ALG goes Meetup!

Last night’s grove meeting yielded some great suggestions for 2009. One was to establish a meetup.com presences for our grove. Keeping in line with swift action by our druid members, ALG has done just that! Be sure to signup for the meetup and help support our new endeavor!

http://www.meetup.com/ALGDruids/

Meetup
New Druid Meetup Group!

Awen’s Light Grove

Awen’s Light Grove is a modern druid ’seedgroup’ of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids established in January of 2007 in Central NC.

Most of our members are OBOD members, though membership is not required to attend meetings. The founder and moderator of this group is an OBOD Ovate member joining the order in 2005.

We meet monthly in the Cary, NC area and discuss druid spiritual growth, environmental… [read more]

This group’s first Meetup is already scheduled!

Awen’s Light Grove January Meetup — Monday, January 5, 2009

October Triad

Three lights to seek:

The light of the Sun to gain warmth
The light of knowledge to obtain wisdom
And the light of understanding to illuminate the soul

Understanding the world around you, teaches you just as much about the nature of the world, as it does about yourself.

by Twyrch

Lughnasadh Magic


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Originally uploaded by sundruid

Saturday evening was ALG’s Lughnasadh ceremony. This little tree frog came in for an evening snack of bugs that were drawn to the torch light. We know it wasn’t for warmth – it was hot and humid that August evening! The Moon vine was the bridge needed to crawl up the 6 ft to get close to the flame.

Each ceremony brings something that is either poetic of the natural world or in some way significant to the observer. I know many get the opportunity to slow down, and notice the beauty and draw inspiration of the world around us.

July Triad

Three beliefs out of step with our global consciousness:

  • One God
  • One Religion
  • Infallibility

When, in the history of the human race, have we become so arrogant as not to accept gods and goddesses common to other tribes of human kind? Intolerance leads to the illusion of one religion; the belief of infallibility inoculates us from the possibilities…

Sundruid