I’m going to take a break from the physical descriptions of structures at White Mountain Druid Sanctuary and talk some about possible personal experiences there. Part of what is really exciting about modern paganism is that there is not usually much tradition or dogma about how one should believe. In ADF, we focus on practice - do rituals whether public or solitary. Bring the mind’s attention in line with the Kindreds. We have a specific structure to our rituals with 18 core points to hit. However, this is the limit of the structure. In other words, what you experience in your own mind and heart is your business.
The building of the Shrine to Cernunnos was started in the summer 2016. But before that, we started raising money for it. In the fall of 2015, we did an Indiegogo campaign that had 26 backers and raised $3435.
The Shrine to Lugh stands on the east side of the Stone Circle. He is an Irish God associated with the Sun and his Shrine rests right up against the back of the Sanctuary.
The word Shrine can bring up various images for people from large buildings to a small niche in a wall. The physical size and complexity of the Shrine is not so important as its purpose. A Shrine is a place or structure regarded as holy because it is associated with a divinity, spiritual being or something held sacred.
For this blog post, I’m going to talk about two parts of the White Mountain Druid Sanctuary complex (located in Trout Lake, WA) in more detail. The entire site is called White Mountain Druid Sanctuary, but then on the site is a building called The Sanctuary. It was actually here before Kirk Thomas started manifesting his vision of the Stone Circle and all that has followed.
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