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You're very right about your observations about the internet. You're also very right about not rushing into a relationship with a deity. A true connection with a deity should never be treated casually. Although I think that at least few that claim a real connection with a certain deity are being false , or not entirely honest with themselves about how close or real their connection is with an entity, at least as far as the internet goes. ( Though I can literally feel out pretenders from the genuine online as I can in real life). Most online are real I've found . And it's made me glad to realise this. There's always some amount of narcissistic egoists in all cultures as I'm sure you are already aware. Although in my experience I've found they are very few in paganism. More real genuine people with real spiritual awareness and ability than not. Though some even with genuine intention , might be to quick to rush in and show their devotion to impress whoever , maybe.
Im sorry for so many comments but this is so informative. I recently meditated with prayer and offering and had a vision during meditation and this was my first time meditating. And i took it as a sign of the deity saying your welcome 🙏🏻
@@KrisHughes, okay, so I been calculating for a while. So, what is the message to give, if it ends with every Jew's throat slit in Israel and all 1.6 billion Muslims prostrating unto Barack Hussein Obama during Ramadan of 2025, what do you tell humans? Daniel 9:27 "He shall be firm in a covenant with many for one week, yet in the midst of a week shall he stop to make sacrifice in the wing. Abomination! The one who spreads desolation spreads desolation even until complete consummation, for the decree that shall be, is a flowing forth." BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA (the firm week) First time 2009-2012 Second time 2013-2016 DONALD TRUMP Cut-Off time 2017-2020 JOE BIDEN (in the midst of a week of an image of his time) October 7, 2023 is the dawn of JACOB’s (Israel’s) TROUBLE Then cometh Annihilation, the perishing of the end. Daniel 7:25-26 “He will speak against Allah, to wear out the saints of the Highest One, intending to change time to a decree (stop all time - decrees are final), and give his hand a time, and a time, and a cutting off time. But the judgment shall be final and his dominion shall pass away (Joe Biden’s boss loses influence in the USA, for Joe Biden has to leave the White House, and Trump comes in for a supposed glorious future), then annihilation, the perishing of the end.” Daniel 9:24 "Seventy, seven, decreed upon thy people (Jews) of the Holy City (Jerusalem), to finish the transgression, sin offering, propitiation unto iniquity. "Come in unto the eternal duration of Righteousness." Seal the vision of this prophecy, unto the Most Holy Place." 70 and 7 Then the end. Can a nation be born in a day? May 14, 1948 Israel, as a nation, is gone before May 14, 2025. I’ll go further and say with the Holy Bible we can know it is gone before Ramadan next year ends with Eid al-Fitr. How can I know? Because this Ramadan meets the criteria for the final Ramadan. Isaiah 66:23 ““New moon to new moon, Sabbath to Sabbath, all mankind will come to be brought down before Me,” saith Yahweh.” Ramadan is the feast calculated to begin & end with NEW MOON and this 1 is bounded by Sabbaths. It begins with the Anti-Christ gaining the Islamic prostration in Palestine whole with Israel wiped off the map. Ezekiel 46:1-3 "Thus saith Adonai, Yahweh, "The Gate of the inner court facing the East shall be shut six working days, but open the Sabbath (Saturday), open the day of new moon. THE PRINCE shall enter by way of the porch of the gate from outside and stand by the post of the gate; then the priests and sacrifice shall make whole burnt offering, sacrifice and prostration at the threshold of the gate, and exit, and the gate shall not be shut until the evening. All the peoples of the land shall also worship at the doorway of the gate, before Yahweh on Sabbath and on new moon." And how does Yahweh feel before He shows up per REVELATION 11:7-15 to change it? Isaiah 1:13-14 "Bring vain oblation no longer, the incense is abomination. New moon Sabbath, you proclaim assembly. I cannot endure the inquity of this solemn assembly. I hate the new moon, your appointed feast. You have become a burden; I am weary of bearing with you.” THIS RAMADAN goes from FEBRUARY 28 to MARCH 29, 2025. MARCH 13-14, 2025, has a total lunar eclipse & appearing as a BLOOD MOON Joel 2:31 “The Sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood red, before the Great and Terrible day of Yahweh cometh.” The Acts 2:20 “The Sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood red, before the Great and Terrible day of Yahweh cometh.” Hosea 5:7 "The dealers of treachery against Yahweh bear the illegitimate children, and now, in-between the new moons, I will devour all of them in their land."
The deity is basically a teacher they show up when you're at your worst and at your lowest to help you if you need it. But like any divine our universe it doesn't give you what you want it gives you what you need and if you appreciate that then you don't disrespect them. That's what my great-grandfather always taught me and he was a druid priest
100% agree! I love your word, grounded, that is the perfect word. I’m thirty-two but still remember in person gatherings and very much miss that. Discord is helpful but it feels harder to find community still. I’m glad personally, I feel fine working alone. Company is nice all the same. I’m a very logical thinker, or maybe it’s the autism, but I typically seem to need a lot of scientific proof for things. My polytheist path started as re-evaluate my practice of always trying to identify instances of confirmation bias, but in researching the Bronze Age, certain things, stories, gods kept coming up again and again and I thought to myself, there’s no harm in leaning in and I have been much happier engaging in spirituality again after deconstructing my evangelical christian (nationalist) upbringing, I didn’t realize how much I was missing that connection. I can’t say for sure if my experiences and encounters are interactions with the divine, but I know the power of ritual feeling like having some kind of control in life of things that otherwise are chance. And that has brought me peace and happiness so why not lean in.
Your videos are amazing and I greatly enjoying hearing your point of view. Both humble and knowledgeable, two of my favorites to give and receive information. When I use to attend gatherings in the past I found many folks where on their own path and there tended to be friction or groups within the groups would cluster together in almost cliques. I think another big problem we had back then was lack of resources to do further studying. The more that is available now online the more I realize that Llewellyn publications was not always a dependable source. Sure you had some very knowledgeable authors, but you had a lot of repeat information and many didn't know where their information was coming from.
@@KrisHughes I use to have many a great chat in the past but it was few and far between. I've lost contact with most of the folks I use to speak to in the late 90s early 00s.
I am still sorting out what it means, and in no rush to do so, but one day recently I knew the name Bríg. I didn’t know who or what it was. I had been studying the language of my great grandfather and my cousins, so when I “heard” the name (if you can call it hearing), I had a strong sense of how it was spelled. It was January 31st, hours before Bríg’s day begins in Ireland. I was making candles as part of a school project with my children. Once I did a little more digging on this name, we added some Brigit’s crosses to our project. I’m primarily of Irish descent, but even in that Irish, it’s funny how frequently Welsh and Scottish married into the family. I have felt for a long time that the children of Éire are followed by a certain spirit wherever they go. Even with that feeling in me, as a recovering Christian, I’m still wrapping my head around apparently having the name of a goddess I didn’t know about pop into my head right before the time pagans were getting ready to celebrate her bringing her warmth back to the earth - and while I was making candles no less 🤯
This whole year I’ve been feeling a pull towards spirituality and religion. Ever since I grew up from childhood, I’ve had no need or felt an absence of religion. As a kid I grew up in the outdoors, even raised by them. I spent my time at the beach and the river and the lake and convincing (?) myself I could talk to literal fairies. The older I grew the more the world took me away from the outdoors, and, by extension my awe and curiosity and sense of connectedness/purpose. When I was in my early teenage years, I discovered I was queer, pushing me farther and farther away from religion because of the judgement and crucifixation pinned on me as a queer person by the Christian church. I even grew to hate ALL religion, christian or other, seeing religious people as blind woo-woos. This last year though, I’ve been reconnecting to the land of my childhood and nature itself. It has brought me the most happiness and feeling of belonging I’ve had since I was a young child. Through the year, I’ve felt more and more called towards the spirituality of nature. Recently, a series of unfortunate events have happened in my life, most recently a close 18 year old cousin of mine got into an accident, and something peirced straight through his leg, leaving him in life threatening circumstances when the injury turned infected and he went into sepsis. I remember that night, staying up and praying for the first time to god, any god, even a christian god, that somehow, somehow, that he would be alright. In the morning, I woke up to find that the signs of sepsis were actually a small stick of wood behind his knee cap the doctors hadn’t noticed. He made a full recovery in 3 months. Whenever I’m in nature I don’t feel alone. Recently, after a conversation with my father about an pagan ex-girlfriend of his, I decided to look into paganism. Learning the concepts of paganism has felt less like an ‘discovering’ and more like coming home to an experience I had already known, but had been taught to forget and ignore. I think there may be diety/or purpose calling to me. (which feels weird to say as a born, raised and chociefully atheist person) I suspect its connected to the earth. I’m thinking Gaia or Jörd. It doesn’t feel like a personification of the land, but more like the land itself. Maybe it’s neither Gaia or Jörd, maybe it’s not even a “god” in a human-like/strict sense of the word, but I’m excited to see where this path is pulling me. I’ve been looking particularly towards my ancestor’s pagan beliefs (I’m mostly Irish and Norse, My family immigrated to america only about 3-4 immigrations ago. My grandparents’ grandparents. So I know a lot about who the immigrants in my family are) But so far, I feel the most connection with Gaia.
