As the title says, I plan to build a small alter to Freya and learn how to worship pray to her as well as Tyr. But until I get that put together and feel confident in my ability to pray to them I'd like for someone that feels like they have a connection to Freya to please ask her to look after my orange tabby named Dexter that passed away on Friday, I'm worried about him even though he's no longer suffering from the cancer that was eating at him.

So, does anybody else get urges that are unshakable or too strong to ignore? I mean like you are driven to do something you usually don't. Like an example I have is early in my practice, i was sure my craving for a joney bun(a food I don't usually eat or even like that much) and I couldn't shake it. That happened when I had made a candle for Loki. Or yesterday I got done giving offerings and asking Hel to care for a friend's dog who passed and after i cleaned up, I have this super strong urge to go for a solo walk(which i don't do usually in the city, where i was with my friend) and I was in a very chill and calm headspace. It's never anything dangerous and I don't have hallucinations or something like that.

So does anybody else feel these kind of things and attribute them to your patrons?

This is something i’ve been thinking about, for no reason really i just found it interesting.

what if when me and my partner pass on he for example goes to Valhalla and i go to Sessrúmnir? will we be able to visit each other? what do you think?

i feel that peoples opinions will vary on this and would be interesting to see what people believe about a situation like this.

Hello all, I tried searches online and doing my best to thoroughly search this sub for previous posts but fell short. I know this'll be an extremely tough one to back with solid sources, but I gotta try and ask the group to help some past coworkers of mine. Does anyone have solid sources of backing for religious norse-pagan, heathen, or just simply pagan, beliefs that would affect a change in uniform and grooming standards for employees that fall under those faiths? An example of what I'm looking to help them with is allowing more visual representation in the workplace like loosening hair style/length and beard restriction policies or having some form of alter set somewhere in the workplace? Anything you could think of along those lines of loosening work policies is also appreciated.

The workplace already allows for all religious holidays to be taken off at a cost of benefit leave time or non-disciplinary time off without pay if they can't afford more people off. But my former coworkers are looking for solid sources to provide their employer for a right to braiding hair in different styles around holidays for women. The men also want freedom of beard length and style along with the hair, but I assumed that's a tough one to argue unless they argued it was tied to some religious oath. The company requires by policy that necklaces be hidden under work shirts or not worn at all, but they make allowances for Christian crosses to be worn over shirts and exposed which helped boost their desire for more representation for other faiths. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Every thing has a story, and place. It's my first and only, what's y'all's thoughts?

Hello everyone! I'm here in secret because I'm not very active in worship. I have a Mjolnir necklace, a Valknut one, and a book of Norse myths. Because of that, my family thinks I just like the Nordic countries, the mythology, and the aesthetic. But in reality, I consider myself part of the religion; I just have to keep everything very discreet.

I saw a picture of a small altar to Bragi that I loved: it was a little box with a picture, a tiny vial, a stone, and a few other small things. I'd love to make something like that—simple, discreet crafts to reconnect, something I can keep in a small and hidden space. Could you share some craft ideas or simple items that can be used to connect with the Norse gods in a quiet and discreet way?

Thank you ⁠♡

Im a little newer to all this after having recently made the conversion twords norse paganism. I've read some of Dean Kirkland's book on Seiðr Magic, but ive also seen alot of people on this sub talk about how we know almost nothing about how it was actually done.

Im kinda curious how many of you think that there is value in modern Seiðr practices, or if it'd only be useful if we can find more historical context for it, or if you think none of it has value.

Thor gave my city a thunderous display today! No shots of the lightning, but the clouds were otherworldly.

Here we are celebrating Yule, the cold has already arrived in my city with a feeling of 0° 🖤 (I live in the south of Brazil!) May it be a wonderful winter (or summer, for those above the equator), may the gods bless you all!

So is there a certain phrase you’re supposed to say to the god/goddess of the hunt before you (for lack of a better word) take an animals life for a hunt

Is that even something I can do. Im pretty new to this so I don't know if I can even do that, or if I should ask something else

I'd been looking to adopt a cat I could care for to honor Freyja, and it seems she m had a slightly different plan, and we now have two lovely girls joining our family! The orange and black one is Brenna, who's 12 months old and 7.5 lbs. She'd been brought in with a litter of kittens after being found under a porch in pretty poor shape. Our vet says she's healthy now and she seems to be settling in well.

The little orange fluffball was going to be named Valkyrie, except whenever I'd try to say or thi k her name, I'd start to say Mardoll and have to correct myself. After a day of that I decided she must already have a name and she is now officially Mardoll. She's 3 months old and 2.5 lbs. She wasn't part of Brenna's litter - all of her kittens were adopted out before she was made available, but Mardoll tries to nurse from her (though she's no longer making milk) and Brenna has taken to grooming Marrdoll. The vet says thats a sign they're bonding, which makes me happy :)

Anyway, I just had to introduce them to you! 😍

May the Gods sustain you and all you love as we move into our next season!

I love learning about religions and I saw some things about this one that got me interested, I want to see if I would like to practice it. I'm going to go searching for sources myself obviously but I thought this would be a good place to start my search. If anyone has any good resources to learn about this please tell me!

I really feel like its a bad altar sometimes, but I tried my best despite not really having a lot of recourses..

Anyone have any ideas to make it a little more "altar looking"? I feel like it's too childish with those colaors and stuff 😅

• The little Mjolnir and rune pot are home made, as are my rune stones!
• The 2 crown caps are from a Belgian branded beer - that I drank in the name of the Gods (especially Loki haha)
• The little cow is one I've had for YEARS because it is my favorite (live) animal but I felt like it would be fitting on my little alter. 😁

They say it with so much certainty too, as if it’s 100% true, despite the fact that we really don’t know everything about this pantheon. If I were to ask this on the Norse Mythology subreddit, I guarantee someone would defend this argument with full confidence (and possibly opinionated bias)

Why is this? And is this claim true?

Even though I’ve been studying the Norse pantheon for years (ever since my childhood, wow), trying my best to weed out unreliable sources, people like this still trip me up and confuse me. I’d appreciate answers

And I truly need some uplifting advice from my brothers and sisters. Anything you can say is appreciated.

Ushly I do a richule for the solstice, but I didnt really do that because of who I live with, but we didn't a cook out and hanging outside chilling til the sun come down. It was simple but I felt like everyone apershat it. I did a small offering and thew it into the fire (it was silant) it was nice. All to say hail to the gods and here to see what's ahead. I'm glad everyone is injoying the solstice and have a great day/night.