A Study Grove

Mythologically, the meaning of the Roebuck is “Hide the Secret.”   The Roebuck, originally a White Hind, hides in the thicket and it is composed of twenty-two trees.

“And the blessed wild apple,
Laughing for pride.
The tree most likely
To smile from the rock beside!”

“I fled as a Roebuck to the entangled thicket.”

The Roebuck hides in the thicket and the cuckoo utters, “where?” The Roebuck hides at the apple tree – the noblest tree of all, it is the tree of immortality through wisdom, the wild apple tree of the Sacred Thicket, the tree that hides the Roebuck.

“Seek patiently, and you shall find.”

The popular conception of a grove is a collection of exceptionally well-formed trees set in a place of outstanding natural beauty. Under the friendly sheltering boughs of these arboreal sanctuaries our forebears were inspired to contemplate the wonders of the universe, particularly the countryside in which they themselves lived, and perhaps were prompted to first ask the question, “who created such beauty?”

The Grove of the Blue Roebuck is composed of those studying Druidism in Beyond the Ninth Wave. Our approach is to combine the focus of the cerebral with being in this world, to be in nature so that life becomes a full experience of the whole self and to experience the divine with an ecstatic spirit..