In the old days they say it took nineteen years to train a Druid, how can you do it in 19 weeks?
Actually we don’t. A Druids education begins when he or she decides to be a Druid. From that point it never ends. The world has changed a lot over the last few thousand years. In the modern world most countries now have public schooling which ancient Celts did not enjoy. When you add in the training received in public schools plus the higher learning provided by universities, then the number of years for education for people today starts to match that required of the original Druids. Nineteen years is also a symbolic length of time: it represents a Metonic cycle: a calculation of the time between two almost identical eclipses, and a calculation which also succeeded in uniting the solar and lunar calendars. And so nineteen years symbolizes the time it might take for someone to unite the sun and moon, the Masculine and the Feminine, within their beings. Today it still takes a long time to achieve this union in the depths of our souls, and the study of Druidry is a lifetime pursuit for ma
