I discovered - and was discovered by - Druidry after a long search for a spirituality that grew, like fairytales and folksong, from the living land.

I wanted references to my own culture – every aspect of my physical life incorporated into my spiritual understanding of the world. Most importantly I did not accept any conflict between the life of the five senses and the life of the spirit.

This binary view of body versus spirit is fed to us in many subtle ways; we absorb it as a truth without realising it. But Western magicians know that the two are inextricably linked and support each other. Our challenge is to live fully as a physical being with an overriding spiritual impetus. Our primary relationships are with our body and environment: respecting and understanding these is a vital part of our spiritual journey.

And so I found a home in Druidry.

Excitingly, the Druid path can be adapted to fit the terrain, seasons and climate anywhere in the world. If you access your spiritual side through the natural world, that makes you a Druid-in-training. For the essence of this path is that we must craft it ourselves.

Coming back to my journey… an invitation to send off for the OBOD (Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids) introductory pack appeared just when I was ready for it; the timing was magical.

I immediately felt I had come home. I was lucky enough to go to the first OBOD camp; to meet and form relationships with seminal members of the organization there. Soon, I was offered the editorship of the Order’s magazine, Touchstone, which I continue to edit nineteen years later: a full metonic* cycle.

During my years in OBOD I organized events for their early camps, offered weekend workshops internationally and coordinated events such as the prestigious Mount Haemus Awards. I currently co-facilitate the OBOD Inner Visualisation and Ritual Workshops levels 1&2, run a Grove on the Somerset levels and have devised ceremonies and talks for groups as diverse as the Brownies and University students. I run distance schemes for students on elements of practical magic, such as the Michael Line Project and the Druid’s Hide, which I tutor personally.

I am also a graduate of the Awen training of the Annwn Foundation, broadening my experience with elements of Qabalism and hermetic wisdom from the Western Mystery Tradition lineage. I have enhanced and enriched my Druidry through personal research incorporating some magical principles of Dion Fortune, particularly the balancing aspect of the ‘triple way’ into my daily practice, and co-authored a book with Ian Rees, director of the Annwn Foundation.

As well as appearances on national radio and the OBOD Druid podcast, I am a regular speaker on ‘Tea with a Druid’ and ‘The Private Magician’s Club’ – both courtesy of Philip Carr Gomm.

Alongside articles on Druidry and Dion Fortune, I’ve published a best-selling book on Druidry:

The Path of Druidry: Walking the Ancient Green Way

as well as further titles:

The Wisdom of Birch, Oak, and Yew: Connect to the Magic of Trees for Guidance & Transformation

The Keys to the Temple: Unlocking Dion Fortune's Mystical Qabalah Through Her Occult Novels (with Ian Rees)

and am also the author of a fiction series: Gwion Dubh: Druid Investigator

My latest book How to stop the rain: Conversational Magic with the Cosmos contains some conclusions on practical magic, as evidenced with a group during 2019. It sets out a magical template, explaining fully how we can do magic, why we might want to, and some of the reasons we might choose not to.

*The Metonic cycle is a period of 19 calendar years (235 lunar months), after which the new and full moons return to the same (or nearly the same) dates of the year.