rowan

{he/they} {norse pagan witch} {tarot & astrology reader} {my main is @ragtag-rowan} {24 years old}

[aesethewitch]

Beware the Soulra Tarot spam in the tags. After scouring all immediately available details about it, the app (which hasn't yet released) is going to be a generative AI garbage pit that's going to steal your data (including your name, age, birthday, location, full astro chart, gender, sexuality, and the information of anyone else you put in) and "share it" with advertisers.

The accounts are bot-controlled. Report them as bot spam and block them.

[bekkathyst]

Sainte Marie Gem Show Sale (June 24th, ‘26) Item #28

$12 each

Approx 3.25“ laser engraved selenite moons from Morocco

Only 10 pieces available.

To claim items and order, please read and follow the system I have set up. You can read the rules here!

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[punissuer]

ID / TL;DW: young Black man explains the history of voodoo dolls: they originated in England, where Black people where prohibited from learning to read or write, to help witches keep track of what ailed their patients. Eg., person goes to witch and laments headache, they treat their headache and make a small doll (called "poppet"), trying to represent them as good as possible, stick a needle in its head and put it up a shelf. When they return next week, the witch takes their poppet and asks about their headache. If it's gone, they remove the needle, otherwise they know they have to treat a rather persistent headache.

[tartrazeen]

I'm just gonna freeze-frame this for everybody:

[basicjetsetter]

This was a too good to be in the tags

[akashicrecord]

starting a foundation that gives disadvantaged children one wild ass night at the club

[overturned-toybox-of-thoughts]

Why the fuck are you suggesting putting CHILDREN in a club?

[akashicrecord]

So they can sip grey goose, maybe have a cig, and feel the rhythm? Are you the fun police?

[clerical-error]

Thought and Memory.

[bekkathyst]

Posting this from my instagram because that’s where I saw this go down, but here’s just a heads up for people who like that kind of content.

It’s disappointing, but often times the people in these spaces who get really popular (especially quickly) do so because they lace every post with far right dog whistles and pander to Nazis.

Any normal person who is uncomfortable being associated with this ideology would be quick to clear the air and denounce it rather than engaging with and tolerating it.

[rosieandthemoon]

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[wanderinglanes-deactivated20260]

I think it's important to know you can walk away from religion. You can walk away from faith. If it doesn't work for you don't force it. You don't need something major or traumatic to step back. I stopped my previous faith not because of issues with how I was raised but I just didn't have the same love and joy for it anymore. I found that faith wasn't for me. I think that's perfectly okay. You should be able to walk away. You can.

[sitting-1n-silence]

A coworker's child stopped them a morning before work this week to give them a small rock. Saying, "This is my best friend and he wants to go with you to work." At work she and I got talking and she stopped and said, "I don't know why, I feel like you need a best friend." And gave me the rock her son gave her.

This rock now travels with me in my pocket until it tells me to give him to someone else.

This is animism at its finest. Receiving awakened rocks from children that spoke them into being

[thedruidsforest]

I'm calling it right now: 2026 is the Year of the Witch

[thedruidsforest]

But for real, there's something changing in the air (I feel it in the water, says Galadriel).

Systems of power and abuse are fracturing and eating themselves alive. (Maddow's "it's getting brighter every day now", anyone?) Environmental awareness is coming back to the forefront. People are trying to break their phone addictions in lieu of crafting and gardening and reading and creating *something*. Paganism & witchcraft is gaining exponential interest and awareness and at bare minimum, acceptance.

A lot is ending right now, but a lot is also beginning and growing. Lets sink into our communities and our people and continue this wonderful energy that is beginning to glow.

[tuulikki]

Finished just in time for the solstice. A little unbalanced in composition because frankly I had just been fucking around and hadn’t planned to turn it into an official project. Oops.

From Susan Cooper’s poem, “The Shortest Day”:

[thequeer07puss]

I love when deities get new domains based on our modern understandings of the world and how it works.

Like yes absolutely, Aphrodite can be a goddess of self-love. Dionysus is definitely a god of mental health and Athena can definitely help with schoolwork. Osiris can even help you garden

Keep at it, pagan community (within reason)! That’s awesome sauce

[fjorn-the-skald]

Alright, friends.

I just finished uploading some of my old academic coursework to my academia.edu page. I use my ‘real’ name over there, of course, so don’t be thrown off by that boring thing. But anyway…

For those interested in reading 7 papers from my graduate-school days (with the exception of 1 paper from undergrad), here’s what I just put up:

“Seeking Salvation: Christianity and Conflict in Thirteenth-Century Iceland” (2017)

“‘Governour and of Oure Tales Juge': Storytelling, Meditation, and the Behavior of the Host in The Canterbury Tales” (2017)

“Social Commentary in Njal's Saga: Law in the Presence of Feud” (2017)

“Cheese, Women, and Social Anxieties in Thirteenth-Century Iceland” (2018)

“Rewriting Romance: Honor and Reputation in Ívens saga” (2018)

“A Hilt in Violent Hands: Swords, Bonds, and the Monstrous in Beowulf” (2018)

“Ordinary Clothes in Unordinary Places: Gender, Cross-dressing, and Performing Masculinity in Medieval Iceland” (2019)

And, of course, there’s also my Master’s thesis.

