If it’s just pajamas and a tank lmk! Or if it’s more complex!

Feel free to tell me your dream garb, or whatever your preference is for the time/more realistic.

This is project research so please please be honest 🙏

I've had people comment on the coats or robes I wear too. It's like oh thank you I'm glad you like it. It's like not even weird stuff either. I like cardigans and sometimes the designs of those can be very similar to cloaks someone might use in ritual, except smaller. Well I take full advantage of that. I even bought a pointy wool hat, which gets a lot of attention.

— Penny Billington

Reformed Druid Regalia

Here I’m in my short sleeved summer robe (my long sleeved robe would have been better on this chilly occasion). The tabard with the druid sigil is part of Oakdale Grove’s new uniforms, as is the green mantle on my shoulders, which doubles as a hood. In the RDNA there are very few rules on ritual garb. Official vestments of the higher levels of the priesthood are lightly regulated though.

The badges of office in the RDNA are sometimes referred to as ribbons of office because originally they were just ribbons draped over the shoulders. That’s great for any Reformed Druid priest on a budget. In my situation, I prefer heavier vestments that are less likely to blow away in the wind.

I am a Third Order Druid, which is also called  the Order of Dalon Ap Landu. It is the first level of the priesthood in the RDNA. Most clergy in the RDNA stay in the 3rd Order, and about 13% will enter the higher orders. Third Order Druids wear a red ribbon in the summer and a white ribbon in the winter. For our vernal equinox ritual, for some reason I left mine at home.

I am also in the Order of Belenos, signified by my yellow Masonic style collarette suspending a sun-face pendant. Belenos is a Gaulish solar healing deity which is indicative of the purpose of the Order. It is fitting to wear it on solar Wheel of the Year high days.

Additionally, I m in the Order of Sirona, signified by the two-tone blue ribbon. Sirona is a Gaulish goddess of healing waters. I’m also the second elected patriarch of the Order of Sirona, therefore I usually wear the vestments of this order.

There’s a rule that permits matriarchs and patriarchs (gender neutral: Atriarch) of the higher orders to wear black robes, but there’s an additional rule that if you choose to wear badges of office of multiple higher orders at the same time, you must not wear a black robe, otherwise it could confuse people which order you are Atriarch of. Furthermore you can’t be an Atriarch of more than one higher order. So on this occasion, as a priest in the Orders of Belenos and of Sirona, I wanted to wear both regalia, so I left my chimere at home.

I’m having an extremely difficult time deciding what to wear to the public Imbolc ritual my grove’s been invited to conduct at the Carleton College Chapel, which is the campus where Reformed Druidry began in 1963.

On one hand, I could be there as a representative of the Order of the Morrigan, wear my black/purple ribbons, and elder wood jewelry.

But on the other hand, I could wear green with my rowan jewelry and more closely represent the ties to Brigid that our ceremony seeks to celebrate. I worry I would be disrespecting my personal guide/guardian who chooses to present itself in the form of rowan if I showed up in my vestments Morrigan on this particular high day.