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Lexa Roséan is a priestess, psychic, and leading pagan author ~ not to mention poet, playwright, and performer. Her first job was as a dancing snake charmer known as the SnakePoet. Andy Warhol photographed Lexa during this time. Along with her own poems, Lexa recited great works of poetry from the likes of Poe, Shakespeare, D.H. Lawrence, and Coleridge while hanging from a tree across from the Delacort Theatre in Central Park. In 1982, the NYPD escorted the poet and her 13-foot python Lilith, out of the park at gunpoint thus forcing her to get a “real” job for several subsequent years.
Thus began her formal magickal tutelage in the occult arts by Lord Hermes and Lady Rhea. Lexa was the manager of the original Enchantments in the East Village and Priestess for the Minoan Sisterhood training circle from 1982 - 2000. During those years, Lexa taught courses on Astrology, Tarot, Kabbalah, Wicca, Astral Projection and Spellcraft in addition to giving astrology and psychic readings. She also served as the official oracle in her own coven and channeled the word of the Goddess. Lexa Roséan is the author of The Supermarket Sorceress, The Supermarket Sorceress’s Sexy Hexes, The Supermarket Sorceress’s Enchanted Evenings (St. Martins Press), Easy Enchantments, (St Martin’s Press), PowerSpells, and ZodiacSpells (St Martins Press). Her newest books are TarotPower: 22 Keys to Unlocking Magick, Spellcraft, and Meditation (Citadel Press July 05) and The Encyclopedia of Magickal Ingredients (Simon & Shuster Sep 2005) She currently writes the Celebrity Astrology Forecasts and BackPack Astrologer for CosmoGirl magazine and is the astrological advisor for Seventeen magazine. Her plays The Prisoner, The Swim, and I Married a Lesbian Witch were produced at the WOW Café. Lexa has also performed her work at La Mama, Dixon Place, P.S. 122, and other downtown Venues. Her writing has been included in the anthologies Celebrating the Pagan Soul (Citadel Press 2005), and Women on Women 2 (Plume 1993). A Kosher Megila, an excerpt from her soon to be published novel Spinoza’s Daughter, was included in Women on Women 3 A New Anthology of American Lesbian Fiction (Plume/Penguin1996). Her poetry is included on The Knitting Factory 100 Greatest Poets cd. Michael Musto reviewed Lexa’s poetry in the Village Voice. In addition to her many other talents, Lexa is an accomplished dancer. She studied jazz, ballet, and tap. In 1995 she discovered Argentine tango and fell in love with the dance. Lexa taught Argentine Tango and Milonga at DanceSport in NYC and she continues to teach privately. In July 2007, she placed 3rd (dancing the lead) in the U.S. Tango Salon Championship and was the first woman leader officially invited to dance in the Mundial Competition in Buenos Aires. Lexa also writes TangoStars, the astrology column for dancers for Reportango magazine. |
