- Gods and Goddesses
by Paul Sandover The deities considered here are associated with the Celts, and Druidic nature spirituality. These deities are often of the land and waterways, etc. There are deities of rivers, for example Severina (or Sabrina) of the River Severn. Yet the material presented here can be adapted to...
- Miscellaneous
The autumn equinox brought that moment when the light and dark hours of the day, for just a brief moment, were perfectly equal. That moment is like the silent, still gap between breathing in and out; sometimes we catch ourselves noticing it, frozen in our observance of its stillness but...
- Modern Druidry
Cast Sacred Space Ritual Statement: I draw circle to celebrate the festival of Samhain: summer’s end. The mellow light of late autumn is sharpened by a growing chill. As the darkness grows, through the bare branches we catch glimpses of breath-taking stars. We let go of the warmth like trees...
- Mount Haemus Lectures
- Book reviews
CICO Books 2019 Empower your life with Sophrology by Philip Carr Gomm really is one of those books that ‘does what it says on the can.’ So, if you don’t meditate, but suspect that your experience of life would be better if you did; if an underlying feeling of stress...
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‘As there are billions of souls/There are billions of ways to grow’ (Rumi) prefixes the introduction ‘Sex on the Beach or Death in the Afternoon? A mixology for the spiritual speaker’: this writer understands a good hook, has an open, original approach and eclectic tastes. His lifetime of reading...
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This book begins with the author, in the Bardic Grade, being told to write the book by a Yew tree, so the reader could be forgiven for re-writing the title of the book from the outset to ‘of course trees talk!’ It is really a book about the author finding...
- Modern Druidry
We live in a time when many are revisioning their spiritual practice, finding ways to contact ancestral and spiritual presences within their own tradition. The return to our first home in order to heal and remember is not an easy one for we have neglected ancestral teachings, mislaid the wisdom,...
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Yale University Press 2009 ISBN 9780300144857 (491pp) This long-awaited book is a tour de force. Interpretations of Druidry through the ages, treated to scrupulous scholarly dissection, in a masterly fashion. The first chapter, the raw material, should be required reading for all who have ever given credence to the...
- Miscellaneous
Hiraeth is a longing, a longing for my spiritual home. That home is in the mountains where the wind speaks to me, calls my name, drawing me nearer and nearer. The wind calls me to the stream. The stream that shows me clarity and energy. It teaches me about travelling...
- Modern Druidry
Nearly five years ago the Order piloted our first training courses for celebrants, and in October 2017 we launched the online School of Celebrancy, where people all over the world can access them. During this time hundreds of students in over a dozen different countries have taken part in the...
- Book reviews
(House of Anansi Press: ISBN 978-0-88784-766-0)Have you ever wondered why we place our four elements in the cardinal directions? Is it simply because we have inherited the Western Mystery Tradition? Water is in the West because, er, the Atlantic Ocean is in our (European) West? We can make good arguments...
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Very rarely do I read a book that I think of as essential reading for everyone. But this is one such book. I have to thank Damh the Bard for reviewing it in one of his blogs. His review piqued my interest and I ordered the book immediately. Having just...
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By being at one with the natural world, by paying homage to the sun, by centring our lives around Spiritor the Goddess, we can work together in community.~ The Druid Animal Oracle, Philip and Stephanie Carr-Gomm,writing about the bee. You may well drink mead in ritual. You may well light...
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The Shamanic Mysteries Seriesby Nina Milton I thought I would take some time off to read fiction for a change. I started reading The Shaman Mysteries series because the books stated clearly that the author was a druid, and they had been endorsed by Ronald Hutton. I loved the first...
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MUSIC MAGIC(K) – A GUIDEBY ENTAR TELLIMARRËN This short book, 91 pages, is packed with expert knowledge around using music as a form of magic. It is well written, easy to understand and everything is explained with examples given. The author uses the English language and the study of words...
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Scottish Folk Tales (Lomond Books ISBN/EAN: 9781842042472) £3.99 Lomond Books neglected to tell us who compiled this excellent work of Scottish stories but whoever s/he is we owe them a debt of gratitude. If you’re a teller looking for a source of traditional tales peopled with kelpies, brownies, fair folk...
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Pembrokeshire Folk Talesby Christine Willison(The History Press ISBN 978 0 7524 6565 4) I found this very Bardic lovely little book in the visitors centre Haverfordwest. We had travelled to take part in a dog agility competition that was part of the Pembrokeshire county show. Having left home in a...
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The Wisdom of Birch, Oak and Yewby Penny Billington.(Llewellyn Worldwide) I don’t know about you, but I haven’t got time any more for those endless books on recycled occult lore that I devoured in earlier years. I like practical down-to-earth material that actually helps me grow and learn, and that’s...
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Mysterium ~ Beyond the Cutting Edge of Scienceby Anthony Burns I loved this book, which provides enough basic information to enable the reader to explore the rapidly evolving areas where hard core science is moving ever closer to the spiritual and super natural. Anthony Burns has achieved the near-impossible feat...
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Exploring Avebury ~ The Essential Guideby Steve Marshall(The History Press, 2016) pp143A snip @ £ 1 4. 9 9! This remarkable book, beautifully illustrated with over 400 photographs, maps, diagrams & timelines, would be well worth purchasing for the pictures alone: the stunning photography complements & enhances the text, while...
- Trees
by Janis Fry It was at the turn of the millennium, on Christmas Day 2002 to be precise, that the Golden Bough, was discovered growing on an ancient Yew at Defynnog near Brecon in Wales. Several years later in 2017 it still grows on the same tree, like a flame...
- Trees
by Keith Slater 3 wonders of ancient woodland – Majesty, Mystery and Magic The majesty of the trees soaring above your head. The mystery of the ageless secrets held. The magic of a hidden world surrounded by city traffic. Sheffield still has the reputation of a dirty industrial city. There...
- Trees
by H. Catherine Watling You follow the path that winds through the ancient forest, or the marches and uplands beyond, in search of the tree whose wisdom you seek… Is it birch, guide to new beginnings? The faerie rowan? Or willow, tree of moontides and poets? Be silent and listen...
