Categories: Celtic

  • Eating Your Totem

    Okay. So my dear Bren may or may not have eaten his “Totem” for dinner last week. And I joked about it. A few people had panic attacks about this. So in my usual sweet but sarcastic way let me address this.
    First of all, I am the kind of woman who has been known to start pillow fights in the middle of the afternoon in downtown Ottawa. I don’t take life all that seriously. I take my Witchcraft seriously, but [...]

  • Oak and Holly

    In the deepest and darkest slumber
    When the world is plunged in cold and snow
    The Earth rests gripped in the heart of Winter
    Cloaked in ice and freezing winds that harshly blow
    The King who wears the Holly crown
    Sits high upon His icy throne
    *

    We with one ear pressed to the frozen ground
    Do hear the sounds of returning warmth
    With creaks and groans the Goddess gives birth
    To a Son of Oak and light and mirth
    Just as the Sun begins its slow return
    *

    As the Oak babe [...]

  • Diaspora

    Although my feet
    Have never walked
    Upon ancestral lands
    And I’ve never heard
    The winds sing a song
    Across the Motherland
    Though I have never
    Laid my own hands
    Upon a standing stone
    I will sing the old song
    I will honour the old gods
    I will learn the old ways
    And make them new again
    For a man or woman
    Who is without roots
    Finds it all too easy
    To cut down another’s tree
    And so I will connect
    With this New World
    I will love, I will learn
    This, my dear land
    New ways for me to make
    Like forefathers [...]

  • Some of my Favorite Celtic Triads ~ Part 1

    Concerning three things that hide: an open bag hides nothing, an open door hides little, an open person hides something.
    Three things by nature cause their possessor to err: youth, prosperity, and ignorance.
    There are three things which move together as quickly the one as the other: lightning , thought , and the help of the Mighty Ones.
    Three things not loved without each one it’s companion: day without night, idleness without hunger, and wisdom without reverence.
    There are three [...]

  • Celtic Virtues

    Celtic Virtues
     
    Culled from suck sources as historical documents, folklore and mythology, as well as the Triads, these following virtues have been compiled by modern followers of a Celtic Path. The list of Celtic Virtues does vary slightly from group to group.
    This list tries to be complete, listing the different Virtues most commonly on the list of as many traditions possible. Roughly in order of the most commonly used first and least commonly used last.

    Courage/Valour/Bravery
    Honesty/Truth
    Hospitality
    Honour
    Loyalty
    Justice
    Responsibility
    Steadfastness
    Wisdom
    Community
    Strength
    Generosity
    Creativity
    Spirituality
    Mercy
    Knowledge
    Peacefulness
    Reverence for Nature
    Eloquence
    Composure
    Good Judgment
    Faith
    Charity