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Day 74
watched a lightning storm roll across town from the balcony with my sister. My best friend and I were talking about storm witches and conjuring storms earlier that day.
dreams have been vivid, signs abundant - ladybugs and spiders and everything telling me to have patience, strength, and faith.
i miss writing poetry as i fall asleep.
Today, I begin my #yearandaday journey with the #herbcrafterstarot created by #latishaguthrie and #joannapowellcolbert illustrated by #joannapowellcolbert and published by @usgamesinc I found it interesting that Trump 0, The Fool depicting a #dandelion features a #monarchbutterfly and I happen to be using a Monarch Butterfly magnetic page clip in my Astrological calendar. Coincidence? Yeah, right! May the Great Goddess Bless this endeavor. #tarot #tarotdecks #tarottribe #herbs #plants #gaiantarot #tarotjourney https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzekq-oHlWt/?igshid=1ch43a906km4a
Visit my most recent blog post about the trickster God and how he ALMOST got me! https://lordrand.wordpress.com/2017/08/17/what-was-once-mine-is-no-longer/ #blackrobelife #malewitch #witchesofinstagram #witchesofig #pagan #mercuryretrograde #mercury #hermes #woden #icslife #yearandaday #blog #blogger #wiccan
So I've decided to do a year and a day sketch commitment. I know the best way to improve at anything is just to do it even when it doesn't turn out how you wanted or how you thought. Combining two things I want to study, sketching and tarot, seemed like a good choice. The theme for the first week will be beginnings, so obviously, The Fool is first.
Third time's a charm! #operative #walkingthewalk #stopthehurt #myjourney #yearandaday #magicallife
#sekhmet #templeofsekhmet #peace #meditation #myjourney #yearandaday #breathe #clearyourmind #decisionsneedtobemade
On Odin: The Allfather
Basic Information
Pronounced: “OH-din”
Derived from: Woden (Germanic)
Translates to: Master of Ecstasy
Pantheon: Norse
Deity Tribe: Aesir
Kingdom: Asgard
Role: Supreme Deity
Aspects: Shapeshifter
Patron of: Rulers, Kings, Outcasts, Young Heroes
Type of God: War-god, poetry god, Shamanic
Related/Familiar Animals: Ravens (Hugin and Munin), Wolves (Geri and Freki), the Valkyries
Quick Info
He is most commonly seen as an elderly man with one eye. Is a seeker after and giver of wisdom.
No regard for justice, fairness, or respect for law and convention.
Has effeminate qualities.
Worshippers often are seeking prestige, honor, and nobility.
Cursed for being a trickster.
Those favored by Odin are distinguished by their intelligence, creativity, and competence in the proverbial “war”
Speaks only in Poems
Name Derivation
Odin’s name can be translated as “Master of Ecstasy.” His Old Norse name, Óðinn, is formed from two parts: first, the noun óðr, “ecstasy, fury, inspiration,” and the suffix -inn, the masculine definite article, which, when added to the end of another word like this, means something like “the master of” or “a perfect example of.” Óðr can take countless different forms. As one saga describes Odin, “when he sat with his friends, he gladdened the spirits of all of them, but when he was at war, his demeanor was terrifyingly grim.” This ecstasy that Odin embodies and imparts is the unifying factor behind his associations: war, sovereignty, wisdom, magic, shamanism, poetry, and the dead.
As a War God
Odin pushes peaceful people to war with glee.
Doesn’t bother with those he considers average, and only blesses those he deems worthy.
He is generally concerned with ferocious battle and is uninterested in the war or the reasons for the war.
As a King’s God
Odin prefers the elite
Is divine archetype of a ruler.
Founder of numerous royal lines, and kings claim him as their beneficiary.
Rules with magic and cunning, rather than justice
As the Allfather
Allfather is one of Odin’s many names
Father of all the gods
Simultaneously an Aesir and Venir god and a giant
An Old Norse poem pairs him with önd, the breath of life
Odin is the primal animating force in all life
The shamans, rulers, warriors, outlaws, poets, and sorcerers who enjoy Odin’s patronage are the highest ambassadors of óðr, the ultimate and unconditional life-affirming force.
Wisdom, Magic, and Shamanism
Odin tends to try to overcome any limitation he may have by any means necessary
HIs missing eye was sacrificed for wisdom at Mimir’s Well via the waters of the well
hanged himself on Yggdrasil for 9 days and nights to perceive the runes - “Sacrificing myself to myself”
His “Death” Mimics that of the ritual deaths of shamans
Stole the mead of poetry
Death
Presides over Valhalla, the most prestigious dwelling of the dead; after battle, he and the valkyries comb the field to take half to Valhalla (Freya takes the other half)
Frequent recipient of human sacrifice, particularly royalty, nobles, and enemy armies; generally accomplished via spear, noose, or both, mimicking his method of “sacrificing himself to himself”
Master of necromancy
Odin’s drive to gather the dead is, in great part, due to his dread-driven desire to have as many of the best warriors as possible on his side when he must face the wolf Fenrir during Ragnarok
That face when #shitgotreal on a Tuesday night #ready #yearandaday
