20 June midsommarafton
Namnsdag Linda
from lind, linen
Linda in Swedish means bandage, or twine. Lind has an ancient meaning rooted in the myths as the wedding veil. The story goes that on mid summer night the faeries celebrate the Golden Wedding. It is the night when the work of the faeries and devas of […]

19 may
Namnsdag: Majken, May- light
Alrik, very powerful, soul gift

Spring Murmurs

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Under the elder tree lies the faerie portal.
A passage for those who are able
to enter the out-of-time.

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Full moon on Alrik seems especially fitting.

30 April
namnsdag Marianna
the (left) hand of creativity
Valborgsmässoafton - tonight the bonfires are lit .
This last night of April celebrates Spring’s arrival, cattle are moved to the paturelands, bonfires are lit, young men and women join hands, we relax into the outward breath of life.

29 April | 6 sumar day
Namnsdag Kennet
kenneth, Kent
Rune Ken: inner wisdom
Ignites the fire within us

Laugh and call of spring is splashing down from the mountains a gold and silver music threading through the forest.
can you hear
the creek running
in your veins?
Sunlight in water washes over the land carrying the message everywhere….

By the old count today is the first day of summer. The light is ascendant and the feminine is exalted.
24 April
Namnsdag Vega Viveka
mend what is broken,
We mend fences both literally and figuratively, so we may move into the next cycle caring for earth, planting, tending, mending in a nicely balanced life.

Time is different for everyone
how we sense it
mark it

I have been poking around in the very old Eddas, finding pieces which seem to correlate to the stonedances or stone circles from several thousand years ago. Bits of it you have heard in the winter Namnsdag cycle. Interestingly, my ancestors from circumpolar Scandinavia share many similarities […]

Namnsdag: Patricia, Patrik
16 April

Soft light spills through the thickets
frogs are singing
everything is lengthening, softening, filling

28 December
namnsdag Rakel, Benjamin
29 December
namnsdag Abel, Set
30 December
Namnsdag Gunlög, Åslög
31 December
namnsdag Sylvester
The old is swept away, we set the codes by which we choose to live.
~ Grandfather bobcat looking for breakfast just outside my studio.

27 December
namnsdag Johannes, Hannes
skillful with our hands

Sometimes we forget the importance that each of us shares in holding the universe, even the smallest job is creative, done well.

26 December
namnsdag Staffan, Stefan | Ren
(Staff | pure, reindeer)

The staff was placed into the ground, aligned with the polestar, it was used to calculate the angles to derive the positions of the stones around the stone circle. A sort of runic calendar was inscribed upon the staff. Stafa; alot and also to put words […]