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This week we share Joanna van der Hoeven’s beautiful short video on finding the Gods, first posted on Joanna’s website Down the Forest Path on 8 February 2023…
...- Swedish Language Essays
Translation by Saga Bond The Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids (sv. ‘Orden av Barder, Ovater & Druider’) är en världsomfattande grupp som är dedikerad till praktisering, undervisning och utveckling av Druidry som en värdefull och inspirerande andlighet. Orden grundades i Storbritannien för nästan 50 år sedan av historikern och...
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by Maria Ede-WeavingThere are fulmars nesting in the red cliff. Along its upper reaches, the sandstone is pocked with holes just large enough for two snuggling fulmars and a bed of twigs. Each cavity houses a pair, five or six in all, maybe more to come. In recent years fulmars...
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by Damh the Bard Look, I know that you know I’ve not been your greatest fan. Ok, that’s an understatement, I’ve never liked you. Looking back I don’t think you’ve really ever done anything wrong. It’s not like I have some overriding memory logged in my childhood of a Winter...
- Modern Druidry
Happy happy Winter Solstice 🤗☀️🌍 🔥 // And indeed, a Happy Christmas, Happy Hanukkah for last week, Happy Thanksgiving for last month, and any of the winter celebrations you are marking this year 🙏🏻 // Wherever you are, may you be able to spend time with loved ones, may you...
- Astrology
~ Helena Nelson-Reed by Ella Moonbridge This offering has appeared as if of its own volition, and makes some strange sense to me. It may make far less sense to others. Astrology has been important to me for forty years now and been constantly useful to me as my...
- Modern Druidry
Today marks All Saints Day, Wszystkich Świętych, Fête de la Toussaint – and with Dia de los Muertos tomorrow – it offers a rich reminder of how this time of year is celebrated across the world, in many different cultures. Whatever we might call it, whichever tradition we’re from, the...
- Modern Druidry
by Bran Paolo Veneziani I have taken the time to work because this is the price of success.I have taken the time to think and meditate because this is the real origin of interior strength.I have taken the time to love and be loved because this is the privilege and...
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- Modern Druidry
by Joanna Van Der Hoeven For me, Druidry is not a white-robed affair. Crawling under low scrub pines and getting inside secret places of gorse bushes where only the deer trod, or standing on the seashore in the howling rain, or in the heart of the forest with the badgers...
- Modern Druidry
by Joanna Van Der Hoeven Druidry can be summed up in three words – truth, honour and service. Yet these words can be very vague – what do they mean to the Druid? Truth is not just figurative and literal truth. There are other dimensions to the word when we...
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by Karen Sobel Letter Dear Friends on the Druid Path: Quite appropriately, I celebrated the first Imbolc of the Ovate grade while I was massively pregnant with my daughter. I remember lighting candles on a cold, silent night, creating a small circle of firelight, and thinking, ‘Obviously I’m not doing...
- Miscellaneous
by Sue Baxter I have grown herbs for many years, and use them in cooking, cleaning, for making incense etc. While beginning my studies on the OBOD Ovate course, and after a visit to Chambawallah Teas shop in Birmingham, I felt guided to research, journey and create a tea ritual....
- Modern Druidry
by Adam Winbigler In moving through the forest of the Ovates, one of the skills I felt particularly moved to develop were those of the healer. What follows is the result of that work, combined with experiences I brought with me to the Order. I present them here in the...
- Modern Druidry
Here we are. Here she is! Autumn. All browns and auburns and yellows and golds. Wading in with her low sun, cooler mornings and shorter days. Equal day and equal night. As perfect a balance as the universe can offer. Waving goodbye to summer, equinox is a beautiful time for...
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- Trees
by Heidi Smith As an American OBOD Ovate, I find the study of Ogham challenging, in part because some of the trees that are so important to me are missing. For the modern druid in a global world, the correspondences must resonate. Determined to add local tree heroes to my...
- Miscellaneous
by The Most Rev. Shaun McCann By the rowan and the brierBy the raging forest fireBy the sky in lightening tornBy the moon that’s newly bornBy the rising of the sunBy the task that I have doneI bind my feeble soul to theeAlmighty, Son, and Spirit three.~ Fr. David Adam...
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by Sandie Coombs Introduction Many years have passed since I originally wrote ‘Time may Heal but Scars Remain’ following a transformational meditation during the Ovate grade. The many gateways journeyed through, as I progressed through the Bardic and Ovate course gave me strength, understanding, healing and acceptance. These were the...
- Modern Druidry
by Philip Carr-Gomm The subject of this essay is the contribution that contemporary Druidry might play in promoting psychological wellbeing. I’ll begin by setting the scene for you, telling you a little bit about who I am, and about why I have chosen this theme, and then we’ll move into...
- Miscellaneous
gic techniques to quiet those critical voices, and we talked about whether it would be safe and wise to do so. Buoyed by her encouragement, I developed a ritual to do so. In my therapy, I work largely from an Internal Family Systems perspective, which treats the mind as plural...
- Miscellaneous
by Kimberly Israel I created this ritual to deal with integrating the experience of my own trauma as the experience itself was coming to a close. It gave me a way to handle all the intense feelings: It’s an inescapable fact that this happened to me; I did not in...
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- Modern Druidry
by Kimberly Israel Some time ago, my therapist introduced me to a model called Internal Family Systems. As the name may suggest, this model treats the mind as plural, with different parts each having their own priorities and personalities. All the parts want to help, but because of trauma or...
