Saw a deer in my backyard the other night which isn't exactly a rare occurrence in this town but it's the first one I've seen actually in my yard within the 6 months I've lived in this town

so I died there under you every night, all night

The girls are a week old

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f2u always ♡ all support appreciated

I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one.

I will look at cliffs and clouds With quiet eyes, Watch the wind bow down the grass, And the grass rise.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

15 Days of Freyja Devotion

Day 8: Festivals and Sacred Days

There are very, very few remaining sources about Norse holy days, so there isn't a lot of information to work with here. Most modern Heathen holidays involve a lot of guesswork and filling in the blanks based on research and personal experience.

In my own practice, I'm not super concerned with recreating Norse holidays with perfect accuracy. For me, holidays are about connection and community first and religious obligation second.

I celebrate four Norse holy days: Yule (jól), the spring equinox, Midsummer, and the fall equinox. There's evidence that all of these were celebrated by at least some of the Old Norse. I celebrate Yule on the winter solstice and Midsummer on the summer solstice mainly for convenience, although these dates may not be historically accurate. Freyja tends to pop up at all of these festivals in some way.

Freyja has some connection to Yule, which has survived in Scandinavian folk traditions that say she visits on Christmas. I haven't been able to find a ton of information about this, but it may be connected to other Germanic Yuletide superstitions involving spinning goddesses, like Frau Holde and Frau Perchta. I need to reread Elves, Witches, & Gods by Cat Heath before December so I can figure out how to incorporate this into my celebrations.

Odin is associated with Yule, so I may honor him as the Jólfather and Freyja as his partner this year. This would focus on Freyja's magic, prophecy, and spinning/weaving aspects.

At the Spring Equinox, I honor Freyja as a goddess of fertility, love, and abundance. I usually invoke her alongside Freyr and Thor and ask them to bring abundance in the coming year.

I'm playing with the idea of honoring Freyja and Freyr as divine sibling-consorts at Midsummer this year. This is focusing on Freyja's fertility and wealth aspects, but also some of the love and sex aspects.

At the Fall Equinox, I honor the harvest. When I invoke Freyja at this festival, I'm again tapping into her agrarian and wealth aspects, but also calling on her as a goddess of death and the dead.

There's also Winternights, which historically a time to honor the disir. Freyja is connected to the disir in the Eddas, so she could also be invoked at this festival as a goddess of the dead who helps us communicate with our ancestors.

i don’t think i’m doe eyed i think im retard eyed

i like to spice up my life by taking meds in random doses and seeing what happens

mood

Farmer's Daughter