Welcome to series 5, episode 7 of the Prompted by Nature podcast. I hope you’re doing well and keeping warm if it’s as cold where you are as it is here. Well, it’s the final episode of 2022 and I’m very excited that this week’s guest is the one who will help us draw it to a close. i’ll be taking a short break but will be back to continue series 5 in the new year.
This week, I’m speaking with Dr Rebecca Beattie. Rebecca is a Wiccan Priestess with a PhD in Creative Writing, whose childhood growing up on Dartmoor gave her an early appreciation of the power and joys of nature. She has been practising solitary witchcraft for twenty years and an initiate of the Gardnerian Wiccan tradition for fifteen. She is acclaimed for her highly informed teaching of witchcraft subjects at Treadwell’s Books in Bloomsbury. By day she is a professional in a major charity, with advanced degrees in Literature and Creative Writing.
In this conversation we discuss:
You can find Rebecca’s book, ‘Wheel of the Year: A Nurturing Guide to Rediscovering Nature's Seasons and Cycles’ is available at all good booksellers and in the Prompted by Nature bookshop over on bookshop.org (link in show notes). Remember to support your favourite indie bookshop by buying through them and then post a review on Amazon. Rebecca's website is www.rebeccabeattie.co.uk and she's on Instagram @rebeccambeattie
Some episodes that would go well with this one are:
1.10a Jini Reddy, Finding Magic in the Landscape
3.2a Stella Tomlinson, Priestesshood and Earth-Based Spirituality
4.11a Annabel Abbs, Walking into Creativity
4.12a Soraya Abdel-Hadi, ‘Finding my Creative Voice through Nature
As always, I’m on www.promptedbynature.co.uk and on the socials @prompted.by.nature on Insta and Facebook.
The writing prompt for this episode is available straight after this one if you want to use it to inspire your Winter Solstice celebrations.
Have a wonderful festive season, whatever you’re celebrating.
Happy listening and I’ll speak to you in 2023!
Helen x
