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Symbols of the season.
Walking the wheel in my greater grove I witness changes in the environment all the time, cycles within cycles! The Australian landscape is opportunistic and will bud and seed when the conditions allow it. That’s why my relationship with druidry and the sacred eight festivals operate asynchronously. The magic of nature is a fluid space that changes year after year. Whereas the symbols of the sacred wheel follow a process of renewal and transformation fixed by solar and metaphysical events. As a Druid, I become the embodiment of where both cycles intersect, witnessing, integrating, and restoring the balance within and without. The tension between both is my work, and informs how I relate to my world, and the space I take up within it. Each of us has an impact and each of us is accountable. #theurbandruid #urbandruid #urbandruidry #abeautifulresistance #agentleresistance #walkingthewheel #pagansofinstagram #witchesofinstagram #druidsofinstagram #druidry #druid #obod #ovate #seedthought #solstice #wyrd #web #spider #swan #blackswan #cygnet #mist #laberynth
A precious and gentle resistance, the birth of six cygnets in the heart of Sydney’s urban jungle. It’s a beautiful reminder to honour the present, and preserve the green spaces we have all around us. #theurbandruid #urbandruid #urbandruidry #australiandruidry #obod #ovate #druid #walkingthewheel #darkmoon #druidry #blackswan #liminalspace #druidofinstagram #pagansofinstagram #witchesofinstagram #abeautifulresistance #agentleresistance #australianfauna #australianbirds #cygnet #swan
These photos were taken a couple of weeks ago on a walk to Hanging Rock near Blackheath in the NSW blue mountains. I spent the day with @juliebrettddu discussing druidry, the work we do, and more importantly why we do it. I call it ‘work’ however ‘action in the now’ is far more apt. We came away from a recent Druid camp feeling renewed, and even more synchronised with the present and our embodied selves in the liminal moment between past and present. I don’t know how this old blind bat managed to see a gum leaf grasshopper but it was just that kind of day. #magical #liminal #walkingthewheel #gumleafgrasshopper #scribblygum #portals #annwfn #theurbandruid #urbandruid #druidry #obod #ovate #embodied
This is a hard one in the city. Often it feels like nature is drowned out by the future, progression and sheer number of people in such proximity. But it does exist. Nature can not be kept in the shadows. Find that tree that persists. Find the flowers or hollow that is hidden. Connect with the planet and let her connect with you. •
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You only see the outside of me, the surface skin the flexibility the bracketed ribs and tensioned guts and viscera are an enigma to your polar view, likewise I hardly see inside of you, your marvellous machine all glistening pristine, the chords and corded ropes of a piano key could such music be strung in me? #naturephotography #leaf #autumnleaves #xrayvision #thehumanbody #priestesspath #druidry #theurbandruid #hedgewitch #seeinginside #humannature