The Reformed Druids (and Their Spin-Offs too!)
A personal webpage of Druid resources prepared by one member
The Reformed Druids
| The RDNA is the oldest and largest Druid organization native to the United States, but perhaps the least well organized. We began in 1963 as a protest against coerced religious attendance at Carleton College in MN. The RDNA is known for it's lack of dogma, a loose hierarchy, eclectic traditions, a wry sense of humor, well archived numerous publications, and having spawned many well-known spin-off groups. |
This site is rather homely... but big and FREE * The Reform has 3 branches, 45 groves, with 4500+ members * Founded 1963 * This site has over 120 sub-webpages, all public * 3200 archived pages of printed Druid materials * Links to dozens of RDNA groves and other Druid groups * Bibliographies, magazines, and recommended books * Games, stories, and a karaoke site to sing Druid songs! |
Info about and links to the RDNA and its offshoots: New RDNA, Hasidic DNA, etcDNA, Reformed Druids of Gaia (RDG), Missionary Order of Celtic Cross/Reformed Druidic Wicca (MOCC/RDW), Ar nDriaiocht Fein (ADF), Henge of Keltria, Order of the White Oak (OWO), and the Order of Mithril Star (OMS). Collectively, these groups are known as the "family of modern druidism in America", as distinct from the British and Fraternal families of Druidism. |
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1. Watch Animated Video Series on RDNA Click "CC" for closed captions - transcript - Best on a FULL screen view! (new one every 3 weeks) . . . . . . .Click image on right for 8 min. overview cast&plot (7+ episodes now)
2. Browse Orientation Handbooks for New Druids
(UWP for the RDNA/NRDNA, and Druid Path for RDG) 
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3. Sign Up to our Social Media Sites
Monitor the Two Larger Facebook Sites .
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To get 5 e-mails/month on Druid publications, events and other announcements, write to mikerdna@hotmail.com Same to unsubscribe. 5. Get outside more, meet some trees, talk with folk, read. Repeat above as necessary. Now go get started!
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Comparing the Druid Groups (Join them all!)
Can't find your answer? Druidical Pass-times (Got time?)
 Four Salutations of the Day
One member's form of meditation at Sunrise, mid-day, sunset, evening.
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Oddly, enough, there are alot of Druid conferences on line. Many, you will find, don't last very long. The following ones are large and active, so be careful not to sign up for TOO MANY at a time! Tell me about others you've found.
 Click to join Hazelnut_MotherGrove
Many groves don't maintain a website.
Carleton Grove, MN Slow load!
Stacey's Druid Blog in CA
Hassidic DNA (est. 1975) long defunct, needs reviving or refounding. |
Order of Mithril Star is a group since 1997 that have melded Reformed Druidism with Church of All Worlds, Wicca and other clever inventions of their own.
OMS is a prominent member of the "Reformed Druids of Gaia" network. Their snail-mail is Reformed Druids of Gaia, C/O: OMS, P.O. Box 8004, Eureka CA 95502-8004, USA
Order of Mithril Star Conference Ellis' Facebook Another Care 2 group about them
Missionary Order of the Celtic Cross/Reformed Druidic Wicca (MOCC/RDW) was mysteriously founded in 1983, and originially took inspiration from RDNA and Wicca. Their HQ in Oklahoma has had a handful of offshoots and liturgical manuals. The Henge of Keltria was a spin-off of ADF, and chose a purely Celtic focus in 1986. See thier magazine link below.
