Gallic pantheon
Here is a non-exhaustive list of gods Gallic of the pantheon and their astrological sign (esoteric meaning) in the druidic calendar.
Lug
Lug is a warlike, violent, but also beneficent god, gifted for intellectual and artisanal operations and the exercise of medicine. His half dark ancestry (he is the grandson of the giant Balor who kills with the look of his single eye), half light (his father Kian is the god of the Sun) also justifies this ambivalence.
Esoteric meaning:
With all the fire of his warrior qualities combined with the cunning and intelligence of which he is the champion, Lug embodies the correct approach to action, possibly considered rationally, with a hint of coldness, but faced with élan and enthusiasm. . By starting on the right foot, like the traveler who progresses with confidence along inaccessible paths, success is already half guaranteed. The other half depends on the stuff of each and the nature of the weather. Whatever the situation, diplomacy, adaptability, initiative and, above all, the versatility to tackle difficulties simultaneously on several fronts will help you emerge victorious. Nothing is static, everything moves, but movement requires courage, resistance and curiosity in the face of the unexpected: be careful not to step back or, even worse, to camp in overtaken positions! By making the most of your talents, you always discover new ones. From the perspective of the Celtic warrior ready to die to prove his worth, to refrain from acting, out of laziness or fear, is tantamount to acting badly, with violence disproportionate to the situation.
Keywords: initiative, eclecticism, travel
Zodiac sign: Gemini
Damona or Morrigan
The mother goddess of the Gauls, who expresses the feminine quality of her maternal and fertilizing energy through the presence of the cornucopia, underlines her belonging to the forest by riding a deer.
Esoteric meaning:
To welcome, as mother earth does with the seed that germinates in the depths of her womb, to become a cup or a cornucopia to receive and produce in silence, with the patience of those who know the rhythms of nature and the seasons, to follow one's heart: such is the way which best suits the realization; a slow, even painful way, as indicated by the thorns of the brambles and the wild rose which bar the way to the deer, but sure.
Keywords: fertility, wisdom, instinct, secret, energy of nature, vegetation
Zodiac signs: Cancer, Taurus
Brigantia
Daughter of Dagda and mother goddess Morrigan, Brigantia is a graceful young woman who is very tall both physically and spiritually. She appears quite often in the company of her two other sisters, with whom she presides over the arts, music, poetry, medicine and metal crafts.
Esoteric meaning:
The one who does not camp on his positions but who always shows himself to question himself shows intelligence. Everything changes, everything is renewed, and it is in this perpetual change that the poetry of life resides. Harmony is the law that presides over the destinies of the world: any event or situation, person or thing, regardless of its good or bad appearance, is positive and right if it follows the harmonious rhythm of the universe.
Brigit represents feminine creative skill, the correct approach to reality which condenses, in the best proportions, mind and heart, the faculty of reasoning and intuition.
Keywords: skill, intelligence, healing, poetry, femininity
Zodiac signs: Virgo, Gemini
amaethon
The oldest substrate of tradition Celtic did not attribute much importance to agricultural activity, for the most part reserved for old men and women. This because it was a nomadic-pastoral civilization. Amaethon is therefore a late deity, limited to the framework Welsh. God of sowing and soil, he directs the plow of destiny, bringing peace and security to anyone lucky enough to meet him. He also presides over property, power and borders drawn, according to ancient usage, with the help of stones driven into the ground.
Esoteric meaning:
To best exercise it over others, power must be exercised above all over oneself, by submitting first and foremost to the rules that one intends to apply. The authority emanating from the one who knew how to control his feelings and his passions is then projected naturally outwards, to the point of being perceived and accepted by those around him. The path taken with calm, traveled with a slow and sure step, always leads to the goal. It therefore turns out to be useless to run, to run out of breath, to jostle: when the objective is engraved in the heart as in a stone, it evolves all by itself, guided by a mysterious force, towards that for which it has been programmed.
Keywords: stability, authority, power, certainty, obedience
Zodiac signs: lion, capricorn
Esus
Esus is the most disturbing of the deities. Because if we assimilate him on the one hand to Mercury as protector of merchants, he appears on the other as a sort of warlike Mars, thirsty for bloody sacrifices including hanging from the branches of a tree (so that the blood flows downward) seems to win its favor.
