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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Uar the Cruel, The sons of - See the Morrigan for a full discussion of their attributes.

Uath MacImoman - Evoke the presence of Uath when faced with a decision, challenge, or are in need of wisdom.

Ugainy the Great, King - Invoke Ugainy for the qualities of wisdom and leadership

Urien - Archetypally, Urien is a sacrificial deity associated with Samhain.

Uther Pendragon - Uther's story follows a fine old tradition of older men who must die so that their sons (archetypally separate aspects of themselves) may take over.

Wandil - Evoke Wandil at Ostara or Beltane before you rituals, then banish him to know that spring has truly arrived. Cultivate him for making winter weather magic.

Wayland the Smith - Wayland can help you find creative ways to overcoming enemies. Leave money for him and ask him to add his blessing and strengthening of magical tools. He can also teach us patience. He also had the power to restore lost limbs, and can be called upon to help strengthen arms and legs which have undergone trauma.

Wizard of Reay, The - Warning for teachers: teach only when student is ready, and learn to guard secrets carefully when need be.

Ysbadadden - Use Ysbadadden to help you know when to step aside, and that strength and size are not everything and cannot gain one everything. He can also play a role in seasonal rites when it is time for the old God to die.

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Talhaiarh - Use Talhaiarn's energies as an aid to your own magical spells.

Taliesin - Call on Taliesin for knowledge and mental prowess because he was born as a result of it. He can also teach you to know your own value without resorting to arrogance. Also compatible with his energy are past-life knowledge, creative inspiration, making music magic, and help in understanding non-linear time. Taliesin is also a archetypal guardian of tradition. If your Celtic path 8is a secretive one, have him present as you initiate your members to secrecy. Call on him to help them keep their vows.

Tannus - Call upon Tannus for seasonal rites because of his association with the wheel of the year. Invoke him when working weather magic or fertility spells.

Tethra - Call on Tethra at the seaside (which can, of course, be visited astrally) and call him to you to aid in water magic or to aid you in contacting faeries of the sea. His energy is also compatible with weather magic at sea or near water.

Teutates - Invoke Teutates before a delicate business deal, or when contemplating making a major purchase. Use his energy for your own crafting projects, and draw his energy into travel talismans and amulets. Since he is so strongly connected to mercury, a God of communication, ask Teutates to lend his energy to communicative needs.

Teyrnon - Call on Teyrnon for fertility rites, and pair him with Epona for couples or sex magic. He can also be evoked as a guardian of your sacred sites. Work with his energy at Beltane or for enacting the Great Rite.

Tigernmas, King - Call on him for making music magic or for inspiration in the crafting arts.

Tristan - Call on Tristan in couple and sex magic, in making love magic, finding the skills of a warrior, or in working music magic.

Tuan MacCarell - Ask Tuan to aid you in learning about past-lives and shape shifting. Invoke him when working spells for animals, for eco-magic, or evoke at Samhain as a sacrificial deity.

Twrch Trwyth - Archetypally, the boar is a symbol of potency, plenty, and male power. Evoke the image of Twrch for magic related to these matters.

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Salomon - Overcoming enemies and protection.

Samalitiath - Call on the spirit of Samalitiath to celebrate the wonders of mead, ale, wine, Irish whiskey, or any other Irish potables. Evoke him during the Great Rite, or whenever drink is used as part of the ritual. Honor him at the Mabon Grape harvest.

Sandda - Invoke Sandda when you feel the need to increase your own protective aura.

Seithynin - Allow Seithynin's myth to remind you that the consequences of our actions often have greater significance than we might at first realize.

Semion - Honor Semion as a father deity, and call upon him for all types of creative magic or to aid in male fertility rites and spells.

Sgilti - Ask Sgilti's aid in learning astral projection, for which his fast running skills are a metaphor.

Shoney - Experiment with Shoney's energies as a sea God, and call upon him to aid you in water faery contact.

Sion, Llewellyn - Sion can help you get your own creative energy flowing and help open the doors to sacred knowledge.

Sithehenn - Divination, fire magic, blessing and creation of magical tools.

