Druids In Cars, Going To Festivals

03/11/2023

This week's episode is about a long-standing Grove tradition, the Ancestor Box. Perfect for Samhain season!

Happy Samhain, friends! One of the great traditions we have as a Grove is that we keep an Ancestor Box. This is a simple box that has been with us for 20 years now, receiving new ancestors and bringing them into our shared community of ancestral family, and becoming a part of who we are. Today, beca...

01/11/2023

It's November first, and do you know what that means? It's time for !!!

Check out our episode from a few years back on this wonderful topic, and then join us at the Project and submit your own!
https://druidsincars.podbean.com/e/bonus-episode-4-prayeraday/

We'll be back at midnight with a new episode!

November 1st starts our challenge, and it's a Thursday, so we're releasing (by the skin of our teeth) an episode where Rev. Avende discusses the history behind the challenge, and how you can participate! You can join the Facebook group if you want to write, follow the fun on....

10/08/2023

Will we see you at the Summerland Festival 2023: At the Sacred Center? We’d sure love to!

Preregistration for Summerland Festival 2023: At the Sacred Center ends TOMORROW!

We have an incredible panel of presenters and events!

Head to www.threecranes.org/summerland to register now!

20/07/2023

Our second episode in our 5-part "Managing the Magical" series, about opening the gates in ritual, is now up! This was a long discussion, and a good one!

We're a month out from Summerland! Consider coming out to the Summerland Festival August 17-20, 2023, in near Yellow Springs, Ohio! This week is the second of five episodes we recoded back-to-back about "Managing the Magical," or how we do magical work in certain sections of our rituals. We'll talk....

13/07/2023

Today, in our first episode in a 5-part series called "Managing the Magical," Rev. Avende and Rev. Dangler discuss the process of (Re)Creating the Cosmos in ritual.

Important Announcement! The Trillium Spring Gathering is back in 2024! Some more details in the episode, but check out the website, and join us early next year! Also, you can check in with us in person sooner at the Summerland Festival in August. This week is the first of five episodes we recoded ba...

12/07/2023

We took last week off of new episodes for the mid-summer holidays, but we're back tomorrow with a new 5-part series (that we recorded all of in one sitting last night) called "Managing the Magical."

We'll chat about those key magical moments in ritual, explain their development into the Core Order of Ritual, and talk about the mechanics of how we do the actual magical work.

We're really looking forward to these episodes getting out there.

Ride along with us: we'd love to have you!

19/05/2023

Who does "goal-oriented ritual planning?" Apparently we do! Last night, we had our planning meeting for our ritual year at Three Cranes Grove, ADF, and on the way there, Rev. Avende and Rev. Dangler had a conversation about how we set our goals, and gave a preview of things we wanted to improve.

https://druidsincars.podbean.com/e/episode-105-goal-oriented-ritual-planning/

Join us as we travel down the road, once more... and hopefully we'll see you at Wellspring Gathering next weekend!

On our way to the Three Cranes Grove, ADF, annual liturgical planning meeting, Rev. Dangler hit Rev. Avende with a random question when they got in the car: do you set goals for your ritual year? We talk about what we expect on the planning side of things as we get into it, ways we look for balance,...

20/04/2023

Season 6 is on the road!

Check out Episode 101 - Advice To Our Younger Pagan Selves. https://www.podbean.com/ei/pb-arxic-13e9150

We talk about what we wish someone had told us when we were starting out, and what we’ll take forward into our experience.

Also, consider sending us your advice at [email protected]

We're back for Season 6! At our Anagantios Druid Moon in 2022, we recorded this episode about the advice we would give to ourselves when we were our younger Pagan selves. It turns out our advice is actually still pretty relevant to us these days. We also brought advice from a special guest not in th...

19/04/2023

There's something coming down the (turn)pike, friends. See you tomorrow ;)

11/08/2022

100 Episodes!

In a lot of ways, we didn’t really expect to get here, and yet here we are.

https://www.podbean.com/ei/pb-y36us-12964dc

Today we talk about rites of passage, because what is your 100th episode if not just that? We reflect a little bit on where we’ve been, and think about where we’re going.

There’s a lot of road ahead, and we’re excited to be on it with you.

One of the things about recording a podcast is that you find yourself passing milestones on the journey, and today, we managed to get in our 100th episode! We talk a bit about how rites of passage have figured into our working life as podcasters, as members of a local Grove, and as individuals, and....

