Hearthside

The 2025 New Moon rune according to The Nordic Animist Year by Rune Rasmussen is Tyr/Tiwaz. In these posts I examine the prediction for the year based on the Swedish rune poem in Rune’s book. I then compare the Swedish rune poem to other rune poems to try to gain more insights. After that I examine historical data on weather/climate, as well as politics, to try to predict what to expect in this year. This is all speculative. I want to see if the 19 year cycle can predict world events, specifically in Scandinavia and circumpolar regions.  We start with the Swedish Rune poem as that is in Rune Rasmussen’s book. Swedish Rune Poem: Tyr i Vatŭm ledast.  Tyri brinner bäst i.e.. dyrast. Tyr (bull) is badly off in water/Tyr (bull) is meanest of spirits. Resinous wood is best for burning, i.e. hardest. The strangest part of this poem to me was how Rune was translating Tyr as a bull. I am not sure what his reasoning for this was. Since it doesn’t seem to actually say that in the Swedis...

Something they told me in teaching college was work smarter, not harder. How does a busy full time working woman balance that, running a household, and being the Chieftain of her tribe? The answer is, any way I can! I was talking to one of my Kyn earlier this year about how he uses Chat GPT to brainstorm when ritual writing, and then goes in and edits from there. You wouldn’t know, unless you know. Technology is the future and the future is now.  Our Kindred does mostly in-person rituals, but also the occasional online ritual, and quite a few hybrid rituals. We use Zoom for meetings. We use social media to get ourselves out there. I have recently started experimenting with Chat GPT for rituals, poetry, or just helping me to think through complex Heathen topics. I am also working on mind-mapping my Heathen practice using Obsidian. For those of you who remember the internet of the 90s where you could start researching one topic, and 2 hours later find yourself reading something entir...

  One thing I have noticed with Heathens, and Pagans more generally, is that they do things as a labour of love. (I mean… coughs …. Look at this blog. Don’t worry, I get the irony. Even though this blog is often just as much for me as my readers I could definitely monetize it if I wanted the headache.I don’t wish to stick to a schedule for posting for Patreon support though, and I don’t like the added paperwork at tax time.) I am thinking more of physical goods and events though, in this case. One of the members of my Kindred was asking how much they could sell an item for that they were making and we were happy to help them set a fair price, which allowed for people trying to negotiate them down as well. It was much higher than what they thought they could get for that work, despite their skill and quality techniques and materials.  I am thinking on an even larger scale though, like Pagan events. I am surprised what events are free or by donation, that have a huge overhead co...