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All the Orders involved in CoBDO have a common principle:

The overriding principle which unites the various druid orders that make up the Council of British Druid Orders, is the belief and determination that we are all part of the process of the rekindling, in the 21stCentury, of an ancient national nature religion.

Some other groups seek to shun public work, and the responsibility of engaging with all members of the public at the traditional seasonal festival occasions, but we in CoBDO believe that it is time to take druidry out of its private cult status, and its "invitation only" ethos, and put it back where it truly belongs, as free and open participation for all at our ancient national shrines.


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And whilst some sections of the druid community charge money for information available in any library or on the internet, in the form of correspondence courses, we ask "would you pay money to become a christian?" and maintain that the only way you will ever learn to become a druid, and take on the responsibilities involved in becoming real druids in the real world, is by joining in with other druids in the field and learning to work with the public. Anything less, is private, not public.

Caesar and other Roman writers told how, under roman occupation, druids had been forced to abandon their national temples, and "perform ceremonies in the depths of the forests." Those days are long gone. Now we are back where we belong once more. In our temples of stone, like the proto-druidic megalith builders of old.

© Rollo Maughfling, Stonehenge Officer, Samhain 2007.

Please Note
I would like to make it clear that these opinions do not apply to all correspondence courses and we recognise the valuable work that certain of the druidic teaching schools do, by means of systematic tuition, to provide education in practical druid matters, history, philosophy, poetry and the arts, etc; and intense personal teaching is time-consuming, and makes the course fee valid; I only really mean to say, that public druidry requires getting out there in sacred landscape and making druidry a living example to all who have an interest, not making celebration and ceremony a purely “in-house” affair only.

The Council of British Druid Orders, CoBDO, would like to recommend one of our initial co-founders, who at present is not a member, the Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids, OBOD, as our correspondence course of choice, to those who feel that they need to learn more about druidry, but are not necessarily ready to embark on “fieldwork” to begin with.

Here is a link to their site if you would prefer to follow “the quieter way.” OBOD

Rollo Maughfling. Archdruid of Stonehenge & Britain.

A Spiritual message from Stonehenge 2012---- The Rebirth of Care.

The ancient Mayan calendar has attracted attention around the world and interestingly, the moment of its conclusion occurs at precisely 11.11 am on the morning of Friday 21^st December 2012. This coincides exactly with when the sun, as seen from earth in its annual cycle, marks the winter solstice, a time zone fact peculiar to Stonehenge, a five thousand year old stellar observatory.

We the Druids and people of Stonehenge welcome this supreme co-incidence, because not only is it a time for the renewal of this ancient mayan calendrical device, but it coincides for us, with the entry of the sun, moon, and planets, in their 25,920 year precessional course around the zodiac, into the much heralded sign of Aquarius, where they will stay for the next 2160 years, which constitutes a so called aeon or age.

The start of a universal new aeon, or zodiacal great month, has always been seen by cultures around the world as a time of renewal, and re-appraisal, when we, humanity, have another chance to fight off the evils of hatred, greed, warfare and starvation.

Hence we have called our ceremony and celebrations today, “The Rebirth of Care”, calling, in the name of peace and love, for the return of the influence in the human psyche of the ancient greek goddess Charis, (Celtic pron. Karis) whose name means Care, in the highest sense, of care for both planet and people, as well as charity towards all good causes. May she revolutionise our attitudes and our behaviour, and bring true civilisation, at last, to planet earth.

Rollo Maughfling

Stonehenge Officer

Council of British Druid Orders (CoBDO).

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