#ovate — Public Fediverse posts

Cool to see my work published in Touchstone again this month (even if it is under my deadname)! So grateful to be among the many contributors to the Order's collected wisdom.

#EsotericWriting #HealingMagic #EnergyWork #ritual #ovate #druid #druidry #OBOD

Indulge me in one last #wandpost for today, if you would, because I really dig the checkerboard pattern I burned into the handle of this one.

#wand #wandmaking #woodworking #pyrography #art #magecraft #bard #ovate #druid #Druidry #OBOD

This is from a few days ago, but I finally started trimming some of that stormfall I gathered on the full moon: 17 wands and four longer pieces so far! I have projects in mind for two of the latter already, but I'm not sure what I'll do with the others just yet.

There are still a ton of fallen branches to trim, I might be swimming in blanks come summer...

#woodworking #wandmaking #magecraft #bard #ovate #druid #OBOD #druidry

Here's the handle inscription, "ad astra," Latin for "to the stars." This appears on all three of the wands made from this one branch, and it's probably the closest thing the Grove has to a motto.

#woodworking #woodburning #pyrography #wandmaking #obod #ovate #druidry #runes

Another #pyrography toot:

This is the tip of a wand I recently finished. The runes are a transliteration of the words "May hope fly," one half of the call-and-response farewell of my Grove.

This particular wand is one of three I made from a fallen branch, one of many gifted to me by the twin black walnuts that grow behind my house and serve as my steadfast companions on my Druidic journey. My dear friends Rowan and Audrey wield the other two, and it's around the three of us that the nascent Grove first took shape.

#wandmaking #woodworking #woodburning #obod #ovate #druidry

This is my shillelagh. Years ago, I found it while on a walk in my local forest, its head charred from the lightning strike that had felled the oak it was once a limb of. I was still working through the Bardic grade at the time, and left the initial Ogham fews unconnected from each other, sensing that there were mysteries I had yet to witness that would inform the empty spaces.

Here, as I approach the end of my Ovate studies and prepare for the work of the final grade, I have completed the inscription, adding //// Straif and /// Ngetal, which represent adversity and cleansing respectively. 2022 taught me a lot about what I needed to let fall away to step into myself more completely, and now I can carry those lessons with me both literally and figuratively.

#ogham #druidry #ovate #obod #woodworking #pyrography #wandmaking

Take inspiration wherever you find it.

#awen #inspiration #druidry #ovate #obod #woodworking #wandmaking