List of Goddesses
Achall - Summon Achall's presence during Passing Over rituals, align with her to understand the support of familial love and devotion, to strengthen your own sibling bonds, or to help you overcome negative feelings associated with dysfunctional family life.
Achtan - Achtan can teach us about the strength off mother love and help us to have the perseverance to seek the best for our children.
Achtland - Invoke her for sex magic or for taking the female role in the Great Rite.
Adsullata - Call on this lady for purification rites, and for all manner of magic relating to solar energies.
Aerten - Work with Aerten to overcome your enemies and to make peace.
Aeval - Call on Aeval to aid you in spells of lust, sex magic and wisdom in making judgments.
Aibell - Cultivate Aibell for protection and for aid in making music magic. Her energies are also compatible with earth magic and eco-magic.
Aibheaog - Use the energy of this Goddess for spells of healing or for Midsummer well rituals popular within some Celtic traditions.
Aidin - Love spells.
Aife - Call on Aife for protection, for general knowledge, or for aid in teaching. Through path working, she can also help teach us lessons of the Threefold Law.
Aige - Call on her to help ground negativity or to work banishing or staying spells.
Ailbe - Ailbe can help strengthen your mental prowess. Call on her before tests or other events that need brain work. She can also aid you in overcoming obstacles and bestow the gift of blarney, the cherished Irish art of glib gab.
Aille - merge with Aille when you need to think up a clever way to thwart an enemy, or to teach you to temper your need for revenge.
Ailinn - Call upon Ailinn to make love magic or to bless your own magical wands. If you feel your romance is being threatened, she is also used efficaciously as a protector of lovers.
Ain and Iaine - Unite with these energies to protect your family, land, and/or property.
Aine - Aine is a protector of women and a ruler of the faeries known as the Dinnshenchas (either named for or the namesake of the famous Irish mythology book). She can also be called upon for midsummer rites, as a protector of animals and environment, and for aid in keeping promises. Aine can also aid in banishing spells or any magic ruled by the sun.
Airmid - Call on Airmid for general aid in magic, for healing, learning herbalism, or understanding family loyalty. She can also inspire craftspeople.
Amerach - Agelessness in Celtic myth is often a metaphor for time manipulation, a shamanic art. Call on Amerach's energies to teach you to put aside your perceptions of linear time and peer through the veil to other worlds.
Andraste - Overcoming enemies.
Anu - Call on Anu for fertility magic.
Ardwinna - Use Ardwinna's energy when making magic for animals or to aid you in finding a familiar.
Argante - Healing magic and ritual.
Ariadne - Assistance in protection rites, manifestation magic, and learning the art of time manipulation.
Arianrhod - Arianrhod can be invoked to help females find their own feminine power. She can also assist you with spirit contact, sex and fertility magic, and past-life knowledge. Because her myths are linked with jumping the broom, an event that is part of Pagan marriage, she can be called upon to bless Hand-fasting rites.
Artio - Call upon Artio for fertility spells, animal magic, and personal strength and courage. Align with her if the bear is one of your personal totem animals or familiars. The word "art" in her name means bear, a sacred totem animal of the Celts associated with strength and courage.
Badb - Call on Badb at Samhain to aid you with spirit contact and to learn about past-lives. Through divination she can tell you your time of death if you really wish to know.
Ban-Chuideachaidh Moire - Call upon her to aid in childbirth.
Banbha - Bahbha can enhance qualities of leadership, teach us to keep memories alive, and bless earth magic. As a magician she can aid in all spell work.
Bean Naomha - Bean Naomha could possibly be helpful in divination, but could be difficult Bebo - Though Bebo is not a well-known mythic figure, her archetype as the bringer of abundance is a very strong one. Ask her aid in prosperity or fertility rites, invoke her for sex magic rituals, use her to bless animal, crop, or human reproduction. Honor her at the harvest Sabbats.
Becuma - Let Becuma teach you lessons about unnecessary jealousy, and use her energies as you would any Goddess of sovereignty.
Becuna - Evoke Becuna's presence at Samhain when her power as crone is strongeSt.
Bellah Postil - Bellah can aid you in love magic and astral projection, the latter being a synonym for her traveling by staff. Invoking her is the best way to enlist her help for astral travel.
Berecyntia - Elemental earth magic, fertility.
Biddy Early - Biddy's bottle archetypal represents the loss of feminine power and the suppression of the magical life in general. She can be a great aid in all forms of magic. Invoker her when you study pagan subjects, or when attempting to reclaim lost pagan arts and legends.
Biddy Mamionn - Healing, aid in childbirth.
Blai - Aid in faery contact.
Blathnat - The triplicate of the three cows, images of abundance, linked to the cauldron, clearly tie Blathnat to the energies of fertility.
Blodeuwedd - Blodeuwedd can teach us that we must always be responsible for our actions and that that which we seek will cost us. Perhaps she learned this lesson as we now view the owl as a wise old bird.
Bo Find - Call on her to ward off hunger, or to bring prosperity and fertility especially if you breed or raise animals. Honor her at Mabon.
Boadicea of the Inceni - Ask her aid in overcoming enemies, for help in choosing your own totem animals, or align with her to aid you in your rebellions.
Boann - Ask Boann's aid in fertility rituals, water magic, and she also can teach us when it is worth it to take chances.
Branwyn - Ask Branwyn's help with water magic, love spells, and sex magic.
Bri - Aid in making faery contact.
Brid - Brid can aid you in virtually any endeavor you wish to undertake. Call on her for assistance in fire magic, crafting, inspiration, animal magic, fertility, healing, and childbirth. Honor her at Imbolc.
Bronach - Reclaim this Samhain Goddess at your own seasonal rites.
Caer Ibormeith - Call on Caer to aid you in dram work, prophetic dreaming, aid in falling asleep, and music magic.
Cailleach, The (The Crone)- Call on this Samhain Goddess for seasonal rites, wisdom and weather magic. Do not fear working with her. Some say it is best to leave alone this dark aspect of divinity, but be assured there is nothing to fear. We must learn to love her and work with her as much as with the virgin or mother aspects in order to be whole. Treat her with the respect her age and wisdom have earned.
