by Juliet Batten | 21, Oct, 2015 | Seasons Newsletter
We are approaching Whiringanuku, Beltane, Flowering and Sap-Rise, (on October 31): the festival of regeneration. And I’m reposting my message from last year, for there’s no regeneration in the death imagery of Halloween, which spills out of...
by Juliet Batten | 8, Oct, 2015 | Seasons Newsletter
What has a sick child to do with the growth rings on a tree? When my seven-year old granddaughter arrived for her much anticipated sleepover, the first thing that happened was that she threw up. Her mother quickly said, ‘I’ll take her home.’ Sizing up the...