Year of the Witch

Connecting with Nature's Seasons Through Intuitive Magic

By: Temperance Alden

Narrated by: Natasha Soudek

A fresh look at the wheel of the year, drawing on the power of intuition to create rituals and celebrations in harmony with your own traditions, your locale, and the climate of where you live.

When we think of the wheel of the year, the Wiccan wheel with its celebrations of the Yule, Beltane, Mabon, and Samhain come to mind. But what about a wheel of the year for the rest of us pagans and witches? As a witch living in sunny South Florida, longtime hereditary witch Temperance Alden has often felt at odds gearing up to celebrate Yule, for example, when it is 76 degrees and sunny outside.

Year of the Witch will help listeners create their own intuitive practices in harmony with the climate, culture, and local spirits where they live. It's of interest to witches coming off the Wiccan path and looking for a more personal approach to celebrating the rhythms of nature. Year of the Witch covers all aspects of this new, seasonal practice: the origins of the neo-pagan wheel of the year and why it is still so relevant today; culture, historical facts, and traditions associated with the major ceremonies; basic principles of land-based magick; how to intuitively connect to the nature below your feet and the local gods; and being a custodian to the land and its impact on our spiritual practice.

©2020 Temperance Alden (P)2020 Tantor

Passion Excitement

Overall descriptive writing ! The continuation of being Authentic in your craft! The LOve for the craft!

Good information

I really enjoyed listening to this audio book. I like the history that the writer brought to the book.

Poor choice of narrator

I can’t even finish listening to this, but it isn’t the authors fault. They have chosen a reader who sounds like she’s reading the news. In the 70s. This is a book about witchcraft, living in seasons, spirituality and they chose someone who sounds like a schoolmarm reading to her unruly students. Who made this choice? I’m sure this narrator would be fine for many other books, but not this. The book is fine. But, wow, I will always preview narration from now on.

Fresh perspective in a modern day

Having read many books over 20ish years on my personal journey. It's nice to see a fresh perspective in a modern day. As spirituality is not a ridged form seeing someone putting into words that money does not mean spiritual enlightened is fantastic as it echoes many many others thoughts on the subject. Using the wheel of a the year as nearly a guideline rather then a hard limit is what is going to enhance many people's own practices as they go. I appreciate that there are only two minute segments as this makes it easier to find information you may want to hear again. I find it amusing that many people dislike listening to these kinds of audio books when it's clearly an informative book. Not a story to be told but rather an informative to be shared. Books like these are meant to be listened to passively. Rather then engaged in like with a regular book. Moving into the audiobook world has allowed those of us busy pagans to keep boning up on our studies and I am proud to have another informative audiobook in my library to revisit as I need to.

Ugh... the narrator ruins it

This is a very good book. This is NOT a very good narrator. I was hoping for a pleasant review of the material, while doing other things, but I don’t know that I can tolerate this audio, all the way through. The bizarro inflections& almost arrogant-sounding cadence are approximately as pleasant as would be a cheese grater on my butt. Back to the actual book, for me!