Druid Wisdom

WORKSHOP - World Druidry: Seasonal Festivals in a Globalizing Tradition

With Larisa A. White, Druid Adept, AODA

Sunday, January 26, 2025 3-5pm Eastern / 12-2pm Pacific time

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Larisa White is an author, educator, and independent scholar, based in the Coast Range Mountains of California, where she spends her free time building wildlife habitats, and restoring native ecosystems on lands once tended by the Ramaytush Ohlone.
Larisa was raised as a global nomad, relocating every two years as her father designed international airports. Rather than becoming rooted in one place, she spent her childhood bridg...

Tyler Vanice, a Companion in the Ancient Order of Druids in America, resides in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C. He is also an Ovate in the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids and a founding member of Potomac Protogrove in the Reformed Druids of North America. He works in museums around the nation's capital and dedicates his time to supporting various nonprofits in his community. Raised Catholic, Tyler sought a spiritual...

Eryn is a lifelong student of nature, starting her Druid path as a child peering into the Yucca flowers, climbing the mimosa and spruce trees, hiding within the viburnum with books about magic. She studied witchcraft most of her life, and found her way to Druidry as a formal path in 2021 when she joined the AODA and OBOD. Eryn is now an Apprentice in the AODA and a committed monk within the Gnostic Celtic Church. She operates the S...

Jack Campbell joined AODA in 2017, finding his spiritual home in Druidry. He earned the degree of Druid Apprentice in 2018, Druid Companion in 2020, and Druid Adept in 2022. His Druid Adept project combined herbalism with sigil creation to form practical magic workings within the AODA grove ritual. In 2021, Jack was named Grand Almoner and then later consecrated as a Bishop within the Gnostic Celtic Church. That year, he also took ...

Victoria S. (she/her) is an apprentice in AODA, an Ovate student in OBOD, and an ordained priest in ADF. Victoria practiced as a Wiccan and an eclectic witch from the time she was 15 until 2012, when she joined all three druid groups. She believes that each of these groups has something valuable to bring and seeks to create a unique blend of city druidry. Victoria focuses on accessible solitary and virtual liturgy, meditations, pra...

Earth Rituals:
https://aoda.org/earthrituals/

Ritual Map:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1pJ9U-2u4UZ1ytDk-0J11m1K6VRTg6lQ&ll=7.187331904504042%2C-84.47035077513755&z=2

Sky Blessing Ceremony At The Spring Equinox:
https://aoda.org/earthrituals/springequinoxskyblessing/

Sky Blessing Ceremony At The Spring Equinox Full Ritual Script:
http://aoda.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/skyritualscript.docx

AODA Disco...

Nate Summers has been a survival skills instructor for over 20 years with a background in anthropology, Asian studies, and natural medicine. He has taught at the Wilderness Awareness School, Desert Institute of Healing Arts, the Asian Institute of Medical Studies, served as adjunct faculty for Prescott College and been a naturalist guide for Evergreen Escapes.. Nate's passions include ethnobotany, hunter-gatherer childhoods, r...

https://aoda.org/earthrituals/

TELLURIC WATERWAY BLESSING AT THE WINTER SOLSTICE:

http://aoda.org/earthrituals/waterwayblessing/

Telluric Waterway Blessing Full Script:

http://aoda.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/TelluricWaterwayBlessingScript.docx

 United States Geological Survey Site:

https://water.usgs.gov/wsc/map_index.html

Canadian Watershed:

https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/science-and-data/science-and-research/earth-sciences/ge...

Kathleen has been a member of AODA since early 2015. Her personal spiritual journey began in Catholicism; traveled through the mysticism of Eastern religions; wound through the earthy wonder of Nature Based Religions; eventually arriving at her spiritual home in contemplative Druidry, the AODA and the GCC. As a Druid Apprentice Kathleen became an AODA  Mentor. After advancing to the Companion Degree Kathleen developed and coordinat...

Valdeir is an AODA Candidate that resides in Half Moon Bay, Ca. With a rich spiritual background that includes Spiritism, Freemasonry and OBOD, he values the connections that exist around us that are reflected in the Earth. His passion for history gives a solid foundation to his spiritual journey. In Valdeir’s commitment to the community by forming the Humanist Lodge of Freemasons, we unpack the similarities of Freemasonry and Drui...

Hearth Blessing at the Fall Equinox:
http://aoda.org/earthrituals/fallequinoxhearthritual/

Earth Rituals:
https://aoda.org/earthrituals/

AODA Discord Server:
https://discord.gg/xJqEKVYyvf

AODA Forums:
https://forum.aoda.org/

AODA Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/AODADruidry

Sphere of Protection Ritual:
https://aoda.org/publications/articles-on-druidry/introduction-to-the-sphere-of-protect...

We talk with Claire Schosser who  became a Companion in May 2018 and joined the Grand Grove as Grand Almoner in late 2018. In September 2019 she became the Archdruid of Fire, advancing to Archdruid of Water in March 2020. Claire Schosser has followed winding physical, vocational, and spiritual paths during her 60+ years of life.  Her blog, Living Low in the Lou, documents her efforts to apply the scientific method and ecological co...

https://aoda.org/earthrituals/

AODA Discord Server:
https://discord.gg/xJqEKVYyvf

AODA Forums:
https://forum.aoda.org/

AODA Facebook Group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/AODADruidry

Sphere of Protection Ritual:
https://aoda.org/publications/articles-on-druidry/introduction-to-the-sphere-of-protection/

Solitary Grove Ceremony:
https://aoda.org/publications/articles-on-druidry/aodas-solitary-grove-opening-and-closing...

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