An Ovate’s Gift & Ushering in 2018

An Ovate’s Gift & Ushering in 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8PAJpLl4yQ&t=8s My Ovate studies through OBOD included a great many topics. Each topic provides a different path one could spend a lifetime searching for wisdom and bringing back gifts for your community and family. I'm looking forward to going back again and again to many of these topics. The path I found myself wandering the [...]

Creating My Book of Awen

Creating My Book of Awen

The magical arts are often associated with aging books of wisdom filled with spells, rituals, and arcane knowledge. Modern media sources like Charmed or BBC's Merlin show big, chunky books of magic that house botanical prints and all sorts of magical incantations and crystals. It is no surprise that these ideas and images influence Pagans [...]

Book Review: The Druidry Handbook by John Michael Greer

Book Review: The Druidry Handbook by John Michael Greer

For many Druids, Greer's The Druidry Handbook is their first introduction to Modern Druidry. It's easy to see why. The book has a beautiful, simple cover of Oak Leaves and claims to be a "hands-on manual of traditional British Druid practice" (publisher description). The author is the Grand Archdruid of Ancient Order of Druids of [...]

Book Review: The Handbook of Urban Druidry by Brendan Howlin

Book Review: The Handbook of Urban Druidry by Brendan Howlin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCzBmhz7suA *Sigh* I don't want to write a review for this book. I want to be encouraging to new Druid authors. I want more material and resources for Druidry out there. I cannot be encouraging about this Druid book. First, the grammar and spelling errors were frequent and distracting. The author spoke mostly in run [...]