It’s as fresh as the cool mountain air in the highlands of Tasmania.
It’s as creative as the Samhain folklore from Ireland.
It’s as reflective as a walk into the labyrinth and a review of the 2026 Assembly.

WELCOME to the Samhain edition of SerpentStar, where we seek to “inform and draw together members in the peace and light of the Grove, and to support and nourish each other in our quest for strength, understanding, knowledge, justice and love” (quote from the very first edition of SerpentStar).

Many many thanks for all those who contributed their thoughts and reflections, articles and artwork, photos, fun and creativity in this issue.  Particularly thanks to those who responded directly to our call out for input.  Without your contributions we’d have no magazine.

And a reminder that it’s never too early or late.  Contributions for SerpentStar are welcome and accepted at all times of the year.  We produce issues for Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane and Lughnasadh.  

Submissions can be sent to SerpentStar.OBOD@gmail.com  
Guidelines can be found here: https://serpentstar.druidryaustralia.org/about

Please email us if you would like a higher quality print version.

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

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)

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

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

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

Imbolc Blessings everyone!

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

Samhuinn Blessings everyone!

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

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

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 /|\

Beltane Blessings Everyone!

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