Slaine - Experiment with his energies in healing rituals.

Somhlth - Invoke his energy to enhance your own masculine powers.

Suibhne - Peace and eco-magic.

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Rhonabwy - Invoke Rhonabwy before you go to sleep to induce your own prophetic dreams.

Rob Roy MacGregor - Pathwork with Rob for knowing when to fight and when not to, and for strength and assistance when you must.

Robin Ddu - "reality" is a word not well defined, as Robin's story shows us. His tale teaches us the lesson that magic comes in many forms, principally through what is believed to be real by ourselves, and others around us. Cultivate him to help you use your logic and to remind you that all acts of magic require our physical efforts as well in order to manifest.

Roc - Use Roc's energy to help overcome enemies and as a general aid to magic, especially when using wands.

Rohand - Loyalty.

Ross the Red - Call upon the potent Force of Ross to aid in you in forming organizations, protecting yourself, overcoming your enemies, and discovering the hidden strengths within your own family.

Ruadh - Pathwork through Ruadh's myth for personal adventure.

Rudraidhe - Use the power of Rudraidhe for making new starts or for invoking leadership skills.

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O'Carolan - Call upon the spirit of this great bard to help you in magic, music magic, faery contact, or gaining mental prowess.

Oghma - Call on Oghma to gain wisdom, creative inspiration, overcoming writer's block, aiding communication, or if you wish to be touched with the blessing of blarney without having to travel to Ireland to kiss the Blarney Stone. His energy is also compatible with Passing Over rituals and spirit contact.

Ogyrvran - Call on Ogyrvran for a role in Passing Over rituals or for making spirit contact. His powers are greatest near Samhain.

Ol - Invoke Ol to help you find lost objects, persons, or pets.

Oscar and Fionn - Protection, leadership, and courage.

Ossian - Call on Ossian to enhance creativity, overcoming fear, and assisting in spirit contact. Ossian maintained a demonstrative love for animals all his life, and he can be called on to work magic for animals, especially healing rituals.

Owain - Protection. You might also wish to experiment with his father God energies.

Owen - See King Arthur for a full discussion of Owen's attributes.

Partholan - Pathwork with Partholan to teach you the valuable lesson of learning to accept responsibility for your own actions.

Percival, Sir - Align with Percival to become a keeper of the grail and seek its mysteries.

Pryderi - Call on Pryderi for lessons in loyalty, or draw him into you as you set out on your own quests.

Pwyll - Call on Pwyll to draw into yourself the positive qualities of justice, fraternal love, the keeping of a guise, and loyalty. He can also aid you in making spirit contact with the Otherworld.

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Naoise - evoke Naoise for making love magic, or for rites of loyalty. Work with him and Deirdre for couples or sex magic.

Nar Thuathcaech and Ochall Ochne - Protection of sacred space and exploration of past-lives, particularly where they involve unresolved quarrels.

Nechtan - Water magic, purification rites.

Neit - Fertility rites.

Nemglan - Call on this Otherworld God to aid you in divination, fertility, or for initiating spirit contact. Make offerings to him through the hungry birds in your own backyard.

Nera - Faery contact.

Niall of the Nine Hostages - Leadership and secrets of divination.

Nissyen - Call on Nissyen for peace rituals.

Nola - Cultivate Nola for loyalty, spirit contact, love magic, and for couple's work.

Nomenoe - Cultivate him to help release old prejudices, fears, etc. Also for purification rites, overcoming enemies, and for strength in serving your country or another organization about which you care deeply.

N'Oun Doare - He can help you find tools which will serve you well, and maybe teach you how to avoid traps of greed, a lesson he learned the hard way. Also lessons of responsibility and reaping the proverbial rewards of good deeds.

Nuada - Call on him to assist you in all your magical efforts.

Nuada of the Silver Hand - Overcoming obstacles, perseverance, and leadership.

Nudons - Eco-magic, water magic.

Nynniaw and Peibaw - Pathwork with this pair to learn lessons of self-responsibility and the need for overcoming prejudices. Think of their story as an example of the Threefold Law in action.