This has been an interesting Summer filled with many new experiences and people. I've had a lot of opportunities to stretch my horizons a bit and have enjoyed the blossoming relationship that started this past January. Now we are moving in together and a whole new adventure is beginning. Moving and packing has proven to [...]
Category: Druidry
I was raised Irish Catholic in a family of farmers and teachers. It was understood that you first loved God, then your neighbors, and then the gifts of the land. Walking the farm was as much a spiritual lesson as economic necessity.
Through a winding and twisty path my relationship with divinity grew and changed. The most important spiritual experiences for me have always been through the land. Whether I was at the farm I grew up on or a park in the city, there was a peace and sublime pleasure in the natural world that I could not, and still cannot, replicate in any other setting. So the Earth is now my temple and priestess.
Druidry has been the easiest way I can relate my spiritual life and experiences with others. I am currently working on my Ovate grade through OBOD. I work mostly as a solitary Druid. My community comes from talking and learning with folks online through YouTube, this blog, and social media. Some Druids feel that the path is more a philosophy or a way to honor their history and ancestry. But, for me it is my primary expression of spirituality and is all the religion I need right now.
Ritual in Druidry
There are eight times a year where I take a day off from work (a luxury that many people don't have the option of) and plan a way to devote most of my time to my spiritual practice. These days are of course the eight holidays on the Pagan Wheel of the Year: Winter and [...]
Book Review: Trees of the Goddess by Elen Sentier
The spirits of the trees of the goddess still live in the woods and they will speak with us, show us things, take us on journeys, if we ask. The goddess will help us to find the old ways that our elders knew … the ways where reality is huge and exciting rather than small [...]
Saturnine Thursday
Do you know that feeling where there is so much going on that you can't seem figure out how to share anything? I've been meaning to get a blog post written for quite some time. I've also been meaning to finish editing about five youtube videos. All of that just keeps getting pushed to the [...]
My Spirit Animal – The Goose
When I was an toddler my mother used to put me in a car seat on in the barn while the rest of the family was working on projects near by. The farm animals, especially the poultry, would wonder in and out as farm animals are likely to do. The Geese, however, would always stop [...]
Esoteric Moment 