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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  1. Reblogged this on Blue Dragon Journal.

    1. Thank you for the reblog! 🙂

    1. Thank you for the reblog! 🙂

    1. Thank you for the reblog! 🙂

  2. Well done Dana. I will definitely work rosemary into my ritual this year……..

    1. Great, glad it was helpful to you, Patrick!

    1. Thank you for the reblog! 🙂

  3. This is just lovely. I will be incorporating rosemary into my equinox observance this year. . . thank you! ~Pam

  4. Thank you for the reminder about Rosemary, which I have growing in abundance along with sage of course. Have a feeling a cup of Rosemary tea is just what I need.

    The journey is the best part … as you reminded me, thinking back to when bushwalking was effortless, a couple of friends I enjoyed walking with … he would stride ahead, she liked to dawdle, me I would walk back and forth between the two, enjoying their company and enjoying my own preferred dual method of striding out and stopping to examine interesting mosses or rocks or fungi.

    Now I can remember those times.

    Peace

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    Informative and well spoken and written.

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  7. What an interesting post. A topic that provides us vitality, invites us to explore, but at the same time, gives us some comfort and serenity. Well done. Thanks Dana!

    1. Thanks for reading, 3C Style!

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