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The full rotation of the Moon as seen by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
It’s so beautiful and amazing that we live at a moment in time when we can see the entire moon, and not just the side that’s tidally-locked toward the Earth.
@netherworldpost Atty, my darling! A post featuring your beloved!
On Friday, February 27th, 2016, my boobha died. She was my first familiar. I miss her terribly. I love that cat more than anyone. She was beloved of my grandmother (Maw-Maw)- essentially taking care of her during her later years. She filled me with joy and I cannot imagine a works without her. She was also my only reason to come to Virginia, my return will be to fetch her ashes. Of note: she died of the same thing that took Maw-Maw in the same month approximately 3 years later.
During the month of June, my kindred honors All Father Odin. We do this to obviously coincide with the secular Father's Day. As part of my MDiv we codified and performed the Alfadhir Blot and Odin Possession Seidr at Harvard Divinity School in the Chapel. This was also an opportunity for us to reveal our school of Neo-Seidr, which we have named Seidr of the Twilight Veil. This was one of my prouder moments, as I was able to put Neo-Heathenry front and center at the Divinity School.
While we honor about 20 gods and goddesses in our Heathen practice, our two main patrons are Odin and Freyja.
May the All Father show the way for all Heathens as they wander trying to find their way or make one.
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Our Lady, Freyja. I am a bit behind in posting, as May was finals and graduation. We Neo-Heathens honor this great goddess of sex and sorcery during the month of May. The great harbinger of love and superior sorceress, the master of the art of seidr. I am part of a controversial few who consider Freyja and Frigg the same goddess, hell, I go a bit further and put Freyja and Frigg together with one more figure to follow the triple goddess format...but that is for another day.
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It was all a dream by zosphotosx
As part of our practice for Vanirblot, we draw bindrunes on eggs. After taking some time to reflect on our wishes, we 'plant' the symbolic seed in hopes that our wishes might flower during the year. My sigils and bindrunes always end up looking like entities - one of the kindred told me she thought it looked like a raven.
The Full Moon of March marks the start of Spring in the Heathen Revival calendar. This year is special because the full moon is a blood moon, occurring on the 14th. The White Raven Kindred honors the Vanir during the Spring Equinox. We do not know much about this tribe of gods. There is the story of Aesir, Vanir War. We have the resulting hostage exchange that led to Njord, Frey, & Freyja becoming part of the Aesir tribe. We can discern that the Vanir are gods of fertility and magick, as Freyja is said to have taught the All Father the art of seidr & Frey was honored during planting celebrations. Saxo Grammaticus mentions that the Germanic peoples worshiped a goddess named Nerthus who seems to have been a Mother Nature figure. Some have suggested that Nerthus is equivalent to the barely mentioned goddess, Njorun, from Snorri's Edda. We cannot know for sure, but UPG has led us to honor Njorun in this role. During this season we also honor Njord, the god who rules over the bounty of the sea. Finally, though not one of the Vanir, we add Jord for good measure. Though she is technically part of the Jotun Tribe, she is the personification of the earth and the mother of Thor - thus she is worthy of honor. Some have suggested that the elves are counted among the Vanir because Frey was given Alfheim as a teething gift. This is why the generated picture has Njorun, Njord, and various Alfar & Disir celebrating the coming of Spring. Whoever you honor & however you celebrate, may you have a blessed equinox! Remember, though you may find yourself surrounded by people who lack honor, weavers of untruth attempting to bring about unbalance & discord--- the Spring will come and displace the darkness. Freyja's Hexennacht will find those dishonored without hiding place, their lies revealed. Hail to the Vanir!
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Image Credit: Carl Thompson via Google ImageFx
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Iduna by Faun. This song evokes the feelings of Spring. The celebration, unknown possibilities. Budding love, up to the nervousness of a crush. For the best effect, turn on this song before looking over the Spring Series.
