Pagan Portals - The Awen Alone
“Hail to the Day, and Day’s Sons, farewell to Night and her Daughters. With loving eyes look upon us here, and grant peace to those living here. Hail to the Gods, hail to the Goddesses, hail to the mighty fecund Earth. Eloquence and native wit bestow upon us here, and healing hands while we live.”
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Using what we have learned in the previous chapters, we can now bring them together to form our study and practice over the next cycle of the year. You can use this as a guideline for your own path, following it for a year and then see where the awen takes you
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Within Druidry, we learn to work with awen, with inspiration and the flow of life itself, to see where we fit in the grand scheme of things.
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But just what is awen? It is an awareness, not just on a physical and mental level, but also on a soul-deep level of the entirety of existence, of life itself. It is seeing the threads that connect us all. It is the deep well of inspiration that we drink from, to nurture our souls and our world and to give back in joy, in reverence, in wild abandon
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The air that we breathe is also the air our ancestors breathed 50, 100, 1,000 years ago. It is also the air that the willow, alder and yew trees exhaled 50, 100 or 1,000 years ago. The wasp breathes in the same air, the grasses and wildflowers exhaling into the deepening twilight. We can relate to our environment by simply remembering how to breath
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Walking Meditation
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we are to view it as a whole, then we must truly see every part that we also play within it. If the whole of nature has a spirit, then issues arise such as the taking of a life for food. Many within Druidry are vegetarian, if not vegan, and yet there are still others who eat the flesh of animals.
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The days are still warm at the beginning of autumn, the nights gradually turning cooler until the first frosts appear to let us know that winter is on the way.
Joanna van der Hoeven • Pagan Portals - The Awen Alone
Druidry takes the environment into consideration on so many levels. Many Druids are animistic, believing in the essential and inherent spirit of everything, whether it be rock or tree, raindrop, beetle, horse or the sea.