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by Tim Billbrough Introduction With an unusually large burst of Awen this past January, though, I set upon a quest to feast the Wheel of the Year with a special food item for each of the eight festivals. In these dishes, I try to capture the spirit of the specific...

Reposted from Caroline’s Williams Blog Druid Therapy The tiny acorn, as it nestles expectantly in the deep embrace of the earth, doesn’t resemble the mighty and towering Oak it eventually grows into being. How often we also forget that just like the acorn we are a young seed of potential...

by Maria Ede-Weaving Ogham has never been a big part of my Druidry. I was never particularly drawn to it, finding Runes more appealing and accessible as a Divination system. However, my own relationship with the tree and plant world has been hugely helpful and inspiring for me along the...

by Tim Billbrough Introduction With an unusually large burst of Awen this past January, though, I set upon a quest to feast the Wheel of the Year with a special food item for each of the eight festivals. In these dishes, I try to capture the spirit of the specific...

by Tim Billbrough Introduction With an unusually large burst of Awen this past January, though, I set upon a quest to feast the Wheel of the Year with a special food item for each of the eight festivals. In these dishes, I try to capture the spirit of the specific...

Many of you will know and love Yannick Dubois’s beautiful artwork. We are delighted to announce that today Yannick is launching his new book Ancestral Oak: Roots of the Past ~ Branches to the Future . Philip Carr-Gomm has endorsed the book and his words sum up perfectly this wonderful...

by Tim Billbrough Introduction I am not an overly creative person, I don’t sing, dance, or make music. I can tell stories, but it’s not my forte. Most of my bardic passion comes from my love of food and cooking. With an unusually large burst of Awen this past January,...

For all those who enjoyed Tim’s previous Blog post, here is his recipe to try for yourselves! Ingredients 2 cups/680 g coarse ground yellow cornmeal, plus more for pan 2 tsp/12 g baking soda* 1 tsp/6 g kosher salt 1.5 cups/355 ml buttermilk 4 tble/56 g butter, melted and cooled...

by Tim Billbrough Inspiration I am not much of an artist, poet or writer, but I do love to cook and to express my creativity through food. So I found, when my thoughts turned to the upcoming festival of Imbolc, that Awen hit me and asked what I would make...

by Nimue Brown, reposted form Nimue’s Blog Druidlife Recently on Facebook, my friend Vishwam raised the question of what would happen if we were all a little kinder to ourselves. As a consequence of the post, I’ve spent some serious time with that question. What does it mean to be...

by Maria Ede-Weaving The world feels a very intense place of late. It has got me thinking about grace under pressure and how we deal with those times when our world crumbles. Being a tarot nut, I so often turn to its wisdom, in good times and bad. This week...

We are delighted to announce that the new series of Adventures in Nutopia with David Bramwell has now launched! Welcome to Nutopia, a documentary-style series exploring radical ideas, new myths and social movements for a positive future shaped by community, re-enchantment, sustainability, ecology, creativity, magic and compassion. Don’t worry about...

by Lorien Cadier Our ancestors lived in what is described by Richard Rohr as “a naturally enchanted universe”, which they honoured and took responsibility for in an act of co-creation to ensure their own continuity and that of the world they lived in. Nature was not considered by them to...

by Philip Carr-Gomm There’s more to this! The mystic lifts a hand and describes an arc in the air. The detective leans forward and displays the evidence. The press fall silent as the scientist announces a discovery. Your friend in the world of politics confides in you. You lie on...

by John King, reposted from his Blog Muddy Feet: Meeting Nature on Nature’s Terms ~ A Blog about a Druid living in the Oak woods of Ardnamurchan So are you, well that’s my belief….whatever your belief, religion or if you have no faith at all the reality is that there...

by James Nichol from his Contemplative Inquiry Blog Half-way between the certainty of science on one hand, and the supernatural on the other, is mystery…Mystery is central to enchanted experience because enchantment is not a rational process of recognition, categorization, knowledge, facts or rationalizations. It is, instead, a pure experience...

by Damh the Bard, reposted from Damh’s Blog For many, the modern Druid tradition is made up of three ‘grades’ or schools. The Bard, the Ovate and the Druid. Sometimes it can feel like a linear structure – we begin as Bards, then move on to Ovate, the finally to...

Back in late 2020, we created the Druids for Justice page on the OBOD website. We intended it to be a place where members could share their experiences with Justice, and explore ways in which a Druid practice informed their approach. We are sharing again here the link to the...

Many of you will know that one of the charities that OBOD supports is Trees For Life. Trees for Life are replanting the Ancient Caledonian Forest in the Scottish Highlands. For 2014, our 50th Anniversary Year, we funded the planting of a Golden Anniversary Grove in Scotland – near Loch...

by Nimue Brown, reposted from her Druid Life Blog As I type this, all I can hear is bird song, and the small noises of everyday life. If I moved to the bedroom, I would hear the nearby stream in addition to the birds. These are good sounds that soothe...