Title: Sacred Actions Journal
Author: Dara O’Driscoll
Publisher: Schiffer
I reviewed “Sacred Actions; Living the Wheel of the Year through Earth-Centred Sustainable Practices” back in the summer of 2021, and wrote about how delighted I was with it and how I enjoyed reading it. I was pleased, therefore, to receive a copy of the Sacred Actions Journal. Designed to match the previous book, it is exactly what it claims to be – a journal. It is therefore largely a book in which to write, although there are snippets of information which guide the journalist through the “Wheel of the Year”.
Journaling one’s spiritual, um, journey is something that is core to most of the Druid teaching practices. Indeed, it is to Druidry what a Book of Shadows might be to the Wiccan. Many of us in one way or another record how our practice is shaping us, or how we are shaping our own practice. For those in TDN who work with the Perennial Druidry course (freely available on the public web site) the journalling might be shared in the Members’ discussion group specific to that course. For those who become immersed in the Sacred Actions book and the teaching within, this could well be the most appropriate solution to tracking the ideas and suggestions found in it.
The journal resembles the book; it’s made to be so, with lovely semi-hard brown card covers and delightful hand-drawn pictures and quaint borders. For a book of two hundred pages, the word count is obviously tending towards the spartan, with chapter headings, descriptions and suggestions for each of the eight seasonal markers but plenty of space for your own writing. I think it works best in partnership with the book it supports, although one could use it simply as a way of annotating ones development through the year and years ahead. A lovely way to write up your experiences with the course itself.
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