by Juliet Batten | 24, Apr, 2019 | Rituals, Seasons Newsletter
Easter has just passed. What do you make of it, the way this spring festival of resurrection lands in the southern hemisphere season of dying? Of course, if you are in the northern hemisphere, you will be in high spring right now, and fully... 
by Juliet Batten | 21, Mar, 2019 | Rituals, Seasons Newsletter
How do you rebalance and return to equilibrium after the shock of devastating events? You may be wondering, can I ever find peace again? Or trust? Or safety? To restore balance at Equinox following the recent events in Christchurch, your inner world may... 
by Juliet Batten | 16, Mar, 2017 | Rituals, Seasonal inspiration, Seasons Newsletter, Uncategorized
Here in Aotearoa the autumn rains have fallen — without a doubt — and the season has shifted abruptly. What is your response? I breathed a sigh of relief when the autumn rains first began (not knowing at that stage just how torrential... by Juliet Batten | 30, Jul, 2016 | Rituals
On a wild ironsand beach I prepare to welcome First Light, which in the southern hemisphere falls on August 2 . This festival falls half-way between winter solstice and spring equinox. It was known to my Celtic ancestors as the festival of Imbolc or... by Juliet Batten | 23, Jun, 2016 | Rituals
Do you find yourself huddling against the cold, the rain or the howling wintry wind? Do you walk through the elements with a grimace on your face and resentment in your heart, thinking, ‘This is a sod of a season’? Do you even start thinking with envy of your... 
by Juliet Batten | 17, Mar, 2015 | Rituals
I smiled when I heard the radio announcer declaring on March 1: ‘Today is the first day of autumn.’ When March began the sun was blazing and it felt as if summer had just rediscovered itself after an uncertain February. You and I know that the start of any... 