Sandra Tabatha Cicero

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Sandra Tabatha Cicero is an American writer and lecturer who teaches Hermeticism. She was born in 1959 in rural Wisconsin and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1982. She worked as an entertainer, typesetter, editor, commercial artist, and computer graphics designer before focusing on esoteric studies. She met her husband, Chic Cicero, in the early 1980s.

The couple co-authored several books on the Golden Dawn, Tarot, Kabbalah, and the Western mystery tradition, including The Essential Golden Dawn, which won a 2004 Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR) award. They also edited and added new material to classic works by Israel Regardie, such as The Middle Pillar, A Garden of Pomegranates, The Philosopher's Stone, and The Tree of Life. At Regardie’s encouragement, Sandra painted The Golden Dawn Magical Tarot.

Cicero is a Rosicrucian and a Martinist, and she serves as Imperatrix of the Societas Rosicruciana in America (SRIAm). She was initiated into a modern Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1983. Along with her husband, she is a chief figure in a contemporary Golden Dawn group that does not claim an unbroken lineage to the original order, but bases its work on the material preserved and expanded by Regardie. The Ciceros emphasize that the value of a magical path lies in inner growth rather than in titles or formal affiliation. They state that one can pursue initiation and union with the Divine without belonging to a specific organization.