I had a very startling inner world experience the other night which may have been a past life memory or something built on a resonance, and I wanted to find out if any of what I experienced is corroborated by any lore that my friends may know or any personal gnosis. It may also have been simply a potent experience that has no specific connection to ( Read more... )

This afternoon I watched the movie "Cinderella Man" for the first time ( Read more... )

I went gift shopping yesterday; didn't find what I was looking for, but found an unexpected treasure: a beautiful sculpture of Tiwaz with his hand in Fenrir's mouth. The photos don't do it justice, particularly not to the god's face.

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I just had the most amazing encounter with Tiwaz ( Read more... )

If you've been reading along and missed Alfrecht's comment on my Persephone/sovereignty post, you may want to go back and glance at it. It seems that a word that insisted in being included had a deeper implication than I realized -- and more associations ( Read more... )

Tiwaz and I don't have a particularly close relationship. I honor him as LM's patron and as our household protector. He is a primary motivator behind my efforts to do spiritual direction with veterans. But our interactions tend to be relatively brief and formal ( Read more... )

I did my full practices last night, as well as a deep meditation with LM and the goddesses.

As I was aligning myself with the goddesses I apologized for my recent slackness. I was reassured that yes, things have been unusual recently, and they don't expect perfection. Ereshkigal told me that She was satisfied that when She did tap me, I responded ( Read more... )

Last night I woke around 3am and was awake until well after four. My thoughts kept swirling around the Ereshkigal devotional: what I was going to write, how I was going to divide the material I have in mind, how much personal disclosure I'm going to do, and etc ( Read more... )

This evening I started my usual offering to Tiwaz -- and was stopped dead with a hard look and a pointed question about a task I had been given to do.

No, sir, I have not yet written the email to the contact my spiritual director gave me about doing spiritual direction with Pagan soldiers.

And I should be willing to receive your offering why ( Read more... )

One of my few regular rituals is a Tuesday night offering to Tiwaz. It's in my calendar as a repeating appointment at 8pm every week, with a 15-minute reminder warning ( Read more... )