Caireen - Evoke her presence to assist in protective spells for children.
Cally Berry - Call on Cally Berry for magic for animals or for eco-magic.
Canola - Canola can aid us with music magic and dream work, and in gaining and giving creative inspiration.
Caolainn - Caolainn serves as a magical reminder - be careful what you wish for or you just might get it. She may also have some connection to healing powers. She is also a mother and Carman - Invite Carman to share in you harvest rittes and to aid you in magic for decrease.
Carravogue - Call on Carravogue for seasonal rites and to help teach you self-responsibility. Keep in mind the snake image of her that links her to reincarnation and earth Goddesses.
Cartimandua - Feminine power, overcoming enemies, serving country. The horse image links her to the realm of night and dream magic.
Cathubodia - Experiment with the two diverse forces attributed to Cathubodia to try to reclaim her original power.
Cebha of the White Skin - Seasonal rites.
Cebhfhionn - Astrally petition her for admission to the healing Well's side. She is also useful in rituals for the inspiration of self or for enhancing your mental powers.
Cerridwen - Cerridwen is at home during harvest rites, in all spells for wisdom and knowledge, and at waning moon festivals. She can also help teach us about past lives and aid in divination.
Cessair - Cultivate Cessair for her powers of strength, perseverance, leadership, and foresight. Honor her as a deity of new beginnings.
Cethlion - Ask Cethlion to aid you in divination.
Cliondna - Ask Cliodna's aid in spirit contact, especially as she is said to still teach us an appreciation for life, a direct contrast to what modern societies teach us that to live is only a bitter pill to take before we go forever to Heaven. Invoke her to enhance personal appearance or to aid you in water magic.
Clota - Water magic.
Coinchend - Spirit contact.
Condwiramur - Women can align with Condwiramur to discover their own feminine power, and males can utilize her energy to help them discover the ancient Grail mysteries.
Corchen - Reclaim her image by asking her to assist you in uncovering your past-lives, or for making earth magic.
Corra - Aid in divination.
Coventina - As a Goddess of the watershed she has thee energy associated with the ebb and flow of time, with new beginnings, live cycles, and making wishes. She can also be asked to aid in magic for the protection of birds, divination, and for inspiration of self.
Cred - Cred can help us with love magic, teach us about searching for the perfect mate, keeping secrets, and she can aid us in making spirit contact from her Otherworld home.
Creiddylad - This strong-willed woman can imbue us with the courage to stand up for ourselves and our rights and wants. Invoke her for strength of will.
Creirwy - Invoke her to boost your self-esteem and to aid in personal appearance.
Cyhiraeth - Evoke her presence for Passing Over rituals, aid in faery contact, or for water magic, especially when the goal is some type of inner-transformation.
Cymidei Cyminfoll - Cymidei's energy can give you the strength to continue in whatever battles in which you are embroiled. She can also teach you about past lives and help with creative magic.
Dahud-Ahes - Duhud can teach us to have responsible pleasure without guilt. When persecution strikes, call on her for courage to maintain your Pagan lifestyle and fight for the right to practice it openly as you please. Summon her presence to aid with water magic, sex magic, or sea faery contact.
Dana - Dana's very powerful presence can aid you in achieving anything you desire. She is especially strong in her association to motherhood, fire, crafting, fertility, manifestation magic, the healing of children, inspiration of self, sovereignty, and other creative endeavors.
Deae Matres - Call on her to be a part of your harvest ritual and your fertility magic, or to gain prosperity.
Dealgnaid - Invoker her power for taking n effective leadership roles.
Dechtere - See the entry for Triple Goddess for suggested uses for Dechtere's energies.
Deirdre of the Sorrows - Invoke Deirdre at bedtime to have prophetic dreams. Align with or invoke her to enhance personal appearance. Path work with her to overcome the ludicrous idea that that which is beautiful is always dangerous.
Delbchaem - fertility magic.
Deoca, Queen - Without anything magical being involved, be careful what you ask for or you might get it.
Derbforgaille - Invoke her to teach you the mysteries of spiritual kinship.
Dia Griene - Dia Griene's energy can help us in uncovering past-lives.
Domnu - Domnu can teach leadership skills, and aid you contacting the numerous
Celtic sea faeries.
Don - See Dana for full discussion.
Drem - Invoke Drem to aid you in divination, in conjuring prophetic dreams, or help in serving your country, clan, or other group about which you care.
Druiantia - Call on Druiantia and her legions to aid you in eco-magic and with help in understanding the complex tree calendar of the Celts, and the magical properties of each.
Dwyvach - think of Dwyvach as one half of creative magic, needing her consort to complete the work. Call upon them when working as a couple in ritual or spell work or to enhance sex magic.
Eadon - Invoke Eadon to open your own creative chhanels.
Ebha Ruadh Ni Murchu - Women who wish to merge with a genuine heroic figure and are as yet uncomfortable working with male forces might wish to align with Ebha instead.
Ebhlinne - Invite Ebhlinne to actively participate in your Midsummer rituals or to assist you with fire magic.
Edain - Ask Edain to help you with past or future life explorations, invoke her to enhance personal appearance.
Eire - Call on Eire for her qualities of leadership, to aid you in keeping memories as in keeping one's name alive, and for finding creative ways to overcome enemies.
Eithne - See Arianrhod for full discussion of Eithne's attributes.
Elen - Invoke her to gain her qualities of leadership and compassion.
Elphame, Queen of - As a potent crone Goddess her energies are associated with death, destruction, plague, battle and the Otherworld. By extension, her Beltane associations link her to concepts of rebirth. Respectfully harness her powerful energy as you would any crone's. Also call upon her as a May Queen and for aid in faery contact.
Emer - Ask Emer's help when you need a boost of self-esteem and self-pride. It really is all right to blow your own horn occasionally. She can also help you to release your own creative spirit and aid your mental prowess.
Enid - Cultivate her aid in couples work, sex magic, romantic love spells and when issues of fidelity are involved.
Eostre - Call on Eostre for assistance in your Ostara rites, in the Great Rite, in fertility matters for you or for your pets and livestock. Her association with spring makes her energy compatible with blessing new ventures or for celebrating reincarnation and new life.
