I’m a bit behind on blogging and translations because I’m in the middle of a new book draft for Pagan Portals: Brigid. The idea of doing more goddess-themed Pagan Portals was suggested by someone on my Facebook author page and my publisher really liked it, and asked if I’d be interested in writing about Brigid. I’m about 14,000 words into the 25,000 word draft and its about …
Celtic Britain and Ireland 200 AD to 800 AD
Full Title: Celtic Britain and Ireland 200 AD to 800 AD – The Myth of the Dark Ages
Authors: Lloyd and Jennifer Laing
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Review: …
The Morrigan is Not My Mother and Other Personal Truths
This idea for this blog was actually started in a conversation about the Morrigan as a mother goddess and I want to say right at the off that I have nothing against people who believe that she is. Modern worshipers see the Morrigan in diverse ways that are often deeply significant for each individual and I am in no way trying to argue against those views. You can have whatever personal…
A Call for Submissions
I have two calls of submission for you today. The first one is for a book called An Leabhar Urnaí. This second one is for the next issue of Air n-Aithesc.
My hope is that you guys will be interested in submitting for both! Details can be found by clicking the link below.
Two Book Reviews
Title: The Rise of the Celts (The History of Civilisation Series)
Review: This book talked about the history of the Celts, starting from the origins up to the Hallstatt period. It also gave ….
Title: The Greatness and Decline of the Celts (The History of Civilisation Series)
Review: This is part two of the series on the Celts. The book picks up where it left off from the previous one and takes us up until the decline of the Celts after the Roman conquests.
So would I recommend these books?
De Chophur in Da Muccida – The Struggle of the Two Swineherds
De Chophur in da Muccida
Ceist cid dia dá Cophur na Muccide. Ni handsa. .i. muccaid Ochaill Oichni. & muccaid Boidb rig síde Muman. alaile rí síde Connacht. Síd mBoidb iss ed Síd ar Femun. Sid nOchaill iss ed Síd Cruachan. Ro boí dí cairddes eter ríg síde
Muman. & ríg side Connacht. Ro batar dano da muccaid ocaib .i. Friuch & Rucht a n-anmand .i. Friuch muccaid Boidb. Rucht muccaid Ochaill.
Just a little cracked
I’ve forgotten how it feels to be held close against a dragon’s heart. I’ve been so busy trying to be all things to all people that I lost myself in the shuffle. It’s been coming I guess, but yesterday it all snowballed on me and I was more than a little snappish to people who …
Witches, Mná Feasa, and Fairy Doctors, oh my!
A peer reviewed version of this article can be found in the 2014 Lughnasa/Samhain issue of Air n-Aithesc here
Waterhouse, The Mystic Wood, 1917
In modern American terms we tend to call anyone who works with low magic or folk magic a witch, however from an Irish perspective such people actually fell into roughly three groups: witches called caillí (singular cailleach) in Irish, fairy doctors
The Morrigan and Personal Sovereignty
The Morrigan’s most well-known, and arguably main, aspects may be battle, death, and war but she also has other purviews including sovereignty and that is what many of her followers today seem to connect most strongly with. In our modern world many people feel disempowered in their live, making the idea of reconnecting with personal power an alluring one, and something that…
Seven Spheres
A while back Satyr Magos was showing off a bit and introduced me to Rufus Opus‘ Seven Spheres, a short but marvelous book with a unique and powerful approach to planetary magick. The book employs conjuration rather than invocation, and engages the planetary forces from the top down rather than from the earth sphere up. […]