Ruth Barrett is a Dianic Wicca

Dianic Wicca

Dianic Witchcraft and Dianic Feminist Witchcraft, is a tradition, or denomination, of the Neopagan religion of Wicca. It was founded by Zsuzsanna Budapest in the United States in the 1970s, and is notable for its focus on the worship of the Goddess, and on feminism...

n High Priestess in the direct lineage of Z Budapest

Zsuzsanna Budapest

Zsuzsanna Emese Mokcsay is an American author of Hungarian origin who writes on feminist spirituality and Dianic Wicca under the pen name and religious name Zsuzsanna Budapest or Z. Budapest. She is the High Priestess and the founding mother of the Susan B. Anthony Coven #1, the first feminist,...

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She was a member of the Moon Birch Grove coven before becoming the spiritual director of the Circle of Aradia in Los Angeles, from its founding in 1985 until 2000. She then moved to Wisconsin

Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...

 and co-founded The Temple of Diana

Temple of Diana

Temple of Diana may refer to:*the temple of Diana in ancient Rome*the Roman Temple of Évora , in Portugal*the Temple of Diana, Mérida, Spain*an organization of Dianic Wicca...

  with Falcon River.

Ruth is a singer and songwriter, who plays the fretted dulcimer

Appalachian dulcimer

The Appalachian dulcimer is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings. It is native to the Appalachian region of the United States...

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Discography

Solo

• Parthenogenesis. (1991).
• Year Is a Dancing Woman, Vol. 1. Dancing Tree (2003).
• Year Is a Dancing Woman, Vol. 2. Dancing Tree (2003).
• Garden of Mysteries. Dancing Tree (2008).

Collaboration

• Invocation to Free Women. Dancing Tree (1997).

With Cyntia Smith

• Aeolus. Aeolus (1981).
• Music of the Rolling World. Aeolus. (1982).
• Deepening. Aeolus (1984).
• A Dulcimer
  Appalachian dulcimer
  The Appalachian dulcimer is a fretted string instrument of the zither family, typically with three or four strings. It is native to the Appalachian region of the United States...
  
  Harvest. Aeolus (1991). (Instrumental compilation from the first 3 albums, with some new tracks)
• The Heart is the Only Nation. (1993)
• The Early Years. Dancing Tree (2001). This album is a combined re-issue of "Aeolus" and "Music of the Rolling World".

External links

• Temple of Diana, biography of Ruth Barrett
• Dancing Tree Music, The creative expressions of Ruth Barrett
• LGBTran Oral History, Interview