Is the Goddess of love calling to you? Aine (AHN-ya) is an Irish Celtic goddess who rules over love, fertility, summer, the self, the sun, wealth, agriculture, and the moon. Aine literally means bright, joy, radiance, and splendour. She is a goddess full of energy and generosity but can also ...
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Celtic Witchcraft: 9 Ways to Add Celtic Traditions to Your Magical Practice
A stone circle shrouded in mist. The sound of a flute in the distance is carried on the wind. Your heart is at peace here. You are home. Does this sound like a vision or dream you’ve had time and time again? Are you a witch interested in learning the old ways of our Celtic ancestors? ...
Queen Medb. Her name evokes complex emotions in those who know her. Vilified in Irish myth, yet today a goddess of strength and women’s sovereignty. Who exactly is Queen Medb and is she a deity of whom will benefit modern practitioners? In this article, we look at this complex Celtic ...
Ahhhh Druids. Celtic. Ancient. Mysterious. The word Druid is thrown around quite a bit when you enter into the exploration of Celtic neo-paganism. But beyond being associated with nature, magick, and Ireland what do we really know about the Druids? What do we know? The short answer to that ...
Divine Ancestors: Find Out If You Descend From a Celtic God or Goddess!
Do YOU descend from an ancient Celtic god or goddess? Compare your ancestors’ surnames (or your current name) to our database here and find out if your ancestor was divine! Backstory: recently I was doing research to find an ancestral god for someone and discovered that nearly every old ...
While researching a customer’s ancestral goddess, I came across something intriguing. There was an Irish sept, the Corcu Loigde, that claimed descent from a Fairy Queen named Cliodhna. It turns out, my Irish ancestors were part of the sept and I am able to claim fairy blood! What’s ...
Cliodhna the Celtic Fairy Goddess: 11 Ways to Work With Her
Witch. Mermaid. Fairy Queen. Cliodhna has many faces and names. Recently, while doing some geneaological research, I found my ancestors claimed descent from this elusive Celtic fairy goddess. I had no clue who she was, but almost instantly she began reaching out to me through the ether. She has ...
Cernunnos Celtic God: 8 Ways to Work with the Horned God
Cernunnos is an ancient Celtic god and an important one for many pagans and witches today. Cernunnos is known as The Horned One, The Horned God, Master of the Hunt and Lord of Wild Things. His energy is wild and yet welcoming, and he often calls to those who need to reconnect to their primal ...
There’s Brigid, the triple Irish goddess of smithing, poetry and healing. There’s The Morrigan, the shapeshifter who gathers the dead from the battlefield. Even the Dagda and Danu’s names have seen a resurgence in modern Celtic paganism. But what about the hundreds of other ...
The Celts believed strongly in the “good folk” or “sidhe”, also known as fairies. One such belief was in the Cait Sidhe or cat fairies, of which we magically know little about…until now. A guest writer known as Koala Anne has been on a journey to learn as much as ...