Driaocht???

[Autumn Clair]

When I first joined MW I found my screnname through a mediation Several things came to me in the mediation. Animal guides Bear and Crow, color Brown,Book with the Celtic Knot on the cover and Driaocht.

Driaocht stuck with me for several weeks I thought I was searching for something a person by this name but today looking in the Druid site I saw it again and I typed in study of Driaocht and I found it was a word meaning magic (Irish)

Any ideas anyone? I'm being led down a path of connecting things where this path leads I don't really know

:flowers:

[odubhain]

When I first joined MW I found my screnname through a mediation Several things came to me in the mediation. Animal guides Bear and Crow, color Brown,Book with the Celtic Knot on the cover and Driaocht.

Driaocht stuck with me for several weeks I thought I was searching for something a person by this name but today looking in the Druid site I saw it again and I typed in study of Driaocht and I found it was a word meaning magic (Irish)

Any ideas anyone? I'm being led down a path of connecting things where this path leads I don't really know

:flowers:In your meditation did you see the word "Draiocht" or did you hear it? If you heard it, how did it sound? If you saw it, did it have a "fada" (a diacritical mark indicating letter length) over any of the characters? Perhaps, the information just came to you without the need for hearing or seeing (though the name Seer seems to mean a kind of seeing)? My meditations are more a kind of being and not so much a seeing or hearing.

In Modern Irish this is how the word is seen:
draíocht {.nf.} =
<1> druidic art|
druidism|
<2> witchcraft|
magic|
charm|
enchantment|
lucht draíochta, magicians|
lucht draíochta, enchanters
Note the fada above the "i".

This is how it's heard:
Draíocht is pronounced:

Here are some samples of Irish words, some of which you may encounter in books or e-mail, to further illustrate the principles discussed above:


WORD PRONOUNCED MEANING
file FILL-uh poet
draoi DREE druid
filíocht FILL-ee-uhkht poetry
draíocht DREE-uhkht druidry, magic
bile BILL-uh sacred tree
tobar TOE-buhr well, spring
sí SHEE fairy mound
bean sí BAN SHEE fairy woman
an slua sí uhn SLOO-uh SHEE the fairy host
Samhain SOWN (rhymes w/ clown) November 1
Oíche Shamhna EE-huh HOW-nuh Halloween
Lá Fhéile Bríde LAW AY-luh BREE-dyuh February 1
Bealtaine BYAHL-tuh-nuh May 1
Lúnasa LOO-nuh-suh August 1
cara KAH-ruh friend
X, a chara, X, uh KHAH-ruh Dear X (X, O friend)
A chairde, uh KHAHR-dyuh Dear Friends
beannachtaí BYAN-uhkh-tee blessings
dia DYEE-UH, JEE-uh god
bandia BAHN-JEE-uh goddess
Dia duit! JEE-uh ditch God to you! = Greetings!
Slán go fóill SLAWN guh FOE-ill Bye for now
(list is from http://www.lincolnu.edu/~focal/docs/irishsp.htm)

Hope this is helpful to you. It appears to be obvious that you have an inner calling to the Druid way.

Searles

[Autumn Clair]

In your meditation did you see the word "Draiocht" or did you hear it? If you heard it, how did it sound? If you saw it, did it have a "fada" (a diacritical mark indicating letter length) over any of the characters? Perhaps, the information just came to you without the need for hearing or seeing (though the name Seer seems to mean a kind of seeing)? My meditations are more a kind of being and not so much a seeing or hearing.

In Modern Irish this is how the word is seen:

Note the fada above the "i".

This is how it's heard:


Hope this is helpful to you. It appears to be obvious that you have an inner calling to the Druid way.

Searles

Searles

It was weird I heard the word being said but got a picture of it in my head at the same time with it spelled like Driaocht with the fada above the i. Dfinate Capital D though that's why I thought of it as a name I guess.........

[Dave the Druid]

Searles, nice work! do you know a good site to hear the correct pronounciation?

Autumn Clair, go with it! If it has meaning to you then you should use it as you see fit. Where it leads is up to you. Under your screen name you have 'SEER.'
A Seer in the Druid model of things is also known as an Ovate. If you care for that sort of thing.

[odubhain]

Searles, nice work! do you know a good site to hear the correct pronounciation?

