual gathering of women at the full moon in August to bring together women of all ages and paths for empowerment and cross-pollination of diverse ideas .

      Lyrion is on the Advisory Council to the Board of Directors for the Cathedral of the Pines in Rindge, NH to help this institution be more fully inter-faith. For 10 years Raven & Lyrion have been asked to return and teach a segment on Wicca at Franklin Pierce University, Rindge, NH’s Psychology Department's “Deviance & Social Control” class. 

      Lyrion has been a featured guest on "Morning Mystics" radio program, (Lawrence, MA), the JD Page radio show (100.1 FM The Fox, Worcester) and was featured in the October 2006 segment of Channel 9 WMUR-TV "NH Chronicle". She has twice been a guest on Keene television’s “Your Metaphysical Connection” and the podcast, “Changing Times Changing Worlds.”

      In her role as Priestess, Lyrion was consulted by a lawyer in California to write a brief for a case going before the California State Court, describing how the ethics of a conscientious Wiccan applied to circumstances in that case. She was exclusively interviewed about Wicca as part of a Salem (Massachusetts) State College graduate student's thesis. Additionally, she was interviewed by a Master's student at Antioch College (Keene) about wild edibles available in the local woods for that student’s advanced degree.

      Lyrion has published a collection of short stories, essays and poems about the Wiccan experience titled Passwords and Passages, with one of the pieces, "Name", winning a top placement in the National Organization of Women' s (NOW) Essay contest. The chapbook celebrates the cycles of Nature and individual human experience that make this spiritual path so rich, joyful and comprehensive. Selections from Passwords Passages have been used by several Wiccan groups in rituals and ceremonies. Many of her other essays and poems have been published.

      For over 18 years, Lyrion has practiced the art of Cleromancy, an ancient form of divination interpreting found objects which are cast on a specially prepared field. In addition, she is a continually learning herbalist who, with her husband, Raven ApTower, conducts Wildcrafting walks and healing "brews". She sells her healing and seasonal-use herbs under the brand name “Lyrion’s Local Wild & Fresh Seasonal Herbs”.  The beams of her kitchen are often laden with current seasonal herbs and mushrooms and her cupboards are filled with tinctures, teas & syrups.

For further information, Lyrion can be reached at sbmillett@tds.net