
Explore Celtic goddesses and warrior queens through myth, sacred sites, and women's strength, guided by Frances Billings’ journey through Celtic culture, myth, and Roman perspectives.
Trace the origins of the Celts from Greek and Roman mentions to their expansion across Europe, Britain, Ireland, and Iberia, and examine proto-indo-european languages like Brythonic and Goidelic.
Explore the Celts of the British Isles, tracing origins in Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and the Isle of Man, and examine their migrations, clothing, woad body art, and warrior queens.
Explore how Celtic women were perceived by Romans and how that view shapes their roles as goddesses and warrior queens, including rights to own property and divorce.
Explore what the word warrior means to you and how language shapes perceptions of female warriors in ancient and modern times.
Tap into your inner warrior through reflective questions and meditation to uncover self-discovery, past lessons, and a pledge to reclaim your strength with Celtic goddesses.
Explore Boudicca, queen of the Iceni, who led a fierce 61 CE uprising against Rome, inspiring resistance through her rallying speech and embodied warrior womanhood.
Cartimandau, queen of the Brigantes, forms an alliance with Rome to secure stability and prosperity, faces internal opposition, endures a second revolt after Boudica, and ultimately vanishes from history.
Experience a guided meditation to meet Boudica, the Iceni queen, through focused breathing, visualization of a hillside village, and a fire-lit roundhouse encounter.
Explore Grace O'Malley, Grainne Ni Mhaille, an Irish pirate and Celtic warrior who built a fleet, fought English forces, met Queen Elizabeth I, and shaped her era.
Meet Maca, the mighty wife of Nemed, a possibly separate yet overlapping Celtic goddess of war, horses, and sovereignty, linked to the Morrigan and Ireland’s legendary flood.
Explore Macha the red, the red-haired Celtic goddess-queen of Armagh and her links to Navan Fort. See how she binds the five sons of Daraba and shapes the mythic landscape.
Explore Macha, the goddess behind the pains of Ulster, her curse shaping the Ulster cycle legends, the cattle raid of Cooley, and Navan Fort's ancient role.
Discover the Morrigan, a complex Irish battle goddess who appears in forms such as crow, heifer, eel, and wolf, embodying battle, death, and destruction.
Enter a guided meditation to meet the Morrigan, breathing deeply as you walk through a forest clearing toward a cloaked, death-like queen. Feel her gaze unlock inner strength and protection.
Maeve, the eldest daughter of Ireland's high king, rules County Connaught, famed for generosity, courage in battle, and openness in bedchamber, and for the cattle raid of Cooley.
Explore Maeve, the sovereign queen of Cantico Norte linked to the cattle raid of Cooley and the sacred marriage that legitimizes kingship, alongside queen Mab and her dream-propelling lore.
Explore Scathach and Aife, two warrior goddesses linked to the Ulster Cycle on the Isle of Skye; follow Colan's training, the Gearbulk, and a fateful duel revealing lineage and prophecy.
Examine the Ulster Cycle's red knights and the banshee as female warriors, featuring Ava, Velma, Beccaria, and Lilith, and set up your path to reclaim your warrior self.
From the mysterious world of the ancient Celts come a number of women who were renowned for their own power, their warrior strength and their independence. These women, some historical characters, others whose myth surrounds any source of truth, led revolts against enemies, trained warriors and heroes, and even through their powerful “woman’s magic”, were able to curse men for nine times nine generations.
Throughout this course we will consider some of these Celtic queens and warrior goddesses whose stories remain with us today:
Boudica of the Iceni who led a revolt against the Romans in 60 AD and who almost succeeded,
Scathach, the trainer and initiator of warriors and heroes to lives on the shadowy Isle of Skye off north-western Scotland,
Macha, the Irish queen, who through her powerful “woman’s magic”, was able to curse men of the Irish country of Ulster for nine times nine generations,
The Morrighan of the battlefield, the “Great Phantom Queen” and the foreteller of many prophesies of doom),
Grace O’Malley, the 17th century Irish pirate who Queen Elizabeth the First was rumoured to have considered to be an equal.
and many more.
The aim of this course is to draw inspiration from these powerful and somewhat awe-inspiring Celtic figures in order to tap into the inner strength that lies deep within our own selves. We can then use this inspiration to empower our own being in order to enrich our own lives, improve how we see ourselves, build up our self-worth and self-esteem, and stand tall and proud of who we are, regardless of whether we are of Celtic heritage or not, and regardless of how we may identify our gender to be (or not). The power and the tenacity of these Celtic Goddesses and Warrior Queens can be used to inspire us all.