Pagan Portals - The Awen Alone

Autumn The harvests are coming in – now is the busy time before the slow, winding down of nature into the deep sleep that winter brings.

So, in sitting meditation, we don’t try to push away all these thoughts – what we learn to do is to become the observer. It’s all about noticing the thoughts that go through the mind, without attaching to them and becoming lost in them. As soon as we attach to them, we’ve lost our awareness, our sense of being an observer – instead we are a willing

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.

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.

Prayer – it’s a beautiful word. It looks pretty on the page; it falls softly from the lips.

If you are having trouble focusing in mindfulness meditation, you can always use this inner pathworking to help you find out where the agitation or trouble lies in your own soul. The more you use inner pathworking, the more comfortable you will become with it.

Breathing is the most primitive and simplest way we relate to our environment, and the most effective way of remembering that we are a part of it.

To look at Druid History we must look to the history of the Celts, who they were and where they came from.

Emma Restall Orr, a prolific Druid author, states on her website that she endeavours to live a life of which her ancestors would be proud.