About Us

Mandorla Coven is a small group of Feri initiates working to continue the living tradition of Feri as taught by Victor and Cora Anderson to their personal initiates.

Mandorla currently has six members. SoulFire and Jim were initiated by Victor and Cora in 1996, and studied on a weekly basis with the Andersons until Victor's death. Michele was initiated by Victor in 2000, and she initiated Leroy, her husband. Corvia (then using the name Phoenix) and Lawrence first befriended the Andersons in 1997. Corvia was initiated by SoulFire and Jim in 2002, and passed initiation to Lawrence soon after. SoulFire, Jim, Michele, and Leroy belonged to the Andersons' final coven, Blue Circle. And all six Mandorla members were named by Victor to his Order of Diana. After Victor's death in 2001, Cora continued to be a valued source of advice and lore for the entire group, our beloved real-life Feri Godmother.

Mandorla's primary focus is the material taught by the Andersons to their own initiates. This information is sometimes similar and sometimes widely divergent from that taught in other lines within the Feri/Faery Tradition. To distinguish our particular path, we've returned to the earliest name for the tradition used by the Andersons: Vicia. Although Mandorla places a high value on preserving the oral tradition received from the Andersons intact and unchanged, we also value creativity and have added our own original work to the Vicia body of lore.

Mandorla trains Vicia students in person, using the apprenticeship model. No money is exchanged for learning our Craft. Although not currently accepting students, we hope that people who have felt the pull of the Andersons' teachings may find some information of value in this website.

On the Mandorla Symbol:

Mandorla is the Italian word for "almond." It is also another word for the Vesica Piscis, the Yoni of the Goddess. As the almond-shaped overlapping of two circles, it represents the union of opposites.

"To step into the Mandorla is to move beyond "either-or" thinking - even beyond ideas of common ground or compromise - and stand in the tension of opposites long enough for something new to emerge. In the realm of the Mandorla, the whole truly yields something greater than the sum of its parts, opening doors of possibility, discovery, and creativity."
Quoted from: http://www.kyrie.com/symbols/mandorla.htm

To contact Mandorla, write to: info@lilithslantern.com

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