I am an atheist, but I am interested in what people believe because I find it fascinating. I am from Celtic origins myself, a Celt far from home if you will. I appreciate the candid nature of your video. I did not know that these beliefs and practices were still around. My Father would have called them old superstitions. As long as you are not claiming to be 'the one true religion' I'm cool with it. My ancestors, no doubt, could have believed similar things. And that to me is a sort of connection to the past. I have often thought that offerings to deities were more about being thankful for life or asking for help of some kind. You have confirmed some of that for me. But it seems to go much deeper for some. Perhaps one day I might witness some of these rituals myself. Thank you Kris.
Why not claim to be true? Is not 4 the one true answer to 2+2? The law of non-contradiction shows that nothing that contradicts can be true, if one religion teaches that there is only one god, another that there are twelve, and another that there are thousands, they can’t all be true.
When I was around 5 years old, I had a dream of what I thought was God (I was raised Christian and that was the only association I had), but he had antlers and was hanging on my wall like a mounted deer head. He was telling me something serious and told me I was going to "forget". I remember insisting I would not forget. I have no idea what it was he was telling me now but I always remembered the dream. I was in my 20s when I saw a candle holder that was carved into the image of Cernunnos and got chills .... my dream God was Cernunnos, it looked exactly like the image from my dream. It was a strange moment.
I do miss ritual groups. I havent found a group to be part of since I moved from upstate NY back to Massachusetts. The celtic gods that were so familiar in NY have never really felt as active here. But the energies in the land is still very real and deeply worthy of respect and acknowledgement.
There is something strange in Massachusetts like a spiritual blockade. I didnt realize it until i left. Of course it's easy to say because it is geographically near Satans kingdom - the actual name of the land. It's just weird.
In lockdown, I had a experience, I was looking out the window around 3am and I could see what looked like a small child standing outside on the path, it was white, put my glasses on and it was a large white owl? I opened the window and it took flight and came at me and gave a large flap of its wings as it flew over the building but I felt the wind. Funnily enough you don't get owl's that big in UK.???
One of the reasons for leaving the Craft was because of the weirdos that seem to flock to it. No genuine Practitioners just a lot of claims to be this or that. I am just returning to the Craft and I will be focusing on communing with Cernonnos. I don't feel called by him but I do sense an invitation if I want to be serious about it, He will teach me the Old Ways.
I started out in life fairly atheist, mostly due to negative interactions with Christians, I eventually had forgiven many instances and slowly faded away from atheism and into agnosticism as was unsure of the possibilities and had no drive to search for them... I had been that way for many years. I recently started my journey searching for spiritual connections, I have recently this last few weeks have been taking a deep dive into polytheism as I am drawn to the idea of multiple deities that are not a singular judgmental omnipresent being such as the Christian God as I found many flaws in that religion.. I have been looking more into norse myths and polytheism as I do have a connection to that culture, I however discovered I am ⅓ Scottish, and I am now considering searching into the Celtic deities and I am searching for signs while obtaining knowledge. Any advice is nice to have but this video has been helpful.
I dreamed about Celtic Goddess Artio! I had no idea who she was but I knew when I woke up from that dream that she was important!! We were in a field and she was standing there in her blue green dress a cape around her shoulders her hair in a bun curls blowing at her temples one strand in front . She was standing with her Gigantic Bear I was scared to approach but she was waiting for me the bear was just grazing around her paying me no mind like he knew me already she raised her hand to tell me to come closer and never mind the bear he knew what I was there for. I didn’t get to see or hear what she had to say next I woke up ! I talked to my daughter about it and she pulled her up I was amazed I have never heard of her I just wonder what I should do or learn now ?? Just wanted to share
You had a dream about Artio calling you? Wow, you must be lucky, I certainly haven't gotten that far, the only thing that happens to me is that I feel that Ataegina, a Celtiberian Goddess of the Spring, the Moon and Queen of the Underworld, is calling me, or at least I notice some kind of connection with her. I don't know how to explain it, it's very strange, ever since I read about her I've had her hovering around my head, without being able to stop thinking about her at all. Thinking about her also gives me calm and peace of mind.
I get the feeling that people are turning to the Earth out of concern and respect for Her. People then look to pre-christian religions out of a need to get closer to the Earth. People seem more interested in nature, the seasons and the weather. The question on people's' minds is, how were we before the Romans.
What does it mean if I have a vision of the Crone during a near death experience? It took me 5 years to identify what I saw and today I finally found multiple pictures of “the triple Goddess” which is ironic because I’ve been seeing 3 everywhere ever since. But I only saw the “Crone.” It was just her head floating in the air by my hospital bed and she was laughing. Now I connect with the birds like everyday, the number 3 and just last night I saw a black dog running down the street and it’s the second time a black dog randomly appeared and then disappeared. I have no idea what it means. I am Scottish and come from the “McDaniel’s” and now I’m feeling called to understand Morrigan's Prophecy. Not sure how to interpret any of this.
If it interests you, you might want to research the goddess Hekate and her associations. But if you do, be sure to look up all her lore and mythology, not just what people say on social media about her. She can manifest in many different ways to different people, but your comment stood out to me because she is often associated with dogs, specifically black hounds. You might find it an interesting path to go down even if she doesn't resonate with you in the end. Oh, also - if you're feeling drawn to the Morrigan in particular there's a good (in my opinion) book called "The Book of the Great Queen" by Morpheus Ravenna. I'm sure Kris knows even better ones (aside from the actual Irish lore books) but that's where I started when I was curious about the goddess. Anyway, I wish you well in your seeking! 😊
@ thank you for letting me know, I will definitely research it. I really love learning new things. I also just had another black dog visit me during our recent ice/snow storm. I fed it and it ran off before I could get it to come inside the opened garage. Definitely been experiencing some interesting things since 2019
I got into a bike crash the other night. According to every medic who took care of me and examined me, I’m lucky to be alive. Beyond just not dying, I could have easily damaged my skull and brain, broken my spine or some other bone, gotten glass into my eyes and been blinded (I shattered a car window with my face, while wearing glasses). But no. I am completely fine, just had to get a few stitches and will have a scar to remember this by. I believe some spirit was looking out for me, leaving me only damaged enough to teach me a lesson, but preventing any real harm. It will be a long journey for me to discover who saved me, and for what purpose.
Got 1 crow on my car mirror who went with me from lane of angels to a town named birdsing in the netherlands.. found out my dad was born in the same street the crow went on its way
Ive always been spiritual....but i attended a Harvest festival not knowing it was a pagan thing. I only found out once i got there. It just felt like something clicked on because it was an amazing weekend but there was a connection...so i started doing some digging into where my family is from and my family is from the Lothian region in Scotland....The owner of the land lives in a castle called Midlothian..My family came from scotland to Canada in 1820...the Young settlement, it's a conservation area now... And now I'm here❤ pleased to meet u❤❤
You had me confused for a minute there! I was thinking, "There's no castle called "Midlothian" in the Lothians!" Then I realised you meant in Canada. Ha! You might find this video useful, if you haven't already found it. ruclips.net/video/tYpuV3Ya_AA/видео.html
I just talked to him thinking when they helped me and treat him like a friend a father and a parent and give him all the admiration and respect they deserve I'm not one for worship parse I just treat them like I treat anybody else with the highest respect until otherwise
I've had this recurring dream for several years. It starts out: i'm in a park i used to visit as a child. I walk into the small evergreen forest area at the back of the park and as i walk, the forest expands. The trees become towering and the atmosphere is misty. In the mist appears a stag, with horns that grow well beyond the ability to see. The stag isnt glowing or colored, just a shadowed figure in the mist. I feel its eyes on me as i continue, and become uneasy. The stag simply follows and watches me from a distance. Usually, i wake up suddenly with a feeling of general unease, but nothing malicious. One morning, i awoke from this dream with "The Great Stag" echoing through my mind. So far, only Cernunnos has come up in searches, yet for some reason that doesnt feel correct? Am i ignoring a call?
I find this very interesting. As I have had similar feelings of being called to a God or at least having that feeling. Exspecaly after setting out to look and work with one God and ending up being lead to another.
Around six years ago I was brought into paganism (I’m pretty eclectic now but it started off Norse) by a very dramatic encounter with Thor. Not too long after I discovered he didn’t actually want much to do with me, he was just the messenger. To this day, I’m not sure why he bothered instead of somebody else.
Kinda weird this showed up on my RUclips feed when I've been battling with instincts that I'm being coerced to Glastonbury by either Brigid or Cernunnos....still trying to figure out which
Fascinating i recently had an experience with a Crow while walking in nature ' i noticed every where i was walking the Crow was up ahead flying in the Direction i was about to walk , was strange i didnt know what to think ' though i was wearing a Crow feather i had found i didnt realise it was a Crow feather , so i didnt know what to think but the Crow was showing me the way. I am of celtic origin .