Esoteric meaning:
Saint or bloodthirsty, just or bad, each man contains in his heart a master to listen to and please: suitably pruned and cared for, the inner tree will begin to bear fruit; thoughts, words, actions, namely the three planes symbolized by the three horns of Taurus, fully manifest all their fertilizing power.
Keywords: tradition, teaching, advice, judgment
Zodiac sign: sagittarius
Nemetona
If the temples of Celts were called nemeton, Nemetona can only be the mother of wood, the tree-goddess dressed in leaves and bark. To this image of serenity and peace, of secrecy and freshness, there is however added another, much less peaceful, which also presents Nemetona as a warrior deity. War and peace, tenderness and passion, harmony and rivalry: these are the characteristic traits of the Celtic mother goddess, goddess of combat and love, of fertility and struggle.
Esoteric meaning:
Nothing that lives in the universe is strictly fixed: everything is subject to change, often swinging from side to side and sailing towards its opposite.
There is no single truth: each truth has several facets, several aspects, because the absolute hides behind the relative.
Love is the only energy capable of reconciling opposites, through the cohesive force of the soul: in love, opposites come together; doubts are smoothed out and the fluctuation that often makes us lose our way turns into joyful certainty.
Keywords: love, encounter, doubt, choice, art, agriculture
Zodiac signs: Gemini, Taurus, Libra
Teutates
Very little is known about his plan of action. It also seems to refer to fecundity, to wealth and even to sources and to the passage into the Beyond, but its specialty remains the battle from which it always emerges victorious.
Esoteric meaning:
The secret to victory is not to fuss. Acting with determination and courage, without ever getting confused, saves energy by concentrating it, without wasting a crumb, towards a single objective.
Sometimes inaction is better than action in times of need, but when it's time to act and fight, backing down only complicates things.
Keywords: self-esteem, action, progress, struggle, courage
Zodiac signs: Aries, Sagittarius
Arduinna
Arduinna is a nature deity, mother of animals and plants.
Esoteric meaning:
Human justice, whose rules change according to the oddities of time, has nothing to do with cosmic justice whereby each person, animal or thing plays a role and follows the path traced by fate, whether either good or bad.
This is why it is extremely difficult to judge good and evil, and to catalog according to one's own criteria one's actions as well as those of others. It is only by moving away from a concept of individual and circumscribed justice to access a universal and composite sphere, where everything is relative, that one acquires the certainty of not making mistakes.
Keywords: justice, balance, serenity, wisdom, correction
Zodiac sign: Libra
Ogmios
Ogmè has the power of eloquence which subjugates crowds. It is not for nothing that in the tale of Mag Tured's battle between gods and demons, Ogmè is not only a fighter of Herculean strength, but also, and above all, the god of speech, the inventor of the Celtic alphabet, aptly baptized "ogham" in his honor.
Esoteric meaning:
In the Celtic world, as in many other archaic cultures, sound, endowed with immense creative power, is part of magic: speech can create or destroy, heal or kill, liberate or enslave, instruct or confuse. The same remark applies to silence, which constitutes the negative pole of speech: silence seals what speech engenders, increases and reinforces what speech has given rise to.
Keywords: strength, eloquence, rigor, essence
Zodiac signs: capricorn, virgo
Dagda
The father of the gods manifests through lightning and the sun wheel. Insofar as the sun sees everything, it therefore knows everything that happens on earth: no irregularity, no failure escapes it, and this is the reason why it is invoked not only to ensure health and prosperity, but also on the occasion of oaths.
Esoteric meaning:
By analogy to the wheel of the Sun, symbol of movement and cyclicality, Dagda is the card of destiny that comes true when times are ripe. Everything that happens, good or bad, has a definite meaning in divine purposes and must be accepted as such. You have to live life as it comes and seize the opportunities, the occasions, the emotions and the pleasures as they come, because that is also part of the teaching program that you have to follow.
Knowledge is the goal to be achieved at all costs, but without falling into the exaggeration and the grotesque of which Dagda remains the incomparable master in the most piquant Irish stories.
Keywords: knowledge, balance, capacity, change
Zodiac signs: Pisces, Scorpio, Capricorn
Smertrios
More than a god of war, however, Smertrios seems to be a solar deity, a kind of peaceful Mars, protector of farmers and guarantor, like Teutates, of health, wealth and fertility.
