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Found my pen again & Celebrating a Blót

It feels like it is time again to start writing. Some of you have rightly noticed that I’ve been away from the public scenery for a couple of months, I needed to do other things for a number of reasons.
I won’t go into details but I feel I would like to brush on two things:

Firstly, I felt my personal life were calling. I wouldn’t say that I had neglected anything, but somehow I felt like something had gone missing. It was just time to tend to one self and act on worldly matters. It’s not good to think on an empty stomach as the saying goes, and I felt I needed to rest for a while.

Secondly, during my own navel gazing time.. ;) I started to shift my energy towards a lighter focus. I realized I had been accumulating on dense, heavier energy (feeling down and just plain uneasy) so I acted on releasing and filling up on lighter energy instead.

Making a long story short. I now feel I’ve landed and will be writing here again. :-)

Celebrating a Blót

Last night I attended an autumn Blot in the pleasant company of a couple of members from a Swedish group called Regin. A group whose members among other things, celebrates the coming of winter according to the old ways with the old Gods of the nordic Ásatrú.
It was a very nice evening below the stars out in the open sky, in the company of both friendly men and woman, as well as in the company of the otherworldly friendly unseen.

Harg

Here’s a picture of the Harg of Regin (the place where the Blot offering took place).

On the Harg you can see two woodcarvings of the gods Freyr and Freya. Two Vanir fertility gods of the northern tradition.