Wight Druids

Wight Druids will be holding their open public rite and celebration of Alban Hefin – the Summer Solstice – at The Longstone, Mottistone, around noon on Sunday, June 21. As ever, all are welcome who approach with open heart and mind, and in the spirit of mutual respect that is the Druid ethic.

We do hope you will be able to join us.

Bendithion/|\Blessings
of sunshine and blossoms

Scribe

PS: Apologies to those we usually e-mail direct. A major computer malfunction has left us without many of your e-mail addresses. If you send us a brief mail, we will be able to add your address to the list again.

THE first-ever podcast from The Druid Network appeared today on the TDN website at:

http://druidnetwork.org/en/node/1002162

This is a great innovation for the Network, to which Wight Druids are of course affiliated, as for the first time it begins – with this offering -  to give a more public collective voice to the vast reservoir of talent and inspiration that is the worldwide phenomenon of the Network.

Compiled by and narrated in the delightful soft Canadian tones of Jo Autumn Song – whose wonderful flute piece is not to be missed – this first Beltane edition also includes more excellent original music, some remarkable storytelling and an inspired and inspiring deep Earth meditation by Bryn, rapidly becoming one of the Network’s unsung heroes since she became a fellow trustee a little more than a year ago, now.

Oh, yeah. And the little poem it ends with is mine, inspired, written, directed and produced on the Isle of Wight (for the few of you who may not know, I’m called Blue in the greater Druid community).

I’d recommend subscribing to this podcast (you can do this through iTunes and load it into your iPod, as well as more directly online). The Network is such a vast wellspring of talent and inspiration, there are certain to be some wonderful times ahead for all of us to enjoy.

Be the Awen

Scribe/|\aka Blue

VIDEO – scroll down

HERE’s the first rush from this year’s Beltane sunrise at The Longstone, Mottistone, Isle of Wight on the ‘Glorious First of May’.

May you live your hopes
May you dance your dreams

A Merry May to one and all!

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A BUNCH of exceptionally hardy souls braved bitterly cold conditions to join Wight Druids’ rite and celebration of Imbolc at The Longstone.
Although it is often windy at this sacred site, the combination of a minus 5 degree windchill and winds gusting up to around 27mph proivded a serious challenge for the first celebration of spring.
Nevertheless, at one point we were joined by the ponies that graze this fine sweeping green downland and on the way home, the sun came blazing through for a while as if to answer our prayers to Brighid in achnowledgement of the first stirrings of spring.
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A DELIGHTFUL gathering on a high clifftop overlooking the sea greeted the new light for Alban Arthan, the Winter Solstice.
After the main rite and celebration, we ‘drummed up the sun’ – a fine way to keep warm in the deep of winter.
Our thanks to Robin Whitehead for his pictures of the event.
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A VIDEO of excerpts from Wight Druids’ celebration of Autumn Equinox and the Peace One Day campaign, 2008, is now online.

To download the full version, visit vuze.com

Our heartfelt thanks to Robin Whitehead, of Longstone Films, for acting as cameraman, sound recordist, director and movie editor on this production.

Bendithion

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