was born in Canada, but moved to theUK in 1998. She is a former Trustee of The Druid Network andhas studied with Emma Restall Orr and the Order of Bards,Ovates and Druids. She still serves the Druid Network as theirMedia Coordinator and is the author and contributor of severalbooks on Paganism and Druidry. In 2015, she joined with RobinHerne to create the Druid College UK. She is a wanderer who isnot lost and a courageous Druid in a world with great need for newmillennium of Priests of Nature.B.Ed.; M.A. is a freelancewriter, solo practitioner and proponent of HolisticAesthetic Education, working to redeem the honour ofthe name “warlock” and empower male wiccans aroundthe globe. He can be reached for dialogue here.is a Canadian writer, teacher andGaelic singer of Scottish, Irish, and Welsh ancestry, and a directdescendant of ‘Fairy Clan’ MacLeod (long held in oral tradition to haveconnections with, and blood of, the ). She trained in Celtic Studiesthrough Harvard University and has studied Old Irish, Scottish Gaelic,Welsh, Cornish and Breton languages. Ms. MacLeod has taught Celticmythology and folklore at the university level, and has presented researchthrough the Harvard Graduate Study Group on Ancient Magic andReligion, the University of Edinburgh, University College Cork, and theFord Foundation Humanities Lectures. Ms. MacLeod is the author of(McFarland),(McFarland), and(Weiser), as well as numerousacademic journal articles. She has received several international grants toresearch ancient Celtic music and ritual, and is a druid-priestess, ,and long-time shamanic practitioner. A Celtic musician, she playsnumerous instruments and sings in the most of the Celtic languages, andwas the lead singer for the legendary Celtic-medieval-trance group,. She is the Director of the Research Project whichseeks to study, preserve and transmit indigenous Celtic knowledge, beliefsand practices, and the Founder of , a research project focused onthe study of authentic Celtic shamanism. Ms. MacLeod is currently working on translations of thousand year oldIrish wisdom texts never before translated, as well as the retrieval and transmission of authentic native Celtic ritual,song, chant and prayer. (Profiles available on Academia.edu, Facebook, and Amazon.com.)<strong>Aontacht</strong> • 8
Not every difficult situation has a positiveside or a silver lining, but it canhappen. Our Druidic Dawn Website is amonster, with an incredible depth ofmaterial collected by Druidic Dawn’sFounder, and others. Nigelnot only found interesting and unusualmaterial, he even saved entire websites offolks who had disbanded, but who hadaccumulated a wealth of knowledge.Indeed, you can find some amazing andfascinating material in the Celtic and DruidArchive section of the Druidic Dawnwebsite including:Draeconin's Lair's Database of CelticSymbols and ImagesBardic Poetry DatabaseA Treasury of Druidic TriadsMabinogi Discussions and Study GroupEntire saved websites include -Earthworks Grove, Merlin's Wisdom, andAstrocelt's Cyber Grove.And this is just a very small slice of whathas been accumulated on the Druidic Dawnwebsite.The original website design was solid andhad top notch software running it. But astime went on, new sections and amassive amount of information andmaterials were added. As a result, thewebsite has become harder to navigate asthe software has slowly becomeconcurrently outdated. In general, thewebsite is no longer all it could be and ourglobal community deserves better.So we have begun the process of redesigninga brand new website, that will include mostof our data, but will once again be runningon a new and solid platform and it will haveall the modern features and security aspectsthat a great website needs to have thesedays. This will take us a while, but theprocess has begun and we deserve it andneed it also.There are many people stepping away fromthe mainstream religions and looking for an<strong>Aontacht</strong> • 9
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