This morning the wind is whistling against the windowpanes, rattling, asking to be let in. I sit snug and cozy in my house with a fire crackling in my wood stove. The cats are sleeping and a feeling of warm gratitude curls up inside of me.
I would like to thank all of you who enter […]
25 December
namnsdag (none)
Christmas day
“A day of peace and gladness, enjoying the comfort of home,” says Ulli-Maki, the feral cat who has adopted us.
24 December
namnsdag Eva
(Julafton - Christmas Eve)
Moonset, this early morning over the western horizon embraced by the purple robes of Venus
I wish a peaceful journey
to wherever your heart is taking you
May beauty unfold along your […]
23 December
namnsdag Adam
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Deep in November
Here there is a little of everything
and if you have eyes to see with
you don’t need to search
Northern lights flare up
ice pearls ignite
mountain fox tracks decorate the tundra
and every new day you wake up
to the laughter of ptarmigans
This that they call the dark season
Valkeapää
22 December
Namnsdag: Natalia, Nataniel
(next dawn)
Forest Edge
We have just arrived. I believe this day comes from naetr-elding or next dawn but perhaps more accurately night giving way to flame or spirit. Eld; flame, light, enthusiasm, spirit.
21 December
Vintersolståndag
namnsdag Tomas, Thomas
(empty, void, the vast potential)
Winter Glory
Tomas is another of the ancient words that remain in Scandinavian languages. Empty. Tomas is the emptiness of the Universe, Dark Matter that is so empty it is full. It is the vast potential of the unseen. On solstice morning the light is passed between perpetual soul’s […]
20 December
third night of Vetr-Naetr
Winter Solstice eve is the Mothernight, a new year is born on tomorrow’s dawn. The Yule log is lit, we wait together to ensure the passage.
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Hel, the goddess of wholeness contains myriad polarities. She has several faces of her feminine-light-carrying self. One of these is Ellen-Soft radiance. Ellen has been […]
19 December
second day of Vetr-Naetr
nameless day
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18, 19 & 20 December
Vetr-Naetr
(the three Nights of Winter without name)
Silence stretches into the deep full emptiness of the stillpoint. Poised on the cusp of consciousness, waiting beyond light, in the ocean of pulse-sound is Courage. Memory of all-space enters, vibrates. She stretches out her hand of trust to show us, we have […]
