What is Celtic Reconstructionism?

So I'm not going to really turn this into a long blog but I just want to give someone a simple answer to that question. What is Celtic Reconstructionism and what is a Celtic Recon? Celtic Reconstructionism is a branch in the recon community. This is the attempt to reconstruction the religion of the ancient Celts, like others, are doing with other cultures. This doesn't mean that I exclude interacting with other recons and smile at their efforts, but it's a branch of neo-paganism and it's considered the minority within the minority.

A Celtic recon is someone that practices Celtic reconstructionism. Unlike other cultures, like the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians, the Celts wrote nothing down. We don't know anything about what their rituals looked like except that they gathered in groves and cut down mistletoe. Their culture was oral because it was believed that if you wrote it down it lost it's power. So when I practice I add my own bit to it so that there's meat in my practice.

I do things like Oracle decks, Tarot cards, and even looking for information by fire. I burn offerings, give what I made, and so forth. We need to understand that we are practicing a faith based on what we think that they did. And that makes it okay, since, as solo Celts, we are forging our own path and our own relationship with the divine.