Dr. Rebecca Beattie

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

23 March 2016 I have a bit of a soft spot for forgotten women. Previously, this has expressed itself as fascinations with Hatshepsut,...

15 March 2016 One of the questions I am frequently asked about Nature Mystics, is ‘how did you select which writers to include? Because...

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...

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...

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,...

Last weekend was the Altered Consciousness conference at Queen Mary, University of London, and was beautifully organised by Dr. Katy...

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...

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...

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...