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We are pleased to announce that, as of today, we are providing many new payment options for the payment of upgraded memberships. 

Today we have implemented the Stripe platform, which provides a large number of common and international payment options. These payment options are:

Most common credit cards (Visa, Mastercard, American Express and more), Payments Canada, Affirm, BECS Direct Debit, BACS Direct Debit, Bancontact (Belgium), Blik, Boleto, EPS, FPX, GrabPay, iDeal (Netherlands), Klarna, Konbini, Link, OXXO, Przelewy24, Pix, PayNow, PromptPay and ACH Direct Debit.

In addition to these new payment options, it is of course also still possible to use Paypal for making payments. You can use your Paypal account, or if you don't have an account, you can still pay with most common credit cards there also.

If none of the payment options above are possible for you, then the option of Offline Payment naturally remains available too, although this will not immediately activate your upgrade and may take some time as it needs to be processed manually.

Learn more about upgrades here:

https://www.druidcircle.org/nod/index.php/nl/membership-options

We are pleased to announce the launch of two new specialisation courses in the Grove of Dana online Druid college: Finding Your Dán and Exploring Your Dán, authored by Hawkmoon.


A prelude to our new courses

Each individual is unique. In all time, there is no one who looks exactly like you, thinks your thoughts, or feels your feelings. As a Druid, you hold within you a unique and designed soul purpose.
 

Druidry, through the auspices of the New Order of Druids, is intentionally fashioned to enable each individual member to learn to express the unique soul purpose that Sovereignty has placed within them. Each person has been equipped with the necessary personal design to embody and fulfil his/her soul purpose as Sovereignty’s ambassador to this current world, wherever they are situated.
 

Discovering this spiritually given soul purpose takes time, effort, and commitment. It requires study, fundamental interaction with other Druids and, uppermost, alignment with Sovereignty, Herself.

We find within the Mythic cycle that one third of the Nemedians, who later returned as the Tuatha De, left Ireland to go ‘north’ to learn Druidry in the Four Cities. Today, this learning is promoted through the New Order of Druids, and just as the Tuatha returned to Ireland ‘excelling in Druidry’ so we must return to our ‘place’ excelling in Druidry.
 

Natural talents are not the same as a spiritual soul purpose. They can arise without reference to the spiritual condition of the individual. Talents do not create change in the way the spiritual soul purpose can and will. Talents are given for a physical or social purpose that brings benefit to the world, but are used without a connection to the soul purpose and operate solely within the mundane world.
 

In contrast, the spiritual soul purpose benefits the human and other than human worlds – it enhances the personhood of the individual and the authority of Sovereignty, Goddess of the Land.

The soul is the most fundamental part of the individual. Thus, the soul purpose operates at the most profound level of the individual’s existence and operates through the ‘neart’ - the energy which arises when the individual is in alignment with Sovereignty. It flows through the individual to address the problems encountered within this existence. Thus, we can understand that a soul purpose can only be available to those who are in alignment with the purposes of Sovereignty.

It is useful to understand that very few individuals discover their soul purpose at the beginning of their training in Druidry. This purpose may remain undiscovered for years and only come to fruition at a particular time and place. It is, therefore, wise to realize that this may not be the purpose you think you need to fulfil.

The soul purpose is not just for use within the Druid community; it is to serve the world as well.

The soul purpose is a DUTY which needs to be fulfilled.

Find the new courses, ‘Finding your Dán’ and ‘Exploring your Dán’ in the Upgrade Specialization Courses section of the N.O.D. site:

https://www.druidcircle.org/moodle/course/index.php?categoryid=8 

The specialisation courses are available to upgraded members only. If you're not upgraded yet, take a look at the advantages that this upgrade offers which you can find at this URL:

https://www.druidcircle.org/nod/index.php/en/membership-options

Please do note that the primary function of the Upgraded Membership is to create the necessary income to allow N.O.D. to continue to exist.


With special thanks to Hawkmoon for authoring these two new courses!