Rebecca Beattie is the author of The Wheel of the Year, a nurturing guide to rediscovering nature’s seasons and cycles (Elliott & Thompson, 2022). Her second book, The Way Through the Woods (2024), encourages readers to reclaim life’s twists and turns – in relationships, work and family, and in the body and self – as transformative, alchemical moments full of possibility. Full of rejuvenating wisdom, The Way Through the Woods will help one to pause and reflect, to reconnect to nature and to yourself as you uncover a path towards joy and abundance. In her next book, The Season of Frost and Fire (October 2026), she offers thirteen luminous rituals to guide us through the darkest days – from fire rituals that welcome in the winter and banish fears on stormy nights to comforting ceremonies that honour our desire for inspiration and transformation.

Rebecca grew up on Dartmoor, which gave her an early appreciation of the power and joys of nature. She has been practising solitary witchcraft for twenty years and been an initiate of the Gardnerian Wiccan tradition for fifteen. As a Wiccan priestess, she is acclaimed for her highly informed teaching of witchcraft subjects at Treadwell’s Books in Bloomsbury, London. By day she is a professional in a major charity, with advanced degrees in Literature and Creative writing.

Website: www.rebeccabeattie.co.uk

Instagram: @rebeccambeattie

‘This is the best book I have found yet on the magic of personal growth and personal healing. It is a perfect journey through the year and through nature to the self.’ – Ronald Hutton

‘A good book in every sense of the word: caring, inviting and intelligent, it combines self-reflection and ritual to enable choices and address change.’ – Marion Gibson

‘An enchanting celebration of eight restorative moments in nature’s cycle’ – Caught by the River

‘A sensitive and poetic work, full of anecdote and poignant self-disclosure’ – The Enquiring Eye