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You do come across a lot of prayers and innovactions when you search the web and these I find are particularly meaningful. We've lost quite a number of dogs over the years so I find it nice to come across one which remembers animals, even if it's lab animals and not pets. It will be going into my book for my dogs.
A quiet, walled patch of grass in the middle of an Irish housing estate is set to reveal the latest disturbing chapter in Ireland’s “mother
Here's more evidence of why having a disorganised craft room is hel... Recently, I came across a ball of wool... I put it down somewhere... Over the past couple of weeks, I've been doing some taperstrey work, had a bunch of wool left over... Have no idea where said wool from the other week is and I want to stick all my surplus wool together. Can't while the ball of wool from the other week is missing.
A room full of crafting and art supplies can either be a dream or a nightmare.... It's a dream when everything is neatly organized and you can actually work in it. It's hell when everything is all over the place, you don't know what you have and what you don't and you know you're supposed to have a certain supply or product but can't find the damned thing.
Volkish tomfoolary no 2:
I came across this silly snipet today, from a folkish blog (you can make fun of it in the link, because there are surely more silly things in there to snark and jeer at:)
"According to Kveldulf, Scandinavian women still braid three strands of red thread together during labor to make a cord to tie off the umbilical cord, although hospitals even in Norway refuse to use it as intended and at best will tie it around the baby’s wrist.4 This can be done and would be a good calming focus in early labor."
As a woman who frequently has problems with gut, and sometimes, even with period pain, the last thing that I would have the concentration for during labour would be plaiting threads together. All of my energy while I am having pain in my guts, dealing with acid relux, and deficating on the toilet etc is stoping myself from throwing up. I don't have the mental capcity to even think of crafting while I'm dealing with gut pain and acid reflux, so this is just another daft myth. I'm sure that women who have gone through labour would agree.
A Heathen Thing
This is quite funny.... Many years ago, I had a folkish person tell me that if a rune book mentioned astrology, associating runes with the hours of the day, etc, that it was all nonsense... Oh, the irony, since one of the folkish's (in general, not this specific guy) fav runelore authors happens to be Flowers, who came up with the concept of Runic Astrology.
Even better, he mis-translated our old friend, the Anglo-Saxon rune poem, which itself has its authentcity questioned... oh booy.....
This is quite funny.... Many years ago, I had a folkish person tell me that if a rune book mentioned astrology, associating runes with the hours of the day, etc, that it was all nonsense... Oh, the irony, since one of the folkish's (in general, not this specific guy) fav runelore authors happens to be Flowers, who came up with the concept of Runic Astrology.
Many years ago, when I was first looking into heathreny, I came across some information about animals associated with runes - I started writing into a journal, but as I was at uni at the time, I never completed it, and thought that the information was lost. Today, I found it among some crafting papers. It's fortunate that somehow, I managed to save the information, even though I wasn't conscious of doing so. I like doing animal artwork so I think that my next art project should be making a sketch book with the runes and the animals associated with them. With the pages, I also found a bunch of heathen holidays which will probably be consigned to the bin because I am pretty sure that they are from the AFA... In those early days I was unaware of how bad they are and too many books I had (even general, introductory pagan ones), were promoting their shit. I have a more recent publication fylgjur and runes in them, and the gods/goddesses that they are associated with, but much of that is taken from blog posts (of all things!) so it will be interesting to cross refernece this. But I don't think that it is something that can be taken too seriously because the sources in both cases aren't from academic ones.
If Monty Python was being filmed today, my current battle with the NHS over appointments would make a good sketch. It wouldn't be a very funny one, but it would highlight the absurdaity of the NHS in its current state.
Which god or gods do you feel the deepest connection to, and what do you think makes you feel that way?
Loki, I guess its self explanatory.
Tyr is the one who led me to heathenry, and I've always felt the deepest connection to him. The more I got to know him (so to speak) the more his values resonated with me. Nowadays, I try to live in a way that honors his teachings. He's a driving force in how I pursue healthy conflict resolution and engage in activism, and why I'm seeking a career in the legal field. He makes me feel safe, loved, and like I can overcome any obstacle.
But I want to add that a few other gods also hold considerable places in my heart: Nott, Loki, and Ran. Those are all much longer stories though, so I'll keep it at that for now!
Oðinn.
When I was a Hellenic polytheist, almost a decade ago, I gravitated to three Theoi in particular— Hestia, Hermes, and Athene.
