In 1976, she was elected president of the Covenant of the Goddess and in 1979 she published her first book, Spiral Dance, a popular volume which sold over one hundred thousand copies in its first ten years of publication. A second for women only, named Honeysuckle, followed shortly after. After practising as a solitary witch, Starhawk formed Compost, her first coven, from participants in an evening class on witchcraft. An involvement in feminist activism in the 1970s led her to the Goddess movement, and she studied feminist witchcraft with Z.Budapest and Faery Witchcraft with Victor Anderson. Born Miriam Simos, Starhawk is one of the most prominent feminist Pagan activists in the United States, although she has also actively reclaimed her Jewish roots, an exploration which has led to her to sometimes refer to herself as a ‘Jewitch’.
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