Epona - Call on Epona for dream work, fertility, war, use her to help banish nightmares in children. As a self-triplicate she can teach women the needed lesson of being whole and complete within themselves, and to be sovereign, men can "mate" with her to help attain similar strengths. She is also compatible with sex magic and divination.
Erce - Ask Erce to your harvest festivals, and allow her to lend her aid to earth magic.
Eri of the Golden Hair - Utilize Eri's energy as the feminine principle of creation. As the mate of the sun she can be linked to moon mother images.
Ernmas - "She-farmer" relates her to fertility rites, and the "murderer" to the dark mother. Use her energy for fertility and earth magic spells.
Ess Euchen - Align with her to understand the need for and pitfalls of vengeance. Flying off the handle and seeking to do someone else bodily harm may have been an idea prized by Celtic warriors, but it is hardly sound practice for modern pagans who - hopefully - have evolved into beings able to reason out differences. Path work with Ess Euchen to change the outcome of her story and to learn to overcome the temptation to engage in or listen to gossip.
Ethne - Her powers of invisibility are usually a metaphor for astral projection (through there is a tradition of utilizing other types of invisibility spells in Celtic magical practice). Call on her to aid you in this endeavor, or invoke her when you wish to go about unnoticed.
Fachea - Invoke Fachea to inspire creativity in yourself or others.
Fand - Call on Fand for healing, and for the assurance that you can have pleasure without guilt if you act responsibly. She can also aid you in making faery contact and water magic.
Fedelma - Invoke her to increase your own psychic abilities.
Feithline - Call on her for divination and aid in spirit contact. She can also tell you the time of your own death, if you really care to know.
Finchoem - Fertility magic.
Findabar - Females can align with hr to have the courage of their convictions and to help them be strong enough to have and live with their choices. Men can pair themselves with her to have a strong partner for overcoming adversity.
Fiongalla - Call upon Fiongalla for seasonal rites. Bring her required items (yew berries, holly boughs, and bouquets of marigolds) to evoke her presence (but not if pets or children will be in attendance, as those items contain toxic properties).
Fionnuala - Fionnuala can be invoked to give us the strength to aid our family and keep them together.
Flaithius - Divination.
Fludais - Fludais can aid you in magic for animals, the environment, and in learning to give. She is also a Goddess of the hunt and a feminine version of the Holly King/Santa Claus.
Garbh Ogh - Eco-magic, seasonal rites involving the sacrificial God.
Genovefa - Earth magic.
Gillagriene - Fire magic
Godiva, Lady - Lady Godiva is a May Queen for seasonal rites See Epona for further discussion of her attributes.
Goewin - Approach Goewin as a Goddess of sovereignty and May Queen.
Goleuddydd - Cultivate her to strengthen family ties, or to help you know when it is time to leave your family to begin your own.
Grainne - Feminine power, love, and invisibility spells.
Grainne Ni Malley - Grainne shares the attributes of the many goddesses of sovereignty, and can aid you in serving your country, or discovering the divine feminine power inside yourself.
Grian - Call on Grian and Aine to be a part of seasonal rites. If you prefer a feminist slant on your spirituality, they can easily replace the Holly and Oak Kings' function.
Guildeluec - Evoke her to learn lessons of unselfish love, compassion, and as an aid to general magic.
Guinevere, Queen - Seasonal rites.
Gwendydd - Divination
Gwennolaik - Evoke her for romance spells, couples work, and spirit contact. Loyalty and family love and ties can also be strengthened in ritual with her that can teach that family is more than blood ties, but is love and caring.
Gwyar - Spirit contact, Passing Over rites, childbirth.
Habetrot - Call on Habetrot for aid in healing spells, to be a part of seasonal rites, or to commemorate creation.
Habondia - Use the spirit of Habondia in seasonal harvest rituals, fertility rites, for prosperity spells, or to make earth magic.
Heloise - Call on Heloise for couples magic, Druidic magic, love spells, aid and wisdom for students, and for Hand-fasting rites.
Hanwen - Fertility rites, childbirth assistance, and prosperity magic.
Igraine - Igraine is the eternal mother Goddess who is both mother and lover to her child. Call upon her for seasonal rites involving the birth and death of the father God.
Inghean Dhuidhe - use her energy in Beltane rituals, for flower festivals, or to bless spring planting.
Irnan - Irnan is a powerful source of magical energy, and also shares most of the attributes of the Triple Goddess and the Morrigan.
Isolde - Invoke these two in Hand-fasting rituals, and ask their aid in couples work, sex magic, and love spells.
Kele-De - Call on Kele-de to raise feminine power or for sex magic.
Lady of the Lake, The - The Lady of the Lake is a powerful archetype of sovereignty. Harness her energy for purification, healing, the Great Rite, and many other magical acts associated with the feminine elements.
Lassair - Seasonal Rites.
Latiaran - Seasonal rites and fire magic.
Latis - Ask Latis' assist in your understanding the Wheel of the Year. Call on her for Samhain rites or to add her voice to the mourning of the old God.
Lavercam - Lavercam can aid you in divination, creative endeavors, and spells and rituals to invoke loyalty. Evoke her energy to bless binding and secrecy rituals within your coven. She can also subtly help us to remember that looks are less important than other qualities.
LeFay - Healing.
Liban - Liban kames an excellent subject for path working to learn about knowledge, transformation, and loyalty. She can also aid you in finding a familiar.
Luaths Lurgann - Call on her to overcome enemies, strengthen family or loyalties, for aid in teaching, for gaining physical fitness, or for learning astral projection.
Luned - Ask Luned to teach you the art of astral projection for this is truly the art of invisibility.
Macha - Cultivate Macha to aid you in childbirth,, to gain wisdom, to help you overcome your enemies, or to uncover past-lives.
Maeve, Queen - Involve Maeve in sex magic and spells for leadership skills. Call on her power to gain perseverance and strength, or to ward off enemies. Path work with her to understand your won, or your partner's feminine power.
Magog - Call on them for fertility or couples magick, and for casting spells with the earth element.
Mala Liath - See Cerridwen and the Cailleach for full discussion.
Marcassa, Princess - healing, sleep/dream magic, or seasonal rites.
