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.

Personal Boundaries, Sovereignty, and Consent Culture

I was recently reminded of an older blog post by John Beckett about boundaries and it got me thinking. We all have personal boundaries, of course, but I think too often in interacting with others there is a default assumption that others share either our personal boundaries or else wider cultural boundaries. To me, when we talk about personal boundaries I immediately think about consent…

The Treasure of the Tuatha Dé Danann

Full Title: The Treasure of the Tuatha Dé Danann: A Pocket Book of Irish Myths
Author: Morgan Daimler
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 121 including a bibliography
Synopsis: This dual language pocket book represents a collection of new translations of several Irish myths. Each story is first presented in the original Old Irish and then in English so that a reader can experience the story as it existed in the original before reading a new translation. Many of the existing translations are around a hundred years old, and often either exclude material or else skew the retelling to fit the mores of a more Victorian audience. The translations included here in stories including Angus’s Dream to the Taking of the Sidhe are an attempt to find a balance between a more literal translation that is still enjoyable to an English speaking audience. All material focuses on the stories of the Irish Gods, the Tuatha De Danann.

Taking A Wider View

Blessings Darlings!

This morning, when I finally got up (I closed last night, got home at midnight, then spent an hour on the phone with Verizon because cable TV is down), the Chubby Hubby informed me the outlet that all the florescent lights in his lab are plugged into was broken. He had already tried re-setting the circuit breakers, which were in the garage, but that hadn’t helped. He’d ‘fixed’ the problem by adding an extension cord and using a different outlet.

Okay.

Continue reading to find out how “okay” it was…

Excerpts from Cóir Anmann

Just as the Banshenchus can give us some insight into the different Irish Goddesses, the Cóir Anmann can give us insight into a few of the Gods. Below is an excerpt of the relevant original material which is mostly Middle Irish and a bit of Latin followed by my translation:

the Slua Si

Whenever the subject of the fairies comes up it is best to remember that they are not the twee little things of pop culture. Even among the diverse groups of fairies though some deserve more caution and respect than others. One group that was particularly feared is the slua sí, the fairy host.