Category: spirituality
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Now we are all minorities…
Today the Office of National Statistics (ONS) revealed more information from the 2021 Census in England and Wales, and it was the bit about the voluntary question on Religion. Now, I’m not going to get side tracked, but there’s an interesting subtext here about the census. Are we a united kingdom or not? Why is…
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When I became
This is a stream of consciousness waffle that fell out of my fingers as I read Nimue’s post on her web site here. When I set out on this path which turned into a form of Druidry, some twenty years or so ago, it was all about seeking some gnostic understanding of whether any authoritative…
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Blessings and Ponderings at Samhain
As we move through the time of the year when the ancestors are traditionally honoured, blessings to your dead folk. It is said, at Samhain / Halloween / All Saints / Dia de Muertos the veil between the still living and the no-longer alive is thin, permeable, navigable. For some, this time of year is…
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On casting circles
This is a personal presentation of a post I made in a forum in response to some ‘instruction’ on how circles feature within Druidry. It’s a little reactive, but I thought I’d share it out into the world. Maybe I’m wrong. I often am. I’m not going to be put off by your gaslighting, and…
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That census question resolved.
Following on from my whitterings the other day about the religioius question (the national identity question being an easy selection), I wrote this for The Druid Network the other day: The 2021 Census The 2021 Census takes place in England and Wales on Sunday 21st March, managed by the Office of National Statistics. (The Census…
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Census 2021 and the Religion Quandary
During the last census in 2011 there was a strong initiative to present the pagan paths as a recognisable collection of valid spiritual paths, with the dominant drive being “pagan dash”. In this the idea was to identify one’s path as pagan and something more descriptive. Perhaps pagan-Wiccan or pagan-Heathen or, as I did, pagan-Druid.…
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Someone said, what about the gods? LOL.
I think I have a significant disconnect in my perception of deity(ies) and my Druidry. I certainly view the latter as a verb, and treat it as an active practice without the need for any particular pantheon or “behind the curtain” deity. Therefore, let me relate – as indeed I have done here before –…
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A little rant on “pagan tealights”
Ok, so I guess pagans… we are connected to the natural world in a spiritual sense and find inspiration and communion within the enspirited landscape? It follows really that we don’t litter, we reuse and recycle and all the rest, we honour life and probably in a semi-animist sense we recognise not all that lives…
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Ritual in Covid times, a Solitary Perspective
This post has been provoked by trying to complete a survey on ritual under Covid-19, and by failing to complete it because of its unwavering bias toward ritual being a community process. I guess often and most likely in mainstream religion they’d be right, but for many in the pagan and Druid traditions (maybe it…
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Druidry in a Lockdown
As I type, we are still in the midst of the first ever national lock-in (and pubs certainly don’t factor). Ok, so I’m locked in, and probably you’re locked down; the difference being down to Janet’s extreme vulnerability to the covid-19 virus… I haven’t been off the property in more than six weeks now and…
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