Freyja said to me ( Read more... )

Plenty

Rooted in this place, with power flowing in and through me, bringing peace, protection and pleasure I bring forth plenty. I prosper. I used to think that prosperity was about having plenty of the things that I wanted, especially money. I thought that if I had plenty of money I was prosperous. I no longer think that way.

When I observed the ( Read more... )

Pleasure

When I am rooted in the here and now, with power flowing in and through me, experiencing peace and protection, pleasure arises. Sadly, some doubt the goodness of pleasure. They do not trust themselves to enjoy pleasure. Some even think that pleasure is sinful. They think that self-denial, poverty, obedience to authority, sexual suppression ( Read more... )

Protection

I value place, power, and peace. These are worth protecting. I do well to protect my rootedness in this place. I do well to protect the flow of power into and through me. I do well to protect the peace I feel when it is present.  I value protection.

Some think that only eternal things are of value. They care little for transient things ( Read more... )

Peace

Power over others as domination, manipulation and oppression promotes sadness, anger, conflict, violence and war. The media reports it daily. Power over others denies and prevents both me and others from becoming who we are. Power from within that helps me become who I am and power for others that helps them become who they are promotes peace ( Read more... )

Just as for months I carried in my heart and mind the 25 Misconceptions, so I have carried my seven Vanic Values. It felt good to get the Misconceptions into writing. When I finished writing about them I wasn't sure what to do next. Now I know. It is time for me to put the seven Vanic Values  into writing.

I was going to write as though they were ( Read more... )

NOTE: I based this meditation on one from the Buddhist tradition that I learned from Thich Nhat Hanh. I have found it to be both very grounding and empowering. In my opinion, anything that deepens my connection with Nature and the Power of Nature is Vanic.

I am aware of the four elements of Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.

I come from them. They are in ( Read more... )

There are some good reasons to think that there might be some common ground shared by those who practice Vanic and Tantric ways. It’s all disputable, no doubt-what isn’t? However, I think that the information is worth sharing.

My primary source is Ann Moura’s New History of Witchcraft. Ann, best known for her (very Vanic) Green Witchcraft books, is ( Read more... )

Academic scholars and the heathen religious hierarchy agree: Aesiric mythology is tainted by Christian impurities. How could it not be? Everything that remains of Aesiric mythology was written by Christians. How could they not taint what they wrote with their own values and views?

What is still ignored by most is that Aesiric mythology is also ( Read more... )

What would a Vanic cosmology look like? Would it be the same as the cosmology presented in the Prose and Poetic Eddas? I think not.

The cosmology presented in the Eddas is an Aesiric cosmology. The Voluspa (1-20), Vrafthruthnir (20-37) and Grimnismal of the Poetic Edda and chapters 3 through 19 of Snorri’s Prose Edda present the cosmology of the ( Read more... )