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A very special Celtic New Year 25 Oct 22

17/10/2022

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On the 25th of October 2022 we have a very special event because at the setting of the Sun there is an incredible alignment with the sun, mercury, venus and the dark moon just as one of the 4 the royal stars has its heliacal setting. This is the end and start of the Celtic New Year here in Ireland.

To put this fully into perspective it is important for us to know a few things first. This is not a catholic calendar event and it is not an interpolated or mathematically calculated event - this is like what our ancestors saw in the Realm of Sky and used to determine the end and start of their year. Our ancestors saw the start of the day/night cycle as beginning when the Sun would set. Our ancestors also saw the Celtic New Year start when the Sun and the Dark Moon aligned on the day/night that the star Antares (we call Tlachtga) had its heliacal setting. Antares is one of the 4 brightest stars in the belt of the zodiac and these 4 stars form an equal arm cross as part of the eight fold year. All part of the homestudy course details here.

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Breaking the above down - Dark Moon = there is a night every moonth when we get to see the last crescent of the Moon and there is also a night two nights later when we get to see the first crescent of the Moon, in-between the last and first crescent we get the Dark Moon, shown as )o( with the circle in black. It is not 'no Moon' it is simply that there is no sunlight reflected to us here on Earth because the Moon is directly in between the Earth and the Sun. So on the nights of the Dark Moons we know that the Earth has the Moon between it and the Sun, on the full Moon however - the Earth is between the Moon and the Sun which fully illuminates the Moon and we get to see it as the Full Moon.

Heliacal setting is an important magical thing that happens at dusk, the special time that is not day and not night, a liminal space where things change in the skies and here on Earth too - the birdsong stops, the temperature drops and we button up our coats... When the Sun has gone over 5* below the horizon and we cannot see it but its beams of light brighten the under cloud space and the royal star Antares (we call Tlachtga) gets to 3* or just above the horizon a special magic happens because the brightness of Tlachtga escapes the glare of the Sun and shines its own light through to us. It is a brief event but it is spectacular! The curvature of the atmosphere (meaning vapour ball) magnifies this and enlarges the star even more so it seems to get bigger as it shines its light to us before it too goes into the underworld. This is a 'unaided eye' visual experience that happens ever year even if cloud cover hides it from us. Recap - the Sun sets with the Dark Moon inside its inner circle and shortly after this the royal star becomes visible and gets bigger before it too goes into the underworld. But this Celtic New Year is even more fantastic than usual because the fast moving planets Mercury and Venus are also between the Sun and Earth as they set with the Dark Moon! That is two planets: Mercury and Venus with the Moon setting inside the Sun's circle and shortly afterwards the royal star Tlachtga gets brighter and bigger shining its own light briefly to us here on the third rock from the Sun before it too goes to the underworld.

Look south west at dusk, choose a high place with little or no light pollution, wrap up with a warm coat, scarf and hat and honour the Celtic New Year just as our ancestors did. Remember, if you are in the right place at the right time looking in the right direction calling on the right energy then maybe, just maybe there is a chance you could be heard.

Happy Celtic New Year to everyone on a Celtic Path.

/i\ Con 17/10/2022.
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Happy Celtic New Year!

7/10/2022

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Our newsletter is now live, included in this moonth is an invitation to our full moon ceremony on the 9th and information about our upcoming samhain celebrations including how we time our celebrations with the Moon the Sun and a star called Tlachtga. Con has also made a video about his new book....the full newsletter is in the link:
https://mailchi.mp/b7e45cd52966/happy-celtic-new-year

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Our September Newsletter

8/9/2022

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In this moonth's newsletter we look at the timing of the Autumn Equinox and why its important to watch the movements of the moon, sun, stars and planets. We also invite you to join us in Full Moon ceremony, a tradition within our group which has been ongoing now for almost 20 years! We also look at whats going on in our woodland nursery and why its important to make space for trees to grow. We share the great news that Con's book has gone into it's second round of printing! There's also a special event taking place int he sky at the Autumn Equinox - find out more at this link.

