Drew

Pronouns are They/Them or He/Him     Eclectic/Norse Pagan Witch

[anothersusurrus]

My Intro to Inclusive Heathenry!

Please keep in mind that this is based on my personal experience. I can only speak according to such, but I am forever seeking out and engaging with the experiences of others. I love you, and I’m glad you’re here.

[cozycryptidwitch]

Wow so I have not been active on here in over a year, and a lot has changed so uh, I figured I would introduce myself! 

I’m Drew. I’m transmasc/nonbinary, and my pronouns are they/them or he/him. I’m on the aromantic spectrum (not quite sure if I want to label exactly where), and I’m super fucking queer. I struggle with a few disabilities, which I am not comfortable sharing, although I will mention that I have ADHD. 

I love art of basically any kind. I’m currently learning how to crochet, knit, and draw portraiture. LGBTQ and fantasy books, and learning about LGBTQ history are current hyperfixations. You will probably see drastic changes in my content from time to time as my interests change, although I should always be posting about witchcraft and paganism. 

 I have been a witch for about 2(ish) years now, and I’ve been working with Loki for roughly 3 quarters of that time. I also work with Freyja, Thor and Odin. There may be others, but I’m not quite sure on that yet.  I’m kind of at a crossroads in my path right now, and I’m trying to just have fun learning and growing. I absolutely love divination and learning about plant usages and meanings. 

I live on treaty 6 territory in what is currently Canada, and I’m trying to be the best ally I can be to other marginalized communities where I am. If I screw up in any way, please tell me and I will listen and try my best to correct my mistake. 

Anyway, that’s me. Welcome to my blog!

[lokixo]

DEC 2021 ACTIVE LOKI BLOGS!!

it is so hard to find ACTIVE loki devotee blogs. reblog if you are a norse pagan / work with any of the norse gods.

loki worshippers especially!!! the new show is making ALL the tags impossible to navigate. let’s find each other !!

[collegewitchtips]

student witch tips!!

a couple easy witch hacks for student witches!

1. use the tea in the cafeteria as a small spell! charge it every morning with your intent for the day

2. draw sigils on your exams to help you pass

3. charge the website you sign up for classes on to help you get the classes and professors you want!

4. sleep with your textbook under your pillow to help you remember stuff for tests

[mannazandwyrd]

Urd’s Snowflake Rune Cards Make100 Kickstarter project

It’s launch day!

Urd’s Snowflake Rune Cards are a deck designed for both divination and education, featuring the Elder Futhark, Younger Futhark, and Anglo-Saxon Futhorc runes. They’ll be paired with an interdisciplinary home-schooling syllabus and lesson plan designed to inoculate teens who are interested in early medieval European history and mythology against recruitment by white supremacist hate groups. The syllabus will be made freely available.

The rune cards are based on a galdrastafir-like design with the symmetry of a naturally formed snowflake, which allows us to include lessons in geometry, chemistry, and crystallography in the syllabus, in addition to the expected lessons in history, archaeology, Norse mythology, literature, linguistics, and art.

Here’s the Kickstarter campaign link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mannazwyrd/make-100-urds-snowflake-rune-cards?ref=9q25u1

UPDATE#1: Thanks so very much for the support so far! It's overwhelming. The early bird reward decks have sold out! Kickstarter made us one of their “Projects We Love”!

[erytheia-syndrome-deactivated]

Loki and the Death of Balder

Semi-recently I read a post here on tumblr dot com where a Lokean was really distressed about the story in which Loki murders Balder and I’ve felt sort of compelled for the last few weeks to make a bit of a response to it.

The Gods and Literature

I think it’s important first to mention sort of how I approach the Eddas. While I don’t consider myself Ásatrú, it doesn’t have any particular dogmatic understanding of the source texts the way Christianity or Judaism does, to the point where, theoretically, you can worship having never read any of the Eddas or the Sagas. You could base everything about your interaction with the gods on second-hand knowledge. Theoretically, you could even base your characterization of the gods off the Marvel movies or the Magnus Chase series (probably don’t do this, but it is theologically permissible).