Marcia Proba - Invoke Marcia Proba when you are called upon to make judgment and mete out justice. Allow her to teach you about fairness and equality.
Meg the Healer - Call on her for healing, herbal knowledge, or to aid you in faery contact.
Melusine - Compassion, also knowledge of when vengeance is not right or just, or none of your business.
Messbuachallo - Fertility, general aid to magic.
Modron - Call Modron for all mother Goddess magic and ritual needs. She is also at home at harvest rites, childbirth beds, and in sex magic.
Moningfhion - Evoke her presence for Samhain rites, and ask her to aid you in gaining her vast wisdom.
Morgan LeFay - Morgan's energy is compatible with music magic, sovereignty rites, passing over rituals, spirit contact, and water spells. She can also help teach us the destructive nature of gossip and bigotry. Call on her to put a stop to this if it is ruining your coven or Pagan organization.
Morgay - Seasonal rites.
Moriath - Cultivate her assistance for making your own music magic.
Morrigan, The - The Morrigan are a powerful force which most prefer to separate and work with one-on-one. Call on them for passing over rituals, or to help you overcome enemies. Servicemen and women can call upon their energy when in battle. They are also a potent force for waning moon and banishing magic. However, be cautioned that their collective energy can turn violent.
Muireartach - See the Morrigan for full discussion.
Munanna - Though not a potent archetype, Munanna can be helpful to us in understanding and overcoming our culturally bred fear of powerful women.
Murna of the White Neck - the birth in the woods links her image to fertility, woodland and fertile earth Goddesses. Call upon her for fertility, or eco- and earth magic.
Nair - Ask Nair's aid in making spirit contact, assisting your Samhain rites, and in prosperity rites.
Nantosuelta - Fertility spells, harvest rites, and water magic.
Nehalennia - Call on Nehalennia for protection on the water.
Nemetona - Call upon Nemetona for blessing your circle and for bestowing protection on all your sacred spaces.
Nessa - Invoke her as a Goddess of sovereignty, feminine power, strength and courage. Ask her aid in overcoming enemies, increasing mental prowess, and in helping you to look out for the interests of your children.
Nicevenn - Samhain rituals.
Odras - Since the Morrigan are the supreme death and battle deities of the Celts, Odras' tale teaches us that death cannot be cheated or halted, no matter how we proteSt. When Odras' livelihood was taken, she died, even though she tried in vain to fight the death Goddesses. Use her to learn about accepting the inevitable cycles of time rather than fearing then. This does not mean one should not fight for life, but we must be wise enough to realize when the struggle must end.
Olwen - Olwen can aid you in making faery contact, or enhance Beltane rituals, and she can help women learn to tap into their own feminine power.
Onaugh - Assistance in faery contact.
Plur na mBan - Experiment with her youthful energy at the spring Sabbats or at Pagan flower festivals.
Princess of the Sun, The - Call on her for aid in overcoming enemies, for couples work, lessons in cooperation (often needed in coven settings), and for protection.
Rashincoatie - Path work with Rashincoatie to help you overcome your own childhood traumas. There's a lot to be said for visualizing yourself in a happy ending - whatever you choose it to be.
Ratis - Use the energy of Ratis when you need to build up and/or enhance your defenses. Call upon her to protect the boundaries of your sacred circle.
Rhiannon - Rhiannon can aid you in overcoming enemies, exercising patience, working magic, moon rituals, and enhancing dream work.
Rhiannon Rhin Branawd - Invoke or path work with her to learn more about the feminine mysteries.
Rosmerta - Cultivate Rosmerta to aid in healing and communication.
Saba - Magic for animals, aid in finding a familiar.
Scathach - Call on Scathach for weaving potent magick, to learn fighting skills, to offer protection, or invite her to aid you when you are the teacher.
Scena - Experiment with her energies as a Goddess of mergers and subtle changes.
Scota - Call on her to aid you in finding the right names for yourself and other things. Experiment with her energies as a mother Goddess.
Sequana - Call on Sequana for prosperity rites, or for making earth and water magic. Use her presence to purify your circles. Invoke her for prosperity rites.
Sheila-na-gig - Use her image for harnessing feminine power, or to help reveal past and future lives.
Sin - Call on her for stamina and strength to fight problems, to help handle legal matters, or overcome enemies. Also ask her for protection and prosperity. Evoke her as a patron Goddess if you give your time and energy to aiding the hungry or the homeless.
Sionnan - Ask her to aid you in faery contact or inn well rituals.
Sirona - Healing and purification.
Smirgat - Tap into her power to gain feminine power and learn the mysteries.
Stine Bheag O'Tarbat - General aid in magic, and for making weather magic.
Sul - Invite Sul to Imbolc rites and ask her too aid in healing rituals.
Taillte - Taillte's energy is compatible with seasonal and harvest rites, fertility magic, and enhancing strength for competitive games.
Tamara - Call on the energy of Tamara when you need to create or fortify your own boundaries.
Taranis - Involve Taranis in Passing Over rituals.
Tea and Tephi - Call on these two to protect sacred spaces or to aid you in seeking to find your sacred space. They also share a connection with the ancient Celtic powers sleeping in wait at Tara that can be connected with through deep meditation and path working.
Tlachtga - Call Tlachtga to your Samhain rituals and invoke her during Crone age rites of passage.
Triduana - See Brid for discussion.
Triple Goddess, The - When working magic in sync with the moon phases, draw into yourself the appropriate aspect to aid you. By doing this any magical goal can be aided
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Tryphyna - Tryphyna can teach us to wield the power of elements, to overcome enemies, and to work with all forms of elemental magic. Evoke her spirit into a ring for protection.
Turrean - Path work with Turrean to learn to make the best of a bad situation, to help you in the care of dogs, or for working with dog familiars. Call upon her maiden form for New Year's rites.
Uathach - Protection and strength.
Varia - Learn from Varia the right use of temper in magical intent.
Veleda - Call upon Veleda when you need to enhance your leadership skills, inspire others, or lead troops.
Vennolandua - Call on her for reclaiming feminine power, or for exercising leadership roles.
Vivienne - Vivienne can be a boon to sex or couples magic despite her negative press. She can also teach us about the dangers of manipulative magic of any kind, but especially in love where we are all tempted.