I really appreciate this break down. I’m having a weird introduction to what I believe is the Dagda, and while I am aware of the Morrigan and their daughter Brigid, I don’t understand why he is contacting me or what he would want from me, but I’m getting very clear messages it’s him, namely having his name on a loop so often I had to look it up to see what it was. I thought it was a word I invented because it’s a nice sound. Now what? He has my attention, but I don’t know to what end.
I keep feeling like some entity has been trying to get my attention. I have tried to communicate but only feel an intense pressure in the middle of my forehead.
Okay I'm curious I want to know something with all this I'm having a really hard time with this so I feel like I'm being drawn by Bree and her father been researching different pantheons and stuff like that but just to learn about them and none of them have ever made me feel like this and it doesn't make sense to me but it's like confusing me play the Celtic gods why is there sibl that to me aren't with the Celtic like a flow with Harmony so I'm just trying to understand I'm feeling this way bc Im believe in God
I don’t think it was a wild crazy moments… to anyone else it would have just been a bad day… but i have felt pulled by a line of fate my entire life telling what i should and shouldn’t do. And when I go against its wisdom I get gravely hurt and the line snaps until it can rebind itself… there have been moments in my life… A rattle while I was standing on a log (I live in a place where rattlesnakes are uncommon there is only one species) I used wo wish to see more trilliums and then I moved next to an entire grove! A monarch butterfly refused to let go of me in my grandmothers garden while I sat next to a lilac bush. A deer let me get closer then I thought humanly possible. A hawk helped me see a chickens heart to sate my curiosity. (Looking back now I wish I tried to read the entrails I will never get a chance like that again) And finally I was low awhile back and a bunny (a symbol of my life) who had business being in such a heavily populated area where there was next to no vegetation stood for a few seconds until I had stopped crying and then disappeared into the night just as my partner arrived… Not to mention the deer skeleton I begged my mother to let me collect of the side of the road to now a skull I still have today… These moments stick out in my head… there were other moments in my life but nothing *feels* as defining as these… the deer crashing through the window, the bird coming home after 3 weeks my favorite bird surviving being shot. My bird surviving a hawk attack. Having no broken bones or concussions or ANY MAJOR INJURIES despite the multiple car crashes or times i place myself in danger. These don’t feel like the ones above those felt *different*
If they did reach out how would they have revealed themselves? Would they have said their name? I have DID i have a lot of voices maybe I didn’t hear them? I did feel pulled to Flidais…. But I’m not sure if I’m correct or even if they were messages in the first place there are so many deities and i am only 23 and I was trapped in Christianity for so long….
Since Christianity was forced on Europe, the Celtic Gods haven't had a lot to do. The Dagda really is the good God. As for unrealistic. Try invoking the Dagda. I have and got a huge and very positive reaction. Give it a try. The DAGDA is my daily companion. The Gods are your friends. Have all confidence!
I am almost stocked by two crows. They sit in a tree in front of my deck and watch me when I’m out at the dog park. I finally got served a video about the Morgan tonight and she embodies everything I am. It all makes sense now. Nothing dramatic but I started noticing this happen and then it came most times I went outside. Can you point me to any information on this? I never had any idea about this but now I’m here and … I’ve said for years now, I’m never out to get anyone but it’s better to have me on your side. I can’t explain it but karma has unfortunately played out terrible for people who’ve done me wrong. I am careful with words because they almost hold a force. Honestly, it’s really creeped me out in the past. But as my senses have grown stronger, I’ve embraced it all slowly.
I grew up with a mother who was open to all mystical. I have always had some small activity connecting me since I was kid. 3 yrs ago I started taking it more seriously to start to practice. I have recently had a call. There has always been something there, but now it's stronger. Trying to research to narrow down. Been consulting with my coven head.
Crows and Magpies have been a rather constant in my life. Most of the time I am saving them from other humans or asking Morrigan to save them. They are my messengers and at most points I get the message if not the first time certainly the second. Then I get into a video and get told that a ring around your longest finger at the base is an indication that the Morrigan chose you and is taking a direct interest in your life and mine is so red and so prominent and has decidedly three lines in it which I think are directly tied to each of three goddesses that make up the Morrigan each have a line. When I was little, I planted a garden for my mother, who was my main abuser. Her favorite color was the peace rose. I also planted a red vining rose at the end of the row. in one season all of the roses were red and vining. I didn't think too much of that until recently I gave that goddess trio blood red roses. Those roses lasted 4 weeks and were still prefect. now I can connect her the garden when I was younger, and I was saving magpie from the sheriff who was going to shoot it. These things and a few others such as reading the description of Maeve's personality and I have the main points of that personality all tell me that Goddess trio isn't going anywhere. Is this what you all are after?
@@Tager253 Call / Guidance / Vision. Do you feel like a deity of the past is starting to offer you some attention, does it feel like some things have improved due to good luck????? The way I've studied the old Celtic stuff is mainly with Young Adult choices of library books that are honest about Celts being more than just Ireland and Scotland in really early years. Non-fiction books that share their old language words can be quite useful for this deity knowledge too. But once relationships of a character are clear the studying can become easier for sure. Cailleach in Ireland and Scotland / Calleich in Spain's early days, she's the one I enjoy like I can't leave her stories alone. I probably don't visualize a full puzzle of her history bit my insight of this Ice Age time character is doubtless.
I have been the envy of Taliesin, and the belle of Olympian balls; every god, competing for my calls. What are we - but dust in the dirge; star-blasted ashes, swirling to a song of aeolian harps? To see order re-established: 👨⚖ One needs nothing; only stamp Earth, with a staff of recollection. Every god is beguiling. Dignity belongs to no higher station; rather, to each who knows his station.
I know my situation is that some of the oldest Celtic females call me and use transformation to keep the hidden history clear but Danu, Cailleach and Brigid have all made themselves clear to me. My real Autism, tolerance and empathy of cultures I have an easy time seeing how nature is honored but then gets written down as hundreds of people. I see clearly that the mother goddess list is kind of super long. It isn't that I'm not called it's that I'm not near a forest but however my insight lets me visualize both the planet's natural actions that fit the descriptions and a human form of a goddess. I understand enough Celtic goddess secrets to independently realize several of their later names don't rhyme with the first few early names they started with in the early days. But I can see that Basque deities are similar to Celtic deities like they're the same person just dressed different.
Really appreciate this post and your unique knowledge /advice - down to earth, grounded and honest which I like. I don't believe a Celtic deity can call you, for there is only one God - my opinion but I believe ancestors/ spiritual guides etc can protect/ call us. I was drawn to Taliesin many years ago after a seer found me and we connected for a couple of years - after my muddled self was able to make sense of what was happening to me since a child and move on. Does the name 'Myrffaed' mean anything to you( Welsh) name? So far no one knows. My DNA goes back 1000 yrs & 99% Celtic origins/ancestry unbeknown to me, but sensed those roots - Welsh/ Scots/ Irish/ English & Nordic. My belief; my ancestors are within & around me, not a deity. I feel them in my bones & spiritually, often moved to tears when in Wales/ Scotland & old England. As I age & reflect on past experiences I'm no longer fearful but even more open to understanding that I just maybe on the right path. Happy New Year! 🙏
Your post was interesting to me. As a casual observer of your story, I have no idea if your older or more recent ancestors were devout Christian or atheist or Wiccan. I would just find it very interesting to know what would be the reason you feel their presence so strongly at times it moves you to tears. You will eventually be shown why, that much I'm sure, if you haven't been shown already? Blessings of the gods and the not gods upon thee - Druid blessing
Im a witch can I be called by one of the gods i feel as though i am cause I tried to be a christin but i rwally dont feel right for me being a witch dose.
@@AngelBlack-y1t It's alright. I feel more pleased about Celtic and Basque deity ideas than the modern Christian ideas myself. Modern witch stuff has more secrets than they like to admit. But I see clearly that it even relates to the mother earth scenes in a subtle way.
"When you're by yourself, you become the center of your own attention." I'm sure that is true in some cases. However, that being said, you can be alone, and still be grounded in a realistic perception of the world, whatever "real" means, at this point in human history. Very rarely, is anything ever black and white in such a manner as to say it is all one way, and one way only, especially when dealing with humans, and their myriad characteristics.
Yes, I could have said "you tend to become..." However, since the entire talk is filled with frequently qualified generalisations, I imagine most viewers would infer that from the wider tone. Still, for those who might not, we now have your very fine explanation to offer guidance.
