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
- Jan 17, 2021
- 7 min
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, 2021
- 2 min
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
- Dec 27, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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 5, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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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Rebecca Beattie
- Jun 14, 2020
- 1 min
Devotional Walks
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...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 8 min
Finding Your Coven
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...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min
What is Gardnerian Wicca? (A Brief Potted History)
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...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 7 min
The Worldview of the Hedgewitch
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...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
An MA, a PhD, and ME
10 May 2016 This week is ME awareness week, and its quite timely for me. For the last six weeks or so I have been thrown into quite an...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 4 min
Re-imagining the Past - Writing the Diary of Mary Webb
23 March 2016 I have a bit of a soft spot for forgotten women. Previously, this has expressed itself as fascinations with Hatshepsut,...
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Rebecca Beattie
- May 30, 2020
- 5 min
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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