I’ve been doing ceremonial magick for many, many years, but I’ve never progressed beyond elemental magick before. The rituals seemed too complex, and I wasn’t confident enough in what I was doing. I also didn’t really understand what the end game in such ritual work. DON inspired me several months ago to revisit my ceremonial […]
Meiche, Three Hearts, Three Serpents
I’m still doing a lot of translation, and I’d like to keep sharing it but in ways that are interesting to you. So here is the story, as we have it, of the Morrigan’s son Meiche and how the river Barrow got it’s name:13. BERBA.
Book Review: Feast of the Morrigan
I’m doing this book review for Christopher Penzcak’s Feast of the Morrigan a little bit differently. This is a book that is often brought up and that people really like, and it has its good points for modern practice. The author is very clear that his own approach, and that of the rituals and meditations he provides, is based in Wicca and neopagan witchcraft and for people utilizing that style I’m sure what he offers is quite valid. However there are some important issues with the book, specifically…
The Morrigan’s Call Retreat 2015
Bealtaine or Beltane?
I recently, publicly, made the choice not to use Anglicized versions of certain words, specifically holiday and deity names. There’s several reasons for this decision but the core of it is that as an Irish Polytheist who is striving to speak the language it seems disingenuous to publicly use different forms of the words just because they are more familiar to most people.
Several Short Book Reviews
First a couple for the kids or parents with kids:
The Ancient Celtic Festivals: and How We Celebrate Them Today by Clare Walker Leslie
A Child’s Eye View of Irish Paganism by Blackbird O’Connell
Then some more adult books:
Teagasca: The Instructions of Cormac Mac Airt by C. Lee Vermeers
The Secret Commonwealth and the Fairy Belief Complex by Brian Walsh
Stalking the Goddess by Mark Carter
Translating De Gabail in tSida
transformation?
Transformation: to change or morph into something new or different. I’ve been accused of this word as of late. I don’t see it myself. I don’t see myself doing anything new or different. I’ve lost a lot of weight… just by changing activity. I changed some negative energy by changing jobs, added some oomph to … Continue reading transformation?
The Morrigan The Dagda, and Unions
If there is one story in Irish mythology relating to the Morrigan that the most people are familiar with it is probably the scene in the Cath Maige Tuired where the Morrigan and the Dagda meet at a river, join, and then plan strategy for the coming battle with the Fomorians. There are several interpretations of this incident but possibly the most common are that it shows the Morrigan as a goddess of sex and that it is a case of the Dagda trading sex for victory.
Probably not surprisingly to anyone who has read my blog, particularly my previous blog on the story of Dian Cecht and Miach, I have a different opinion. First let’s look at the actual story:
Get Witching.
A busy week for a witch can mean suddenly needing to perform healing prayers, rites and charms for a grandfather diagnosed with a serious illness. The second I left the hospital I went straight for the best magic I know, the kind I was raised around; healing medicine. Mine is very different from mi Tia’s, different from my moms, from my various aunts; I’m a green sorcerer, that’s what I go to. Well, gramps needs healing, and all I can do to help on a spiritual level is what I know I’m good at– and I know I’m a damn fine witch. So I get witching; stuffing herbs, baking the clay dolly for its work, catching the right moment when …