by Juliet Batten | 29, Jul, 2022 | Seasons Newsletter
A winter vision In the sheltered quiet of winter, a woman is knitting She dreams a future into the stitches She makes sure the colours are bright. She will plant a river bank when the earth warms She is planning a food garden She is planning acts of... by Juliet Batten | 25, Jul, 2019 | Seasons Newsletter
At winter solstice the light began to return. And yet we plunged, as always, into the coldest part of winter. And we must wait for relief. If you are in the heat of the northern hemisphere summer, maybe you too are waiting for relief, only in this case it will... 
by Juliet Batten | 1, Aug, 2018 | Seasons Newsletter
Do you ever have times when you run low on patience, or even hope? — when it seems you’ve been struggling with something long enough, and you feel the situation may never change? There is a season that knows all about this. It takes place in the... 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...