Odin's InfluenceS
More and more Odin is asserting Himself and His influence into my life. I have actually been working with Him more lately than I have with Brigid, which is fine. My life seems to go in a flow like that. First I focus on one thing more and then the other. It's a simple way of keeping balance and allows me to completely focus on one individual thing at a time. I like that, because it means I can give it my all without being too distracted by something else.
And I have been seeing Him way more often in my life. Or maybe I'm just noticing and He's been there all along. Kind of feels that way. He feels like a father figure to me. Normally when it comes to strong male figures I shy away from them, but with Odin I do just the opposite. I freely embrace Him and His role in my life. I suppose because He's a god and, really, you can try to run from a god, but in the end you won't succeed. I tried this for years, tried to ignore Him and go through life without acknowledging Him, but then He had enough of that and decided to force me to open my eyes. I'm glad I did though. Even though He put me through some pretty rough times last year, He's also helping me through them. Which I'm forever grateful for. <3
I could be noticing Him a bit more because next Tuesday is a deadline for an Odin devotional that I've been working on a piece for. I could submit just about anything, and multiple pieces at that. But since Odin "spoke honeyed words" I thought I'd submit some poetry about Him. So I opened my book of Norse myths and began reading them. Wow are they fascinating! It's funny. I've never read these in any kind of depth or really studied Norse mythology, yet I feel like I know these stories. Like, reading them is just a refresher. Perhaps in one of my past lives I was a Viking. I actually have two poems that I plan to submit--one totally complete, and the other almost totally done.
The other night I randomly started writing something else for this same devotional--a longer, essay like piece--but I'm not sure if I'll submit it or not. It talks about some pretty personal stuff in my life, and besides, I'm not even sure I can have it polished enough by then, I'm going to try to though. These are some of the things I worked on on my writer's retreat~
Also, I'm still thinking about getting a Valknut tattoo. The more I think on it the more it feels right. I've decided to try wearing one (as in a piece of jewelry) first though as a sort of "test run" as I know marking myself with essentially a bulls eye for Him is going to change things a bit. So, I've been on the hunt for a piece of Valknut jewelry. So far haven't been able to find anything though.