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Divine Encounters Spirit Work

The Raven in the Tree

Odin brought me, in corvid hame, to this place. This cosmic crossing is like Hlidskjalf and Yggdrasil itself rolled into one. I can feel the wind in my feathers and the warm sun pressing against me even as the chill of twilight sets in. I ponder this place in the dim glow of dusk, my […]

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Spirit Work

A Lesson on Shapeshifting in the Ironwood

Recently I found myself in my home in the astral, near the edge of Midgard. I felt pulled to the East, to Ironwood. I acknowledged the feeling and made my way there. I breached the treeline slowly. The air was crisp and clear, and I could hear the full range of life buzzing in that primal […]

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Seidhr, Hamrammr, and Other Wyrdness

As mentioned in previous posts, seidhr (pronounced “say-the”, according to Jenny Blain in Nine Worlds of Seid-Magic) is a Norse/Germanic shamanistic practice that many Heathen magickal practitioners are reclaiming. Seidhr has a mixed wrap. Some people view it as a positive practice for healing, prophesy, faring-forth, shapeshifting, weather-work, wyrd-working, and spirit communication (especially with the […]