This quote is not from our lore but it resonates with me, especially during this time of the year. The lessening of the daylight hours always brings to mind my own mortality and I often find myself reflecting on and contemplating both the memories and the future plans. This quote from an ancient Roman philosopher and Emperor, Marcus Aurelius, helps me to remember to focus on my work with Verðandi and to work on my connection with Tyr. Staying in the here and now to appreciate those things in my life that may seem small or insignificant. Those lessons learned from what presented as tragic and/or threatening still have value and are needed – even if not wanted.
“Leave the past behind, let the grand design take care of the future, and instead only rightly guide the present to reverence and justice. Reverence so that you’ll love what you’ve been allotted, for nature brought you both to each other. Justice so that you’ll speak the truth freely and without evasion, and so that you’ll act only as the law and value of things require.”
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 12.1
Hail Tyr
Hail the ancestors
Hail Awaken the North
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