Exploring Celtic Druidism: Ancient Magick and Rituals for Personal Empowerment

by Sirona Knight

Filled with magick and rituals, let Sirona Knight’s book be your guide to the path of modern Celtic Druidism.
 
An overflowing cauldron of information, magickal works, and Druid rituals, Exploring Celtic Druidism presents the authentic teachings of the modern Celtic Druid tradition to a wide audience. You’ll learn what Druidism is and how to practice it to achieve a more positive and enriching life. Included are easy-to-use instructions for gathering your ritual tools, choosing a craft name, personal initiation, performing magickal works, and celebrating the eight Great Days of the year.
 
Surrounded in mystery, Druidism is one of the most exalting adventures of the human spirit. Exploring Celtic Druidism provides practical methods for continuing this adventure by walking between worlds. This magickal book explains how the awareness of your spiritual connection with the land is one of the most personally empowering and positive things about modern Druidism. Honoring the Goddess and the creative, regenerative principles of nature, modern Druidism is characterized by a total refusal of duality under any of its forms. Everything is connected and part of a greater whole and Oneness.
 
Exploring Celtic Druidism opens the door to the world of the Druids, the group most closely associated with Stonehenge and the mysterious standing stones. This hands-on God and Goddess training guide can help readers discover the Merlin within them. Exploring Celtic Druidism explains how to attain a high degree of inner vision through personal initiation and by performing the Five Magical Druid the Talisman, Pentacle, Binding, Healing Work, and Cone of Power. Also included are the original Gwyddonic Druid rituals for the Eight Solar Festivals of Yule, Bridget’s Fire, Hertha’s Day, Beltane, Midsummer, Lughnasadh, Hellith’s Day, and Samhain.

Genres: Paganism, Spirituality, Nonfiction, Wicca

240 pages, Paperback

First published September 5, 2001

About the author

Sirona Knight, M.S. (Psychology and leisure studies, California State University, Sacramento), is a Third Degree Craftmaster and High Priestess of the Celtic Gywddonic Druid Tradition, and has been a contributing editor for Magical Blend. She is also a hypnotist, and writes for New Age Retailer and Aquarius.

Reviews

[Pren Clair · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book lays out some info and rituals that are very similar to ones you might find in Wicca or other earth based religions. Take everything said in here with a grain of salt because we do not know HOW the druids actually did anything. They left no written record. I take issue with the fact that the author is claiming this is "ancient magic" since her "order" of druids was founded in the 1700's. There WAS a resurgence of druidism in that era but it was HIGHLY romanticized and founded on nothing but the imagination of the people who were practicing it. That being said I don't necessarily think thats a bad thing. If you can take these practices and make them your own and give them meaning and put your own power in them I think thats great. I really DID love how Knight stated that druidism is a living practice that grows with the science of the times. As an oral tradition it would have grown through the eras and changed it was not a static religion. so in short, read with caution and the knowledge that nothing in here can be proven as fact for the ancient druids but don't write this book off wholesale if you are a practitioner of an earth based religion.

[Lilla · Rating 1 out of 5]

An absolute atrocity! Belongs up there with McCoy's farce, Witta.

[Mari · Rating 1 out of 5]

PLAGIARIZED

She only got half trained, got copies of the materials, handed it out to a second round of people for personal and financial benefit, then realized she could make real profit by outright publication

[Kim Stroup · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was okay, but I feek the title is a bit misleading, there were not a lot of rituals in the book.