An Reull nan Cairngorm
©Robert Reeder

The following is a translation of Leabhar XXXVII, The Star Cairngorm. “Cairn gorm” itself means, literally, “stone of blue”; oddly, as cairngorm is always yellowish brown*. The cairngorm, and this ritual, is attributed to the goddess Bride. I have left the translated syntax as intact as possible without changing the meanings, and resorted to vernacular when the Queen’s English has no equivalent.  “Bride” is pronounced “BREET-chuh”.  “Cairngorm” is pronounced more or less like it looks, but has four syllables instead of the apparent two; “KARE-un-gore-um”. 37 is the gematraic value of “Bride” in the very old Irish numerology. In modern Gaelic numerology, this is 59. This ritual is a very loose adaptation of  Crowley’s Liber XXV.

Facing east, touch your right forefinger to your lips, then dash it down and behind you, saying:

Fàg mi, a’deamhanan! (Leave me, evil spirits!) 

Again, touching your right forefinger to your:

Forehead: Leibhse (Y’alls)
Genitals: an Tir ((is) the Land)
Right and then left shoulders: An Comas agus Cliù ((and) the Power and the Glory
Heart:  Suthainn (Forever,)
              a ceàrt. (fer sure.) 

In the sign of the “maiden”, which is holding your right hand over your left breast and your left hand covering your genitals, say at north, then south, then east, then west, then facing either Kildare or Callanish, both roughly northeast form Seattle, say:

Tighinn sibh, a-bhride! (Come (Y’all), Bride!)

Facing east again, say:

Roimh mi, Bride a Bàrd; (Before me, Bride the Poet;)
Air chul mi, Bride a Slànaicheadh; (Behind me, Bride the Healer;)
Ann an mi direachd, Bride a Ghobha; (On my right, Bride the Smith;)
Ann an mi clìth, Bride an Leannan. (On my left, Bride the Lover)
Laisearan e a cearcall mun cuairt mi; (Flames the Circle about me;)
Agus laisearan e a crois a’stigh mi. (Flames the Cross within me.)
Ceart math tha! (Certain it is!) 
Leibhse… (repeat qabalistic cross, the second portion above, then say)
Tha e a dèan iomlan, an drasda! (It is made complete (or perfect) now!)

 * The gemstone is named after the Cairngorm Mountains, where it is found. It’s a joke, people…

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