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The Isle of Wight Druid Grove

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NEXT FESTIVAL: Imbolc

Wight Druids are to offer open public celebration of Imbolc at Noon on Saturday, February 4th, at The Longstone, Mottistone. Everyone is very welcome.

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By star and stone
By the power of the land
Within and without
By all that is fair and free...

AltarHAIL, Spirit, and welcome to the online home of Druidry on the Isle of Wight, a small but beautiful and sunny Island just off the south coast of England where the ancestral torch has been re-kindled after many hundreds of years so its inhabitants may once again celebrate the turning of the wheel of the year in harmony with their roots and with their natural surroundings.

This website is intended to be a useful resource for anyone interested in learning more about this powerful native tradition and a point of contact for anyone living on the Island, holidaying here or even just passing through who wishes to know more or simply to experience the tremendous beauty and joy of re-establishing intimate contact with the natural world around them, with the ways of their ancestors and with the true depth of their inner instinctive selves.


Wight Druids, or the Grove of Ynys Weith, was established at Midsummer 2004 to celebrate the eight Druid festivals at the key nodal points of each year in open rites and to provide a nurturing 'home' for all those in search of their true inner selves, their wellspring of inspiration.
You are invited to return to this site as it grows and develops to explore further or, in the meantime, click on the Contact us menu item to get in touch directly.
Alternatively, go to the Order of Bards Ovates and Druids website at
http://www.druidry.org
for an excellent in-depth tour of modern UK Druidry.
And may your Journey be Blessed.

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The Druid NetworkWight Druids are proud to be affiliated to The Druid Network The Druid Network


 

 

Samhuinn 2011

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Bloodstone Border Samhuin 2011

Bloodstone Border morris dance in the mists at The Longstone, Mottistone, Isle of Wight, at Samhuinn 2011.

 

Official recognition at last for Druidry as a religion

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DRUIDRY has become the first pagan practice to achieve official recognition as a religion.
This milestone move comes after a five-year battle by The Druid Network for charitable status.
The Charity Commission's acceptance of TDN's application gives the organisation valuable tax breaks but, more importantly, establishes Druidry's right to be recognised as a religion for the first time in Britain since the dawn of Christianity here.
TDN now becomes registered as a charity furthering the religion of Druidry.
The importance of this ground-breaking decision is immense, not just to Druid groups and groves, but also to followers of other pagan paths whose religious credentials can only be enhanced, and who should now find it less arduous to win recognition for themselves, should they wish to do so.
As affiliates of The Druid Network, Wight Druids congratulate them heartily on this hard-won and singularly significant achievement and offer our Blessings for their continuing efforts on behalf of all those of us who practice Druidry as our religion.


Links:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11457795
http://www.druidnetwork.org

The Charity Commission judgement in full (a download in PDF format):
http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Library/about_us/druiddec.pdf


 

We are volunteers

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Lichen mazeWIGHT Druids have been offering open public ritual to celebrate the eight festivals of each year on the Isle of Wight since 2004.
We have also conducted rites of passage and offered open ritual at a couple of Island music festivals, as well as taking part in joint rites with our Native American friends, both Island-based and from the original First Nations. We have even conducted a boat blessing.
In accordance with our ethic, everything we offer is always free - including A Perennial Course in Living Druidry, which we have been hosting on the Island for more than two years, now.
This is our way of repaying, in some measure, the enormous gifts of knowledge and understanding with which we have been regaled since joining the Druid community.
Thus we would hope to pass our Blessings forward.

 

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    Wonderful. Love the first one and the penultimate one. Thank you for sharing :) :-)
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