Author: The Druid’s Cauldron
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Finding Strength
“If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” Martin Luther King Jr. So there I was yesterday, cycling into the wind, the hail in my face making it very hard to see where I was…
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Into the Darkness
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” Carl Jung I thought I was aware of the cycle of the seasons. I thought I knew about the changing levels of light we enjoy in the UK. I am learning that I had no idea. Until this winter,…
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Ancient Irish Star Lore: The Pleiades, Fairies and the Ancestral Dead
All art by Samuel Palmer “Things don’t always look as they seem. Some stars, for example, look like bright pinholes, but when you get them pegged under a microscope you find you’re looking at a globular cluster—a million stars that, to us, presents as a single entity.” Jodi Picoult When it comes to ancient Ireland,…
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Samhain and the Cailleach
Cover art by Jurga Creations “I feel the nights stretching away, thousands long behind the days, till they reach the darkness where all of me is ancestor.” Annie Finch Although Halloween was celebrated on the 31st of October, another anciently acknowledged ‘thinning of the veil’ and, for many, the changing of the year, will not…
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The Truth About Wicker Men
“Don’t you see that killing me is not going to bring back your apples?” Sergeant Neil Howie, The Wicker Man, 1973 One of the historical accusations made against the Celts and Druids was that they burned sacrificial victims in giant wicker men. Victims would be live, and both human and animal. The imagery is powerful,…