10/28/2025
GODDESS OF THE DAY - CAILLEACH
LEGENDARY GIANTESS CRONE
CELTIC HAG GUARDIAN
Waxing Crescent Moon in Capricorn
Tuesday, October 28th
Illumination: 38% | Lunar Cycle: Day 6
Tonight, as the Moon waxes in steadfast Capricorn, the ancient pulse of the Earth rises through bone and stone. The Cailleach (pronounced Ca-lock or Cay-luck), She Who Shapes the Land, emerges once more as the embodiment of fierce wisdom and endurance. One of the most ancient figures in myth and history, the gaelic Old Crone represents the cumulative power of time and the aged Earth… Her presence reminds us that creation and decay are woven from the same sacred thread, and that every season of life demands both courage and release.
Also known as Cailleach Bhéarra, or the Hag of Beara, our Goddess of Day is a wise woman figure embedded in the physical and mental landscape of Ireland, Isle of Man and Scotland… She reigns over these lands as the Primordial Grandmother. The Cailleach is often associated with witches, as She is both Midwife and Healer. Her arrival on Samhain bridges the ghosts of the past and the promises of the future; the veil thins on this day as she makes her way back to watch over these beautiful lands for the next six months.
PThe Cailleach’s roots lie in pre-Christian times , but her stories of her relationship with that rugged landscape and culture still abound. The Cailleach is said to have created Scotland itself; in fact, the land is Her body. She is also known as Stone Woman, Deer Mother, the Keeper of Winter, the Collector of Bones, the Bringer of Fire, She of a Thousand Names, She Before There Was a Name. The Cailleach has been with us since time immemorial.
It’s the time of the season when The Cailleach lingers in the midst…Her spirit can be found not only in the majestic mountains, but in the winding lochs, the ancient standing stones, the healing wells, and in the warmth of the hearthfire. She can be heard in the howling wind, in the mournful echoes of the bagpipe, and in the lively stories of Her people.
Cailleach is a powerful archetype of feminine strength, independence, and transformation. Far from the traditional ideals of nurturing goddesses, she embodies unapologetic self-possession, commanding respect as a goddess who shapes landscapes, controls seasons, and lives according to her own truth.
Under patriarchal ages, her image was broken, her name turned to shadow — yet she has endured in those mountains, in the mists, in the women who remember. As Charlene Spretnak so beautifully wrote, when a woman raised in a world that has forgotten the Goddess rediscovers Her stories, something ancient stirs in her marrow. She recognizes herself in the divine cycle of waxing, fullness, and waning — the eternal rhythm of becoming.
And so, on this waxing Capricorn Moon, we gather what is solid, what is real. We rebuild our foundations not from fear, but from the sovereignty of remembrance. The Cailleach teaches that every woman holds the architecture of renewal within her bones.
She cannot be negated ever again.
Her roots are too deep — and they are everywhere.
Echoes from the mists of time suggest that the Cailleach was once at the heart of an ancient priestess cult — a lineage of women who carried her worship across tribal lands like a living flame. The shaping of the hills, the stories of sacred wells, and her power over water and storm all hint at more than myth; they reveal the presence of a supernatural Sovereign whose rites may once have been tended by her own devoted order.
It is said that her priestesses were not maidens but women of age, crones whose bodies bore the seasons of wisdom, whose voices carried the thunder of truth. In their hands, the staff and the hammer were not tools of destruction but of renewal, symbols of rhythm, rest, and rebirth.
The demonization of the Cailleach through the Middle Ages by the Christian Church paralleled that of women and witches, and is reflected in various other supernatural hag figures possibly derived from her, such as Black Annis, Gyre Carling, Mia Lia, Nicneven and the Old Woman of the Mountain.
Cailleach is a sort of mystery; a Goddess who survived eons after her worship died out. She is vastly ancient, so ancient that we virtually know nothing of her original myth and ritual. Because of her great antiquity, it is difficult to know for sure what symbols of her original worshipers connected with the Cailleach.
She is the mountain remembering her own bones, the architecture of earth rising in eternal sovereignty. Where others see endings, she builds beginnings from frost and stone, her breath the blizzard that clears space for what emerges.
The Cailleach rises, veiled in stormlight, crowned in endurance… The ancient one who embodies the answer, whose presence alone shifts the landscape.
She shows us that strength lives in wisdom weathered into unshakeable power, that every wrinkle maps a journey survived, every gray hair waves a banner of victories claimed, every line a testament to seasons mastered.
She is winter's womb, the Superwoman of the old world, who births the hard season with fierce love, who knows that rest becomes strategy, who understands that release serves transformation.
The Cailleach teaches: what hardens us, also hallows us. What breaks us open also breaks us through into vastness. She is the hag who claims her face as sacred, who has transcended performing for a world still learning to see.
Under this Capricorn Moon, she asks: What summit calls you that only you can hear? What structure are you building that will stand beyond applause? What mountain are you becoming?
She arrives to be reckoned with, to stand witnessed in her fullness, to claim her throne of ice and stone.
The Cailleach is the embodiment of wisdom.
She can be called upon when transition is upon us, and She shows us how to step into change with courage and grace.
T A R 🔮T WITH CAILLEACH
Beneath the Cailleach’s gaze, the veils of illusion thin and the bones of truth begin to show.
This is the season to seek what lies beneath appearances — through an intuitive Tarot reading woven in the crone’s wisdom. Let the cards reveal what must be released, what is ripening in your soul, and what new shape your power is ready to take. Step into the Cailleach’s circle and let her ancient wisdom guide your path. 📞 Book your Samhain Tarot Reading today to uncover what the Crone sees in the bones of your destiny — endings, beginnings, and the hidden flame of your becoming.
L🧿🧿K in COMMENTS ⬇️ for her oracular message of the day, plus an invocation. Spiritually, she aligns beautifully with this Samhain portal and the waning light of the waxing Moon, when ancestral voices return and unseen powers guide the intuitive heart. Cailleach invites us into her mythic, crone-power energy to reclaim the witch-blood memory and the wild feminine knowing that once shaped the sacred night.
Blessed approaching Samhain,
Aradia
Creatrix • Priestess • Initiatrix
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