Oracles for Druid Clan of Dana Rituals
Olivia Robertson
These
six oracles are provided by FOI Co-Founder Olivia Robertson
specifically
for use in Druid Clan of Dana. While these
oracles have been provided, Olivia has stated that oracles from other
liturgy rites
may be used. Druidesses and Druids who
possess the oracular gift may use their own oracles if desired.
1.
Oracle of the Goddess Dana
Invocation:
Divine Dana, our hearts long for happiness which we seek for yet which
ever eludes our grasp, like buried treasure
and dreams that disperse at daybreak. Through your Druid Clan of Dana
bring us
the riches of past ages and hope for the time
to come.
Oracle: You will
never find the happiness you crave through
the endless treadmill of passing time. The greatest Masters become lost
when they
fall into the delusion of believing that
endless time is eternity. Even authority over boundless space brings no
greater treasures
than one small back garden!
The
greatness of any spirit is manifested not through power over others -
adoring disciples
and admirers - but through appreciation of
the innate worth of every creature, whether an Archangel or a termite.
The worse
sin is not to destroy another’s life by
killing the earthly body, but by despising the person’s soul. Cruel
contempt,
diminishing a person’s self-confidence, may
destroy the Divine Work. For Deity does not pick and choose, but works
through
the ugly, the maimed, the ridiculous, the
unimportant. The ability to recognise the Divine image in repellant
humans and apparently
repulsive animals and reptiles is to reveal
the buried treasure that is within oneself.
The aim of any noble
clan
or society is to augment, not to diminish,
the essential originality in every member. Otherwise a society or order
can create
a continuum of shared gifts that at first
produce remarkable feats of the “paranormal”, but in the end imprison
souls into a never-ending circuit of stale
beliefs, outworn practices and the tyranny of once good relationships.
Conceive of any clan or society in which I would participate and inspire as an open-ended circle, the Spiral of Life. Perfect
freedom brings the joy of co-creating with the Goddesses and Gods, Divine Parents of us all.
2. Oracle of the Goddess
Morrigan
Invocation: Holy Goddess Morrigan, Divine Maiden of the source of life, wife of the God Dagda, Goddess of full
rivers, the Black Crow when the rivers divide, help us to face this initiation!
Oracle:
Dark and forbidding are the three mighty
portals of the Underworld which you call earth! The maiden sheds her
blood
to give birth. The Great Queen rules with
severity and compassion. The Ancient One, the Black Crow, gives her life
that Her
Daughter, the tributary, may share with Her
the onrush of life into the oceans of starry space.
So many of
you
in these days of luxury wish to enjoy ease
and comfort, from youth to old age. You seek to cure all ills, provide
yourself
with food and shelter with little work, and
above all, to escape from suffering.
But every stage in your
life’s
journey entails suffering. When you are young
you are tortured by unrequited love! When you are at the height of your
powers,
you are bitter at lack of success. What can
be more dreadful, as you grow old, as the prospect of relegation to some
easeful
but boring institution, deprived of
creativity, health and hope!
But if you submit to My rule, that
of the Fates
you will have the benefit of My own
experiences when I incarnate on earth. Your love will never be
unrequited - because you
love all. Your success is assured, because
the only satisfaction you seek will be to enjoy the Divine reality all
round you.
As for old age - it will not exist for you.
For with Me you shall live joyfully in Tir na Nog, the Land of
Everlasting Youth.
3. Oracle of the Goddess Dana
Invocation:
Divine Dana, we cannot live happily without hope. Be present
with us, during our arduous pilgrimage
through life’s labyrinth, smoothing our way with joy, laughter and love.
Oracle:
You need to return to your roots in order to grow! It is through love
of
those living with you that you attain a wider
love, and not through spurning your family! It is from your children
that you may
again learn the language of birds and trees,
and through your grandparents that you may hear the music of the
spheres!
As you develop the magical language of the Angels, you
will find your own spiritual family. It comprises humans, Deities,
the Sidhe, Nature Spirits, animals, trees and stones - not only on this planet - but from the stars! Such families are as
constellations
in the great galaxy. My Tuatha Dé Danann came
from the sky, yet also dwell within the Hidden Sun at Earth’s matrix.
The
Golden Age shines about you, resplendent in
the matriarchal darkness. Naught is alien when all is known and loved.
You are
kin to all beings in the cosmos and all are
kin to Me.
4. Oracle of the Goddess Brighid
Invocation:
White-veiled Bride, Inspirer
of all who work in the crafts, Warrior Queen,
bestower of the Eternal Flame, inspire us in our work for our Druid
Clan!