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Our August Newsletter

10/8/2022

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Hi to all our members and friends and welcome to our new subscribers. The Druí of Celtic Druid Temple will celebrate the Full Moon with ceremony this Friday the 12th of August at 8pm at Tara, Temple Crom and at 7pm in Vienna, Austria. You can read more about joining our Full Moon ceremony on our website here. Con's first book has arrived from the printers and there are only two (out of four) places remaining for the workshop at the end of this month. We are also now hosting tours of Celtic Druid Temple until the Autumn Equinox. All the details including how to book are in the main body of this newsletter at this link.
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Your Celtic Path, a seekers guide

10/8/2022

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Your Celtic Path, a seekers guide - a new book of guidance written in OgamNua is now in stock. First batch of pre ordered books are now in the post. Two places are still available on the Weekend Course dates 26, 27 and 28 August 2022. More info on how to order your copy of the book and to book your place on the weekend here
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Lughnasa 2 Aug 2022

31/7/2022

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Happy Lughnasa weekend - on Tuesday 2nd of August just a few moments after the Sun has set the bright star we call Shalinnis in Lugh (Regulus in Leo) will grow huge as it briefly appears to our view - then it will go below the horizon. This is the timing for the high day/night of Lughnasa season of the Eightfold Year.

Do not be fooled into celebrating our ancient Tuatha De Dannan festivals on the relatively modern (16c) Gregorian catholic calendar.


Reclaim your heritage and celebrate Lughnasa by sharing your harvest - whatever that may be. If you can, without looking at the Sun, watch the horizon and see if Lugh winks at you. Blessings of the old gods to all. Image set as if viewed from Tara.

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The first ever book written entirely in OghamNua

11/7/2022

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Con’s first book “Your Celtic Path, a seekers guide” is ready and the first delivery from the printers is expected by July’s Full Moon. Over 400 pages written in OgamNua offering guidance, teachings and inspiritation to all seekers of the Celtic Path. The first 40 pages tells the story of the creation of Ogam/Ogham by Ogma of the Tuatha Dé Danann and undoes the fake Ogham of the church and Graves etc., in a ‘step by step’ process so that we can clearly see exactly what they did. This allows us to fully dismiss their fake versions as we reverse their cultural misappropriation and restore our indigenous Irish linear script tradition. Owners of “Your Celtic Path, a seekers guide” will learn how to read and write in OgamNua and as they translate the OgamNua message into English: readers will gain access to the wisdom shared.
You can pre-order your copy or multiple copies of the book -
“Your Celtic Path, a seekers guide” directly from us. If you would like a personal or gift dedication handwritten in OgamNua by the author please let us know what you want written in OgamNua in advance (max 10 words).
“Your Celtic Path, a seekers guide”
for €80

Incl p+p to anywhere in the world. ORDER HERE

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“Your Celtic Path, a seekers guide” course dates are 26, 27 and 28 August.

We are hosting one weekend experience here at the Celtic Druid Temple to train seekers to do this translation work and to embrace the guidance, teachings and inspiration that have been coded into this unique book written in Ogam. Spend the weekend in the tranquil surrounds of Temple Crom learning how to transcribe and transliterate OghamNua in to English and back again if needed.

“Your Celtic Path, a seekers guide” course dates are 26, 27 and 28 August.
Participants will arrive Friday evening before 9pm and leave by 4pm on Sunday. Course fee includes all food and accommodation, slide show and lecture followed by learning the method of translating and reading and writing in OgamNua, a signed copy of the book and a lined A4 pad for transcription and translation. “Your Celtic Path, a seekers guide” course dates are 26, 27 and 28 August, arrive Friday evening before 9pm and leave by 4pm on Sunday. Course fee includes all food and accommodation, slide show and lecture followed by learning the method of translating and reading and writing in OgamNua, a signed copy of the book and a lined A4 pad for transcription and translation.Course fee €380.
Note - 4 places only with 3 still available BOOK HERE

Our July Full Moon newsletter has been sent to all our members, friends and subscribers. You can read the full content at the following link:
https://mailchi.mp/ffc06e027cf4/julyfullmoon?e=66dd6af45e
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Moonthly Newsletter

13/6/2022

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Our moonthly newsletter is now live. Included in the newsletter is an invitation to join us for Full Moon Cermeony on the 14th as well as an informative piece about the display of planets taking place on the morning of the 15th. We've shared info about our upcoming activites, a sacred fire workshop on the 18th and a pilgrimage to Croagh Crom on the 19th, read all this and more at the following link: mailchi.mp/b6499ce6a050/junefullmoon-20187301


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Creating a Path of Balance and Harmony

22/5/2022

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Many seekers go out of balance as they step away from over-control by those who exploit them, be they state, system or any church. When out-of-balance seekers meet others who are also out-of-balance they can easily fool themselves into feelings of comfort as they no longer feel alone. But to be in the false comfort of any out-of-balance group actually means you are still out of balance.... even if they have made a cosy space for you! Watch out though because there is always a cult leader making profit (ego or pocket)...

