By Damh the Bard|2019-01-08T13:51:27+00:00January 8th, 2019|Categories: paganism, Seasons|Tags: celtic lore, damh, druid, druidism, druidry, fearie, folk, imbolc, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, religion, spirituality, wicca, wiccan, Winter Solstice|11 Comments
I confess that I have always found January to be the hardest month of the year. Named after the God Janus there is a real sense of things not quite beginning yet, with the God's faces seeing both back to the old year, and forward into the
By Damh the Bard|2019-01-07T13:10:25+00:00January 7th, 2019|Categories: News|Tags: damh, druid, DruidCast, druidism, druidry, Inspiration, long man of wilmington, music, OBOD, pagan, paganism, religion, song writing, spirituality|13 Comments
Well hello again, and happy new year! I love the feeling of 'resetting' that happens with a new year. It really feels like I can put stuff behind me and move onto new things. I know in some ways it's just an arbitrary date, but it somehow
By Damh the Bard|2018-12-18T11:55:37+00:00December 18th, 2018|Categories: News|Tags: DruidCast, Glastonbury, Holiday, Mabinogion, OBOD, Order of Bards Ovates and Druids, Tenerife, Y Mabinogi|11 Comments
The room is dark and quiet. A lone candle, no flame, yet burned low, wax melted, sits upon a cobweb-covered wooden desk. A door opens and a figure walks in, their footsteps disturbing the dust that covers the old woodworm-ridden floorboards. The chair scrapes across the floor
By Damh the Bard|2018-12-17T11:16:45+00:00December 17th, 2018|Categories: DruidCast|Tags: druid, DruidCast, druidism, druidry, Julian Vayne, magic, Pagan Federation, paganism, wicca, wiccan|0 Comments
Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 141 These are the Things - The Trials of Cato - https://thetrialsofcato.com Thunderhead - Afro Celt Sound System - https://www.afroceltsoundsystem.org.uk The Talky Bit - Looking at the last 20 years of Paganism - Julian Vayne - https://theblogofbaphomet.com Hawthorn - Ryn - https://rynacoustic.com Tom Paine’s
By Damh the Bard|2018-11-20T13:13:22+00:00November 20th, 2018|Categories: DruidCast|Tags: Anglo Saxon, damh, druid, DruidCast, druidism, druidry, pagan, paganism, runes, Suzanne Rance, Vikings|0 Comments
Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 140 The Gap of Dreams / Nia’s Jig / The Beekeeper - Altan - https://altan.ie The Talky Bit - The Anglo Saxon and Norse Runes - Suzanne Rance - http://www.suzannerance.co.uk Lady of the Lake - Lori Llyn - https://www.lori-llyn.com/index.html The Migration Medley -
By Damh the Bard|2018-11-12T11:55:51+00:00November 12th, 2018|Categories: Nature, spirituality|Tags: Autumn, druidism, druidry, magic, pagan, paganism, religion, S.A.D., SAD, spirituality, Time, winter|35 Comments
I noticed this week just how quickly the year had flown by. One moment it seemed I was welcoming the Spring after the Beast from the East had left our shores. Smiling at the blooming Spring flowers, enjoying the Blackthorn, the Pussy Willow, the Mayflower, and what
By Damh the Bard|2018-10-30T12:24:05+00:00October 30th, 2018|Categories: druidry, paganism, religion, spirituality|Tags: druid, druidism, druidry, fearie, Halloween, holyness, long man of wilmington, magic, pagan, paganism, religion, samhain, spirituality, wicca, wiccan, witch, witchcraft|7 Comments
Rainbow from the Long Man - Billie Wilson We had our Samhain open ritual at the Long Man of Wilmington this past Sunday. According to the calendar date we were a little early, but as I spoke about in this recent blog post I don't
By Damh the Bard|2018-10-23T10:14:01+00:00October 23rd, 2018|Categories: Y Mabinogi|Tags: Blanche Rowen, Bran, Branwen, celtic lore, damh, druid, druidism, druidry, fearie, Kristoffer Hughes, Mabinogion, magic, myth, mythology, pagan, paganism, S J Tucker, The Second Branch, Y Mabinogi|22 Comments
So how did this all happen? The first thing to do was to delve into the scholarly work that had been done on the Second Branch of Y Mabinogi. The background research, the exploring, finding books old and new, the familiar thud as they fall through the
By Damh the Bard|2018-10-19T11:46:31+00:00October 19th, 2018|Categories: DruidCast|Tags: Bones, druid, DruidCast, druidism, druidry, fearie, folk, Gemma Gary, magic, pagan, paganism, Troy Books, wicca, wiccan, witch, witchcraft|2 Comments
Shownotes for DruidCast Episode 139 Forests - Willowolf - https://willowolf.bandcamp.com/releases Hallowe’en Song - Richard Tucker Talky Bit - The Use of Bones in Magic and Witchcraft - Gemma Gary - http://www.gemmagary.co.uk Troy books - http://www.troybooks.co.uk Children of the Sun - Willowolf - https://willowolf.bandcamp.com/releases Prologue (from Y Mabinogi
By Damh the Bard|2018-10-09T13:28:06+00:00October 9th, 2018|Categories: druidry, magic|Tags: Aleister Crowley, druid, druidism, druidry, fearie, Forteana, ghosts, Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, long man of wilmington, magic, magician, mythology, OBOD, pagan, paganism, supernatural, wicca, wiccan, witch, witchcraft, Wizard|11 Comments
I've always had a private love affair. We fell in love when I was at secondary school. I hunted her out in the library where she used to hang out. It was pretty exciting. To that very young Damh the things she showed me placed my feet