The Order of the White Oak, a spin-off of many organizations, with ample local development, is another group to visit. Their most well-known member is Ellen Hopman, famed author and herbalist. OWO's newsletter, Eolas, began Aug 2007: http://www.whiteoakdruids.org/eolas_magazine.cfm |
 Click to join pagan-clergy  Click to join celticdruids  Click to join AODA_Public "Druid" conference on yahoogroups I have found most of the groups on MSN Groups to be relatively inactive as conferences, but if you know of other large on-line conferences, please tell me. |
47 Illustrated Pages of Contents of This Issue Penny’s Poetry Druid Productions Essay: Peace, Peace, Peace Essay: Objectification, Worship & Power Story: Druid Prank Story: Christmas & Druids Crafts: Book Binding Project Druid Pictures on Facebook Humor: Religion Choice Flowchart Poetry: Darkness and Light Poetry: Adam & Eve Video & Music on Facebook Debate: Real or Fake Trees Debate: It’s All Good Food: Zwieback Bread Recipe Books: Life & Death of a Druid Prince Books: ODCL Christian Druidry coursework Books: The Last of the Druids (Picts) News: Earth-Mother of all Neolithic Discoveries News: God Decides to Pray News: Scientists Discover Stonehenge Quarry News: Tree Hugging Improves Health |
 By those Reformed Druids of Gaia 4 times a year Since 2003 .  Druid Missalany ran from 1983-1991 & 2000-2008 90 Inquirer and Missalany Back Issues 2000-2012
Missalany Back Issues 1983-1991 (See purplish Part 11)
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 by the ADF Druids 4 times a year. |
 Keltrian Journals By Henge of Keltria 4 times a year. |
 By Order of White Oaks 4 times a year. |
6 free on-line books (3200 pages of RDNA material), neopagan research center, and links to other Druidic groups.
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Carleton Collection = 1 file, 130pg |
Various enormous, public-domain free downloads Three 850+ page volumes of various RDNA liturgies, epistles, meditations, history, essays, research tools, organizational notes, calendars, magazines, newsletters and other publications from the past 44 years. A few other earlier (and smaller) collections are also available now. About 85% of past printed RDNA materials can be found in this ARDA 2 collection (the largest printed Druidic collection in the world) in the widely-used professional Adobe ".pdf" format (a link to this free software is available on-site) for use by both PC & Mac (ready to print & bind). A MS Word format (.doc) can also be used to edit portable versions. ARDA 2 is not required reading for being a Druid, nor is it considered dogma, nor divinely inspired. To lessen download times, a mailed CD-ROM copy of all those 120 files (3120 ready-to-print pages) is available for $9/each, including shipping. Ask for info at mikerdna@hotmail.com If this is your first time ranging through the enormous collection, I recommend you first read the Un-official Welcome Pamphlet which is only 90 pages and will give you a simple solid start to work from. 2010 update. |
The Druid Archives Largest known historical collection of materials on the growth of the modern Druid movements in America (and elsewhere). A treasure trove of information for academics and researchers on a relatively well documented religious movement. We also gratefully accept donated materials from Druid groups! Seeking assistant researchers in Minnesota to do work.
The 8 Part Essay on Modern Druidism With comparison of OBOD, BDO, AODA, RDNA, ADF and Keltria on history, ritual, ethics and structure.
Mike's Recommended Books for Druidic Research is full of good links, academic essays and bibliographies established for promoting the academic study of Druidism (modern and ancient), the Celts and new American nature-based religions.
Druidry Links 56 other groups which are more interesting than us.
Celtic Links Go get your fix of Celticity
Links to Sites of the World's Many Religions and a few Odd Groups
Some Religious Humor & Wisdom that I Recommend.
Learn about Reformed Druidism through prose and fiction from our members and a few friends.
These 14 tales are best read online (in color) with cookies, milk and a warm pet. All are Free, except one.
