Seasons of a Magical Life: A Pagan Path of Living

The book invites readers to return to a simpler time of earth-based spirituality and ritual living through writings from a small forest-farm in the Appalachian Highlands, featuring simple skills and insights into farming, gardening, food, fiber arts, sewing, household crafts, and health.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 25 August 2021
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser

An invitation to return to a simpler time of earth-based spirituality and ritual living is offered through writings from a small forest-farm in the Appalachian Highlands. This book explores the agricultural year as a starting space for a deepening of earth-centered spirituality, providing a set of backstories to ease the reader into a time between the pre-industrial era and the modern one. The chapters are broken into four seasons, with the quarter days as 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 farming & gardening, food, fiber arts, sewing, household crafts, health, and a glossary for any unfamiliar terms.

Weight: 286g
Dimension: 153 x 229 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781578637232