Celtic Handfasting Cords for a Pagan Wedding

Yes, it is. I know quite a few Christian witches, who incorporate that Trinity very well in their circles.

Your husband sounds like a very generous man!

Of course, the Trinity is also important to Christians, as in Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Patri, Filii et Spiriti Sancti, if my Latin is still holding up after all these years. That said, the Triquetra does look very fancy and that purple color is to die for! After all that, however, I'll stick to the silver gold 9-diamond channel set engagement ring my husband spent his last pennies on when we were engaged and the plain silver gold wedding band that matches his.

I think the trick is to just keep them. Do them even if no-one around you is doing them. Then teach your kids to do them too. That's how any tradition survives.

I just read about the martisor on a Christian Web site. There are Romanians who are conflicted about following both traditions! The martisor is very much pagan, from the time of the Dacians. Before the Romans conquered us, and before we were christianized. And yet, like many other pagan rituals and traditions, it survived -- and this one is very popular. I guess I will have to make time for it :-)

I'm really sad though that the old world is dying so fast. In the nineteenth century we had rituals for everything. Now we don't even remember them, let alone reenact them throughout the day's works -- even holidays keep very little of what used to mark them as such in the past. It's all very sad. I wish there was a way to keep the old traditions while embracing the new modes of life.

You're very welcome. And thank you for the glimpse into Romanian traditions too. I'd be interested in reading, if you were to delve further.

These cords with three colors in them are really nice. We have a tradition called martisor in spring, where the cords have two colors (white and red), for summer and winter, hot and cold, etc. Now the idea of three also comes into the cycle of human life and nature, as you say. I wonder where we might have it here in Romania in some popular tradition . . . I keep meaning to read more about our tradition, and there's never enough time. Thanks for this article! I enjoyed it :)

LOL :)

Oh! I'll go and have a look then. My favourite is the colour where green and black meet.

Hmm, I'm free this Saturday. :p

It is a little weird that purple is my favorite color (to me). It used to be blue or green, alternating, since I was little. And before that it was yellow or specifically NOT PINK when I was really little, because I liked being a tom boy XD

I'll take a pic and send it to you when I get the chance. Or it might be visible in pics of me from the second half of the trip. Now I'm all interested in hearing what you have to say about it :D

That's the one that I chose! When shall we get handfast? :D

I do love Conwy, so I'm glad that you got to spend some quality time there. You'll have to send me a picture of precisely what you bought, so I can tell you what it means. Though if you haven't taken it off, you'd think that I'd have noticed it when we're on webcam, wouldn't you? -.- I'll look out for it.

I like the purple ones.

You know, I picked up a little necklace with Celtic cross work on it because I think it is pretty and because I really loved Wales (I have only ever set foot in two places and instantly fell in love with the place, and the energy it radiated, and those were San Francisco, and Wales. C: My favorite area of Wales that I've so far been in was probably Conwy.)

Anyways, it actually never occurred to me that it was a religious symbol until I read what you wrote about Celtic cross work here. I'd just taken it as a symbol of the Celtic people I guess if that makes sense (I'm now going duuuh!)

The religious context may explain some of what I thought were funnier customer interactions I've had at work recently (where I sell herbal medicinal remedies). Because I couldn't figure out why they'd assume I'd know anything related to what they were asking about. Because, it could just come with the trade that there is a good chance I might've known, and then I was also wearing a necklace with Celtic cross work on it. >.>

I am not contemplating if I should feel strange about wearing it constantly, because I've actually not taken it off since I first put it on LOL