posted August 26, 2013 12:01 AM            

I believe in the powers of mother Brigid, the mother goddess of my ancestors, the Celts.
And I believe in the holy father, the green man, who does her bidding upon earth.

posted August 26, 2013 12:12 AM            

Plenty of witches and sorcerers around here

posted August 26, 2013 01:46 AM            

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Originally posted by PixieJane:
Welcome!

Just curious, do you follow a specific tradition or are you an eclectic? If eclectic then what was your inspiration to adopt a Celtic focus?

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posted August 26, 2013 03:19 AM            

I read a Dragonlance Chronicles when I was 16 that made me curious about warrior women (especially those that led armies), and so I found Women Warlords in the YA section of the library that got me curious to find a more detailed book on Queen Boudicca, and I understood why she and her followers were willing to fight even if they were likely to die themselves as better the death of the body than the death of the spirit.

Later that same year (and inspired by having just seen the Matrix) I wrote a story for a class project where me and my classmates accidentally caused the founding fathers to possess Pentecostals (calling the spirits into a Ouija board for a history report and then busting it over the head of the Pentecostal calling down the Holy Spirit as other Pentecostals were trying to force an exorcism on all of us ) which led to the discovery that many villains through history were also in the world possessing bodies who decided to work together to put the spirits of the founding fathers (plus Abigail Adams) back to rest before they could ruin everything, primarily King George the III (possessing then Texas Gov. Bush) and Adolf Hitler (possessing our school principal who was shopping for a new body). When they failed to stop us they then called their ally, then President Clinton who brought federal forces to destroy us and it looked really bad, we were doomed, when suddenly a biker gang came for President Clinton as they were possessed by the Iceni and led by Boudicca launched a surprise attack as they recognized the spirit of Suetonius (not sure why I chose Clinton for that other than fun, I think it was a mix of what he had done in Serbia, his debauchery that made me think of Romans, and being a politician as Suetonius would become later), and after that (and the villains getting away in the helicopter, our principal Adolf Hitler yelling we were expelled) we joined the Iceni in common cause against the 3.

The kids in my class loved it when I read it outloud, the faculty was much less amused and I got suspended over it.

Though a teacher from another school said she loved the creativity of it that showed I didn't just memorize facts, I'd THOUGHT about what it all meant and how even ancient history helps shape the world today, she'd have given me a score of 125 as she was so blown away by it and how I had footnotes all through it showing why I had the characters doing that and also some parallels with the political figures they possessed...what really ticked off our principal was linking to a school library book called Hitler Youth that showed the Nazis demanded school uniforms just as our principal was trying to force on the school!

Ah well, Queen Boudicca left an impression on me when I learned of her, too.

I've been somewhat drawn to Brigid/Bride and the various forms of the Green Man as well. I'm also a fan of a lot of Celtic music (both folk and modern) as well, and thought I'd leave you with a music vid I think will resonate for you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX2anEXG0eE

posted August 30, 2013 11:06 AM            

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Originally posted by whitewitch111:
so I hope that answered your questions.

Blessings
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posted September 16, 2013 12:13 AM            

I am so happy there is another one of us here!

I posted something similar, a while back Pixie replied.

I am not a Wiccan, but quite the Pagan.

I do not celebrate the cross quarters, but I mix, for instance The Winter Solsitce in with Christmas, (raised a Christian, far from now), with my true heart and energy in to the solsitce.

Halloween is for fun, but Samhain is what I truely re-cognize and it is my New Year.

I sleep thru December 31st and January 1st and almost always work both days cause they mean nothing to me.

I spell craft on occasion, I grow my own herbs to do so and I adore nature, I, when not working, commune with the birds and the squirrles everymorning (See my post on my Zen garden on Yellow Wax)

I take not from one "religion" but learn from all the masters and their teaching and have a huge reverence for life.

Good to have a like-minded soul here~

posted September 16, 2013 12:21 AM            

(it wasnt just this site...lots of problems elsewhere)

The Green Man is traditionally the male Pagan diety of "mother nature."

He is a diety a man can connect with more redily than the goddess.

Depending on how one sees The Green Man in his or her own perspective is very personal.

I will let Whitewitch elaborate on this.

Personally, I see him as symbolic. Have a Green Man or two around here, but, I am not a worshipper of any Pagan diety, (or ANY diety for that matter) just a simple woman who employs the Pagan ways.

I have The Threefold Triple Goddess tattooed on my upper back, representing Maiden, mother, chrone..(As well as the Trident of the Pisces Ruler, Neptune....)

posted September 16, 2013 12:29 AM            

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Originally posted by Lexxigramer:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by whitewitch111:
[b]so I hope that answered your questions.

Blessings
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Lexx:

Note I have been using )~(

in some posts.

posted September 20, 2013 02:13 PM            

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Originally posted by whitewitch111:
It is the triple goddess/full moon blessing symbol

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posted September 25, 2013 07:08 PM            

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Originally posted by hippichick:

Lexx:

Note I have been using )~(

in some posts.

Of course it re-presents the my Pisces soul, but like I already said, it represents a trilogy...Neptune, Maiden, Mother, Chrone....Even The Christians were smart enough to borrow off of it "father, son, holy ghost"

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Same here. With the HRH or )-( R )-(.

...also reminiscent of Toys R Us Inc. (known for the TOYS R US logo), founded in 1948.

posted February 04, 2014 09:00 PM            

what are you know?

are you just a witch?
i think wicca has become like....the step 1 for many newcomers to neopaganism, and then they 'outgrow' it.
have you looked into traditional witchcraft?

im seeing many pagans turning into more traditional spiritualities such as african traditional religions...and so on. and, abandoning neopaganism.

posted February 28, 2014 01:18 PM            

And although I have been raised Christian and still continue upon that path, I recognize and hold a lot of things from wicca in high regard to how I feel about my own self. So, I do feel a pull towards Celtic things. Images and music...just a lot of things interest me in that regard.