I should emphasize one thing, though: these are simply class papers—‘mere’ coursework, if you will. They are not academic articles, for they never underwent the scrutiny of peer review required for such a ‘lofty’ status. As such, they cannot be used as sources in ‘proper’ academic work. So…don’t cite them in your papers, if you happen to write one. You can mention them, I suppose…but they won’t have much weight, I fear.

I’m only sharing them because they’ve done nothing but collect dust since I turned them in for grading and, to be quite honest, are still insightful probably? Regardless of their ‘lowly status,’ I think people may—may—be able to learn something from them and, most importantly, think more deeply about certain topics. I want them to engage people’s minds, help people view certain passages or historical ‘truths’ differently.

If that happens for even one of you, I’d be a happy skáld indeed.

So, with far too much said, I hope someone enjoys my past academic toils.

— fjörn

[harvestmoss]

theantleredcrown on instagram

[sarenth]

Valhǫll is Not Heaven

With the death of Charlie Kirk, FBI Director Kash Patel had this to say: “Rest now, brother. We have the watch, and I will see you in Valhalla.” I felt I needed to speak out as an antifascist Heathen who cares about how his religion is seen, and how it is misused in modern discourse. The amount of goofy bullshit I have seen over the years regarding Valhǫll would, and in some cases has, filled…

[vitterdotter]

Heathens need to be especially aware of how and when our concepts and symbols are being used. There is a deep history of white supremacy within heathenry, and it runs from the fascists within the faith to the academic sources we reconstruct from. Valhöll is not heaven, this is nothing but a right-wing dogwhistle. But we should take the message of Valhöll: we must continue to fight and persevere. We will never be able to erase the history of how these symbols have been appropriated by the right, but that doesn't mean we can stop fighting against it. We must be the living proof that heathenry is inclusive, that we will stand and speak up for the marginalized, and that we will always give no peace to fascists.

[skaldish]

Here’s a question for my Scandinavian followers, or anyone who knows more about runes than I do:

I re-read the section of the Hávamál where Odin talks about carving, coloring, reading, and “sending” the runes, and I understand he’s probably not talking about the rune-tokens we use for runic divination today (especially since those were invented in the 70’s). But that got me wondering what he is actually referring to, so I must ask:

Is he talking about carving runes on wooden sticks or poles instead?

Right now I’m thinking about an episode I saw of Hilda. In one scene, she walks into a graveyard carrying a stick covered in runes. She rolls it against the ground, evoking the dead, in order to raise them from their graves.

I remember something similar from the Norse myths as well: When Freyr falls in love with the giantess Gerdr, he sends his man Skirnir to Jötunheim to bring her to him. But Gerdr refuses to accompany him back to Asgard, so Skirnir pulls out a stick, carves runes it, and uses it to curse Gerdr to never find love unless it’s with ugly giants or Freyr himself.

I did a little digging just now and discovered there’s archaeological evidence for rune-poles: The “Bryggen inscriptions,” which are a collection of medieval-era poles found in Bergen, many of which have runic charms carved on them.

If making rune-poles is what the Hávamál is actually referring to, then do we know how they work and how they’re used? Is there any folklore about it? I’m guessing there must be something, given the scene in Hilda.

I also have some additional thoughts that I don't know where to put but relate to my general inquiry: What I know about runes leaves me with the impression that ancient Scandinavians thought about very differently. Today we use it as a medium for storing and transmitting stories (interpret this word in the broadest possible sense here; I'm talking about things ranging from fantasy narratives, to personal anecdotes, to factual reporting). But I’m wondering—and this is just me hypothesizing—if people used runic writing more like musical notation or computer code, in which it represented something that was supposed to be played. This would make “knowing how to read the runes” more analogous to “knowing how to read sheet music” or “knowing how to read JavaScript.” It would also make the concept of “sending runes” similar to the concepts of “playing music” or “running software.” This makes perfect sense in principle...but if this were all true, then the questions remain: How were they sent, for what purpose were they sent, and through what kind of framework were they sent? How does it all work?

Any leads help!

[skaldish]

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Hávamál

The Hávamál, or Sayings of the High One, as translated by Edward Pettit. Browse this fully-annotated version generously made Public Domain.

I've prepared a fully-annotated copy of the Hávamál from Edward Pettit's 2023 public domain translation of the Poetic Edda for your enrichment and convenience.