Vivonn - Evoke her for assistance in Passing Over rituals.
Achtan - Achtan can teach us about the strength off mother love and help us to have the perseverance to seek the best for our children.
Achtland - Invoke her for sex magic or for taking the female role in the Great Rite.
Adsullata - Call on this lady for purification rites, and for all manner of magic relating to solar energies.
Aerten - Work with Aerten to overcome your enemies and to make peace.
Aeval - Call on Aeval to aid you in spells of lust, sex magic and wisdom in making judgments.
Aibell - Cultivate Aibell for protection and for aid in making music magic. Her energies are also compatible with earth magic and eco-magic.
Aibheaog - Use the energy of this Goddess for spells of healing or for Midsummer well rituals popular within some Celtic traditions.
Aidin - Love spells.
Aife - Call on Aife for protection, for general knowledge, or for aid in teaching. Through path working, she can also help teach us lessons of the Threefold Law.
Aige - Call on her to help ground negativity or to work banishing or staying spells.
Ailbe - Ailbe can help strengthen your mental prowess. Call on her before tests or other events that need brain work. She can also aid you in overcoming obstacles and bestow the gift of blarney, the cherished Irish art of glib gab.
Aille - merge with Aille when you need to think up a clever way to thwart an enemy, or to teach you to temper your need for revenge.
Ailinn - Call upon Ailinn to make love magic or to bless your own magical wands. If you feel your romance is being threatened, she is also used efficaciously as a protector of lovers.
Ain and Iaine - Unite with these energies to protect your family, land, and/or property.
Aine - Aine is a protector of women and a ruler of the faeries known as the Dinnshenchas (either named for or the namesake of the famous Irish mythology book). She can also be called upon for midsummer rites, as a protector of animals and environment, and for aid in keeping promises. Aine can also aid in banishing spells or any magic ruled by the sun.
Airmid - Call on Airmid for general aid in magic, for healing, learning herbalism, or understanding family loyalty. She can also inspire craftspeople.
Amerach - Agelessness in Celtic myth is often a metaphor for time manipulation, a shamanic art. Call on Amerach's energies to teach you to put aside your perceptions of linear time and peer through the veil to other worlds.
Andraste - Overcoming enemies.
Anu - Call on Anu for fertility magic.
Ardwinna - Use Ardwinna's energy when making magic for animals or to aid you in finding a familiar.
Argante - Healing magic and ritual.
Ariadne - Assistance in protection rites, manifestation magic, and learning the art of time manipulation.
Arianrhod - Arianrhod can be invoked to help females find their own feminine power. She can also assist you with spirit contact, sex and fertility magic, and past-life knowledge. Because her myths are linked with jumping the broom, an event that is part of Pagan marriage, she can be called upon to bless Hand-fasting rites.
Artio - Call upon Artio for fertility spells, animal magic, and personal strength and courage. Align with her if the bear is one of your personal totem animals or familiars. The word "art" in her name means bear, a sacred totem animal of the Celts associated with strength and courage.
Badb - Call on Badb at Samhain to aid you with spirit contact and to learn about past-lives. Through divination she can tell you your time of death if you really wish to know.
Ban-Chuideachaidh Moire - Call upon her to aid in childbirth.
Banbha - Bahbha can enhance qualities of leadership, teach us to keep memories alive, and bless earth magic. As a magician she can aid in all spell work.
Bean Naomha - Bean Naomha could possibly be helpful in divination, but could be difficult Bebo - Though Bebo is not a well-known mythic figure, her archetype as the bringer of abundance is a very strong one. Ask her aid in prosperity or fertility rites, invoke her for sex magic rituals, use her to bless animal, crop, or human reproduction. Honor her at the harvest Sabbats.
Becuma - Let Becuma teach you lessons about unnecessary jealousy, and use her energies as you would any Goddess of sovereignty.
Becuna - Evoke Becuna's presence at Samhain when her power as crone is strongeSt.
Bellah Postil - Bellah can aid you in love magic and astral projection, the latter being a synonym for her traveling by staff. Invoking her is the best way to enlist her help for astral travel.
Berecyntia - Elemental earth magic, fertility.
Biddy Early - Biddy's bottle archetypal represents the loss of feminine power and the suppression of the magical life in general. She can be a great aid in all forms of magic. Invoker her when you study pagan subjects, or when attempting to reclaim lost pagan arts and legends.
Biddy Mamionn - Healing, aid in childbirth.
Blai - Aid in faery contact.
Blathnat - The triplicate of the three cows, images of abundance, linked to the cauldron, clearly tie Blathnat to the energies of fertility.
Blodeuwedd - Blodeuwedd can teach us that we must always be responsible for our actions and that that which we seek will cost us. Perhaps she learned this lesson as we now view the owl as a wise old bird.
Bo Find - Call on her to ward off hunger, or to bring prosperity and fertility especially if you breed or raise animals. Honor her at Mabon.
Boadicea of the Inceni - Ask her aid in overcoming enemies, for help in choosing your own totem animals, or align with her to aid you in your rebellions.
Boann - Ask Boann's aid in fertility rituals, water magic, and she also can teach us when it is worth it to take chances.
Branwyn - Ask Branwyn's help with water magic, love spells, and sex magic.
Bri - Aid in making faery contact.
Brid - Brid can aid you in virtually any endeavor you wish to undertake. Call on her for assistance in fire magic, crafting, inspiration, animal magic, fertility, healing, and childbirth. Honor her at Imbolc.
Bronach - Reclaim this Samhain Goddess at your own seasonal rites.
Caer Ibormeith - Call on Caer to aid you in dram work, prophetic dreaming, aid in falling asleep, and music magic.
Cailleach, The (The Crone)- Call on this Samhain Goddess for seasonal rites, wisdom and weather magic. Do not fear working with her. Some say it is best to leave alone this dark aspect of divinity, but be assured there is nothing to fear. We must learn to love her and work with her as much as with the virgin or mother aspects in order to be whole. Treat her with the respect her age and wisdom have earned.
Caireen - Evoke her presence to assist in protective spells for children.
Cally Berry - Call on Cally Berry for magic for animals or for eco-magic.
