Structured around the eight festivals of the traditional Wheel of the Year—Samhain, Yule, Imbolc, Ostara, Beltane, Litha, Lughnasadh, and Mabon—Enchanted Beings follows a year of conversations with people whose lives are shaped by close relationship with land, season, craft, and symbolic practice.

Across the turning of the seasons, Jenny Chapman meets practitioners whose paths are diverse but share a common thread: meaning is not simply believed, but lived through attention, relationship, and repeated practice.

Through interviews, shared experiences, and personal reflection, the book explores how human experience changes when it is organised around cyclical rhythms rather than linear time. What emerges is not a single philosophy, but a collection of lived approaches to perception, presence, and belonging.

The practitioners work with animals, storytelling, ritual, craft, ecology, and traditional knowledge. Each encounter offers a different perspective on the same underlying inquiry: how sustained relationship with place, season, and symbol can gradually reshape the way we experience ourselves and the world.

The second book in a five-volume series, Enchanted Beings expands the journey begun in Two White Feathers and a Handful of Rocks, shifting the focus from sacred places to the communities and practices that keep those relationships alive.