I’ve grouped these related posts because they form a story of initiation. If you want to read from the beginning, scroll to the bottom of this page and work your way up.
So, I got connected with Odin spiritually through racism. Through opposing racism. When a white supremacist vigilante group called the S*ldiers of Od*n (don’t want to give them visibility) was active in my town, I spoke up saying that as a person of Norse heritage and a Pagan I was entirely sure that Odin was […]
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The rune I received (literally written over my eye) back when I fell on my head at a Norse Pagan festival two years ago, was a bindrune. It can be seen as a combination of the runes Algis (representing antlers) and Tyr (an arrow) or Algis in two directions, which are the symbols of life
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It’s now 14+ months after I fell on my head in a Norse ritual dedicated to the Norns and received a rune and a head injury. In this time, in addition to mostly healing my head, I birthed a lesbian country band that has recorded and is performing professionally, a novel that had been gestating
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Odin is one of the Norse Gods, a warrior king who becomes a magician through ordeal and personal sacrifice. I didn’t know very much about him before last October, when I attended Hecate’s Sickle pagan festival in the U.S.. Odin is the Allfather, not the Somefather Except, I knew enough to spout off on facebook