title: Sandra Tabatha Cicero
text: # Sandra Tabatha Cicero
  
  Sandra Tabatha Cicero is an American esoteric writer and lecturer, best known for her work in the field of Hermeticism.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Born in rural Wisconsin in 1959, Cicero graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee with a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts in 1982. She worked as an entertainer, typesetter, editor, commercial artist, and computer graphics illustrator. She met her husband Chic Cicero in the early 1980s.
  
  ## Writings
  
  Along with her husband, Cicero has co-authored several books on the Golden Dawn, Tarot, Kabbalah, and the Western mystery tradition including The Essential Golden Dawn, which won a Coalition of Visionary Resources (COVR) award in 2004 as one of the year's best titles in the field of magic. Together, the Ciceros have edited, annotated and added new material to recent editions of classic magical texts by Israel Regardie, including The Middle Pillar, A Garden of Pomegranates, The Philosopher's Stone, and The Tree of Life. At the encouragement of Israel Regardie she painted "The Golden Dawn Magical Tarot".
  
  ## The Golden Dawn
  
  Cicero is a Rosicrucian and a Martinist, as well as the current Imperatrix of the Societas Rosicruciana in America (SRIAm). She was initiated into a modern Order in the tradition of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in 1983. Together, Cicero and her husband are two of the G.H. Chiefs of the contemporary Order of the same name, which claims initiatory lineage to the original Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn through Israel Regardie.
  
  