A Witch for Every Season: Spells, Rituals, Festivals & Magic by Rachel Patterson

Description from NetGalley:

Enjoy a Month-By-Month Journey of Seasonal Magic

Create your own year of celebrations, inspired by the seasons and a wide variety of festivities. Learn how to honour the energies of each month with spells, rituals, meditations, recipes, moon magic, altar decorating, and other activities. Going beyond traditional sabbats, this book introduces you to more than eighty events throughout the year, including those with Pagan, Christian, national, and local roots. Build a large bonfire for Beltane, cast a shell into the ocean on Tynwald Day, carve a beet for Punkie Night, and cook pancakes for Shrove Tuesday. Featuring celebrations like St. David's Day, Walpurgis Night, Summer Solstice, World Goddess Day, All Soul's Eve, and Saturnalia, this book ensures that you'll have a magical journey around the sun.

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My Review:

I love celebrating the changing of the seasons and the holidays that are part of my culture and spiritual practice. I was drawn to this book by how the author broke it up by each month. The cover is also very pretty as well which I liked.

Each month has its own chapter. I expected there to be a similar structure as the author touches upon holidays, recipes, moon phases, alters, and more. What I did not expect was for there to be a lot of repetition which was really annoying. For example, the section on alters for each month starts with the same sentence. Referencing back to the sentence would have been fine but there was no need to repeat it for twelve chapters. I ended up skimming a lot of the book because I felt like there was not much new material as the book went on.

I really did like that the author provided holidays for this month. As a reader from the U.S., a lot of the holidays did not resonate with me as the author mainly did common holidays in the U.K. That did not bother me though as it still allowed the reader to get a sense of what they could potentially do. They would just need to take stock of the holidays in their own region.

If you're looking for a book about the sabbats, this is not the book for you. However, if you are a beginner looking to participate in the magick of each season without having to stress about memorizing new holidays, this is a good book for you. This book was not for me as I am pretty set in what traditions I like to do, but I found the read enjoyable for the most part and would recommend it to my beginner friends.