Druids In Cars, Going To Festivals – Details, episodes & analysis

While headed home from a Dedicant Oath rite, we started talking about what it was like to move on from our current roles in modern Paganism, whether those moves were due to life changes, vocational changes, or just coming to a place where it was time to move on.

Mike Bierschenk joins Revs. Avende and Dangler on this discussion again, and we our conversation goes a bit everywhere, but it was a good chat.

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Today, on the way out to a Dedicant Oath Rite, Rev. Avende and Rev. Dangler travel with Mike Bierschenk on the way out to State College, and chat on a topic we've been meaning to get to for a while: what does it mean for us when our deities are jerks? Myths and legends are full of some really awful things that the spirits do to each other, to humans, and even to animals and plants. How do we navigate those waters?

Content Note: You've read the stories about deities and how they interact with others. This episode doesn't stray too deeply into specifics, so we aren't sure a trigger warning is necessary, but we are talking about deities behaving poorly, so be aware.

Our audio is a little odd on this episode as we figure out how to mic up three different people in the car, but we're hopeful it comes through well. Sorry if it's a little unbalanced or quiet, but we should have that fixed next episode; it was a good conversation, but we only have one source, unfortunately.

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Have you registered for the Summerland Festival August 17-20, 2023, near Yellow Springs, Ohio? You should! Come meet us!

This week is the third 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 about what we consider the "big magical workings" in ADF ritual, the history behind those sections, and how they came to be part of our liturgy, before diving deeply into how we actually do these ritual parts.

This week is all about taking omens, how we do it functionally, and why we do it in ritual.

The five episodes will be:

• (Re)Creating the Cosmos (July 13)
• Opening the Gates (last week)
• Taking the Omen (today)
• The Return Flow (August 3)
• The Workings (August 10)

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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 about what we consider the "big magical workings" in ADF ritual, the history behind those sections, and how they came to be part of our liturgy, before diving deeply into how we actually do these ritual parts.

This week is all about good gatekeepers and their attributes, how we work with them, and the mechanics of opening the Gates... along with how we manage the origins of this ritual process.

The five episodes will be:

• (Re)Creating the Cosmos (last week)
• Opening the Gates (today)
• Taking the Omen (July 27)
• The Return Flow (August 3)
• The Workings (August 10)

Find us on Facebook, check us out at ThreeCranes.org, and learn more about Druidry at ADF.org.

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 back-to-back about "Managing the Magical," or how we do magical work in certain sections of our rituals. We'll talk about what we consider the "big magical workings" in Druid ritual, the history behind those sections, and how they came to be part of our liturgy, before diving deeply into how we actually do these ritual parts.

The five episodes will be:

• (Re)Creating the Cosmos (today)
• Opening the Gates (July 20)
• Taking the Omen (July 27)
• The Return Flow (August 3)
• The Workings (August 10)

Find us on Facebook, check us out at ThreeCranes.Org, and learn more about Druidry at ADF.org.

Today, Rev. Avende reviews their experience at the Wisteria Appalachian Summer Solstice festival in southeastern Ohio. They discuss their favorite workshops, including one on bone throwing by one of the owners of Moon Bees Apothecary and Spiritual Supply in Wisconsin, and a little about open and closed systems of divination. Then, it's on to ritual work and spaces, people that they met, and experiences with queer safe spaces and the amazing drumming circle. You'll also hear some ideas we hope to carry forward into our own Summerland Festival, coming up in mid-August. (Registration is open, friends! Come see us!)

For some pictures and a full write up, check out Rev. Avende's written review of this festival as well!

Stay tuned to the very end to hear about our plans for transporting hooch across state lines, and the promising return of the Trillium Gathering next year!

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A couple of weeks ago, we got to record with friends old and new in the barn at the close of the Wellspring Gathering, 2023. To our great delight, we were able to connect up with Collin from The Crone's Porch, a pagan discussion podcast much like our own, and record a small crossover episode. We also have Jacque (who has been on before) and Stephen with us, providing their perspectives as well.

As always, we have a few linear notes and links for you to check out!

• Crone's Porch Podcast; find them at @cronesporch on Instagram and @croneporch on Facebook, or wherever you listen to podcasts!
• Jan's previous version of the workshop they did at Wellspring
•  (And Jan's Patreon, if you want to support their work and see more work like this)
• Summerland Registration is open! Consider coming out and seeing us! 
• Check out Lammas Fest as well!

As always, you can find us on Facebook, check us out at Threecranes.org/podcast, and learn more about Druidry at ADF.org.

We set a record for how fast Rev. Dangler can break Rev. Avende's composure on this episode! But the topic was a great one, where we got to speak about unconventional tools and challenge how we thought about the physical things that aid us in the work that we do for the folk.

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A listener question today comes in, asking, "Is there a place for me if I just want to 'show up' to ritual?" And of course, our answer will surprise nobody.

We talk a bit about what it means to "just show up," to be part of ritual without taking a part. What is the expected level of participation, and can we make space for it in our Groves and in our broader work? And, if you want to just go to ritual, what do you need to do to make sure that remains an option in your local community? What sort of discipline is it, when you are "just showing up?"

Of course, it was interesting to have this discussion on the way to a Druid Moon rite that no one had actually said they were going to show up to, but in the end, people did show up to ritual that night.

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"Good leaders spread everything, from wealth to work."

Talking about the commitments we make as clergy and leaders in our work, we turned on the recorder so others could sit in. We spoke about how burnout impacts us, and how we avoid it (when we're able to). In particular, a lot of our discussion talks about our responsibility as current leaders to create space for new blood and how to deal with the parts of our work as leaders that just don't feed us (spoiler alert: it's delegation, boundaries, and trust).

Interested in that short video about trust that Rev. Dangler mentions? You can find it here: "One Weird Trick All 3CG Officers Know!"

Looking for a way to contact the ADF Mother Grove with an idea or to apply for a role? Do that here!

(For those curious, yes, Rev. Dangler took on the name tag project.)

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