Category Archives: AODA

Sweeping out the druid hut

Hello, new subscribers! A number of people have subscribed to this blog while I wasn’t posting. I shall begin to rectify that now. To whet your appetite, here’s a list of Revival Druid groups: Druidic Dawn: “If you’re a practising … Continue reading

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Picking up the forest trail again

After what seems to have been a long hiatus, I find myself in the middle of the woods, like Dante–but not Dante’s dark wood of lost purpose and mid-life confusion, rather, the light-filled, ever-changing wood of druidry. (With perhaps a … Continue reading

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The voice of the turtle

I heard the cooing of a mourning dove while walking to work today, for the first time in months. It’s one of my favorite sounds, hollow yet intimate, distant even if it’s right outside your bedroom window. The voice of … Continue reading

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A year in the forest of druidry

It’s been almost a year since I received my First Degree in the Ancient Order of Druids in America, at Alban Elued, the autumnal equinox. It’s been about six months since I began to think of myself as working on … Continue reading

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A word about my tradition

The following is taken from the homepage of my Druid order, the Ancient Order of Druids in America: Founded in 1912 as the American branch of the Ancient and Archaeological Order of Druids, AODA is a Druid church of nature … Continue reading

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