How do you attune to nature when your inner world has been shaped by adversity?

In the second instalment of the Two White Feathers trilogy, Jenny Chapman returns with a deeper, more grounded understanding of the path she began in Book One. Where the first journey centred on awakening, Enchanted Beings explores what it means to live that awareness within the rhythms of the natural world.

Structured around the pagan Wheel of the Year—Samhain, Yule, Imbolc, Ostara, Beltane, Litha, Lughnasadh and Mabon—Jenny encounters eight contemporary practitioners devoted to these seasonal thresholds. Bards, witches, shamans, smiths and seers speak candidly about their work: healing prisoners through horses, forging tools with intention, communing with sacred trees, and aligning daily life with the turning of the seasons.

As the Wheel turns, so too does Jenny’s understanding of her own journey. Through interviews and reflection, a worldview emerges that is both ancient and contemporary, grounded not in belief alone but in practice, responsibility, and relationship with the land.

Rather than separating the psychological from the spiritual, she weaves them together, suggesting that what we call “enchanted” may be a deeper attunement to patterns already present within and around us.

The book culminates in her personal passage through the eight festivals, revealing how these ancient markers can illuminate the texture of everyday life.

Insightful, grounded and quietly powerful, Enchanted Beings offers a rare window into living pagan traditions and the enduring human search for meaning within nature’s cycles.

Within the Embodied Coherence Project, this stage explores how cultural and spiritual frameworks can help interpret and organise experiences of adversity and transformation.