This group talks about some of the famous lovers in the Celtic tradition. Such names as Fand and Cuhulain, Emer and Cuhulain, Morgaine and Arthur, Guinevere and Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot, Tristan and Isolde, Elaine and Lancelot, Igraine and Uther, Igraine and the Gorlois the Duke of Cornwall, Deirdre and Noaise, Merlin and Nimue, Merlin and Viviane and many others.
Nimue was great comfort to the knight Pellas when his lady courted and bedded Gawain. There were multiple relationships in Celtic romance. Melwas, lord of the Summerland, became love-struck with Guinevere when she rode out on Beltaine to greet the May. Arthur attended by his faithful companion Lancelot was willing to call out all out war to get her back. It is probable that Melwas treated his captive with respect and love.
Keep in mind, though, that this group is about all Celtic romance, not just the Arthurian romances. Also music plays a great role in Celtic romance. But it only stands to reason. Ever tried to seduce or romance someone without playing your favorite romantic music? It was much the same 1500 years ago or so. I have an audio cassette with music to seduce a man to. Now that I have a computer with a CD burner and Rhapsody, I’ll probably burn a CD with better music on it. Taliesin introduced his harp to people as “his lady”. It may have been a transformational device that turned human every so often. Dagda’s harp had eyes. Dagda and the Lady Boyne. There is also the theory that Bridgit was not his daughter but his wife.
The story of Noaise and Deirdre is typical of the Celtic romances in that they don’t end well. Deirdre, Noaise and his brothers escape to Scotland, where they live happily for many years, under the protection of the local king. Through trickery Deirdre’s husband the king Conchobar manages to get the four back in Ireland. Of course, Noaise and his brothers are killed, and in varying accounts of the story, Deirdre commits suicide or is kept prisoner by her husband.
And of course you all know the story of Tristan and Isolde, how they drank the love cup that was supposed to be shared by Isolde and Mark, her husband to be. That didn’t end well either. Celtic romances have a tendency of not ending well. I suppose that means that my relationship with Doc was a Celtic romance.
Cuhulain had many lovers. One was Fand. Another was Emer. Still another was Scathach. She was the one who ran the warriors’ school. Still another was Aife. Stephen says that Cuhulain was the most prolific and prodigious Celtic lover, I say it was Fion MacCool, who do you say it was? What about Brian Boru? I think Mary O’Connor would say Brian Boru. Mary O’Connor is an acquaintance of mine, member of St. Ita’s Renaissance Guild. Which woman in Celtic romance was the most prolific? Stephen says Queen Maeve. I thought it was Scathach. What woman would you say was the most prolific?
Cuhulain saw Emer across either the River Boyne, Shannon or some other river when he heard women’s voices. He marries her only after schooling in the martial arts (and perhaps as well the arts of love) by Scathach and her sister Aife. Forgall, Cuhulain’s father-in-law-to-be, hoped that the Amazonian Scathach would kill him, but instead Cuhulain has affairs with both women. Plainly Forgall did not do a charisma roll on Cuhulain before sending him to Scathach’s school, or he would have known the effect Cuhulain would have on these women. Cuhulain was like an ancient rock star, with women all over swooning over him. Even married women were no proof against his charms. Fand, the faery wife of Manannan mac Lir became his lover as well. We can only guess how Manannan mac Lir felt about it. I doubt that he was the kind of understanding husband who, realizing that he could not satisfy his wife, would move over and just let Cuhulain do his job. Stephen says that Cuhulain was an ancient Celtic stud-muffin. Cuhulain had a mad passionate affair with Fand while her husband was off doing something else, but Emer found out, and chastised him in front of her women. Conchobar had his Druid Cathbad brew up a forgetting potion for everyone involved to take so there wouldn’t be a war. In the Masons it is part of a Mason’s obligation that you do not screw around with your lodge brother’s wife. Apparently they didn’t have an agreement like that in Ulster. But according to Edain McCoy’s Celtic Myth & Magick, Manannan mac Lir had already left Fand before the affair with Cuhulain began. But Manannan, realizing that the relationship between humans and faeries would result in Faerie being destroyed, so he drew his mantle between the two, making them both forget the affair.
Cuhulain also had a relationship with Morrigu. Morrigu was the crone aspect of the Morrigan, also known as the three Babhs. This was a triple Goddess similar to the Norse Valkyries, with similar powers. She is there during his major battles. Ferdiad was Cuhulain’s only male lover. According to the Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, Ferdiad was Cuhulain’s boon companion. They may even.have shared female lovers. Ferdiad was beguiled by Queen Mabh who promised him her daughter if he would fight Cuhulain in her defense. The Morrigan tried to keep Cuhulain from fighting his last battle, by getting him to not eat dog. The washer at the ford fed him dog which he was under a geas not to eat. A geas is a compulsion to do something or not to do something. It’s like a taboo. Taboo is a Polynesian word for something which is forbidden. It’s a kind of magick spell. In my ebook, Aengus Og, the Celtic god of love, has a geas placed upon him by the Morrigan that he cannot find love for anyone else until he finds love for himself, and is placed in the middle of 21st century San Francisco. The title of the book is “Aengus’ Sweet Duet”. Google it. See if you can pick up a download.
Dell has really messed up Stephen’s work. It took him 5 hours to send out just one 5 free minutes message. He wanted to show me so I’d know how to do it when I accumulated some clients. .He has over 3000 clients so figure out how many hours it’ll take him to send out that many. Don’t buy Dell. Also, if you’ve been watching those Blue Hippo commercials, don’t do business with Blue Hippo either. The CEO is a cokehead and a ripoff artist. His computers, if you even get one from him, suck out loud. If possible, they’re even worse than Dell. We mention these things because we care about our Pagan community, and we want people to know what is going on both with us and in the world at large. Doc said that 1 in 6 Dell computers (of both kinds) don’t work right out of the box. Stephen must’ve gotten that one in six because he’s had nothing but trouble with it from day one about 15 months ago.