Not specifically for those words but this site gives some decent examples. The software they offer is also pretty good.

http://www.travelblog.org/World/irish-audio.html

Searles

[Sonic Seamus]

Followed that link and back to the site from whence the samples came. That IrishNow course is looking pretty good.

It would be so nice to be able to read aloud the names of the the Irish heros, God and Goddesses without butching the pronunciation.

[Autumn Clair]

I was reading an Animal Totem site and under crow it has crows are totems for seers. I didn't know that which leads me to believe I'm on the right path being druids have high respect for seers.

[Dave the Druid]

There are typically three major classes of Druids thought all live under the title "Druid." They are the Bards, teachers and poets. The Ovates, seers and interpreters of signs. And the Druids, ritual leaders and in my opinion one who encompases either both or all three named attributes.

This list of attributes is by no means complete but it should give you and idea.

I am now going to hide under a table and cover my ears for there are plenty of other Druids here who will likely have differing opinions.

As to respect for Ovates, absolutely! as all Druids are to be respected regadless. We are a small community that seems to confuse outsiders and more often than not and a lot of insiders as well.

[Twig]

I was reading an Animal Totem site and under crow it has crows are totems for seers. I didn't know that which leads me to believe I'm on the right path being druids have high respect for seers.

And there is quite a few sers among them. The study of runes and ogham to be 2 examples.

As to crows? To some here I am known as the "crow dude" for my affiliation with them, being accepted into their ranks for a past honor I did for one of them. It's here somewhere....about Aug 4. Can't remember the year.

May your hunt lead to fruitful gain.

Peace,
Twig
:elf:

[Dave the Druid]

Brother,
I will be the last to complain about spelling but is 'sers' a new spelling I have missed?

Also I might need some clarification here, crows, corvis, ravens were/are associated with all the Druids or is it only the Ovates that have this honour?

[Autumn Clair]

I'm new to all of this but the site only said Crows were totems for seers.

Now I'm going to duck duck goose ...........:dancy:

[Phi]

I noticed that you are also a poet, Autumn Clair. That's also highly respected.
So it does seem that you may be on the right track here. In the locked thread at the top, there are some links and some lessons if you want to look there and try a few.
There is a lot to learn about the Druid way(ways?). I started out with the lessons, and moved from there to history. Along the way I managed to glean a lot of information about the current Druid and Celtic recon movements as well. Still a student myself. I also am a seeker and seer and love to write poetry too.

Glad you are here.
BTW one site regarding birds in Celtic lore:
http://www.clannada.org/docs/birrds.html (http://www.clannada.org/docs/birrds.html)

[Dave the Druid]

I'm new to all of this but the site only said Crows were totems for seers.

Now I'm going to duck duck goose ...........:dancy:

I guess that I'll just bugger off back to the local magic shoppe and turn in that crow charm.

[Autumn Clair]

[QUOTE=Phi]I noticed that you are also a poet, Autumn Clair. That's also highly respected.
So it does seem that you may be on the right track here. In the locked thread at the top, there are some links and some lessons if you want to look there and try a few.
There is a lot to learn about the Druid way(ways?). I started out with the lessons, and moved from there to history. Along the way I managed to glean a lot of information about the current Druid and Celtic recon movements as well. Still a student myself. I also am a seeker and seer and love to write poetry too.

Glad you are here.
BTW one site regarding birds in Celtic lore:
http://www.clannada.org/docs/birrds.html[/QUOTE


Crows and ravens were birds of death, because of their scavenging habits, and the Irish war goddesses with whom crows are associated prophecy death, disaster, and defeat for those to whom they appeared. (22) In Gaelic and Welsh lore, a crow that alighted on the roof of a home was an evil omen.

I found this interesting because when I first started to experience my gift as a seer at around 11 years old it was that of prophecy death. As I grew older I received warning dreams, survival and so on.

Thank you for the link.

Yes I also read that about poets. I found that interesting in the respect that most of my poems are about nature. This one was published back in 2001

Seasonal Days

Whisper gentle wind, unto me what you know.
Of all the years past and of where you go.

Tell me, tell me falling rain drops of where do you come.
What has happened there, that made you run.

Oh, soft sun upon my face.
I wasn't sure if I'd see you today.
For you were hiding from the moon so long.
Watch out! He's coming along.

Today was a seasonal day at its best.
The wind, rain, sun, moon and now rest.


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