"Asatru has helped fill a void in my life that I never fully knew was there. It made me aware of my proud Germanic heritage. It gave me culture. This link with the Heathen past is something that modern European Americans sorely need.

Yet what has become apparent to me is that our folk will never return to their traditional ways unless some kind of ( Read more... )

"God is a circle, whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is everywhere," Saint Augustine ( Read more... )

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Leave me a comment telling me your all time favourite word, in any language ( Read more... )

I'm such a little kitchen witch sometimes.  Here I am, as I clean my tiny little nook meant for cooking and sharing, ending up with these accidental beautiful little shrines to that which I love.  I have a shrine like space for a love of coffe on top of my dishwasher, which is right next to the stove and the teakettle.  And my dining table is ( Read more... )

I realize that it's incredibally rare when I actually update about the metaphysical beauties of my life, and wonder if I have the courage to be bold with my struggling and mismatched faith.  I have found that ever so so very slowly I have been gaining ground in this work of my heart.  With the help of a dear Anam Chara, learning that it's okay to ( Read more... )

I bought my first pair of flip flops for the season today....and brought my toes out with the joy of freedom for my little digits......freedom from shoes, freedom to kick off the thongs and sneak a feel at grass below.  Then again, I am only of those people who would live life barefoot if I could when the world gets warm.  What we feel beneath our ( Read more... )

Hot like the sun ( Read more... )

A friend from my past quietly reminded me today in response to my last post that despite what name I have given my religion, I have always been at truest to me self, a walker of the shadow paths.  And even though I call my Great Spirit the name of a monotheistic Godde, we are still inexplicably linked by the shared experience of walking the shadow ( Read more... )

"Compliance causes a shocking realization:
To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others,
and yet, to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves"
~Clarissa Pinkola Estes.

The real issue surfaces.  I spent the last several weeks worth of sessions dealing with an anger gone quiet into tears at injustice within the hearts ( Read more... )