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...

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...

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...

As Tutankhamun’s ancestor, Hatshepsut amassed much of the wealth that he was to inherit. She ruled Egypt, the largest kingdom of the...

April 1st 2018 The Burney Relief, named after a former owner, is the common term for an early 2nd millennium BC (ca. 1950 BC)...

At a women’s event I attended a few years ago, a woman got up to speak about how men have oppressed women throughout history. “I am going...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...