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CROESO I’R CYLCH BLODEUWEDD AR LEIN!!!
Welcome to the new Cylch Blodeuwedd website! We hope this website will provide a much better “window on the world” for the Grove.
This new website makes it much easier for the grove administration to update and add to the site, and also enables a better way of categorizing and managing information. It provides many new features not seen on the old site, such as the ability to comment on articles, as well as archives and a guestbook. On behalf of Cylch Blodeuwedd, enjoy!
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The Cylch Blodeuwedd website is an online source of updates, information, and forum discussions for our real-life Grove. We meet in North Wales throughout the Eight Festivals of the Year, as well as many other get togethers.
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JOINING IN — We have all sorts of things going on in our druidic community. Not only do we have rituals to celebrate the Eight Festivals of the Year, but also sometimes hold rituals for special occurrences like Blue Moons, eclipses of felt importance, or life crossroads such as a rite of passage for coming of age, a child’s birth, entering midlife, or whatever is needed.
We also currently have a set of retreats being led by Gillian, our Grove Mother, separate from the Grove, but there are some Grove Members who take part and contribute.
From time to time, the Grove goes on group excursions as well, to local sacred sites, places of archaeological interest, or to museums, workshops, camps, as interest leads.
For people interested in joining Cylch Blodeuwedd in person for rituals, we have a two-way system. If you already know us, you are more than welcome to join in with us whenever possible. Just let one of us know. But if you have never met us before, please send an email to us (see at bottom of page for email address) to introduce yourself. We are re-working our process for new members. In the meantime, you can always join our forum, which is open to anyone willing to seriously participate in our discussions.
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SITE OUTLINE — Thanks to some very uplifting and cleansing energies this Imbolc 2009, we’ve taken the opportunity to consolidate, re-organise and edit all of our previous material, as well as updating and adding all sorts of new features!
Our new menu is full of new and exciting additions where you can find . . .
- GROVE NEWS, which keeps you up-to-date with all the latest happenings in the Grove, be they Forthcoming Rituals, Other Grove Events, Earthwalking Retreats, Grove Outings or Related Talks and Meetings.
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- WHO WE ARE, a page which explains our name meaning, how the Grove was started in the first place, what druidry means to us, what our owl logo symbolizes, who Blodeuwedd is, and much much more!
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- RITUALS , a great resource where you will find information about the Eight Festivals of the Year (including Welsh customs and traditional activities); an outline of our Grove Ritual Days, which gives you an idea of what kind of things we do, as well as the how and why; Preparation for Rituals, so you know what you can do to get into the right frame of mind, what is asked of you, etc; and a Ritual Archive holding write-ups summarizing what happened during each of our past festivals or rituals. For anyone to read.
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- CREATIVITY, where you will find our Recipes, Crafts, Meditations, and Poetry. By popular demand for the various things done in ritual–all to be found under the Creativity section as well. These are compiled by what is submitted from members in the forums, as well as in person. This will be available on line to the general public.
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- ARTICLES, all written by members of our Grove, from topics like Celtic Spirituality, Nature, Polytheistic Psychology, the Feminine and Celtic Society, the Mabinogi and so on. You can also leave comments on these to let us know what you think!
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- READING, a recommended reading list with member’s reviews of all the books we think are essential or useful to have read. Available to the general public.
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- FORUM, which you have to join separately, but anyone can join, to participate in our discussions and musings. There is also a new Welsh forum is being developed by our webmaster, Dafydd, for those amongst the Cylch who speak or are learning the Welsh language.
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- PHOTO GALLERY cannot be seen on the menu but it IS back up and running, just now under password protection, to keep members’ privacy. It can be accessed through the forums.
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- LINKS is where you will find all sorts of interesting links to other websites of interest in regards to Druidry, Celtic Studies, etc.
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- SACRED SITES –We are proud to introduce a new page on “sacred sites” in the North Wales local area. Dafydd and Jenn hope to be exploring various places, followed up with an article for your information, as well as photos! This will grow as their adventures evolve. Continue to check the page out for new developments–or better yet, go check out the places themselves.
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- GUESTBOOK — Lastly, but not least … why don’t you stop by and sign our Guestbook where you can let us know what you think of the website or if you would just like to say hello!
If anyone wants to contact us/the grove, the grove email is back – email us at: info@cylchblodeuwedd.co.uk