Wane Wyrds

Hello guys, I know I haven"t been writing much here lately, thanks to the holidays and also because well, I personally have just needed a bit of a break from the whole writing/thinking/obsessing process that I have been immersed in for the last six months. Recently I have been bothered by some things I have seen and read on the Net, especially when it comes to Paganism and lifestyle. Particularly the interference of soci-politics into the realm of paganism. I just do not understand this, and some of the trends I see are troubling to me. Anyone who knows me by now has probably realized that I am a liberal. But it seems to me that the word liberal has become mixed up with tag words like "green", "hippie", etc. especially when it comes to Paganism. It is troubling to me. I see so many neo pagans who seem ready to jump on the bandwagon when it come to any alternative medicine, organization, and other idealistic campaigns which at times are violently anti-scie...

Tonight I celebrate Modraniht, the heathen holiday of Mothersnight. Of course the date itself is not set in stone, but as the solstice starts at midnight, I begin my own Mothers Night celebration at dusk. For me Mothers Night is an especially important holiday, a celebration of both my Goddess Freyja, and the Disir, my own ancestral mothers. For those unfamiliar with this night, I have included the following. This is an excerpt explaining the Yule season for heathens, including Mothers Night from  Thorshog.org's Celebratory Cycle page For the Germanic peoples this first major feast was also the start of their New Year. It may have started on the winter solstice which is the shortest day of the year (when the sun moves into Capricorn) and occurs approximately on 21st December. . The boar is anciently connected with the Yuletide feast and this is the sacred animal of Freyr, Freyja and Nerthus. Yule  ran for a number of nights, depending on the country in questio...

A sample from my dollar store deck... Ok, I am still alive, just so you all know. lol I haven't had much time for anything the past week since this is my finals week, and I have had no time whatsoever for any writing outside of my assignments. Thankfully I am nearing the end, and have finished the majority, so I should be posting more often again soon. On a side note, I wanted to take a mo and tell about something interesting I found today. Those who know me are aware that my first steps into paganism came about as a natural desire to learn the Tarot at age 12. I was fascinated then by the iconography and symbolism, and fascinated by divination in general. I purchased my first deck then and learned to read the cards. By the time I was sixteen I was actually quite good at it,and my friends often requested I "read their future." Of course for them it was a novelty, but for me the cards were more. I could feel their energy, and the divine spoke to me with the tur...

Moon phase pro Screenshot My name is Cena...and I'm an Appoholic...Yes, since I had a small windfall a few months ago I ventured into the world of tablet computers, on a modest budget and purchased the small and affordable Coby Kyros 4G, an  Android based tab that runs on an older version of the Android framework, 2.3. Coby Kyros Amazon link Now I have to say here that coming in at around a hundred fifty odd dollars was a selling point, and I could have benefited from more research on the devices capabilities. But for someone with basic computer knowledge and a bit of risky behavior can potentially make this device a whole lot better. After being highly dissapointed with it at first, I decided to put my amateur programming skills to the test and was able to make some changes to the firmware and the Android system which opened the device up to much more possibility. And now I am very pleased with the tab, as it is capable of almost anything I need. These changes al...

Maybe it's the mercury retrograde or maybe I have simply accepted the fact that I am a Virgo, and have no real desire to get along with anyone for the sake of getting along. Either way today has been a trying day. Instead of the usual manifestation of melancholia this time, I find myself rather pissed off at the world. Or at least those who I have come into close contact with today. Of course Mr. OD probably chalks it up to the coming flowers, so he does his best to annoy me just to the tip of my limitation, and then proceeds to laugh at me and tell me in all seriousness the sweetest and loveliest of nothings, until I am calm and he can annoy me again. But in his own way, he knows even his ability to annoy me is part of his charm, and he does this simply to cheer me.  Yes, it seems convoluted, but he's Irish, I can forgive him that. But now Mr. OD is peacefully dreaming, I am wide awake, and the absence of him compounds my frustration. I feel I m...

Since it runs he risk of turning into an essay rather than a blog post, I would like to discussion women as the servers as mead on a surface level, rather than an intensive study. In essence I will generalize here for the sake of brevity. depiction of Yule from golden drinking horn found in Denmark, 400 AD We have established in the previous post that the act of ritual drinking is a historically as well as spiritually relevant practice in heathenry. Now let us examine exactly how this is portrayed in myth, and what I feel gives it a connection to spiritual power. Those who serve mead, be it in the Halls of the Gods or common men, are traditionally female. I have yet to hear of an instance of a male figure who served mead at feast or gathering, but correct me if I'm wrong please, because I would be fascinated if such evidence exists. So the ritual serving of mead id overseen or controlled by the feminine. Also, we learn that this role as hostess was often reserved for...

That's one Hel of a Horn!  As most who are reading this will know, I have been making some changes in my spiritual perspective. I have spoken of the mundane reasons for this, and now I would like to mention a small part of the spiritual. In my quest for knowledge and academic based understanding, I began to feel a disconnect with that energy which drew me to Freyja and the Vanir.  I felt I had lost touch with the earth, which for me as an earth witch left an emptiness and a sense of constant vertigo. I won't bore anyone with details, but meditating on this and coming to the decision to take a step back from uneccessary demands has enabled me to step back in a way and find a more objective picture of my life and my spirituality. It has also helped me learn a few personally valuable things that I feel the need to share with other pagans and heathens. Which brings me to this post, exploring the spiritual side of hospitality in the Norse cosmos. I was watching a video tod...