So not sure what to make of this but every time I have a dream and doesn’t usually doesn’t matter what type of dream but what does it mean when I see a triskelion every time I dream usually in the background like for example on a tree engraved or if there is fire it would appear in the smoke
Yes.. i hate to be this guy for sure. But many places where the Tuatha used to feel real or present have been invaded by "neo pagans " or flat out socially desperate acolytes of hedon or wonton.. i do apologize for those these words offend. I hate to sound judgemental or condescending but she is correct beyond any doubt in that area.. people seek societal acceptance or some approval from that instead of the favor of the Tuatha De Danaan, while the favor is so much more rewarding.
Exactly. Suddenly everyone talks to birds and hears the words Cernunnos in their sleep. It's like mass hysteria now. Suddenly all the goddesses are responding to people with 6months experience 😂
With all the sincerity and defiance an abused 11yo can call upon, I told my unnamed god that He didn't exist The scars serve to remind me that He disagreed 😅
I'm really glad I clicked this video, so much wisdom. I'm not a Celtic pagan per se, but what you were saying about deities and how they might notice you, this happened with my closest deity. She's shown up in my life many times since childhood, always to protect me from a negative spirit including but not limited to my own father. When I was 15 I rebelled against my Catholic upbringing (more like got bored with it) and dabbled in paganism, but then I became an Evangelical, and then an atheist, in all these phases she would pop in to check on me and appear in my dreams to ward off nightmares. Around 2016 I began to hear and feel the pull of a deity, who eventually identified herself as Hekate, initially I thought she was supposed to be my 'Patron'. That was until she introduced me to Athena, and as soon as I felt her presence I knew, this was the one I've been trying to connect with. I learned from other Athena acolytes I've met in the wild she has a habit of selecting her closest people as children, because that's when she gets to see us as our truest and purest selves before trauma sets in and changes us. The thing that inspired me to write this though was when you talked about making a vow to a deity. When I officially asked her to be my patron and I did a dedication ritual to her promising to honor her to the best of my ability and if I fall short to get up and try harder the next time, she used the word 'priestess' to describe me. I knew that her priestesses from antiquity and the Hellenic era would take vows of celibacy, and I almost did, but she stopped me and told me that I had to wait 3 years before she would accept such a vow from me. She basically said that's a big thing to give up for a God, that she'd be very pleased if I eventually made the vow and kept it, but that it was something I needed time to decide if I really was willing to make that commitment to her.
TikTok and Reddit has kids thinking people are called by the gods every day. I think some of it comes from an overactive ego - the desire to think themselves special or "chosen". But as you said, maybe I'm too judgmental. I think if you spend a lot of time reading and thinking about mythology it's not unlikely you'll have a few weird mythologically-themed dreams. That doesn't mean The Morrigan has a special mission that only you can accomplish!
True. But if you spend a lot of time reading and thinking about mythology, you may find one or more deities looking over your shoulder and taking an interest in you.
I think its also because a lot of these people are former Abrahamic Religon observers and they feel like the silence of their God is only adding to their problems and they see people talk about these other religions and these Gods who are saying things to people and feel like maybe these Deities are the ones to help and they can tell me what I need to do.
I used to read a lot on mythology since pre-school age. I don't put much meaning into my dreams since they often are otherworldly-themed. It's only when I experience sleep paralysis with auditory and visual hallucinations that it bothers me. But that only happens when I sleep on my back (which is a rare occurrence).
In 2016, I bought a statue of Cernunnos asking him to help protect me. I believe was called by Cernunnos, or Gwyn ap Nudd, in 2019. The call was a dream, with knowledge and information to give me no room for doubt that it wasn’t just a random dream. He showed me what I now know as the ogham, but I researched first to learn about it. It wasn’t dramatic. The timing was interesting as the pandemic caused me to work at home and research it as I was alone more. I’m now on the path. I’m 44.
2 years ago i was at a friends house and i was in a terrible Time and then i heard in my head Cernunnos over and over again...i felt that and then i watched on Wikipedia now i try to be strong and get more of a grip of a life as a druid or things what made the celtics unique. But for some time i feel like someone is pushing me years behind. Like my mental state is always 3 years ago but still not really because i can recall everything. What you think why that is?
Given how the earliest references and stories written about the Celtic religions were written far after the Irish converted to Christianity, how do you know anything about their stories reliably? Like how Lugh was clearly described as not being a god, while having enough traits as one that the original stories likely had the Tuatha Dè Denann being divine. How do you reliably know anything about your gods?
Well, in the case of Lugh, we can be pretty sure that the Irish saw him as a deity at some point, simply because his name is cognate with the god Lugus, who is attested in inscriptions in Gaul. This is true for enough of the deities/mythological characters in the Irish texts that it is reasonable to infer that these are myths about deities. Exactly how we should view the involvement of the Medieval scribes in influencing the material is something Celtic scholars have been hashing out for a couple of centuries, and it can't ever be fully resolved. Much study is required, and a combination of self-confidence and humility is needed to interpret the material.
@@KrisHughes I would agree! But surely you could see how the Celtic stories are unreliable? And if so, how could you worship a god you don’t have reliable information about?
@@kycool8684 Considering how Jesus was written about years after his death and supposed "resurrection/ascension" then how do you know what the bible says about him is true? You can't You can't state that anything in the Bible is any more or less real than anything else she's saying. You can only believe and half faith. So stop jumping down someone elses faith simply because you feel superior. In the end you're no different than she is- Religion Rouletted into your belief because your mom just so happened to be rouletted herself into a particular location in the world and a particular faith. Shut up about the high and mighty and go be loving for once in your life.
@@kycool8684lol. Seriously? There is no provable information anywhere about any gods, Christian, Jewish, Hindu pagan or otherwise. Your question is irrelevant snark.
I'm an animist. I really think what you focus on, focuses on you. Historically, Gods have been properties found in nature. Not space aliens. I find it reasonable to think nature presents itself under a name you already know.
You're right in as much that mother nature - Danu, Gaia etc is the most apparent of them all in nature. The aspect of life giving fertility itself. Her blood the water, her flesh the earth and so on. Though you might not be able to connect, easily see others, doesn't mean they are not there just saying. But yes of all the goddesses, Danu , mother nature is the most apparent and the strongest. Even after being polluted and made sick by man . She is still the most resilient, still the strongest. COVID was one of her reactions let's say. Blessings of the gods and not god's upon thee - Druid blessing
I had a strange experience. I didn't believe the gods and goddesses to be real in any sense, due to the fact that I'm in a western magick school that looks at these things as not just allegorical stories for initiates throughout time, but also egragores that people feed with their thoughts, emotions, love and devotion. I had been doing some work out of a book centered around Hekateean magick.... Nothing major, just banishings, protection spells, ceiling spells, things like that, and then I had noticed recurring themes happening. People with black dogs that would bark at me ferociously, and other weird occurrences like owls kept coming by my apartment when I have never even heard one in all the years I have lived here. Then I did a ritual actually giving an offering to hekate, I gave some food and a black candle. After the ritual I was on the phone with my girlfriend and during any ritual with a candle I always do the same thing. I have a ritual room with an alter in the center of the room, and I place candles on a metal dish. There isn't much else in the room, (it's empty accept for what I bring in there for rituals) and has a wood floor. About ten minutes later I had a feeling to check and make sure that the candle hadn't fallen over, because I try to stay safe with these things and when I entered the room, there was the metal dish, but no candle ANYWHERE. She says: "did it fall on the floor? I told her no! There is nowhere for it to go to. The floor is bare and empty. It just vanished.
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You're very right about your observations about the internet.
You're also very right about not rushing into a relationship with a deity. A true connection with a deity should never be treated casually. Although I think that at least few that claim a real connection with a certain deity are being false , or not entirely honest with themselves about how close or real their connection is with an entity, at least as far as the internet goes. ( Though I can literally feel out pretenders from the genuine online as I can in real life). Most online are real I've found . And it's made me glad to realise this. There's always some amount of narcissistic egoists in all cultures as I'm sure you are already aware. Although in my experience I've found they are very few in paganism. More real genuine people with real spiritual awareness and ability than not. Though some even with genuine intention , might be to quick to rush in and show their devotion to impress whoever , maybe.
Every time a crow is at my window I ask them if they are the Morrigan and so far just crows.
Well, it never hurts to ask!
“When you are by yourself, you become the center of your own attention.”
This gave me so much more of a reality check than I can verbalize.
It's one of the great problems of life right now.
Im sorry for so many comments but this is so informative. I recently meditated with prayer and offering and had a vision during meditation and this was my first time meditating. And i took it as a sign of the deity saying your welcome 🙏🏻
Nice to hear a down-to-earth, sensible voice.
Thank you!
@@KrisHughes, okay, so I been calculating for a while. So, what is the message to give, if it ends with every Jew's throat slit in Israel and all 1.6 billion Muslims prostrating unto Barack Hussein Obama during Ramadan of 2025, what do you tell humans?
Daniel 9:27
"He shall be firm in a covenant with many for one week, yet in the midst of a week shall he stop to make sacrifice in the wing. Abomination! The one who spreads desolation spreads desolation even until complete consummation, for the decree that shall be, is a flowing forth."
