Beyond the Ninth Wave – is our four year Druid program. After successful completion of each year, students are awarded 9 credit hours. There is a tuition fee of $50 per month. Unlike other Druidic programs we do not separate paths into those of Bard, Ovate and Druid. You will be educating yourselves in the ancient lore while at the same time applying what you learn to your own life today. As we progress throughout the course you may find that your interests and abilities follow one of those traditional paths and certainly you may add what you feel is necessary to your studies. It should feel like a natural progression.
This will not be an attempt to reconstruct something from the past, but rather to learn what we can from the past as it applies to us today. At the completion of three years of this program, you will (hopefully) be living the life of a modern Bandrui with an understanding of our sacred connection to all that is. Should you wish ordination and recognition as Druid (clergy) a fourth year, focused on service to others, is required.
Because the Druids were the keepers of the history and spiritual practices of the Celtic Tribes, this course has an emphasis on scholarship with a great deal of required reading. There are about 10-15 books that you will be required read each year (some purchased – others from library). They include those we will study together as well as others read independently. Because druidry is nature based path, you will soend quite a bit of time in nature, learning about trees, plants, animals, the stars and of course, yourself. The course will be activity filled as well with some fun tools to work with! There are also some courses already being offered in the Seminary that will be incorporated into this program.
We will offer rituals, lunar and solarr with a focus on the correspondences and lore of the Ogham alphabet.
The course has been created using the Sacred Triads of Celtic Tradition of which there are many! And will focus on the deities of the Tuatha de Danann and is primarily based on the Lore of Ireland and Scotland and the deities of the Tuatha de Danann. The first three years focus on the history and practices of the druids as well as personal self-mastery. The fourth year you learn the necessary skills necessary for service to others.
One thing that makes us unigue with all the Druid prorams out there is that we use the material from my Faerie Faith Tradition in our work. Just about every Druid I know tells people not to bother with the work of Robert Graves in his book The White Goddess. They fail to see that Robert Graves was not an historian but rather a poet. He loved the Goddess and in examing the Ogham he created a way to use the Ogham as a tool for living the cycle of the Earth around the sun by assigning aspects of each Oghan letter to a lunar cycle. I have lived those lunar cycles for over 30 years and in doing so I have connected to the Earth and all Her creatures in ways I never world have with it. You will be given correspondences reflecting the more accurate items along with those of Robert Graves.
Outline of Studies
Year One is based on Knowledge of Self, within the Realm of Sea which corresponds to the Mind which is associated with the Cauldron of Warming, the first of the three Cauldrons of Poesy of Ancient Celtic Tradition. Students wear a blue cord.
Year Two is based on Knowledge of the World, within the Realm of Land which corresponds to the Body which is associated with the Cauldron of Vocation, the second of the three Cauldrons of Poesy of Ancient Celtic Tradition. Work on Knowledge of Self continues to build as well. Students add a green cord.
Year Three is based on Knowledge of Spirit, within the Realm of Sky which corresponds to the Spirit which is associated with the Cauldron of Knowledge, the third of the three Cauldrons of Poesy of Ancient Celtic Tradition. Work on Knowledge of Self and the World continue to build as well. Students add a yellow cord.
Year Four is focused on what lies in the center of the Three Realms and as well as running through all three as well as us connecting us to our Sacred Fire, the Holy Well, and the Tree of Creation. Work on Knowledge of Self, the World and of Spirit will continue to build as well. Students add a red cord.
When the entire course is successfully completed, the student is awarded the privilege of being known as Druid, Master of Draíocht and may wear the white cord.
Year One – Mind
| Knowledge | Realm | Self | Cauldron | Color |
| Self | Sea | Mind | Warming | Blue |
Year Two
| Knowledge | Realm | Self | Cauldron | Color |
| World | Land | Body | Vocation | Green |
Year Three
| Knowledge | Realm | Self | Cauldron | Color |
| Spirit | Sky | Spirit | Knowledge | Yellow |
Year Four
| Knowledge | Realm | Self | Cauldron | Color |
| Magic & Deity | Center | Service | Center | Red |
Competion – Draoicht
Color White