Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 The First Signposts 3
Who were the Celts?
What is druidry? Who were and are the druids? 4
What is a shaman? 6
Shamanic practice
Celtic shamans 8
A guide on the path…Taliesin.
Chapter 2 Preparing for Voyage 10
Within the Crane skin bag - a druid's shamanic tools
Power and soul - 'The fire in the head' 14
Raising energy and power - the tree posture 16
Exercise 1 The tree posture 17
Chapter 3 Circle Time
The Celtic wheel of the year 20
Seasonal patterns 22
The four directions 24
Directional and elemental spirits and faeries 25
Creating sacred space 26
Exercise 2 Circle Casting 27
Chapter 4 Setting Out 31
The grove - finding a druid shaman ally
Exercise 3 Finding your druid shaman ally 32
The ancestral council fire 34
Exercise 4 Finding your ancestral ally 35
Chapter 5 Genius Loci and the Powers of Place 39
Exercise 5 Gentle seer sight - seeing the energy and spirit presences of a landscape 40
Guardian spirits 42
Exercise 6 Meeting the guardian spirit 43
Tree spirits 45
Exercise 7 Contacting a tree spirit
Nemetona and the nemeton 47
Ancestors and bloodlines 49
Exercise 8 Offering ceremony 52
Chapter 6 Climbing the Tree 54
The spirit realm and the Celtic Otherworld
The world tree 56
The middleworld 57
Exercise 9 Finding your animal ally 60
Working with your animal ally 62
The underworld 63
Exercise 10 Seeking an underworld guide 66
The upperworld 68
Exercise 11 Seeking an upperworld guide 69
Chapter 7 Seeking the Radiant Brow - Druid Shamanic Divination 73
The awenyddion
Tenm Laida - spirit songs 65
Exercise 12 Spirit songs
Dichetal do Chennaib 76
Exercise 13 Knowing by touch 77
Imbas Forosnai 78
Exercise 14 Seeking illumination
Neladoracht 79
Exercise 15 Cloud gazing 80
Fire and smoke divination
Conclusion 82
Endnotes and References 83