Canola - Canola can aid us with music magic and dream work, and in gaining and giving creative inspiration.
Caolainn - Caolainn serves as a magical reminder - be careful what you wish for or you just might get it. She may also have some connection to healing powers. She is also a mother and Carman - Invite Carman to share in you harvest rittes and to aid you in magic for decrease.
Carravogue - Call on Carravogue for seasonal rites and to help teach you self-responsibility. Keep in mind the snake image of her that links her to reincarnation and earth Goddesses.
Cartimandua - Feminine power, overcoming enemies, serving country. The horse image links her to the realm of night and dream magic.
Cathubodia - Experiment with the two diverse forces attributed to Cathubodia to try to reclaim her original power.
Cebha of the White Skin - Seasonal rites.
Cebhfhionn - Astrally petition her for admission to the healing Well's side. She is also useful in rituals for the inspiration of self or for enhancing your mental powers.
Cerridwen - Cerridwen is at home during harvest rites, in all spells for wisdom and knowledge, and at waning moon festivals. She can also help teach us about past lives and aid in divination.
Cessair - Cultivate Cessair for her powers of strength, perseverance, leadership, and foresight. Honor her as a deity of new beginnings.
Cethlion - Ask Cethlion to aid you in divination.
Cliondna - Ask Cliodna's aid in spirit contact, especially as she is said to still teach us an appreciation for life, a direct contrast to what modern societies teach us that to live is only a bitter pill to take before we go forever to Heaven. Invoke her to enhance personal appearance or to aid you in water magic.
Clota - Water magic.
Coinchend - Spirit contact.
Condwiramur - Women can align with Condwiramur to discover their own feminine power, and males can utilize her energy to help them discover the ancient Grail mysteries.
Corchen - Reclaim her image by asking her to assist you in uncovering your past-lives, or for making earth magic.
Corra - Aid in divination.
Coventina - As a Goddess of the watershed she has thee energy associated with the ebb and flow of time, with new beginnings, live cycles, and making wishes. She can also be asked to aid in magic for the protection of birds, divination, and for inspiration of self.
Cred - Cred can help us with love magic, teach us about searching for the perfect mate, keeping secrets, and she can aid us in making spirit contact from her Otherworld home.
Creiddylad - This strong-willed woman can imbue us with the courage to stand up for ourselves and our rights and wants. Invoke her for strength of will.
Creirwy - Invoke her to boost your self-esteem and to aid in personal appearance.
Cyhiraeth - Evoke her presence for Passing Over rituals, aid in faery contact, or for water magic, especially when the goal is some type of inner-transformation.
Cymidei Cyminfoll - Cymidei's energy can give you the strength to continue in whatever battles in which you are embroiled. She can also teach you about past lives and help with creative magic.
Dahud-Ahes - Duhud can teach us to have responsible pleasure without guilt. When persecution strikes, call on her for courage to maintain your Pagan lifestyle and fight for the right to practice it openly as you please. Summon her presence to aid with water magic, sex magic, or sea faery contact.
Dana - Dana's very powerful presence can aid you in achieving anything you desire. She is especially strong in her association to motherhood, fire, crafting, fertility, manifestation magic, the healing of children, inspiration of self, sovereignty, and other creative endeavors.
Deae Matres - Call on her to be a part of your harvest ritual and your fertility magic, or to gain prosperity.
Dealgnaid - Invoker her power for taking n effective leadership roles.
Dechtere - See the entry for Triple Goddess for suggested uses for Dechtere's energies.
Deirdre of the Sorrows - Invoke Deirdre at bedtime to have prophetic dreams. Align with or invoke her to enhance personal appearance. Path work with her to overcome the ludicrous idea that that which is beautiful is always dangerous.
Delbchaem - fertility magic.
Deoca, Queen - Without anything magical being involved, be careful what you ask for or you might get it.
Derbforgaille - Invoke her to teach you the mysteries of spiritual kinship.
Dia Griene - Dia Griene's energy can help us in uncovering past-lives.
Domnu - Domnu can teach leadership skills, and aid you contacting the numerous
Celtic sea faeries.
Don - See Dana for full discussion.
Drem - Invoke Drem to aid you in divination, in conjuring prophetic dreams, or help in serving your country, clan, or other group about which you care.
Druiantia - Call on Druiantia and her legions to aid you in eco-magic and with help in understanding the complex tree calendar of the Celts, and the magical properties of each.
Dwyvach - think of Dwyvach as one half of creative magic, needing her consort to complete the work. Call upon them when working as a couple in ritual or spell work or to enhance sex magic.
Eadon - Invoke Eadon to open your own creative chhanels.
Ebha Ruadh Ni Murchu - Women who wish to merge with a genuine heroic figure and are as yet uncomfortable working with male forces might wish to align with Ebha instead.
Ebhlinne - Invite Ebhlinne to actively participate in your Midsummer rituals or to assist you with fire magic.
Edain - Ask Edain to help you with past or future life explorations, invoke her to enhance personal appearance.
Eire - Call on Eire for her qualities of leadership, to aid you in keeping memories as in keeping one's name alive, and for finding creative ways to overcome enemies.
Eithne - See Arianrhod for full discussion of Eithne's attributes.
Elen - Invoke her to gain her qualities of leadership and compassion.
Elphame, Queen of - As a potent crone Goddess her energies are associated with death, destruction, plague, battle and the Otherworld. By extension, her Beltane associations link her to concepts of rebirth. Respectfully harness her powerful energy as you would any crone's. Also call upon her as a May Queen and for aid in faery contact.
Emer - Ask Emer's help when you need a boost of self-esteem and self-pride. It really is all right to blow your own horn occasionally. She can also help you to release your own creative spirit and aid your mental prowess.
Enid - Cultivate her aid in couples work, sex magic, romantic love spells and when issues of fidelity are involved.
Eostre - Call on Eostre for assistance in your Ostara rites, in the Great Rite, in fertility matters for you or for your pets and livestock. Her association with spring makes her energy compatible with blessing new ventures or for celebrating reincarnation and new life.
Epona - Call on Epona for dream work, fertility, war, use her to help banish nightmares in children. As a self-triplicate she can teach women the needed lesson of being whole and complete within themselves, and to be sovereign, men can "mate" with her to help attain similar strengths. She is also compatible with sex magic and divination.
