I recently was offered the opportunity to review the book Thinking Wild, Its Gift of Insight: a way to make peace with my shadow for(…)
Category Archives: By Land Sea and Sky
Augury Charm
Divination was a widespread and complex process among the Gaelic(…)
Badb, Morrigan of Prophecy
“Delbaeth…has three daughters, the famous war-furies Badb, Macha, and Mórrígu, the latter sometimes called Anand or Danand.” (Macalister, 1941).
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Morrigu
“Badb and Macha, greatness of wealth, Morrigu
springs of craftiness,
sources of bitter fighting
were the three daughters of Ernmas.”(…)
Fairywort Charm
The Carmina Gadelica has a charm which mentions a plant it calls “Fairywort” – earnaid in Scottish Gaelic – that has always interested me. There is much debate as to which plant Fairywort would be with cowslip, flax, and foxglove being the leading(…)
Ivy Charm
Ground ivy is a plant that is commonly found in many areas and is often used for landscaping. It’s a hardy plant that remains green even in winter, and is sometimes used for decoration during the winter holidays; the shape of the leaf gives the(…)
Song Parody "24 Runes" ~ For Odin
Inspiration is a funny thing, I can sit for hours trying to write and have nothing come to me, or I can be doing some mundane task and have a sudden burst of insight. This morning as I was putting my daughter on the bus for school a song(…)
Matronae
Many aspects of my own practices, Irish pagan and Heathen, are separate ones but there are points of cross-over. My honoring of the daoine sidhe/land vaettir is one, and my honoring of Artio is another. A third is my worship of the Matronae,(…)
Prayers to Flidais
This first prayer is one I use when making offerings, but it could easily be adapted to use as an invocation in ritual:
Prayer to Flidais Foltchaoin
Flidais of the soft hair
Lover, wife, and mother
whose magical(…)