Yahoo has been revamped completely. I got the new Yahoo toolbar, and added a bunch of our stuff to it. The new Yahoo has retooled both the toolbar and the home page, where you can add your own stuff. Also Yahoo has improved its messenger in the video talk aspect. We are still dissatisfied with Yahoo’s draconian policy of deleting certain groups after just 6 weeks of inactivity. It would be ok if they were even handed about it, but they seem to only delete certain groups, while others they leave alone. For this reason, and because of their draconian categorization process, we will not be putting any more groups on Yahoo. Google has also revamped their toolbar and googletalk.
Do not do business with IMVU. The new management of IMVU is a bunch of right-wing Republican Puritans who are utterly anti-Pagan, anti-women and anti-sex. I had my bank disallow IMVU from deducting money from my checking account. Fully 40% of the people on IMVU are Pagans. If all the Pagans left, we might not put the network out of business, but we could definitely make it feel the pinch. I think that even the Pag-Symps would leave after the Pagans left, especially the ones interested in cybersex. Charles, the new CEO is a conservative Baptist, who has no business running a network like IMVU. In the name of “making the Internet safe for kids”, he and his henchmen are making IMVU no fun for anyone. I feel that having an age restricted section is protection enough for the little nippers, and that adults should have a section where they are totally free to do as they will. Stephen is furious, but I am indifferent. IMVU was nothing to me but an exercise in frustration that I spent way too much money and time on. I think it’s a waste of time and money, but Stephen lives most of his life on IMVU, and so is really bummed out by these developments. They have blocked out all the cool body enhancements and furniture Stephen got from Twinkle so they can’t be seen by anyone but him. IMVU is being investigated by: the FBI, Better Business Bureau, FCC, and FTC for its fraudulent and unethical business dealings. They have a file on IMVU the size of my 3rd exhubby, and he is big. He’s gotten even larger since we’ve split up. It makes me wonder why Doc had the heart attack, and not him. If you have any fraud complaints, contact the FBI Fraud division and the Better Business Bureau. .
I have just joined Stephen on KEEN. I am also doing readings outside of KEEN. I charge $15 for a fifteen minute reading. I got a webcam, and a mic/headset, so will be able to do readings on Yahoo and Windows Live as soon as they get hooked up. I am hunting for a publisher, since FireDrake’s Weyr unfortunately got closed down. I also need to get on Skype. If you can talk me through getting on Skype you get a reading. Readings and classes are our currency. I am also helping Stephen promote our friend Walter Rhoads’ art, their art gallery Gallery 14 and Julie’s tax service. I’m doing everything to raise money except sex. I refuse to get involved in porn, and I don’t have a very sexy voice.
In other news, Isaac Bonewits has started chemo and radiation. He has a semi-permanent IV shunt in his arm so he can get the chemo at home, since it requires a full work week of treatment once a month, and this will keep him from having to be in the hospital every month. I should tell either Isaac or Phaedra about aloe vera juice or gel and vitamin E oil. My father found them to be very soothing and efficacious when he was having radiation. Do go to his website at http://neopagan.net, and make a donation, and/or buy a book or two. I saw one that I want to buy that I don’t have. His essential guide to Wicca and Witchcraft is the one book I don’t have. Do send him healing energy so that he can go into permanent remission and so he can continue to write. It’s good therapy for him, and we like reading his books. Check out his music CD and see if it’s still in publication.
Isaac has decided to keep records for Keen just like he does for Zodiac, with date, time name of client, state or province, birth-date, and favorite number. He received this revelation in a dream. I think that it will be more efficient for him. Stephen says that this seems to be more productive for him since he had 15 calls today, between the two services. We are both keeping our dream journals. I put one together the same way that I put mine together; with a three ring binder and ½ package of notebook filler paper. Cost: $0, since I had the binder and the paper on hand. I have about three reams of college ruled notebook filler paper. Sometimes in August the two big-box office supply stores have good deals on it. I stock up then. Stephen wants to thank all of you for calling him at (land-line) 916-455-2267 or (cell) 916-612-2504 and ordering either a divination reading or a class for just $31.95. With webcam and voice on Yahoo IM, Windows Live Msgr, or Skype, it’s almost like being here. For the reading, you got to choose a deck, method, or tool from a vast array of decks/methods/tools. For the class, you got to choose from a myriad of topics in the vast area of magick. Some of you couldn’t decide between a reading and a class, and so for just $59.90 you knew you could have both.a reading and a class; how perfect is that? You can have a reading then in the class find out how he did it. Or you can have two classes, or two readings as long as they are on two separate and different topics/questions. And thank you too for using and spreading around his Zodiac referral number 1-800-280-8496. You told your friends, relatives, in-laws, neighbors, coworkers, colleagues, teachers, kids’ teachers, fellow parents in your PTA, bus drivers, beauticians, and anyone else we might have left out. If you know of any other categories I may have omitted , do tell me. We would like to have other sites where we can have our groups.
So basically what we want is some action from you people. We want your feedback. We know we can always count on Dylan to give feedback, but he’s a partner in this venture. How about the rest of you? This is supposed to be a cooperative effort here. For those of you who are on Red Light, Stephen is doing readings for the cost of 10 rays, and classes for 20 rays. Red Light is a network that is more liberal than IMVU has become, since that Charles guy took over.
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