When to use a signature designation of level?

El of LA · Post by **El of LA** » 23 Jan 2024, 21:28

Hi!
I just completed the Bardic course and have now started on the Ovate study. My question regards signatures here. I've included the Bardic Grade image, but when is it appropriate to include the Ovate one? Should I only place signature images for a completed grade? Thanks! - Elizabeth

JRR_on_SFP · Post by **JRR_on_SFP** » 23 Jan 2024, 21:47

I added each grade when I joined it.

Ascenscia · Post by **Ascenscia** » 23 Jan 2024, 21:58

Same here. I’m not as good as others about finding old threads and posting them, but I remember reading that you are that grade when you begin it. It is not the grade that is attained at the end, but the knowledge and wisdom of that journey.

Silenos99 · Post by **Silenos99** » 24 Jan 2024, 02:26

Well done, way to stick to it! Include it please! The Forum allows you to include your working grade, that's like logic.

WhiteHorseElin · Post by **WhiteHorseElin** » 24 Jan 2024, 12:02

Excellent question, and excellent answers - means I can go and add the Bard thingy to my signature!

But a related question has been going round my head: what do you call yourself when talking about your spiritual path? Do you say "I'm a Druid" even though you are not at that level? Or can you use the word in that context to mean "I follow a druidic path"? The trouble is that Druid can have both a general and a specific meaning. Are we all Druids together? Or can only Druids claim to be Druids, if you know what I mean?

Post by **Heddwen** » 24 Jan 2024, 12:53

Ascenscia wrote: ↑23 Jan 2024, 21:58 Same here. I’m not as good as others about finding old threads and posting them, but I remember reading that you are that grade when you begin it. It is not the grade that is attained at the end, but the knowledge and wisdom of that journey.

Correct, go ahead and wear that badge

You can call yourself a druid too. It's not just for the druid grade.

Heddwen

JRR_on_SFP · Post by **JRR_on_SFP** » 24 Jan 2024, 17:16

Re: what to call oneself…

It very much depends on who I’m talking to. “Pagan” is good for the vast majority of those conversations. For conversations within pagan communities I go a
Little deeper depending on their knowledge and understanding. I’ll also often say “I’m a Druid grade member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids”.

Erdewild · Post by **Erdewild** » 24 Jan 2024, 17:36

With my COVID brain having a little trouble remembering things... where ARE the badges?

Ascenscia · Post by **Ascenscia** » 24 Jan 2024, 18:18

I don’t know if these still work, but here’s the thread (Look! I found one!)

https://messageboard.druidry.org/viewt ... 24&t=19139

Erdewild · Post by **Erdewild** » 24 Jan 2024, 18:45

Thank you, Ascenscia! Yep... they work.

El of LA · Post by **El of LA** » 25 Jan 2024, 03:28

Thank you everyone! The answers were much better and more interesting in the discussion than I could have imagined

. Adding Ovate to my sig! - El

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