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'''Janet Farrar''' (born '''Janet Owen''' on 24 June 1950) is a British teacher and author of books on [[Wicca]] and [[Neopagan]]ism. Along with her two husbands, [[Stewart Farrar]] and [[Gavin Bone]], she has published "some of the most influential books on modern [[Witchcraft]] to date".<ref>{{cite book |author1=Rabinovitch, Shelley |author2=Lewis, James R. | title=The Encyclopedia of Modern Witchcraft and Neo-Paganism | pages=95–96 | publisher=Citadel Press | year=2004 | isbn=0-8065-2407-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xuvLRbKvyGEC&q=%22Janet+Farrar%22&pg=PA95}}</ref> According to George Knowles, "some seventy five percent of [[Wicca]]ns both in the [[Republic of Ireland|Republic]] and [[Northern Ireland]] can trace their roots back to the Farrars."<ref name="knowlessf">{{cite web | title=Stewart Farrar (1916–2000) | work=Controverscial.Com | author=Knowles, George | url=http://www.controverscial.com/Stewart%20Farrar.htm | access-date=11 December 2005 | archive-date=21 December 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221170116/http://www.controverscial.com/Stewart%20Farrar.htm | url-status=dead }}</ref>
Farrar has been one of the most public faces of Wicca, having appeared as a model for book covers and illustrations in several of the best-read books on the subject. She is a frequent guest lecturer on the subjects of Wicca, [[Neopaganism]] and witchcraft in North America and Europe.
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Janet and Stewart Farrar were both elevated to the second degree "in an unoccupied house in [[Sydenham, London|Sydenham]]" by the Sanders on 17 October 1970, and they received the third, and final, degree of initiation in their flat on 24 April 1971. Both events are well-recorded by Stewart Farrar down to the smallest detail in his diaries.<ref name="fb">{{cite web | title=Our Wiccan Origins | work=Wicca na hErin | author1=Bone, Gavin | author2=Farrar, Janet | url=http://www.wicca.utvinternet.com/origins.htm | access-date=10 December 2005 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060608185540/http://www.wicca.utvinternet.com/origins.htm | archive-date=8 June 2006 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>
The Farrars began running their own coven in 1971, before their third degree initiation ceremony. They were [[Handfasting (Neopaganism)|handfasted]] in 1972 and legally married in 1975.<ref name="fb" /> Janet Farrar left the coven in 1972 to explore [[Kabbalah|Kabbala]] with a [[ceremonial magic]] lodge, but returned the same year.<ref name="fb" /> In 1976 the Farrars moved to Ireland to get away from the busy life of London.<ref name="knowlessf" /> They lived in [[County Mayo]] and [[County Wexford]], finally settling in "Herne Cottage" in [[Kells, County Meath]]. Both husband and wife went on to publish a number of books on the Wiccan religion and on coven practices. Farrar continued to model and appeared in the illustrations to multiple early books about Wicca, including the cover of the paperback version of [[Margot Adler]]'s 1979 ''[[Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America Today|Drawing Down the Moon]]''.<ref>{{cite web | title=Drawing Down the Moon: TWPT talks with Margot Adler | work=The Wiccan/Pagan Times | url=http://www.wicpagtimes.com/adler.htm | access-date=11 December 2005}}</ref>
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Janet Farrar indicates that some of the rituals contained in the couple's books were actually written by them, and that they left the Alexandrian tradition after the book's research was complete.<ref name="fb" /> The couple co-authored four more books on Wicca. Janet Farrar's post-Alexandrian practice has been referred to as "Reformed Alexandrian".<ref>{{cite book | author=Dunwich, Gerina | author-link=Gerina Dunwich | title=The Wicca Book of Days | publisher=Citadel Press | year=1995 | isbn=0-8065-1685-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rJkia3vwbAEC&q=%22Janet+Farrar%22&pg=PA78 | page=78}}</ref>
They were joined by [[Gavin Bone]] in 1993, with whom they entered into a "[[polyfidelitous]] relationship".<ref name="views">{{cite web|
After Stewart Farrar's death, Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone continued to author books, and have given a number of lectures on Wicca in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Italy and in Britain. The title of their 2004 book, ''Progressive Witchcraft'', is the description that the couple prefers for their current religious practice. This was re-released in 2013 as a new edition called ''Inner Mysteries''. Their current area of work is in trance-prophesy, trance-possession and ecstatic ritual and they are currently working on a major book on the subject which they hope to release with Acorn Guild Publishing in 2014. They are also founders of The ''Alliance of Progressive Covens'', which includes linked groups and covens in the United States, Ireland and Italy.<ref>{{Cite web|
==Bibliography==
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===With Gavin Bone===
*2004: ''Progressive Witchcraft: Spirituality, Mysteries, and Training in Modern Wicca''
*2013: '' The Inner Mysteries: Progressive Witchcraft and Connection with the Divine''
*2016: '' Lifting the Veil: A Witches' Guide to Trance-Prophesy… ''
==Notes and references==
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==External links==
*Official Website until 2008: https://web.archive.org/web/20080919022000/http://www.wicca.utvinternet.com:80/
*Official Website until 2014: https://web.archive.org/web/20140922040344/http://www.callaighe.com/
*Interview "Progressive Witchcraft: Lilitu Babalon Talks to Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone": https://web.archive.org/web/20140723140905/http://www.twpt.com/janetfarrargavinbone.htm
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