Wild Bee Witch

Irish, Queer, EJ and Orla mods, mostly EJ, Irish polytheism, Ecology, Veggie Cooking, Remedies, crafts

[somebogwitch]

Home Protection “Jar” Spell

so I wanted to share how my wards work (leaving out a few details for obvious reasons) since it’s kind of the best example of how I put a spell together.

All my protection spells are rose based. I’ve always had rose growing by the door of everywhere I’ve ever lived so they have a strong sense of home for me. Also thorns. I have certain roses I use.

White quartz from the Dublin mountains for absorbing bad vibes, an old Irish penny for luck and a pine cone to make it last through bad times.

A spoon of strong, black tea (Barry’s gold blend loose leaf if you wanna know) to give it energy.

All the ingredients are personal to me, so if you were trying something similar you’d have to find things that spoke to you in the same way so the actual ingredients would differ.

I use cardboard, compostable pots instead of jars for any spell I’m going to bury.

Then I bury it on the land I’m protecting. Easy peasy.

[vl4da]

Bride at Jean Paul Gaultier Haute Couture Spring 2002.

[wildbeewitch]

my wedding dress

[somebogwitch]

For Pride I just want to bring this back around from Belfast Pride last year and the DUP tried to claim that this was a sectarian hate crime while simultaneously blocking marriage equality in Stormont.

Fuck the DUP.

[somebogwitch]

Waterlilies blooming 💮

[fruitcritter]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH, WITCHES 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

[shelbymelissa]

@hellboundwitch

[rosetinted--clouds]

Hozier is coming out of his bog and he’s doing just fine

[somebogwitch]

Your local witch here to collect shells and sea water and curse your ex-boyfriend.

[wildbeewitch]

See this girl. She sends me sand in the post. She deserves to have creeps live her alone.

[wildbeewitch]

Someone made Grace feel like shit today and someone made Orla feel like shit yesterday and I am feeling a curse coming on.

Like it’s so frustrating, being mostly housebound. I can’t like, defend my girlfriend’s honour, or whatever shit people do.

[wildbeewitch]

People Confuse Morrigan with other War deities

I feel like some of the discussion of Morrigan tends to lump her in with European or Norse ideas of war deities and she’s just so different. She’s arguably not even a war deity in the traditional sense.

The Morrigan rarely fights herself. She’s a talker and a planner and a prophet and poet.

She inspires heroes and sets up leaders.

She’ll go in disguise to judge your merit.

She’ll appear like a monster to test your resolve.

It’s not a case of not fighting, but choosing the moment carefully.

She crosses between this world and the next. She knows death, knows what the cost of fighting can be.

She knows the power of words in battle.

[irelandseyeonmyths-deactivated2]

There’s also the demonization issue and how much does the war thing reflect the original cult figure.

The character starts out in the 8th battle of moytura involved in kingship rituals like a soveregnty figure but she’s called a Lamia. A demon that torments humanity.

The next time we see her is the 12thc Tain and she’s an antagonist tormenting the hero of our national epic. She takes on the horrific crow form to perch on the dead boy heros shoulder.

By the 16th c morrigna is just another word for other battlefield demons like genits, bananachs. Airborn demons.

[wildbeewitch]

Definitely, though I have thoughts on the relationship between Cú Culainn and the Morrigan in the Táin. I’m not sure it’s as simple as the demonisation Morrigan faced post-christian period. It fits with common folklore themes of test in disguise of a hero. When a potential hero is unkind/unreceptive to the goddess/fairy character in disguise (as old woman) then he is doomed to fail.

Now the Táin is a much larger more complex story then those smaller morality type tales but still, Cú Culainn does ultimately fail and the Morrigan returns to prove it.

[irelandseyeonmyths-deactivated2]

Looking at that relationship in the tain

Queen Maeve is a cautionary tale about women crossing gender boundaries. Could the morrigan be a similar cautionary tale about sovereignty Queens.

Say when the Morrigan meets cu chulainn as the beautiful daughter of Buan she’s a sovereignty queen offering the kingship to a member of the derbhfine. He refuses and as a result she turns nasty.

[wildbeewitch]

Possibly, especially with all things we don’t know about Iron Age and early medieval kingship in Ireland, the selection process and consequences.

If I remember you don’t like the sacrifice theories Nick Kelly based the bog body exhibit around very much? But that’s also a potential element here. If he’s seen as a failed candidate for kingship (due to refusing to try).

[irelandseyeonmyths-deactivated2]

That’s me. Im not a big fan of Ned as a human either.

