NOD News

Due to vacation, the webmaster and membership administration departments will not be available until July 14. Any questions sent to these departments will be handled afterwards.Thank you for your understanding and have a great Summer!

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!

Due to a technical issue, the E-Cards were not working for some time, as cards were not sent out or received.

We are happy to announce that as of today, August 30, 2024, this issue has been resolved and our E-Cards system is working again as intended.

We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused, and hope you will enjoy our free E-Card service again!

You can find our Free Celtic E-Card service here: https://ecards.druidcircle.org/ecards/

Due to a major and long overdue upgrade of our website, we have been offline for two weeks to do the necessary work. But now we are happy to announce that our new website is online! 

With this new website, it is the first time in about 10 years that we change the layout completely. This choice has been made to make sure that the website would load faster and at the same time become more mobile-friendly. Also our menu navigation has been updated, so that it is easier to find back the many different parts of our website.

What has not changed, is what we offer on our website. You'll still find our college and courses in the way you are used to. Also the activity wall, member profiles, groups, forums, Oran Mor e-zine, Celtic Library, ... are still there!

We understand that it may have been inconvenient for you that the website was offline for 2 weeks. For that reason, and of course to celebrate the launch of our new website, we offer a discount promotion on our Upgraded Memberships!

From now until the end of September 2024, you will get a discount of € 10 on your Upgraded Membership. This applies for new upgrades as well as renewal upgrades. If you are already upgraded, you can choose to upgrade again and the new upgrade period will start after your current upgrade period is completed, that way you don't lose any days!

With this discount, a 1 year upgraded membership will be € 19.95 instead of € 29.95. A 2 year upgraded membership is € 39.95 instead of € 49.95. But only if you upgrade before the end of September!

The discount is automatically applied when you upgrade your account. You do not need to enter a discount code.

Please be aware that this discount does not apply on family discount memberships. In order to cover the financial costs of the website update, we will donate € 3 instead of € 5 per upgraded membership with discount to The Nature Conservancy. If you wish to donate more, you can do so directly at Nature.org. 

We thank you for your patience these past weeks, and hope you enjoy our renewed website!

Due to vacation, the webmaster and membership administration departments will not be available until July 24. Any questions sent to these departments will be handled afterwards.

Thank you for your understanding and have a great Summer!

We are happy to announce that the Druid Youth Course is now also available in Dutch. This course follows the Bardic Youth Course and Ovate Youth Course, which have already been available in Dutch. Students need to have completed these two courses before they can enrol into the Druid Youth Course.

At this moment, the Dutch Druid Youth Course does not have a mentor available yet, as there are no graduates of the Dutch Ovate Youth Course at this point. However, the course book can already be purchased from our online bookstore at this link:

https://www.lulu.com/shop/new-order-of-druids/de-wortels-van-het-woud/paperback/product-4pe7jg.html?page=1&pageSize=4 

With thanks to Ben (Ontwaken) for the Dutch translations.

Due to vacation, the webmaster and membership administration departments will not be available until July 25. Any questions sent to these departments will be handled afterwards.

Thank you for your understanding and have a great Summer!

The membership administration and webmaster department will be on vacation until July 20, 2021. Support tickets and other inquiries may not be answered until after July 20. 

Thank you for your understanding.

We are happy to announce that we have launched a new self-study Meditation Course. The course does not come with mentoring, but is free for all members of NOD. Its main purpose is to help students of other courses with their meditation practice, but you can also take this course if you're not enrolled in any other courses.

The Meditations Course is a practical journaling course involving meditations and visualisations which are intended to demonstrate your own personal growth in this aspect of personal practice. The course provides 39 meditations and journaling exercises to be performed over a period of 13 months. By keeping a journal you will be able to look back on your entries and see the progress you make and this will aid in your future development.

You can find the Meditation Course here:

https://www.druidcircle.org/moodle/course/view.php?id=24