Esoteric meaning:
To strike the snake with the sword is equivalent in practice to destroying with a single blow the instinctual energies which are agitated in the meanders of the unconscious. It is no coincidence that, on this arcane, Smertrios does not manage to kill the animal: he is content to hold it in his fist; he thus gives up destroying instinct and chooses to tame it.
Keywords: strength, heroism, self-control
Zodiac signs: Aries, Leo
Gwydion
Character of the mythology Welsh, Gwydion is known as much for his valor in battle as for his eloquence, his manual skill and his mastery of the art of magic.
Esoteric meaning:
Forced immobility by hanging (sometimes upside down), with the feet apart from the ground, was a form of public punishment for debtors, in vogue in ancient England. But it is also an initiatory practice, a kind of voluntary crucifixion which obliges to see the world from another angle, and helps to find the point of balance: the center of gravity inside oneself.
Deviating from one's usual plane of observation, reversing the daily vision of things, looking at them from a different perspective allows one to achieve a broader view, which would otherwise be impossible.
Keywords: expectation, sacrifice, intuition, spirituality, rest.
Zodiac sign: Pisces
Sucellos
Sucellos is the god of the beautiful death, the one that frees and triggers the inevitable transformation. But since the earth contains, in addition to the deceased, the precious stones and the treasures of gnomes, here he is who also becomes the god of wealth.
Esoteric meaning:
Every being in creation, animate or not, has a time to live and a time to die. But as all esoteric traditions teach, to each end corresponds a new beginning: the hour of death, struck by the mallet of Sucellos, is only the passage from one dimension to another, from a plane of existence to another. Once you've hit rock bottom, you can only go up, and when the hammer sounds the inescapable moment, the best thing is to calmly accept your destiny.
Keywords: transformation, inevitability, destiny
Zodiac signs: capricorn, scorpio
Diancecht
Diancecht is the doctor god, connoisseur of medicinal plants, and able to resurrect wounded warriors before dawn, even those who died in battle.
Esoteric meaning:
The path of the wise never goes through extremes and follows the rule of the golden mean. Knowing how to be satisfied, and not abusing food, sleep, study, love, pain and joy: such is the way to always maintain balance. The harmony of feelings and way of life purifies like a regenerating source, cures every disease and allows one to remain eternally young.
Keywords: regeneration, balance, health, cooperation
Zodiac signs: Aquarius, Virgo
cerumno
Cerumno is an animal deity, a sort of lord of wild beasts, with an insolent posture and an enigmatic face. Derived from carno (deer) or cerno (spike), its name clearly alludes to the virile fertility and impetuous energies of animals in the mating season.
This is why he is considered the god of fertilizing influences, the one who, by dying and being reborn, sets in motion the cycle of death and rebirth in nature. Not to mention the more subtle and mysterious forces, linked to the underground treasures beyond the grave, of the snake that often accompanies it, with its head surmounted by two ram's horns which reinforces its symbol of power and wealth.
Esoteric meaning:
Energy always has two sides, male and female, dark and light. Through the secret force of the heart, powerful enough to move mountains, the animal can access the human dimension, and man can discover his archaic and overflowing animality. Man and animal, man and plant, man and stone, man and water are one, because the force of nature brings them together and invests them with an indissoluble bond.
Keywords: fertility, power, nature, mystery, regeneration
Zodiac sign: scorpio, capricorn
Taranis
Taranis is on the one hand a father god, a kind of Jupiter equipped with lightning, and on the other a bloodthirsty god demanding his tribe of human heads.
Esoteric meaning:
When the sky seems most serene and the day seems smiling, a storm can very well come suddenly upset the existence.
Nothing we have will last forever: everything is destined to end. Attachment only brings pain: the peaceful acceptance of the instability of things makes the suffering lighter.
Keywords: inevitability, punishment, fall
Zodiac signs: Aquarius, Scorpio, Aries
Sirona
Lunar goddess of the Gallic pantheon, Sirona takes on the appearance of a beautiful young girl whose long hair is held back by a crescent moon as a barrette. She can be likened to Arianrhod, goddess of the Moon and the wheel of fate.
