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Aontacht ISSN 2044-1339 Volume 6, Issue 4 Creating Unity Through Community Secrets Memories, Lives & Dreams Volume 6 Issue 4 Spring/Autumn 2014 Brought to you by the community of Druidic Dawn Aontacht • 1 (www.druidicdawn.org) Volume 6, Issue 4 aontacht creating unity in community 27 Eight Common Uses of Scotch Pine Essential 8 Dr Gwilym Morus Oil Feature Interview REVIEWS Z12 Modern Druid Nature Mysticism 35 Europe Before Rome: A Site-By-Site Tour Dr Karen Parham of the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages 23 Chance, Magick and the Will of Eris 36 The Story of Light Renard 36 Essays in Contemporary Paganism 25 Knowledge of the Oak Andrew "Bish" Peers DEPARTMENTS 29 Taliesin's Grave, the Black Road 3 Contributors Page and Gwion's Hill. Dr. G 6 From The Desk 32 Three Plants for Insomnia David C. Corrin 7 News from the Druidic Dawn Management Team 19 Community Shopping 15 If You Want To See Visions 37 Community Calendar Alison Leigh Lilly 39 What is in the next Issue? 21 TravelDream Lisa Du Fresne Cover photo: Clettwr RiverValley Photo Druidic Dawn 2014 Aontacht • 2 Volume 6, Issue 4 aontacht Contributors creating unity in community Secrets Memories, Lives & Dreams r Gwilym Morus: Editor D based in Mid wales at Mach- Vacant ynlleth. Gwilym specialises in Medieval Welsh Co-Editor poetry and the Welsh Bardic tradition, Together Lucie Marie-Mai DuFresne with presenting an online course delving into the Production Manager Symbolic Keys of Welsh Mythology. Dr Gwilym Druidic Dawn Rep. Nigel Dailey Morus is also an accompanied musician in the modern sense, but also has explored the court Feature Editor - Wild Earth bardic poet medieval performance and delivery. Alison Leigh Lilly Feature Editor - Formulary Faye Boyd Feature Editor - Poetry Sarah Ward Acquisition Editor, Australia Dr Karen Parham: Currently lectures in Philoso- H.J. Shreeve phy and Religious Studies in Birmingham and is Acquisition Editor, Canada a designer of academic courses on mysticism and Lisa Du Fresne Publisher Western esotericism for the Phoenix Rising Acad- Druidic Dawn, CIC emy. She is writing a book on ‘Mysticism and Original Layout Design Western Esotericism’ that is the product of her Aestas Designs dedication to the study of mysticism which start- ed when researching for her PhD thesis. Her article offers some insights gained while writing General Inquiries a chapter on Druidry for this book. She is an All questions, comments and et- OBOD member in the process of becoming an cetera can be sent to the following ovate. address: [email protected] Renard/Richard Fox is Fire Druid, the former Aontacht is published four times Editor of Aontacht Magazine and a warrior poet a year by Druidic Dawn, CIC. who lived mostly outdoors in the forests of the Aontacht, Volume 6 Issue 4 © 2014 Druidic Dawn, all rights re- U.S. for more than 18 years. During that time he served. All contained content is planted more than 700,000 trees while he lived copyright to its respective own- and developed his Nature Magick in the deep ers, including art and photos. The contents of this publication may forests. not be reproduced in whole or in part without the consent of the copyright owner. Today, he manages conservation projects in sev- en countries and develops small scale/big impact renewable energy projects with 23 Native Opinions and views expressed are not necessarily those of American tribes across the western United the editors, publisher or staff. States and has a home among the Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. OAontacht • 3 Volume 6, Issue 4 Contributors magazine is only available online as a free Andrew "Bish" Peers: is a Celtic Buddhist .pdf download; thereby sav- priest. He was twenty years a Trappist monk, ing trees, water, solid waste leaving to found the Order of the Longing Look, and greenhouse gases. It is designed on an Energy Star a path that combines the druidic way of seeing rated computer. with Celtic warriorship, structured on the basic of silent meditation. www.longinglook.org Editorial Notes You do not have to be a member of the Druidic Dawn community to submit to the magazine. Please submit contribu- Alison Leigh Lilly: is the producer and co-host tions directly to the edito- of Faith, Fern & Compass. Nurturing the nature- rial staff via email to: centered, mist-and-mystic spiritual heritage of her Celtic ancestors, she explores themes of [email protected] peace, poesis and wilderness through essays, ar- ticles, poetry and podcasting. Her work has ap- Refer to the last page of this issue for writer’s guide- peared in numerous publications both in print lines and more informa- and online. You can learn more about her work tion, before you submit on her website: alisonleighlilly.com inquiries or contributions. Below are the theme for the