Tag: Druid
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Imbolc at Clearwell Caves
Nipped over to the Forest of Dean today, to Clearwell Caves, for the annual Imbolc Rite of the Cotswold Pagan Society. It might seem odd to dive under the ground for a ceremony that honours the emerging light of the new year, and the mother goddess Brigid, reknown for being the keeper of the flame.…
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Druidry and the Ancestors
Druidry and the Ancestors, by Nimue Brown As the regular reader (I know your name) will know, I picked this book up the other week at The Druid Network Conference. Nearly all books on Druidry seem to have covers showing trees, and while this one is no exception, I absolutely love the artwork that Nimue’s…
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The Druid Network Conference 2012
And relax! The Druid Network 2012 Conference is over. And what a great Conference it was. There was laughter, there was tears, there were no-shows and impromptu stand-ins… and all through it I stayed mostly upright. Ok, breathe… there. This was our second Conference, after the first one in 2010 that went well despite all the…
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Book Pile
I’ve been a bit busy recently, and so the pictures I took in Cyprus and the review of the recent TDN Conference will be along in a little while. But oh, my, look what I bought at Conference! Already loving the listen of Talis Kimberley‘s CDs, I’m looking forward to reading Emma‘s new book on…
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As a pagan…
Philip Shallcrass, of the British Druid Order, posted a comment this morning which struck such a chord I felt unable to leave it only on Facebook. Of course, it might already be elsewhere, but now it’s here too. As a Pagan, I believe the gods are perfectly capable of looking after themselves. They don’t need…
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Bouncy Druids
We definitely have to have first dibs on this after the olympics… perhaps the sole good thing to come out of the whole impending debacle! I think we may, possibly, maybe, just a little, be singing this around camp fires later in the summer.
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Magic
There have been a couple of decent blogs recently on the subject of magic. Not the sort you see on stage, even when done by druids and similar lovely folk… but magic like in the stories… this partially written blog post is intend to more deeply formulate and articulate my impressions and explain what I…
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Reblogging: An open letter to Christina Odone
It’s not often I reblog someone else’s words, but this open letter from Jonathan Woolley at the Barefoot Anthropology site said just what I wanted to say – but said it so much better than I would have. The other day Ms Odone, a journo writing in the Telegraph, spewed a mighty pile of foetid inaccurate vitriol on the…
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Power of Prayer
Well you heard it here first, and I’m not always proved right. Eric (I’m in a bit of a) Pickles has played his trump card in response to the banning – or more accurately, the declaring unlawful – of prayers during Council meetings. Pretty close to what I said a week ago in my blog post.…
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Prayers
I was obviously interested to read today that a town council has been found to have exceeded its statutory powers by putting prayers on the agenda of the full meetings of the council. The case has gone right up to the High Court and there may yet be an appeal, but substantially it has been…
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