The Druid Order

01/02/2026

Now the cold and dark of winter is fading, Imbolc is upon us, the inner fire has survived the winter, it is Candlemas, the brightness of St Brigit’s Day. Imbolc is the time of choice, choosing what to do with the light, choosing what you want to commit yourself to. Valentine’s Day (February 14) is a modern echo of this, but it is not just for lovers, but for all who love life and want to make a difference. The brightening (Brigit-ening) days are a model for breaking with the old and affirming the new. The January sales are over. It’s time to get real. Aquarius, fixed air……. Read on by visiting our website.

Image- Common Snowdrop, from Floral Illustrations of the Seasons by Margaret Roscoe.(1829)

04/01/2026

Public Meetings

When:
January 8th.
February 26th.
Time: 6.30pm for a 7pm start
(end 9pm).

Cost: £5

Subject: Meditation, Questions about the Order, and how to see new year resolutions.

Where: The Goodlife Centre,
49/55 Great Guildford Street,
London SE1 0ES.

Finding the Goodlife Centre.
We are about 10 minutes walk from Southwark or Borough tube stations, and about 15 minutes walk from Waterloo or London Bridge station. We are on the Southwark Bridge Road end of Great Guildford Street on the corner of Doyce Street, opposite Mint Street Park.

20/12/2025

Winter Solstice

The Winter Solstice (December 21/22) is the longest night and the shortest day. Three days later, the rising sun can be seen to move northwards again from its most southerly rising point in the south-east. This is Christmas, when the Christ child is born from the Virgin Mother and the light returns. This sacred point of new beginnings in the heart of darkness is now often overwhelmed by the commercial festival and cult of the Christmas present, where the gift of the present tense, with all its virginal potential, is manifested and celebrated purely as material gifts. A time of going back home, the return from whence you came, to the origin itself, the reunion with the family that gave you birth, a time of sharing the present while remembering and honouring the past (old year) and preparing for the future (new year). Yule, child, seed or atom wrapped in its swaddling clothes. Capricorn, cardinal earth.

What druids do at

Winter Solstice

We look back at the old year to see if there is anything we do not want to take forwards into the new year.

What behaviour and what grudges are we holding onto, do we have any grudges against anyone and what are these grudges?

Then we write down these grudges on a piece of paper and burn them on a fire, preferably near midnight. We make a conscious decision not to take them into the new year.

This should bring us back into the present tense. We are then free from our past obligations and have not yet become committed to the future.

This is the only place that we can make a free choice and eventually commit ourselves to new activities.

The giving of a present is a symbol that we have given up any grudges against those who are in our lives, this also includes those who we do not know.

20/04/2025

Becoming human
We are here to celebrate the return of the light and the renewal of life. Every year we leave the past behind and seek new things and new ways to do things.
Nature is part of us and we are part of nature. This means that how we relate to our external world is also happening internally. For example, if we pollute our rivers we are also polluting our own internal blood streams to the same extent.

Read on https://www.thedruidorder.org/articles/becoming-human.html

21/03/2025

Spring Equinox (March 20/21)

The Spring Equinox is the time of equal day and night, where the balance finally tips in favour of the light, as the cardinal fire sign of Aries fires up the year. Time of conscious seed-sowing, acting in the light. Sow those seeds and nurture them with purpose, plant your ideas with focussed attention and let the light itself unfold them. Mothering Sunday (Mother’s Day) falls around this time and reminds us to honour not only our own mother, but the mother of all mothers and the mother of all, without whom there is no creation and no renewal. On the Sunday nearest the first full moon after the Spring Equinox comes the Christian sol-lunar festival of Easter, when the resurrected Christ rises from the tomb to spread the light. In modern times the ancient goddess Eostre’s fertile eggs and rampant rabbits have been transformed into a harmless chocolate fest, sugar-sweet and bunny-twee.

📷 Colin Winter

22/12/2024

Winter solstice (December 21/22)

Winter solstice is the longest night and the shortest day. Three days later, the rising sun can be seen to move northwards again from its most southerly rising point in the south-east. This is Christmas, when the Christ child is born from the Virgin Mother and the light returns. This sacred point of new beginnings in the heart of darkness is now often overwhelmed by the commercial festival and cult of the Christmas present, where the gift of the present tense, with all its virginal potential, is manifested and celebrated purely as material gifts. A time of going back home, the return from whence you came, to the origin itself, the reunion with the family that gave you birth, a time of sharing the present while remembering and honouring the past (old year) and preparing for the future (new year). Yule, child, seed or atom wrapped in its swaddling clothes. Capricorn, cardinal earth.

13/11/2024

Public Meetings
We have a new venue and two new dates for Public Meetings.
When: Thursday, December 5th and January 30th. 6.30pm for a 7pm start (end 9pm).
Where: The Goodlife Centre, 49/55 Great Guildford Street, London SE1 0ES

Finding The Goodlife Centre
We are about 10 minutes walk from Southwark or Borough tube stations, and about 15 minutes walk from Waterloo or London Bridge station. We are on the Southwark Bridge Road end of Great Guildford Street on the corner of Doyce Street, opposite Mint Street Park.

28/12/2022

05/09/2022

Autumn Equinox

12.30 pm Friday,
23rd September
Primrose Hill.
London. NW3

Nearest tube station:
Chalk farm.

We will gather as in previous years by the trees near the middle entrance from Primrose Hill Road, NW3 at 11.00am (10.30am if you have a role) where we will prepare for the ceremony. We hope to have a picnic afterwards if the weather is good.

14/04/2022

Meditation and Ritual Workshop

Date: Saturday, 7th May 10.30am-4pm
Venue: 23 Thornsett Road, London SE20 7XB. Open to all.

In the morning we will focus on how to meditate - how to balance your breathing, set up a protective space and develop a greater link with your spiritual self and the unseen world.
In the afternoon we will have a workshop on how The Druid Order uses ritual - to access the symbolic realm, learn how to be in the present tense, experience how energy flows into matter and back out again and be supported by the elemental forces of nature.

Cost: £20
To book your place contact: [email protected]