Planting them seeds at Imbolc.

Blessings Darlings!

The interwebs are full of Imbolc rituals full of seed plantings.  Regardless of local conditions, regardless of local climate zones.  Regardless of the fact that, in most of Europe/North America, the only seeds you’d plant now are onions (and that’s not necessarily the occult correspondence most folks are after just now, ya know.)  Regardless of what’s actually going on in their local land base. Yeah, the seeds represent changes in your life – but working outside of nature isn’t all that Pagan/Witchy.

Doesn’t work for me, but okay, if that floats their boat (that was said in my best Bawltimore accent, not a Boston accent, hon), let’s go into what has to be kept in mind when doing seed work.

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Fern’s Failure – Drill Press Edition

Blessings Darlings!

Today in being frugal, I figured I’d make a sprinkling can out of a used one-gallon milk jug.  Should be easy, right?  Just drill a bunch of small holes in the screw-on top to the jug.

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A Bit More Translation

“Fo-ceird Cú Chuluinn bedg ina charpat feissin íarum. Naicc ní i nneoch íarum in mnaí nach in carpat nach in n-ech nach in fer nach in mbuin ocus co n-faco-sium íarum ba hén-si dub forsin chroíb ina farrud.”

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What I’ve been working on: Air n-Aithesc Volume II Issue I

I thought you guys would like to see what I’ve been working on the past month. This is the cover of the latest issue of Air n-Aithesc which should be out in a few days.

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A Prayer to an Cailleach During Storms

[Out of respect to the author, no snippet will be provided. Please click through to the original post to view the uncut prayer.]

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Think Globally – Do Magic Locally

Blessings Darlings!

The other day I commented on a post on Facebook, recommending igneous rocks for a working.  Thinking further about that, tho’, I realized that was a holdover from growing up in the Midwest, and not what I’d do myself, now that I live in the Appalachians.

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The Morrigan and Plans for 2015

I’m sure many of you would rather see more translation here, and don’t worry I’ll get some more done soon. I’m working on a new manuscript at the moment which is taking up some time, but hopefully next week I’ll get to some of the other fun untranslated bits of the Cath Maige Tuired…

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Verifying Practical UPG

So a common question in relation to upg* is how to know if the gnosis you get is good or not. A basic rule of thumb is to take the information you get and double check it, whether that’s checking it against mythology or other types of fact checking.

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The Crows Spoke Again.

Blessings Darlings!

I don’t know if crows act as messengers from the Goddess who has me collared, but there are these times when … well, they can certainly be omens.  So far, always omens about crap going down at work.  It happened again yesterday.

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Translating – The Morrigan’s Prophecy part 2

Today I want to take a look at the second half of the Morrigan’s prophecy after the battle of Moytirra, which Gray does offer a translation for, but with significant sections excluded:Boí-si íarum oc taircetul deridh an betha ann beus ocus oc tairngire cech uilc nobíad ann, ocus cech teadma ocus gach díglau; conid ann rocachain an laíd-se sís:

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