Voices
on the Path-
A
Collection of Interviews
Chaplain,
High Priestess, Author
Lady
Lyrion
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 2nd 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.
