Oct 18, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min · 11 segments
I'm back! After some health struggles I am now back on track, thank you all so very much for your patience and care. I notice it all and appreciate you all. In this episode, I'm joined by witch…
Rebecca BeattieGuestIndiaHostIt's a season we seem to spend most of our time trying to escape.
We shut the curtains, we turn on the lights, we crank up the heating, and then we spend three months just waiting for the world to wake up again.
But winter is also a time of darkness and of magic, of ghosts and spirits and stories told around fires of endings and beginnings and things lying just underneath the surface.
And perhaps rather than being something that we need to endure, winter actually has something to teach us.
My guest today is Rebecca Beattie, a witch, a writer and folklore enthusiast whose work explores the ways that nature, magic, mythology, folklore and our own lives intersect.
Her upcoming book, The Season of Frost and Fire, takes us through winter in 13 rituals, drawing on folklore, tarot, forgotten goddesses and shape-shifting beings and that strange liminal period between one year and the next.
So today we're going to talk about why winter has become so disconnected from the way our ancestors experienced it, what we might actually learn from darkness and from dormancy, why so many powerful female figures might have been forgotten from our landscapes and our stories, and whether we've lost something by trying to make every season of our lives productive.
Rebecca, welcome to Ladies of Law.
It's lovely to be
Lovely to have you here.
It's a season we seem to spend most of our time trying to escape.
We shut the curtains, we turn on the lights, we crank up the heating, and then we spend three months just waiting for the world to wake up again.
But winter is also a time of darkness and of magic, of ghosts and spirits and stories told around fires of endings and beginnings and things lying just underneath the surface.
And perhaps rather than being something that we need to endure, winter actually has something to teach us.
My guest today is Rebecca Beattie, a witch, a writer and folklore enthusiast whose work explores the ways that nature, magic, mythology, folklore and our own lives intersect.
Her upcoming book, The Season of Frost and Fire, takes us through winter in 13 rituals, drawing on folklore, tarot, forgotten goddesses and shape-shifting beings and that strange liminal period between one year and the next.
So today we're going to talk about why winter has become so disconnected from the way our ancestors experienced it, what we might actually learn from darkness and from dormancy, why so many powerful female figures might have been forgotten from our landscapes and our stories, and whether we've lost something by trying to make every season of our lives productive.
Rebecca, welcome to Ladies of Law.
It's lovely to be
Lovely to have you here.
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