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The Rude Man of Cerne

Posted in Eclectic Nonsense, tagged , , , , , , , on September 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I’ve just noticed that the Cerne Abbas Giant, better named the Rude Man of Cerne, is looking a little worse for wear and his powers are apparently fading. This is a very serious matter. Couples have been making love on him and women wanting a baby have slept on his very obvious parts for eons. [...]

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Creative Block… at Lughnasadh?

Posted in Druidry, Druids, tagged , , , , , , on July 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »

I know enough artists and writers to understand the suffering of creative block. In the madness of the current age, when we feel compelled to be continually and consistently productive, there is a disconnect from the natural flow of things.
It is entirely natural to experience the fallow time, and to need to rest, re-stock and [...]

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Both being and becoming

Posted in Eclectic Nonsense, tagged , on June 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

One of the highlights of my year is the Midsummer Gathering of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids. Gatherings are held twice a year in Glastonbury, around the solstices, but the summer assembly is the one with the big ‘draws’: meditations, fellowship, a glittering and colourful public ceremony on Glastonbury Tor, a great feast [...]

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Bell Tent Report

Posted in Camping, Druidry, Druids, tagged , , , , on May 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I have just spent a week in my new bell tent and think it warrants a review! It was all much easier and straightforward than I expected!
I arrived at the camp field to an array of yurts and benders already constructed, along with a few other bell tents, some nylon jobbies and a sprinkling of [...]

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Maypoles

Posted in Druidry, Druids, tagged , , , on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

May is at last with us and my apple blossom is out, pink blushed, scented and beautiful. Newly returned from Beltane Camp, the May is very much with me, after the deeply magical celebration I have just been very much inside of.
A very powerful and physical ritual act was the making and raising of [...]

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Love and Joy at Beltane!

Posted in Druidry, Druids, tagged , , , , , , , , on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Well, now Beltane really is almost upon us and the blog will enter a temporary lull as I go off to celebrate at Camp. When I looked out of my office window yesterday at the sweeping vista of the Kennet valley I was struck by the sudden acceleration in the greening – even over the [...]

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Beautiful Beeches…

Posted in Arty farty, Druidry, Druids, Eclectic Nonsense, tagged , , , on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As I work again on the Ovate grade of the Druid learning, I am much with the spirit of trees.
Beech is my totem tree, my graceful Queen of the Woods. Here in the South, they stand tall and silvery, their arching branches like waterfalls of green. The shimmering delicacy of their leaves – eye-achingly verdant [...]

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Work as Worship

Posted in Druids, tagged , on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

An ongoing theme… much as I hold with personal responsibility and karmic exchange, sometimes we just need to have trust in the Great Spirit and the flow of the Universe. Work is really challenging me at the moment, and just when I started to question it all, a wonderful message came through from someone who [...]

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The Earth is my Church

Posted in Druidry, Pagan Music, tagged , , on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Well, the clocks have ’sprung’ forward and it’s officially the start of British Summer Time! Keeping this brief today as the Sun is at last gracing us with his divine and extremely welcome presence – and I need to get the broad beans and the spuds in!
Damh the Bard, whose music brings much joy to [...]

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