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The ancient tradition of Druidry continues today and is experiencing a flourishing resurgence around the world. An Earth based faith, Druidry melds the love of sea, sky, and land with ritual, story telling, poetry, music, and the visual arts. Druids are spiritual counselors and philosophers who offer guidance regarding the enigmas, conundrums, and problems of daily life. The spiritual lineage of Druidry spans thousands of years. The cave initiations of Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain, 25,000 years ago were mirrored around 3,000 BCE in the rebirth mounds of New Grange, Ireland. They speak to the heart, of the spiritual awakening of creativity after a period of immersion in the darkness of the void. Scottish Druids and Bards trained this way for around another hundred years, and, one of the primary themes of Druid and Celtic spirituality continues to be the quest for spiritual transformation through creative manifestation.
Julius Caesar and other
classical writers were the first to document Celts and Druids in current
recorded history. At that time there was a great deal of crosspollination of the
Greek and Roman cultures with the Celtic. The Celts already had a highly
developed spirituality.
There were the Bards who were singers and story tellers; the Ovates who were time travellers and healers; and the Druids who were teachers, philosophers, and judges. Their spiritual teachings were encoded in their stories, songs, and myths. Rooted deep in times long past, Druidry is a pathway that is alive with the sacredness of nature. Druidry embraces the wheel of cyclical existences, the circling, and the spiraling. Realizing the divinity within everything, Druids sought answers to the eternal questions revolving around the unfoldment of the flower that is the individual soul, as it endures through an eternity of lives, from dawn to dusk and from season to season. The Druidry of Celts centered around maintaining their spiritual balance and sacred connectivity with the natural world by treating all things hallowed with the respect and reverence they deserved. The living waters of rivers, springs, and wells were venerated because they were believed to have both magical and curative powers.
Fairy Mounds, the Wee Folk,
Mineral Spirits, Hollow Hills, Leprechauns, Mound Building, Animal Spirits, Holy
Wells, Sacred Lakes, Tree Spirits, the Sidhe. . . the Druidic Celtic world
was alive with the vibrancy and the glittering glories of hosts of Fairies; of
the elemental beings of fire, earth, air, and water; of the holy divinity of the
land, the sea, and the sky...
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