My Kingdom for a….!

Last night there was a small get together and cookout with the two families of Pale Elk (proto) kindred and we had some discussion on what we wanted to do, what needed to be done and where we were wanting to go with PEK as a Vanic centered group. One area we discussed was getting...

An Aurelian

An Aurelian is the name I have given to a person that base their life philosophy on Stoicism and their spiritual worldview on  the following quote from Marcus Aurelius; “Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you...

Keeping Track

I have been reading up on the philosophy of Stoicism and one of the exercises done by known Stoics, such as Marcus Aurelius, is the writing in a journal, something that I have tried to do with little success. The number of partially filled notebooks and journals around the house is an attestment to this...

Heathen Thoughts #4 – Luck

Over the years I have tried to explain various heathen concepts in modern terms to help make it easier to understand, one of which is luck. In passing time by journaling, I put on paper my thoughts and some of the ideas that came to me as I wrote.   Hamingja, or Luck, in Old...

Random Thoughts – In-Progress

The best form of ancestor veneration is to live a noble life that would make your ancestors proud and will live on in stories and memories of your loved ones. - varied personal rewording based on the ideas of Cynnðeaw and part of a quote on god(s) by Marcus Aurelius's quote. ====================================================== In the short...

Heathen Thoughts #2

From an early age, I have not been one to take ancient books as gospel. I questioned every faith I came across, not just accepting the word of their priests or followers as blind faith, even with Asatru, which is where I find my thoughts running to as of late. There are two author's writings...

Tree with personality

When we got the lease signed at our current home, we walked around the property we found that all the trees are rather old, dwarfing the house and providing a great deal of shade on the house as well as the yard over all, making gardening a challenge as it will have to be at...

Heathen Thoughts #1

This morning I was cleaning out my email accounts of old mail when I happened on an article from The Art of Manliness titled Alone: Lessons on Solitude From an Antarctic Explorer that caught my attention. The cliff notes of the article talk about Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, an explorer who spent five months...

Thoughts on Cynnðeaw & Asatru.

In the near decade since I found Asatru, I have found that personal opinion and critical thinking that is not backed by the lore or accepted sources go over, in most circles like a lead weight. Quite often the term Unverifiable Personal Gnosis or UPG gets brought up because of this. Cynnðeaw would be considered...

Offering the Longhouse

Over the weekend we took a trip up to my hometown to celebrate my fathers birthday and while I was there I talked to them about getting something of my grandmothers that I could place in the friðgerd. She had a rather large bell collection, so I selected one from the collection my parents inherited...