Seasons of a Magical Life
Seasons of a Magical Life
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Ballard, H. Byron. Seasons of a Magical Life: A Pagan Path of Living. Foreword by Amy Blackthorn. Newburyport, MA: Weiser Books, 2021.
Ballard extends 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. 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.
H. Byron Ballard, BA, MFA (Asheville, NC) is a western North Carolina native, teacher, folklorist, and writer. She has served as a featured speaker and teacher at several festivals and conferences, including the Sacred Space Conference, Pagan Spirit Gathering, Starwood, Hexfest and many others. She serves as senior priestess and co-founder of Mother Grove Goddess Temple and the Coalition of Earth Religions/CERES, both in Asheville, NC. She podcasts about Appalachian folkways on "Wyrd Mountain Gals." Her essays are featured in several anthologies and she has written regular columns for both SageWoman Magazine and Witches and Pagans Magazine. Find her online at www.myvillagewitch.com.
Amy Blackthorn is a herbalist and root culturalist
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