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November 2010

November 08, 2010

Wyrd Designs – Understanding the Words – Fylgja

For those familiar with Irish folklore, you may have heard of tales about meeting a...

November 06, 2010

Wyrd Designs – Scouting for Pagans…

As American as apple pie and baseball, are hallmark institutions like the Boy Scouts and...

October 2010

October 28, 2010

Wyrd Designs – The Walking Undead

The crisp cool air of autumn is in the air, and with Halloween around the...

October 22, 2010

Wyrd Designs: Understanding the Words – Asatru

A factoid that not many outside of the Asatru faith realize is that the term...

October 19, 2010

Wyrd Designs – The Nine Worlds

In Heathenry, our cosmology is comprised of nine worlds. Unfortunately, descriptions of the nine worlds...

October 14, 2010

The Promise and Perils of Heathen Prison Ministry: An Interview with Gythia Jane Ruck

I have been involved with prison ministry for several years now. For many years prior...

October 10, 2010

A Samhain Dream

A very close friend of mine once shared a beautiful dream that she had, a...

October 08, 2010

Wyrd Designs – Radical Protesters at Veteran Funerals…

I think in all the recent attention to politician Christine O’donnell, we’ve overlooked another equally...

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 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 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...

July 02, 2010

Serving the Gods or Suck it up, Buttercup

Service is hard. For those being called as god-servants, spirit-workers, mystics, shamans, even God-spouses and...

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 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: Any Questions?

Religion is always a complex topic, and there are easily thousands, upon thousands of thoughts...

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....