#Wicca Morrigan

[werewolf240moon]

Annasahi Aleyna cosplay from Vilecti also known as Élodie Turmel

She even took a picture with Vanrah @poizongirl

Credit: Vilecti & Vanrah (instagram and Facebook)

[alexsgrimoire]

Samhain Ritual 2024 Excerpt - The Story & History of Samhain

While I'm not leading the Samhain ritual, my coven/circle is leading, I am helping with some sections of it! Notably, I wrote the section about the history of Samhain and how we celebrate it today. I thought I'd share it here like I've done with my other scripts, so I hope y'all enjoy it! (Note: I am not a Celtic pagan, so please excuse me if any information is wrong! I've included the bibliography at the end.)

DO NOT INTERACT: TE/RFS, TE/HMS, SW/ERFS, TRAN/SMEDS, TRUS/CUM, TRANSPHOBIC, HOMOPHOBIC, EXCLUSIONISTS, CONSERVATIVE, NAZI, TRADWIVES, ANTI-BLM, ANTI-ASIAN, XENOPHOBIC, ABLEIST, ANTI-POP CULTURE PAGANISM

Samhain is the final harvest before winter when the veil between the physical and spirit worlds is thinnest. Celebrated alongside Halloween, Dia de los Muertos, and All Saint’s Day, Samhain marks the end and beginning of the Wheel of the Year as we enter the darkest half of the year.

Samhain, as we know it to be currently, originates from ancient Celtic traditions. It was celebrated in the British Isles as the “night between years,” when the dead walked among mortals. The most important of the four Celtic festivals was a time to take stock of crops before the frost and honor the ancestors. 

Many of our modern Halloween traditions come from old Celtic traditions. The aos sí (ace SHE), fairy-like spirits, were left food and drink outside to avoid their mischief, such as killing livestock during the winter. People went door-to-door in costumes to blend in with the aos sí and collected offerings, a predecessor to trick-or-treating. Rather than pumpkins, turnips were carved with faces to symbolize the spirits crossing over and ward off malevolent ones.

There were several Celtic deities and entities who were and still are associated with Samhain. The Pooka, a shapeshifting Irish figure often depicted as a dark horse with fiery eyes, roamed the countryside, causing mayhem, and was a bringer of both good and bad fortune. Cerridwen, the cauldron-keeper Welsh triple goddess of the underworld, and The Morrigan, the Irish triple goddess of war, death, and fate, were both commonly associated with Samhain due to their associations with the cycles of life, death, and rebirth.

Samhain has become a tradition among modern pagans and is included in the Wiccan Wheel of the Year. The most important of the four greater Sabbats it’s a time to reconnect with ancestors, such as decorating altars with candles and mementos of loved ones who have passed. Divination, a typical ancient Celtic Samhain practice, is also a modern activity. Samhain is also an excellent time for shadow work and exploring your unconscious self.

In modern Wiccan practices, Samhain is associated with the Crone, the final of the Triple Goddesses. She’s one to go to for advice and teaches us that sometimes we need to let go to move on. The God of Samhain, The Horned One, is the animal that dies so we may eat and survive the winter. Gods and Goddesses not from Celtic lore but still associated with Samhain include Persephone, Hades, and Hecate from Hellenic tradition, Anubis and Osiris from Kemetic mythology, and Freya, Hel, and Odin from the Norse path.

Take this time to connect with the past, present, and future as the Wheel of the Year turns once more.

Bibliography

Gavin, Sophie. “Samhain - Celtic Festival of Spirits and Transformation.” Celtic Fusion ~ Folklore Clothing, Celtic Fusion ~ Folklore Clothing, 6 Mar. 2024, celticfusiondesign.com/blog/samhain-celebrating-the-celtic-festival-of-spirits-and-transformation.

Kiernan, Anjou, and Leslie Olson. The Ultimate Guide to the Witch’s Wheel of the Year: Rituals, Spells & Practices for Magical Sabbats, Holidays & Celebrations. Fair Winds, 2021.

“Origins in Samhain.” 13 Things, www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/13things/7448.html. Accessed 28 Oct. 2024.

“Samhain (Samain) - The Celtic Roots of Halloween.” Newgrange.Com, www.newgrange.com/samhain.htm#:~:text=In%20Celtic%20Ireland%20about%202%2C000,allowing%20spirits%20to%20pass%20through. Accessed 28 Oct. 2024.

