Patricia DeSandro has been a professional artist and art teacher for at least three decades and is a certified hypnotherapist and a clairvoyant/clairaudient medium, able to see and interact with spirits and communicate with animals, plants, and stones.
In the Pagan community, she is known as Bona Dea Lyonesse and works within the Wisewoman/Shamanic and Roman-Celtic traditions as an Elder and High Priestess. In 1999, she founded the Wiccan teaching coven: Circle of the Sacred Grove Temple of the Old Religion.