North America Druid
Traditions & Resources
Since 2006
Finding Other Druids
Advice for finding other Druids – how to explore and evaluate groups, & resources.
Druid Groups Map of North America
An interactive map of known local Druid groups.
A Druid Group Comparison Table
This table compares popular Druid groups in North America.
Druid Traditions
Druid traditions for larger orders in North America: Revival, Reformed, & Neopagan Orders.
A standard set of seasonal festivals
A Druid Wheel of the Year
Samhain (October 31st)
Samhain is seen as the Celtic new year, and a festival of the approaching dark winter season which is balanced at the opposite point of the wheel of the year by the spring festival of Beltane — a festival of light and fertility.
Commonly a three-day festival, Samhain is often observed on October 31 starting at sundown. (Though it can encompass the month of October into early November.)
With the veil between this world and the Otherworld, including the afterlife, being at its thinnest point of the whole year, Samhain is a fine time to celebrate the lives of those who have passed on.
Druidry
“It’s an attitude, an understanding, an exquisitely simple and natural philosophy of living. For a great many it is a rich and ancient religion, a mystical spirituality. For others it’s simply a guiding way of life. It is absolutely open and free for anyone to discover.”
Remma Restall Orr, Druid Priestess, 2000