Callisto
Hellenismos, BTW
One of the few remaining elders from the early days of Wicca in America has passed on.
Edward "Ed" Fitch (Ea)
04/29/1937 – 02/24/2024
Thomas Fitch announced via Facebook that his father, Pagan Elder and Gardnerian High Priest Ed Fitch, had suffered a stroke on Friday, February 23, 2024. He wrote “To all friends of Ed Fitch: my father had a severe stroke yesterday and has lost his ability to eat. He is not expected to recover; he will be with us in this world a little longer, but not much. Please send any and all healing and comfort magic his way. My father has led an amazing life, but he’s dearly missed his friends near and far over these last few years.”
The community learned that Ed Fitch crossed the Veil on Sunday night, February 24, 2024.
Fitch, who was also known as Ea, was initiated by Raymond Buckland in 1967 while stationed at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts.
Ea played a significant role in the Witchcraft revival during the 1960s and 1970s. He was a prolific author and educator who appeared in public as a practitioner of Witchcraft to inform the broader community about Pagan practices. He is credited with introducing the concept of an “outer court,” providing a space for non-initiates to learn, participate in circles with an initiatory coven, and practice a non-initiatory form of Wicca.
Together with Joseph Bearwalker Nilson and Thomas Giles, he co-founded “The Pagan Way,” an outer court Neopagan tradition. Ed Fitch played a pivotal role as an editor for The Waxing Moon, a magazine initially established by Joseph B. Nilson in 1964, which was the first publication dedicated to Witchcraft in America (later renamed The Crystal Well). In the mid-1970s, Fitch was instrumental in organizing and chairing two Pagan Ecumenical Councils, leading to the founding of the Covenant of the Goddess (CoG). He continued participating in festivals, conferences, and organizations well into the 2000s.
Among Ea’s books are “Magical Rites from the Crystal Well: The Classic Book for Witches and Pagans” and “A Grimoire of Shadows: Witchcraft, Paganism, & Magick,” and “The Rites of Odin.”
- Obituary via Wildhunt.org
Edward "Ed" Fitch (Ea)
04/29/1937 – 02/24/2024
Thomas Fitch announced via Facebook that his father, Pagan Elder and Gardnerian High Priest Ed Fitch, had suffered a stroke on Friday, February 23, 2024. He wrote “To all friends of Ed Fitch: my father had a severe stroke yesterday and has lost his ability to eat. He is not expected to recover; he will be with us in this world a little longer, but not much. Please send any and all healing and comfort magic his way. My father has led an amazing life, but he’s dearly missed his friends near and far over these last few years.”
The community learned that Ed Fitch crossed the Veil on Sunday night, February 24, 2024.
Fitch, who was also known as Ea, was initiated by Raymond Buckland in 1967 while stationed at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts.
Ea played a significant role in the Witchcraft revival during the 1960s and 1970s. He was a prolific author and educator who appeared in public as a practitioner of Witchcraft to inform the broader community about Pagan practices. He is credited with introducing the concept of an “outer court,” providing a space for non-initiates to learn, participate in circles with an initiatory coven, and practice a non-initiatory form of Wicca.
Together with Joseph Bearwalker Nilson and Thomas Giles, he co-founded “The Pagan Way,” an outer court Neopagan tradition. Ed Fitch played a pivotal role as an editor for The Waxing Moon, a magazine initially established by Joseph B. Nilson in 1964, which was the first publication dedicated to Witchcraft in America (later renamed The Crystal Well). In the mid-1970s, Fitch was instrumental in organizing and chairing two Pagan Ecumenical Councils, leading to the founding of the Covenant of the Goddess (CoG). He continued participating in festivals, conferences, and organizations well into the 2000s.
Among Ea’s books are “Magical Rites from the Crystal Well: The Classic Book for Witches and Pagans” and “A Grimoire of Shadows: Witchcraft, Paganism, & Magick,” and “The Rites of Odin.”
- Obituary via Wildhunt.org
Go your way to the land of Ancestors,
where they wait for you with open arms,
there on the edge between this world and the next.
See; there they stand.
Ancestral spirits, welcome this one
to the place we all must go.
where they wait for you with open arms,
there on the edge between this world and the next.
See; there they stand.
Ancestral spirits, welcome this one
to the place we all must go.
