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, 20217 min read
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 read
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 read
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 read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20204 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20208 min read
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 read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20207 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20203 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20204 min read
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 read
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 read
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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