Where do we take our troubles when things get tough?

In The Way Through the Woods, green witch Rebecca Beattie encourages us to reclaim times of great change in our lives – in relationships, work and family, and in our bodies and selves – as transformative, alchemical moments full of possibility.

Drawing inspiration from the ebb and flow of the natural world, this is a must-have seasonal toolkit for optimising your spiritual, bodily and mental health. Whenever you need a helping hand, be it through grief or menopause, a new career or finding your flow, this enchanting book is filled with nurturing rituals and wild magic to guide you.

The Way Through the Woods  will help you to pause and reflect, to reconnect to nature and to yourself as you uncover a path towards joy and abundance.

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‘Bring your troubles with an open mind and go away with the balm of nature and kindness.’ Maggie Brookes, author of Acts of Love and War

‘The best book I have found yet on the magic of personal growth and personal healing. It is a perfect journey through the year and through nature to the self.’ Ronald Hutton, author of The Witch

‘Laden with compassion and care, it ripples with hope and is full of delicious magic and ritual.’ Jinni Reddy, author of Wanderland  

In this riveting account, renowned scholar Ronald Hutton explores the history of deity-like figures in Christian Europe. Drawing on anthropology, archaeology, literature, and history, Hutton shows how hags, witches, the fairy queen, and the Green Man all came to be, and how they changed over the centuries.
 
Looking closely at four main figures-Mother Earth, the Fairy Queen, the Mistress of the Night, and the Old Woman of Gaelic tradition-Hutton challenges decades of debate around the female figures who have long been thought versions of pre-Christian goddesses. He makes the compelling case that these goddess figures found in the European imagination did not descend from the pre-Christian ancient world, yet have nothing Christian about them. It was in fact nineteenth-century scholars who attempted to establish the narrative of pagan survival that persists today.