Charlotte Rooney, Author at The Wheel Within

What I Did For My Samhain Holidays by Charlotte Rooney aged 45 and 50/52ths

November 9, 2018

What I Did On My Samhain Holiday by Charlotte Rooney aged 45 and 50/52ths

I am writing this on a lovely gloomy misty day, from a cozy kitchen ,which really is just how Autumn should be when its not Continue reading →

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2018, nature, Samhain, transformation

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Samhain and a Ghost Walk

October 27, 2018

Charlotte Rooney

Last night I zoomed over to Bristol for Steve England’s Ghost Walk in Stoke Park estate. I love Stoke Park, it’s where I used to do most of my barefoot running, so it was great to revisit it in such Continue reading →

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bristol, halloween, Samhain, steve england, stoke park

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Summer Solstice 2018

June 21, 2018

Charlotte Rooney

Today was the Summer Solstice, as widely celebrated by most. It’s only in recent times of course, that we can be anything like as precise. Before the adoption of an agreed calendar time or the ability to measure time and Continue reading →

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Running, foraging and reflecting

May 4, 2018

Charlotte Rooney

Today I sat in my garden and nobody could see me. There is a spot where I can sit, hidden by shrubs, beech hedge and a really big and odd Tropical Thing, and not one of my many neighbours can Continue reading →

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foraging, menopause, silence, Wild food

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The Uncertain – moth elegy

April 3, 2018

Charlotte Rooney

As those who have been following will know, I’ve been working on a moth poem. It’s now finished. The poem itself is below, but I wanted to write a bit about how it was written and why.

The Continue reading →

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butterfly moth conservation, george monbiot, michael mccarthy, moth snowstorm, moths, robert macfarlane

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Natural Dyes 1.0

March 31, 2018

Charlotte Rooney

It has been much rainier than I’d hoped so far this Easter, leading to lots of indoor time – so what better time to have a go at dyeing some handspun wool with the birch bark I’d gathered on my Continue reading →

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birch, ivy, Natural dye, nature

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Rodborough Common – orchids and oakgalls and nettles, oh my!

March 24, 2018

Charlotte Rooney

Another equinox-y walk, this time on Rodborough Common with my dear friend Helen the Herbalist from Malago Medicinals. Everyone should have a herbalist friend to wander with, especially one that specialises in our native herbweed friends.

We’d gone armed Continue reading →

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landscape, nature, Rodborough, Stroud

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Spring Equinox – Standish Wood, Stroud

March 22, 2018

Charlotte Rooney

Each year, either by accident or design, I do a Spring Equinox walk. It seems to happen naturally – as the land wakes up, so do we, and it seems to call us out! This year’s walk was Continue reading →

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Cotswold Way, ecopsychology, landscape, nature, Spring Equinox, Standish Wood, Stroud, wslk

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