Each quarter, AODA offers one or more Zoom-based events. Some of these events are for our members and may be geared towards those in certain degrees (candidates, apprentices, GCC members) while others may be open to the broader druid community. Please check back on this page as we update it every quarter.
AODA Community Calls – Spring 2024
Starting Your Druid Group: A Workshop about Home Circles, Nemetons, and Groves in AODA
April 23rd 8:30pm EST
With Tyler Vanice, AODA Groups Coordinator and Dana O’Driscoll, Grand Archdruid
Many AODA members prefer to work in a solitary form, while others prefer the companionship of other druids. AODA has groups that fulfill the desire to meet with like-minded druids to enhance their spiritual journey, especially in the form of events and initiations. This workshop will aid those seeking a group or starting their own AODA Home Circle, Nemeton, or Grove group to create such a community in their area. Open to all AODA members.
Mentoring Candidates in AODA
May 2nd, 8:30 – 10pm EST with Stonebear, AODA Mentoring Coordinator and Claire Schosser, Archdruid of Water
Apprentices, please join us for a Zoom workshop on mentoring Candidates to be presented by Stonebear, AODA’s mentoring program coordinator, on Thursday, May 2nd, beginning at 8:30pm EDT / 7:30pm CDT. Stonebear will describe AODA’s mentoring program, how to become a mentor, and how to act as an effective mentor for Candidates. Following the presentation, we’ll have time for questions and to share experiences with the Second Degree curriculum with co-host Claire Schosser, Archdruid of Water, and other senior members of AODA in attendance. Companions and Adepts are also welcome to attend this workshop.
Bardic Astrology: Sun Sign Spellsong
June 18th 8:30pm EST
With Robert Pacitti, Grand Pendragon
Discover the bardic magic of your Natal Sun! Join us as we connect to the energetic characteristics of each zodiac sun sign and create a deeply personalized Spellsong to incorporate into your Summer Solstice celebration. At the crossroads of mysticism and self-discovery, we will learn how the Sun illuminates our path in life and how each sign shines their light! No astrology experience necessary.
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Land Healing Working Group Events
With Breanna Hite
In between our Earth Rituals at the Solstices and Equinoxes, Breanna Hite has started leading a zoom-based land healing working group to create a variety of ceremonies and rituals on behalf of places on the earth that need our healing. The focus of this group is to send healing energy to places damaged by human behavior or negligence. If you are interested in working with a group of AODA members to be of service to the earth, this is an excellent way to get involved on a deeper level and explore how our core Sphere of Protection ritual can be used for healing. You can come to one or more than one event.
The Land Healing Working Group is a project meant to extend AODA’s order-wide healing rituals. In the land healing group, we send healing to specific locations that have suffered human-caused damage from extraction and pollution. So far, we have worked on three sites: the train derailment and chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio; the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico; and the Hanford nuclear site in Washington state. In January, we’ll be sending healing to the open-pit copper mine in Butte, Montana.
Our plan moving forward is to continue doing two land healing rituals between each of the order-wide rituals, so that we can participate in land healing work once a month. For each session we have a zoom call to discuss and plan, and then we do our rituals separately.
The basic structure of our ritual land healing is the AODA Grove ritual and the Sphere of Protection. Once those are established, each individual does whatever form of healing work they are called to. Some examples have included prayer, artwork, and energy healing.
Land Working Group Events – on hiatus in Spring 2024.
Land healing Working Group events are through AODA’s Events Zoom:
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