Is a Celtic deity calling you?

More and more, people claim to be called by deities. But why?

[KrisHughes]

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[rabbitwho]

Every time a crow is at my window I ask them if they are the Morrigan and so far just crows.

[trevortriestocollege]

“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.

[invadertifxiii]

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 🙏🏻

[hollyjensen]

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.

[matsucat-ycok]

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.

[Me-hfii]

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 🤯

[amandamcfarland]

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.

[invadertifxiii]

Yes yes yes i honor them with prayer and gratitude

[deanbutler]

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.???

[PerksJ]

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.

[billirwin]

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.

[SoIcyCreations]

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

[BlazeLeeDragon]

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.

[myfyrioleremiticus]

Lots of insight here. I appreciate your perspective and your wisdom.

[i_infdin]

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.

[TheRealValus]

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.

[Jofield]

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 .

[invadertifxiii]

I love your openness. Others have stated because they practiced longer theirs is the right experience

[mikeparkerEDyt]

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.