The ancient Greeks coined the word Celt (plural Celtoi) and it referred to the Galátai / Galli.
The Romans then designated everyone to the west of the Rhine “Celts” and everyone to the east of it (and west of the River Vistula) “Germans”.
Continue readingBack in the day, people would send bouquets fraught with meaning. You could buy little handbooks with lists of the language of flowers, so you could anxiously decipher the bouquet sent to you. You’d better hope that you and the sender were using the same system, because some of these meanings are different than the ones on other lists… Thank goodness we have emojis nowadays!
Continue readingYule 🐗 🎄🍲❄️⛄️ 🎅🏽
Mōdraniht 🤶👵🏽👩🦳👩🦰👩🏽
Álfablót 🧝♀️🧝🏻🧝🏻♂️
Dísablót 👵👵🏽🤶🧙🏼♀️
Þorrablót 🔨🍺
Disting 🚜🌱🌾
Lenzen 🌸🌷🌼
Hrēpmōnab 🌏⛰️🏔️
Sigrblót ⚔️🗡️
Midsummer/Litha 🌅☀️🌄🌿
Lammas 🌾🌽🍻🍺🍞🥨
Sunwait 🕯️🔥⛅️☀️
(just my suggestions, add your own as desired)
For more information on Heathen festivals, check out the Wikipedia page about them.
And of course, add your own personal associations for each festival 💖
Whenever I wish someone happiness on a Pagan festival, I like to leave emojis with my wish.
In the British Isles, place names reflect their geographical location and topographical features and history.
Continue reading“People who menstruate” includes cis women, trans men and nonbinary people who menstruate.
It also correctly excludes post-menopausal people, and trans women, neither of whom menstruate.
Continue readingToday is Orange Shirt Day, the day for remembering Indigenous children who died in residential schools and honouring the survivors.
It was organized by grassroots Indigenous activists for many years before it was officially adopted as the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
Continue readingOne of the ways that the right and the centre tries to shut down discussion and debate is by dismissing it as “identity politics” and “the bickering of the left”. But what they fail to say is that there wouldn’t be “identity politics” if they were not constantly trying to remove the rights of marginalized people such as trans people and sex workers.
Continue readingThursday 14 July is International Nonbinary People’s Day—a day for raising awareness and organizing around issues that nonbinary people face around the world since it was first observed in 2012.
Nonbinary people are nothing new. We aren’t confused about our gender identity or trying to be trendy—nonbinary identities have been recognized for millennia by cultures and societies across the globe.
It’s important for nonbinary people to be able to live, dress, and have our gender respected at work, at school, and in public spaces.
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Dowsing for Divinity 