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Dear Loki’s people,

It is March. That means spiders are going to be out and acting crazy. Because it is almost springtime. And that’s when spiders come out.

It is not always Loki reaching out to you. Please continue to use your discernment.

Love,

A very tired follower

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Loki’s Faces

I get that this is mostly considered “UPG” however, I didn’t really create all of this inside of my own head so it’s not personal. It is observed behavior from Loki during my years of time working closely with Him and in relation to others.

I don’t think any resource ever has done Him any justice and I think it’s the best practice to just not assume anything people write about Him here or otherwise is factual or evidence of His character.

Loki is controversial - but only because you cannot place Him under one single signifier. He is accessible but not because He is interested in being everyone’s friend - in fact, I’ve never really known Him to tolerate just anyone and He actively doesn’t.

The standards He has for those - humans as well as Gods - who He allows to see His true face are high.

Those who are just around for show tend to not see the entirety of who He is and instead see what He isn’t. He wears different masks for different reasons and not because He is them - they are apart of Him, but they do not define Him.

Most people will likely never see the fullest extent of Loki if only because they can’t or don’t want to. So much mixed information goes around in His community because people don’t often see who He is beneath all of the grandiosity and playfulness.

Otherwise, He is extremely private and keeps to Himself most of the time. You’ll find He doesn’t share information about Him to just anyone. He also doesn’t go out of His way to show just Himself to people, either.

It’s intentional that not everyone gets to see His truest form or nature. It would be like showing everyone your hand in poker. When all of the cards are thrown, you have the power to be defeated. Loki uses His secrecy to His advantage and tends to only show people what they want to see because it’s easier than giving them the benefit to having any sort of power over His moves in the game.

The point of this is to say most people don’t really know Loki. When I say “most” I’m not talking about only a select group of people do know Him, I mean mostly, people don’t know that He isn’t obvious about His most truthful intentions, personality, and otherwise unless He chooses to be.

I’ve been led down false paths by Him that lead to dead ends for years. I’ve been told false things that I really only told myself were true that He let me believe because it suited what He wanted from me.

I stayed in groups I thought were good for me because I thought that’s what He wanted for me. I stayed with people because I thought He wanted me to stay with them because He wanted me to power through difficult things.

In reality, Loki is an extremely discerning and opinionated Deity and would sooner have told me what He really wanted for me had it not also developed who I am as an individual and given me the power of discerning Him from my own false narrative and belief about Him. He has let me fail and believe false things about Him and others so I can get to the truth of the nature of my relationship with Him and also the truth of the people around me.

Loki is a trickster. Not because He lies or tells people false things, or because He’s full of jokes and games or leads them into chaos but He let’s them believe things that are false to show otherwise. He shows people some of who He is if it suits the way He intends on it going. He doesn’t show anyone the cards in His hand unless He knows it’ll be kept secret and hidden or if it suits His intention.

The best thing you can possibly do with Loki is to allow Him to show you Himself. Allow yourself to be part of the game and allow yourself to be shown the truth. You’re going to fail in front of Him and it will probably be miserable, but that’s part of the strategy. You’re also going to be proven wrong many times.

He will let you go in circles until He can convince you what He wants you to do. He will let you believe things about Him or others even when it hurts your feelings. He won’t try to convince you unless you’re willing to listen and give it the benefit of the doubt.

If things haven’t changed for you, if you keep having the same issue again and again, it’s probably because there’s more to it than whatever you think He is trying to say.

People who don’t like Loki or get uncomfortable by Him only tend to do so because they don’t like what they see in themselves because of Him. They don’t actually know who He is. And they likely won’t.

Trust is a reward for the failure. Trust in Him and trust in yourself because it is not handed to you willingly. If you can’t listen to your inner guidance, you’ll never really know the truth anyway and you’ll never fully listen, either. The reward is always greater than the cost in the end. Loki is generous to those who wander and those who are willing to get lost along the way.

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been MIA because I’ve taken a step back from social media for a second due to *gestures vaguely* everything. I think Tumblr is where I’ll stay for now and I don’t foresee me leaving permanently unless there’s something going on that I don’t know about here, too,

Anyway, I was pulled to post this, as well. I don’t normally post many of Loki’s channeled messages here and that seems to be mostly what Loki’s been wanting me to write and post on my blog for a while so I haven’t been posting much here.

I’ve found some time ago that Loki’s words tend to make no sense to me when I type them and I don’t normally know why He wants me to post what He posts. I will usually go back and read them after a little while and find his words to become more clear and perhaps a bit… ominous considering everything that went on.

I wrote this for Him a few days ago right before shit was starting to go down in my country. Things took a turn yesterday and it wasn’t great. I read it now and realize that a lot of what is going on that people tend to worry about is a distraction from the bigger problem. And we have to ask ourselves what the distraction is about that the leaders are striving so hard to prevent us from seeing? I don’t have the answer to that.

