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Shamanism Shaman Shamanic Journey Healing
Druid as Shaman
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. An Earth based faith, Druidry melds the love of sea, sky, and land with ritual, story telling, poetry, music, and the visual arts.
One of the primary themes of the Druid was the continual quest for soul loss retrieval and spiritual transformation through creative manifestation. As such Druids were spiritual counselors and philosophers who offered guidance about the enigmas, conundrums, and problems of daily life.
The spiritual teachings of the Druids were encoded in their stories, songs, and myths. Rooted deep in times long past, Druidry was a pathway that was alive with the sacredness of nature. Druids embraced 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 was the individual soul, as it endured through an eternity of lives, from dawn to dusk, and from season to season. The Path of Druid was a wisdom visionquest that embraced life as a magical celebration and honored animal, tree, stone, and star lore.
Druids viewed the body, sexuality, relationships, community, the land, the Earth, and the universe as sacred. The wild, nature, groves, restorative justice, creativity, artistry, beauty, peace, crystals, story, myth, and ancestors were all lovingly revered. The Druids honored the hills, circles, groves, and springs as sacred sites.
For the Druids there was no
separation between the worlds for their deities who were authentically luminal.
They were an integral part of everyday living, where the fires of the heart,
hearth, and home burned brightly as one flame.
Shamanic Druid Wisdom Animal Totem Owl
Image Courtesy US Fish and Wildlife Service
Druidic practices were passed on by Druids in Shamanic practices through rituals, festivals, rites of passage, songs, storytelling, folklore, and oral traditions.
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.
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. To be gifted with Awen was to know, to love, and to preserve truth with appreciative nurturing commitment.
Druidry for the Druids then was 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. Besides the Wheel of Seasons, the Druids maintained a three fold practice that also involved the Druid as Bard and Ovate.
As Bards the Druids were the guardians of the sacredness of the Word, the keepers of the ritual memories, and the poetic warders of the tribe. The Druid Bards were inspired by the spirit of Awen. They were musical dream weavers, creativity seers, sacred storytellers, and divinity diviners.
Druids as Bards were voice spinners,
singing word magic into being. Their melodies enchanted others with the wonder
of life. The songs of the Druid Bard renewed the land as they walked the Earth
journeying to Sacred Sites where the ancient spirit of holiness lingered still...Continue
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Shaman Shamanic Journey Healing Copyright © 2002-2008 Maureen Grace Burns, Blessings Cornucopia. All Rights Reserved.
Public Domain Image Shamanic Druid Wisdom Animal Totem Courtesy US Fish and Wildlife Service, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Northern_Spotted_Owl.USFWS-thumb.jpg]. Accessed January 11, 2007.
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