One of the common questions that comes up about druidry is whether or not you can call yourself a “druid” and when. I get this question quite frequently, especially from folks who are new and are finding their way into …
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Aligning with the 7Rs to Heal the World: Eco-Spirituality in the 21st Century
This week, my new book EcoSpirituality for the 21st Century is hitting shelves in North America on October 28th (and it will be available internationally on January 28th, 2026!) I shared about the book, frameworks, and overview on the Eco-Spirituality for the …
On Being a Druid and Walking a Druid Path – A Druid’s Garden Guide and Free Online Book on Druidry
Druidry today has both ancient and modern roots. Druids today seek spiritual connection with nature, using nature to guide, inspire, and ground us. Nature has always been a source of everything to humanity, and those of us who pick up …
Embracing the Wonder of Nature
It is a cold evening, quite cold for early October here in Western Pennsylvania, with the temperature dropping quickly as the sun sets. I knew that tonight would be the night I might get to see the Aurora Borealis for …
Deepening Your Druidry: Braiding Together the Ovate, Druid, and Bardic Paths
In my last post, I offered an overview of the three paths of druidry from both an ancient and modern perspective. The paths are: the path of the bard, emphasizing creativity, personal expression, and community; the path of the ovate, …
Introducing the Bard, Ovate, and Druid paths of the Druid Tradition
In most modern druid orders, we honor three expressions of the druid tradition: the path of the bard, ovate, and druid. I began talking about these last week in my Beginner’s Guide to Druidry post last week. These three paths …
A Beginner’s Guide to Druidry and Becoming a Druid
Seemingly more now than ever before, people are seeking ways to reconnect with the living earth, with their creative gifts, and with their ancient ancestors. They are looking to deepen their understanding of themselves and the world around them. Through …
Rituals to Support Wildfires, Smoke, and Climate Change
It has been a hard week for many in North America, and around the globe. About half of the United States is having record-breaking heat, up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48.8 Celsius) in a heat dome that shows and is …
An Imbolc Ritual for Creativity: Maple Awen Ritual
Traditionally, Imbolc is a celebration of the first stirrings of spring coming back into the land. For people living in temperate parts of North America, particularly on the eastern seaboard, the timing can be challenging–we are in deep winter and …
Artificial Intelligence AI Image Generation and Human Creative Expression
A few weeks ago, I received a text message from one of my most tech-savvy friends. The message described how he was exploring Stable Diffusion, an AI art generator and found my work in the database as well as the …
The TreeLore Oracle and Magical Compendium of North American Trees
One of the most important things we can do to address the challenges of today’s age is to build authentic, lasting, and meaningful nature-based relationships and spiritual practices that are localized to our own ecosystems. We can build deep connections …
UPG and Me: On Gnosis, Personal Gnosis, and Unverifiable Personal Gnosis in NeoPagan Practices
As with any spiritual path, the question of how we build knowledge, what we believe, and where that knowledge comes from is important. I think it is particularly important to druids as we have so few fragments of the Ancient …
Putting the Garden to Sleep: End of Season Activities and Rituals
The day before the first hard frost. Our garden is still bountiful as the Butzemann watches over all….As the darkness continues to grow deeper on the landscape, it is high time to consider how to put the garden to rest …
A 21st Century Wheel of the Year: Cultivating Receptivity at the Fall Equinox
The Fall Equinox is traditionally about harvest, harvesting the fruits of your labor and the fruits of the land in preparation for the coming of winter. This model of the wheel of the year focuses on earned outcomes: you’ve planted …
Druid Tree Workings: Exercises for Deepening Tree Relationships
Trees are wonderful and amazing beings, true teachers, friends, and wonderful introductory guides to nature’s mysteries. Sometimes though, we don’t realize what a powerful impact different trees have had on our lives. As one step towards cultivating a deep relationship …
Visioning the Future through the Bardic Arts: Creating Vision, Creating Hope
I used to be a big fan of reading dystopian fiction when I was younger. It seemed like a distant world, a reality far from our own. But perhaps now, those books resonate too close to reality. As someone who …
Land Healing: Distance Work and Levels of Connection
Often, working as a land healer is very local work: you work with the plants, animals, bodies of water, insect life, and many other aspects of life that are nearby to you. Depending on where you live, this is often …
Rituals and Prayers for Peace
Peace is a fundamental part of the druid tradition. The ancient druids had roles as peacemakers and justices, and today, many druids find themselves in a position of promoting and fighting for justice and peace. A lot of this work …
Pattern Literacy: A Guide to Nature’s Archetypes
The unfolding of the bramble ferns in the spring always feels, to me, like the unfolding of worlds. The tightly packed fronds, formed at the end of last season and dormant all winter, slowly emerge, uncurling so slowly that you …
Physical Land Healing: How do I know what to do?
Some years ago, I remember one influential druid speaking at a major event and saying, “The best thing you can do in nature is pick up the garbage and get out.” From a certain standpoint, this perspective makes a lot …
A Tree for Year Challenge
One of the most common questions that people ask when they start down a druid or other nature-based spiritual path is: how do I connect deeply with nature? Connecting to nature can happen in a wide variety of ways. It …