Wednesday 25 January 2017

Celtic Fae Witchcraft Deeper into Myth

Deeper into Myth





Ritual, Narrative and Transformation



Narratives, especially ones that are based on oral traditions, tend to have transformative and ritual threads woven through them. Human beings are creatures of stories, narratives. The stories we tell ourselves and about ourselves are informed by and inform our cultural identity and privileges.
They are our history; our propaganda, our hopes and our darkest deeds. There is a great power in speaking them aloud, as confession, as revelation, as humor and as apologies.

Narratives allow us to dream while awake, to learn lessons from the long dead and transform that knowledge, wisdom or ideal into our waking modern world. This is also the structure of a ritual. While not all rituals are narrative (though people are often drawn into making them one) all narratives, even biographies are dealing with the process of transformation. It is in seeing, listening and absorbing we attach value and attributes to the archetypes within us. Our dark villains, our heroic selves, our victim-hood, battles, flaws and losses: all given context and value through the frames of our stories. Our stories are also found in films, books, and plays, and most often as a an adolescent, music.

To have someone sing and "give voice" to our joy, and rage, heartbreak and ideals transforms us not only the first time we experience it, but every time we do. As we grow we might out grow the voice, we might add frames we never expected. Once joyful songs may become full of sadness or angry ones might bring us joy. It is our transformation that brings us anew to the narratives.

This is why both poetry, music and song, as well as ritual and spell work are part of The Dreaming within the Four Circles of Celtic Fae Witchcraft  .
Poetry, narrative and song are still deeply important and always ready to burst forth into The Pragmatic world of rational thinking. 
In practical terms this means, poetry, chants, song and story are not a sweet edition to a spell or ritual. They are often at the core. In speaking the names, in invoking Taliesin, Merlin, Bendigeifran, Cerridwen, Rhiannon, Cernunnos, Arhiannrhod, Mauve, Lugh, or a whole host of others, we not only share their story, they too share in ours.

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Crow

The Ancient Ones
She who sings over the bones.
Gathers the fallen.
Scatters the stones.
Washes the bodies,
But eats the eyes.
To see.
To know.
To change.
To grow.
She is Raven.
She is Crow.
From Her blackness
Some stirring begins.
Exploding from Her body
A thousand black wings.
A new song starts.
It begins to rain.
A forgetful dream
Washes away pain.
To see.
To know.
To change.
To grow.
She is Raven.
She is crow.
Oh Ancient Ones
He who sings over the bones.
Gathers the fallen.
Scatters the stones.
Washes the bodies,
But eats the eyes.
To see.
To know.
To change.
To grow.
He is Raven.
He is Crow.
From His blackness
Some stirring begins.
Exploding from His body
A thousand black wings.
A new song starts.
It begins to rain.
A forgetful dream
Washes away pain.
To see.
To know.
To change.
To grow.
He is Raven.

He is crow.
   


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