Who are the Druids?
Druids were the priests/intelligentsia of some of the pre-Christian Celtic peoples. Modern Druids honor the traditions, religion, culture and history of the Celts and other Indo-Europeans, seeking through scholarship and poetic inspiration to revive the ancient spiritual practices and languages of those peoples. Modern Druids, like the ancient Druids before them, may be women or men. In keeping with the beliefs of the ancestors Modern Druids regard fire and water as the sacred building blocks of creation. They honor trees as sacred along with stones, animals, birds, plants, and the unseen spirits of the Otherworld. Most Druids are polytheists, honoring the pantheons of Celtic and other Indo-European cultures. In common with Witches and other Neo-Pagans, most Modern Druids celebrate the Solstices, Equinoxes and Cross Quarters with ceremony and feasting; though a Celtic Reconstructionist Druid would likely only celebrate the cross-quarters.
