We have the option of learning from our previous ancestors to make this world a better place, in however big or small a way, for our future ancestors.

The simple question, “What ails thee?” is the showing of compassion. It is taking ourselves outside of our own minds and our own troubles and asking another person what is wrong, seeking to alleviate their suffering. Also, by asking our selves (the separation of the words, instead of writing “ourselves” is intentional here), “What ails thee?” we

From that, we literally gain inspiration, as well as being inspired by it. The inspired Druid then exhales that inspiration, whether it be a song to the darkening skies before a thunderstorm, giving thanks before partaking in a meal, writing a symphony, throwing paint at a wall, organising a protest against fracking or dancing in the light of the

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.

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

Daily Prayers Have you found some daily prayers through resources, or written your own? When do you pray? Is it at a certain time each day, or do you go more with the flow of events in the day? What is the nature of your first prayer of the day, and why?

These Bardic colleges endeavoured to retain and preserve poetry, history, mythology and indeed genealogy as well as some of the “magical” practices. However, in the early 17th century the Flight of the Earls saw patronage of Bardic colleges fade, and eventually dissipate. There is a theory that “hedge schools” were created by those who carried the

Meditation Have you begun to meditate? Have you managed at least 15 to 20 minutes a day? Have you had good days and bad days? What are some of your meditation experiences – are there any that stand out as particularly successful or unsuccessful? Keeping a daily meditation journal may help you to see progress, as well as help spot any difficult

There is another theory, however, that proposes the native tribes grew into bigger and more socially complex societies, which some Continental Celts settled into, and from which the Celtic cultural and religious ideas spread into Europe rather than the other way around.