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA (the firm week)
First time 2009-2012
Second time 2013-2016
DONALD TRUMP
Cut-Off time 2017-2020
JOE BIDEN (in the midst of a week of an image of his time)
October 7, 2023 is the dawn of JACOB’s (Israel’s) TROUBLE
Then cometh Annihilation, the perishing of the end.
Daniel 7:25-26
“He will speak against Allah, to wear out the saints of the Highest One, intending to change time to a decree (stop all time - decrees are final), and give his hand a time, and a time, and a cutting off time. But the judgment shall be final and his dominion shall pass away (Joe Biden’s boss loses influence in the USA, for Joe Biden has to leave the White House, and Trump comes in for a supposed glorious future), then annihilation, the perishing of the end.”
Daniel 9:24
"Seventy, seven, decreed upon thy people (Jews) of the Holy City (Jerusalem), to finish the transgression, sin offering, propitiation unto iniquity. "Come in unto the eternal duration of Righteousness." Seal the vision of this prophecy, unto the Most Holy Place."
70 and 7
Then the end.
Can a nation be born in a day?
May 14, 1948
Israel, as a nation, is gone before May 14, 2025.
I’ll go further and say with the Holy Bible we can know it is gone before Ramadan next year ends with Eid al-Fitr.
How can I know?
Because this Ramadan meets the criteria for the final Ramadan.
Isaiah 66:23
““New moon to new moon, Sabbath to Sabbath, all mankind will come to be brought down before Me,” saith Yahweh.”
Ramadan is the feast calculated to begin & end with NEW MOON and this 1 is bounded by Sabbaths.
It begins with the Anti-Christ gaining the Islamic prostration in Palestine whole with Israel wiped off the map.
Ezekiel 46:1-3
"Thus saith Adonai, Yahweh, "The Gate of the inner court facing the East shall be shut six working days, but open the Sabbath (Saturday), open the day of new moon. THE PRINCE shall enter by way of the porch of the gate from outside and stand by the post of the gate; then the priests and sacrifice shall make whole burnt offering, sacrifice and prostration at the threshold of the gate, and exit, and the gate shall not be shut until the evening. All the peoples of the land shall also worship at the doorway of the gate, before Yahweh on Sabbath and on new moon."
And how does Yahweh feel before He shows up per REVELATION 11:7-15 to change it?
Isaiah 1:13-14
"Bring vain oblation no longer, the incense is abomination. New moon Sabbath, you proclaim assembly. I cannot endure the inquity of this solemn assembly. I hate the new moon, your appointed feast. You have become a burden; I am weary of bearing with you.”
THIS RAMADAN goes from FEBRUARY 28 to MARCH 29, 2025.
MARCH 13-14, 2025, has a total lunar eclipse & appearing as a BLOOD MOON
Joel 2:31
“The Sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood red, before the Great and Terrible day of Yahweh cometh.”
The Acts 2:20
“The Sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood red, before the Great and Terrible day of Yahweh cometh.”
Hosea 5:7
"The dealers of treachery against Yahweh bear the illegitimate children, and now, in-between the new moons, I will devour all of them in their land."
The deity is basically a teacher they show up when you're at your worst and at your lowest to help you if you need it. But like any divine our universe it doesn't give you what you want it gives you what you need and if you appreciate that then you don't disrespect them. That's what my great-grandfather always taught me and he was a druid priest
100% agree! I love your word, grounded, that is the perfect word. I’m thirty-two but still remember in person gatherings and very much miss that. Discord is helpful but it feels harder to find community still. I’m glad personally, I feel fine working alone. Company is nice all the same. I’m a very logical thinker, or maybe it’s the autism, but I typically seem to need a lot of scientific proof for things. My polytheist path started as re-evaluate my practice of always trying to identify instances of confirmation bias, but in researching the Bronze Age, certain things, stories, gods kept coming up again and again and I thought to myself, there’s no harm in leaning in and I have been much happier engaging in spirituality again after deconstructing my evangelical christian (nationalist) upbringing, I didn’t realize how much I was missing that connection. I can’t say for sure if my experiences and encounters are interactions with the divine, but I know the power of ritual feeling like having some kind of control in life of things that otherwise are chance. And that has brought me peace and happiness so why not lean in.
I don't feel comfortable on types of social media that offer a high degree of anonymity. It doesn't feel 'social' at all! Thanks for commenting.
I feel the most whole when I'm digging in dirt. Not trying to make a bad pun, but I feel grounded when planting and digging.
Yes yes yes i honor them with prayer and gratitude
Your videos are amazing and I greatly enjoying hearing your point of view. Both humble and knowledgeable, two of my favorites to give and receive information. When I use to attend gatherings in the past I found many folks where on their own path and there tended to be friction or groups within the groups would cluster together in almost cliques. I think another big problem we had back then was lack of resources to do further studying. The more that is available now online the more I realize that Llewellyn publications was not always a dependable source. Sure you had some very knowledgeable authors, but you had a lot of repeat information and many didn't know where their information was coming from.
Yes, all you say about the recent neoPagan past is true. However, I still think nothing beats face-to-face conversations about these things.
@@KrisHughes I use to have many a great chat in the past but it was few and far between. I've lost contact with most of the folks I use to speak to in the late 90s early 00s.
All great things to consider.
I am still sorting out what it means, and in no rush to do so, but one day recently I knew the name Bríg. I didn’t know who or what it was. I had been studying the language of my great grandfather and my cousins, so when I “heard” the name (if you can call it hearing), I had a strong sense of how it was spelled.
It was January 31st, hours before Bríg’s day begins in Ireland. I was making candles as part of a school project with my children. Once I did a little more digging on this name, we added some Brigit’s crosses to our project.
I’m primarily of Irish descent, but even in that Irish, it’s funny how frequently Welsh and Scottish married into the family.
I have felt for a long time that the children of Éire are followed by a certain spirit wherever they go. Even with that feeling in me, as a recovering Christian, I’m still wrapping my head around apparently having the name of a goddess I didn’t know about pop into my head right before the time pagans were getting ready to celebrate her bringing her warmth back to the earth - and while I was making candles no less 🤯
This whole year I’ve been feeling a pull towards spirituality and religion. Ever since I grew up from childhood, I’ve had no need or felt an absence of religion. As a kid I grew up in the outdoors, even raised by them. I spent my time at the beach and the river and the lake and convincing (?) myself I could talk to literal fairies. The older I grew the more the world took me away from the outdoors, and, by extension my awe and curiosity and sense of connectedness/purpose. When I was in my early teenage years, I discovered I was queer, pushing me farther and farther away from religion because of the judgement and crucifixation pinned on me as a queer person by the Christian church. I even grew to hate ALL religion, christian or other, seeing religious people as blind woo-woos. This last year though, I’ve been reconnecting to the land of my childhood and nature itself. It has brought me the most happiness and feeling of belonging I’ve had since I was a young child. Through the year, I’ve felt more and more called towards the spirituality of nature. Recently, a series of unfortunate events have happened in my life, most recently a close 18 year old cousin of mine got into an accident, and something peirced straight through his leg, leaving him in life threatening circumstances when the injury turned infected and he went into sepsis. I remember that night, staying up and praying for the first time to god, any god, even a christian god, that somehow, somehow, that he would be alright. In the morning, I woke up to find that the signs of sepsis were actually a small stick of wood behind his knee cap the doctors hadn’t noticed. He made a full recovery in 3 months. Whenever I’m in nature I don’t feel alone. Recently, after a conversation with my father about an pagan ex-girlfriend of his, I decided to look into paganism. Learning the concepts of paganism has felt less like an ‘discovering’ and more like coming home to an experience I had already known, but had been taught to forget and ignore. I think there may be diety/or purpose calling to me. (which feels weird to say as a born, raised and chociefully atheist person) I suspect its connected to the earth. I’m thinking Gaia or Jörd. It doesn’t feel like a personification of the land, but more like the land itself. Maybe it’s neither Gaia or Jörd, maybe it’s not even a “god” in a human-like/strict sense of the word, but I’m excited to see where this path is pulling me. I’ve been looking particularly towards my ancestor’s pagan beliefs (I’m mostly Irish and Norse, My family immigrated to america only about 3-4 immigrations ago. My grandparents’ grandparents. So I know a lot about who the immigrants in my family are) But so far, I feel the most connection with Gaia.
Lots of insight here. I appreciate your perspective and your wisdom.
Thank you!
I am an atheist, but I am interested in what people believe because I find it fascinating. I am from Celtic origins myself, a Celt far from home if you will. I appreciate the candid nature of your video. I did not know that these beliefs and practices were still around. My Father would have called them old superstitions. As long as you are not claiming to be 'the one true religion' I'm cool with it. My ancestors, no doubt, could have believed similar things. And that to me is a sort of connection to the past.
I have often thought that offerings to deities were more about being thankful for life or asking for help of some kind. You have confirmed some of that for me. But it seems to go much deeper for some. Perhaps one day I might witness some of these rituals myself.
