The Natural Home's Wheel of the Year: Crafting, Cooking, Decorating & Magic for Every Sabbat

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Recipes, Crafts & Activities to Inspire Your Creativity and Bring More Meaning to Every Season

Welcome natural energies into your life with vibrant wheel of the year traditions that encompass your whole home. For each sabbat, Raechel Henderson features sections on low-cost activities, inspiration for your seasonal altar, journal prompts, food recipes, decoration ideas, and more. Choosing from more than 160 suggestions, you can:

Draw milk baths Shape ice lanterns Scry with ink and water

Crystalize flowers with sugar Build insect hotels Sew ribbon garland

Conduct a garden water blessing Leave offerings for the faeries

Brew ginger beer Infuse honey with herbs Concoct pomegranate dye

Create acorn runes Arrange a dried citrus wreath

With color photos and an ecofriendly emphasis on found and foraged materials, Raechel teaches a nature-based approach to the sabbats that builds meaning in the spaces left barren by modern life. Her many sustainable ways to enjoy seasonal themes and lessons offer new perspectives and the opportunity to enrich your life at each turn of the wheel.

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"Decked out in color photos and including helpful templates for some of the crafts, this book is a beautiful year-round resource."
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"Henderson's hope is to inspire us to delve deeper into what makes the Wheel of the Year meaningful to us. Not as a form of busywork, but a way to engage in specific activities that tap into the energy of each holiday. This is not about how to change a bouquet of flowers every six weeks, so much as how to consider changing what we eat, contemplate, and engage in throughout the cycle of the year. Each craft is a kind of moving meditation. I enjoyed many of the recipes and the few decorative crafts I made. I'm looking forward to working with this book all through the coming year. Did I mention that this is a beautiful book Pictures abound, and there is color everywhere. Highly recommended!"
Lisa McSherry for Facing North.com

Author Bio

Raechel Henderson is a Pagan and witch, following an eclectic and independent path. She currently works with Hestia and Turtle in her magical practice. She contributes articles to Llewellyn's almanacs and calendars, and she blogs about magic, creativity, and living by your own patterns. Raechel is a dual-class seamstress/shieldmaiden and has been sewing professionally since 2008. She is also the author of Sew Witchy, The Scent of Lemon & Rosemary, and The Natural Home Wheel of the Year. Visit her on Instagram: @idiorhythmic