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The Wheel of the Year: Your rejuvenating guide to rediscovering nature's cycles and seasons Paperback – October 22, 2024

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Nurture yourself through the turning seasons with the Wheel of the Year: an enchanting celebration of eight restorative moments in nature’s cycle – from solstices and equinoxes to those midpoints in-between.

Let Rebecca Beattie – Wiccan priestess and nature lover – take you on a magical journey around the Wheel of the Year, from Imbolc, Beltane, Lammas and Samhain to the Spring Equinox, Midsummer, Autumn Equinox and Yule.

Rooted in an appreciation of the rhythms of the seasons, every six weeks the Wheel of the Year allows us a moment to pause and still the chaos of modern life. This book is alive with what is happening in the ebb and flow of the natural world, helping us to connect with its rejuvenating power and offering rituals to celebrate each seasonal festival, its enchanting folklore and traditions.

The Wheel of the Year will connect you to the turning of your personal seasons too, enabling you to chart your own moments of transition, reflection and healing alongside the changes in the outside world. Get to know your true inner self and rediscover wisdom and wonder as you start to live in step with nature.

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Dr Rebecca Beattie grew up on Dartmoor, which gave her an early appreciation of the power and joys of nature. She has been practicing 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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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Elliott & Thompson (October 22, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1783967137
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1783967131
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.41 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.79 x 5.51 x 8.66 inches
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Dr Rebecca Beattie is a Wiccan Priestess with a PhD in Creative Writing. Rebecca 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. By day she is a professional in a major charity, with advanced degrees in Literature and Creative writing.

Rebecca's book, "Wheel of the Year: A nurturing guide to rediscovering nature’s cycles and seasons" is published by Elliott and Thompson. The Wheel of the Year offers the tools you need to reconnect with the ancient rhythms of the year (from equinoxes to solstices), to develop new seasonal rituals and transform how you relate to the natural world.

Rebecca's other books include "Nature Mystics: The Literary Gateway to Modern Paganism", which traces the lives and work of ten writers who contributed to the cultural environment that allowed Modern Paganism to develop and flourish throughout the twentieth century. Her first novel "The Lychway" is set on Dartmoor and is interwoven with the folklore and the landscape of that sacred place. Her second novel, "Somewhere She is There" follows the journey of a woman learning to deal with the grief of losing her mother to cancer, while her third book, "The Softness of Water" is a selection of short stories and fairy tales based on the wisdom of the Tao te Ching.

Rebecca also keeps a blog at www.rebeccabeattie.co.uk

To keep up to date with news and events, please join the mailing list at www.rebeccabeattie.co.uk

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Sheryl
5.0 out of 5 stars Great for people wanting to learn about it all
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2023
Thanks to social media and different software app's, it is easy to get overwhelmed when you are searching for a specific topic. Unless the author lists their sources, it is hard to know if the information you are reading is factual or their opinion. That is not the case with The Wheel of the Year by Rebecca Beattie and the last thing you feel as you read her book is anything but overwhelmed.

Starting with the introduction of The Wheel of The Year, Rebecca shares who she is, what she follows and believes in and why she wanted to share this information. The Wheel of the Year is just that - a wheel of the seasons, eight festivals - known as sabbats. Each chapter goes into detail of the history behind that wheel, the festival being celebrated, ways to celebrate it along with a ritual, the supplies you need for it and sometimes a recipe to make.

I loved reading this and will definitely be using all of this information for each celebration. Although not quite a newbie, I don't know all the in's and out's of what to do and still learning it all. Each time one of the festivals come up, I research what I should possibly do to celebrate it, what foods to make, what rituals to possibly do and so much more which ends up me doing a very small portion of it because of being overwhelmed. Thanks to Rebecca, I don't have to do all that because The Wheel of The Year has everything for me that I can use. I'm looking forward to using this book for many years to come.

Thank you to NetGalley and Elliott & Thompson for this book. Thank you so much again Rebecca Beattie for sharing your knowledge and history of The Wheel of The Year with us.
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Shirley A
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Good Information
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2023
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The author, Rebecca Beattie, states that while living in London and on tour, she discovered her passion for her craft during one particular tour while performing in Macbeth, her favorite of Shakespeare’s plays. She states that while on this tour they were staying in farmhouses, surrounded by nature at every turn and was getting up with the sunrise, walking in the rural landscape and spending contemplative time in solitude surrounded by trees and fields, and she had time to breathe the air and inspiration flowed in. She states this was what had been lacking in my life, that in all the urban streets she walked down to auditions, in all the dusty rehearsal rooms, and the admin jobs she took to pay the rent, she had been missing her connection to nature and, more importantly, she had been looking in the wrong place for fulfilment – that she had been seeking outside myself. Thus, she realized that her journey to self-discovery had begun, and this path led to her training in Wicca.

