Tag: Druid
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Discussing Druidries…
So I awake from the dream too early, startled by the too-loud close of the bedroom door as Miss gives up the night-time marking marathon and finally comes to bed. Opening my eyes I wonder where everyone has gone… all the druids who were there pointing out each others inconsistencies, but mostly all looking at me and laughing.…
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Currently Reading… Old Gods New Druids by Robin Herne
Old Gods New Druids by Robin Herne Re-reading, in fact. This is a book and a lesson plan – not unusual in druid books. It warms you up by discussing the history of druidry and authors take on druidry before incorporating a series of themed exercises. Like many of these books it’s often worth coming…
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Thought for the Week – Imbolc
Thought for the Week – Imbolc You must be noticing it by now, the lengthening of daylight as the Sun, reborn at Solstice, begins to fulfil his promise and calls upon the living world to wake once more from its winter sleep. We stand midpoint between the Yule and the Spring Equinox – the middle…
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Druid Camp 2011ce
Just on the eastern edge of the Forest of Dean, where the River Severn snakes back and forth around the Arlingham loop, there is an annual summer-long sequence of festivals faciltated by Rainbow 2000. One of these, The Druid Camp, has just finished. For nearly a week, more then a hundred folk of all ages…
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Thought for the Week – Beltane
Celebrating Beltane A little time back, thousands of folk in the UK including me roared out in opposition to the mass sell-off of public woodland and forestry. The government heard and for once acted on public pressure, and currently the Forestry Commission’s role as holder of our forest estate continues. There is another roar of…
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Thought for the Week – Yule
Well, another one writ, and with a small plug for the TDN and CC result… In the pagan year there is a kind of resting space between Samhain and Yule. From honouring memories of our ancestors at Samhain, we join in Remembrance of our honoured dead, and into a world itself seemingly dying. Leaves fall,…
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TDN Conference
Copied from http://druidnetwork.org/conference The first ever TDN Conference, entitled “Expressions of Druidry” was held on Saturday 20th November 2010 at the Bilberry Hill Centre, Lickey, in the English West Midlands. As one of the organisers I’d like to offer a few thoughts of my own, along comments from others who participated in the event. The idea for the conference was…
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Not just dippy, trippy, hippies…
Not that being a dippy, trippy, tree-hugging hippy is altogether a bad thing, but when described as such it does lower folks’ expectations and leads to one being taken less seriously than, say, your local Christian, Buddhist or Muslim, etc. From time to time, being kind of ‘out there’ as to my spiritual persuasion, I’ve…
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Thought for the Week – Summer Solstice
Thought for the Week – for Thursday 10th June “But being a Druid is just about rave parties at Stonehenge, wacky baccy and free sex, isn’t it?” I sigh, as the same old question comes from the mouth of an otherwise well educated and culturally tolerant work colleague. I sympathise with my Muslim friend, jokingly…
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