The “Living in Season” Store
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Featuring these Winter Delights . . .
The Advent Sunwheel by Helen Farias
A portfolio of ideas for celebrating Advent, including instructions on making an Advent wreath, recipes for traditional cookies and beverages, suggestions for a weekly ritual and carols with pagan lyrics. Plus four stories adapted by Helen from the Scandinavian tradition, perfect for reading out loud while the Advent candles burn: The Ice Ship, Holle and Holler, Sul’s Return and Hulda’s Ride.
Available in two versions:
E-book (available for immediate download): $15.00
Printed pages in a portfolio (mailed within one week of your order): $20.00
Thirteen Christmas Cookies
This little book offers recipes for making thirteen traditional cookies, served during the winter holidays, in the Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Scandinavia, Italy and Denmark. You will find recipes for making Kourabiedes, Springerle, Cavallucci, Speculatius, gingerbread, Advent pretzels, Lussekatter (Lucy Cats) Twelfth Night Cake and more. Each recipe includes an explanation of the deep historical roots of the cookie, including its symbolism, use in rituals and association with winter gods and goddesses.
It was my friend, Helen Farias, who first told me that you should bake thirteen different kinds of Christmas cookies during Advent. Even though I had never heard of this before (or since), I knew instantly that she was right. Perhaps she derived her idea from the custom in Southern France of serving 13 desserts after Mass on Christmas Eve. At any rate, if you make 3 batches of cookies a week during the four weeks of Advent (plus an extra batch one week), you will have 13 kinds of cookies ready for serving at Christmas or giving away as gifts, plus plenty to serve at your Advent gatherings.
Available in two versions:
E-book (available for immediate download): $15.00
Small printed book, comb-bound (sent within one week of your order): $15.00
Twelve Days of Christmas
I’ve been celebrating the magical time interval between Christmas and New Year, when time is suspended and miracles can happen, for over 15 years and it’s become one of my favorite holiday rituals and one I love to share with others. This illustrated book contains some of the traditions I’ve created, as I review the year past and create visions for the year ahead, and some I learned from my students when I offered this as an online class, plus
- Folklore about the 12 days of Christmas
- Ideas for celebrating each of the 12 Days
- History of the famous 12 Days of Christmas song (and alternate versions)
Available in two versions:
E-book (sent as a PDF file within 24 hours of your order): $15.00
Small printed book, comb-bound (mailed within one week of your order): $15.00
Yule Special
All three of the Christmas books listed below:
Advent Sunwheel by Helen Farias
Thirteen Christmas Cookies by Waverly Fitzgerald
Twelve Days of Christmas by Waverly Fitzgerald
E-books (available for immediate download): $30.00
Print versions: $55.00
Yule (Winter Solstice) E-Book
The Yule holiday packet is a big one: 60 pages stuffed with information on midwinter holidays, including:
- History of winter holidays like Saturnalia, Epiphany and Hanukkah
- Magical gift-givers like Mother Berchta, St Lucy and St Nicholas
- Recipes for Christmas morning porridges and warming beverages
- Menus for Christmas dinner
- Instructions for making luminarias and pomanders
- A selection of Yule songs
- And much more
E-book (available for immediate download): $15.00
“I have ordered all of your holiday packets via e-mail starting with Beltane and I am in the process of ordering the Candlemas Packet. I find your information invaluable in planning and preparing for our ceremonies. You are one of the most grounded sources out there. Thank you for your information and perspective!” — Julia Rinne, Hand of Spirit
New Year Dreams E-Book
Offers a series of questions, reflections and tasks to help you clarify your dreams and identify your themes for the new year, along with techniques you can use to make sure those dreams come true.
E-book (available for immediate download): $15.00
Winter 2011/2012 Natural Planner E-Book
Features questions about how you might use the energy of Winter to accomplish your dreams for the year, plus pages you can use for planning including five months that span Winter (November, December, January, February and March) and the Winter lunar cycles. E-book (available for immediate download): $15.00
A Year of the Natural Planner (5 e-books)
You will receive the New Year Wishes E-Book first, and then the seasonal planners, sent email before the season begins,for an entire year.
E-book (available for immediate download): $60.00
Leaves from the Tree of Time: The Illustrated Calendar Companion
Every week for 52 weeks you will receive a brief illustrated email with a reflection on the qualities of the present time period and one suggestion, task or question that you can savor throughout the week. Start whenever you like. When you order the Calendar Companion, you will receive the next week’s calendar companion, along with an introductory email. $36 for a year’s worth of gentle reminders to help you stay aligned with natural rhythms! More information here (including a sample). 52 weekly emails: $36.00
Slow Time: Recovering the Natural Rhythm of Life
Slow Time is The Artist’s Way for time: a workbook offering twelve weeks of reflections, stories and playful exercises to help readers transforms their relationship with time. The book shows readers how to jump off the hamster wheel of artificial time and experience the flow and the rhythm of natural time. “…an exciting book, inviting readers to a richly transformed relationship to time. A must-read for anyone wanting to recover the sacred in everyday life.” — Melissa Gayle West, Exploring the Labyrinth “This beautiful book leads the reader through the seasonal dance so that the ancient exchanges between creature and creation, nurture and nature can be gifted again.” — Caitlin Matthews, The Celtic Book of Days Click here to order!
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