#druid path

Sometimes, I forget that rest is part of the work.

That stillness isn’t laziness… it’s recovery.

That stepping away from my grimoire, my practice, my projects… isn’t abandoning them. It’s making sure I can come back with presence and intention.

Rest reminds me that I’m not a machine. I’m a living being.

Tied to cycles… like the moon, like the seasons, like the tides.

Some days, I’m full of words and energy and drive.

Other days… I nap after lunch and call that a win.

Both are sacred.

Both are valid.

Both teach me something about balance… and about honoring where I’m at, not where I think I’m supposed to be.

So yeah… here’s your reminder:

Rest is part of your path, too.

🌲🌲Hello there friends ! I’m back, and ready to pursue my study and learning about drudism. Today, I want to show you what I learned about the values of the Druid 🌲🌲

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Many people may wonder: in addition to its spiritual and magical teachings, does Druidry also offer social and ethical teachings? The answer is Yes !!

Druidry teaches ethics in a gentle and open-minded way. In a traditional Celtic fashion, the Druid does not pronounce rules or commandments. Rather, he or she poses questions, such as: What does it mean to be a good person, or to live a good life? What values should guide our relationships, our communities, even our nations?

Druidic values are not an inmovable bloc, but rather emerge from our dialogue with each other, with nature, with our chosen Deity, and with the flow of Awen magical or divine inspiration) in our lives.

Here is a brief summary of what is the most widely agreed-upon values of the Druids

🌲 Relationships  : humans are made to belong in a tribe or a clan. Even if solitude can be beneficial for reflexion, a lonely mind risk to be lost in its own beliefs and understandings. We need dialogue and exchanges to become wiser !

🌲 Self-knowledge : The call to Know Yourself permits no self-deception. It calls for an acknowledgement of both the fire of the divine within us, and also the earth of mortality upon us. (Myers, The Other Side of Virtue of Druids). Do not denigrate, nor idealize yourself ! Meditation is a very good way to reflect on oneself, and is widely used among druids.

🌲 Integrity : our spiritual journey begins for us when we sense that we are lacking something. We feel incomplete, and so we begin to strive towards Deity, enlightenment, wholeness. Further along the track we discover that these realities exist within us and that it is only our mind that believes we are separated from them!  Slowly, through meditation and spiritual practice, we open to an awareness of our completeness, our wholeness. We find integrity. And from this place of integrity we can act with authenticity, not trying to be someone other than who we simply are. (Carr-Gomm, What do Druids Believe) 

🌲 Environmental Awareness : (a very obvious one for druids, but so important !)  As the rain is intrinsically connected to the stream and the sea, so is every human connected to the mud and the wheat, to the water they drink, to the dead and to the children yet to be born (Emma Restall Orr, Living with Honour) . In our modern days, we tend to disconnect ourselfs with nature, which can be very damaging ! Try to feel the wind in your lungs, and open your mind to the environment surrounding you !

🌲  Generosity If we are to find within us the willingness to give with generosity, we can look to the need for personal responsibility to guide us: as an integral part of nature, we must retain conscious responsibility for our every action and inaction, understanding the impact our living has upon both humanity and the environment within which we live. (Emma Restall Orr, Living with Honour)

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But it's for me to post poetry and bits of a story I want to work on. It's just for some light encouragement to get my shit together and actually do something I enjoy.

Anyway....

I’ve been reflecting on how odd it is when people assume a polished thought isn’t a true one. As if a leaf stops belonging to the tree simply because the sunlight makes it shine.

In the druid path, we learn that tools are part of the craft. A stone to sharpen a blade. A journal to hold a wandering insight. A companion — human or digital — to help shape our words into clearer forms.

None of these things diminish the heart behind the work. The voice still rises from the same place: root, bone, breath, memory.

If anything, refinement is an offering — a way to honor the thought, not disguise it.

So if my posts carry a bit of polish, know that the spark came from me. From lived experience, from the quiet work, from the same inner wilderness I walk every day.

Those who mistake clarity for artificiality are simply not listening past the surface.