Hello and welcome to psychic teachers. I'm your host Samantha Fay. And I'm Deb Bowen.

And I'm so excited to welcome you to this week's episode because we are going to talk about Deb's new book.

It's called Crafting the Wheel of the Year, 17 magical projects to honor nature's seasons.

And she has written this along with crafter and writer Claire Gelder.

Welcome to the show, Deb.

We're happy to have you.

How weird is this, Samantha?

Thank you so much.

I am so excited to get this book in my hands.

It's absolutely right up my alley. It's all about different

craft projects you can do to really connect, not only with the beautiful seasons and holidays,

but also with nature all around us. Tell us about the book and what people can get from

reading this and working with some of the projects in it.

Well, you know, I have to tell you, it really was a collaboration of love and wonderful connection to write this book with Claire Gelder, who owns Woolco Tour in England.

So not only was this book a process of collaboration between us, but across

continents, lots of good things came as a part of writing this book, but here's what you get

for reading it. I wrote the parts of the book that introduce the spirituality and the nature and the wheeling of the year through the

seasons, and not just when we think of the four seasons of the year, but in the old Celtic tradition,

there are eight seasons. So there are eight sections to the book that discuss the history and the lore and the

spirituality and the connection to Mother Earth with those eight holidays. And then Claire wrote

the instructions for the corresponding crafts. I also include in each section some information

on corresponding crystals and essential oils

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