The Wheel of the Year: A Nurturing Guide to Rediscovering Nature's Seasons and Cycles

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Rediscover natures cycles through the Wheel of the Year: a celebration of eight key moments within the turning seasons from solstices to equinoxes and those midpoints in-between.

The Wheel of the Year allows its celebrants a moment to pause and still the chaos of modern life every six weeks, to observe what is happening in nature and to reflect on the turn of their own lives.

This nurturing new guide is an exploration and celebration of the Wheel of the Year from Imbolc, Beltane, Lammas and Samhain to the Spring Equinox, Midsummer, Autumn Equinox and Yule. Our expert guide, Rebecca Beattie, traces the cycles of nature and the rhythms of the seasons, exploring enchanting traditions and folklore for each celebrated moment.

This book is alive with what is happening in the nature and in ourselves, offering tools and rituals to rediscover and appreciate each seasonal festival, to pause and reflect. It will connect you to the wheel of your own life, allowing its readers to explore and chart the turning of their own seasons alongside the cycles of the natural world.

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As heard on Lauren Lavernes BBC Radio 6 Supernature

A sensitive and poetic work, full of anecdote and poignant self-disclosure The Enquiring Eye

A wonderful read a beautiful guide on how to connect with nature, with a dash of historical/societal reflection a Waterstones bookseller

A lovely volume, beautifully written and full of inspiring ways to develop a nature-based spiritual path A Bad Witchs Blog

An enchanting celebration of eight restorative moments in natures cycle Caught by the River

This book will be of interest to many who appreciate nature and the changing seasons The Countryman

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Its a book to help you connect with your world, the seasons and nature and to yourself Netgalley reader

Author Bio

Dr Rebecca Beattie grew up on Dartmoor, which gave her an early appreciation of the power and joys of nature. She has been practising solitary witchcraft for twenty years and an initiate of the Gardnerian Wiccan tradition for fifteen. She is acclaimed for her highly informed teaching of witchcraft subjects at Treadwells Books in Bloomsbury. By day she is a professional in a major charity, with advanced degrees in Literature and Creative writing.