by Juliet Batten | 31, Jul, 2023 | Seasons Newsletter
Are you noticing a shift? — subtle but unmistakeable? It happens every year around six weeks after winter solstice. Yes! The returning light (despite kickbacks of chill) begins to bring warmth with it. It can feel like a long wait for this relief.... by Juliet Batten | 7, Jul, 2022 | Seasons Newsletter, Uncategorized
A profound cultural event has just taken place in Aotearoa: the first Matariki public holiday. At last, the new year has come into alignment with the seasonal cycle of Aotearoa! — the return of the sun at winter solstice; the return of the stars at... 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 | 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...