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
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, 20203 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, 20202 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
May 30, 20208 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, 20203 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, 20207 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, 20204 min
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, 20205 min
My Name is Rebecca Mary Mohamed
23 October 2016 My married name is Rebecca Mary Mohamed. That's one name for each of the three Abrahamic religions, and yet I am none of...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20201 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, 20204 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, 20204 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, 20205 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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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20203 min
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, 20204 min
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, 20203 min
Priestess by Rainbow Jo
9th August 2014 When I started on my spiritual path some fifteen or so years ago, someone shared a very special piece of wisdom with me,...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 202011 min
Altered Consciousness Conference 1918-1980 (November 2013)
Last weekend was the Altered Consciousness conference at Queen Mary, University of London, and was beautifully organised by Dr. Katy...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20201 min
In John Keats' Bedroom
Posted @ 11:42:21 on 13 July 2013 Yesterday was a scorcher! While hordes of people were heading for Hampstead Heath, I snuck away down a...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20202 min
Research Heaven
Posted @ 11:42:21 on 13 July 2013 Well, I must confess I have been a little quiet on here. I have been buried deep in the research, and...
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Rebecca Beattie
May 30, 20201 min
The Silences of the Moon
Posted @ 10:43:38 on 20 January 2013 The best moment of my week was running into a teenager on the tube who really surprised me. I...
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