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Avebury and the Ridgeway

It is hard to imagine the rigours and the joys our ancestors must have experienced on their travels. Then, as now, they wanted to travel to sacred sites and participate in the festivals there. Above the modern M4 motorway and the older A4, there runs one of the oldest roads...

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Anglo-Celtic Medicine Ways – The Shamanism of Pre-Christian Britain

by Dr Kennan Elkman Taylor First, a few words about the terms used in the title of this essay: Anglo-Celtic is often used to refer to the diaspora from Britain into lands like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States. Being an adoptive Australian who was born in and...

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An Australian Ogham

by TaranFOREWORDFirst of all I will say all references to months, festivals etc. are all from a Southern Hemisphere point of view, and yes I’m aware that I used the older names of the festivals not the new ones. This piece has been put together by myself using research from...

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An Astrological Portrait of Dion Fortune

by Sarah Fuhro Dion Fortune was an extraordinary esoteric teacher, occultist and novelist who evolved a system for connecting to other planes of existence through her study of human consciousness. She began as a pioneer in the field of psychoanalysis, and later delved into the mysteries of the human mind...

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An Animistic Approach to Dealing with Neurotic Disorders

by Vivienne Manouge   We fear perdition at every death, and death at every birth. ~Máire, a spirit guide. Neurosis exists before birth. That which incarnates through birth as a human being or animal is complex and extensive, and its consciousness of itself as an evolving being is more or...

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ALBION WILL NOT BE FRACKED RITUAL 28 SEPT 2013

A public ritual of Pagans and friends from many paths to protect Albion from fracking is being held at Glastonbury at noon. Over 1500 people have said they will attend, and others are holding ceremonies in different parts of the country, and the world, at the same time. For details...

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A Re-evaluation Of The Ogham Tree List

by Luke Eastwood It is not well known amongst those interested in Celtic Spirituality that the modern interpretation of the Irish Ogham alphabet is largely based on the ideas of Robert Graves, following the publication of his magnum opus The White Goddess. Those in academia generally have different ideas about...

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A Mythic History of Ogham

by Judith Dillon There exists an occult and sacred alphabet which the Hebrews attributed to Enoch, the Egyptians to Thoth or Mercurius Trismegistus, the Greeks to Cadmus and Palamedes. This alphabet, which was known to the Pythagoreans, is composed of absolute ideas attached to signs and numbers. – Eliphas Levi,...

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A lost stone circle in Borrowdale?

by Lesley Elphick & Toby Hindson It happens once in an age that a bolt of inspiration strikes, and reveals a pattern in something that always appeared random. This happened in 2003 to Lesley while she was visiting Borrowdale with Toby (Sciethe to some of you) on a mission to...

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A Golden Triad: Druids, Bees and Trees

Druids, bees and trees form a golden triad, each sharing in a relationship of vital mutualism, cooperation and symbiosis. Bees pollinate trees, and trees feed and house bees. Druids interpret, protect and nurture both trees and bees as sources of health, wealth, wisdom, and access to the faerie world. Alan...
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A Druidic Take on a Daoist Meditation

by Paul Magee A few years ago, while I was working my way through the Bardic grade, I had an interesting experience while meditating. I have had a meditation practice for many years, long before I started with OBOD, and I have largely trained in the Chinese Daoist style of...

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“Qu’il y Ait La Paix, En Nous Et Entre Nous!”

“Qu’il y ait la paix, en nous et entre nous!”Cours d’introduction à la médiation et à la résolution des conflits en 13 leçons par Brian Bronson,J.D., M.P.Apublié par L’Ordre des Bardes, Ovates et DruidesPO Box 1333 Lewes East Sussex BN7 1HB Royaume-UniTél / Fax. +441273470888Email office@druidry.orgSite www.druidry.org Introduction”Souvent, lorsque les...

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20th Mount Haemus Lecture : What Druidry does – a perspective on the spiritual dynamics of the OBOD course

Dr Susan Jones, MBA, has a professional background in science, higher education, business and government, alongside 30 years' psycho-spiritual involvement including 17 years as OBOD's Mentor Co-ordinator. Most that is written about Druidry by academics, commentators and leaders focuses on what Druids believe and do – what they practice and...
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19th Mount Haemus Lecture

Dr. Dana Driscoll, Associate Professor of English, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (US) has long explored how people learn to write and develop as writers over time. In this study, she applies learning theory to explore bardic (creative) practices in the modern druid revival movement. Through a survey of 266 druids...
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18th Mount Haemus : Lecture The Elementary Forms of Druidic Life – Towards a Moral Ecology of Land, Sea, and Sky

Jonathan Woolley, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, is part of a research project studying the relationships between people and the environment, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. His work with contemporary Druids explores the spiritual landscape they inhabit, and follows the political and social agency...
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17th Mount Haemus Lecture: Tree Lore is Wisdom

The ogam alphabet is important in Celtic history. It is important in Druidic tradition. But the ogam alphabet that is important in Celtic history is not at all the same thing as the ogam alphabet in Druidry. This dichotomy represents an excellent example of just how different history and tradition...
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16th Mount Haemus Lecture: Gathering Mistletoe – an approach to the Work of E.Graham Howe

Ian Rees analyses and seeks to interpret the work of psychologist and Druid Graham Howe, showing the centrality of the archetype of the Druid within it, and comparing it to more recent therapeutic work drawing from Preiddeu Annwn and the Mabinogion. Particular attention will be given to explaining and interpreting...
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15th Mount Haemus Lecture: ‘Almost unmentionable in polite society’? Druidry and Archaeologists in the Later Twentieth Century

Dr Julia Farley discusses the changing attitudes of twentieth century archaeologists studying the nature of ancient Druidry. As archaeology emerged as a professional discipline, its nature and character were shaped in part by its relationship to other ways of understanding the past. These included traditional antiquarian approaches as well as...
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The Shaper of All and Her Ninefold Aspects

Visualise far above you, a distant source of light which shines like a great star in the darkness. As it shimmers above you, the star seems to spin, sending off a Catherine wheel of sparks. It is as though the star has sent nine satellites of itself down through the...
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Epona

Epona is also known as the Great Mare. She is, first and foremost, a Horse Goddess associated with the Gauls. Unfortunately, any legends Gaulish Celts may have had have been lost to us. However, the Gauls and others did leave a rich legacy of inscriptions and monuments and it is...
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Cernnunos

At the Sacred Centre, in the Grove of all Worlds, He sits with legs crossed beneath an ancient Oak. Entranced, connecting the three worlds Earth, Sea, and Sky, and the worlds behind the worlds, the god and the Great Tree are One, His immense limbs widespread, stretching into distant sky...
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Brigid

Perhaps one of the most complex and contradictory Goddesses of the Celtic pantheon, Brigid can be seen as the most powerful religious figure in all of Irish history. Many layers of separate traditions have intertwined, making Her story and impact complicated but allowing Her to move so effortlessly down through...
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Blodeuwedd

She is a Goddess of emotions, representing the matrix that reforms transpersonal and universal energies into well-defined life force. She is also the Maiden Goddess of initiation ceremonies and is known as the Ninefold Goddess of the Western Isles of Paradise....
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14th Mount Haemus Lecture: Music and the Celtic Otherworld

Dr Karen Ralls explains how Old Irish and Scottish Gaelic literature can offer us clues to the ways in which music and sound can enrich our spiritual practice. From the beautiful, enchanting music of the faery harp to the sacred singing of the choirs of angels, Celtic literature has many...