Erce - Ask Erce to your harvest festivals, and allow her to lend her aid to earth magic.
Eri of the Golden Hair - Utilize Eri's energy as the feminine principle of creation. As the mate of the sun she can be linked to moon mother images.
Ernmas - "She-farmer" relates her to fertility rites, and the "murderer" to the dark mother. Use her energy for fertility and earth magic spells.
Ess Euchen - Align with her to understand the need for and pitfalls of vengeance. Flying off the handle and seeking to do someone else bodily harm may have been an idea prized by Celtic warriors, but it is hardly sound practice for modern pagans who - hopefully - have evolved into beings able to reason out differences. Path work with Ess Euchen to change the outcome of her story and to learn to overcome the temptation to engage in or listen to gossip.
Ethne - Her powers of invisibility are usually a metaphor for astral projection (through there is a tradition of utilizing other types of invisibility spells in Celtic magical practice). Call on her to aid you in this endeavor, or invoke her when you wish to go about unnoticed.
Fachea - Invoke Fachea to inspire creativity in yourself or others.
Fand - Call on Fand for healing, and for the assurance that you can have pleasure without guilt if you act responsibly. She can also aid you in making faery contact and water magic.
Fedelma - Invoke her to increase your own psychic abilities.
Feithline - Call on her for divination and aid in spirit contact. She can also tell you the time of your own death, if you really care to know.
Finchoem - Fertility magic.
Findabar - Females can align with hr to have the courage of their convictions and to help them be strong enough to have and live with their choices. Men can pair themselves with her to have a strong partner for overcoming adversity.
Fiongalla - Call upon Fiongalla for seasonal rites. Bring her required items (yew berries, holly boughs, and bouquets of marigolds) to evoke her presence (but not if pets or children will be in attendance, as those items contain toxic properties).
Fionnuala - Fionnuala can be invoked to give us the strength to aid our family and keep them together.
Flaithius - Divination.
Fludais - Fludais can aid you in magic for animals, the environment, and in learning to give. She is also a Goddess of the hunt and a feminine version of the Holly King/Santa Claus.
Garbh Ogh - Eco-magic, seasonal rites involving the sacrificial God.
Genovefa - Earth magic.
Gillagriene - Fire magic
Godiva, Lady - Lady Godiva is a May Queen for seasonal rites See Epona for further discussion of her attributes.
Goewin - Approach Goewin as a Goddess of sovereignty and May Queen.
Goleuddydd - Cultivate her to strengthen family ties, or to help you know when it is time to leave your family to begin your own.
Grainne - Feminine power, love, and invisibility spells.
Grainne Ni Malley - Grainne shares the attributes of the many goddesses of sovereignty, and can aid you in serving your country, or discovering the divine feminine power inside yourself.
Grian - Call on Grian and Aine to be a part of seasonal rites. If you prefer a feminist slant on your spirituality, they can easily replace the Holly and Oak Kings' function.
Guildeluec - Evoke her to learn lessons of unselfish love, compassion, and as an aid to general magic.
Guinevere, Queen - Seasonal rites.
Gwendydd - Divination
Gwennolaik - Evoke her for romance spells, couples work, and spirit contact. Loyalty and family love and ties can also be strengthened in ritual with her that can teach that family is more than blood ties, but is love and caring.
Gwyar - Spirit contact, Passing Over rites, childbirth.
Habetrot - Call on Habetrot for aid in healing spells, to be a part of seasonal rites, or to commemorate creation.
Habondia - Use the spirit of Habondia in seasonal harvest rituals, fertility rites, for prosperity spells, or to make earth magic.
Heloise - Call on Heloise for couples magic, Druidic magic, love spells, aid and wisdom for students, and for Hand-fasting rites.
Hanwen - Fertility rites, childbirth assistance, and prosperity magic.
Igraine - Igraine is the eternal mother Goddess who is both mother and lover to her child. Call upon her for seasonal rites involving the birth and death of the father God.
Inghean Dhuidhe - use her energy in Beltane rituals, for flower festivals, or to bless spring planting.
Irnan - Irnan is a powerful source of magical energy, and also shares most of the attributes of the Triple Goddess and the Morrigan.
Isolde - Invoke these two in Hand-fasting rituals, and ask their aid in couples work, sex magic, and love spells.
Kele-De - Call on Kele-de to raise feminine power or for sex magic.
Lady of the Lake, The - The Lady of the Lake is a powerful archetype of sovereignty. Harness her energy for purification, healing, the Great Rite, and many other magical acts associated with the feminine elements.
Lassair - Seasonal Rites.
Latiaran - Seasonal rites and fire magic.
Latis - Ask Latis' assist in your understanding the Wheel of the Year. Call on her for Samhain rites or to add her voice to the mourning of the old God.
Lavercam - Lavercam can aid you in divination, creative endeavors, and spells and rituals to invoke loyalty. Evoke her energy to bless binding and secrecy rituals within your coven. She can also subtly help us to remember that looks are less important than other qualities.
LeFay - Healing.
Liban - Liban kames an excellent subject for path working to learn about knowledge, transformation, and loyalty. She can also aid you in finding a familiar.
Luaths Lurgann - Call on her to overcome enemies, strengthen family or loyalties, for aid in teaching, for gaining physical fitness, or for learning astral projection.
Luned - Ask Luned to teach you the art of astral projection for this is truly the art of invisibility.
Macha - Cultivate Macha to aid you in childbirth,, to gain wisdom, to help you overcome your enemies, or to uncover past-lives.
Maeve, Queen - Involve Maeve in sex magic and spells for leadership skills. Call on her power to gain perseverance and strength, or to ward off enemies. Path work with her to understand your won, or your partner's feminine power.
Magog - Call on them for fertility or couples magick, and for casting spells with the earth element.
Mala Liath - See Cerridwen and the Cailleach for full discussion.
Marcassa, Princess - healing, sleep/dream magic, or seasonal rites.
Marcia Proba - Invoke Marcia Proba when you are called upon to make judgment and mete out justice. Allow her to teach you about fairness and equality.