“Samhain.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 28 Oct. 2024, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain.

“Samhain: 13 Facts about Halloween’s Celtic Roots.” OghamArt, 31 Oct. 2022, oghamart.com/blogs/news/samhain-halloween-celtic-roots.

Wigington, Patti. “Ritual to Honor the God and Goddess at Samhain.” Learn Religions, Learn Religions, 8 Mar. 2018, www.learnreligions.com/celebrate-the-god-goddess-at-samhain-2562703#:~:text=In%20some%20Wiccan%20traditions%2C%20by,in%20order%20to%20move%20on. 

[corvidquartz]

Moments When I Feel The Presence Of My Deities

I got this idea from @persephonesfoxway, who in turn got this idea from @caduceussky! Please give both of them a follow! ^^

☀️Apollo:

When I'm working on freelance work (I'm a video editor)

When I sing solo karaoke in my room

When I take morning walks

When I do tarot card readings

When I smell something citrus-y

When I play DnD (he loves to listen in)

🌖 Cerridwen:

When I listen to Celtic Woman

When I research something I'm interested in

When I think about my Celtic heritage (she's the one that pushed for me to delve further into it)

When I look at the moon

When I read poetry

When I write in my Book of Shadows (She's really big about me gaining knowledge and learning more about my craft and the path that suits me best. I can feel her pride with every new spell I take the time to learn and write down)

🦋 Oonagh:

When I see butterflies (like I said before, she LOVES butterflies)

When I think about my childhood

When I watch dance videos (she's been adamant about me taking it up myself)

When I think of Spring

When I practice self care

When I put a gift together for my partner (she always seems so excited to listen whenever I gush about him and I can feel her smile whenever I take the time to put together something to show him I'm thinking of him)

💀 Hades:

When I walk by the graveyard near my workplace (was the place that truly had me start feeling his presence)

When I spend time with my younger sibling (they're a Hades devotee and I can always feel him right there with us whenever we're together)

When I see a dog

When I brew peppermint tea

When I watch a horror movie or video series

When I wear all black

⚔️The Morrigan:

When I feel that burning rage in the face of injustice (the landscape of current Twitter certainly made that feeling well known)

When I'm playing a difficult video game

When I see the color red

When I show support to my friends and loved ones

When I go through with doing something that initially made me feel scared or anxious (despite her being new to my space, I'm starting to realize that her presence has been here for a long time; ever since I started on this journey figuring out who I am)

When I take the time to move my body and exercise

[voraciouskingdom]

🔥❤️‍🔥

[tuatha-de-danann-blog]

The Morrigan makes it rain fire and blood...

"It was then that Badb and Macha and Morrigan went to the Knoll of the Taking of the Hostages, and to the Hill of Summoning of Hosts at Tara, and sent forth magic showers of sorcery and compact clouds of mist and a furious rain of fire, with a downpour of red blood from the air on the warriors’ heads; and they allowed the Fir Bolg neither rest nor stay for three days and nights." -1st Battle of Moytura

[sidrashakti]

Week 2: Goddess Sirona “She Who Makes Us Better"

Sirona is a Gaulish/Celtic healing deity. Her cult predates the Romans, but all her iconography comes from the Romanization of Gaul, and her worship was widely spread all over Europe from Hungary to Brittany. 

Many artifacts of her worship come from the Treveri in the Moselle Valley who venerated Sirona and built the rich healing shrine at Hochscheid. Shrines to Sirona have been found at Niedaltdorf, Bitburg, and Wiesbaden in Germany, and Metz, Luxeuil, and Corseul (Brittany) in France. 

Her statues appear both alone and with Apollo Grannus or Apollo Borvo. The Romans interpreted Sirona as Hygeia, daughter of the healer-god Asclepius and granddaughter of Apollo, and her imagery indicates references to the chthonic mystery cults, including ears of corn, associated with Demeter and the Eleusinian Mysteries.

She is often shown with the snake and bowl of eggs, both symbols of regeneration and rebirth. The eggs represent the snake’s young, perhaps a fertility reference. While she normally wears a dress and sometimes even a veil, the bronze statue at Mâlain depicts Thiron(a) semi-nude with a serpent on her arm.

