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  Culled from suck sources as historical documents, folklore and mythology, as well as the Triads, these following virtues have been compiled by modern followers of a Celtic Path.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