Druidry: A New Path?

I have been researching Druid groups--the main ones that I have found are the American Order of Druids, and the Druid Network, as well as the Order of Bards, Ovates and _____. I have ordered Greer's Druid Handbook which is basically the First Degree Curriculum for the AOD. Their membership fee is $50. I have been thinking about membership, and what it means to me. In Kemetic Orthodoxy, their beginner's class was an introduction to the faith, a free one. In finishing that, and becoming a Remetj, and then a Shemsu, I climbed steps, traversed deserts and crossed the paths of time until I completed my own zen circle, painted on the floor in black ink. Now, I am hesitant to pay money to a group that I may or may not see in person ever in my life. There was a fee for my RPD, but that was in exchange for a service only able to be performed by Hemet(AUS). *henu* AOD's First Degree curriculum is detailed on their website and is completed by Greer's book, if not overshadowed by it. What then, would the fifty dollars be for? For the feeling of membership, of being a Candidate, which then would let me become a Druid Companion, and so on and so forth. I don't see the point of the titles, unless someday I wish to become a Druid priestess. Ok, so be it. I'll become a Druid, if it is the path meant to be tread by my eight and a half size feet, for free through books and nature, and my gods will let me know when the time is right to become a "member". Or not. I'm happy without needing to feel like I should progress to a "higher" rank. In KO, it isn't about rank anyway. And they are different paths.

I feel content. May my heart be at peace, my soul be at rest among the leaves of the Tree of Life. Until I have to get up for my Photography class. Oh well. <3