The context of her artifacts stress her role as one who heals through hot springs. Healing sanctuaries at springs drew large numbers of pilgrims who came there to spend the night. Hygeia/Salus protected against danger and cured mental as well as physical illness, it was believed Sirona did as well. 

An inscription at Le Mans calls her Serona Sivelia, “She Who Makes Us Better.”

Her partner, however, is Atesmerius, whose name comes from the same root as Rosmerta and Smertios, and means “Provider.”

It has been speculated based upon linguistic evidence that Sirona was a ‘star’ goddess. The ancient Transalpine Gaulish word for ‘star’ was ‘sirom‘, related to the Latin word ‘Sidus‘ (from which we get the word ‘Sidereal’). The 116 Sirona is an asteroid named in her honor. 

Sirona is possibly syncretized with a goddess known elsewhere as Divona/Dirona, the goddess Damona (meaning “the Great Cow” possibly a connection to the nakshatra of Pushya), and the river goddess Verbia. (The rippling motion of the snake can symbolize the motions of the water). 

Celebration: Sirona can be honored during the Telesphorus Festival in January, on the festival of Salus in March and with Apollo or Grannus in July.

Reading from Goddess Sirona 

Card 12 - Nephthys, Purpose, Peace, Understanding 

“Mistress of the Gateways, illuminate my purpose.” 

Sirona locates herself at life’s beginning and life’s end, in our dream states and waking states. She is our constant companion. She calls to Healers specifically, encouraging them to be extremely devoted to their paths. 

Sirona is fiercely loyal to her devotees, and possesses the ability to transform or change even impossible situations. Sirona is a very humanitarian deity, many of the innovations in medicine are divine inspiration from Her. Much of the knowledge of healing is in the intuition. She would like her memory on Earth to be recovered and remembered. 

Sirona emphasizes the healing power of love. 

Our Lady of the Sacred Son: Within your heart is a love that is unconditional, compassionate, and healing. From that love, emerges wisdom and the capacity to make choices based on what holds essential meaning and value to your soul. 

Sri Varahi-Pada: The knowledge of life Sirona calls us to detach the body from the ego. 

[witchylearningjourney]

Beings I draw strength from:

The drunk urge to tell off sexists on twitter (or X ig 🤮) can be solved by reading the lessons, stories, and lore of Lilith, Morrigan, Freyja, Medusa, Blenda, Arawelo, Medea, Hecate, Circe, and Despoina.

Drop down more please.

[annrosecuriosities]

~* Goddess Hecate Prayer Beads *~

These prayer beads can be worn as a bracelet or carried in your pocket to connect with Goddess Hecate.   

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[natureslily]

Great Goddess, Morrigan

May your strong shield be between

myself and all harm and danger

May your sharp sword be between

myself and all who would attack me

May your magical skill be between

myself and all ill-will and ill-wishing

Morrigan, Great Goddess

May your protection be on me

today, tomorrow, and forever

— Prayer to the Morrigan for Protection by Morgan Daimler

[werewolf240moon]

Can you draw the blue butterfly (Anna) and the tiger/grey cat (iruu) together ?

Iruu Romanov and Aleyna Annasahi

Anna & Iruu belongs to VanRah @poizongirl

[erribeka]

I forgot to post this bunch of cards here!!! I decided to do the spacey lineup all Celtic gods. So, the Sun - Lugh 🌞, the Moon - Morrigan 🌛, the Star - Brigid ✨

[corvidquartz]

I like honoring my deities with a digital banner/user box on their designated days of worship in the week (mainly on my Discord and my phone's widget collage), so I thought I'd drop the boxes I made here in case anyone wants to use them! You're more than welcome to them so long as you credit me! Enjoy!

{As of right now, the deities I have in my space that I'm currently working with are: Apollo, Cerridwen, Oonagh, Hades, and as of a week or so ago, The Morrigan! ^^}

[voraciouskingdom]

The Morrigan

🌙💙🌙

[elvensoul]

Photo by Mantheniel Photography

https://www.deviantart.com/manthenieldragona/art/Morrigan-935056916

[dollyafterhours]

Tfw it’s 2023 and you’re called by a new diety…

but you have to dig through endless heaps of fan fiction and shitposting about fantasy series’s from booktok and TV shows to find any ((possibly)) helpful information :D

I’m gonna say something controversial: I miss the old Tumblr.

[liquid-feather]

The Morrigan