Thank you Kris.
Why not claim to be true? Is not 4 the one true answer to 2+2?
The law of non-contradiction shows that nothing that contradicts can be true, if one religion teaches that there is only one god, another that there are twelve, and another that there are thousands, they can’t all be true.
When I was around 5 years old, I had a dream of what I thought was God (I was raised Christian and that was the only association I had), but he had antlers and was hanging on my wall like a mounted deer head. He was telling me something serious and told me I was going to "forget". I remember insisting I would not forget. I have no idea what it was he was telling me now but I always remembered the dream. I was in my 20s when I saw a candle holder that was carved into the image of Cernunnos and got chills .... my dream God was Cernunnos, it looked exactly like the image from my dream. It was a strange moment.
I do miss ritual groups. I havent found a group to be part of since I moved from upstate NY back to Massachusetts. The celtic gods that were so familiar in NY have never really felt as active here. But the energies in the land is still very real and deeply worthy of respect and acknowledgement.
There is something strange in Massachusetts like a spiritual blockade. I didnt realize it until i left. Of course it's easy to say because it is geographically near Satans kingdom - the actual name of the land. It's just weird.
In lockdown, I had a experience, I was looking out the window around 3am and I could see what looked like a small child standing outside on the path, it was white, put my glasses on and it was a large white owl?
I opened the window and it took flight and came at me and gave a large flap of its wings as it flew over the building but I felt the wind.
Funnily enough you don't get owl's that big in UK.???
Hello, I just now came across your channel. You have a kindly voice and your manner as well.
If I were to describe myself, I am at heart, a mystic..
One of the reasons for leaving the Craft was because of the weirdos that seem to flock to it. No genuine Practitioners just a lot of claims to be this or that. I am just returning to the Craft and I will be focusing on communing with Cernonnos. I don't feel called by him but I do sense an invitation if I want to be serious about it, He will teach me the Old Ways.
I started out in life fairly atheist, mostly due to negative interactions with Christians, I eventually had forgiven many instances and slowly faded away from atheism and into agnosticism as was unsure of the possibilities and had no drive to search for them... I had been that way for many years. I recently started my journey searching for spiritual connections, I have recently this last few weeks have been taking a deep dive into polytheism as I am drawn to the idea of multiple deities that are not a singular judgmental omnipresent being such as the Christian God as I found many flaws in that religion.. I have been looking more into norse myths and polytheism as I do have a connection to that culture, I however discovered I am ⅓ Scottish, and I am now considering searching into the Celtic deities and I am searching for signs while obtaining knowledge. Any advice is nice to have but this video has been helpful.
I dreamed about Celtic Goddess Artio!
I had no idea who she was but I knew when I woke up from that dream that she was important!!
We were in a field and she was standing there in her blue green dress a cape around her shoulders her hair in a bun curls blowing at her temples one strand in front .
She was standing with her Gigantic Bear I was scared to approach but she was waiting for me the bear was just grazing around her paying me no mind like he knew me already she raised her hand to tell me to come closer and never mind the bear he knew what I was there for.
I didn’t get to see or hear what she had to say next I woke up ! I talked to my daughter about it and she pulled her up I was amazed I have never heard of her I just wonder what I should do or learn now ??
Just wanted to share
You had a dream about Artio calling you? Wow, you must be lucky, I certainly haven't gotten that far, the only thing that happens to me is that I feel that Ataegina, a Celtiberian Goddess of the Spring, the Moon and Queen of the Underworld, is calling me, or at least I notice some kind of connection with her. I don't know how to explain it, it's very strange, ever since I read about her I've had her hovering around my head, without being able to stop thinking about her at all. Thinking about her also gives me calm and peace of mind.
Yes I understand ever since I had that dream it’s like I can feel her strength
I get the feeling that people are turning to the Earth out of concern and respect for Her. People then look to pre-christian religions out of a need to get closer to the Earth. People seem more interested in nature, the seasons and the weather. The question on people's' minds is, how were we before the Romans.
What does it mean if I have a vision of the Crone during a near death experience? It took me 5 years to identify what I saw and today I finally found multiple pictures of “the triple Goddess” which is ironic because I’ve been seeing 3 everywhere ever since. But I only saw the “Crone.” It was just her head floating in the air by my hospital bed and she was laughing. Now I connect with the birds like everyday, the number 3 and just last night I saw a black dog running down the street and it’s the second time a black dog randomly appeared and then disappeared. I have no idea what it means. I am Scottish and come from the “McDaniel’s” and now I’m feeling called to understand Morrigan's Prophecy. Not sure how to interpret any of this.
dog seems lost check crossed your path check rescue dog uncheck
If it interests you, you might want to research the goddess Hekate and her associations. But if you do, be sure to look up all her lore and mythology, not just what people say on social media about her. She can manifest in many different ways to different people, but your comment stood out to me because she is often associated with dogs, specifically black hounds. You might find it an interesting path to go down even if she doesn't resonate with you in the end.
Oh, also - if you're feeling drawn to the Morrigan in particular there's a good (in my opinion) book called "The Book of the Great Queen" by Morpheus Ravenna. I'm sure Kris knows even better ones (aside from the actual Irish lore books) but that's where I started when I was curious about the goddess.
Anyway, I wish you well in your seeking! 😊
@ thank you for letting me know, I will definitely research it. I really love learning new things. I also just had another black dog visit me during our recent ice/snow storm. I fed it and it ran off before I could get it to come inside the opened garage. Definitely been experiencing some interesting things since 2019
I love your openness. Others have stated because they practiced longer theirs is the right experience
I got into a bike crash the other night. According to every medic who took care of me and examined me, I’m lucky to be alive. Beyond just not dying, I could have easily damaged my skull and brain, broken my spine or some other bone, gotten glass into my eyes and been blinded (I shattered a car window with my face, while wearing glasses). But no. I am completely fine, just had to get a few stitches and will have a scar to remember this by. I believe some spirit was looking out for me, leaving me only damaged enough to teach me a lesson, but preventing any real harm. It will be a long journey for me to discover who saved me, and for what purpose.
Wow! I'm glad you're okay!
🪬♉️ Thank you!! ✌️♥️✨️
Got 1 crow on my car mirror who went with me from lane of angels to a town named birdsing in the netherlands.. found out my dad was born in the same street the crow went on its way
Ive always been spiritual....but i attended a Harvest festival not knowing it was a pagan thing. I only found out once i got there. It just felt like something clicked on because it was an amazing weekend but there was a connection...so i started doing some digging into where my family is from and my family is from the Lothian region in Scotland....The owner of the land lives in a castle called Midlothian..My family came from scotland to Canada in 1820...the Young settlement, it's a conservation area now...
And now I'm here❤ pleased to meet u❤❤
You had me confused for a minute there! I was thinking, "There's no castle called "Midlothian" in the Lothians!" Then I realised you meant in Canada. Ha! You might find this video useful, if you haven't already found it. ruclips.net/video/tYpuV3Ya_AA/видео.html
I just talked to him thinking when they helped me and treat him like a friend a father and a parent and give him all the admiration and respect they deserve I'm not one for worship parse I just treat them like I treat anybody else with the highest respect until otherwise
I've had this recurring dream for several years. It starts out: i'm in a park i used to visit as a child. I walk into the small evergreen forest area at the back of the park and as i walk, the forest expands.
The trees become towering and the atmosphere is misty. In the mist appears a stag, with horns that grow well beyond the ability to see.
The stag isnt glowing or colored, just a shadowed figure in the mist. I feel its eyes on me as i continue, and become uneasy. The stag simply follows and watches me from a distance.
Usually, i wake up suddenly with a feeling of general unease, but nothing malicious.
One morning, i awoke from this dream with "The Great Stag" echoing through my mind. So far, only Cernunnos has come up in searches, yet for some reason that doesnt feel correct?
Am i ignoring a call?
Please make a video on oak and ash and thorn I have no idea what it is and I don’t know which sources to trust
I'll see what I can find that I know to be reliable. Do you mean the song/poem? Or have I missed something?
I find this very interesting. As I have had similar feelings of being called to a God or at least having that feeling. Exspecaly after setting out to look and work with one God and ending up being lead to another.
Are there any good sources for ritual outlines or pre-written prayers?
I'm sure there are, but I'm afraid I'm not familiar with them.
Around six years ago I was brought into paganism (I’m pretty eclectic now but it started off Norse) by a very dramatic encounter with Thor. Not too long after I discovered he didn’t actually want much to do with me, he was just the messenger. To this day, I’m not sure why he bothered instead of somebody else.
Very insightful. Coming across this video made me subscribe. Bright blessings. /|\
Glad you enjoyed it!
