All Blog Posts Tagged 'celtic' (10)

For this meditation you'll need your choice of grounding stones (smoky quartz, hematite, tiger's eye, or black tourmaline), citrine, peridot or rhodochrosite, aventurine, and hawk's eye or amethyst, and a clear quartz point to hold in your hand. If you also have a smoky qua… Continue

Incense has smoldered on Witches altars for at least 5,000 years. It is burned during magick to promote ritual consciousness. It is burned prior to workings to cleanse and purify your area from negative energies and vibrations. Specially formulated incenses are burned to attract specific energies to the spell… Continue

Remember the POWER of the English Oak. Remember the majesty of the English Oak. As these mighty signs of the GOD are destroyed with the Mistletoe that grows in symbiotic relationship with them, all should cry. This willful destruction in the name of progress is another insult to the Mother and all of our paths. As commercial interests continue to destroy the symbols and gateways to our pathways in the Otherworld cry OUT for our loss. The Link below will take you to a YouTube video of the willful… Continue

Celtic Goddess Jewelry is going to offer an expanded pendulum line. The newest pendulums are the mother turtle Native American pendulum and the Pele Goddess pendulum.

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Humans are always reachinShaman, Pastor, Priest, Priestess or Candlestick makerg for understanding. Whatever their religious, spiritual, or non spiritual philosophy, they are always seeking to understand the world around them. In our pre-industrialized world we sought these answers from individuals who seemed to have a better connection than the general population with unseen realms. They were sometimes called shamans, druids, priestesses or priests. Our post industrialized world calls… Continue

Druids Defined: A Reconstructionist Druid's Commentary Modern Druidry has put a completely new spin on exactly what a Druid is today. Because of the new aged movement and the combined restoration of Paganism started in the early 1900s, the way Druids are viewed today has been drastically changed from what Druids were in the ancient Celtic culture. Many people dont seem to understand that the new aged view of a Druid as a simple nature loving spiritualist has been perpetuated by the Neo-Druidic… Continue

The Druid Chronicles From Lugodoc's Guide to Druids: In an attempt to clear very muddied waters, below I have collected ever word written down about the druids by the classical writers of chronicals up to A.D. 350. Everything written after this date is pure speculation. All bold emphasis is by this author. 330 BC – Aristotle's Treatise on Magic – Lost, possibly apocryphal, but referred to by Diogenes Laertius over 550 years later. 200 BC - Sotion of Alexandria's Succession of Philosophers -… Continue

Celtic Martial Arts by C. Lee Vermeers www.paganachd.com/celticmartialarts.html General Introduction As far as can be ascertained, there was never a single, unitary Celtic martial art form (not least because there was no single, unitary Celtic culture). There were, instead, a number of physical, mental and spiritual techniques used in training for martial activity. Some areas may have had, in ancient times, an organized system of teaching them, while others may have been more informal. No cohe… Continue

What is Celtic Reconstructionism (CR)? Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism (CR) is a polytheistic, animistic, religious and cultural movement. It is an effort to reconstruct, within a modern Celtic cultural context, the aspects of ancient Celtic religions that were lost or subsumed by Christianity. There are some survivals of pre-Christian Celtic traditions in the lore and folk practices of the Celtic countries and the Celtic diaspora but, after centuries of Christian overlay, most people do not… Continue

I was asked this question on a different forum when I found out that I was not having a discussion with a person on the same path, but simply an outsider with a passing fancy. The below is my response to his question. Again, why should it matter what path I'm on? Is the information/truth different then? When the facts intertwine with the faith - yes, the "truth" is different. Those attempting to find peace through the "facts" of their faith do so in a different manner than those… Continue