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Rooted deep in times long past, the Path of the Druidry is a Wisdom Quest that 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. 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 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. 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.
One of the primary themes
of Druid and Celtic spirituality continues to be the quest for spiritual
transformation through creative manifestation. Druidry speaks to the Celtic
Heart, of the spiritual awakening of creativity after a period of immersion in
the darkness of the void.
Druidry embraces the wheel of cyclical existences, the circling, and the spiraling and views all of Nature to be alive with sacredness. The wild, tree groves, restorative justice, creativity, artistry, beauty, peace, crystals, story, myth, and ancestors are all lovingly revered. There was no separation between the worlds for the Druids since their deities are authentically luminal. They are all an integral part of everyday Druidic living, where the fires of the heart, hearth, and home burn brightly as one flame. Druidic Celts 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. As followers of Druidry, they were foremost pilgrim travellers embarked on a spiritual journey living a physical existence, which was one of many interconnected lifetimes, in an eternal sea of ever evolving sacred spiraling energy.
Druids were the clan elders,
the advisors, astronomers, diviners, judges, healers, historians, musicians,
philosophers, and shamans of the Celtic tribes. To them 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... Continue on
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