Arianrhod's Dance

Following the success of their highly acclaimed and bestselling work, the Path through the Forest – a Druid Guidebook , the authors now present this companion volume. Written from experience, it provides a discussion of and an introduction to Druid ritual for solo practitioners and Groves alike, along with sample rituals for the eightfold year, rites of passage, and other aspects of everyday life. All ritual is a focus. It situates you at a moment and a place outside time and space where your relation to specific and distinct aspects of the world are clarified. It marks real and often intimate events of enormous consequence; and by marking these events, we allow them to mark us – binding us to the Sky, to the Land, and to the Sea from which they all derive. The essays in this book provide a useful look at what ritual consists in and the nature of its varying relation to us and the world. These are supplemented by practical tips, explanations, and clearly presented rituals and prayers. There is also a brief discussion of the nature of the Otherworld and the continuing journey of the soul.