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Below are some resources we have found useful in progressing through ADF's training programs or just learning more about Our Druidry.

1. Begin by standing with your feet shoulder width apart and arms down by your sides. Close your eyes.
2. Acknowledge the natural pattern of your breathing and heartbeat.
3. Begin to control your breathing in a manner comfortable to you. I use the 4/4 measure.

In World Tree did our 1997 Yule rite unscripted, so I can't really post the full ritual here, but as I led the ritual I thought I'd post the main invocations (which I did write down beforehand) for anyone's future reference or use.

If you are under the age of 18, you must have a parent or guardian sign this waiver to indicate her/his permission for you to join ADF, and that signature must be notarized.

The following attempts to answer some of the more common questions we get about the ADF Unity Rite (aka Organizational Ritual).

The following pages are about Vedic gods and spirits:

• Ratri

I joined ADF in summer of 2011 and attended my first COoR Midsummer ritual with Sierra Madrone Grove. Since then, I have continued to work with ADF to support ADF and its Folk, to form a devotional practice with the Kindreds, and to further my own learning.

Sumer is Icumen In

Sumer is icumen in, lhude sing cucu.
Groweth sed and bloweth med and springth the wode nu.
Sing cucu.
Awe bleateth after lomb,
Lhouth after calve cu;
Bullock sterteth bucke verteth

An argument for continuing to permit to carry weapons at festivals.

We approach the sacred grove,
With hearts and minds and flesh and bone,
Join us now in ways of old,
We have come home.

(Words by Sean Miller, music "an Old English plainsong" traditional)

We are one, in our grove,
upon the earth, within the sea, beneath the sky.
We are joined, to send our call,
to the honored dead, to the spirit folk, to the blessed gods.
We praise thee, in one voice, in our sacred grove.

This article is about chronically disruptive people in Neopagan groups and what we can do about them. We'll examine who these people are and why we seem to attract so many of them and talk about some of the common types of troublesome people.