05/08/2022

We forgot to post about Episode 99 when it was released, so you can find that here:

https://druidsincars.podbean.com/e/episode-99-finding-joy-in-ritual-and-druidry/

But that means Episode 100 is next. We haven't recorded it yet, but may be doing so at Summerland Festival 2022. What's Summerland? Why, it's Three Cranes Grove, ADF's festival, and you can come join us August 18-21; registration is still open! Hope to see you there!

Druidry is not drudgery, and there is an element of joy to all of the work that we do with and for others. We speak of Rev. Dangler's initiatory experience, where joy was gifted to him as a tool of his work. Rev. Avende speaks of joy in their flow experien...

01/07/2022

Today we're talking about what Druidry is, and discuss the impacts of using the word "Druid" as ADF members. Spoiler alert: Rev. Avende hates it.

We talk about the terms we could use instead, working both forward from our base practice, and backwards from the terms we have available.

If you've ever been annoyed by the way ADF Druids use the word "Druid," this episode is for you.

https://druidsincars.podbean.com/e/episode-98-druidry-and-our-work/

Today we're talking about what Druidry is, and discuss the impacts of using the word "Druid" as ADF members. Spoiler alert: Rev. Avende hates it. We talk about the terms we could use instead, working both forward from our base practice, and backwards from ...

23/06/2022

Today, we chat about nature in our nature religion: where we find it, and how you can find it as well.

https://druidsincars.podbean.com/e/episode-97-finding-nature-in-our-nature-religion/

How do you find nature to put in your nature religion? We look at both the mundane and the spiritual aspects everyone has access to, consider that ancient Pagans didn't find a deep issue with lack of access to the "natural world," and talk about how we bri...

17/06/2022

Sometimes, we're called to work with unfamiliar deities or cultures in our work as polytheists. Navigating that can be a little weird sometimes, but it led to an interesting discussion.

https://druidsincars.podbean.com/e/episode-96-working-in-unfamiliar-hearth-cultures/

Ride along and listen in!

09/06/2022

Ever felt like you don't quite belong? So have we. Today's episode is about imposter syndrome: the feeling that no matter what you've accomplished, or how good you are at it, someone's going to discover who you *really* are!

https://druidsincars.podbean.com/e/episode-95-managing-imposter-syndrome/

And we talk about how we manage those feelings.

Have you ever felt that you were in over your head with this whole ritual-and-magic thing? Do you feel like an "imposter" about to be found out? We all have, but it can seem like it's a lonely place to be. You might be surprised that, even with all the exp...

28/05/2022

Good morning from Tredara.
Will you be at the next festival?

You might consider the Summerland Festival or perhaps Three Rivers Festival for your next event.

More about Summerland here: https://threecranes.org/summerland/ and more about 3 Rivers here: https://3riversfestival.wordpress.com

(Psst: Summerland is still accepting workshop proposals until June 1!)

11/04/2022

When in April will we start posting new episodes of Druids in Cars? Why, this very week is when we start the new season! Check your podcast feed on Thursday; new episode is scheduled and ready!

16/03/2022

Guess what? We're totally coming back for Season 5, and there are actual festivals on the actual horizon now! We'll be starting with some audio from last Harvest Nights in October 2021, and we should be back on schedule with a full season again this year, we hope.

We're looking forward to a new season, new content, new guests, and above all, new friends at festivals!

Catch you in Mid-April!

16/11/2021

We had a great chat about how we live our lives, and we found it dovetailed into a sudden, beautiful detour. Come live a bit of excitement with us, friends. Part 2 comes this week!

Episode 84 - Living a Pagan Lifestyle (Part 1 of 2), please check it out.

https://www.podbean.com/ei/pb-bz8a8-1121186

This week, we chat about a commonly-requested topic: how we live our lives as Pagans, and what the lifestyle looks like to us. Part of that is just how we live our lives, and the decisions that we make that seem quite mundane: how we speak to and rear our children, how we interact with the world aro...

04/11/2021

Can we tell you how good it felt to get back onto the road again? No, we certainly cannot. But you can hear it in our voices. We went out to Harvest Nights this year, and we got some great topics from you. And when we start talking, boy, we can just get onto a roll.

Ride along with us once again; we'd love to have you as we make up for some lost time!

https://druidsincars.podbean.com/e/episode-83-reflections-on-hybrid-ritual-and-on-the-road-again/

We're back on the road, going to a festival, meaning that your friendly, chatty Druids are back in the full swing of the work. We recorded enough episodes to finish out the rest of the season on our way to Harvest Nights, and to provide a head start into n...

03/11/2021

Did you miss us? New episode goes live at midnight, Eastern time.

07/10/2021

We’re on our way to Harvest Nights! In a car! In person! Which means we need topics!

Drop them in the comments and we’ll see what we can do about covering them!

