Amber K

K spent most her childhood growing up in Chicago. Her father was a Roman Catholic and her mother Episcopalian, and she attended each on alternate Sundays. After completing her formal education, Amber attended Colorado State University in Fort Collins and graduated in 1970 with a BSc. degree in social sciences.

In 1978, she joined the Temple of the Pagan Way in Chicago, and received her initiation and ordination there. The Pagan Way was formed in the early 1970s in response to the high demand of people wishing to join established covens, and in this they provided an alternative to the intensive screening programs and year-and-a-day probationary periods required by traditional covens. After joining and advancing through four of their five degrees, in 1980 K moved to Wisconsin with her then-partner Catelaine, and was later ordained a Wiccan high oriestess in a separate ritual.{{Cite web |url=http://www.controverscial.com/Amber%20K.htm |title=George Knowles' biography of Amber K |access-date=2018-03-16 |archive-date=2018-03-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329154624/http://www.controverscial.com/Amber%20K.htm |url-status=dead }}

Moving to Wisconsin, K worked first with the Pool of Bast and then with New Earth Circle before cofounding, with Catelaine, the Coven of Our Lady of the Woods in 1982. The coven thrived for a while in Wisconsin but is now located in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where it is incorporated as a church.{{citation needed|date=March 2025}} Since then a number of covens have hived off and evolved into the Ladywood Tradition of Wicca. Ladywood covens are mainly initiatory teaching covens and provide an eclectic mix of training drawn from various Pagan traditions, including the provision of Wicca 101 courses. Covens celebrate the esbats (full moon celebrations) and sabbats (seasonal celebrations), which are generally open in their efforts to educate the general public about the Craft. She has worked with Circle, New Earth Circle, and the Pool of Bast, and helped found the Coven of Our Lady of the Woods and the Ladywood Tradition of Wicca. She has served as publications officer and national first officer of the Covenant of the Goddess, and taught in the cella (priestess) training program of RCG, a national Dianic network.

• True Magick: A Beginner's Guide (1991) Llewellyn Publications {{ISBN|0-87542-003-6}}, {{ISBN|978-0-87542-003-5}}
• Covencraft: Witchcraft for Three or More (1998) Llewellyn Publications {{ISBN|1-56718-018-3}}, {{ISBN|978-1-56718-018-3}}
• Pagan Kids' Activity Book (1998) Horned Owl Publishing {{ISBN|0-9696066-9-9}}, {{ISBN|978-0-9696066-9-7}}
• Preámbulo a la Magia (1999) Llewellyn Espanol {{ISBN|1-56718-019-1}}, {{ISBN|978-1-56718-019-0}}
• Candlemas: Feast of Flames (2001) Llewellyn Publications {{ISBN|0-7387-0079-7}}, {{ISBN|978-0-7387-0079-3}}
• Heart of Tarot: An Intuitive Approach (2002) Llewellyn Publications {{ISBN|1-56718-008-6}}, {{ISBN|978-1-56718-008-4}}
• RitualCraft: Creating Rites for Transformation and Celebration (with Azrael Arynn K) (2006) Llewellyn Publications {{ISBN|1-56718-009-4}}, {{ISBN|978-1-56718-009-1}}

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071012061306/http://www.llewellyn.com/bookstore/author.php?id=20415 Llewellyn Worldwide Author's Bio]

• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070812065830/http://www.aquatabch.org/afwe/authors/amberk.php Amber K]
• [http://www.ardantane.org Ardantane]

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