Earlier this month NYC lost one of its elders, who influenced countless New Yorkers on their spiritual path.

Kaye Flagg, also known as Lady Vivienne, was the founding High Priestess of the Welch Tradition Coven in New York with Eddie Buczynski.

I credit Lady Vivienne for my beginning journey into the craft. She represents the portal I stood before and entered into my life change forever.

It was 1972 and I made my first visit to The Warlock Shop in Brooklyn heights, to purchase a crystal ball, that I still own to this day. Warlock Shop owner Herman Slater invited my then-husband David and I to the Pagan Way, a meeting place for new people to be introduced to circle, magick and understanding the ways of the Craft. From reading books I was already familiar with the process, but had only practiced solitary.

It was there we met Lady Vivienne. She hosted the Pagan Way in her living room. Lady Vivienne was so devoted to the craft, that she kindly allowed Pagan Way Meetups in her living room. Her generosity extended-to strangers like ourselves coming on a Sunday afternoon without even a prior meeting. The day I entered that room and joined circle changed my life forever. I never left the Craft, its concepts or principles from that day forward.

She did this for many of us, all to promote the Craft and the old gods. But most of all for the feminine divine, The Goddess of all creation.

So in honor of this pillar of the craft, we her children gather here today to share the beauty of The Goddess Speaks with you. Blessings on your journey our beloved Queen as you join the Mighty Dead and feast and make merry once again with our beloved coven in the Summerlands.