19/08/2021

With the Summerland Gathering last week, we were able to get a couple of episodes recorded! We talk about Magical Work-Life Balance in today's episode!

https://druidsincars.podbean.com/e/episode-81-magical-work-life-balance/

There are some great festivals coming up, virtual and (tentatively) in person. We hope to catch up at one of them :)

Finally on our way to and from a festival, even it it was virtual, Revs. Avende and Dangler are on their way out to the site of our broadcasted Summerland Unity Rite for a Druid Moon, and they spend some time discussing how they balance the religious and m...

24/06/2021

Two weeks ago, in Episode 75 (s4Ep8), we spoke a bit about the sensory experiences of our work as it related directly to our stoles, sickles, and other physical items we work with; last week, we went through a Dairy Queen drive-thru and had a tasty episode. Today, we wanted to dive deeper into how we experience ritual in a very physical, sensory way.

Special guest Maggie helps us work through senses beyond the traditional five we all learned about in school.

https://druidsincars.podbean.com/e/episode-77-the-sensory-experience-of-ritual/

Join us around the fire for this fascinating discussion!

Two weeks ago, in Episode 75 (s4Ep8), we spoke a bit about the sensory experiences of our work as it related directly to our stoles, sickles, and other physical items we work with; last week, we went through a Dairy Queen drive-thru and had a tasty episode...

17/06/2021

Well, we're back with an episode that tastes great along with sounding pretty good. Hear a reworked version of our theme for this special episode, where we talk about how we managed the pandemic and the current reopening phases we're going through.

This one's a long episode, but that's because the drive-thru line was pretty long.

https://druidsincars.podbean.com/e/episode-76-retaining-sanity-and-practice-in-a-pandemic/

Next week's episode is going to be even longer with a special guest. We can't wait to share that one.

Today, we take a special break and do a special trip suggested by one of our listeners, and we talk about how we retained our sanity and practice in a global pandemic. There's a lot of chat about tech, ritual and work, and building physical connections in ...

03/06/2021

There's a new episode out today, our 75th regular episode! Ride along as we discuss how we interact with our tools on a spiritual level, including our stoles, sickles, and the Grove Hallows.

https://druidsincars.podbean.com/e/episode-75-drawing-out-the-voice-of-the-folk/

You can also check out the video we reference regarding the voice of the folk being poured into the stoles here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c88egKiK1D4

We took a week off and (virtually) attended Wellspring last weekend, and we had a good time. But we're back! Learn the secret of the Stoles of the Priests of ADF, and why we do the weird things we do with them in ritual when a new priest is ordained. Then,...

06/05/2021

Today, we talk about healing spirits and deities, our connections to them, and how we build and experience those relationships.

https://druidsincars.podbean.com/e/episode-72-healing-deities-and-spirits/

Travel down the path with us :)

Today we take another walk through the woods and speak about healing spirits and deities: how we connect with them, how we experience them, and what it's like to reach out to one. We reference a few external items, so we want to add those to the show notes...

29/04/2021

Join us on a stroll through a bog as we talk about liminal spaces and our experiences within them.

https://druidsincars.podbean.com/e/episode-71-liminal-spaces/

Episode 71 - Liminal Spaces

Liminal spaces are points or areas that are "betwixt and between" states. On foot today, we wandered past a bog, and it got us thinking about the sorts of places we've encountered that were "in between" different experiences, and what it's like to work thr...

22/04/2021

As Beltaine approaches and some of us start moving toward public ritual again, we at Three Cranes Grove, ADF, took our first steps with our last Druid Moon rite. We recorded this in two pieces: on our way to the rite, where we talk about how we think it might go; and our way home from the rite, where we thought about how it actually went.

https://druidsincars.podbean.com/e/episode-70-hybrid-experimentation-a-pandemic-ritual-recovery/

Take a listen, hear what worked and what didn't, and feel free to share your ideas in the comments, too!

This past weekend, Three Cranes Grove, ADF, took our first steps toward reopening our public ritual practice: we conducted a small, semi-private hybrid ritual, where folks attended in person (masked and socially distanced) and remotely. On their way out to...

15/04/2021

Today, we take a walk in the woods and discuss how we prepare for ritual, both as individuals and as a grove. We'd love to have you join us.

https://druidsincars.podbean.com/e/episode-69-ritual-preparation/

Ride (well, walk, this time) along with us for a lovely conversation!

How do we start preparing for ritual, in both physical and spiritual ways? How is it different for us when we do group ritual and persona ritual? How can we simplify it and make it easier to get out the door, even in these weird pandemic times? Today, we t...