- Sacred Sites
by Martin Samson It was the full moon before the summer solstice this morning, a good day to go and do some earth healing. I caught the train into Berlin to visit the Brandenburg Gate. Coming up from the underground station I was met with the busy noise of summer...
- Sacred Sites
by Andy Norfolk What is a sacred place?According to Ronald Hutton, ‘Any place can be a sacred site if a group of people regard it as such’ (1). Of course this means there may be a sacred No. 97 bus stop somewhere. There is a web-site which lists a drive-in...
- Sacred Sites
Earth sinks in the sea, the sun burns black,Cast down from heaven are the hot stars,Fumes reek, into flames burst,The sky itself is scorched with fire.I see Earth rising a second time,Out of the foam, fair and green;Down from the fells, fish to capture,Wings the eagle; waters flow.~ From: The...
- Sacred Sites
The Boyne passes in a loop around Newgrange which is the modern name for the ancient site of Brugh na Boinne, the House of the Boyne. It is one of the most remarkable megalithic monuments in the whole of Europe, being nothing less than a measuring instrument of time itself....
- Sacred Sites
by Philip Carr-GommWe can never be born enough. We are human beings for whom birth is a supremely welcome mystery, the mystery of growing: the mystery which happens only and whenever we are faithful to ourselves.~ e.e.cummings Sacred places often exist in the wider context of a sacred environment that...
- Sacred Sites
by Philip Carr-GommPersonally I have never felt affronted by the Cerne Giant and have no time at all for the simpering old ladies who cluck-cluck every time they pass it. The only residents I sympathize with are the elderly males or tired Dorchester business men who are constantly reminded by...
- Gods and Goddesses
by Eilthireach ForewordIn the material provided for the OBOD Druid grade course, there was a picture of the Genii Cucullati, three hooded figures representing a triad of deities. This brought me to think about the Bavarian Bethen, a female triad of later Christian saints rooted in pre-Christian religion.On the occasion...
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- Miscellaneous
Ancestors ~ Becky Deed by Donata The ancestor altar is set up to honour and remember the ancestors, not to worship them. The ancestor altar can become an all-purpose altar and be used for meditations, ceremonies, etc. Choose the table, mantle, dresser, etc. where you will set up the altar....
- Miscellaneous
by Jonathan Laszlo Mark To read the second part of Temples in the Backyard: Druid Home Gardens and the Spiritual Relationship with Plants Part Two click on the Pdf link below. The first part can also be found here.
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by Jonathan Laszlo Mark ~ My interest in Druidry lies in the spiritual relationship between Druids and plants, with a focus on the influence that this spirituality has on their home gardens. Over the course of two months, ten Druids’ home gardens were visited. Plant inventories were recorded to look...
- Sacred Sites
by Joan Letchford, daughter of George William Smith, Chosen Chief of the Ancient Druid Order 1946-54 ~ Foreword These are the memories of our mother Joan born 7 March 1923, died 2 November 2011. In her last months, she was delighted to find her memories were of interest outside the...
- Book reviews
Nimue Brown reviews ‘Storytelling for a Greener World: Environment, community and story-based learning’ by Alida Gersie (Editor), Anthony Nanson (Editor), Edward Schieffelin (Editor) – Hawthorn Press ~ While this isn’t written as an explicitly Druidic book, this is an excellent text for the aspiring bard. It includes a wealth of...
- Sacred Sites
by Marilyn Head ~ The “ravaged colossus” of Stonehenge, with its monumental circle of standing stones, attracts thousands of visitors a year to the tiny town of Amesbury in England. Now New Zealand is about to get its own Pacific version – Stonehenge Aotearoa – scheduled to open next month....
- Modern Druidry
by Jonathan Woolley ~ The Lay of the Land Imagine yourself walking through a woodland. The air is cool and fresh with dew. Your footsteps fall softly on the mossy ground. The birds are singing, the tree tops are filled with light, as all about you, Midsummer’s Day is dawning....
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Summer Solstice, 21 June 2000 ~ by Emma Restall Orr ~ Over the few weeks before the Summer Solstice, I was asked a thousand times what I was expecting to happen on 21 June at Stonehenge, whether I was looking forward to it, whether I would be there at all,...
- Sacred Sites
by Philip Carr-Gomm ~ The Salisbury Plain Training Area has, even for those of us living in Wiltshire, a little of the mystique that the Dark Continent once had for the Victorians: largely unknown, dangerous, but full of interest and known to have concealed within it ancient ruins and traces...
- Miscellaneous
by Sue Wookey Up high on the hill, soft grass bending over nubbles of flint, dark handspushing upwards under hawthorn tangles and a grey-snagged sky. I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised – after all I was obsessed with geology as a child and spent many a holiday bashing rocks...
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