Name Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki | Role Author | |
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Books The Shining Paths, Magical Use Of Thought, The ritual magic workbook, The tree of ecstasy, First Steps in Ritual Similar People W E Butler, Gareth Knight, Dion Fortune, James Herbert Brennan | ||
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki (Born 1929) is a British occult author, psychic, and esoteric practitioner. An associate of Walter Ernest Butler, she succeeded him as Director of Studies of the Servants of the Light.
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Early life
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki was born on 11 June 1929. She spent World War II on the Wirral Peninsula in the northwest of England. She studied acting in London and also took opera training at Trinity College of Music. She also enjoyed the sport of fencing when young.
Occult career
During the 1960s, she and her husband Michael Nowicki entered the Fraternity of the Inner Light, an esoteric order founded by occultist Dion Fortune. In 1965 she became associated with Walter Ernest Butler, and with Gareth Knight and the Helios Course in Practical Qabalah which, in 1971, became the foundation of Servants of the Light School. In 1976, when Butler retired, Ashcroft-Nowicki became Director of Studies of the SOL, a position she holds to this day.
Personal life
Ashcroft-Nowicki lives in the Channel Island of Jersey, off the coast of France.
Published works
To date Ashcroft-Nowicki has written 17 books and designed two tarot decks, the SOL Tarot Deck with Jo Gill and Anthony Clark, and the Shakespearean Tarot with Paul Hardy.