About
Sassafras Grove is a Neopagan Druid group located in Pittsburgh, PA. We are affiliated with Àr nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship (pronounced “arn ree-ockt fane” – modern Irish for “Our Own Druidry”), or ADF for short.
Since 1992, we have been providing the local Neopagan community with quality, open celebrations of the eight High Days of the ritual year. As of Summer Solstice 2010, we have hosted 143 public rites! Our rites follow a well researched and spiritually effective format based on years of practice and the best modern scholarship available on the ancestral ways of Europe and the British Isles. Sassafras is a multi-hearth culture grove, taking inspiration from various Indo-European cultures including Celtic, Norse, Hellenic (Greek), Slavic, Vedic, Roman and Anglo-Saxon.
Sassafras Grove also offers various other public events throughout the year. As part of our “Second Friday” series at Moonstones we sponsor semi-monthly bardic circles, learning and teaching traditional folk music and sharing our own poetry and songs, and workshops on ADF and Neopagan subjects. Workshop topics have included Druidry 101, ADF and Wicca, Tolkien and Modern Myth, History of Neo-Pagan Druidism, Anglo Saxon Runes, Neopagan ritual structure, and discussions of hearth cultures, and their relationship to ADF. We also hold (almost) monthly blessing rites that give us opportunity to work more informally within ADF ritual structure at either Spring Tides in Hampton Twp or Friends Meeting House in Oakland/Shadyside.
In addition to public events, we host regular member-only activities including druid moon rites, field trips and a monthly study group to support people working through the Dedicant Path and other ADF study programs.
The members of Sassafras Grove have recently implemented more activities and learning opportunities for children and have renewed our commitment to community service.
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