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
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
May 30, 20202 min read
A Suitcase Full of Boiled Eggs
March 8th 2020 For those of you that are connected to me on Facebook or Instagram, this post will come as no surprise. I have a personal...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20205 min read
Forgotten Women: Hatshepsut
As Tutankhamun’s ancestor, Hatshepsut amassed much of the wealth that he was to inherit. She ruled Egypt, the largest kingdom of the...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20202 min read
Forgotten Women: The Queen of the Night
April 1st 2018 The Burney Relief, named after a former owner, is the common term for an early 2nd millennium BC (ca. 1950 BC)...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20208 min read
Forgotten Women - Lilith
At a women’s event I attended a few years ago, a woman got up to speak about how men have oppressed women throughout history. “I am going...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20204 min read
Forgotten Women
April 1st 2018 Anyone who knows me well, knows that I have a bit of a mission in life to give a voice to some of the forgotten women of...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20203 min read
This Week I am Reading
THIS WEEK I AM READING... 29 AUGUST 2016 This Blog series should really be titled 'Travels of a Book Slut' on account of the fact that I...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20203 min read
This Week I Have Been Reading
25 June 2016 Never one to only settle for one book at a time, and eager to escape the real world for the fictional one, this week I have...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20202 min read
This Week I am Reading
19 June 2016 This week I have returned to an old favourite, The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. It's been many many years since I...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20201 min read
This week I am reading
21 My 2016 I have gone back to visit a very old friend. I am re-visiting Robin Hobb's fantasy novels about the Fool and Fitz! She is now...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20202 min read
This Week I am Reading 'The Ship' by Antonia Honeywell
(and it is exquisite!) 10th May 2016 Update: Its a dystopian novel set in a world very like our own, but after a cataclysmic event. The...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20203 min read
The Meaning of Home: Connecting to the Land in Disparate Places
25 March 2016 London has been home now for almost twenty years. I adore it. I love the bustle and the excitement of being in the capital,...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20205 min read
Kenneth Grahame - The Missing Nature Mystic
15 March 2016 One of the questions I am frequently asked about Nature Mystics, is ‘how did you select which writers to include? Because...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20203 min read
Vie Medicatrix Naturae
15 November 2015 I had an important insight into the mind of Mary Webb this weekend, which is really important to the work I am doing at...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20202 min read
Going with the Flow
30 October 2015 One of the skills I am learning as I grow older is in not trying too hard. There is a skill to be honed in just letting...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20204 min read
A Week of Mindfulness and Thoughts on Value Judgments
18 July 2015 I learned something terribly important in the last few weeks, and it is really important to record it for my own reference...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20204 min read
Me and Mr. Tolkien
13th September 2014 Good writing is not something that requires the reader to be completely passive; it is a dialogue, in which the...
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