Full title: Teagasca: The Instructions of Cormac Mac Airt
Author: C. Lee Vermeers
Isa
The third rune of the second aett is Isa, which is equivalent to the letter I in English. The rune looks like a straight vertical line. Isa is most strongly associated with ice. The Icelandic rune poem calls Isa:
“bark of rivers
and roof of the wave
and destruction of the doomed.”
Of Trance Work (UPG)
Trance work was a very hard concept for me to understand. My mind could never be quiet enough for me to go into trance. I wanted something that is close to what is said the Irish Filidh did to see visions. The early Irish filidh are said to have composed their poetry and had mantic visions through various techniques involving things like incubatory darkness, liminal times or places such as dusk and dawn or doorways, and the ingestion of raw substances such as the meat of sacrificed animals. (1) I decided to go with the incubatory darkness route in my own way.
Spellcrafting
So I was asked a while back what components are necessary for successful spellcrafting. Spell can be very elaborate. They can involve numerous ingredients, representations, candles, accessories, incenses, chants, motions, and all manner of things. But I’m a chaos magician. I usually like to keep things simple. What do you need to cast a spell? […]
July 2014
My blogging has been pretty pathetic this year. My keeping track of my goals hasn’t been very good either. But I’m trying to break them down more into more manageable bench-markers, and the beginning or a new month is as good a time as any to see where I’m at and what I want to […]
Derailed
Many years ago I was in graduate school. I had aspirations to be a college professor, and was working toward that goal. I had become frustrated by my career in the restaurant industry, and wanted to do something that was a better use of my innate talents. I got burnt out, for many reasons. Some […]
St. Gall’s Incantations
There are a collection of healing charms which include some fairly overt pagan references found in the Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus grouped under the heading of St. Gall’s Incantations. Below I’m including three of the originals and my own modified and updated versions.
Soul-stice.
I spent the Solstice high in the mountains, communing with the luminary sol, the light-bringer, the first fire. It lit a torch deep down that was sleeping, some part of me that was tucked away over the winter and unable to shake the frost until just then.
"I am Guarding Your Death"
Saturday morning I was home, getting ready to head over to my friend’s store when my mother called me. She and my oldest daughter had gone over to my grandmother’s apartment, a few minutes drive from my house, to check on her. My mother’s voice on the phone was small and hesitant, “Morgan, your grandmother’s died. What do I do?”
It Happened Again
Blessings Darlings!
As y’all already know, I make a lot of things from scratch, or almost-scratch. Like – my husband LOVES having Kahlua in his coffee in the evening. He does this three or so times a week. Kahlua is a pricy bitch, so I make my own.