This month we will be looking at the rune Raido, also called Raidho, Reidh or Rad. Raido is cognizant to the letter R in English and looks very much like our upper case R with the lower angled line shortened. Raido is the fifth rune of the first aett, and(…)
Category Archives: Random pagan and recon. ramblings
Cumhacht na Teanga – or why I keep trying to learn Irish
Cumhacht na teanga means ‘the power of language’ in Irish Gaelic, a language I have been trying since my teens to learn. I have a limited proficiency reading it at this point and some ability to converse in writing; my accent when speaking is probably horrifying. So why, after(…)
The Magic of Hair and the Head
Well it wouldn’t be the pagan community without some sort of drama but I have to admit the current issue-de-jour sort of baffles me – because its over head coverings in paganism. Basically there is a movement going in support of pagans who choose to veil or cover their(…)
Book Review: Through the Faerie Glass
Yesterday I read Through the Faerie Glass by Kenny Klein, a book I had high hopes for and very much wanted to like. Unfortunately it didn’t live up to my expectations. I decided to review it here to share my thoughts on it with everyone.
This book is(…)
Random Spritual Update…
I promise to get back to my regular style of blogging soon – I have ideas to blog about the Colloquy of Two Sages, Manannan mac Lir, Brighid, maybe Badhbh, wands, and some other assorted fun things – but I wanted to keep everyone who has been following my rambling spiritual quest(…)
a Fairy Reading List
The subject of fairies came up on a facebook group I am on and someone asked what books I would recommend. It’s a good question, since my perspective is very traditional I think its hard to find many good books on the topic that are true to the old view. I find many(…)
Dark Night of the Soul, part 2
So its been about a month since I decided to re-assess my spiritual framework and chose to, basically, discard everything and start over at the beginning in order to find what really(…)
Witch Bottles
One of my favorite traditional methods of protection in witchcraft is a witch’s bottle. Its fairly simple to make, yet easily added to or adapted, and once made is set in place and then requires no maintenance. It’s effective, yet subtle. And its something that anyone(…)
Blood and Ashes – a poem
My heart is old and Otherworldly
Filled with primal fire and ice
Fierce and ruthless and seething
For me there is no middle ground
Between nothing and the
fullness of my feelings
What I love, I love completely<br(…)
Áine
It’s an interesting thing in Irish mythology and folklore that the Gods were reduced not into human characters, by and large, but into Fairies. So it is with Áine of Cnoc Áine in county Kerry who is believed to have been a goddess originally but is held to be a(…)