Dr. Rebecca Beattie

In these articles I am working through the questions I most commonly get asked about Wiccan practice, either during classes or afterwards...

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....

This landscape is littered with remnants of its industrial past. On the high moor, there are tin mines – old ruined buildings, filled in...

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...

Part of my daily spiritual practice is going walking in nature, particularly in the morning. I’ve always been a morning walker – from...

Often when I’m teaching, I talk about the importance of having a daily spiritual practice, particularly if you are working with a...

Walking in the woods this morning along a path veined with tree roots, I was reminded of my favourite devotional prayer. It’s written by...

May 7th 2020 Many of my students often talk about joining or setting up a coven. A coven is a big commitment, and as navigating the...

May 7th 2020 Wicca was developed in late 1940s by a man called Gerald Brousseau Gardner, a man who spent many years overseas in the...

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...

July 22nd 2018 1st August marks the next festival on the Pagan wheel of the Year - Lammas, or the First Harvest. For modern witches who...

June 1st 2018 Midsummer is fast approaching, and it seems that the wheel of the year is turning faster than ever this year. As we...

April 27th 2018 If you are keeping an eye on what is going on in Nature at the moment, you may have noticed that the world has just...

April 7th 2018 I have been digging through some of my old writing, and dusting it off. It's no use sitting on my hard drive, is it? This...

January 28th 2018 Imbolc gives us a moment to pause and reflect on the winter just passing, and the season yet to come. It is not yet...

December 17th 2017 At this time of the year, you will probably speak to Pagans who are celebrating Yule on or around 22nd December. That...

October 20th 2017 Samhain (pronounced Sow-en, or Sow-ain) is the old Celtic name for Halloween – All Hallows’ Eve, which occurs on 31st...

24th September 2017 Autumn Equinox happens on or around the 22nd of September, and it is always met with mixed emotions. It is one of two...

September 24th 2017 In Wicca we recognise that the divine comes in many forms and in many different guises. One of my teachers once told...

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,...