 "Soul of Juliana Spring By Irony Sade
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"The Heart This 10 page Short Story is about a poet with an elemental taste for surfing and skydiving. Following his muse, he discovers some of the mysteries of the Druids in the environment of his surroundings through the mediums of poem and song. |
"Aengus' Sweet Duet" By Rita Trevalyan, a.k.a Tegwedd What happens when the Celtic god of love lands in twenty-first century San Francisco? He falls in love, that?Õ what happens. But will the woman of his dreams return his love? This is a commercial production, therefore there is a $4.50 download cost via the well-known Paypal online. |
 "Druidical Treasure: aka The Dave Fisher Code" By B.N. Tavern
Lavishly illustrated with photos of Carleton and 2 student actors. All 8 episodes of 8 have been posted 3/9/06 |
 "St. Ailbe's Hall" Part 1 & Part 2
* Eliana's Song Women fighting against magical overlords in two book series
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Stories from ADF
"The Healing"
"Dancing Green |
Stories from ADF
"Why Willows Weep"
"The Story of Miach and His Sister"
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 "Apostasy" By Irony Sade
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 "Three Druidic Rocks" By Robert Larson |
 "The Nightingale" By Hans Christian Andersen
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 "Vision Quest" By Lame Deer
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 "The Jungle" By Anjum Makki
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Reformed Druids love to write and sing about Nature and freedom, and have a great sense of humor.
 Founded in 2008, The Druid Academy Nomination Award Committee (DANAC) is a group of 6 prestigious Druids who know a wide swath of modern Druids in North America but also scour the websites, journals and newsletters of ADF, RDNA, Keltria, Order of White Oaks, RDG and MOCC to find and nominate the most talented writers, artists and media producers.
To see the Hall of Fame, click here |
 "Druidical Karaoke Room: Sing With the Bards" 121 songs to sing along with. Many with musical accompaniment. Written by members of the RDNA to tunes you already know well. |
RDNA Books of Songs & Poetry
Seventh Annual |
Learn about Reformed Druidism through games made by our members.
"Druid Games" is a large file (5 MB) of seven free large-scale, intriguing board games designed by a few Reformed Druids. They are both entertaining and enlightening and are great for passing the time at large scale picnics or all-night parties with much drinking. No other group has produced a game yet, thus further emphasizing our distinguishing playful characteristics. Each has a sober option too.
Some are very simple like Danube, Fidchell & Brandubh; based on ancient traditional board games. "Sigily" (playing much like "Sorry" "Aggrivation" or "Parchessi") also has dice-combat & self-generated trivia cards; originally based on a Korean divinatory New Year game, blended with D&D. In contrast, "Bricriu" involves intensive dicing and simple math probability gambling while increasingly inebriated and confused.
The two spectacular games; "Hebridean" & "Brythonic", are both actually collections of dozens of Druidical games, divided into six colored-categories of physical and mental contests of skills that Druids excell at (similar to Trivial Pursuit & Cranium). Players roll a dice and move that many spaces to a color-category of their choice, and an opponent is chosen randomly to fight them. Each circle also contains a brief story and an edifying proverb that assists in training the players to win the challenging contest using everyday materials in your office. Respectively, you learn the lore of Gaelic Scotland and Brythonic Wales/Cornwall/Brittany in the course of the game, plus the hidden talents and weaknesses of your friends will be revealed.
Print the 80 pages of rules, B&W boards, advice, charts and legends that you will need. Then print your own full color boards with the following links below. They look small but are full-sized 8 1/2" x 11" on printout.
Board at Right: Fidchell Board
Boards at Top: Sigily Race Board and
Down the Danube Board and Bricriu's Bluff Board
Boards at Bottom:
Brythonic Brew-ha-ha Board and Hebredian Hijinks Board and
and Bran Dubh Board
An interesting new game called, "Celtic Fidchell" was masterfully invented based on cryptical references in Irish & Welsh mythology and modern game design theories. The goal is to take turns placing stones on the board, so as for the "king" to later move a line of white stones that stretches from the king to an edge of the board (sometimes by a winding road), while warding off black from blockading the king and/or capturing all the white stones.
Rules and myths and creation story are on the game site. You can get a rough board by clicking on the right and printing on 8 1/2 x 11 paper and then probably enlarging it to 11x17 size paper. I'm hoping that he will soon produce the game as a purchasable kit.
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