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~ A newsletter of The Order of Bards Ovates and Druids in the Southern Hemisphere

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SHOBODA Special 2025

23 Saturday Aug 2025

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Two issues at once? What is this madness!?

As it turns out, I was laying out the submissions for the Imbolc issue, and I realised that the issue would be way too big to upload all at once. What to do, what to do? Make a SHOBODA 2025 special issue of SerpentStar, of course!

Please enjoy a not-so-usual issue of SerpentStar, packed full of poetry, pictures from the 2025 Assembly and more than a couple of limericks to put a smile on your face and a spring in your step.

Once again, thank you to all of our contributors to this issue, and if there are any other pictures or pieces you’d like to submit (or even photos I haven’t been sent yet!), please send them through to serpentstar.obod@gmail.com.

For all submission guidelines, you can find them here: http://serpentstar.druidryaustralia.org/about

Bright blessings,

– Sam /|\

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– Sam /|\

SerpentStar Imbolc 2025

23 Saturday Aug 2025

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Belated Imbolc Blessings, everyone! Here for your enjoyment is the Imbolc 2025 edition of SerpentStar. It’s been a while coming, and I hope you enjoy!

Imbolc to Alban Eilir is always a busy time of the year for us here in Meanjin (Brisbane), where the winter days pass through the cold and wet season into the bright freshness of spring breezes and the gentle heat of the sun. We know that it’ll get steadily warmer, but it’s nice and mild at the moment as the wattle blooms.

There’s also a bit of a twist to this issue (and part of the reason it’s on the late side)… there are two issues released at the same time! Along with the Imbolc issue, please enjoy a SHOBODA special for 2025. The submissions from the Assembly alone caused the Imbolc issue to be too big for our humble WordPress site to handle!

I’d like to take a quick moment (as always) to thank our contributors for their amazing submissions, and to remind our wonderful readers that I accept contributions for SerpentStar at all times of the year. If you have an article, recipe, pictures, drawings, music, videos (almost any way your Awen manifests, really!) that you’re unsure about submitting, don’t be afraid to send it in.

For all submission guidelines, you can find them here: http://serpentstar.druidryaustralia.org/about

Imbolc Blessings to you all, and I’ll see you at Beltane,

– Sam /|\

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SerpentStar Samhuinn 2021

03 Monday May 2021

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Samhuinn Blessings Everyone! Here for your enjoyment is the Samhuinn edition of SerpentStar, this year in memory of our former Editor Wyverne Ogma Vyvyan /|\

A special announcement re the 2021 Southern Hemisphere Assembly…

27 Tuesday Apr 2021

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THE 2021 SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE ASSEMBLY IS MOVING ONLINE!

Greetings All

The organisation team for the 2021 Southern Hemisphere OBOD Assembly (which was planned for 10-14 September at Bribie Island, Qld Australia) has discussed the current situation and recent developments in the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic in our region, and has made the difficult decision to move this year’s event online. Although we are in a much better place than we were last year, it is clear that there are still too many variables to be able to confidently proceed with planning the type of event that we can stand by as a full face-to-face OBOD gathering.

But all is not lost! We have already begun discussing options for a 3-5 day (exact program TBC) schedule of online ritual, talks, workshops, bardic gatherings, games, markets and social time. We encourage local groups to organise a mini-retreat in their own region where you can consider holding initiations, share meals and spend time together, while also dialling into the Zoom event.

The online event will be free to all OBODies to attend, and conducted entirely within Zoom. Links to the Zoom room and full schedules etc will be posted in the Southern Hemisphere Order of Bards Ovates & Druids Online SHOBODO Community Facebook Group. To attend the event, you will need to either be a member of that group, OR if you do not use Facebook you can request to join the event info mailing list by emailing mandy@druidryaustralia.org There will be no ‘public’ live stream of this event, but recordings will be made available to the Facebook group and email mailing list for those who cannot attend live via Zoom.

All members who have already paid monies for the Bribie Island gathering will be contacted and refunded in full.

We’re full steam ahead now for what we plan to be an exciting, inclusive and engaging online event. We thank you for your understanding and sincerely hope you’ll stay on this journey with us.

Blessings
Mandy (for Macadamia Grove)

SerpentStar Samhuinn 2020

22 Friday May 2020

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Samhuinn Blessings Everyone! Here for your enjoyment is the Samhuinn edition of SerpentStar /|\

SerpentStar Beltane 2019

04 Monday Nov 2019

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Beltane Blessings Everyone! Here for your enjoyment is the Beltane edition of SerpentStar /|\

SerpentStar Imbolc 2019

05 Monday Aug 2019

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Imbolc Blessings Everyone! Here for your enjoyment is the Imbolc edition of SerpentStar /|\

SerpentStar Samhuinn 2019

06 Monday May 2019

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Samhuinn Blessings Everyone! Here for your enjoyment is the Samhuinn edition of SerpentStar /|\

SerpentStar Lughnasadh 2019

04 Monday Feb 2019

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Lughnasadh blessings everyone! Here for your enjoyment is the Lughnasadh edition of SerpentStar /|\

SerpentStar Imbolc 2018

01 Wednesday Aug 2018

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Imbolc Blessings everyone!

Here for your enjoyment is the Imbolc edition of SerpentStar /|\

SerpentStar Samhuinn 2018

05 Saturday May 2018

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Samhuinn Blessings everyone!

Here for your enjoyment is the Samhuinn edition of SerpentStar /|\

Edited 1 August 2018 to correct cover date. (Ooops!)

SerpentStar Lughnasadh 2018

01 Thursday Feb 2018

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Lughnasadh Blessings Everyone!

Here for your enjoyment is the Lughnasadh edition of SerpentStar /|\

SerpentStar 20th Anniversary – Alban Hefin 2017

22 Friday Dec 2017

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It is with great joy and pride that I present to you the 20th Anniversary special edition of SerpentStar. Not only that, but I can also announce that the archiving project, which aimed to capture all the editions which had not appeared online before (plus a couple whose files had disappeared) is now complete, and can be viewed here

With the joy of the Solstice

Mandy /|\

SerpentStar Beltane 2017

31 Tuesday Oct 2017

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Beltane Blessings Everyone!

Here for your enjoyment is the Beltane 2017 edition of SerpentStar /|\

Hello from our new home!

22 Wednesday Mar 2017

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Hiya All

By now subscribers should have received an email from me announcing SerpentStar’s move from our old home on the main WordPress site to here at Druidry Australia. This is the second post/email to test the mailout function – if you’re an existing subscriber and have received this message via email you’re all set up for the next edition 🙂

If you’re not yet a subscriber to SerpentStar and are here for the first time, welcome! Please enter your email address in the box on this page to receive quarterly notification of new editions of SerpentStar. The next one will be uploaded here for Samhuinn on 1 May.

Blessings

Mandy /|\

New Year Survey

12 Tuesday Jan 2016

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Hi All

As it’s a new calendar year I thought it might be useful to ask for some feedback on how you feel SerpentStar is developing, and what you’d like to see in your newsletter in the future. So I’ve set up a short online survey – it takes only 10 minutes to complete, and collects no personal data so your comments will be completely anonymous.

If you’d like to be part of the survey, please click on the link (or copy into your browser): https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NK2GMBN

If you have any questions about the survey, please feel free to contact me.

Blessings
Mandy /|\

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