Discover Top Posts Tagged with #jude lally

A Solstice Visit to the Ballachulish Goddess

It was a gray and cloudy, rainy Winter Solstice morning. We didn’t see the sun till a few hours after dawn. In the photo above the winter solstice sun appears over the river Clyde, the watery realm of the Goddess Clutha. Clutha Isn’t just associated with the river she is the entire water cycle, from the rains coming in from the west and into Loch Lomond which flow into the river Leven and then into the mighty River Clyde om their journey to the sea.

Cernunnos

Cernunnos is known by many names. The Horned God, God of the Hunt, Lord of the Animals. He can be found in the sacred grove in the heart of the forest, in the call of the rutting stag. Of all the names he is known as I grew up knowing him as Herne the Hunter. As I generally make female dolls I was quite surprised that Cernunnos appeared, maybe I was inspired by the fallow deer stags I got to hang out with this summer.

#cernunnos #horned deities #celtic deities #dewos #duwiau #déithe #stag #stags #wild hunt #wildwood #wild wood #woods #forests #wilderness deities #nature deities #pagansquare #pagan paths #sisterhood of the antlers #jude lally

Entering the Wildwood

Beltane is a great Celtic festival although it's highly likely that it has its roots drawn down to a far longer distant past. My imagination has always been stirred by far earlier peoples.

#celts #celtic festivals #celtic peoples #beltane #bealtaine #beltaine #spring festivals #summer festivals #wilderness #creativity #nature #pagansquare #pagan paths #sisterhood of the antlers #jude lally

Willendorf and the Importance of Choosing the Gatherers or the Hunters Story

Willendorf has been in the news this week with Facebook banning her image calling it 'pornographic', while that decision was reversed our reaction to these ancient female figurines (Venus's) says volumes to the values we live by.

#willendorf #venus of willendorf #statues #archaeology #archeology #neolithic europe #neolithic #european history #pagan prayer beads #women #artifacts #feminism #pagansquare #pagan paths #sisterhood of the antlers #jude lally

Samhain Divination - with Deer, Bear, and Crow

I value the snippets of Samhain my grandmother fed me - a crumpled aged piece of paper that described a rite for carrying out a Dumb Supper. It outlined laying out place settings for those ancestors recently departed with place names inviting them to the Samhain meal. One of the main roles of the Dumb Supper was to say goodbye to any relatives who had died but were still around, those relatives that were finding it hard to leave the living and fully cross over to the other side.

#samhain #divination #death festivals #autumn festivals #winter festivals #fall festivals #deer #bears #crows #animals #opisthokonts #dumb summer #barmbrack #pagansquare #pagan paths #she who wears antlers #jude lally

#jude lally

Trending Tags

Recently Viewed Tags

#jude lally