Oracle: You cannot
do well by the Clan if you do not do well for your own self!
You do not help your people and your own
particular land by ignoring the rest of the world. When you seek
inspiration, you
need clear aim and dedication, yet must bear
in mind the welfare of those who follow differing paths.
The
misfortune
of this unhappy planet is division. You
divide obedient sheep from wild goats: sinners from the righteous: those
who agree
with you from those who disagree, and
therefore deemed wrong. And this is the heavy burden of humanity, for
each has a spark
from My eternal flame which you guard
passionately, jealously, adoringly. Some call this Ego - but Ego is
good: it is a see,
an egg! But this divine gift of
individuality, creates the mad scientist, the eccentric idealist, the
dissident, the warrior.
For in verity I am the soul of eccentricity!
When you receive a wild idea, a heresy, a sudden inspiration, follow
this with
all your heart, mind and would. But balance
this with the knowledge that your enemies, the establishment, the
opposition,
the tyrants, the power hungry, are also
inspired by Me!
The time has come for you to awaken your psychic
gifts,
especially telepathy. Then you will realise
other people’s point of view. You will rejoice in the diversity of the
cosmos.
For although the Divine Archetypes, the
Cosmic Rays you call Deities are specialists and so have their reverse
aspects, we
the Helpers are the Rainbow Ones like
yourselves.
5. Oracle of the Goddess Dana
(For ArchDruidess / ArchDruid Consecration)
ArchDruidess invokes: Blue-robed
Dana
with hair of the sun, Queen of Heaven,
Protector of Earth, come to us now, that your Divine Love may bless our
Consecration
of a new Archdruid/ess within your Druid
Clan.
Oracle: How lovely
it is
for Me to welcome you all to My hearth! My
hearth is the inner sun not only of the earth but of every planet
encased in rock
and earth. This inner sun comes from the
mighty stars inconceivable in their magnitude. Yet this flame enlightens
the ladybird,
My emblem, and courses through the many-hued
plumaged birds, My harbingers.
The aim of My clan in this present
era is clear. I wish you to come to Me
through the portals of sleep. For sleep is the veil that mercifully
protects you from
the often terrifying memories of past lives.
But when you invoke Me before you sleep, My veil shall protect you. My
veil does
not conceal evil, but its multicolor gives you
the power to transform evil into good. For what you fear can only be
transformed
through love.
When you confront those
who follow evil ways, do not blame them, and do not torture your self
with
speculations: rather recognise the hidden sun
within them and bring it forth. This is the source of all miracles. And
I am
the Goddess of miracles. I call upon those
who long for divine beauty to veil themselves in My blue mantle of
celestial seas,
and rise to My domain in the stars.
6. Oracle of the God Manannan
(for ArchDruidess / ArchDruid Consecration)
ArchDruid invokes: God of Wisdom of
the deeps, Arbiter of destiny through the spirals of Your Wheel of Time, inspire us with Your Vision.
Oracle: My dear friends, the
last gift most of you pray for is wisdom! You supplicate for love,
abundance, success.
But no gift of the Deities is of any value,
without wisdom. You ask, what is this wisdom? In your minds, I perceive a
vision
of some white-bearded sage, a man in long
robes, somewhat in the fashion in which you externalize the word ‘God.’
but wisdom is not ancient. It is ever
renewing. The mistake well-meaning philosophers and teachers are apt to
make is that
wisdom is conveyed in ancient texts, almost
worshipped in scriptural idolatry. But who would drink sour milk? Milk
may be
a more apt description of wisdom than written
words because it is during the night that divine inspiration is
conveyed to
the soul while the body sleeps.
The
oral tradition of Druidry and pre-Druidic shamanic world teachings has
been
deemed a failure because the written word has
superseded it. But in truth no reality can be conveyed through
obedience to
commandments of ancient writers, without the
inner understanding of the seeker! Know the might Truth that the fount
of wisdom
is within each one of you - and lest you are
proud of being unique as human, this same wisdom is in the sagacious
wolf and
the flight of the heron. For wisdom is the
transcendental alchemy of descending light of heavenly illumination
blending with
everyday actual experience. Sublime
utterances, celestial visitations, spiritual and psychic revelations,
are not only meaningless,
but often dangerous, when starved of actual
personal experience.
My injunction to those of you who follow the
Clan
of Dana is to fly with the swans, but also
return safely to your nests! Thus you will stay sane. Sanity is the
hard-won fruit
of wisdom.
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