For me, Druidry is primarily about what I embody in the world.

It's not about my specific beliefs – our ancestors honored many deities, and no doubt practices were diverse. It's not about doing specific rituals or wearing the right robes or owning the right items. All of those things can be relevant and part of a specific path and have their place, but I don't consider them defining of my spirituality. Religions, philosophies and spiritual paths only make sense if we integrate them into our daily lives. We have to live our truth if we want it to be real to us.

One way of approaching Druidry is to think about the qualities you consider in-line with the path. If we take inspiration from what we know about the Celtic peoples, what we know from the mediaeval tales, and what we learn directly, from the divine or from the natural world at assuming you sperate those two out, and you might not…) that can guide us. There's a wealth of ideas to work with.

Who we are is what we do. We become what we aspire to. We are informed by what we most often think, by how we act and the environments we spend time in. Humans have an incredible capacity to grow and change, and we can do so deliberately. The person you set out to be is your most authentic self.

You can contemplate the qualities you associate with Druidry and look for ways to make that part of your everyday life, and part of who you are. What do you find powerful? What inspires you? What do you admire? Do you need to be someone who spends more time outside, communicating with the sky? Do you need to find more ways to actively practice compassion? Are you dismantling internalized capitalism? Do you wish to embody calm, or justice, or hope?

This is not a decision you can only make once. You can choose the qualities you embody day by day. You don't have to be just the one thing. Over time you may wish to explore embodying different principles. There's no wrong way of doing this, it's simply about being deliberate, conscious of what you do, and seeking to live by your principles.

At the moment I'm focused on trying to embody calm hopefulness, as I think that's needed by the people around me. I want to be active about inspiring others. I'm thinking about those times when it is necessary to be fierce, to hold boundaries and refuse injustice, and how to do that. I'm still thinking about forgiveness, as well, and what that might do, and how and where to bring it. It's good to keep asking 'what am I bringing into the world?' and to wonder what I could bring, and how to be more effective.

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