The Druids

Druidry brings elements of mythology, legend and history to life. Gives reverence to the past and our ancestors. The worth of their actions maintained where there is importance and relevance in today’s world.

A Druid looks out to what is there - and there we see in the landscape, reminders of the ancestors of place. A patchwork of times and lives who's mark has made life as it is now.

Upon the landscape, the evidence of our rich and vibrant - although often troubled history - stands plain to see, or can be uncovered by knowing how and where to look and listen.

As a Druid today looking to the past we see many things which inspire and enrich our lives in the present.

To know who you are you need to know where you come from.

A belief in the oneness of all things, connected and synchronised, playing out your role in bringing each moment forward.

To a distant past of Pre Roman and early Roman Britain that is known as the “Classical age of Druidry” we have Greek and Roman written evidence of the Druids of this time and of trade routes between these civilisations and Ynys Prydein.

Further into the past we have the megalithic Bronze Age structures that the 18th Century Druid revivalists placed as “Temples of the Druids.” From early in the 1700s up to the 1950s Druidry belonged to masonic type orders who believed to have re-awoken the priesthood of the Druids with the “Classical Renaissance.”

After the Roman occupation of Britain and up until the 18th century, the Christian church maintained the roles that were previously facilitated by Druids, such as record keeping of ownership and rites of passage. Now though, the political control that the church held has passed to Local Government, as the new religion of Science has diminished the fear of God in people.

Yet the knowledge of something that science has not explained still exists- unproven and hopefully never will be - the knowledge of God, Goddess and in their uniting – the Holy child/children.

Druidry accepts these questions are not answered and is willing to pass judgement through experience and exploration. The exploration of that which is outside the physical understanding and therefore unexplained by science.

Since the 1950’s the foundation stone of Druidry has become a conglomerate rock made up of segments formed in many times and places. A sword hammered on the anvil of our celtic heritage. Heated by the fires of the western magical tradition. Blown by the bellows of new-age spirituality.

Within the folds of its blade are held the elements of all world religions and old world spiritualities, philosophies and structured systems of belief that hold keys in the present to the past and the future.

The sword that is drawn from the druid stone is an individual beacon of our personal way of feeling the connection with divinity and the wonders of life.