Love the names!

The abbey is a ruin but the yew trees live on.

From OBOD: …it is here, in the Ovate grade, that the work with trees, herbs, plants and animals begins. The Ovates were the Druidic Seers, so it is within the forest that you begin to work with the skills of divination, healing, and the magic of the Earth.

The Bardic grade establishes the basics of the rituals and the eight seasonal ceremonies. It’s prescriptive now as you learn but you will have more flexibility later to adapt the training to your needs and build on it.

Thanks Larisa. Hello Everyone! OBOD member and practicing Druid here. Also a member of Awen’s Light Grove in NC. I’m looking forward to some lively social interaction with y’all and reading your great posts!

Hi Larissa, I would like to be added please. Many thanks.