I personally approach the sources first as literature, rather than as an account. So, Loki is a character in the Eddas in the same way JFK is a character in Forrest Gump. Therefore Loki kills Balder because it’s dramatic and because it lines up at least somewhat with his characterization as a troublemaker as agreed upon by the poets of the time. In your worship, therefore, it’s unnecessary to incorporate this story.

Saxo Grammaticus’ History of the Danes and Other Sources

If, however, you’re the kind of worshiper for whom these stories are accounts of truths about the gods, then there’s something which complicates how universal the story of Loki killing Balder is. Likely the version of Balder’s death that you’re familiar with is that of Snorri’s Edda, specifically Gylfaginning: Balder has a nightmare, Frigg takes oaths, Loki tricks a bunch of gods, etc. For the sake of simplicity, we’ll imagine Snorri took little poetic license here, especially as Loki’s participation seems to be backed up by the poem Lokasenna in stanza 28 (there are complications to this, but I’ll talk about them some other time).

There is, however, a second source for the story of Balder’s death written in the same century as Snorri (1200s CE) in Saxo Grammaticus’ Gesta Danorum. In this version, Høther and Balder aren’t brothers, but are instead rival suitors for Nanna’s hand in marriage. Balder, too, is a half-human Danish king, whose invulnerability is on account of being a demigod and whose death at the hand of Høther is in battle after Nanna chooses Høther as her husband. The weapon that kills Balder is a magic sword and a belt that ensures victory for the wearer. Loki, notably, is never mentioned.

There is, potentially, an even earlier source for the story of Balder and Høther in Beowulf (700-1000 CE) in the story of Herebeald and Hæthcyn (uncles of the titular character Beowulf), wherein Balder/Herebeald is shot with an arrow in a hunting accident by Hæthcyn/Høther, though beyond obvious narrative parallels and etymological similarities in the characters’ names, it’s uncertain whether they are accounts of the same folk story. Loki, again, is unrelated to this story.

Conclusion

I still have a lot of thoughts on this particular aspect of Loki worship, but I think to wrap up this post it’s enough to say that I don’t believe we have to take for granted the idea that Loki necessarily had anything to do with the death of Balder. Gylfaginning was the process of one dude attempting to consolidate the vast and complicated poetical-mythic tradition of the pre-Christian Norse into a single, authoritative text about 200 years after Christianity spread in Iceland. It has a whole host of problems as a result (I haven’t even mentioned the issue with the mistletoe!).

Even if this is an aspect of Loki that’s unavoidable, it’s okay for that to be a source of tension in you! Our relationships with the gods are allowed to be complicated, even in our devotion to them. I want to make a post in the future about using undesirable aspects like this to further our practice, but for now, simply know that, for the task of reconstruction, it’s more important that we breathe alongside the tradition, not that we are chained to the tradition. It’s your relationship with Loki, not Snorri’s! If Snorri is hurting your relationship with Loki, and that’s distressing you, drop him. His spirit will forgive you, I promise.

Sources

“Some Controversial Aspects of the Myth of Baldr” (2004), Anatoly Liberman.

“Loki’s Quarrel” from The Poetic Edda tr. Carolyne Larrington (1996).

“Gylfaginning” from The Prose Edda, Snorri Sturlson tr. Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur (1916).

[mirandamoonmagick]

Cord Cutting Ritual

To Start off, What is a Cord Cutting Ritual? ✂️

A Cord Cutting Ritual is a practice sometimes used when we want to cut the spiritual and emotional ties from someone in our life. This can be anyone; past partner, family member, friend, etc.

The Steps ✂️

You don’t need any fancy tools to do this. Just a pen, paper, string, scissors or fire, and your energy. Anything else is optional.

Cleanse and Clear your energy by using whatever method you like, (meditation, sageing, prayer, etc.) and focus your intention on love, not hate. That’s not the purpose of this ritual.

Whenever you feel aligned and connected, using your paper and pen, write your name on one small piece of paper, and the name of the other person on another piece of paper. You can write any other words of release at this time as well, but remeber to focus the intention on love. For example... “I release this person from my life, and they can no longer hurt me.” “I am free from all ties connected to this person.”

