Enchanted Beings: A Trip Around the Wheel of the Year with 8 Practitioners: 2 (Two White Feathers)

In this the second instalment in her Two White Feathers trilogy practitioner Jenny Chapman takes us on a trip around the pagan wheel of the year as eight practitioners reveal how key festival times - Samhain Yule Imbolc Ostara Beltane Litha Lughnasadh and Mabon - connect with their contemporary practice. The resulting interviews are testament to an alternative way of viewing the world and different ways of harnessing energy. And what practitioners they are! A series of bards hags shrews soothsayers sorcerers shamans and witches - call them what you will - came to my aid writes Jenny and whether using horses with prisoners forging power tools with a magical smith or seeking communion with the Yew tree her interviewees prove both unique and linked in the open-mindedness and rigor of their approach. Jenny ends the book with a description of her own journey through the year and what her teachers have offered her by way of viewing the world afresh. Enchanted Beings is both a fascinating view into a world most of us are content to let pass by and a practical guide to how to access the ancient cycles which course through the shared land we inhabit.