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The Wheel of the Year

A Nurturing Guide to Rediscovering Nature's Seasons and Cycles
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The Wheel of the Year by Rebecca Beattie delves into the cyclical nature of the seasons, exploring their significance through the lens of various cultural traditions and natural phenomena. The author weaves together historical insights, folklore, and personal reflections, offering readers a rich tapestry of knowledge about the natural world's rhythms and how they influence human life. It's an engaging read for anyone interested in the interconnectedness of nature and culture.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in the captivating interplay between nature's cycles and human traditions. It explores the seasonal transitions and rituals that celebrate the changing year, providing a rich blend of mythology, personal reflection, and ecological insight. Perfect for those who appreciate a deeper connection with the natural world and its rhythms.

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A nurturing guide to the ‘Wheel of the Year’ – the seasonal festivals that every six weeks celebrate nature’s life cycles and rhythms – offering the tools and rituals to pause and reflect.

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Rediscover nature’s 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 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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The Wheel of the Year by Rebecca Beattie is praised for its sensitive and poetic nature, offering insightful anecdotes and self-disclosure. It serves as a beautiful guide to connecting with nature, underlined by historical and societal reflections. The writing is described as enchanting and invites readers to celebrate nature’s cycles whilst developing a nature-based spiritual path. This work has captured the interest of those who appreciate nature and the changing seasons, making it a recommended read for connecting with both the external world and oneself.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781783966790

Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 October 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Elliott & Thompson Limited

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 128

About the Author

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 Treadwell’s Books in Bloomsbury. By day she is a professional in a major charity, with advanced degrees in Literature and Creative writing.

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