Zsuzsanna
"Z" Emese Budapest was born in Budapest,
Hungary, her mother, Masika Szilagyi, was a medium
and a practicing witch who supported herself and
her daughter with her art, as a sculptress. Masika's
themes always celebrated the Triple Goddess and
the Fates, and Zsuzsanna, grew up respecting and
appreciating Mother Nature as a god.
Zsuzsanna started the Women's Spirituality Movement.
She founded the Susan B. Anthony Coven Number l,
the first feminist witches' coven, which became
the role model for thousands of other spiritual
groups being born and spreading across the nation.
She wrote The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries (Weiser
Publishers, 1989) which was originally published
in 1975 as The Feminist Book of Lights and Shadows.
This book served as the first hands-on book to lead
women into their own spiritual/Goddess heritage.
Z
was arrested in 1975 for reading Tarot cards to
an undercover policewoman. She lost the trial but
won the issue, and the law against psychics was
struck down nine years later. Z has led rituals,
lectured, taught classes, given workshops, written
articles tirelessly, and published in hundreds of
women's newspapers across the country. She has powerfully
influenced many of the future teachers and writers
about the Goddess.
Today
Z lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, traveling
a lot, giving workshops and lectures, but always
making time to smell the roses. She is the star
of her own cable TV show called 13th Heaven and
acts as the director of the Women's Spirituality
Forum, a nonprofit organization sponsoring a monthly
lecture series in the Bay Area about the Goddess,
spirituality retreats, and annual spiral dances
on Halloween. Z founded and sponsors the Dianic
University Online, a vagina-friendly online school
for Dianic Wicca and Goddess studies for women.
California
Institute for Integral Studies recognized recently
Z's contribution to Women's Spirituality Movement.
