Category Archives: The Mysteries

Belonging to the land

Posted on 7 November 2011 by

I’ve borrowed my title from a post by Nimue at Druid Life in which she writes feelingly of this sense of belonging as a distinctly Druid idea and as a basis for ethics and practice. “If we belong first and … Continue reading →

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It’s the Easter Buddha

Posted on 4 April 2010 by

If you look at other religions, including Buddhism, from a traditional Christian perspective, they can look incoherent, inadequate, even demonic, depending on your starting point.  Some of the early Church Fathers thought that the myths of dying and rising gods … Continue reading →

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Exactly what it says on the tin

Posted on 23 December 2009 by

I no longer call myself a druid, but I feel more druidic than ever as I absorb the morning sunlight on my walk to work.  I have finally realized how much my well-being depends on exposure to the light. I … Continue reading →

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A useful quote

Posted on 23 November 2009 by

This mystery and the pathway to it [are] revealed every day at the Christian Eucharist, chanted every second by nuns and monks with the Mani Mantra and rehearsed continually by G[olden] D[awn] magicians in the Qabalistic Cross. –from Peregrin at … Continue reading →

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