Yesterday, the orange man was announced to be attempting to gut federal funding for federal grant and loan programs and hysteria ensued in particular around higher education (which is what my career is in), even though what he wants is illegal and would cause a riot. Which is, arguably, what’s going on. A distraction - a way in stewing up anger and rage over things that probably won’t happen to make sure we don’t pay attention to what’s actually going on. It’s a fear tactic, a play piece. It’s something that Loki has been warning me about for some time and now I finally understand why and how it is working to the advantage of those who wish to stay in power and keep us on our toes in absolute fear.

The message I wrote that I will post below was written on Sunday morning and yesterday, when shit began to truly hit the fan and panic ensued was Tuesday. The timing is uncanny and the message is, too.

Mostly, the overarching theme here is: be prepared. Be prepared for anything. Be prepared for the times to come and the times that have not been here yet. The tower is falling - it has not yet hit the ground. Things are moving now and things are underway that will help us see the truth behind the lies and deceit that are plaguing the governing bodies of the world. Brace yourselves for when it has fallen and realize that there’s no end in sight - not the normal kind of end where everything doesn’t begin again. But it’s all a part of a cycle of change and there has to be a new beginning after.

What happens after - time can only tell. That’s where Loki seems to be in all of this. Not in the chaos, but the decisive knowing that all of this is a game of the worst kind possible.

Loki knows games more than anyone - but He also knows how to win games and cut through deceit. He is the truth speaker and He who untangles knots and weaves words.

Anyway, here is the post I speak of. Take what you will from it:

Message From Loki About Change and What is Coming

This is yet another message from Loki. Make what you will with it. I am being told to stay out of this process which is why I have not been

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I am wanting to write something in response to what I see going on in the community right now that has been immensely and ridiculously discouraging to me.

I find that I am disturbed by the allegations that Loki is a predator and that we are not further holding the humans who took charge of this responsible for their actions instead of the alleged actions of a Divine being.

I find that most people who truly know Loki would know that He would never even dream of pushing someone to be a godspouse much less ever be willing to accept just anyone as a godspouse at all.

If you know Loki, you would also acknowledge that He does not take oaths lightly. He has never broken an oath in any story we have, and He is not known to trust just anyone to make such a thing as a vow of marriage with or any other sort of partnership. His trust is not earned easily. I would say most people never fully engage with the real Him at all and most likely a sock puppet or one of His many faces because they will never wish to think He has His own opinions and disagreements with things people do.

I have known Him to be very much one who puts people through trials and tests and see who comes out on the other end and who does not have it within them to maintain any sort of boundaries with Him much less understand the reason why He did it in the first place.

Marriage is a commitment. A choice. It is not something that He would ever decide to do if you are within a few years of working together, much less would He ever approach you to do with Him after a period of not even knowing you. I have seen more godspouses than any other group burn out and dissolve into flames after a few years of claiming such a thing.

If I had an assumption to make, it would be that Loki doesn’t actually take very many people as a Spouse at all, let alone someone who is under the age of 18, or even those who are in their lower 20s. If I were to assume based on the evidence that I have witnessed come to pass many times over, many people are afraid to admit to themselves that it’s possible that they are wrong because they are so afraid of being left in the cold should they not have such a thing as marriage keeping them safe from abandonment.

When in reality, those who push that fairy tale of marriage around for a couple years tend to dissolve even faster because they do not know the actual requirements of being married, much less acknowledge Loki as someone who is fully capable of making His own choices and having His own opinions that differ from their own.

In the Western hemisphere, people have a tendency to prize marriage over everything because that is the ultimate choice to move into marriage after an intimate relationship. We think that because intimacy with the Divine is a common practice, we must get married to Them in order to make it stick. Either because we feel unworthy of having such a relationship with a Deity in the first place - never mind that it was the Deity seeking the affection as well, not just the human - or because we cannot fathom any other framework around our relationship just because it hasn’t been discussed before.

I think, due to recent events, we need to take a long, hard look at ourselves and think about why Loki even wants all these godspouses in the first place? I think the answer really is that He doesn’t. Instead, people feel like they can assert their opinions and ways upon Him without ever really consulting the Deity Himself. These people take choices away from others because the others don’t have enough self esteem to go out and search for their own answers on their own time. They take choices away from Loki because once these people are finished with their games, even if He wanted to know Them, They are already heartbroken and torn to shreds based off of the actions of what human did and not the Deity Himself.

I don’t want to remain silent on any of this and I know it’s easy for me to say because I claim to be a Wife to Loki, as well, and you can choose to believe me or not - I don’t really care - but I am tired of seeing this come into fruition over and over again. People use words like “godspouse” or “godspousal” to mean a plethora of things that build up over time and get to be abused as a concept by others just so they can have their fun instead of creating actual, intimate relationships whether or not marriage is actually happening or not.

