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March Happiness Blog Challenge – day 2
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Category Archives: Random pagan and recon. ramblings
Book Review – the Druid’s Primer
There are many books on the market that aim to introduce the seeker to the basics of Druidism, but The Druid’s Primer by Luke Eastwood is perhaps the(…)
Celtic Ways of Seeing
So now that we’ve covered some different aspects of seidhr historically and how I am trying to reconstruct and practice them let’s look at the Irish side of things. Now we know that there were some very specific methods used by the File during the transition period between paganism(…)
the Havamal
Since my planned blog for today is being pre-empted due to illness in the family, I offer you the public domain version of the Havamal, Bellows translation, from 1936. It’s found in the Poetic Edda by Snorri and is a great text.
1. Within the gates | ere a man shall(…)
Gettin’ Seidhr-y With It
Since my last blog touched on some of the historic tidbits that contribute to the reconstruction aspects of seidhr and Irish magical practices, a couple of quick points before we get into what I actually do on the Norse end. Firstly to clarify terms: seidhr is a Norse word(…)
Oracular practices and magic – when cultures meet
This is one of those posts I’ve been meaning to do since I started the blog but just kept finding reasons to put off; however a recent conversation with a friend about the challenges of writing about spiritually personal practices has prompted me to move forward with it.<br(…)
Book review – Witta
you would think that when a horribly inaccurate bok goes out of print that eventually it would just fade into obscurity…yet in the last week I have heard several different groups and people talking about Edain McCoy and her book Witta, which may be the single worst book on(…)
Fehu
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With the Sun, or Against the Sun…
My reaction to things moving counterclockwise is something of a running joke among my friends, whether it’s papers being passed around during a discussion group or a shared box of cookies passing from hand to hand. I suppose it does seem rather silly, since without any(…)
Contemplations on "Enough"
You know whatever path we walk in life, whatever spirituality we follow there always seems to be someone – or a couple people even – telling us it’s not the right path for us. Usually the argument boils down to being told you aren’t enough of something; you don’t have(…)