Vali is the son of Odin and Rindr. His one purpose: to avenge the death of Baldr. Quickly he grew and destroyed Hodr, even though he was misguided, justice demanded a weregild. This is why he has a reputation as the god of vengeance and adjudication in our practice. One of my kindred members was lucky enough to have no enemies, so her ritual objective was to read the story of Vali and have a nice rare steak with a glass of red wine. Ideally, with some appropriate incense and a candle to match.
February 14th is the day that we celebrate Vali, and the Supreme Feast of Adjudication. This idea of Valentine's Day having an origination in Vali is completely unfounded and not attested in any sources; however, I find it to be a novelty, that allows for one curse a year. I have been working on the Vali Blot for a couple of years, attempting to give it form...this year it finally manifested. Taking about a week of preparation. This form involved me being possessed by the Adjudicator and flaying the intended victim, who also serves as a sacrificial offering to him. I knew things were going to be interesting when I, for the first time in my life, was able to perform an inhale scream...followed by a roar. The rite ends in the feast of flesh and vital essence- symbolically eating the flesh of the victim. There is one final step-which is the burning of the remains. Those remains can then be placed within the realm of torment that the Seidperson has made. I will avoid much elaboration, only saying that the victim is formed as a bindrune on a paper surface and the ritual actions are performed on that paper as if it were their body.
I figure, instead of simply coming back with a ton of news, and let another year or so sit with no pics, I would post an image we put together to remember our first Jol celebration.
My capstone project at Harvard is a ritual training manual for Godar and Seid-persons--- following the template of what I am calling Heathen Revivalism. So a little something different in the area of Divinity... I consider the height of this project the possession Seidr ritual that I will be doing in one of the campus chapels...I am curious how they will grade me... Can someone evaluate how possessed by Odin I will be?
Coming back...again
I am almost finished with grad school. I never expected my time in the north to be so crazy and full of changes!
As an update:
I am no longer Buddhist. I found that, even though I agreed with some philosophy (Madhyamika is the superior philosophy on the nature of reality), the ethics did not resonate. I am one of those people who believes that retributive justice is owed to anyone who is wronged in proportion to the nature of the wrong...if society and strength do not seek to make things fair, then adjudication by means of magick should be sought.
I have not talked about the nature of my paganism on here and how my vision of the earthly gods were more centered in the Norse pantheon... Well, I am a Gothi, that is a heathen priest-- I was chosen by my little group and trained with a Gothi to learn what I needed to learn.
I have found that Heathenry and Chaos Magick function quite well together. Part of me thinks about deleting the older parts of the blog, BoS...but it is fascinating for me to see how I have changed over the years and arrived at this point in time.
As a final little fact, while I will never reveal my face, I will say that coming to Massachusetts from Virginia was quite the change. I do not like the greater Boston area...but I would have been stupid to stay in the Mountains and skip out on an opportunity to go to Harvard...for free. If you wondered why I keep saying that I am coming back, but then school kicks my ass, that is why. IVY League Grad School is hard yo.
A new magick experiment: the construction of a well of souls (yes, I loved Indiana Jones as a kid). Initially for the purpose of charging/feeding the disc; afterward, using it as a means of feeding the servators and the creation of other entities.
Yet Another Absence
Greetings all! I plan to be back on, especially since I am working on some new things and am an acting gothi these days. My work in Asatru, Vajrayana, and my first year of grad school kind of hit my free time hard.
The Essence of Silence by Anato Finnstark.
Sculpture of a Victorian ghost emerging from an antique mirror cast in resin by dellamorteco.
Putin’s War. We interrupt the usual monthly flow of these blogs with an emergency appeal. Following positive feedback from around the world - This following message is released for circulation by any available means. Circulate to all possible sympathisers and allies in all esoteric traditions....
To those who are interested in helping Ukraine in a magical way, here is an idea from my teacher Peter J. Carroll. My major project this week is to come up with a ritual for this purpose, please help in anyway you can!
