Seasons of a Magical Life: A Pagan Path of Living - Couverture souple

Ballard, H. Byron

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1578637236 ISBN 13 : 9781578637232

Editeur : Weiser Books, 2021

Synopsis

An invitation to return to a simpler time of earth\-based spirituality and ritual living, through writings from a small forest\-farm in the Appalachian Highlands.<\/b>

This book looks at the agricultural year as a starting space for a deepening of earth\-centered spirituality. It gives a set of backstories to ease the reader into a time between the pre\-industrial era and the modern one, into a place where the fast\-moving stress of American life can be affected by a better connection not only to the natural world but to the elegant expression of the year as expressed through seasonal festivals and celebrations.

The chapters are broken into four seasons, with the quarter days a highlight within each, and feature simple skills that accompany each marker in the year. Author H. Byron Ballard offers 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, including insights into the following:

• Farming \x26 gardening: composting, manure, soil preparation, pests, seed\-saving<\/li>
• Food: cooking, preserving, foraging, the summer kitchen, mushrooms and mycelium<\/li>
• Fiber arts: knitting, crocheting, spinning, weaving, decorative cut\-work, and embroidery<\/li>
• Sewing: treadle machines, electric machines, hand sewing<\/li>
• Household crafts: candle\-making, soap\-making, broom\-making, sharpening tools<\/li>
• Health: medicines, tending the dying, death and death rituals<\/li>

  A glossary is included for any unfamiliar terms. <\/p><\/p><\/p><\/p>

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

H. Byron Ballard is a teacher, folklorist, and writer. She is senior priestess and cofounder of Mother Grove Goddess Temple and the Coalition of Earth Religions/CERES, both in Asheville, North Carolina, and writes as The Village Witch for Witches and Pagans Magazine, where she is also a regular columnist. Visit her at myvillagewitch.wordpress.com.<br /><br />Amy Blackthorn has a certification in aromatherapy and incorporates her experiences in traditional witchcraft with her horticulture studies. Amy's company, Blackthorn Hoodoo Blends, creates tea based on old Hoodoo herbal formulas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Weiser Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1578637236
• ISBN 13: 9781578637232
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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