I felt an attachment to Hermes for his domain of wandering/travel, and Athene for her domain of wisdom and knowledge/study in particular. I found much of that in Oðinn as well, when I became a Heathen. And I found Athene's weaving and Hestia's hearthcraft in his wife Frigg.
I am a wo/man of random knowledge, of walking and admiring the places I go, of creativity, of hospitality. Oh, how much I am entangled in the whims of Oðinn. I'm even seriously considering taking up seiðr, because of my relationship with Oðinn.
What anchors me most to Oðinn, recently, is my job. I am a "Wanderer" who offers hospitality, talks to strangers, and guides them to knowledge they seek. I have him to thank for this job. Too many coincidences lined up for me to believe that me getting this job was the result of anything but intervention from the Allfather.
Freyja. I was initially drawn to her because she felt like the embodiment of passion, but she is always reduced to one facet or another. War, fertility, magic--all of these things stem from living life passionately, for better or worse. I always considered myself an intense person: feeling too deeply, being too loud, taking up too much air in the room. Communing with Freyja helped me learn to love those aspects of myself and reframe my perspective of myself into one of passion and vigor. I'm consistently learning to see new pieces of myself and how those individual pieces fit into the larger landscape of who I am. She reminds me that I should have every confidence in myself, and I should be unapologetic about it.
It changes, but I have noticed that I am more drawn to the lesser well-known goddesses, like Frigg's handmaidans, (particularly Saga and Eir), Nerthus, and Nehalennia.
I find it somewhat sad that people are motivated to do conscientious actions because of money - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0el8ed21w9o
I've started to think twice spending so much money on Amazon because the US's national archives are being stripped of important parts of their history - Women, Native Americians, Black people, LGBTQ people, etc, are all having their historical contributions removed from it. International students are getting arrested just for not being American, white, or Christian. Boycotting because of money! is pathetic in comparison.
Of course, the BBC isn't known for reporting news properly these days, so it could just be the BBC spouting a load of bull.
There is a massive debate going on regarding KOBO VS KINDLE VS NOOK... (NOOKS don't even work in the UK, so it's out...)
Folks, just get a decent android tablet device with a decently sized screen.... You aren't locked into any one company then. Why? Because you can install all of the e-book programs on to it and access all the e-books and audio books that you want. I wish I'd known the limitations of Kindle before I bought one.
I won't recommend just using a smart phone, however, because reading text on a screen that small will be a pain in the arse. (Don't buy a Studio branded one though because I found their power button became misaligned after a while, and avoid Geobook like the plague - their laptops are shite, so their tablets (if they make them), will be too.
hi y’all i just wanted to put you onto this fundraiser for the buffalo nations grasslands alliance. they’re trying to recoup some of the funds for black-footed ferret conservation on tribal grounds that the trump/musk administration has frozen, which is impacting not only the conservation efforts themselves but the livelihoods of the people working on them. the frozen grant is 1.1 million but this fundraiser has a goal of 50,000.
the fundraiser has 24 days left and has only reached 2% of its goal with 11 donations. black-footed ferrets are an endangered lazarus taxon that was thought to be extinct from 1979-1981 before being rediscovered by accident. they’re a miracle of conservation and it would be horrible to lose them for good, not to mention (again) the impact of people working with these animals losing their jobs which is outlined in the fundraiser link. indigenous-led conservation efforts are extremely important for a wide variety of reasons and as someone in the zoology area i feel obligated to share this fundraiser to contribute to those efforts.
i know that things are hard right now and there’s a lot of people and organizations all across the world that need help, so don’t feel pressured BUT if you have extra money and you can contribute to this fundraiser or share it with people who can that would be great.
super cute black-footed ferrets ^
Boosting this here- black footed ferrets are perhaps a little more charismatic than we usually allow here, but they need all the help they can get!
Dear Herr Farage, a few Muslims in a boat is not much of a threat compared to Putin, Trump, benefit cuts and internal incompetance within the NHS. Pack it in.
You can always guarantee that when you have a headache, it's a relatively warm/dry day, all the fools who like to make a racket come out and shatter the peace.
Today has just been one stressful thing after another... I hate gardening websites that over charge postage.
I'd actually gone on to The Wild Hunt to post a link to this article, as even though I am relatively safe in the UK, people need to be made aware of it.
https://wildhunt.org/2025/03/its-certainly-escalating-evangelical-group-targets-metaphysical-stores-with-coordinated-action.html
