The wanderer returns

I am back. Determined to do more on this blog ,but still showing  my age and struggling with technology! It has been a few months since I posted and I have been going through many shifts and extensions.
As a solitary walker of my path I find that I often go off on tangents
but that is an essential freedom for me. I have been learning about gnostic Christianity (and unrelated !)finding out more about the Irish Goddess Bride and her saint Bridget counterpart. This was triggered when I was in Glastonbury this Summer and visited St Bridget and St Patrick's chapel in the Abbey there

This is the painting on the chapel wall and at first sight it looks like the Goddess Bride(Whom many know as Brighid) but in fact is Saint Bridget who founded a community of nuns and was a scholar ,well known for her compassion to the poor and sick(including lepers)
Many years ago I did a ritual to see if there was a Goddess I should work with. I found myself writing down the name Bride ,which puzzled me as I only knew of Brighid. I found out later that Bride is her name in Scotland and more recently that Bride is a common name for her in Ireland where my mother was born. I am going to visit Bride's Well and other sacred wells in Kildare and Clare this Summer.
I have been trying to simplify and declutter my spiritual practices, but as a Druid I will always have a thirst for learning and exploring and finding links between all things .I seek to live my spirituality in my daily life. Involving  myself quietly in animal and human rights causes, the environment and voluntary work. It also determines how I live and interact with people ,animals and the material world around me.
I am revisiting some of the wisdom I learned from Sandra Ingerman, with whom I studied many Shamanic skills, such as Soul Retrieval, death and Dying and Medicine for the Earth. I have heard people undermine core shamanism ,saying you can learn basic journeying in a weekend. You can learn the basics of tennis in a weekend but it won't make you a Wimbledon Champion!!!!What fascinates me about Sandra is how she has constantly evolved- exploring work with light and creating a web of light, transmutation of polluted water and healing.
I am just starting to redo exercises from her Shamanic Toolkit. May talk about that here, may wander off onto something else!