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Gavin Bone (born 19 January 1964) is an English author andlecturer in the fields ofmagic,Neopagan witchcraft,Wicca andNeo-Paganism, and anorganizer in theNeo-Pagan community. He was born inPortsmouth,Hampshire in England, in 1964.
He was born on 19 January 1964 and was brought up inPortsmouth,Hampshire. His mother regularly visitedmediums andtarot readers, which was a major influence in hisoccult interest. He attended several conferences and events inPortsmouth on the unexplained, which made him become interested in everything fromUFOs to theSurrey Puma,ghosts, and theBermuda Triangle.
Firstly he wanted to pursue a career in theBritish Army, but was unable to go into regular service and served in219 Wessex General Hospital RAMC (V) instead. Then he left because of his political beliefs. He became involved with groups such asGreenpeace from 1981. He became interested inWicca during the same period, having previously exploredBuddhism,Hinduism andTaoism. He also started to train as a spiritualhealer, after he had attendedThe Joseph Carey Spiritualist Centre. He practised solitary from 1982 before finding his first magical group in 1985 working from theFifth Dimension Occult store,Eastney,Portsmouth. His group was eclectic and included earth healing practices as well as High Magic. It was from this group that the first coven he joined emerged, which was based onBuckland's Seax Wicca. He was later initiated into aGardnerian based tradition.
He has trained as a registerednurse and has studied complementary healing methods such asreflexology. He was initiated intoSeax-Wica in 1986, and was involved in the revival of British/Anglo-Saxon traditionalshamanism in the late 1980s through a web site calledPaganLink. He is currently developing the theory thatWicca may have some roots in tribal shamanistic healing traditions, as opposed to medievalritual magic.[1]
Bone first metJanet Farrar andStewart Farrar in 1989 at aPagan camp atGroby, nearLeicester, where they became friends. He accompanied them on a tour to theUnited States in 1992, and after their return he moved toIreland and became their business partner. He joined the Farrars as part of a "polyfidelitous relationship",[2] and they continued their personal and professional relationship since Stewart's death on 7 February 2000. He co-authored several books with the Farrars, and he is the production manager for their videos. He also set up their website in 1996, which has become the “Pagan Information Network”, a contact network forPagans across theRepublic and Northern Ireland, for which Bone and Janet Farrar are the primary coordinators.
Bone and Janet Farrar are currently active members in theAquarian Tabernacle Church ofIreland, and have links with severalcovens in theUnited States,Australia,New Zealand andEurope. They ran a progressivecoven inIreland called Coven Na Callaighe until early 2009 which was part of Teampall Na Callaighe, which once included an open worship group Clan Na Callaighe.
Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone handfasted in Ireland, May 2001. They have legally been married since March 2014.
Following attending Link-Up '89 (September 1989) in Groby, Leicester, Gavin became involved inPagan Link as a contact and facilitator forPortsmouth, with his wife Tania Andrade. They regularly held moots in Portsmouth, in the Milton area, and from this a small coven naturally developed of no specific tradition. He later became a contact for the Pagan Federation as it expanded its contact network. He and his wife also became part of Clan Bran, which is a clan of eclectic practitioners. It was based inAbbots Bromley,Staffordshire, before it moved to the Republic of Ireland.
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