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The wild, nature, groves, restorative justice, creativity, artistry, beauty, peace, crystals, story, myth, and ancestors are all lovingly revered in Druidry. They are an integral part of everyday living, where the fires of the heart, hearth, and home burn brightly as one flame. There is no separation between the worlds for their deities who are authentically luminal. Archaeological evidence suggests that many aspects of Celtic Druidry are derived from much earlier times, before modern historical records, when everyone still honored the hills, circles, groves, and springs as sacred sites. Druids are often associated with the more than one thousand stone circles in Britain, Brittany, and Ireland, even though the origins of the standing stones are shrouded in the mists of time, like the Isle of Avalon. Over the millenia the Celts passed on their Druidry through rituals, festivals, rites of passage, songs, storytelling, folklore, and oral traditions. In Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, the Bardic Colleges were active until the seventeenth century, using Druid teachings from medieval manuscripts written from the Celtic oral traditions. 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 B.C. in the rebirth mounds of New Grange, Ireland. 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 about the enigmas, conundrums, and problems of daily life.
Druidry speaks 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. 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. Currently there are over three hundred Druid groups worldwide, thirty five of which are in Britain, some of which claim an unbroken lineage throughout the ages. In North America, many whose ancestral roots can be traced back to Celtic countries, have rediscovered their Druidic heritage. Druidry is a path of soul journeying in exploration of knowledge, truth, and inspiration about the connectedness of mind, body, and spirit to the creative spiral dynamics of the cyclical divine triads. The Druidic "Wisdom Quest" embraces life as a magical celebration and honors animal, tree, stone, and star lore. Druids hold the body, sexuality, relationships, community, the land, the Earth, and the universe as sacred.
The Druidic Traditions were
devoted to maintaining their spiritual balance and sacred connectivity with the
Natural World by treating all things hallowed with the respect and reverence
they deserved. These deeply rooted spiritual traditions included: Bards,
Druids, Fairy Mounds, Healing Rivers, Holy Wells, Newgrange, Mound Building,
Otherworld, Ovates, Sacred Groves, Stonehenge, and Tree Spirits...
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