I am tired of seeing this come to pass over the years I have been around this community. We are selfish creatures who enforce our own habits and biases and desires on Beings we give no authority to in our daily lives. We want validation so we scrape away at it day in and day out and ignore any signs as to whether or not this was actually the case because we are so desperate for His attention and acceptance because we don’t get it anywhere else.

Instead, this just leaves us heartbroken, discouraged, and abandoned when the game is all over and the time you thought you had with Him was just inside our heads. We ask for more than we are willing to give and this happens a lot, I’ve found.

We cannot both ask for attention, desire, and respect from the Divine if we are unwilling to give back to Them what we take. We cannot risk presenting ourselves as a failure when this doesn’t happen because we cannot cope with the ways in which the Divine may or may not be manifesting in our lives. We have no way of actually seeing or understanding the Divine in the framework that is more often presented with the bigger name pagans like Diana Paxson (who was kicked out of the Troth for abuse, by the way), Galina Krasskova, Raven Kaldera or any other author who has presented themselves as a false representative to the Deities they choose to claim to serve.

If it is true that they serve those Deities, they would not be where they are now nor would they be treated with such disdain or disregard because if that is, indeed, who they claim to be, then they would have deserved the kind of respect awarded to people in such a place of power. But they have not. And I have seen it over and over in groups like CUUPs and covens and other places where pagans rise through the ranks of power in order to be outed as a narcissistic abuser in some fashion or form. It’s disgusting.

If the Gods had any sort of sway on anything that they do, they would have been shot down instantly. But we don’t let the Gods into our rituals, our homes, or our places of worship anymore. We have shut Them out just like we did with the other Deities we wished to have a relationship with that are no longer around because perceptions of Them have been so intensely distorted that people can’t even tell down from up anymore.

I am no longer going to be posting on my Tumblr in this way. I have had enough of community drama in my time that this is not worth my time. I am instead going to be working on my other projects more worthy of my time and using this as an advertising platform with the blog I was working on before all of this. If you would like to reach out, I will be available for people who are interested in my work and what I do. Otherwise, I will ignore hate mail and discourage people from engaging with me who have no interest in being respectful.

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I want to make something clear: Loki is non-binary in the purposes of us defining Him to make Him an easier narrative to digest. We can know Him to be non-binary. That isn’t to say that He is non-binary.

As we all know, Gods don’t have body parts or sexual organs. They do not reproduce organically much less have hormones, human experiences, or endure human challenges in experiencing the problems of this modern world such that we need a title to define our experience of gender.

However, the point of Him being a male is the fact that He defies gendered practices and expectations that are the “norm” in our society. He takes into account the nature of gender in order to question it, and honestly, the best way to take into account the problems of masculinity would be to be a male Divine being who defies these things while otherwise appearing androgynous, queer, and sometimes even trans.

He does these things in spite of being predominantly male in order to question maleness itself. Which is kind of the point of Loki.

A Deity is made up of energy which is definitive, enormous, and encompasses many vast ideas, decisions, and can often only be explained by using metaphor, hyperbole, and analogy to describe Their existence. This is where stories come in. They tell us the tale of Their existence but we did not make those up on a whim, we made them because They were there with Their people and inspired these tales.

Who Loki is is important because we cannot determine His gender identity without glossing over the fact that He is a shapeshifter and the point of His shapeshifting is to show people what they want to see and believe of Him. Just because He shapeshifts and wears prettier faces than others, does not take away from the fact that He is inherently a male who is questioning maleness and sexuality norms just by being who He is.

We cannot place our own determination of gender onto the Gods who do not abide by that sort of thing. Just because we see Him as non-binary and trans does not make Him non-binary and trans. If that’s how our brains want to interpret Him, that’s how it’s going to be. How we see Him using our own experience of gendered pronouns and categories doesn’t necessarily mean that’s how He sees Himself. That’s the difference here.

It’s important to note that we get in our own way by saying things like He is non-binary because it can detract from the meaning that He is a male and there is a point that is made by Him being one given His pursuit of queerness and liminality. It is not what He is that’s important, it’s why.

What separates Him from every other Deity who shape-shifts, cross dresses, and practices seidr is the fact that given He is a male Deity, He does these things with reason to point out the inherent flaws in the system and take into question why it mattered that there was a binary in the first place.

I would also argue that in most cases, there are often two very opposing ideas that are true at the same time and that tends to be where you find truth. Especially with Loki who is a walking contradiction Himself. If we can’t accept that some things are true while also being not true, we kind of lose the point in knowing Him.

