ARIANRHOD (Welsh) "Silver Wheel", "High Fruitful Mother", "Star
Goddess", Sky Goddess; Virgin Goddess of reincarnation; Full Moon Goddess. Her
palace was called Caer Arianrhod (Aurora Borealis) Keeper of the
circling Silver Wheel of Stars; a symbol of time or karma. This wheel was
also know as the Oar Wheel, a ship which carried dead warriors to the Moon
land (Emania). Mother of Lleu Llaw Gyffes and Dylan by her brother
Gwydion. Her original consort was Nwyvre (Sky or Firmament). Mother aspect
of the Triple Goddess in Wales. Honored at the Full Moon. Beauty,
fertility, reincarnation.
Arianrhod's name means 'silver circle'. This major Welsh Goddess is the
Goddess of reincarnation, the Wheel of the Year, the full moon,
fertility, an da primal figure of female power. Some Celtic scholars believe
her story represents the shift from woman-centered clans to patriarchal
power.
Her heavenly star/island, Caer Arianrhod in the Corona Borealis, is
believed in some Welsh traditions to be the place where dead souls go to
await reincarnation. There she lives with her female attendants
presiding over the fates of the departed.
She is sometimes depicted as a weaver, which links her to lost creation
myths and to magickal practice, sometimes called 'weaving a spell'.
Arianrhod mated freely with whomever she chose and was not questioned
until the magician Math claimed she had conceived two children that she
had not borne. By jumping a staff she gave birth to Llew and Dylan.
Dylan left immediately to go to the sea. Arianrhod denied the remaining
son, Llew, the right to bear a name or arms, as was a Welsh mother's
right to bestow. She was later tricked into bestowing both.
She married her brother Gwyddion, and she is the daughter of the great
Welsh Goddess, Don.
Arianrhod can be invoked to help females find their own feminine power.
She can also assist you with spirit contact, sex and fertility magick,
and past-life knowledge. Because her myths are linked with jumping the
broom, an event which is part of Pagan marriage, she can be called upon
to bless Handfasting rites.
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