Once you’re done, you’re going to want to cut your string into increments of 9. 9 symbolising “the end.” For example 18 inches, 45 centimetres etc. Preferably using black string, but any color works.

Now, fold your papers, and tie each paper to one end of you string. At this time if you’re planning on using fire to cut the cord, light your candle, or get your match or lighter ready. (If using a tea light you can choose to add essential oils now, or carve a sigil on the top of your candle)

Finally, cut your rope in the center using whatever means you want. Focus your intention on love and release as you do this, and watch as the two sides separate.

You can then choose to burn each side of the papers separately, and release the ashes; or dispose of the papers by burying them in two separate places.

After this, be sure to close your energy using any method you like. Mediation, prayer (espressing gratitude to your guides), cleansing, etc. If using a tea light, let it fully burn out, (supporting your healing as it does) or snuff your candle.

Now, Trust! The Spiritual Tie is Released ✂️

Just a reminder that you can change this up however you see fit for you personally. This is just a rough outline. Trust your intuition above all throughout the ritual.

[smarmykemetic]

these fucking people never insist that a goddess isn’t a woman/female because she’s “above gender” or a god isn’t a man/male because he’s beyond such mortal things, Freya and Aphrodite and Isis all get to be goddesses whose womanhood is a part of their mythology and identity (and vice versa for male gods of masculinity or male fertility/sexuality), but if you point out that a god like Loki that canonically shapeshifts into other genders to do things like give birth and “a gender that changes over time” is literally what the word “genderfluid” describes, or really talk about any god or mythological figure that fits the definition for trans/nonbinary?? suddenly to refer to a god’s gender is an insult or demeaning to the god. cis people shut up challenge

[mannazandwyrd]

Loki, Winter Solstice, Lussinatta, Santa Lucia’s Day, and a ginger cookie recipe

Thanks to Dagulf Loptson sharing in her book PLAYING WITH FiRE (page 220 or location 4041 on my Kindle copy) her UPG that Loki celebrates December 13th as something like a birthday, people have been connecting the dots between Loki and a winter solstice celebration:

https://ladyofthelake.blog/2018/12/14/lokis-holiday-dec-13th/

https://lokiheals.wordpress.com/2018/12/14/loki-day-december-13/amp/

About Santka Lucia’s Day in Sweden: https://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/sweden.shtml and Saint Lucy’s / Santa Lucia’s Day’s roots as the winter solstice festival and Lussinatta: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Lucy%27s_Day

So, yeah, a date long associated with all-night parties after a mad rush to get ready for Yule and escape Lussi’s wrath? That’s been celebrated for millennia with ginger cookies and saffron bread? I can totally see a Certain Hearthfire Deity with a taste for ginger and a love of a good party adopting that as Their Day, or possibly reclaiming it as theirs if Lussi was originally an aspect of Loki and the connection was lost over time. Maybe that’s also a reason we associate Loki with the number 13?

Anyway, here’s an old recipe from my family in the Canadian Maritime provinces to help you celebrate December 13th, the solstice, or Yule with our favourite redheaded mooch:

Gingerbread or Ginger Snap Cookie Recipe

250 mL brown sugar

250 mL butter or shortening

250 mL fancy molasses

2 eggs

15 mL ginger powder

5 mL salt

1125 mL all-purpose flour (sifted)

30 mL baking powder dissolved in 60 mL milk

Preheat oven to 375 F / 180 C

Mix dry ingredients and set aside

Cream butter until soft, then add sugar, molasses, eggs, and soda-milk mixture while mixing well. Add the dry ingredients a bit at a time until you’ve used it up; dough will form s ball. Roll out on a lightly floured board, thicker than 1cm for a soft cookie, thinner with extra flour for a brittle snap. Cut with floured cutter, place on parchment-lined cookie sheet, and bake for 12 minutes. (Dough may be made ahead and frozen.)

(I’ll edit to add a photo once I find a local grocer who isn’t sold out of fancy molasses... substitution with blackstrap molasses made them too molasses-y and their colour too dark to easily judge crispiness coming out of the oven.)

