The Handbook of Urban Druidry by Brendan Howlin

Author:Brendan Howlin [Howlin, Brendan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-78279-375-5
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2014-03-28T00:00:00+00:00

Summary

1. Get out and feel the hope.

Beltane – Fecundity

Spring is also the time when a young man’s fancy turns to…Beltane! Most people have heard of Beltane, which occurs on or about the first of May. In our urban environment of Guildford we have the local Morris Dancers coming to the High Street and dancing (well, what a surprise!) and erecting their May Pole in the castle grounds. Depending on how you feel about Morris Dancing you would either love or hate this, but it does mark out the urban year and many local people turn out to watch regularly. The Barker hands out fertility cake (OK, a fruit cake stuck on the blade of a sword!) and they have a mischievous pantomime horse that surprises people by standing quietly behind them. All very silly really but symptomatic of how people feel at this time of the year. Many people know the descriptions in Thomas Hardy about couples in the bushes in rural England but this is hardly practical in an urban street (if we are to believe the media UK couples go abroad to do this!). Beltane is also about sex and sex is about creativity (literally), so whatever facet your creativity takes, indulge it at Beltane. Often by May it is sometimes warm and pleasant in the UK, so just sitting and revelling in the warmth is celebration enough.

One of the good things about Druidry is that it embraces all aspects of life; it acknowledges that we are not supermen or women and that we will do bad things as well as good. We are encouraged to note the bad things and try not to do them again but we do not dwell on them. Druidry also embraces sex as a natural part of life. This does not mean that Druids are always at it, in fact they might be indulging less than normal but we accept that it happens between consenting adults. It all comes back to personal responsibility which I said I would return to. In Druidry your morality is entirely up to you, no one is going to tell you how to live your life. As a flip side to this, the onus is on you to live your life in a genuine way and be true to your own code of morality and not be a moral butterfly constantly flitting from one code of behaviour to another.

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