Strategising Everyday Battles

Episode 23: Strategy, Foresight, and Everyday Battles

This episode reframes the Mórrígan’s ‘warrior’ path as everyday strategy: clear speech, ethical courage, and right-timed action that restores sovereignty in work, home, and community.

Drawing on a native Irish view, it explores her roles such as prophet, poet, fighter, fixer, sorceress, and the land itself, and turns them into practical decisions that reduce drama and increase results. 

What you’ll learn

• The Mórrígan as a system of roles: prophet‑poet for truth‑telling, fighter for precise courage, fixer for logistics and sequence, sorceress for leverage and flow, and land as the sovereignty check. 

• Why symbol literacy beats superstition: crows, thresholds, and place as cues for timing, boundaries, and consent in daily choices. 

• How Lora's ‘Three Pillars’ model: Learn, Experience, Integrate, turns strategy into a repeatable habit rather than a one off push. 

Micro practice

• Five‑minute sovereignty check‑in:

  1. Ground and name the place; 2) Name the real field of the day in one sentence; 3) Run the roles to pick one least necessary courageous act; 4) Mark a single ‘I will/I will not’ boundary; 5) Choose timing - now, later, or not today; 6) Close with thanks and move. 

Practical examples

• Work: say the constraint plainly, ask for the new date live, then resequence tasks so the plan is real and humane. 

• Home: set a cooking boundary with a simple sentence, hold the line quietly, and build small supports so the space nourishes rather than drains. 

• Civic: place messages where decisions are actually made, pairing warning with welcome in one clear line. 

Who this helps

• Beginners seeking an Irish, decolonised, non dramatic path to working with the Great Queen. 

• Practitioners ready to swap performative ‘war’ for everyday sovereignty that benefits real relationships and the land. 

About the approach

• Based on Lora O’Brien’s native Irish perspective and the Three Pillars method—Learn, Experience, Integrate—used across courses and writing. 

• Keeps focus on manuscript lore, sovereignty ethics, and practical application for busy modern lives. 

Try this today

• Do the five minute check in for one decision small enough to complete before sunset, then note three lines: field, act, outcome. 

Call to action

• If the episode landed, continue the work with The Morrigan, Ireland’s Goddess, which listeners call ‘THE book on The Morrigan’ and ‘Scholarly without being pretentious.’

• Pick it up from a preferred bookseller and, if it helps your path, leave a review so others can find an authentic, Irish led route to the Great Queen’s teachings.