Kinda weird this showed up on my RUclips feed when I've been battling with instincts that I'm being coerced to Glastonbury by either Brigid or Cernunnos....still trying to figure out which
Can i go maybe years without connecting with deities and just pray and honor them
Fascinating i recently had an experience with a Crow while walking in nature ' i noticed every where i was walking the Crow was up ahead flying in the Direction i was about to walk , was strange i didnt know what to think ' though i was wearing a Crow feather i had found i didnt realise it was a Crow feather , so i didnt know what to think but the Crow was showing me the way. I am of celtic origin .
Blessed be
I really appreciate this break down. I’m having a weird introduction to what I believe is the Dagda, and while I am aware of the Morrigan and their daughter Brigid, I don’t understand why he is contacting me or what he would want from me, but I’m getting very clear messages it’s him, namely having his name on a loop so often I had to look it up to see what it was. I thought it was a word I invented because it’s a nice sound. Now what? He has my attention, but I don’t know to what end.
I keep feeling like some entity has been trying to get my attention. I have tried to communicate but only feel an intense pressure in the middle of my forehead.
Migraine.
Okay I'm curious I want to know something with all this I'm having a really hard time with this so I feel like I'm being drawn by Bree and her father been researching different pantheons and stuff like that but just to learn about them and none of them have ever made me feel like this and it doesn't make sense to me but it's like confusing me play the Celtic gods why is there sibl that to me aren't with the Celtic like a flow with Harmony so I'm just trying to understand I'm feeling this way bc Im believe in God
And yeshua this were things r hard for me and I would rather talk with someone that knows but see that maybe understanding more than what I know
I don’t think it was a wild crazy moments… to anyone else it would have just been a bad day… but i have felt pulled by a line of fate my entire life telling what i should and shouldn’t do. And when I go against its wisdom I get gravely hurt and the line snaps until it can rebind itself… there have been moments in my life…
A rattle while I was standing on a log (I live in a place where rattlesnakes are uncommon there is only one species)
I used wo wish to see more trilliums and then I moved next to an entire grove!
A monarch butterfly refused to let go of me in my grandmothers garden while I sat next to a lilac bush.
A deer let me get closer then I thought humanly possible.
A hawk helped me see a chickens heart to sate my curiosity. (Looking back now I wish I tried to read the entrails I will never get a chance like that again)
And finally I was low awhile back and a bunny (a symbol of my life) who had business being in such a heavily populated area where there was next to no vegetation stood for a few seconds until I had stopped crying and then disappeared into the night just as my partner arrived…
Not to mention the deer skeleton I begged my mother to let me collect of the side of the road to now a skull I still have today…
These moments stick out in my head… there were other moments in my life but nothing *feels* as defining as these… the deer crashing through the window, the bird coming home after 3 weeks my favorite bird surviving being shot. My bird surviving a hawk attack. Having no broken bones or concussions or ANY MAJOR INJURIES despite the multiple car crashes or times i place myself in danger. These don’t feel like the ones above those felt *different*
I don’t know i just *feel* called… I always have…
If they did reach out how would they have revealed themselves? Would they have said their name? I have DID i have a lot of voices maybe I didn’t hear them? I did feel pulled to Flidais…. But I’m not sure if I’m correct or even if they were messages in the first place there are so many deities and i am only 23 and I was trapped in Christianity for so long….
Since Christianity was forced on Europe, the Celtic Gods haven't had a lot to do. The Dagda really is the good God.
As for unrealistic. Try invoking the Dagda. I have and got a huge and very positive reaction.
Give it a try. The DAGDA is my daily companion.
The Gods are your friends. Have all confidence!
I am almost stocked by two crows. They sit in a tree in front of my deck and watch me when I’m out at the dog park. I finally got served a video about the Morgan tonight and she embodies everything I am. It all makes sense now. Nothing dramatic but I started noticing this happen and then it came most times I went outside. Can you point me to any information on this? I never had any idea about this but now I’m here and …
I’ve said for years now, I’m never out to get anyone but it’s better to have me on your side. I can’t explain it but karma has unfortunately played out terrible for people who’ve done me wrong. I am careful with words because they almost hold a force. Honestly, it’s really creeped me out in the past. But as my senses have grown stronger, I’ve embraced it all slowly.
If you're interested in the Morrigan, Morgan Daimler has written a couple of useful books.
I grew up with a mother who was open to all mystical. I have always had some small activity connecting me since I was kid. 3 yrs ago I started taking it more seriously to start to practice.
I have recently had a call. There has always been something there, but now it's stronger. Trying to research to narrow down. Been consulting with my coven head.
Crows and Magpies have been a rather constant in my life. Most of the time I am saving them from other humans or asking Morrigan to save them. They are my messengers and at most points I get the message if not the first time certainly the second. Then I get into a video and get told that a ring around your longest finger at the base is an indication that the Morrigan chose you and is taking a direct interest in your life and mine is so red and so prominent and has decidedly three lines in it which I think are directly tied to each of three goddesses that make up the Morrigan each have a line. When I was little, I planted a garden for my mother, who was my main abuser. Her favorite color was the peace rose. I also planted a red vining rose at the end of the row. in one season all of the roses were red and vining. I didn't think too much of that until recently I gave that goddess trio blood red roses. Those roses lasted 4 weeks and were still prefect. now I can connect her the garden when I was younger, and I was saving magpie from the sheriff who was going to shoot it. These things and a few others such as reading the description of Maeve's personality and I have the main points of that personality all tell me that Goddess trio isn't going anywhere. Is this what you all are after?
How does one find literature or research such ideas?
Can you say a bit more clearly what it is you want to research?
@ The whole concept, I’m not sure where to start!?
@@Tager253 Call / Guidance / Vision. Do you feel like a deity of the past is starting to offer you some attention, does it feel like some things have improved due to good luck????? The way I've studied the old Celtic stuff is mainly with Young Adult choices of library books that are honest about Celts being more than just Ireland and Scotland in really early years. Non-fiction books that share their old language words can be quite useful for this deity knowledge too. But once relationships of a character are clear the studying can become easier for sure.
Cailleach in Ireland and Scotland / Calleich in Spain's early days, she's the one I enjoy like I can't leave her stories alone. I probably don't visualize a full puzzle of her history bit my insight of this Ice Age time character is doubtless.
I have been the envy of Taliesin,
and the belle of Olympian balls;
every god, competing for my calls.
What are we -
but dust in the dirge;
star-blasted ashes, swirling
to a song of aeolian harps?
To see order re-established: 👨⚖
One needs nothing; only stamp
Earth, with a staff of recollection.
Every god is beguiling.
Dignity belongs
to no higher station; rather,
to each who knows his station.
I know my situation is that some of the oldest Celtic females call me and use transformation to keep the hidden history clear but Danu, Cailleach and Brigid have all made themselves clear to me. My real Autism, tolerance and empathy of cultures I have an easy time seeing how nature is honored but then gets written down as hundreds of people. I see clearly that the mother goddess list is kind of super long. It isn't that I'm not called it's that I'm not near a forest but however my insight lets me visualize both the planet's natural actions that fit the descriptions and a human form of a goddess. I understand enough Celtic goddess secrets to independently realize several of their later names don't rhyme with the first few early names they started with in the early days. But I can see that Basque deities are similar to Celtic deities like they're the same person just dressed different.
Really appreciate this post and your unique knowledge /advice - down to earth, grounded and honest which I like. I don't believe a Celtic deity can call you, for there is only one God - my opinion but I believe ancestors/ spiritual guides etc can protect/ call us. I was drawn to Taliesin many years ago after a seer found me and we connected for a couple of years - after my muddled self was able to make sense of what was happening to me since a child and move on. Does the name 'Myrffaed' mean anything to you( Welsh) name? So far no one knows. My DNA goes back 1000 yrs & 99% Celtic origins/ancestry unbeknown to me, but sensed those roots - Welsh/ Scots/ Irish/ English & Nordic. My belief; my ancestors are within & around me, not a deity. I feel them in my bones & spiritually, often moved to tears when in Wales/ Scotland & old England. As I age & reflect on past experiences I'm no longer fearful but even more open to understanding that I just maybe on the right path. Happy New Year! 🙏
Your post was interesting to me. As a casual observer of your story, I have no idea if your older or more recent ancestors were devout Christian or atheist or Wiccan.
I would just find it very interesting to know what would be the reason you feel their presence so strongly at times it moves you to tears.
You will eventually be shown why, that much I'm sure, if you haven't been shown already?
Blessings of the gods and the not gods upon thee - Druid blessing
Im a witch can I be called by one of the gods i feel as though i am cause I tried to be a christin but i rwally dont feel right for me being a witch dose.
I don't think being a witch has anything to do with it one way or the other.
Oh ok then why didn't I feel comfortable as a christin thank you for answering
@@AngelBlack-y1t It's alright. I feel more pleased about Celtic and Basque deity ideas than the modern Christian ideas myself. Modern witch stuff has more secrets than they like to admit. But I see clearly that it even relates to the mother earth scenes in a subtle way.
"When you're by yourself, you become the center of your own attention."
