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26 - she/her - Scorpio sun, Libra moon - Cottage, hedge, and kitchen witchcraft. - Nordic Traditions  - Brynnja Tórsdóttir🌩️

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Girasoles para no morir 🌻...

[tinmeteor]

August 08 2023, Bellingham WA

watching trains in the tansy patches

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home

[tinmeteor]

August 08 2023, Bellingham WA

watching trains in the tansy patches

[hobgobknowsbest]

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Just another set of unrealistic beauty standards.

[byzbi]

[mudg0bln]

[hobgobknowsbest]

[bucketofcursedbooks]

Oh to live in a weird little town with gloomy weather and strange weird sounds in the woods and hushed whispers about strange sightings and an alarming amount of hauntings and a concerning amount of eye motifs and a library with conveniently placed section for everything that's relevant to the mystery and cloaked figures sneaking around and the occasional uncanny person and weird notes and maps and books and stuff being found around the town and oh to live in a weird little town with a mystery

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[digitalachilles]

Reblog to give an ancient spirit lurking in your room a nice hot bowl of soup

[thorraborinn]

Tonight is the beginning of jólablót for most heathens who observe a lunisolar calendar. The timing is determined by "the first full moon following the first new moon following the solstice." The new moon was immediately after the solstice, making this about as early as a lunisolar jólablót can be.

According to Heimskringla:

Hann setti þat í lögum at hefja jólahald þann tíma sem kristnir menn, ok skyldi þá hverr maðr eiga mælis öl, en gjalda fé ella, en halda heilagt meðan jólin ynnist. En áðr var jólahald hafit hökunótt, þat var miðsvetrar nótt, ok haldin þriggja nátta jól.

'He [King Hákon] made it law to hold Yule at the same time as Christians and each man was to have a measure of ale or else pay a fine, and observe for the duration of Yule. But before, Yule was held on hökunótt, that was midwinter night, and yule was held for three nights.'

Most modern recreation of the lunisolar calendar is built primarily on the work of Stockholm University professor Andreas Nordberg's paper Jul, disting och förkyrklig tideräkning ('Yule, Disting and pre-Christian Time-Reckoning'; paper is in Swedish but with a substantial English summary at the end) though usually not identical to Nordberg's reconstructions. The lunisolar calendar associated with the Nordic Animism movement and the Year of Aun (not exactly the same as Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen's The Nordic Animist Year) is more directly informed by Josh Rood in his paper The Festival Year: A Survey of the Annual Festival Cycle and Its Relation to the Heathen Lunisolar Calendar.

Read more about the Year of Aun, named for the legendary Swedish king who extended his own life by sacrificing his sons, on the Nordic Animism website and on Rune Hjarnø Rasmussen's YouTube channel.

[thorraborinn]

I got a couple notes on this post from last year so I thought I'd reblog and update. This year (2024) the full midwinter moon will fall on January 25th UTC, the full of the cycle beginning with the new moon on January 11.

Some of my long-time followers will recall me talking about how, while the celebration of the original midwinter festival was moved in medieval times to coincide with Christmas, so, more or less with the solstice, the timing is better represented by þorrablót. This year, bóndadagur, the first day of the month of þorri, falls on January 26th, the latest date it can possibly fall on.

If you live in an eastern enough time zone (UTC+7 or more), the full moon will fall on the 26th, aligning with the first of þorri.

[friend-crow]

Okay, so.

I fucking love tea, and especially preparing tea for people. I love that it can be as simple or as elaborate as you want to make it. I love how many different types of tea there are, and how many different ways of preparing and consuming it. I love the variety of snacks that different cultures enjoy with tea. And teaware. God I love teaware.

I love that even when friends live too far away for me to actually make them tea, I can still send them new tea experiences.

I love the way people open up over a cup of tea. The ritual of it provides enough to do with one's hands and eyes to make it easier to talk about difficult subjects.

I love that the act of preparing tea can be both a performance and a form of meditation, and most of all an act of hospitality and love.

[friend-crow]

Fun fact about saucers:

In the 1800's people would pour tea (or coffee) from their cup into the saucer, from which they would then drink it, so that it would cool faster. Some tea could be retained in the cup, where it would stay warmer, until the drinker was ready for more.

At the time teacup plates were also used, both as a coaster and a place for a snack, much like how saucers are used now that we're not drinking out of them.

I find this all kind of funny, because I find that tea cools a little faster than I'd like in a teacup (mugs are generally better for keeping beverages hot as they have a smaller diameter relative to their height, and are usually made of thicker ceramic than teacups), but I guess people were just so eager to be drinking tea that they needed it to cool faster.

[getfunderberked]

And it’s done.

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[kurgy]

wheres seasons greasons

[kurgy]

[kurgy]

its that time of year again

[theangriestlittleunicorn]

It doesn’t have to be

[kurgy]

its not optional

[thenightling]

Yule is my favorite word for Christmas.

Yule (spelt as Jul in Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish but pronounced as Yule to us English speakers).

I love Yule because it actually entails multiple religions. It may be the result of cultural appropriation but I like to think of it as sharing.

Yule (Jul) is the Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish word for Christmas. It's also the Wiccan Winter Solstice Holiday. It's also the Asatru Winter Holiday. It's also used by many other Neo Pagans.

Yule is so versatile because it means the December Holiday for so many people, from Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish Christians to Wiccan and Asatru.