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Druids were the Warders of the ancestral rites of the seasonal round and of the sacredness of the land, sea, and sky. As custodians of the knowledge keys, the Druids sang the universal lines of connectivity, of circularity, of cyclical change, and of creative inspiration down through the ages. The soul fingers of the Druid strummed the strings of balanced shamanic bonding with magical precision until note after note, word after word, spiraled outward in impassioned song lines that weaved multicolored leaves of unity that enhanced the sanctity of all life on the World Tree. An Earth based faith, Druidry melds the love of sea, sky, and land with ritual, story telling, poetry, music, and the visual arts. Druidic teachings span thousands of years and speak to the heart, of the spiritual awakening of creativity after a period of immersion in the darkness of the void. Druidry was a pathway that was alive with the sacredness of nature. Druids embraced the wheel of cyclical existences, the circling, and the spiraling. The spiritual teachings of the Druids were encoded in their stories, songs, and myths. Rooted deep in times long past.
For the Druids, the symbol
for Awen, /|\ , used since the seventeenth century, consisted of three pillars
with the outer two leaning into the center one. It represented the three worlds;
mind, body, and spirit; sea, land, and sky.
To be gifted with Awen was to know, to love, and to preserve truth with appreciative nurturing commitment. Awen also symbolized inspired creativity, spiritual healing, attunement with the Nature Spirits, the skills of divination and prophecy, and the fluidic flow of the spiritual life force. Triplication or the Power of Three was a significant symbolic pattern or design in Druidry. The theme of Triplication recurred often in Druidic inspired art, mythology, and religion. In Druidry there were the Three Kindreds (ancestors, fairies, Goddesses and Gods). During their Threefold practice that honored the Wheel of the Seasons, the Druids served as teachers of the oral traditions, as ritual guides between the worlds, as inspiration bridges between Awen and Earth, and as fluidic learned loremasters. As Treelore Shamanic Storytellers they told tales of Goddesses and Otherworld Beings appearing at critical life passage moments in groups of three. Triple faced; triple headed Celtic deities were venerated in various forms with the most popular being the triplicity of the Mother Goddess energy.
Sometimes the three
Goddesses depicted were identical; while, at other times their overall potency
was heightened by showing three different aspects of the maternal role...
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