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An Earth based faith, Druidry melds the love of sea, sky, and land with ritual, story telling, poetry, music, and the visual arts. The spiritual lineage of Celtic Druidry spans thousands of years. For the Celts, the Earth and the Realm of Nature were alive with sacredness and with the elementals of fire, earth, air, and water, who were imbued with innate divinity and purposeful beingness. To the Druidic Celts the veils between the realms, worlds, and dimensions were gossamer thin, dancing about with the winds of cyclical change and the poetic rhythms of divinity. They were foremost pilgrim travellers embarked on a spiritual journey living a physical existence, which they perceived as one of many interconnected lifetimes, in an eternal sea of ever evolving sacred spiraling energy.
Knotwork and the Endless
Knot were symbolic of eternal life and the flowing continuity of the soul as the
Celts journeyed a path without a beginning or an ending.
Similarly, trifold spiraling swirling patterns and the Druidic Celtic Calendar Festivals were used to artistically express the inspirational beauty and harmony of the Natural World, as well as, their spiritual connectivity with the Sacred Mysteries of the Tree of Life. The boundaries between this world and the Otherworld for the Druidic Celts were adaptable, fluidic, and malleable. Everyone had the ability or aptitude to cross over the thresholds between lands and realms and to travel back and forth between them, especially during the Festivals of Beltaine and Samhain when the boundaries betwixt and between worlds disappeared for awhile. Druidry has eight seasonal festivals that were celebrated by the Celts. They were the solstices and equinoxes passages which commemorated the turning of the four seasons, and, the fire festivals inbetween these passages that celebrated the changes that ensued.
Modern reconstructionist
versions of the Druidic Celtic Year divided it into two portals. They were the
dark half which began with Samhain and the light half which began with Beltane... Continue on  Explore Druidry Treelore ArticlesDruids as Celtic Shamans, Glossary Terminology, Hallowed Symbols and Holy Ground, Megaliths and Sacred Mounds, Ogham Storytelling and Oral Traditions, Reverence for Natural World Animals and Birds, Spiritual Beliefs of Druids, Sacred Wheel of Seasons, Sun Talismans and Holy Wells, Threefold Path of Bards Ovates Druids, Treelore and Sacred Groves
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