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Okay, I've had enough of rainy weather keeping me from working, so I've finally done this: https://www. buymeacoffee.com/ravensong92

I have been reading the #runes and #Tarot for more than a decade, and am also conversant in natal #astrology, so if you need some spiritual guidance and want to throw your favorite treehugger a few bucks to eat and stuff, I'd appreciate it!

Boosts welcomed and encouraged!

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Okay, I've had enough of rainy weather keeping me from working, so I've finally done this: https://www. buymeacoffee.com/ravensong92

I have been reading the #runes and #Tarot for more than a decade, and am also conversant in natal #astrology, so if you need some spiritual guidance and want to throw your favorite treehugger a few bucks to eat and stuff, I'd appreciate it!

Boosts welcomed and encouraged!

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- Druidry
- Wandmaking
- D&D (3.5 and newer)
- Divination (specifically runes, Tarot, and Ogham)
- Native American-style flute

#Druid #Druidry #wands #wandmaking #DungeonsAndDragons #runes #divination #flute #NASF #music

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#AskMeAbout

- Druidry
- Wandmaking
- D&D (3.5 and newer)
- Divination (specifically runes, Tarot, and Ogham)
- Native American-style flute

#Druid #Druidry #wands #wandmaking #DungeonsAndDragons #runes #divination #flute #NASF #music

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@Cassandra @ahermitforhire okay, so I'm a liar: What Druids Are is next. Notice it's "Are" and not "Believe." At least as far as I've seen, OBOD does not impose any dogma on its followers or restrict them to being Druids with no other religious affiliation. I've yet to meet any myself, but the Order does occasionally boast of Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh Druids alongside Western pagans and Christians.

So there's no unifying belief system. OBOD Druids instead have a number of qualities in common, which as best I remember comes in the form of loves: the Loves of Nature, of Justice, of Poetry, of Beauty, of Wild Places, of Humanity. A prayer we recite goes as follows:

Grant, O Spirit*, thy protection;
And in protection, strength;
And in strength, understanding;
And in understanding, knowledge;
And in knowledge, the knowledge of justice;
And in the knowledge of justice, the love of it;
And in the love of justice, the love of all existences;
And in the love of all existences, the love of our Mother the Earth and all goodness.

(* - You can replace "Spirit" here with whatever moves yours)

Druids are lovers of art, music, poetry, and dance. Druids are lovers of the forest, the mountain, the desert, the sea, the night sky. Druids are lovers of humanity and have their eyes fixed on building a society that loves humanity too. Perhaps that's why OBOD begins its lessons with the Bardic grade-- to rekindle the Bardic spark is to look around at the world with newborn, wondering eyes again, and then being able to put to words what you see.

In summary: if you have a deep and abiding love for the wild places of the world, and recognize them as one of the many shimmering threads in the glorious tapestry of life, you have the soul of a Druid, & you don't need to have papers for that.

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@Cassandra @ahermitforhire okay, so I'm a liar: What Druids Are is next. Notice it's "Are" and not "Believe." At least as far as I've seen, OBOD does not impose any dogma on its followers or restrict them to being Druids with no other religious affiliation. I've yet to meet any myself, but the Order does occasionally boast of Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh Druids alongside Western pagans and Christians.

So there's no unifying belief system. OBOD Druids instead have a number of qualities in common, which as best I remember comes in the form of loves: the Loves of Nature, of Justice, of Poetry, of Beauty, of Wild Places, of Humanity. A prayer we recite goes as follows:

Grant, O Spirit*, thy protection;
And in protection, strength;
And in strength, understanding;
And in understanding, knowledge;
And in knowledge, the knowledge of justice;
And in the knowledge of justice, the love of it;
And in the love of justice, the love of all existences;
And in the love of all existences, the love of our Mother the Earth and all goodness.

(* - You can replace "Spirit" here with whatever moves yours)

Druids are lovers of art, music, poetry, and dance. Druids are lovers of the forest, the mountain, the desert, the sea, the night sky. Druids are lovers of humanity and have their eyes fixed on building a society that loves humanity too. Perhaps that's why OBOD begins its lessons with the Bardic grade-- to rekindle the Bardic spark is to look around at the world with newborn, wondering eyes again, and then being able to put to words what you see.

In summary: if you have a deep and abiding love for the wild places of the world, and recognize them as one of the many shimmering threads in the glorious tapestry of life, you have the soul of a Druid, & you don't need to have papers for that.