Druids In Cars, Going To Festivals

Episode 90 - Travel Practice

Today we're chatting about our portable altars, and what we take with us when we head out on the road (or even when we're just out and about close to home).

We discuss the physical things and the spiritual things we bring with us, how we use them, and how they help us. As the conversation evolves, we begin to speak about our prayer lives as well, and how being on the road impacts those things.

• Rev. Dangler's Altoid Tin Travel Altar (Image)
• The Shop Altar at The Magical Druid
• #PrayerADay Bonus Episode

We hope you'll join us for as many of this coming year's festivals as possible, in person if you can. There has never been a safer, more welcome chance to connect with your fellow pagans and Druids. Consider, for example, The Wellspring Gathering May 26-30, 2022 (open for registration), and The Summerland Gathering August 18-21, 2022 (accepting workshop proposals and registration)! On the west coast, look out for Beyond the Gates in early September; and in Canada, check out Three Rivers Festival June 9-12, 2022!

Theme by Mike Bierschenk. Check out his Bandcamp for more awesome music!

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Episode 89 - Our Silliest Ritual Work

Today, we're taking a look at the (most intentionally) silly rituals we've done. We cover a lot of ground, and there are a lot of links worth looking at here to give you an idea of what we're talking about, so here's our list of resources for this episode (mostly) in order of appearance/mention in the episode.

• The Jimmy Buffett Ritual: Text
• "Beach House On The Moon" (the song) on YouTube
• The Jimmy Buffett Oracle
• The Rush Oracle
• "Dressed Up As Freyja (Goin' Down to Jotenheim)" by Art Shipkowski
• Rev. Avende's Potato Prayer
• Rev. Avende's Garnish Prayer
• Rev. Avende's "How To Write and Invocation"
• "Hey You Old Guys" Ancestor Prayer (turns out this was just an in-person prayer, not written)
• Rev. Henderson's "Rainbow Connection" filk (Rob asks us to remind folks that this filk has an extra verse, compared to the original)
• 2005 3CG 'Soulstice' Ritual (with death metal)
• Erisian High Mass Script
• Animal Crossing Rite Livestream
• Ritual Bloopers Episode: Episode 13 - Ritual Bloopers and Fails, with Rev. Melissa Ashton, Rev. William Ashton, Rev. Lauren Mart, Rev. Kirk Thomas, and Rev. Jan Avende. 

We hope you'll join us for as many of this coming year's festivals as possible, in person if you can. There has never been a safer, more welcome chance to connect with your fellow pagans and Druids. Consider, for example, The Wellspring Gathering May 26-30, 2022 (open for registration just this moment), and The Summerland Gathering August 18-21, 2022 (accepting workshop proposals and registration at just this moment)! On the west coast, look out for Beyond the Gates in early September; and in Canada, check out Three Rivers Festival June 9-12, 2022!

Theme by Mike Bierschenk. Check out his Bandcamp for more awesome music!

Find us on Facebook, help us keep the lights on with a donation, and learn more about Druidry at adf.org.

Episode 88 - Virtual vs. In-Person Festivals; or, ”How Good It Is To Be Back!”

We've eased back into the festival season by attending the Harvest Nights Gathering in late 2021, and it's worth talking about how good it feels to be back with our fellow Druids in the woods. A small festival has a lot of flexibility, and we were able to get back into the work in a joyful way.

Over the last two years, we've done a lot of festivals virtually, and there have been a lot of missing pieces from that; being in the physical presence of other humans magnified what has been missing for the past two years, giving us a chance to really think about and reflect on the joy of the work we get to do at those festivals.

We also got to do full group ritual with no tech and no cameras for the first time in about two years, and we get to reflect on that experience as well.

Check out the hand-made fire-scrying cards Rev. Avende made at the festival!

We hope you'll join us for as many of this coming year's festivals as possible, in person if you can. There has never been a safer, more welcome chance to connect with your fellow pagans and Druids. Consider, for example, The Wellspring Gathering May 26-30, 2022 (open for registration just this moment), and The Summerland Gathering August 18-21, 2022 (accepting workshop proposals and registration at just this moment)! On the west coast, look out for Beyond the Gates in early September; and in Canada, check out Three Rivers Festival June 9-12, 2022!

Theme by Mike Bierschenk. Check out his Bandcamp for more awesome music!

Find us on Facebook, help us keep the lights on with a donation, and learn more about Druidry at adf.org.

Episode 87 - How We Prepare Our Festival Workshops

We're back, and we think the festival season is too!

Our first episode was recorded at the end of last year's (super short) festival season, on our way out to Harvest Nights in October... so when we talk about the fall color, this is why.

Trillium didn't end up happening this year (it's usually where we start our season), but we're starting our season around the time of Trillium anyway for tradition's sake, in the hopes that we'll have that event again soon.

We decided to start with this episode because, with the new year and new festivals coming, we thought some insight into how we prepare our workshops might help you, our listeners, create your own workshops. One of the joys of the festival season for us is being able to go and teach, and we think everyone (including you) has something of value to offer our community. So please, as you listen, think about what you could share with your community, and with us.