forthcoming issues David C. (TheDruid-3X3) Corrin: is a student of Druiditic Arts studying the Philosophies of our Ancient Celtic Ancestors. His Patron Deity is the sacred Hiroshima Survivor Kuroganemochi Tree which is in the courtyard of the Hiroshima's Rai What is the Veil and what is beyond, Using personas, Sanyo Shizeki. He likes studying and writing Looking at the inner planes about Herbalism, Tarot Card Divinations and Pa- ganistic Philosophy. He works in Landscape Gar- dening and is a devotee of Emma (Bobcat) Restall-Orr. He is a member of The Druid Net- work and the Druids of Albion as well as a mem- ber of Druidic Dawn. Articles on Herbology and copies of his 3X3 Triads of Wisdoms has been published in Aontacht. Aontacht • 4 Volume 6, Issue 4 Contributors Vacancy: Maya St. Clair (Cuardai) resides in Kuwait, is an Irish Polytheist, and a mechanical engineer with Aontacht Editor a love of history, mythology and culture. She is editor of the Oran Mor, the official newsletter of The Aontacht team is the New Order of Druids. She also serves on looking for a new editor, their Council. Maya is an Irish Gaelic student to collect and edit material and regularly writes a wide variety of articles for the magazine, help with issue production and and book reviews on Celtic and religious topics. help lead the dynamic team that brings Aontacht to the internet Druid and Pagan community. Faye Boyd (Fae) has been interested in Nature and all things Celtic for many a year. She is a member of OBOD, Druidic Dawn, Ord Brighide- If you feel that you can ach International, Celtic Reiki Master, Hot Stone spare some time to help Therapist, Guided Meditations and is a spoken us, or if you would like word artist. Fae resides in Canada. more information, please email [email protected]. Lisa Du Fresne: is a French Canadian Urban Métis multi-disciplinary ARTist, who has been an Ontario Arts Council & Canada Council grant recipient, recently reviewed in fibre QUARTER- LY Canada on-line Textile and Fibre Arts and Crafts magazine. She creates masques, shield, sacred banners and giant puppets from natural and recycled material. Her solo and in situ exhi- bitions /installations are seen in national and international venues. OAontacht • 5 Volume 6, Issue 4 News from the Aontacht Production Team Six and a half years ago this magazine was a volunteer editor to maintain its high standards dream of its creator, and as a member of the and ensure the magazine is delivered on time. In community at Druidic Dawn who approached us turn a volunteer editor oversaw their respective with a proposal. The proposal related to provid- section and always insured there was content ing the facility to become the home of a communi- available if none was submitted. ty newsletter which would be open, to all the druid internet community. In the newsletter a Each issue of the magazine was centred on a large variety of Celtic and Druidic papers could be theme. These cover a wide area and range from published celebrating the uniqueness and its di- the gaelic isles, to the Gods, and the wild earth to versity. name a few. Dependant on the theme, it would draw in the readership figures. The most success- This magazine became known in the Irish Gaelic ful theme has been Magick of Druidism, published language as Aontacht, published quarterly at the at the Autumn-Spring of 2011 which has received solstices and equinox. During its last twenty four over 72,084 views; followed secondly by Celtic issues it has grown from a graphically illustrated Cosmos published winter-summer solstice of 2010 thirteen page newsletter to up to a maximum of receiving 33,242 views and thirdly by Storytelling, fifty nine pages. Additional credibility arrived published in winter summer of 2011. While other when Aontacht became internationally recognised themes, such as “the Gods” and “Gaia” proved not when it was awarded its own international ISBN so favourably with the readership. number. Aontacht is probably the most successful thing Over the years each volunteer editor brought to which came out of the Druidic Dawn Community. the magazine their own style being true to the It too is sad to say as Druidic Dawn moves ever original idea and motivation to create a wonderful closer to voluntary insolvency, another home is magazine. From the introduction of the Featured required for Aontacht is to survive. Hopefully it Interview, to the Wild Earth section has expanded may not be lost altogether. its size and scope of coverage. To such a point, a special Aontacht Handbook has been produced by Nigel the production team under the leadership of its Aontacht • 6 Volume 6, Issue 4 Aontacht and Druidic Dawn are very closely disappear with this issue of Aontacht, probably interlinked both have received a tremendous being one of the last item to go.
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