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[edgeofthecirclebooks]

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[hagothehills]

𝕊𝕔𝕠𝕥𝕥𝕚𝕤𝕙 𝕊𝕡𝕒𝕖𝕨𝕚𝕗𝕖 𝕊𝕡𝕖𝕝𝕝 𝔹𝕠𝕥𝕥𝕝𝕖

*** Limited edition item ***

The spaewife was the Scottish seer who could look beyond the veil to see what the future would bring. Spae comes from the Old Norse word spá – to prophecy, to foretell.

Carry this spell bottle on your person during rites of divination and seership, trancework, wisdom seeking, spiritwork and dream work.

Placed next to your bed it can encourage prophetic dreaming.

This is a limited edition item, and once sold out I won't be making more.

Available in my Etsy shop, link in bio.

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[hagothehills]

Traditional Scottish Divination

Being Scottish a couple of hundred years ago was no easy task especially if you lived somewhere remote like the Highlands and Islands. Many folk struggled to make ends meet and it also resul…

[lunar-fortunes]

There's Always A Loophole

Welllll I think my spirit court are patting themselves on the back again. "Guess we don't have to bitchslap her again!"

It fucking worked.

The night of the super moon, I got this pull towards his house. He lives near a drive-thru but has a privacy fence up. But there were lights everywhere from the closed businesses. After sitting in my car for about twenty minutes trying to psych myself up, I turned the bindrune charm into a talisman, waded through the snow, and slipped it through the fence.

The next day, I got a sign from the spirit of the store.

And just like that, I'm fucking calm.

The reading about the ward:

1: the foundation: ace of hearts: good news! your troubles and problems are moving away from you.

2: what is covering you: queen of clubs: move yourself up front and accept the limelight. So this goes along with one of my Friday Readings, which called me a Lioness, and the queen of my court.

3: what is walking with you(what is going on at the time of the reading): 5 of diamonds: be grateful for your blessings, that your "village" and family are now safe. Quit being a whiny little bitch!

4: what is behind you(the past or what may be happening now depending on the other cards): ace of clubs: you were the only one holding yourself back. It's time to act! (On point)

5: what is in front of you (what could happen): joker: your ancestors are walking with you.

6: the outcome if nothing is changed: ace of diamonds: the road is opened, you can now advance.

Significant multiples: got 3 Aces in this reading(!!), which means new beginnings and lucky breaks.

[hagothehills]

Is there a special word for someone with second sight or really good divination abilities in Gaelic polytheism?

Hi Anon :)

I can’t really speak for Gaelic polytheism as I’m not a Gaelic polytheist. Perhaps some of my followers can help out there?

However in Scotland the seer/fortuneteller was known as a spaewife (derived from the old Norse word spá meaning “to prophesy”. 

There is also the Scottish Gaelic word “taibhsear” meaning someone who is a visionary or a seer. 

For more information about second sight in Scotland I recommend the book The Gaelic Otherworld by John Gregorson Campbell (this book is really two of his previous publish works put together, but you can buy them separately as Superstitions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, and Witchcraft and Second Sight in the Highlands and Islands). 

Hope that helps :)

[princeling]

The Spaewife, one of my polymer clay sculptures, is going to be exhibiting soon for the Morpheus private view, Raw Talent 2014 at the Dalston department store from June 26 - 29. Run by We.Create Int, this should be a pretty incredible opportunity.

[princeling]

The Spaëwife, 2013 Pearl polymer clay, mica powder

The Spaëwife is of Scottish origin, a term commonly linked to the Völva witch of Norse mythology. The sculpture is an enchanting object that seeks to bewitch you as you teeter somewhere between desire and repulsion - there's something equally organic and alien about its form as it invites you to gaze into the scrying hollow.

It's taken me an incredibly long time to get the finalised, baked + polished + post-cracked photos of my sculpture photographed, haha. To be exhibited/for sale at Morpheus, Raw Talent 2014's show at the Dalston department store.

[ioma-dhiadhachd]

A spaewife is a female prophetess, a seer, a diviner, one who sees. In Norse shamanism she was called a spákona or spækona – a seeress, and stories of such women are found throughout Norse mythology. The völva’s (Norse shamanic seeress) practice involved spá and in an account called Völuspá (Prophecy of the Völva) the first poem of the Poetic Edda, Odin, the father of the gods consulted a völva to find out what was in store for all the gods. Read more, by clicking on the title link.