When you realise this - you should have a plan to get back into balance as quickly as possible. This may mean leaving the comfort of every out-of-balance group and setting out on your own path as a solitary seeker once more. This requires grown up bravery. Don't bother with recriminations or sharing your understandings with the out-of-balance comfort group - instead - quietly thank them and sort out any issues or stuff peacefully if the opportunity exists. Then move on and reflect on the dynamics, the victimhood and the illusions that were used to bind the out-of-balance group together and make a plan that such notions will never happen for you in your future.

This is the Way of the Seeker. To create balance and harmony you should not look outside, you should look inside. You must use the knowledge and experience of your outside life to assemble the wisdom to create your own balance and harmony inside. Then because you have changed yourself - your outer world changes too.

Our ancestors saw their world as being of two complimentary halves – male and female. Their gods and goddesses worked to preserve the balance of harmony. With harmony great progress is possible, but without that harmony chaos ensues causing shortages, misery and stagnation. Problems appear when any group becomes a gender based group or has a single gender god or goddess to ‘worship’. Such groups are cults and the cult leader speaks for the god or goddess... This system also requires a ‘hate’ figure who is used as a binder in that the entire group hates the same person. In the most bizarre sense the hate figure is the opposite of the cult leader. If you, as a seeker, find your self in a group that has a hated person / gender / group you will, if you look with open eyes, see that there is a cult leader too who speaks for the selected god / goddess. Run!

Cult leaders are power tripping and totally out of balance with the idea of harmony. We, as seekers, need to reconnect with the partnership idea to get back into balance. We should try to transform any "dominator" model to a "partnership" model. The dominator model includes ‘patriarchy’ which means the rule of the father and ‘matriarchy’ which means rule of the mother. They can both be generalised to mean rule by men or women and by extension ‘gods and goddesses’. A ‘partnership’ path is a better balanced path for all seekers and it is desirable because it is more emotionally healthy than the patriarchal or matriarchal options available today.

Or imagine all the above said another way - that there was only a male god in charge... In no time at all he’d be out of balance and angry and grumpy and cause hurt and fear and panic and his people would be sad. Or - imagine all the above said another way - that there was only a female goddess in charge... In no time at all she’d be out of balance and angry and grumpy and cause hurt and fear and panic and her people would be sad. Then imagine the partnership option of a god and goddess, we get a sew-saw with ups and downs, he gets better ideas about some things, she gets better ideas about some things but together they seek to create balance and harmony. There would be no room for cult leaders but there would be room for co-operation in partnership co-creating a future.
Choose.
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Four Whistleblowers on the 'cosplay cult'

18/5/2022

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Before reading the following be aware that the cult being exposed is not honouring our ancestors instead they are attempting to impose their gaudy new 'old religion' as indigenous. Know its creation history by reading 'stopping the wiccan burning cult'.

The 1st whistleblower on the cult was just after the burning of the paraffin soaked 14’ high 8 spoke willow wheel (sacred sun symbol) on the actual ground inside the sacred temple at Tlachtga, just a few miles from Tara on catholick Halloween in 2018. I will refer to all anonymous whistle blowers as ‘he’. He felt it was all wrong and very disrespectful. He sent me a series of messages which allowed me to get an understanding of what was done and who the main performers were. My message to the Keeper of the Hill of Tlachtga got him to quickly visit the monument to take a series of photographs of the fire damage to the sacred site. With this info and pics I became the 2nd whistleblower on the cult when I wrote the ‘stopping the wiccan burning cult’ report. I got a garda investigation going with a pulse number, I got details of the minister’s grant aid to Cllr Gilroy of taxpayers funds, but there was no licence issued for any burning of anything on Tlachtga. Then all government departments ‘clammed up’ and eventually the garda response was 'there is no damage' – blindness to the wrong doings of their masters prevailed.


