Druidcraft: The Magic of Wicca and Druidry

Sit and meditate for a while on how you came into being. If it feels right, imagine your mother and father behind you, and behind them their mothers and fathers, and so on, so that you form the apex of a great triangle of beings stretching back through generations. Sense how life has travelled through all these beings to come to you. Sense the inte

Brighid, Goddess of hearth and home, I ask that this incense/flame might be blessed in your name, that it may purify and cleanse this home, this place.

‘They did,’ insists Elidir. ‘It wasn’t an instant process, that is all. When you have an idea for making or doing something, it starts in “thin air” – as an intangible thought. But a day, a month or a year later, there is the meal, the building, the painting. The magic of making is the magic of creation itself.’

‘You see you cannot separate the way you live from the whole subject of healing.

Three good things in one who loves good health: enough sleep at Bealtinna (in Spring), enough food at Meansamhradh (at Mid-Summer), enough fire at Geamhradh (in the Winter) Irish Triad

‘For instance, electricity is one thing, one force, but it operates by being polarized into two currents: positive and negative.

You have seen we do many things to encourage this. We perform ceremonies eight times a year to attune ourselves to the magic of the seasons, we take magical journeys in consciousness to explore the Otherworld, we enact Rites of Passage to mark important moments in our lives, and we connect to the magical current of Nwyfre to bring energy and vitali

‘Just as the Native Americans work in sweat lodges,’ Elidir explains, ‘The Celts, and, undoubtedly, the ancient Druids too, discovered the healing power of combining water and fire as many cultures have done, and developed sweathouses.

The act of male and female union is the cause of both birth and death. It drives the process of reincarnation, the Wheel of Life, round and round. And there, at the centre of this wheel of Life, is the God and Goddess, Eternal Mother and Father, united in love, giving birth to Creation.’