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October 2010

October 01, 2010

Wyrd Designs – Finding the Music…

When it comes to religious expression and the religious experience it’s easy for us to...

September 2010

September 23, 2010

Wyrd Designs – The Holy Tides – Winter Nights

Just as our pagan cousins celebrate the eight major sabbats or holidays that comprise the...

September 09, 2010

Wyrd Designs – Just Say No To Libricide

I’m sure by now many of you have heard of the Christian pastor, Terry Jones,...

September 01, 2010

Wyrd Designs – Finding Religious Art

Let's face it, having religious iconography, statuary, jewelry and artwork is something most of us...

August 2010

August 21, 2010

Wyrd Designs – The Holy Tides – Hlæfmæsse /Freyfaxi

When it comes to religious, pagan celebrations most people are familiar with the eight holy...

August 13, 2010

Wyrd Designs: Understanding the Symbols Part 6 – Vegvísir

As is often the case, some symbols are more commonly known than others within the...

August 12, 2010

Announcement: Lightning Across the Plains

As a service to my readers, I thought there may be some interested to learn...

August 04, 2010

Wyrd Designs – Free bookmarks to Heathens serving in the U.S. military

Sigdrifa's Prayer is a rare remnant in our lore, as it's the only non-Christianized, complete...

August 03, 2010

Book Review: Exploring the Northern Tradition by Galina Krasskova

A good, solid, human and engaging introductory text to a religion, particularly a minority religion,...

August 02, 2010

Wyrd Designs: Q and A – Ritual Quarters?

Star Foster asked: The Asatruar rituals I have seen call on the four dwarves holding...

July 2010

July 21, 2010

I am a godatheow - a godslave. Many of the spiritworkers and shamans that I...

July 19, 2010

Wyrd Designs: Finding Asgard

Sometimes understanding the cosmological map of the Northern Tradition can be most problematic. Unlike Christians,...

July 17, 2010

Stinginess is not one of the Nine Noble Virtues

I firmly believe you cannot give too much to the Gods or ancestors, that it...

July 09, 2010

Wyrd Designs – Poetry: Sigyn

Do Her Cries Fill Your Ears? Proud. Doting. Mother. Devoted. Steadfast. Wife. Forsaking neither in...

July 08, 2010

Wyrd Designs: The Havamal ~ Offerings to the Gods, Goddesses, Ancestors and Vaettir

For most followers of the Northern Tradition upon learning about this path they read the...

July 05, 2010

Wyrd Designs – Working with the Ancestors

To be Heathen is to be an animist, meaning that in addition to worshipping the...

June 2010

June 20, 2010

Wyrd Designs: Nine Long Nights – a song

As a child, I recall playing on my swingset and created my own songs and...

June 17, 2010

Blabbermouth for the Gods

People often ask me why I write about my relationship with Odin, why I lecture...

June 16, 2010

Wyrd Designs: Q & A – Is the pentagram an Asatru symbol?

Rinan asks, “Does the Pentagram have anything to do w/symbolism in Asatru, or is that...

June 15, 2010

Wyrd Designs: Q & A – The Nine Noble Virtues

K.N. asked, “What are the Nine Virtues? (Are they something to really reach for, or...

June 14, 2010

The Development of Heathen Culture – Part II

William Arnal writes that “no statement about what religion is can avoid at least partially...

June 14, 2010

Wyrd Designs: Litha – Sunwheels Alight

Midsummer (or Litha, Sonnenwende, Sankthansaften, Midsommardagen, etc.), is without a doubt, a day with heavy...

June 09, 2010

Wyrd Designs – Ritual Symbolism in the Northern Tradition

Most of those who come to our religion, come first from some form of Christianity....

June 09, 2010

Being Yourself – Not Always The Easy Path.

How much damaging morality are we bringing with us from former religions? Is this a...

June 07, 2010

Wyrd Designs – Sigdrifa’s ~ a Prayer and a Song

Sigdrifa's Prayer is the only surviving, complete, non-Christianized prayer that exists in the lore. As...

June 06, 2010

Wyrd Designs – Loki: At the Hearth Fire

Fire, is in and of itself an embodiment of polarity: creation and destruction, chaos and...

May 2010

May 30, 2010

Wyrd Designs – Musings on Memorial Day

For those of us who are so lucky, we have a lovely three-day weekend before...

May 25, 2010

Wyrd Designs – Understanding the Symbols Part 5 – Aegishjalmr

While our religion is at its heart an agriculturally derived religion, there was without a...

May 23, 2010

Did Oathbreaking Lead To The Dark Ages?

History is written by the victors. This we all know well, yet there is a...

May 20, 2010

The Demonization of Loki – Part II

This article is the second part of Krasskova's exploration of Loki. Part II discusses Loki...