[mannazandwyrd]

Yule Ritual Candle (2020)

Look what I made! It looks and smells like the holidays, but did I mess up the correspondences for my spell? Given the ongoing pandemic, a winter solstice ritual that focusses on getting through dark times and welcoming the cosiness of winter holidays at home, and the return of the light, feels right. I think I did okay.

In a spice jar, centre 1 beeswax tealight.

Layer in melted beeswax, melted cinnamon-oil candle (previously made by mixing beeswax with a sun-jar extract of post-offering cinnamon sticks, ground cinnamon and ginger, a chai spice mix, and sunflower oil), and the following essential oils: 6 drops spruce resin, 12 drops pine, 12 drops peppermint, 6 drops frankincense. Don’t drown the wick!

Dress with 2 sprigs pine and 3 dried cranberries (holly), cloves, and rainbow moonstone chips.

Spruce & pine: cleansing & Yule decoration

Cinnamon: protection & happiness (& my fulltrui Loki)

Ginger: healing, energy, & Yuletide baking

Peppermint: prosperity & cleansing

Frankincense: purification & antidepressant

Cranberry: gratitude & adundance

Cloves: protection & Yuletide baking

Moonstone: intuition, patience & anxiety relief

[multidimensional-recovery-deact]

SPIRITUAL TRAPS

Trying to save everyone. Thinking you can save someone else. People have to make their own mistakes to come to their own realizations. You can’t save anyone, you can only love them. 

Twin Flames & Soulmates become detrimental when one clings to a label of a bond when abuse is present. Many people in the spiritual community stay in abusive relationships because they believe they found their Twin Flame or Soulmate when in fact, it is a trauma bond.

Ignoring people is powerful, and very necessary sometimes. But it can become a defense mechanism and an unhealthy way of dealing with things if you’re always doing this to solve your problems and never using your voice. This method lacks assertiveness, which is a very important trait to develop.   

Unpopular Opinion: Casual relationships aren’t bad. Please stop demonizing them. Just because they’re not for you doesn’t make them evil. They can be satisfying for individuals who aren’t looking for long term relationships or commitment but want intimacy and sexual pleasure. 

Being dismissive with others about 3D events. E.g. Not showing empathy for someone’s passing because you don’t believe they are really gone. You can appear apathetic to others by not caring about absence in this form.   

Hating on material things. Materialistic and superficial things have negative connotations in the spiritual community. People’s lives shouldn’t revolve around them, but you can’t avoid material things in this life. It’s okay if you want to have a mercedes one day, we’re here to have fun. 

Thinking anger isn’t spiritual. Anger is necessary for evolution, one must be upset with something in order for it to change. Spirituality involves regulating all of your emotions, not ignoring or dismissing unpleasant ones. Both anger and happiness have consequences, all states and actions do. 

Feeling misunderstood. It’s so important to surround yourself with a tribe of loving individuals who share similar interests as you do. Being around people who don’t get you will make you feel ostracized. Find people who value what you do, they will easily connect with you.   

[theowlandfox]

A song I wrote/sang/played

[blue-ice-veins]

[mannazandwyrd]

I was playing with finding the individual runes that make up Icelandic runestaves like the Rotaskross (protection plus, see my photo below), which are snowflake forms but with unnatural 8-fold symmetry, as a learning exercise when I realized:

1. The shapes of the runes are based on the crystalline structure of water (which is in turn dictated by the shape of the H2O molecule); and

2. If you include both elder and younger futhark, all the runes can be found in a single snowflake.

No, really! But to include all the runes’ wisdom, a natural snowflake needs to have both a hexagon and a 6-point star at its centre, where it developed a degree of 12-fold symmetry without riming over completely. The central hexagon’s 6-fold symmetry contains isa/is, laguz/logr, teiwaz/tyr, gebo, kenaz, dagaz, wunjo, raidho/raeidh, berkana, hagall, nauthiz/naudhr, ar, eihwaz, and uruz. The 6-point star outside it adds the longer parallel lines needed for ehwaz, mannaz, and the S-form of sowilu/sol, as well as the lines needed to ingwaz/ing, othala, the E-form of sowilu/sol, and perthro. A 6-point star inside the central hexagon (so, 12-point symmetry) is needed to add thurisaz/thurs.

