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. […]
The Philosopher and the Druid
Full Title: The Philosopher and the Druid – A Journey among the ancient Celts
Author: Philip Freeman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2006
Pages: 221 including an index, notes and suggested readings, a pronunciation guide, a glossary of Gaulish words, a timeline and some black and white pictures.
Synopsis:
Early in the first century B.C. a Greek philosopher named Posidonius began an ambitious and dangerous journey into the little-known lands of the Celts. A man of great intellectual curiosity and considerable daring, Posidonius traveled from his home on the island of Rhodes to Rome, the capital of the expanding empire that had begun to dominate the Mediterranean. From there Posidonius planned to investigate for himself the mysterious Celts, reputed to be cannibals and savages. His journey would be one of the great adventures of the ancient world.
Visualize THIS.
Blessings, Darlings!
Today in an extremely fluffy Facebook ‘witch’ and ‘Wicca’ group – where I’m totally sure that no one has an initiation in lineaged Wicca or could explain what an egregore is and how that related to lineaged Wicca – I was … informed … that magic is all about visualization.
So I asked if that meant that the blind can’t do magic.