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Rebecca Beattie
3 days ago5 min read
Quiet Activism
Last Samhain, I was invited to be a speaker on a panel at the marvellous House of Hackney in London. The topic for the discussion was...
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Rebecca Beattie
Dec 5, 20248 min read
On the nature of mysticism (and attaining mystical states of consciousness)
This article was written in 2018 for a fellow writer's blog - Nimue Brown . Enjoy! The wind in the trees sounds somewhat akin to the...
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Rebecca Beattie
Dec 5, 202413 min read
Self Care for Worn Out Witches...(or anyone else for that matter)
I am spending a lot of time thinking about winter at the moment, and came across this on my PC today. I am not even sure if I ever...
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Rebecca Beattie
Jul 15, 20248 min read
Literary Witches of the Twenties: Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes, and the Loving Huntsman
Over the course of the next few weeks, I am going to be re-publishing some of the articles I have written for various journals. Its...
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Rebecca Beattie
Apr 17, 20241 min read
The best books to reconnect you to nature
I was recently asked by Shepherd.com to compile a list of the best books to help you reconnect to nature... If you have not encountered...
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Rebecca Beattie
Sep 26, 20214 min read
Bodies of water
As late summer gives way to autumn, I find myself reflecting on my relationship with bodies of water (both my own and external ones)....
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Rebecca Beattie
May 10, 20216 min read
What do I put on a Wiccan Altar?
In these articles I am working through the questions I most commonly get asked about Wiccan practice, either during classes or afterwards...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 3, 20216 min read
I want to join a coven...
I get an awful lot of messages from folks through this website, saying that they want to join a coven, and can I tell them how to go...
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Rebecca Beattie
Apr 18, 20218 min read
Meeting the Gods, a.k.a. how do I find my deity?
One of the more recent classes I have been teaching at Treadwells-London is a series we've called Meeting the Gods. Each session I focus...
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Rebecca Beattie
Feb 5, 20212 min read
A Spell for Letting Go
This is one of my favourite spells for when you need to let go of something. You know - destructive behaviours, influences in your life...
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Rebecca Beattie
Jan 18, 202110 min read
How to approach a coven to ask for training
Since I wrote the article on finding your coven, I get quite a lot of questions from people about how to go about accessing training....
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Rebecca Beattie
Jan 17, 20217 min read
Creating Elemental Magic
I often find I have a significant river in my life. Growing up it was the Dart, in London it was mama Thames, and here it is the Walkham....
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Rebecca Beattie
Jan 9, 20212 min read
Walking Notes with the River
This landscape is littered with remnants of its industrial past. On the high moor, there are tin mines – old ruined buildings, filled in...
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Rebecca Beattie
Jan 8, 20214 min read
Signs and Portents, Therapy, and Full Moon Madness
Katie Gerard recently posted a fabulous blog article on Patheos about the difficulties of navigating between clairsentience (when your...
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Rebecca Beattie
Dec 31, 20205 min read
What Witchcraft Is
I’ve self identified as a witch for 20 years now, but practised it for much longer without knowing (in the early days there were a few...
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Rebecca Beattie
Dec 27, 20203 min read
Magic runs like a river
Magic runs like a river through our lives, if we just get out of our heads and let it run freely. And it never ceases to leave me...
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Rebecca Beattie
Dec 25, 20202 min read
When the day does not yet belong to man
Part of my daily spiritual practice is going walking in nature, particularly in the morning. I’ve always been a morning walker – from...
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Rebecca Beattie
Dec 9, 20203 min read
The importance of a daily spiritual practice
Often when I’m teaching, I talk about the importance of having a daily spiritual practice, particularly if you are working with a...
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Rebecca Beattie
Dec 5, 20203 min read
Being in Flow, or How to Make Your Magic Work Better
This is really a continuation of my last blog article where I looked at why didn’t that spell work? I’ve been thinking further on why my...
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Rebecca Beattie
Oct 23, 20204 min read
What to do when your magic doesn’t turn out how you expected, or why didn’t that spell work?
Magic hasn’t really been considered a science since the Middle Ages. When we study the Grimoire tradition, it’s clear to see that the...
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