|  The early Irish Brehon law texts ask "What is the preserving shrine? " This question has two answers:
"The preserving shrine is nature and what is preserved in it."
"The preserving shrine is memory and what is preserved in it."
This is the heart of Filidecht: the practice of sacred, ritual poetcraft in early Irish and Scottish tradition. Nature and memory are one in the Fili. The Filidecht of Inis Glas, the personal path Erynn co-founded and practices, is a way of devotional, poetic nature mysticism based in an attempt to reconstruct aspects of early Celtic spiritual practices.
In early Irish practice, poetry and the word were intrinsic components of magic and the worship of deity. The Filidh additionally taught, practiced divination and ritual, did healing work, sought visions, and pursued many other arts for the people and tribes they served.
Erynn lives in Everett, Washington and has been involved in the Pagan communities of the Pacific Northwest since 1984. An independent Pagan Scholar and one of the founders of the Celtic Reconstruction movement, she writes and teaches on many aspects of Celtic Paganism, Druidism and Filidecht. continued >>
July 11-18, 2012
Join author and poet Erynn Rowan Laurie and the Sisterhood of Avalon for a seven day pilgrimage to Ireland, exploring our connections with the Goddess Brigid, patron of poetry, smith craft, and healing. With the breathtaking landscape of Ireland as our backdrop, our time together will be spent engaged in conscious sight-seeing, scholastic inquiry, and spiritual exploration inspired by Gaelic tradition. For pricing and the full brochure, click here. All over 18 are welcome. Only 12 openings are available.
If you would like to support my pilgrimage but cannot journey with me, I invite you to make a donation of any size toward my travel, food, and lodging if you feel called to do so. Your generosity would be most deeply appreciated and will help offset the basic costs of getting from place to place and feeding myself after I leave Ireland. I know how very blessed I am to be able to make this journey at all, and I am very excited to be able to share part of it with you through my writing and the photos I'll be taking.
|
|
2012 Presentation:
Ogam: From Medieval Manuscripts to Modern Magicians
September 15 and 16, 2012
The Irish ogam alphabet predates the Irish manuscript tradition. It is found on boundary stones and funerary markers, as well as objects with magical import from about the 4th century CE.
In the Irish manuscript tradition, cryptic glyphs and “abbreviations” are found that could be seen as the seed of a sigil system. The mythic tradition shows ogam used for divination and magic in multiple contexts, from bindings on enemies to secret messages interpretable only by poets. Ogam is found outside the Irish context as well, in cryptic manuscript inscriptions like the 12th century cosmological diagram of the Anglo-Saxon monk Bryhtferth.
Some modern Pagans and magicians have also taken up the ogam as a magical and divinatory tool. It is used for lot casting, and in the creation of ogam “bindrunes” and sigils derived from the use of medieval glyphs like the Feige Find from the Book of Ballymote. It has also been used in elemental tablets based on the Enochian system.
This presentation will explore the medieval and modern uses of ogam in cryptic and magical contexts, with illustrations from the presenter's own work, as well as examples from the work of other modern practitioners.
The conference will take place September 15th and 16th, 2012 at the Seattle Center in Seattle, Washington.
|
|
After many years out of print and only available at high prices from used book dealers, A Circle of Stones: Journeys & Meditations for Modern Celts is again available, this time as a downloadable PDF file. This is a scan from the published book, and so it is presented with all its old viewpoints, bits of factual error, and every wart it ever had. Consider it an historical curiosity rather than a reflection of my current beliefs and practices, but it has a lot of nice ideas for exercises and can be modified to suit your own CR type practice.
$10.00
|
|
The Three Currents ogam deck is a 60-card PDF format deck that you can print for yourself on your home printer.
It is designed to be used with the material in Ogam: Weaving Word Wisdom and gives three separate full-color sets of the primary 20-fid ogam in the colors of the currents: green and red for the chthonic, grey and green for the oceanic, and blue and white for the celestial.
The artwork is by Martin Benjamin (blueeyedcrow@gmail.com). Full instructions for printing are included in the file.
|
|
|
 |
|
