Dana O'Driscoll

Dana O’Driscoll has been an animist druid for 20 years, and currently serves as Grand Archdruid in the Ancient Order of Druids in America (www.aoda.org). She is a druid-grade member of the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids and is the OBOD’s 2018 Mount Haemus Scholar. She is the author of Sacred Actions: Living the Wheel of the Year through Earth-Centered Spiritual Practice (REDFeather, 2021), the Sacred Actions Journal (REDFeather, 2022), and Land Healing: Physical, Metaphysical, and Ritual Approaches for Healing the Earth (REDFeather, 2024). She is also the author/illustrator of the Tarot of Trees, Plant Spirit Oracle, and Treelore Oracle. Dana is an herbalist, certified permaculture designer, and permaculture teacher who teaches about reconnection, regeneration, and land healing through herbalism, wild food foraging, and sustainable living. In 2024, she co-founded the Pennsylvania School of Herbalism with her sister and fellow herbalist, Briel Beaty. Dana lives at a 5-acre homestead in rural western Pennsylvania with her partner and a host of feathered and furred friends. She writes at the Druids Garden blog and is on Instagram as @druidsgardenart. She also regularly writes for Plant Healer Quarterly and Spirituality and Health magazine.

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14 Comments

  1. Impressive!

    1. Thank you so much 🙂

      1. And your diagram rocks. It reminds me of the way I learned to draw Celtic knotwork. 🙂 George Bain and his dots, connecting the lines where they intersect, under and over and under… 🙂 His son later published a book that used mathematics to help artists do the knots, but it made absolutely no sense to me. I prefer the elder’s method. I still have my worn copy. 🙂

        1. I have seen that book, but I don’t currently own a copy of it. Its a good reminder to pick it up. I have a few different ones, and my dyslexic mind sometimes gets lost. I’d like a simpler method :).

    1. Thank you for the reblog!

  2. That came out great! Love the multicolored diagram.

    1. Thanks Cat! And thanks for your help 🙂

  3. This is awesome. Thanks for all the details!

    1. You are most welcome, Lizzy!

  4. Reblogged this on ravenhawks' magazine and commented:
    Thanks for sharing it looks awesome! Samhain Blessing to you.

    1. A Samhain blessing to you as well! Thank you! 🙂

  5. Hi Dana,
    The veils between the worlds are very thin this time of the year. Thank you for this teaching. It will help me to honour my dead.
    Yours under the red cedars,
    Max

    1. Max,
      Indeed, the veils are thin right now. It is a charged time. I’m glad this will help you with your own ceremonies! Blessings!

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