I'm sure that is true in some cases. However, that being said, you can be alone, and still be grounded in a realistic perception of the world, whatever "real" means, at this point in human history. Very rarely, is anything ever black and white in such a manner as to say it is all one way, and one way only, especially when dealing with humans, and their myriad characteristics.
Yes, I could have said "you tend to become..." However, since the entire talk is filled with frequently qualified generalisations, I imagine most viewers would infer that from the wider tone.
Still, for those who might not, we now have your very fine explanation to offer guidance.
So not sure what to make of this but every time I have a dream and doesn’t usually doesn’t matter what type of dream but what does it mean when I see a triskelion every time I dream usually in the background like for example on a tree engraved or if there is fire it would appear in the smoke
I don't know. I'd say you're just a bit fixated on triskelions if that's happening. Dreams are mostly just a product of our minds.
This was actually very reasonable.
I try.
Yes.. i hate to be this guy for sure. But many places where the Tuatha used to feel real or present have been invaded by "neo pagans " or flat out socially desperate acolytes of hedon or wonton.. i do apologize for those these words offend. I hate to sound judgemental or condescending but she is correct beyond any doubt in that area.. people seek societal acceptance or some approval from that instead of the favor of the Tuatha De Danaan, while the favor is so much more rewarding.
Exactly. Suddenly everyone talks to birds and hears the words Cernunnos in their sleep. It's like mass hysteria now. Suddenly all the goddesses are responding to people with 6months experience 😂
With all the sincerity and defiance an abused 11yo can call upon, I told my unnamed god that He didn't exist
The scars serve to remind me that He disagreed 😅
This is somehow very poetic.
I'm really glad I clicked this video, so much wisdom. I'm not a Celtic pagan per se, but what you were saying about deities and how they might notice you, this happened with my closest deity. She's shown up in my life many times since childhood, always to protect me from a negative spirit including but not limited to my own father. When I was 15 I rebelled against my Catholic upbringing (more like got bored with it) and dabbled in paganism, but then I became an Evangelical, and then an atheist, in all these phases she would pop in to check on me and appear in my dreams to ward off nightmares. Around 2016 I began to hear and feel the pull of a deity, who eventually identified herself as Hekate, initially I thought she was supposed to be my 'Patron'. That was until she introduced me to Athena, and as soon as I felt her presence I knew, this was the one I've been trying to connect with. I learned from other Athena acolytes I've met in the wild she has a habit of selecting her closest people as children, because that's when she gets to see us as our truest and purest selves before trauma sets in and changes us. The thing that inspired me to write this though was when you talked about making a vow to a deity. When I officially asked her to be my patron and I did a dedication ritual to her promising to honor her to the best of my ability and if I fall short to get up and try harder the next time, she used the word 'priestess' to describe me. I knew that her priestesses from antiquity and the Hellenic era would take vows of celibacy, and I almost did, but she stopped me and told me that I had to wait 3 years before she would accept such a vow from me. She basically said that's a big thing to give up for a God, that she'd be very pleased if I eventually made the vow and kept it, but that it was something I needed time to decide if I really was willing to make that commitment to her.
TikTok and Reddit has kids thinking people are called by the gods every day. I think some of it comes from an overactive ego - the desire to think themselves special or "chosen". But as you said, maybe I'm too judgmental. I think if you spend a lot of time reading and thinking about mythology it's not unlikely you'll have a few weird mythologically-themed dreams. That doesn't mean The Morrigan has a special mission that only you can accomplish!
True. But if you spend a lot of time reading and thinking about mythology, you may find one or more deities looking over your shoulder and taking an interest in you.
@@KrisHughes Agreed!
I think its also because a lot of these people are former Abrahamic Religon observers and they feel like the silence of their God is only adding to their problems and they see people talk about these other religions and these Gods who are saying things to people and feel like maybe these Deities are the ones to help and they can tell me what I need to do.
I used to read a lot on mythology since pre-school age. I don't put much meaning into my dreams since they often are otherworldly-themed. It's only when I experience sleep paralysis with auditory and visual hallucinations that it bothers me. But that only happens when I sleep on my back (which is a rare occurrence).
Fauna needs more info and the Banshee with red rode belly button
In 2016, I bought a statue of Cernunnos asking him to help protect me. I believe was called by Cernunnos, or Gwyn ap Nudd, in 2019. The call was a dream, with knowledge and information to give me no room for doubt that it wasn’t just a random dream. He showed me what I now know as the ogham, but I researched first to learn about it. It wasn’t dramatic. The timing was interesting as the pandemic caused me to work at home and research it as I was alone more.
I’m now on the path. I’m 44.
They do not like this video
2 years ago i was at a friends house and i was in a terrible Time and then i heard in my head Cernunnos over and over again...i felt that and then i watched on Wikipedia now i try to be strong and get more of a grip of a life as a druid or things what made the celtics unique. But for some time i feel like someone is pushing me years behind. Like my mental state is always 3 years ago but still not really because i can recall everything. What you think why that is?
Given how the earliest references and stories written about the Celtic religions were written far after the Irish converted to Christianity, how do you know anything about their stories reliably? Like how Lugh was clearly described as not being a god, while having enough traits as one that the original stories likely had the Tuatha Dè Denann being divine.
How do you reliably know anything about your gods?
Well, in the case of Lugh, we can be pretty sure that the Irish saw him as a deity at some point, simply because his name is cognate with the god Lugus, who is attested in inscriptions in Gaul. This is true for enough of the deities/mythological characters in the Irish texts that it is reasonable to infer that these are myths about deities. Exactly how we should view the involvement of the Medieval scribes in influencing the material is something Celtic scholars have been hashing out for a couple of centuries, and it can't ever be fully resolved. Much study is required, and a combination of self-confidence and humility is needed to interpret the material.
@@KrisHughes I would agree! But surely you could see how the Celtic stories are unreliable? And if so, how could you worship a god you don’t have reliable information about?
@@kycool8684 I don't need to justify my choices to you.
@@kycool8684 Considering how Jesus was written about years after his death and supposed "resurrection/ascension" then how do you know what the bible says about him is true? You can't You can't state that anything in the Bible is any more or less real than anything else she's saying. You can only believe and half faith. So stop jumping down someone elses faith simply because you feel superior. In the end you're no different than she is- Religion Rouletted into your belief because your mom just so happened to be rouletted herself into a particular location in the world and a particular faith. Shut up about the high and mighty and go be loving for once in your life.
@@kycool8684lol. Seriously? There is no provable information anywhere about any gods, Christian, Jewish, Hindu pagan or otherwise.
Your question is irrelevant snark.
I'm an animist. I really think what you focus on, focuses on you.
Historically, Gods have been properties found in nature. Not space aliens. I find it reasonable to think nature presents itself under a name you already know.
You're right in as much that mother nature - Danu, Gaia etc is the most apparent of them all in nature. The aspect of life giving fertility itself. Her blood the water, her flesh the earth and so on.
Though you might not be able to connect, easily see others, doesn't mean they are not there just saying.
But yes of all the goddesses, Danu , mother nature is the most apparent and the strongest. Even after being polluted and made sick by man . She is still the most resilient, still the strongest.
COVID was one of her reactions let's say.
Blessings of the gods and not god's upon thee - Druid blessing
MORRIGAN MORRIGAN MORRIGAN
I had a strange experience. I didn't believe the gods and goddesses to be real in any sense, due to the fact that I'm in a western magick school that looks at these things as not just allegorical stories for initiates throughout time, but also egragores that people feed with their thoughts, emotions, love and devotion.
I had been doing some work out of a book centered around Hekateean magick.... Nothing major, just banishings, protection spells, ceiling spells, things like that, and then I had noticed recurring themes happening. People with black dogs that would bark at me ferociously, and other weird occurrences like owls kept coming by my apartment when I have never even heard one in all the years I have lived here. Then I did a ritual actually giving an offering to hekate, I gave some food and a black candle. After the ritual I was on the phone with my girlfriend and during any ritual with a candle I always do the same thing. I have a ritual room with an alter in the center of the room, and I place candles on a metal dish. There isn't much else in the room, (it's empty accept for what I bring in there for rituals) and has a wood floor. About ten minutes later I had a feeling to check and make sure that the candle hadn't fallen over, because I try to stay safe with these things and when I entered the room, there was the metal dish, but no candle ANYWHERE. She says: "did it fall on the floor? I told her no! There is nowhere for it to go to. The floor is bare and empty. It just vanished.
On this subject, just because I'm in a school that teaches magick, doesn't mean I work with gods a lot. So I'm no expert on Gods and Goddesses, other than the study of esoteric allegory. Our school is more like energetic westernized yoga for enlightenment and how to shape our lives with positivity and love. Yeeeeaaaa sorry to disappoint anyone that wants super exciting things in a school where western high magick is practiced. You would do just as well to join a Hindu bakti yoga sect 😂
I feel like I'm close to wood pigions what does this mean .who doo I turn too. you oow.
I don't give a hoot.