It's fun to take a DNA test and find out you're very distantly related to Famous Swede #32. What isn't okay, however, is the way that DNA has been weaponized in some pagan circles-- namely with people being told that they cannot follow the gods without 'viking' blood. So how important to heathenry is your pedigree?
On my laptop is a sticker that I purchased recently. It was an impulse buy, an added couple of dollars on my order of a print I decidedly had to possess. This sticker is about the size of […]
It has been a very interesting year so far, even if we’re only a month and a half into 2023. I’m not talking about in general, necessarily, though it certainly has been a generally interesting year in terms […]
Trigger Warning: Loss of a Family Member It is a brisk, frosty morning here in my part of the world. As I sit here, sipping my coffee, the patterns of the very thin ice still clinging to the […]
Well, heathens, fall is officially upon us here in the Northern Hemisphere. The days are shorter, the nights are longer, the shade is cooler, and combines are trundling down the roads. Here at Awaken the North, we, too, […]
As I sit at my desk this morning, enjoying my first sips of coffee and slowly becoming human again, I am thinking about just that: Coffee. I love coffee. I love the process of making it – be […]