<Rant= “He used to literally stare at the door to his office until someone opened it for him. No good mornings, no eye contact, just entitlement.

Even taking the civil service culture as an excuse he is still the irish embodiment of the cambridge school theory he got king sacrifice from”>

[wildbeewitch]

Like I think the kingship sacrifice thing is a leap from the evidence we have, but I thought it was an interesting thought exercise.

I’m really into the boundaries element of it, you see. I’m not particularly interested in kingship but land and boundaries and sacrifice maybe?

[irelandseyeonmyths-deactivated2]

I like the boundaries thing too. Since they’re buried on the fringes of the community maybe theyre criminals.

The Cillins have been brought up because of the referendum. Still born babies and secret pregnancies are buried in them. But so are strangers and taboo breaking adults.

[wildbeewitch]

yeah....but two of the bodies show evidence of being really well groomed, manicures or hair-gel, right before being killed and submerged. That doesn’t scream criminal to me, I knew that’s hardly conclusive, just a gut feeling that there’s more at play.

[somebogwitch]

Activism with these two is not even nearly work. Endless energy for these leaflets. #8thref

[unfetteredwood]

Today is my flame vigil for a Brighidine order of flamekeepers that I belong to. My vigil has been dedicated to the women of Ireland. My hope is that tomorrow people will vote yes, so women there can have the same reproductive rights and freedoms as we have here in Canada.

[somebogwitch]

Finn has got my back. He’s keeping the house safe from no canvassers tonight. #repealthe8th

[marinederivednitrigin]

C'mon guys we’re almost there, these are the repeal badges I’ve been accumulated over the last three years #repealtheeighth

[coconutmilkyway]

figuring out where to go next is DIFFICULT when you’re split three ways.

i cant stop doodling the three hunters aka Aragorn and his annoying pet gremlins 

[wildbeewitch]

People Confuse Morrigan with other War deities

I feel like some of the discussion of Morrigan tends to lump her in with European or Norse ideas of war deities and she’s just so different. She’s arguably not even a war deity in the traditional sense.

The Morrigan rarely fights herself. She’s a talker and a planner and a prophet and poet.

She inspires heroes and sets up leaders.

She’ll go in disguise to judge your merit.

She’ll appear like a monster to test your resolve.

It’s not a case of not fighting, but choosing the moment carefully.

She crosses between this world and the next. She knows death, knows what the cost of fighting can be.

She knows the power of words in battle.

[irelandseyeonmyths-deactivated2]

There’s also the demonization issue and how much does the war thing reflect the original cult figure.

The character starts out in the 8th battle of moytura involved in kingship rituals like a soveregnty figure but she’s called a Lamia. A demon that torments humanity.

The next time we see her is the 12thc Tain and she’s an antagonist tormenting the hero of our national epic. She takes on the horrific crow form to perch on the dead boy heros shoulder.

By the 16th c morrigna is just another word for other battlefield demons like genits, bananachs. Airborn demons.

[wildbeewitch]

Definitely, though I have thoughts on the relationship between Cú Culainn and the Morrigan in the Táin. I’m not sure it’s as simple as the demonisation Morrigan faced post-christian period. It fits with common folklore themes of test in disguise of a hero. When a potential hero is unkind/unreceptive to the goddess/fairy character in disguise (as old woman) then he is doomed to fail.

Now the Táin is a much larger more complex story then those smaller morality type tales but still, Cú Culainn does ultimately fail and the Morrigan returns to prove it.

[isaakbutler]

The Morrigan is also a Triple Aspect Goddess. Which makes her a bit more complicated than some of the other gods and goddesses of war. There are several other gods and goddesses in the celtic pantheon that are also triple aspects. 

[wildbeewitch]

....The Morrigan is sort of a Triple Aspect Goddess but possibly not in the way you’re thinking. There are possibly three different figures that the title Morrigan was given to. Sometimes their depicted as three sisters.

But Morrigan does not, in the lore, fit into the Maiden, mother, crone, thing that a lot of pagans apply to celtic goddesses.

[somebogwitch]

Mushrooms and Moss at the Marconi Station

Connemara, Co Galway, Ireland

[irelandseyeonmyths-deactivated2]

Saint Brigid’s Holy Well in Clondalkin.

Notice the lack of crap tied to everything? Its possibly not as trad as it is touristy.

[wildbeewitch]

They do have her in a cage in case she tries anything though. 

Fenced in grottos are my favourite hilarious thing.