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 […]
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Howdy there Heathens (and anyone else reading this)! We find ourselves at the last Tyr’s day of the (standard) year! For many of us this is the 8th day of yule – for others Yule may not have […]
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We Can't Tell You How to Heathen
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When we look at the lore, we can see that the ancestors had a bit of a fatalistic philosophy of life. What does that mean? It means they held a belief that one could not escape their fate. […]
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This week to honor Tyr I will be using this spot to share some wisdom – hopefully – and to elicit some conversation. The ancestors had a word for those you were honorable, brave, and acted with integrity […]
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The decision was foregone – he had to sacrifice his hand to the greater good.
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We often associate Tyr with honor. We see him as being an honorable deity because he is seen as having done the right thing for the right reasons. He acted for the greater good when he sacrificed his […]
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Gebo is difficult to define because it really is more of a feeling than a word. Some words that come to mind would be love, gifts, and purpose. Love, in this context, is the plutonic love of our […]
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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 […]
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“Mediate often on the interconnectedness and mutual interdependence of all things in the universe. For in a sense, all things are mutually woven together and therefore have an affinity for each other – for one thing follows after […]