Freyr is married to the jotun maiden Gerd, but do you know how or why. It’s a shocking story, but a good one to know. Read more
Freyr is married to the jotun maiden Gerd, but do you know how or why. It’s a shocking story, but a good one to know. Read more
Not so long ago, Yule was as much a chilling season of Ghosts, Monsters, Imps, and Uglies as it was a festival of goodwill. Read more
Since the show Westworld stole my main analogy for mysticism, I thought I’d share the analogy that came to me while in devotional practice. It is important to distinguish between a maze and a labyrinth when comparing my analogy to the TV show: a maze has dead ends while a labyrinth does not. In the show, the “maze” was an allegory for artificial intelligence, and the artificial humans who got to the center of the maze, fully traversed the process... Read more
I asked myself what value witchcraft has at times like these, when the rubber is hitting the road and even the illusion of safety is crumbling. Read more
We tell ourselves, spending time with family should be a great time, but old wounds and scars usually remain. Let’s admit it, our family are the ones who best know how to get under our skin. We can, however, decide to change that. After all, we have magic. Read more
So far, everything hurts. All the lessons, even the fun stuff, seems to have some element of ouch. This is my impression of life on a day when the sun shines and my home is full of love. Very grateful, and happy for all the amazing bits. Just saying, I noticed the other stuff too, even if I go out of my way to pretend it isn’t there. Read more
Greetings, and welcome back to Wyrd Words. Keeping the Thor in Thursdays here on Agora! Recently over at Huginn’s Heathen Hof, I wrote a piece about a Swedish Heathen organization call Nordiska Asa-Samfundet. This is an organization that the team over at HHH has been watching carefully for some time, but recent events inspired us to finally come out with all of the information we’d gathered. The group has recently become one of the largest Heathen organizations in Sweden, after gaining legal recognition... Read more
In the end of November, more or less, depending on how one tinkers with the calculators, Kemetics celebrate the Mysteries of Osiris. This multi-day festival is, in effect, the funeral rituals for Wesir, and thus serve as the template for all funerals, as all of the dead become Osiris on their route to the West. That is, however, not all it is. Read more
Daily practice is a fulfilling form of devotion and discipline. A simple daily anchor to your witchcraft is helpful in making magic your lifestyle and committing to the spirituality. Read more
It's a good time to remember that there are more dangers in winter than just black ice and hypothermia. Read more
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