About Shiva Honey

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Shiva Honey is a Satanic Priestess and Ordained Minister of The Satanic Temple. She was a founding member of The Satanic Temple Detroit (the first chapter of The Satanic Temple) and The National Council of The Satanic Temple. In addition to being a chief architect of The Unveiling, Snaketivity, and other TST Detroit actions and rituals, she organized a number of national events/campaigns, including bringing the Baphomet statue to Arkansas 2018. In 2021 she was awarded The Satanic Temple's Anatole France Literary Award for Contemporary Literature for her best-selling book The Devil's Tome: A Book of Modern Satanic Ritual which contributed significantly to the understanding of non-theistic ritual and stoked a Satanic ritual movement. Shiva has performed and taught about Satanic ritual throughout the world. Her work has been featured in the film Hail Satan? (2019) and CNN's This is Life with Lisa Ling: The Satanists Next Door (2015) and on Satanic Planet’s self-titled album. In 2021 she released the first ever Satanic ritual deck, The Devil's Deck and in 2022 released her second book, The Devil’s Death: Your Satanic Companion for Grief and Dying. In 2023 she is releasing two new books to help Satanists navigate death and legacy, as well as her much anticipated debut record, Devotion: Ritual Music for Love, Loss, & Desire.