At the end of the day, believe whatever the fuck you want to believe. There’s no point in arguing with people about what their experiences are. Especially given the fact that Loki is a shapeshifter and it is inherent within His nature to hold His truest form to Himself for few people or beings to see. He is all those things but He also isn’t. Otherwise, He wouldn’t be much of a trickster, now would He?

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Basics of Deity Communication - Part 2

How do I know whether my message is received? How do I know it’s Them responding?

No one can really know for sure whether or not you’re speaking to the Deity you think you are. There are certain ways, however, to know whether it is possible you are speaking to the right one or not but it takes an immense amount of trial and error. This is why experimentation is somewhat the most important way to get through this sort of discernment. It’s important to be open to being wrong no matter how hard it is and how many other people think it’s right while also holding onto the fact that you might also have been right while other people have told you otherwise. 

However, if a message has been received and it is appropriate to respond to, the Gods tend to respond in Their own time. Most answers to questions I’ve ever asked Loki have gotten back to me and most of the time He has guided me to the answer in some way or shape. Often, finding resources, listening to songs on shuffle, things popping into my mind at random are all the ways in which He has responded to my questions before I got close to Him in the way that hearing Him is not much of a problem anymore.

Read the rest of this post here:

Basics of Deity Communication – Part 2

How do I know whether my message is received? How do I know it’s Them responding? No one can really know for sure whether or not you’re spea

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Welcome to my Blog!

I am Owl and I am a Norse-flavored mystic.

The posts you will find here are my original content with few reblogs and shared content.

I am working on a book regarding relating to the Norse Gods and developing relationships with Them. You will not likely find anything within the framework of what people would call to be “heathenry.” Most of what I say is not found in textbooks or academia.

I work closely with Loki and have been for several years.

You can find more about me on my website here.

My more personal blog is @owllokadis

I will respond to asks, emails, and DMs though my response time varies.

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I know praying isn’t always about a “request” but out of curiosity, when they do, what do people pray to Loki for? When people do the request kind of praying. When people pray for fertility or things to go well money wise or for health it seems like it’s cause that God is known to have power over that thing in some capacity, like Iðnn for health or Freya for love or fertility, but I don’t actually know what Loki is supposed to be able to affect. I’m fine to just talk to him sometime, I mainly want to contact him out of curiosity, maybe ask some advice at some point if he’s willing to give it. Im just kinda wondering. I know Gods don’t just have power over One Thing a piece, they’re not that limited or one-dimensional, but as far as general associations go, I’ve tried to research but people just say God of chaos or transformation. People mention “working with” him in witch stuff, so I assume there’s like, a specific area of that he’s more helpful with? But I could be wrong. Just wondering, and haven’t been able to find anything yet.

You’re going to find varying ideas with different results each. It really depends on what you look at “praying” as. For any Deity, you can pray to give thanks or gratitude, pray for guidance and support and things to work in your favor. Offerings are also of value that backs the request of your prayer. I wouldn’t look at offerings as a bartering system because that can go sideways with Loki, but rather just a way to emphasize your gratitude and replenish the God in question for Their deed.

Now, I only work with Loki so I pretty much go to Loki for everything but He goes to other Gods and makes requests on my behalf like a representative. If it isn’t within His specific domain, He will find Whomever it is and convince Them for support.

That being said, you can go to Loki about anything you desire. His specialties seem to be in getting people their just desserts, luck, bargain shopping, protection, and manipulating seemingly impossible events to go in yours and His favor. Do be warned that Loki also tends to make sure whatever He does for you, He has a reason to share in it. He usually only functions if it goes in His favor, and not just in yours. So sometimes that may mean your request can go sideways whether you want it to or not. He tends to take things into His own hands and make them complicated so it typically doesn’t go the way you might think it should.

The only time He gets iffy is if it’s about death and dying in which case He isn’t terribly interested in responding to that and will refer you to His daughter Hel sooner than making good on any request. Outside of that, He is known to have many fingers in many pies and will vouch for anything should He believe it worthy of pursuing.

Be as specific as possible and do not mince words with Loki. He is the best lawyer you’re ever going to meet and will manipulate wording to reflect something that is completely different from what you expect.

However, He is impeccably impressive when it comes to giving people gifts. He is well-known for making good on His promises and paying back tenfold whatever you put in. He goes above and beyond and is lovely when it comes to thoughtful gifting.

Praying isn’t as formal as some people seem to want it to be. Loki is incredibly informal and would prefer conversations to be casual and authentic rather than a formalized planned ritualized saying. I wouldn’t be like “hey, fucker, listen here” if you’re just starting to know Him, but be respectful in the very least because He is still a Deity. Don’t dish what you can’t take with Loki. Disrespect tends to be be grounds for more disrespect regardless of your relationship or how well you think you know Him.

That was probably more information than you’d ever ask for. But there it is.