That is why particular places have developed over the years as “power points” or healing centres – the Earth’s magnetism varies in intensity at different places, and so does the level of negative ions.

‘The art in this kind of magic is the art of parenting, of learning how to mother and father the idea into the world.

Within New Grange, each year at the Winter Solstice, the Great Rite is performed – a stream of sunlight penetrates to the heart of the temple, through a specially constructed shaft, oriented exactly to the midwinter sunrise. Love, sexuality, creation, birth and the indissoluble relationship between Heaven and Earth, is portrayed in a way that succe

I am the Fertility of the Furrow, into which you drop the seed of life at planting time. I am co-creator with the Goddesses and Gods, bringing forth life from my great and holy bosom. Boann and Bile fill my loins with teeming seed and fertile egg. and the plough carves my image in the sacred form of the Mother. Receive I the seed, bear I the life.

The worlds that are brought together in this book are those of Witchcraft and Druidry, and I have called the path that they create together Druidcraft, from the Irish word Druidecht, and from the inspiration of the Irish poet W.B. Yeats who uses this term in his poetry.

formal discussion between teacher and pupil that is known as a Colloquy.

THE RITE OF UNION

THE COLLOQUY (PART I)

‘I’m glad you’ve come here now – on such a beautiful night. This is the best place to learn about the magic of Druidcraft,’ begins Elidir. ‘Here, at every moment, Nature shows to you the fundamental law of life and of magic – the Law of the Returning Tide.’ For a moment, Elidir is silent, and you find yourself watching the gentle surf, listening to