Ulster Druid

A retouched pic of Olivia Robertson, co-founder of The Fellowship of Isis. Olivia was larger than life, a leading light in Goddess spirituality & an influence on 3 generations of OBOD leaders.
Here's an article I wrote ages back summarising her links with OBOD: druidry.org/resources/ol...

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One for the OBODies - Nuinn in colour.

I'm not great with the aul computer art, so it would be great if someone did a properly professional job of colourising the old pics of Nuinn - I just thought it might be nice to have an updated view of him.

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YouTube video by Nerina Pallot Blackbird (The Beatles Cover) - Nerina Pallot

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQZH...

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Cats are solar-powered, and I have never seen any creature as content as a stinky old tomcat basking in a ray of sunlight. May we all live to know such happiness.

Thank-you ☺️

My Fool is not dressed in motley, nor cavorting near a cliff edge. The dangers a poor Fool faces in emerging into the world these days are more complex.
If you had the option of living off-grid in the woods, would you come out of hiding & return to the world again? Or do the woods hold zero appeal?

Sounds exactly like the conversation in my work canteen.
Some of it is undoubtedly propaganda and bots, but some of it is genuine public opinion.
We need to inoculate people against propaganda by winning the arguments, by showing them how stale, flatulent and wrong the old bigotries are.

I googled relational disobedience and found your bylines article - sitting with it now. Fracturing, despair and judgement seem everywhere - so relieved to find someone who think principle and connection can co-exist.

The image features a large oak tree, likely a Red Oak (Quercus rubra), standing prominently in a field. The sun shines brightly through its leafy canopy, illuminating the scene.

"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing." (John Stuart Mill) 🔶️

The real Judgement isn't a God from above marking our lives like homework we have handed in - it comes in those moments of clarity when we perceive our own true natures.

Goddess, Saint and Loa - do not forget Maman Brigitte, that aspect of Brighid who accompanied the indentured servants who were transported and laboured alongside the enslaved people from Africa. Through syncretism, she entered the Vodou pantheon and is the wife of Baron Samedi.

I was feeling mischevious when I made this, but think - The Devil in tarot is a fabulous symbol of our addiction to worldly matters, with its chained humans. And what is more addictive than a smartphone? My humans aren't shackled, but they aren't leaving any time soon. #tarot

Second Harvest, Survival Harvest Why modern Pagans often overlook the autumn Equinox – even though it is more relevant than ever! Many people, once they have celebrated Lughnasadh or Lammas, find themselves thinking straight…

Why do so many Pagans & Druids neglect the Autumn Equinox (aka Alban Elfed or Cónocht an Fomhair)? Once Lughnasadh is over, many find their thoughts go straight to Samhain. But the second harvest was the make-or-break survival time for our ancestors.
ulsterdruidry.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/s...

At this time of year, you're more likely to find that stags start coming round and picking fights with him 🤪

Dion Fortune

'For Dion Fortune, Christ, the Egyptian gods and the gods of the British Isles were equally inspiring' (Philip Carr-Gomm, 'The Book of English Magic') ✨️

Hairy authors for the win!
Feel free to share your favourite philosophical furball 😍

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The Hermit can walk through a crowd without noticing - he walks in his own world.
The shadow Hermit, reversed, has withdraw out of pain, pride, fear or resentment - he is self-exiled.
Returning & integrating what he has learned, he can be wholly alone or wholeheartedly w others & find joy either way

Strength is:
- Being able to grow in an inhospitable place
- Standing while you can, even if you know you'll be trampled in the end
- Bringing beauty to bleakness
- Not caring if people consider you a weed
- Being nourishment and healing for those who know how to take you
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How Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize plan to protect 14 million acres of Mayan forest Mexico, Guatemala and Belize have announced plans to create a huge reserve of tropical forest spanning across the three countries

While Guatemala, Mexico, and Belize plan to protect 14 million acres of forest, Ireland continues to do little to protect the 1% natural forest coverwe have left. The same with all our other habitats + wildlife.

For nature, WE are the third world country.
www.independent.co.uk/news/mexico-...

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Maman is that aspect of Brighid whose extraordinary fidelity led her to accompany the Irish and Scots women who were sent overseas as indentured servants, who laboured beside the African folk abducted into chattel slavery, who became a Vodou Loa, a protector of women and guide of the dead.

OBOD's my Order, so I can't really speak for what other Orders do, beyond a bit of general knowledge.

Calling the quarters Druid-style (well OBOD style - ADF and others prob have their own ritual form).
Start in the East and follow the path of the sun.
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I think if you have them, they can't just vanish them away, but for future ones, you'll be accessing them on the cloud each time.