Oaklight

Timing is important to success in this world. It may be surprising to many, including Pagans, that techniques incorporating the ancient art of astrology are as valid as other soft sciences such as psychology, and some say that astrology is more relevant and useful. I don't mean the use of basic sun-sign astrology so popular with the general public, like the brief horoscopes you see in the newspapers or that come into your email box each day. I mean real nuts and bolts astrology based on a natal chart.

To anyone who sits and listens intently with his or her very soul, no matter where in the world he or she might be, he or she hears the call deep inside leading him or her to those ancient magical places. These special sacred spaces, whether known to many, such as Stonehenge, or known to only a guarded few, seem to call forth to those who would tune themselves to nature, and quiet themselves and hear nature’s song. The sacred Earth guides them to these places and gives special blessings to their rites.

(This is a meditation I wrote for my Druid Grove's Alban Eiler ceremony right before these words are spoke by the ritual leader hard boiled eggs are handed to each person. Try the meditation out it is a nice feeling meditation that really can help open your mind.)

Thank you for these gifts. Let us now take the time to quiet ourselves.

Let us close our eyes. Become aware of your breathing. In and out, the air cooling as it goes in, In and Out, the air gently warmed as it goes out.

When I "officially" started my Druidic Journey 12 years ago, with the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, I started as a solitary. Though the order offered a tutor program and there was a grove nearby I started out working completely on my own. Durring this time I started building the blocks that would be the foundations of my future studies in Druidry.

Greetings,

My Book "Under an Expanse of Oaks: A Druid's Journey" has been picked up by Dreamz Work Productions LLC www.dreamz-work.com and will soon be published. I will be posting more here and of course it will eventually appear under recommended reading lol. I am excited by this prospect and look forward to the publication to come. I'll keep the site posted as to how its going.

Yours Under the Trees,
Rev. David P. Smith (Duir) /|\

In this age of instant communication and the internet new starting witches, wizards, druids and pagans have a resource open to them that some of us could have only dreamed of when we took our first steps on our paths. The knowledge that is available now through internet sources, recommended reading lists, online schools and forums is immense and even for an adept can be quite an undertaking to wade through. It has really gone the gambit from finding the odd book in the library or the bookstore to finding thousands of points of views and traditions at one’s very fingertips.

Words have power,
Words with emotion have greater power,
Everything is energy,
Energy is effected by words, emotion and thought.

Through Quantum physics, I have learned about the studies done where they found that you can change the formation of water molecules or photons by a deep concentration of emotion and a word. Just writing the word on the bottle will transform millions of tiny particals.

With a word, one can make a person feel bad about themselves, and with one word you can make a person's light shine so bright you'll need to pull them back down to earth.

I recieved this from a friend and thought it might come in useful.

The faeries fly round and round,
As water falls to the ground,
As the magic fills the air,
Pilgrims make their offerings to the fae,
Hoping and wishing with each passing day,
The pristine glen with ancient magic,
To mar this place would be tragic,
The beauty of the paradise moves my very soul,
Until I fell I've lost all control,

And am moved to sing along,
I can hear the words of the trees,
Carried on the cooling breeze,
My heart soars above the falls,
As deep within I hear the calls,
The call to peace,
And true release,
My eyes flood with tears,

From deep within her body it flows,
Her blood passing through her bones,
Flowing eternally without fail,
Shed to nourish,
While her children flourish,
From high mountain to misty vale,
We come to drink of her blood,
From this place where starts the flood,
Renewing our beings to our souls,
Refreshing rejuvenating all,
Whether we are large or small,
Freeing us from our own controls,
From human to beast,
We are all released,
From where the grail water flows.