by Juliet Batten | 5, Sep, 2019 | Seasons Newsletter, Uncategorized
On a wet August morning last week, my readers surprised me. I had put a question to those who had come from the northern hemisphere to live here in Aotearoa New Zealand: ‘What were the hardest things about adjusting to our southern seasons’? ... 
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 | 25, Oct, 2018 | Seasons Newsletter
These children are full of the joy of spring. Yet at the end of October their schools and kindergartens will be encouraging them to don witches’ hats and commemorate death. What are we on about? How did this happen, that a northern hemisphere...