Meg the Healer - Call on her for healing, herbal knowledge, or to aid you in faery contact.
Melusine - Compassion, also knowledge of when vengeance is not right or just, or none of your business.
Messbuachallo - Fertility, general aid to magic.
Modron - Call Modron for all mother Goddess magic and ritual needs. She is also at home at harvest rites, childbirth beds, and in sex magic.
Moningfhion - Evoke her presence for Samhain rites, and ask her to aid you in gaining her vast wisdom.
Morgan LeFay - Morgan's energy is compatible with music magic, sovereignty rites, passing over rituals, spirit contact, and water spells. She can also help teach us the destructive nature of gossip and bigotry. Call on her to put a stop to this if it is ruining your coven or Pagan organization.
Morgay - Seasonal rites.
Moriath - Cultivate her assistance for making your own music magic.
Morrigan, The - The Morrigan are a powerful force which most prefer to separate and work with one-on-one. Call on them for passing over rituals, or to help you overcome enemies. Servicemen and women can call upon their energy when in battle. They are also a potent force for waning moon and banishing magic. However, be cautioned that their collective energy can turn violent.
Muireartach - See the Morrigan for full discussion.
Munanna - Though not a potent archetype, Munanna can be helpful to us in understanding and overcoming our culturally bred fear of powerful women.
Murna of the White Neck - the birth in the woods links her image to fertility, woodland and fertile earth Goddesses. Call upon her for fertility, or eco- and earth magic.
Nair - Ask Nair's aid in making spirit contact, assisting your Samhain rites, and in prosperity rites.
Nantosuelta - Fertility spells, harvest rites, and water magic.
Nehalennia - Call on Nehalennia for protection on the water.
Nemetona - Call upon Nemetona for blessing your circle and for bestowing protection on all your sacred spaces.
Nessa - Invoke her as a Goddess of sovereignty, feminine power, strength and courage. Ask her aid in overcoming enemies, increasing mental prowess, and in helping you to look out for the interests of your children.
Nicevenn - Samhain rituals.
Odras - Since the Morrigan are the supreme death and battle deities of the Celts, Odras' tale teaches us that death cannot be cheated or halted, no matter how we proteSt. When Odras' livelihood was taken, she died, even though she tried in vain to fight the death Goddesses. Use her to learn about accepting the inevitable cycles of time rather than fearing then. This does not mean one should not fight for life, but we must be wise enough to realize when the struggle must end.
Olwen - Olwen can aid you in making faery contact, or enhance Beltane rituals, and she can help women learn to tap into their own feminine power.
Onaugh - Assistance in faery contact.
Plur na mBan - Experiment with her youthful energy at the spring Sabbats or at Pagan flower festivals.
Princess of the Sun, The - Call on her for aid in overcoming enemies, for couples work, lessons in cooperation (often needed in coven settings), and for protection.
Rashincoatie - Path work with Rashincoatie to help you overcome your own childhood traumas. There's a lot to be said for visualizing yourself in a happy ending - whatever you choose it to be.
Ratis - Use the energy of Ratis when you need to build up and/or enhance your defenses. Call upon her to protect the boundaries of your sacred circle.
Rhiannon - Rhiannon can aid you in overcoming enemies, exercising patience, working magic, moon rituals, and enhancing dream work.
Rhiannon Rhin Branawd - Invoke or path work with her to learn more about the feminine mysteries.
Rosmerta - Cultivate Rosmerta to aid in healing and communication.
Saba - Magic for animals, aid in finding a familiar.
Scathach - Call on Scathach for weaving potent magick, to learn fighting skills, to offer protection, or invite her to aid you when you are the teacher.
Scena - Experiment with her energies as a Goddess of mergers and subtle changes.
Scota - Call on her to aid you in finding the right names for yourself and other things. Experiment with her energies as a mother Goddess.
Sequana - Call on Sequana for prosperity rites, or for making earth and water magic. Use her presence to purify your circles. Invoke her for prosperity rites.
Sheila-na-gig - Use her image for harnessing feminine power, or to help reveal past and future lives.
Sin - Call on her for stamina and strength to fight problems, to help handle legal matters, or overcome enemies. Also ask her for protection and prosperity. Evoke her as a patron Goddess if you give your time and energy to aiding the hungry or the homeless.
Sionnan - Ask her to aid you in faery contact or inn well rituals.
Sirona - Healing and purification.
Smirgat - Tap into her power to gain feminine power and learn the mysteries.
Stine Bheag O'Tarbat - General aid in magic, and for making weather magic.
Sul - Invite Sul to Imbolc rites and ask her too aid in healing rituals.
Taillte - Taillte's energy is compatible with seasonal and harvest rites, fertility magic, and enhancing strength for competitive games.
Tamara - Call on the energy of Tamara when you need to create or fortify your own boundaries.
Taranis - Involve Taranis in Passing Over rituals.
Tea and Tephi - Call on these two to protect sacred spaces or to aid you in seeking to find your sacred space. They also share a connection with the ancient Celtic powers sleeping in wait at Tara that can be connected with through deep meditation and path working.
Tlachtga - Call Tlachtga to your Samhain rituals and invoke her during Crone age rites of passage.
Triduana - See Brid for discussion.
Triple Goddess, The - When working magic in sync with the moon phases, draw into yourself the appropriate aspect to aid you. By doing this any magical goal can be aided
.
Tryphyna - Tryphyna can teach us to wield the power of elements, to overcome enemies, and to work with all forms of elemental magic. Evoke her spirit into a ring for protection.
Turrean - Path work with Turrean to learn to make the best of a bad situation, to help you in the care of dogs, or for working with dog familiars. Call upon her maiden form for New Year's rites.
Uathach - Protection and strength.
Varia - Learn from Varia the right use of temper in magical intent.
Veleda - Call upon Veleda when you need to enhance your leadership skills, inspire others, or lead troops.
Vennolandua - Call on her for reclaiming feminine power, or for exercising leadership roles.
Vivienne - Vivienne can be a boon to sex or couples magic despite her negative press. She can also teach us about the dangers of manipulative magic of any kind, but especially in love where we are all tempted.
Vivonn - Evoke her for assistance in Passing Over rituals.