Annie Waters

Annie Waters is a Priestess of Isis in both the Fellowship of Isis and Temple of Isis.

She does a lot of community ritual work, giving the locals a chance to do ritual several times a year...see my biography attached.

She also designs and sell spiritual goods with origins in her own spiritual search...Celtic, Minoan, and other ancient symbologies.

Since childhood, Annie spent her days out in the trees, climbing or sitting on rocks, swimming, or riding her bike in the country. In about 1970 she began to use the word "Pantheist" to describe her religion....

The Goddess has come to her in many forms since then, and she began organizing events to share the teachings of the Moon Circle, the Sweat Lodge, Chants and Talking Circles. In 1984 she created her first "Goddess Festival" in Topanga, CA. Ruth Barrett came that day, and truly gave everyone an initiation.

In 1985 Annie began making Goddess Images as jewelry, and her studies of the Ancient Divine Feminine became the background for her artistic work and business. In order to better serve and share these images, she continued to learn about the Goddess all over the world, and over and over discovered Her to be the same Lady of 10,000 Names. She still creates sacred imagery in the context of her ongoing business - Ancient Circles Designs, and Open Circle, Inc.

Major influences incude Starhawk, Marija Gimbutas, Riane Eisler, Morning Glory Zell, Anodea Judith, Ruth Barrett and Joanna Macy.

Annie joined the Church of All Worlds in 1989, and began studying ritual form and the possibility of bridging the world of private group ritual and sacred public ritual-theater. In 1995 shee initiated an annual ritual theater tradition in Willits, usually centered around Samhain and the Winter Solstice. She wrote, produced, directed and priestessed many local public events, with the help of her writing partner, Karina McAbee:

1995- "Winter Solstice Celebration" – circle ritual of song, dance and myth

1996- "A Midwinter's Night Dream" – theater celebration of the history and myths of the Winter Sostice

1997- "The Goddess Speaks" – theater presentation of 13 Goddess Archtypes

1998- The Willits Goddess Festival – full day of speakers, presentations, art, crafts and dance
including the theater piece "The Gifts of the Goddess" – celebrating another 13 Goddesses as Archtypes for our time

1999- "Restoring the Balance" – a review of 1000 years of Western History and the Return of the Goddess
Winter Solstice Spiral Dance – community celebration in circle with fire dancers, masks and song
Goddess 2000 Art Show - a gallery of local women artists celebrating images of the Divine Mother

2000- Winter Solstice Spiral Dance – a seasonal celebration in circle

2001- Summer Solstice Spiral Dance – outdoor spiral and drumming circle in our local park
"Masque of the Goddess" – theater presentation of Masked Goddesses with music and narration
Winter Solstice Spiral Dance – the gift of the Oaks and healing plants, a time for planting new seeds of Life and Future

Annie was honored to be chosen as May Queen for the Isis Oasis Heretics in 2000, and in that year created a number of rituals and sacred theater pieces for her group, as she still does annually.

Her "Patron" Goddess is Brigit, and it was for Her that Annie went to Ireland in 1992, meeting Lady Olivia Robertson for the first time. There, in Huntington Castle, she met her future husband, Brian Weller. Annie was Ordained as Priestess of Brigit in the FOI and also the TOI in October of 2002.