As druids we recognize the original stewardship by the Indigenous peoples of North America, otherwise known as Turtle Island, and their devotion to the continued protection and care of their local biomes even in the midst of continuing colonization and genocide.

Happy Indigenous People's Day! 🪶

This but unironically.

briefly hanging out with vegans at a fest is putting me on that rabid A.L.F. type shit

I do provide coffee to the Wandering God. I believe it makes sense for that particular deity.

For those wondering who the "wandering god" is, there is a relatively consistent archetype that seems to stick about regardless of generation or continent or culture - a wandering chthonic sorcerer-god, an orator and poet, a holder of hidden mysteries, many times claimed to either be God or have brought communication to humanity or both, often garbed in a robe and large-brimmed cap.

Odin. Hermes. Thoth. Mercury. Veles. Dagda. The names change, but the story is the same.

Perhaps this archetype is the most important for those of druidic tendencies, as the druid themselves becomes the reflection of them in the most literal sense.

We love St. Joan of Arc in this house because I too am a mentally unhinged nonbinary person who is prone to claiming messages from the Divine and rabid religiously-motivated tirades, you go gurl

On a complete change up here I really actually appreciate the uptick in atheo-paganism because I honestly feel that so much of the attempt to revive ancient traditional religion is tied down by the fact that it is also trying to assign ideas onto characters from these folk traditions that would not have been held by the people following that tradition. Trying to turn the Tuatha Dé Danann into gods, for example, instead of ancestors, was a christianized retelling of these stories that demonized and "other"ed them. It removes the human element entirely. For all my issues with atheo-paganism at least it somewhat returns to the root version of these traditions and beliefs and religions that without that grounding assigns traits to our ancestors that are non-existent.

Not everything has to be about worshipping some far away incomprehensible divine embodiment of a cosmic concept. Make ancestor and nature veneration cool again.