Celtic Guide August 2013

This issue of Celtic Guide features articles from many different angles on archetypes. We open with a photo feature on Liam O'Shea's dog Obie, a Scottish Deerhound as the archetype of the dog as "man's best friend" posing regally in front of various ruins and ancient sites in Ireland. From there we continue with our recurring column on Scottish Clans by Cass and Deborah Wright, Henceforth tales. This month they feature the Gordon surname. Part II of Piotr Kronenberger's series on Celts...
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This issue of Celtic Guide features articles from many different angles on archetypes. We open with a photo feature on Liam O'Shea's dog Obie, a Scottish Deerhound as the archetype of the dog as "man's best friend" posing regally in front of various ruins and ancient sites in Ireland. From there we continue with our recurring column on Scottish Clans by Cass and Deborah Wright, Henceforth tales. This month they feature the Gordon surname. Part II of Piotr Kronenberger's series on Celts in Poland. A new author, Laura Veazey Morrison-Roets, discusses Celtic Women as healers. Sharron Gunn returns with a great story on The Wolf of Badenoch. Jemmy Farmer returns with her take on Ogham as an archetypal ancient writing system. Celtic Guide regular Ron Henderson brings us a piece on Scots Crusaders. New writer Lucy Stewart joins us from Scotland with an article on Red Heads. Best selling Celtic themed historical fiction writer Victoria Roberts returns with advice for beginning writers to make characters come alive. We welcome another new contributor from England, Damien Hackney, with his interview with a Norse pagan about "The Hunt" and its spiritual meaning. Ron Henderson explores the Cave of St. Columba. Carolyn Emerick returns with the suggestion that the archetypal view of Vikings may have been based on a misguided stereotype. And, last but not least, Pollyanna Jones discusses her recent visit with a modern English Seer, who happens to be blind and gifted with second sight.