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Nature Spirits Devas
Spirituality Druidry
An Earth based faith,
Druidry melded the love of sea, sky and land with ritual, story telling, poetry,
music and the visual arts. The spiritual lineage of Celtic Druidry spanned
thousands of years. For the Celts, the Earth
and the Realm of Nature were alive with sacredness.
In Druidry the elementals of
fire, earth, air and water who were all imbued with innate divinity and purposeful
beingness. To the Druidic Celts the veils between the realms, worlds and dimensions were gossamer thin, dancing
with the winds of cyclical change and the poetic rhythms of divinity.
The Celts 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.
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The boundaries between
this world and the Otherworld for the Druidic Celts were adaptable, fluidic, and
malleable. In the painting above gossamer winged
Fairies attired in finery and carrying celebratory garlands were looking through
a Gothic arch window at the Celtic festivities inside a home.
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; as well as, 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.
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