Listen to the call of spirit and seek the truth in wild groves, the shifting seasons, and the beauty of the Old Ways. Discover how to embark on this sacred green path and enrich your life with its ancient wisdom.
Practicing Druid and editor of Touchstone, the journal of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, offers a clear and structured course of study grounded in Celtic history and mythology, and highlights the mysteries and modern practice of this nature-based tradition. Each chapter begins with an evocation visualisation and captivating Welsh mythical tales from the Mabinogion are woven throughout, introducing lessons and key concepts. A Series of hands-on exercises will help you internalise these truths, develop a spiritual awareness rooted in nature, build a relationship with the multidimensional world, and ultimately adopt a druidic worldview to guide you in everyday life.
This book was written out of the need to provide an introduction to the Druid Way based on a Celtic metaphysic. The authors bring a wide experience of Druidic practice and thought to bear, presenting a work that will allow those new to the path to take their first steps with confidence.
The Rebirth of Druidry is the definitive guide to the modern Druid movement, with contributions from Chief Druids of America, Britain and France, as well as writers and mystics, healers and psychologists, professors and historians. Together they delve into the past and examine the history and sacred rites of the Druids, as well as examining the state of Druidry today.
The Salmon in the Spring is a bold book. It is bold because it - no less so than its author - isn't content to rest back on its philosophical laurels and ponder by-gone eras. To the contrary, Kirkey and The Salmon in the Spring invite and initiate the reader into a deep dive within the interior space of the Celtic mystic, but in archetypal and pragmatic ways that make an important contribution to the domain of ecopsychology today.
This book is a thought-provoking exploration of some of the metaphysical notions that are the foundations of modern Druidic thought and practice. Greywind is a Hedge Druid. His first steps on the Way were taken more than thirty years ago in the shadow of the Harvest Hill in Lewes. Although his roots are deeply embedded in the south of England and the West Country, his branches currently flourish and flower in the south-west of Scotland.
This enchanting, one-of-a-kind guidebook is for anyone who's ever wanted to know how magic wands work or longed to have a real magic wand of his or her own. Written by the foremost authority on the making of wands, this book is the first devoted solely to the art of wand-making and its mysteries. It approaches the craft from its theoretical foundations, through the selection of wood and the art of carving, to the enchantment and dedication that charge a wand for magical use. Readers will discover how a tree branch is transformed into a wand of magic, gain an understanding of the tree spirits, or dryads, and learn about stones and their powers. This book reveals the true use of phoenix feathers and unicorn hair as wand cores. No magician, Witch, or Druid should be without this groundbreaking work.
Druidry's modern worldwide appeal lies in its focus on reverence for the natural world, a belief in the value of personal creativity, and of developing a sense of communion with the powers of nature and the spirit. Its startling recent growth derives from its broad appeal: some treat it as a philosophy, others as a religion, still others as a path of self--development. Philip Carr-Gomm explains the practical value of following Druidism today, and examines its core beliefs and relevance to the contemporary issues that face us all.
The male in Druidry can be seen to equate to direct energies such as courage, focus, the hero, light, strength and power, and the use of directional tools. The female in Druidry is a pulse or rhythm, an apparently divided energy in itself, a series of apparent contradictions and paradoxes; a very different type of knowledge, light and power. She is intuition and patience, love and fury, and she is both the ebb and flow of energies, of life and death, renewal and decay. This book came about as a result of a visit to Ireland and a personal need to learn more about the Lady in Druidry, 'abroad' is meant in the wider sense of 'out and about' rather than being in another country. To analyse the Goddess is to restrict her, her ways are too complex for linear thought. We need to experience her rather than expect to understand her and substitute our restricted vision for a wider, holistic view of this incredible world into which we have been born. This is a book of discovery, intuition and enlightenment - shared rather than taught.
