Category Archives: Celtic myth
A Pail from Brigit’s Well
space Your crannog is pure breast, a well of milky-blue, a silver spring which blesses every name for You. Brigit of the fertile gasp, candle of all wombs rouse my words to spark dark waters with a tide of brighter … Continue reading
Blue Moon, Harrow of Light: An Imbas on the Eve of Candlemas
space I wrote the following for the Imbolc 2010 issue of Eolas, the magazine of the druidic Order of the White Oak. Imbolc (or Candlemas) is the first Celtic cross-quarter festival of the year and is celebrated on Feb. 2. … Continue reading
Letter to an Dead Shaman: Guinnevere
space “… Usually sickness, dreams, and ecstasies in themselves constitute an initiation, that is, they transform the profane, pre-’choice’ individual into a technician of the sacred. Naturally, this ecstatic type of experience is always and everywhere followed by theoretical and … Continue reading
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Mare o’ The Mere
“Blondie “ by Margaret Bednar (aka Art Happens 365) space You killed off all my horses and then gave me back just one, a huge white mare from the hill of ancient Uffington. Standing at the gate of your mansion … Continue reading
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Merlin’s Cave
space You’ll find me far beneath the ruins of Arthur’s gold-crossed court, my magic cell a cave which by day wombs with dark a blue-foamed, crashing shore and by night is drowned in ocean, a door to lower courts … Continue reading
Puddlefoot
space Hear me and you’re witched; sort and I’ll derange; scatter and I’m found. But name me and I’m gone, into wilds you’ll never recognize as such. Nothing’s changed down all these years, though my folk have dried to vellum: … Continue reading
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The Soul Fish
space In rural Ireland—-where the men who remain often fail to marry and then go mad–there is a stubborn folk belief that the soul’ a fish located somewhere under the left arm. It’s a slippery, untrustworthy presence, this sinister scaly … Continue reading
Black Torc
space How perilously close to nothing is this black hour, where every walking numen drifts drowned in sleep’s thick thrall and the garden dances stiffly in the trance of blackened leaves, each petal burdened with the freight of such … Continue reading
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The Northern Lights (The Eighth Shamanic Letter)
space I. My father loves to walk his Columcille at night; he’s most at home amid the gleam of moon and star upon those stones he hauled out from Blue Mountain’s heart and then raised, like sails, to north-winded lords. … Continue reading
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Glastonbury
space According to most of the texts the Grail Castle is to be sought for in Britain where King Arthur and his knights … are thought to live, and whither, according to some versions, the Grail was supposed to have … Continue reading
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