The Highland BardTM

Tis almost the holytide of Imbolg. From my reading chair, I contemplated by candlelight what this Gaelic folk festival means for me. I li...

As the days roll towards Imbolg, I have been planning my ceremonial offerings, including foods, to honor Brighid. Among the customary sac...

In our yearly calendar, we are next headed into Imbolg, Lá Fhéile Bríde, midwinter feast of the goddess and saint Brighid, in early Febru...

On my bucket list is to experience New Year’s festivities in Scotland. Called “Hogmanay”, the torchlit processions that light up Edinburg...

From Gaelic mythology comes the Four Treasures of the Tuatha Dé Danann. These represent sacred principles from the Gaelic wisdom traditio...

“Oats: A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland appears to support the people.” ~ Samuel Johnson, A Dictio...

For our Celtic ancestors, spirituality was not compartmentalized, but was an expression of a worldview inherently woven into their everyd...

Most folks know about the millions of Irish people lost to An Gorta Mór, the Great Hunger, aka “The Irish Potato Famine” of the 1840’s-18...

When folks ask me “how can I begin to practice Celtic Paganism”, or even more specifically, Gaelic Polytheism, I suggest three broad area...

“Who is wetting the tea?” – an Irish saying, meaning “Who is making the tea?” Camelia Sinensis. Cha. Tea. Tae. It has a centuries old sto...

“When Death’s dark stream I ferry o’er A time that surely shall come; In Heaven itself I’ll ask no more Than just a Highland welcome” ~ R...

The course of my lifelong spiritual path of Irish and Scottish Polytheism took root in early childhood. The James River flows through the...

What is remembered, lives. Beannachtai na Oiche Shamhna! Blessings of Samhain. Per the Old Ways, Winter has begun! Gaelic, and pan-Celtic...

Autumn is a season of nostalgia. The increasingly visible signs of withdrawal, decay, and release of the old in Nature is reflected in ou...