Blessings, Darlings!
I’m too excited to sleep! So I’m blogging at 4 am.
Oh, the sleeplessness STARTED because …
Restaurant Scrounging, Part 1
Blessings, Darlings!
RESTAURANT SCROUNGING
Those of us with lower end incomes – in my case, my second job working at a dead end restaurant job – don’t have the income to get a real ‘retreat’ where we’ll prepare for what will come in a future collapse. We’re too busy living too close to a personal la vida collapse now.
However, that doesn’t mean that we can’t glean things from the not-yet collapsed world out there.
Wodan
Many people are familiar with the Norse God Odhinn, but less well known is his German counterpart Wodan who is similar but not identical. Wodan (Old High German Woutan) although almost certainly derived from the same root as Odhinn has several distinct characteristics. In today’s blog I would like to discuss Wodan as we see him in the German material.
Duncan Royale German "Odin" statue…
A History of Ireland in 250 Episodes
Author: Jonathan Bardon
Pages: 592 including works cited and Bibliography.
Synopsis: Jonathan Bardon covers all the obvious things: the invasions, battles, development of towns and cities, the Reformation, the Georgian era, the Famine, rebellions and resistance, the difference of Ulster, partition, the twentieth century. What makes his book so valuable, however, …
Ancient Ireland Life Before the Celts
Author: Laurance Flanagan
Pages: 288 including sketches, figures and glossary.
Synopsis: When the Celts first arrived in Ireland around 250BC, the island had already been inhabited for over 7,000 years. These pre-Celtic peoples …
Ways to Feel More Connected to the Morrigan
One question that I am asked on a fairly regular basis is what should people who are interested in connecting spiritually to the Morrigan or who are just beginning to honor Her do? So I thought it might be helpful for me to post a list of general suggestions here, although keep in mind that these are only my ideas and what I have found works well for me. I tend to be a very sensory person so…
Random Irish Mythology Trivia
* Nuada is left handed – he lost his right arm during the fight with the Fir Bolg warrior Sreng, and we are told it was his shield arm, meaning his sword arm is his left arm
* Speaking of Nuada’s arm, when it is healed it is the original flesh arm that is restored, which Miach acquires and holds against his body for six days, then strikes it with burnt bulrushes for another three. Which makes…
When Fairytales Have Teeth
I was teaching a class last week about the types of Otherworldly spirits more likely to be found during the winter, and I had one of those moments that will sometimes happen where I opened my mouth and spoke off the cuff, as we were discussing the Unseelie Court. I pointed out to the people attending the class that contrary to what most of the young adult novels and paranormal romance…
Fight the Bad Meme – Blog Edition
I’ve started a new thing on my social media page, which I call "fight the bad meme", because it seems like every single pagan holiday that rolls around sees an influx of poorly researched memes purporting to ‘educate’ people about the real history of that holiday and it’s traditions. Usually most to all of the information presented in the meme is utter bollocks. So after I’ve seen the bad info…
The Winter Solstice
Although there is no solid evidence connecting Christmas in Ireland
to older pagan practices, there are some hints of traditions which may pre-date
Christian influence. As Estyn Evans tells us "Although Christmas is the outstanding Christian festival of the year
its traditional ‘Twelve Days’ of holiday are steeped in pagan lore and in folk
practices relating to the winter solstice…" (…