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 Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2012 12:02 pm
Lughnasadh is coming up beginning of August, usually I celebrate it on the cross-quarter date (which is the 6th this year).
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:26 am
A couple of days late with my ritual for this Sabbat but it was a really good one. I started calling it the First Rite of Spring during the ritual and have decided that name makes a lot more sense than "Candlemas", seeing as nothing I do at this time of year has too much to do with candles.
I like finding new names for my holidays.
Anyway it got my brain churning, this ritual, and I'm brimming with questions. I threw one up in MM (it's about ritual nudity, and I thought there might be more of a response there as there's more of a religious-witchcraft vibe there) and I have some more for here. So long as I can remember what they were, anyway.
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Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 2:36 pm
So for Wep Ronpet I decided to finally write a letter to my sister while I had some downtime elder sitting. Not really Kemetic in anyway but I'm just so drained this week.
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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2013 10:24 am
Parentalia is coming up on the 13th.
Actually a really sad time for me since my dads grave is up in Alaska so I can't honor him or my grandfather at the site where they rest.
Have a feeling it's going to be a really emotional week for me.
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Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 3:59 am
Not much I can say in the way of comfort...how about a hug though?
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Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 10:44 am
Thanks.
My cousin said she'd clean off my dads tombstone and our grandpas cubical of a wall (he's cremated and placed in the vets wall) so that makes me feel a bit better. Although not much she can do in February in Alaska but still.
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 3:43 am
I'd imagine that February in Alaska would be freezing...middle of summer down here...
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Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 5:32 am
Ugh... February in Alaska. I don't even want to think about that. I'd be a snow bird if I had to money. Dad'd probably be cool and happy with that though.
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2013 2:31 pm
I was born and raised there so it doesn't bother me TOO much. Although since moving to the lower 48 I have become a sort of wimp to the cold lol.
But my dads plot is beautiful this time of year. The cemetery itself is gorgeous in the middle of downtown Anchorage. So buildings everywhere but it feels like it's isolated from the rest of the world. It really is beautiful.
But today is the first day of Parentalia. Doing a lot better than I expected. I grabbed my dads favorite Hawaiian shirt that he wore on his and my moms honeymoon and set it on my lararium for him, next to his photo (although it's a school photo of him in the 8th grade but still)
I have to start cleaning and preparing for Feralia though.
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 4:24 am
Victoria, the state I live in, and especially Melbourne, the capital, is known for having four seasons in one day. I like it when the weather decides to be summery.
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:11 pm
iKillCaustic--uKillMe Victoria, the state I live in, and especially Melbourne, the capital, is known for having four seasons in one day. I like it when the weather decides to be summery. lol We joke about that where I live. "Don't like the weather? Wait five minutes. It'll change." cat_whee
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 12:29 pm
X-Yami-no-Ko-X iKillCaustic--uKillMe Victoria, the state I live in, and especially Melbourne, the capital, is known for having four seasons in one day. I like it when the weather decides to be summery. lol We joke about that where I live. "Don't like the weather? Wait five minutes. It'll change." cat_whee Yup. We get that in my state too. On another topic, I've been seeing some stuff about modern Heathens having a "Feast of Vali" today. Not sure I care but it's interesting to think on why and what folks might get out of it. Thoughts?
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 7:51 pm
X-Yami-no-Ko-X iKillCaustic--uKillMe Victoria, the state I live in, and especially Melbourne, the capital, is known for having four seasons in one day. I like it when the weather decides to be summery. lol We joke about that where I live. "Don't like the weather? Wait five minutes. It'll change." cat_whee Yep, pretty much.
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 8:10 pm
CalledTheRaven Yup. We get that in my state too. On another topic, I've been seeing some stuff about modern Heathens having a "Feast of Vali" today. Not sure I care but it's interesting to think on why and what folks might get out of it. Thoughts? It's pretty odd, imo. I mean, is either Vali particularly related to "love"? I don't feel like I know enough about either of Them to join in a new holiday for Them. I think it's mostly a general feeling that every cultural holiday with roots in Christianity should in some way be made Heathen, which is a bit silly. I don't know many people who celebrate Valentines in any way; most people I know think it's saccharine at best.
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Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2013 9:51 pm
The stuff I've seen hasn't been tying it to love or romance in any way actually. Here's some parts of one of the better posts I've seen on it. Quote: Today is known as “Valentine’s Day”, to others it is also known as Vanir's Day, but to many others it is known as the feast of Váli. Why Váli the youngest son of Odin? Many modern Asatruar celebrate Váli blót, or Váli's Feast, even though there is no historical precedent for associating Odin's youngest son with this festival; other than the name Váli associated with "Valentine." Let’s take a closer look at Váli. VALI God of Vengeance and Rebirth Váli, as told in the Skáldskaparmál, is the "son of Odin and Rind, stepson of Frigg, brother of the Æsir, Baldur’s avenging As, enemy of Höðr (often Anglicized as Hod, Hoder, or Hodur) and his slayer, father's homestead-inhibiter." We also learn that Váli is among the twelve Æsir seated as judges at Ægir's banquet. He is not only seen as a God of vengeance, but truly one of the Æsir, seated with the others at table and drink. He is referenced for his courage and his accuracy with the bow, and is one of the inheritors of Ásgarðr after Ragnarok. ...[snip]... Váli, who ranked as one of the twelve deities occupying seats in the great hall of Gladsheim, shared with his father the dwelling called Valaskialf, and was destined, even before birth, to survive the last battle and twilight of the Gods, and to reign with Víðarr (Old Norse, possibly "wide ruler", sometimes Anglicized as Vidar, Vithar, Vidarr, and Vitharr) over the regenerated earth. Worship of Váli Váli is God of eternal light, just as Vidar of imperishable matter; and as beams of light were often called arrows, he is always represented and worshiped as an archer. For that reason his month in Norwegian calendars is designated by the sign of the bow, and is called Lios-beri, the light-bringing. As it falls between the middle of January and of February, the early Christians dedicated this month to St. Valentine, who was also a skillful archer, and was said, like Váli, to be the harbinger of brighter days, the awakener of tender sentiments, and the patron of all lovers. That said, I don't see any real reason why the 14th, specifically, would be a good time for a feast of Vali.
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