Making time for Druidry

In many ways, the aim of Druidry is not to have some floaty, robe wearing alternative existence that takes you away from real life, but to bring Druidry into your day to day existence. The spiritual life has the potential to transform what may otherwise seem banal and mundane, into activity rich with meaning. It also helps us weed out the things that waste our time and crush our spirits. However, bringing Druidry into life does not mean doing the same old things and saying ‘I am doing this as a Druid’. There are shifts of consciousness and practice, some of them subtle, that are necessary to move from a normal way of being to making Druidry your normal way of being. What that means is that initially, and along the way, you need to make time that is specifically for the Druidry.

Now, ‘doing Druidry’ does not mean you have to be in ritual or meditating, although both are good. For me, walking has long been a big part of my ‘Druid time’ because it engages me with landscapes, nature, the weather and my own body in some very intense ways. Going out there and bringing something back is good work and well worth doing. Druidry in part comes from inside you, but if your life is not inherently nourishing, you’re going to have a lot of trouble with that internal sourcing.

Think about what inspires you. What fills you with wonder, gives you a sense of awe, possibility, magic? That’s the thing you most need to be giving time to. It could be gardening, or running. It could be listening to live music or going to art galleries. What it is, really doesn’t matter compared to the importance of finding it, and exposing yourself to it. Druidry is a path of inspiration, so find that which inspires you and give time to it. Be that going out to gaze at the moon, or listening to bird song, or walking barefoot in the mud.

Try and give time to your inspiration every day. Stop and let yourself be a Druid, by letting yourself be nourished by the things that feed your soul. Let the peace and joy these sources of inspiration give you, fill you up, and then try to bring them back to everything else you are doing, and make it more, and deeper, better and richer than it would otherwise have been. Druidry is a constant process of reaching out for inspiration and then using that inspiration to do something meaningful. You have to both give, and receive.

One of the things I’m trying to do is get back into singing. I used to sing a lot, but got out of the habit. I need to find new songs that resonate more with how I’m feeling now and who I’m becoming. I also know that me singing inspires my bloke, so that works in a number of ways, except that I’ve got out of the habit. I need to make time and space for it, and treat it like something that matters. I’ve got back into crafting recently, that too I find nourishing, the act of making with hands is good for feeding my imagination.

Find a thing. Do it. Enjoy it.