It also needs needle-form spiky edges with lots of consummate V’s. That adds fehu/fe, ansuz/os, algiz/yr and kaun, as well as repeating isa, laguz, and tyr.

The only rune missing is hagalaz, with its’ parallel lines running in two directions, but its’ meaning is covered by hagall.

Do such snowflakes exist naturally? OP’s photo is a bit too rimed to see the structure clearly. This macro shot by John Entwistle (from this article) shows it better:

A few favorite snowflake photos | EarthSky.org

We asked last week at EarthSky Community Photos for your snowflake images, then sat back and were dazzled by the beautiful and amazing photo

(OP’s photo source, btw, is almost certainly Alexey Kljatov’s instagram feed. He describes his methods here:)

Close Up with Nature Photographer Alexey Kljatov - American Forests

Nature photographer Alexey Kljatov takes us into the intricate world of snowflakes.

So, a single snowflake contains all the wisdom of the runes. Mind = blown.

I’m sure I’m not the first to notice this and write about it - please lemme know who else if you run across it.

Does this mean Odin’s Sacrifice took place in winter?

[fuwaprince]

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ALWAYS REBLOG WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS PLEASE; ITS SO MUCH MORE THAN IMPORTANT TO PEOPLE. IT MEANS EVERYTHING TO SOMEBODY AND EVEN THOUGH YOU MIGHT NOT SEE THIS IN THE SAME LIGHT, SOMEONE MIGHT. INFACT YOU REBLOGGING THIS COULD STOP SOMEONE TAKING THEIR LIFE TONIGHT.

[kitten--aesthetics-blog]

I noticed there isn’t one here for Ireland, so

Irish free suicide helpline: 01-116 123

[thescientificviolist]

last time i reblogged this, i got this ask:

so please, please reblog. this could actually save a life.

[scum-vullage]

keep yourselves safe!

[datboycoot]

I reallllllyyyyyy needed this tonight.

[marywhal]

indigenous terminology in north america

it's indigenous peoples' day in the usa! to celebrate i am here to help non-indigenous folks in north america to think about the terminology they use because i know not all of y'all know how the nuances of the many things we're called. in general, when talking about an indigenous person or character and referring to their indigeneity, referring to their specific culture is the best option. i am indigenous, but more specifically i am cree. that said, let's talk about terminology while recognizing that the following list is super simplified to give you a brief overview.

indigenous is an umbrella term that refers to the original inhabitants of a land. it is used to talk about indigenous people worldwide. we use it as a collective term because we share many interests, but we are all different peoples and nations. people who are māori or sámi or ainu are all indigenous, but they're all from very different places and cultures. indigenous as a term unites us, but shouldn't be used to erase our differences.

aboriginal is, like indigenous, an umbrella term that refers to the original inhabitants of a land. aboriginal was a favoured term in canada for many years and is still used by some multi-nation organizations. canada's indigenous peoples' day (‪june 21‬) is also sometimes called aboriginal peoples' day.

native american is a term that refers specifically to indigenous people living in what is currently the contiguous united states of america. people living in alaska or hawaii may prefer the term native hawaiian or native alaskan. if you call someone in canada native american they'll know what you mean, but it's not the preferred term. like indigenous, it is an umbrella term and covers many different tribes/nations. it is a term assigned to indigenous people and adopted by us, but not one we came up with ourselves.

native alaskan is an umbrella term that refers to indigenous people living in what is currently alaska. they are culturally distinct peoples from native american cultures. you may be used to calling native alaskans "esk*mos" and if you are you should stop that right fucking now because esk*mo is a derrogatory term that comes from cree slang. some native alaskan people are inuit (see below), but not all are.

native hawaiian is a term for indigenous hawaiians. this is another umbrella term. native hawaiians were not included in federal programs for native americans until the 70s and some programs still exclude them, as do many discussions about native american issues even though they are also an indigenous group colonized by the usa.

native is an umbrella term used by indigenous people to refer to themselves. in north america, it may be socially acceptable to refer to indigenous people as being native, but ymmv and elsewhere in the world, it carries more racist, colonial baggage than it does here, where it is generally understood as a shortened form of native american.

