Hecate/Hekate

heatherwitch:

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Small devotional acts.

  • Learn more about the history
    of witchcraft
  • Practice divination
  • Light a torch, lantern, or
    even a match
  • Thank her when you go through
    crossroads or intersections
  • Listen to music that makes you
    feel witchy or powerful
  • Do small, simple spells
  • Wear jewelry that reminds you
    of her
  • Burn candles; blue, black or
    white.
  • Think of her when you pass
    graveyards
  • Stand outside at night and
    listen to all the sounds
  • Dedicate a small part of the
    night to her
  • Read stories about ghosts or
    spirits
  • Burn incense blends that make
    you feel magical and in control
  • Greet animals, especially ones
    with black fur
  • Go on nighttime adventures
  • Wear makeup or clothes that
    make you feel powerful and confident
  • Get some plants that
    bloom/thrive at night
  • Be the ‘guiding light’ for
    others, however that looks for you
  • Sit in a room with all the
    lights off, burn a candle if you need to
  • Keep track of the moon phases,
    do things associated with each one
  • Incoporate darker colors into you home or outfits 
  • PRACTICE LOVING YOURSELF
  • Many, many, many other things not said here

With contributions from: @divinecrossroads and @lynx-tiger-arjei

Celtic Gods and Goddess

broomclosetwitches:

The Celtic world included Ireland, Britain, and a large section of the mainland

Aine: Goddess of love and fertility; encouraged human love; has command over crops and animals; daughter of Eogabail  

Amaethon: God of agriculture 

Anu or Danu/Dana: Mother goddess 

Aonghus: God of love; son of Dagda and Boann

Badb: Irish goddess of battle; could influence the outcome of conflict by inspiring fear or bravery in warriors

Balor: The one-eyed god of death, everyone he looked upon was destroyed

Belenus or Bel: Sun god; appears throughout the Celtic world in different forms; Beltaine celebrates him 

Boann: Water goddess; mother of Aonghus

Brigantia: Chief goddess of Brigantes tribe; associated with water, war and healing

Brigid/Brigit: Goddess of healing and fertility; said to help women during labor; possibly same goddess as Brigantia 

Camulos: God of war mostly worshiped in Belgium areas; said to wield an invincible sword

Ceridwen: Goddess of fertility

Cernunnos: God of wild animals, forest, and plenty; possibly also the god of death; known as the horned one

Cliodhna: Goddess of beauty; her three birds could sing the sick to sleep and heal them 

Dagda: The great god; could restore the dead to life

Dian Cecht: God of healing 

Don: Welsh version of Dana

Donn: God of the dead

Dylan: Sea god

Epona: Horse goddess

The Formorii: Sea gods; violent and misshapen

Goibhniu: Smith god 

Lir: God of sea, healing  and magic 

Lugh: Sun god (Ireland)

Lugus:  Sun god (France and Britain) 

Mac Cecht: God of eloquence

Macha: One of the war goddess

Manannan Mac Lir: Sea god; could stir up or soothe the sea

Manawydan: Welsh sea god, extremely similar to Manannan

Morrigan/Morrigu: Goddess of death on the battlefield 

Nechtan: Water god 

Nemain: Goddess of war

Nemglan: Bird god

Nodens: God of healing; owned magic healing hounds

Ogma: God of eloquence; creating of Ogham, the oldest writing system in Ireland

Taranis: Name means thunderer; Romans equated him to Jupiter; symbol was the wheel

Teutates or Toutatis: Romans equated him to Mars

**Not all inclusive 

All information gathered from “The Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Mythology by Arthur Cotterell and Rachel Storm