Esoteric meaning:
It is impossible to lose hope as long as the beauty of nature comforts the eye and the harmony of creation consoles the saddest thoughts.
Entering into harmony with one or more others, vibrating in unison on the same frequency: such is the experience of love which attenuates disagreements and reconciles contrasts.
Keywords: hope, love, beauty, art, healing, regeneration, music
Zodiac signs: Taurus, Libra, Aquarius
Borvo or Manannan
Borvo presides over waterways, currents and more particularly the bubbling waters of spas. In cycle Irish, Manannan is also the Lord of the Blessed Isles.
Esoteric meaning:
Water is the mother that regenerates man, purifies and heals him. But it is also the mirror in which the intuitions of the unconscious are reflected, the sea where the waves of feelings are agitated, the pond where memories, complexes, fears are hidden, this little troubled side, in sum, present in many lives.
Coming into contact with water, immersing yourself in it, allows the body, moreover, made up of 60 % of water, to recover lost energies and find the perfect harmony with its vibration, a guarantee of healing and well-being. .
Keywords: intuition, unconscious, healing, silence, initiation
Zodiac signs: Cancer, Pisces, Virgo
Belenos
Belenos is a sun god. It is no coincidence that the light half of the Celtic year opening the summer season begins at the beginning of May with the festival of Beltaine (fires of Bel), during which cattle were purified of all their germs and parasites. by passing it through two lit fires.
Esoteric meaning:
The light represents the ultimate goal that the initiate is striving for. Where there is light, there is no sickness, no death, no pain. But for it to triumph outside, it must above all be kindled within: when summer is over, the inner Sun will not be extinguished with the end of the season and will continue to shine, imperturbably, in enlightening the heart.
Keywords: truth, warmth, health, success, certainty
Zodiac signs: Leo, Gemini
Epona
Revered especially in the military context, Epona takes on the appearance of a galloping queen. Her attributes are the wheel of fate and rebirth.
Esoteric meaning:
The horse suddenly appearing at a gallop symbolizes change.
Only he who renounces attachment and bends to the force of fate, like grass under hooves, lives each day of his existence as an exhilarating surprise. Evil then becomes good, and joy comes to reward pain: nothing in the universe remains unchanged; everything is necessarily transformed, because it is from transformation that life is born.
Keywords: fatality, rebirth, change, destiny, surprise
Zodiac signs: Sagittarius, Aquarius, Pisces
Artio
Artio belongs to the group of mother goddesses, who preside over earth, abundance and motherhood. Assuming the dual symbolism of the Irish and Gallic divinity, who is both founder and mistress of war and the afterlife, she appears in the company of an animal: the bear, peaceful when in good health. tempered, but formidable as soon as he gets angry.
Esoteric meaning:
Fullness is achieved only through the union of masculine and feminine. Whole being is a contented reality, independent and able to find peace and quiet in and out of itself. Such is the happy condition of those who are conscious of having done their best and accomplished their work to the best of their abilities in order to realize themselves fully. Fullness is the reward for the effort deployed: the fruit picked without haste, when it has reached full maturity at the end of the time fixed by heaven for it.
Keywords: abundance, satisfaction, tranquility, well-being
Zodiac signs: Taurus, Cancer
Cuchulainn
Cuchulainn is not exactly a god, but rather a heroic figure, a semi-divine warrior gifted with uncommon skill, strength, and fury.
Esoteric meaning:
The fury of Cuchulainn is that of the madman who knew how to free himself from the rules to fully taste his cup of wise madness.
Son of Lug, the god skilled in everything who opens the game, he represents in a certain sense his complement, namely the instinctual, irrational part of our mind which proves to be inseparable from the logical and rational part.
It is no coincidence that love, creativity and vaticination fall under this kind of disease necessary to move the wheels of civilization. Without the creative spark of madness, there would never have been this progress, these flights that made certain cultures of the past magnificent and immortal.
The initiate who works for the realization of the androgyne which is in him knows perfectly well that to fill the glass, it is necessary to begin by emptying it. In other words, it is necessary to get rid of any inclination, any ambition to face, naked, one's own destiny.
Keywords: fury, breaking the rules, oddity, inevitability, fate
Zodiac sign: scorpio, aquarius
