Dr. Rebecca Beattie

October 20th 2017 You hear me talking (or writing) about Paganism a lot, but what actually is it? It’s probably easier to define what...

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...

September 24th 2017 Just a note on terminology and some of the basic concepts of Modern Pagan Witchcraft before I explore the first...

September 24th 2017 There are various ways of carving up the year into smaller, more manageable time periods. Our Graeco-Roman months of...

October 23 2016 I have absolutely loved this book. Written from the perspective of the ten year old Leon, the book tells the story of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

13th September 2014 Good writing is not something that requires the reader to be completely passive; it is a dialogue, in which the...