Terence P Ward is the author of Empty Cauldrons: Navigating Depression through Magic and Ritual (Llewellyn, 2022). Ward has been a journalist and practicing Pagan for more than thirty years, has been bound to a Wiccan coven and communed with the earth as a backpacking Pagan, or Gaiaped. A member of the order of the occult hand, Ward is also a hiereus—temple priest— of Poseidon through Temenos Oikidios in Rhode Island, and holds ministerial credentials from the Vermont-based Church of the Sacred Earth: a Union of Pagan Congregations. More information can be found at truepaganwarrior.com.