american indian is a dated term that is still used in some official spaces in the united states. older indigenous people may use this (or the term indian) because they're used to saying it. if you're not indigenous, you should probably say native american or indigenous. amerindian is a portmanteau of this term and similarly isn't really favoured anymore.

indian is a dated term for indigenous people in canada and the united states. it stems from the time of christopher columbus when columbus decided to call us "indian". if you are non-indigenous, do not refer to indigenous people as indian. in canada, it is also a legal designation tied to the indian act that means some indigenous people hold "indian status," which grants them certain rights. some indigenous people in north america have reclaimed the term indian to refer to themselves.

ndn is a slang term we use to refer to ourselves online. if you're non-indigenous then bro. do not. it just stands for indian, you can't!

first nations is a term analogous to native american. it is used in canada to refer to the many indigenous nations south of the arctic circle. as someone who is cree, i'm first nations. it is an umbrella term, but not every indigenous person in canada is first nations. unlike "indian", it is not a legal term.

inuit is the term for indigenous peoples that live in what is currently canada's north. some indigenous people in alaska (and elsewhere) may also identify as inuit because the american/canadian border is a new addition in the grand scope of their histories. inuit are culturally distinct from first nations/native americans. also inuit means "the people" and y'all my inuk friend is so fucking amused every time someone says "the inuit people" because y'all are out here saying "the the people people." not all indigenous people in the north are inuit.

métis is a term for people who are descended from specific communities where indigenous people and non-indigenous settlers intermarried and created their own culture. they are specific, cultural communities within canada with their own culture and language. not everyone with mixed indigenous and settler ancestry is métis. for example, my dad is white and my mom is cree. i am not métis because i don't have any connection to a historic métis community. again, this is not a legal term the way indian is.

redsk*n is a derogatory term for native american/first nations people. the term originates from the genocide of our peoples, tied with the practice of collecting bounties for the scalps (the "red skins" in question) or other body parts of indigenous people in the west. do not use the term. even if you're talking about the football team that recently changed its name, say "the washington team" or something similar. it's a slur. (source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-brief-history-of-the-word-redskin-and-how-it-became-a-source-of-controversy/2016/05/19/062cd618-187f-11e6-9e16-2e5a123aac62_story.html)

esk*mo is another slur. it's an anglicized version of askipiw, a cree word which is more or less saying that inuit eat raw meat (i.e. that is implying they're more akin to animals than people). again, even when you're referring to sports teams that use the term in their name, don't say it. it doesn't matter what some white dude on QI told you, it's not a "more acceptable" umbrella term for northern indigenous peoples. some people might use it to refer to themselves still, but, as with other terminology on this list, if you're not indigenous, don't say it!

[dadstielkline]

“asexuals are basically straight”

“asexuals are inherently homophobic”

“asexuals are just confused; not having sex is just celibacy”

“asexuals are just gays with internalized homophobia”

“asexuals have no place in the lgbt+ community”

“there’s no such thing as aphobia”

“i’d never touch an asexual person"

“ace people just aren’t oppressed enough to be in the lgbt+ community”

“i only hate the cishet aces”

“asexuality isn’t a real thing”

[thetanzaniteknight]

Ace person here! The best part is that reading through the notes helps me make a list of actual people to block! :)

[theoneandonlyredrobin]

This

[yesstrongwomen]

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

Across the United States, there are 556 federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native nations. Each one has it’s own unique history and culture. American education has not bothered to tell us that Native people lived in peace and effectively governed themselves before the Europeans came along. American education has not informed us that Native Americans have been slighted ever since, not even being recognized as citizens (despite the fact that they were here first) until the 20th century. 

But we don’t have to push these facts aside. We can stop celebrating a man that began a genocide and a terrible theft of land and culture, and start celebrating Indigenous Peoples for their rich history and their equal contributions to society.

To all Indigenous Peoples out there: we’re glad you’re here!

We will stand with you in your continued battle to be recognized as legitimate human beings instead of the stereotypes perpetuated by Columbus and those that came after him.