Seasons of a Magical Life: A Pagan Path of Living- Celebrations, Festivals, and Rituals for the Wheel of the Year by H Byron Ballard

DescriptionRead the Seasons of a Magical Life by H Byron Ballard back cover and table of contents. Then, if it resonates with you, add it to your cart and buy it today for your personal library. We are providing the content as an educational aid to your virtual shopping experience. Text is copyrighted by Weiser Books.Magical Life Back Cover:For all those who are inspired to reconnect with the seasons, whether they live in the country, the city, or any place in between, Seasons of a Magical Life serves as a guide to earth-based spirituality and ritual living.Seasons of a Magical Life looks at the Wheel of the Year and its basis in agriculture as a starting point for deepening spirituality. Folklorist H. Byron Ballard offers a set of backstories to ease the reader int a time between preindustrial era and the modern one, into a place where the fast-moving stress of contemporary life can be affected by a better connection not only to the natural world but also to the elegant expression of the year through seasonal festivals and celebrations.The chapters are broken into the four seasons and feature simple skills that accompany each marker in the year. The author provides advice on spiritual and physical immersion into the seasons that applies to readers from all areas: rural, urban, and suburban. This is also a deeply practical book that includes insights into food, fiber arts, sewing, household crafts, farming and gardening, and health.H. Byron Ballard, BA, MFA, is a teacher, folklorist, and writer. She has served as a featured speaker and teacher at a variety of conferences and gatherings. A senior priestess, she is the cofounder of Mother Grove Goddess Temple and the Coalition of Earth Religions/CERES, both in Ashville, North Carolina, where she lives. She Writes as “The Village Witch” for Witches and Pagans Magazine, where she is also a regular columnist. Visit her at myvillagewitch.com.Seasons of a Magical Life by H Byron Ballard table of contents:Acknowledgements Forward by Amy Blackthorn Preface Introduction: Notes from a Small Forest-FarmPart One- Reaching Bedrock: Background Essays Animism, Mutual Aid, and Permaculture Tower Time and the Conceit of the Ever-Turning Wheel A Different Means to Recon Time Re-enchantment and the Uses of Magic The Good Neighbors, the Land SpiritsPart Two- The Wheel of the Agricultural Year Winter: The Waxing Year The Season of Samhain, Summer’s Ending The Solstice of Winter: A Thoughtful Quarter Day The Season of Imbolc: Light in Hand, in Heart, in Hearth The Vernal Equinox: A blooming Quarter Summer: The Waning Year The Season of Beltane: Dancing Life The Bright Solstice: Midsummer Lammas: The Season of First Harvest The Autumnal Equinox: A Fruitful QuarterPart Three- Hearth HomelyConclusion Glossary ResourcesStay connected with us on Twitter and Pinterest.