The author states that it was on this path that she learned all about the Wheel of the Year, a concept that helped her to understand her place in the world, to deepen that connection to nature she had felt when touring the countryside and to appreciate fully the wonders of its cycle, no matter the season – or location. There are various ways of carving up the year into smaller, more manageable time periods, and our Graeco-Roman months of the year are one way, but other faiths also have their own methods of measuring time. For pagans, since the 1940s or 1950s, the year has been defined and delineated by the Wheel of the Year.

She discusses that Nichols’ druids began celebrating quarter days: the solstices and equinoxes, which mark the beginning of each quarter of the year while the Gardner’s witches were celebrating the Celtic equivalents, which had become known as cross-quarter days as they fell in between the English ones, and in the late 1950s the two practices merged, and the Wheel of the Year was born. Since that time, modern pagans have organized their practices around it, with the following sabbats:
1. Yule or Midwinter – 21 December Imbolc – 1 February
2. Spring equinox – 21 March
3. Beltane or May Eve – 30 April Midsummer – 21 June
4. Lammas – 1 August
5. Autumn equinox – 21 September
6. Samhain or November Eve – 31 October

(The exact dates can vary due to Earth taking slightly more than 365 days to travel around the sun, hence the need for leap years.)

Throughout this book, and in each of the sabbats, the author provides short rituals to help give one a moment to pause, to connect to nature and reflect on our inner thoughts, and she states that the rituals will help all of us to mark transition points and to give them meaning. She further states that we should try to let ourselves go a little, allowing for spontaneity: that is where we will encounter the divine – and find a little magic.

I found the following recipe quite unique: Recipe for Solar Healing Oil:
• A teaspoon of frankincense pearls
• A cup of ‘carrier’ oil – if we want to be properly solar, then olive or sunflower oil would be appropriate, but any plain oil will do just as well
• Six drops of orange essential oil
• Six drops of neroli essential oil
• An empty bottle or clean glass jar to keep it in – do use recycled if you can.

The author states that for her Samhain provides a space to focus on a wider sense of ancestral connection, because whenever life calls us to rebuild ourselves from the foundations up, our ancestors can be crucial in that process. Additionally, Rebecca points out that sometimes, for whatever reason, we cannot look to our biological ancestors. If this is the case, one can turn our ‘logical family’, can be an termed an ‘ancestor’ because they may be someone who have walked path before us in numerous different ways.

Rebecca Beattie discusses each of the sabbats in detail, providing techniques and rituals to awaken our inner child. This is a very good book that I highly recommend for anyone starting their spiritual journey.
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AnnieB
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting and well written
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2023
The Wheel of the Year is a thoughtful volume on the cyclical nature of life and our connections to it by Rebecca Beattie. Released 15th June 2023 by Elliott & Thompson Books, it's 224 pages and is available in paperback format.

This is a beautifully calming and charmingly presented guide to re-learning awareness of our natural rhythms and re-learning to live more in sync with our natural environment. Built around the Celtic calendar, there are 8 chapters based on each of the sacred days (midwinter, Imbolc, spring equinox, Beltane, summer solstice, Lammas, autumnal equinox, and Samhain).

The writing is nature based and contemplative. Suggested activities and tutorials will allow readers to connect to the deeper rhythms in their own lives as well as (no matter what our personal belief system) to slow down and *be* and *breathe*. It's written from the author's own viewpoint as a Wiccan, but for readers who subscribe to other belief systems, or none at all, there are still lots of valuable insights and activities which will be of interest.

It's not specifically written serially with seasonal activities; readers can start at any point on the circle. Whether the reader follows the prompts in order or not, there are real, proven benefits to slowing down and spending more time interacting with nature. I have no doubt that following the prompts regularly over the course of a year would give measurably positive results.

Four stars. It would be a good choice for public library acquisition, self study, homesteaders, and gift giving to a like minded recipient.
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C. O.
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful gift for new witches!
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2023
What a lovely read. This would be an excellent gift for a new Witch, be she Wiccan, or not. This book beautifully describes the eight Sabbats of the year. The Wheel of the Year describes when and how each Sabbath came to be, and how they are celebrated around the world, and in different cultures. The book also has lots of ideas/suggestions about how you can celebrate each Sabbat, such as activities, recipies, and Spells of course. There are also some gentle exercises here and there on mindfulness, and to honor and take care of oneself. I know it will improve a Witches spellcraft. The book was was a joyful easy read. I would recommend it to any Witch.
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Kathiea
5.0 out of 5 stars Our Seasons
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2023
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I wrote a book about humans having their seasons. I suggested that we can learn and benefit from each season. This book really helps us to appreciate each spoke on the seasonal wheel. The exercises and ceremonies are lovely.
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Jeff Muir
5.0 out of 5 stars Very well written and thoughtful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 18, 2023
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Love this book. Very thoughtful and extremely well written. Just what I need at the moment.
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laurasemple
5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 13, 2023
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Lovely book about living connected to nature and the changing seasons
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BTC
5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2023
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Beautiful book. Purchased for a friend who was very complimentary about it. Well priced.
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rozalyne humphrey
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 13, 2023
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Lovely book, enjoyed reading
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