⛤It’s okay if your witchcraft isn’t “pretty”! Messy or Functional Witchcraft is amazing too!
⛤You don’t have to spend loads of money. Budget Witchcraft is Great too!
⛤Functional Grimoires are Perfect. Messy Grimoires are fun.
Just because something is not artistic, doesn’t mean it’s not prefect. Your practices is for YOU. Not everyone else.
I wanted to take a moment to show you, that I meant what I posted. This is my functional grimoire. Its information in a three ring notebook. Most of the time I don’t have the spoons to do anything fancy with it, so I jot down what I can so I can remember it after the brain fog hits.
Sometimes I feel guilty or ashamed of it because it isnt as fancy as others. But I try to remember that my craft is for me! Not everyone else. And this layout makes it easy for me to find what I need specifically and to write as frequently as I can. And there is no shame in that. And others should know that as well.
In Scandinavian mythology there’s only one person who can beat the god Thor in a wrestling match: the elderly woman Elle.
When Thor was asked to wrestle her he laughed, thinking it would be the easiest win of his life, but he had to admit defeat within minutes because Elle is no ordinary old lady. She is the personification of aging itself, and no one can beat age.
Sorry, I should have added to the earlier ask: I approach the
Prose Edda with a hefty cup of salt at the ready, as I know that Snorri
might have been written with Christian influences. I’m more prone to the
Poetic Edda in that regard, while keeping in mind that it was written
nearly 300 years after Christianity became the state religion of
Iceland.
This is something that everyone has to answer for themselves, because there are two conflicting historical versions of the myth. In the Icelandic version played out in the Eddas, Loki does tricks Hodr into throwing a deadly plant-based javelin. In the Danish version told by Saxo, Hodr kills Baldr in open battle without Loki’s involvement.
In general, I don’t think it’s good practice to dismiss any version of the myths outright, because myth is not history. In a literary sense, the academic consensus is that it’s likely that both versions are “canon.” They were just told in different regions. And in a religious sense, both versions can be true, even when they conflict. We don’t read the myths in a religious context to figure out, “What’s the original version of these old stories?” We’re asking, “What can we learn from this and apply to our lives?”
I also don’t think we need to exonerate Loki from causing Baldr’s death in order to justify worshiping Loki. Pretty much all of the Norse gods do terrible things at times, even by Viking Age Icelandic standards. Heathenry just doesn’t do perfectly benevolent deities or black and white morality. Personally, as a human who screws up sometimes, I’m actually quite happy to have gods that don’t demand that kind of perfection.
may the bridges I burn light the way 