Category: Celebration
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Marriage Law; good news
TDN is pleased to read the final Report by the Law Commission, “Celebrating Marriage: A New Weddings Law“. The report recommends adoption of almost all the points made by The Druid Network in its submission to the Law Commission a few years ago. If formally adopted into UK law it will make legal handfastings far…
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Lockdown Beltane
The Druid Network looks forward to Beltane this year as always, but in the light of the ongoing Covid-19 Pandemic recognises that celebrations will be very different this year. TDN also recognises the significant impact that the lockdown is having on the mental wellbeing of many Druids and pagans who are perforce denied free access…
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Change to Celebrants List
Over Samhain 2017ce a decision was agreed that in future only TDN Members would be listed in the celebrants list. This decision is now being implemented. Consequently, the celebrants list is now of course a little shorter, but we believe this action improves the list; reducing inaccuracies and potentially long out of date information. The…
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BDO Ritual in Paralympics Closing Ceremony
http://www.druidry.co.uk/2012/09/09/bdo-ritual-in-paralympics-closing-ce… “We were sworn to secrecy beforehand, but Emma Restall Orr and I were approached by the organisers of the 2012 Paralympics closing ceremony with a surprising request. They wanted our permission to use parts of the gorsedd ritual we wrote in 1997”. So, about 20 minutes into the ceremony, these words went out to…