Are you looking for a festival to present at? Our Grove's Summerland Gathering is accepting presenter applications! We cannot express how amazing it would be to meet you in person!

Resources we mention during the discussion include:

• Writing Evocations Workshop: You can watch the video on how to write evocations on YouTube and check out their page for the workshop as well.
• Rev. Avende's Workshop on Crafting Workshops: we may not have video of the workshop, but we do have the handout! You can find it on Rev. Avende's website, under "Five Lights of *Ghosti: The Gifts You Bring"
• Rev. Dangler's Healing Workshop video
• You can find full-color, full-sized versions of Rev. Dangler's cheat sheets for divination systems here: Elder Futhark Runes | Ogham | Greek Alphabet
• Workshop tiers for our Patreons: both of us have a similar $5/month tier for workshops and learning. You can sign up for either of our items here: Rev. Avende | Rev. Dangler
• The Rev. Avende-led Pan-Pagan Theology Panel
• If you'd like to see questions and answers from a college class presentation, Rev. Dangler posted a recent one to his Patreon, if you're a subscriber.

Finally, if you'd like to see Rev. Avende and Rev. Dangler on a recent Zoom panel, you can find a Clergy Tea Time panel on the ADF YouTube page.

We're so excited to be back!

Theme by Mike Bierschenk. Check out his Bandcamp for more awesome music!

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Episode 86 - Magical Substitutions

How is a magical working like a baking show? Our Star Magicians delve into the questions around "follow the recipe" magic, and how they substitute ingredients and work in old spells. We cover simple rules on how to identify ways to substitute for hard-to-find (or impossible-to-find) magical components.

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Episode 85 - A Brushwood Detour (Part 2 of 2)

We take an autumn detour to the Brushwood Folklore Center, a spur-of-the-moment change in plans that brought back memories and reminded us that yeah, sometimes we give ourselves good advice.

We'll describe a lot of the space, but sometimes it helps to see pictures.

Check out images of the icons in the space, the Taranis Altar, and the Blue Boat Shrine we mention.

If your podcast app doesn't let you see embedded photos in the show notes, hit up our main page at druidsincars.podbean.com, or pop into the Google Photos album of the side-trip for the full view.

Reminisce with us as we enjoy our memories of years of camping, ritual, and experience in western New York State, returning to an old friend and sacred site.

Episode 84 - Living a Pagan Lifestyle (Part 1 of 2)

This week, we chat about a commonly-requested topic: how we live our lives as Pagans, and what the lifestyle looks like to us. Part of that is just how we live our lives, and the decisions that we make that seem quite mundane: how we speak to and rear our children, how we interact with the world around us, and even how we travel. We talk about our visits to the Nashville Parthenon, and about a map of publicly accessible Pagan statues all throughout the US that resides on the Three Cranes Google account.

Also, get a load of us, practicing our own advice when a surprise thought leads us down a different road than expected, quite literally... making this Part One of a two-part episode all of a sudden. Tune in next week for our escapade on our detour!

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Episode 83 - Reflections on Hybrid Ritual (and: On The Road Again!)

We're back on the road, going to a festival, meaning that your friendly, chatty Druids are back in the full swing of the work. We recorded enough episodes to finish out the rest of the season on our way to Harvest Nights, and to provide a head start into next season as well, so get ready for regular episodes to return starting this week until the break!

This week, we're talking about what it's been like to do hybrid rituals (partially private and in-person, partially public and over web conferencing software). Back in Episode 70, we described what we thought it would be like, and this seemed an opportune time to think about the experience and reflect a bit together on it.

So many thanks to Charter Oak Grove, ADF, in Connecticut for putting together such a wonderful weekend in person. It was amazing.

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Episode 82 - Kindling Sparks: An Interview With Rev. Avende

Did you know that one of our co-hosts, Rev. Avende, has published a children's education book? They did! It's called Kindling Sparks: A Religious Education Program for Young Pagans, and it's been available for a bit now through Rev. Avende's Patreon, and it's now been released as a book!

Today, we interview Rev. Avende and talk about the process of bringing this program to life; it's development in early 2020 through today, and the path it's taken through testing and community work.

You can pick up a copy of Kindling Sparks through Garanus Publishing on Lulu, at The Magical Druid, or wherever fine books are sold!

You can also find their first book, The Spiraling Sun: A Winter Solstice Liturgy at The Magical Druid.

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Episode 81 - Magical Work-Life Balance

Finally on our way to and from a festival, even it it was virtual, Revs. Avende and Dangler are on their way out to the site of our broadcasted Summerland Unity Rite for a Druid Moon, and they spend some time discussing how they balance the religious and magical lives they lead with their mundane lives.

They also get stuck in traffic at a tomato festival, because, well, what's life without a little unplanned weirdness.

Summerland was great, though all online. If you're interested in a great online festival experience, we'll recommend Beyond the Gates, a festival happening over Labor Day weekend, and you can still register and see their presenters!

Our next in-person festival, if everything works out, will be Charter Oak's Harvest Nights. It would be really great if we could see you there, probably masked, but we're anxious to have it be in person again.

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