Pagan Portals - The Morrigan: Meeting the Great Queens by Daimler Morgan

Author:Daimler, Morgan [Daimler, Morgan]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781782798347
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Published: 2014-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

The Morrigan in My Life

The Morrigan is a very complex Goddess, as are the other deities that are known under that title. Over the years as I have sought to deepen my knowledge of and connection to the three Morrigans I have also reached out to honor some of these other Goddesses who are so often connected to her. My own experiences have been mixed and I found some genuine connections and others that I did not resonate with at all.

My own personal experiences with Nemain are few. I have encountered her only a handful of times; she appears to me as a naked warrior, painted in the blood of her enemies. Her energy is fierce and terrifying even when she isn’t trying to be. I have no personal experience with Fea or Be Neit, as such.

I have honored Aine on midsummer for many years, and am glad I do. My family bakes a cake for her every year, which we give as an offering to her and to the Fair Folk. I’m still not convinced she is one of the Morrigans, but I do think she is a powerful and complex Goddess.

I am only just building an understanding of Grian, but I am comfortable with associating her with the winter solstice and honor her on that day. I feel that she is the hope of growing warmth in winter, and of renewal; the promise of the solstice that the light of each coming day will be longer and that spring, no matter how distant, will arrive. I offer her spiced cider and sugar cookies, and as my family bakes a cake at midsummer for Aine, we dedicate the one we bake at midwinter to Grian.

Danu was actually the very first Irish Goddess I ever honored when I found Irish paganism. I see her in a very broad, all-encompassing way, as the mother of all. She appears to me as an immense woman dressed in green with dark hair and eyes. Her energy is like the earth, immeasurable and solid, and like the ocean, vast and yet with a feeling of movement to it. There is something indescribably old to Danu and an impersonal feeling to her as well.

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