This was followed by a very stupid written threat (published below) from a solicitor who effectively became the 3rd whistleblower. In his letter he named his clients as – Gemma McGowan, Deirdre Wadding, Patsy Preston, Karen Ward, John Cantwell, Eimer Burke. (Note Eimer Burke is the current head of the english masonic obod group, Deirdre Wadding is the active head of the Fulloship of Isis). Until his letter I had no documented proof of who the perpetrators actually were – this is the 1st count of that solicitor being a whistleblower. Like many solicitor’s letters it was a puffed up snot of threats and demands. His 2nd count as a whistleblower was when he declared – "my clients are of the view that these publications (my report – “stopping the wiccan burning cult”) are designed to initiate hatred and damage to their current and future engagements in the cultural and heritage life." This means ‘money or revenue loss’ was their real concern. I was accused in his letter of defamation – this notion relates to potential loss of money by his clients because I exposed what they (his clients above) did on Tlachtga. The poor fool thought I’d be in fear when I would get his letter, instead I laughed because I could see right through it and how any legal action would involve 3 ministers of state, a corrupt garda report, a county councillor and a gaggle of money and glory seeking performers as well as how the president of Ireland was unwittingly (I hope) tricked into playing a role in a great deception at Uisneach. I could not personally organise all the above into a court case but the arrogant fools in the cult almost could...lol.

Copies of the ‘stopping the wiccan burning cult’ report were supplied to all county councillors in Meath, to all tourism and heritage businesses and to all national newspapers. Its a very small clique that runs Ireland and they all clammed up. I wrote to Mr Clarke at Uisneach, and to Mr Clarke at Tlachtga informing them of what was happening. No replies were received.

And just after the interpolated cross quarter cosplay vulgar chanting performances at Uisneach 2022 by Deirdre Wadding’s synthetic costumed drum bangers – the 4th whistleblower sends me 3 messages that I’ve added together to be one report with my responses noted.

He says - “Hi apologies for the late message, I've just read your blog on stopping the wiccan burning cult which I was lead to from your post. I was previously involved in some of the ceremonies and I attended uisneach this year. Reading that blog made me sick to my stomach and brought up feelings of pure shame. I didn't fully realise what/who I was involved with and the symbolism behind it all A lot of stuff previously didn't make sense to me....and I say this with shame... especially my own ancestry, heritage and I guess my roots until I read that blog, it's helped put another piece of the puzzle together for me and I thank you for that I offer my sincerest apologies for ever being involved in these ceremonies and now that I understand fully what they are about, I will never attend one again. My eyes have truly been opened...wow I'm just blown away This message comes with deepest gratitude for the work you both do

(I said - “thank you for sharing, thank you for listening to your heart, thank you for seeing through the gaudy glamour, thank you for your respect for our ancestors.” Grá Con)

He says - And thank you for helping to open my eyes even more to it all. It never felt right but now I understand why I feel truly gutted today that I willingly took part but on the upside it's opened a new door & path of understanding for me, from the bottom of my heart thank you

(I said - “great stuff - thank you for sharing. I quoted you anonymously hoping to encourage others to do so too. Check out https://www.celticdruidtemple.com/blog/nabs-the-cosplay-cults-interpolated-fake-bealtane” )

He says - I just read that and yes absolutely do what feels right...I was one of those women dressed in white in 2018...omg the shame I was also one of the herbalists "holding space" for the fire in 2019 I knew nothing about men not being allowed to partake, I was asked to be involved and i thought why not I know patsy Preston for over 25 years and i never thought she would be involved in anything that would be harmful to our ancestors, our sacred sites or our heritage, but the cycle of government funding and grants in all areas had me questioning a lot of things. Your blog confirmed so much for me...the level of infiltration runs so deep fucking hell my brain hurts but I'm also grateful
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The above attached pic is of Deirdre Wadding – active participant and speaker at the wiccan burning cult of Talchtga 2018, the cult leader of the chanting drum bangers at the interpolated cross quarter cosplay event at Uisneach 2022 and so much more...
The pic below is of the letter from a solicitor confirming the exact names of the leaders of the 'wiccan burning cult' and that their main concern is income loss at being exposed. I reckon he charged them at least €50 each and was chancing his arm at getting me to pay him too...lol

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