They may consider themselves Pagan or Christian or Buddhist or of no particular faith, but all these approaches are possible within Druidry, which seems able to become one’s sole spiritual path or to enhance whatever path one is treading already.

Despite these differences, however, certain themes were almost universally adopted: the reverence for nature, an avoidance of dogmatism or the development of a priesthood or spiritual hierarchy, and an absence of discrimination on the basis of gender, age, race or sexual orientation.

In addition, Druidry accepts and enjoys the means through which life comes into being – the inherently sexual nature of all life – and offers an approach that is based upon being fully involved in the world – on celebrating its beauties and joys, and on engaging its difficulties rather than trying to ‘rise above them’. It suggests that we are meant