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How Druidry relates to the Environment

Posted by Autumn Song on Tuesday, April 12, 2011,

Druidry, perhaps more than any other strand of Paganism in the wide weave of spiritual traditions, takes the environment into consideration on so many levels. Druidry – most commonly believed to be from the old Irish words dru and wid meaning “oak knower”, or even the Proto-European deru and weid “oak-seeker” acknowledges this communion with nature in the very roots (pardon the pun) of the word. Heathenry – one from the heaths, or Wicca (most commonly believed to be from the S...

Mid-Summer Madness

Posted by Autumn Song on Friday, July 2, 2010,

Mid-Summer Madness

Summer

With summer fully (and finally!) here, we are reminded of the sun’s strength and power. The crops are ripening under golden rays, the wheat growing tall and the barley yellowing in the long summer days. What we have sown, what we have tended so dearly to in the early spring, and nurtured throughout a tumultuous season of returning frosts and cold north winds is finally coming towards a harvest. All very nearly ruined by late frosts, many crops – both those o...

Connection

Posted by Autumn Song on Friday, July 2, 2010,

Thursday, 24 June 2010

Self &the Forest (a clumsy pun on Sex & the City)

Forests are special places. Every time I come across a certain birch wood, deep within Tunstall Forest, my heart just expands, my soul dissolving. I become a part of the forest, losing my sense of self and recognising that I am a part of things, and not separate from it.

I cannot find this deep sense of connectedness in other places so easily. I think that this is because we can be in a forest. We can be upon...

FEEL

Posted by Autumn Song on Friday, July 2, 2010,

Wednesday, 28 April 2010

Walking through Tunstall Forest today, I saw some deer trotting through the dry undergrowth as I came to a very special spot - a young birchwood. A small adder crossed the path in front of me, and the words that you see posted by railway crosssings came to mind - stop, look & listen. The words rang through my head, followed by the word, FEEL.

I sat down, put my hands onto the warming earth, and, with eyes closed, felt the forest. The warm energy beneath my ...