Charles “Chic” Cicero was born in Buffalo, New York. An early love of music, particularly the saxophone, resulted in Chic's many years of experience as a lead musician in several jazz, blues, and rock ensembles, working with many famous performers in the music industry. He has been a practicing ceremonial magician for the past forty years. 

Chic's interest in Freemasonry and the Western Esoteric Tradition resulted in research articles on Rosicrucianism and the Knights Templar, printed in such publications as Ars Quatuor Coronatorum and the 1996–2000 Transactions of the Metropolitan College of the SRIA. Chic is a member of several Masonic, Martinist, and Rosicrucian organizations.

Chic was also a close personal friend and confidant of  Israel Regardie. Having established a Golden Dawn temple in 1977, Chic was one of the key people who helped Regardie resurrect a legitimate, initiatory branch of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the United States in the early 1980’s.
 

Tabatha met Chic in the early 1980's and the Golden Dawn system of magic has been her primary spiritual focus ever since. She spent five years working on the paintings for The Golden Dawn Magical Tarot which she began at the encouragement of Israel Regardie.

Both Chic and Tabatha are Chief Adepts of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn as re-established by Israel Regardie. They have written  several books on the Golden Dawn, Tarot, and Magic, including The Essential Golden Dawn, which won a COVR award  in 2004 for being one of the year's best titles in the field of magic.

Books by the Ciceros include:

The Golden Dawn Magical Tarot (tarot mini-kit)
Self-Initiation into the Golden Dawn Tradition
Creating Magical Tools
Ritual Use of Magical Tools
Experiencing the Kabbalah 
The Magical Pantheons 
Secrets of a Golden Dawn Temple 
The Golden Dawn Journal Series
The Essential Golden Dawn
The Golden Dawn Enochian Skrying Tarot (co-authored with Bill & Judi Genaw)
The Babylonian Tarot
Tarot Talismans