So im still learning how to navigate the holidays this year and had some questions.

Are there any set dates on when it’s best to celebrate the holidays in the year? Especially for Yule? Trying to figure out what that timeline would be? Also if anyone has any ideas on what calendars you use to keep track of the holidays in the year? A lot of generic ones don’t have them.

Also just a side question that has to do with the days leading up to Yule. Husband and I are expecting our little one to arrive in January. Next year we talked about doing something fun in the days leading up to Yule, kinda like the “elf of the shelf” but not the elf exactly. We aren’t huge fans of the elf but wanted to do something fun for the little one. Any ideas?

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Decorated my old Spammer. Back when it was much harder to find a Thor's Hammer pendant, made them out of Spam can keys.

When my father died, I got my mother a pendant with Freyja carved into it as a token to give her strength in the years to come. Now I want to get my cousin something like that for the holidays, but I'm not sure which god would be the best for a scientist who studies brains.

My first thought was Mimir, but I don't know if he has any iconography or animal totem associated with him. Not to mention it may be a little odd to give a woman a pendant with a man's face or symbol on it. Are there any goddesses associated with knowledge or maybe seidr?

Hello !

It's been a long time since I've come here since I was more on my Kemetic and hellenist sides of my practice but I want to come back to my source since Norse paganism was the first ever pantheon I worshiped.

I already prayed to Odin once for no real reason and it was wonderful, first time I was so open to a Deity I talked to him a lot that day, but anyway, I'm in university and I'm struggling a lot as someone who never had to work before it's hell, so I wanted to come back to him for help cause this course means a lot to me and it's my dream to be an archeologist, and since it's Yule I thought it was the right time for this.

Quitting the yapping, if anyone pray to the all-father for university help, any advice ? I already did my research about Norse paganism, I know how to pray and offer, Loki is one of my main Gods and litteraly the first one i ever reached.

Thanks in advance !

Hello Everyone! Those of you in the USA, you may know that the Tuesday following Thanksgiving is called Giving Tuesday. A lot of people make donations to charities on Giving Tuesday, and many employers offer a company match on employee donations. I feel fortunate that my company offers a 200% company match this year.

Charitable donations are part of my spiritual practice with my deities and the ancestors. I live in Arizona, so many of the organizations I donated to are based here. I try to choose organizations that relate in some way to associations with the deity I am honoring. Here are my deities and the organizations I donated to in their honor this year:

Odin - Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project

Frigga - Maggie's Place (Single Mothers)

Loki - One N Ten (LGBTQ youth)

Sigyn - Child Crisis Arizona

Hel - Ancient Burying Ground Association (Cemetery Preservation)

Njord - Surfside Foundation (Ocean & Beach Conservation)

Thor - Phoenix Storm Rugby Football Club (LGBT Inclusive Team)

Balder - Arizona Society of Homebrewers

Freyr - Save the Bees USA

Ancestors - Search Angels (Assists adoptees to locate their birth family through genetic genealogy)

I have really enjoyed incorporating this into my practice. I hope you find it helpful.

Judaism has Abraham and Moses, as does Christianity, and Islam has those too as well as Mohammed. As far as I can tell, there are no such figures in Norse Paganism / Heathenry (or other traditions) that serve a similar purpose.

Does that make any pagan community a non-prophet organization?

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...I'll see myself out.

Does this look accurate? And if there are ways to celebrate/ways our ancestors would have celebrated certain days, please add them!! I'm trying to bring some tradition back to our family, and to keep our heritage alive.

I'm also wondering when you are choosing to celebrate individually? Would it be during the winter solistice or are you going to celebrate according to the moon?

Day 1 : mothers night Sacred to Frigga, Fraya and the Desir Celebrate by - honoring and thanking female ancestors, Frigga and Freya. Share stories of the above. Bake cookies from where your ancestors originated from, offer some to the Disir, spirits of the land and Frigga, Freya. *start burning Yule Log

Day 2: the wild hunt Sacred to Odin and Ullr Celebrate by - giving offering to Odin, make wreaths?

Day 3: honoring Mani, mistletoe, high feast Beginning of Runic Year Sacred to Thorr and Freyr Celebrate by - hanging Mistletoe above household doorways,

Day 4: children’s night, feast of Aegir, Niord, Freya Sacred to Aegir, Niord and Freya Celebrate by - Yule lads,

Day 5: feast of community, Santa?, love and generosity Sacred to community Celebrate by -

Day 6: Yule tree, the feast of Eir, Sacred to Eir and healing Celebrate by - cutting down, brining in and decorating tree,

Day 7: the Christmas witch, feast of Thor Sacred to Thor Celebrate by -

Day 8: honoring gods of snow and ice, feast of Skathi and Ullr Sacred to Skathi and Ullr Celebrate by -

Night 9: feast of Odin, honors Odin/All Father Sacred to Odin Celebrate by -

Night 10: Sunnas ride, feast of Sunna Sacred to Sunna Celebrate by - keeping candles/fire lit all night long to help guide Sunna back, retell Sunnas Ride lore,

Night 11: Hygge, honoring Valkyrie’s/warriors Sacred to goddesses and valkyries Celebrate by -

Night 12: Hogmanay, wassailing Sacred to all gods, goddesses, Asir and Dsir Celebrate by - singing,

Tomten : We will be making an offering to Tompte

I hear people make claims about Santa Claus and Odin being the same person, especially since there's something about both of them having a sleigh pulled by reindeer. I wonder about all those claims. Who better to ask than a Norse pagan?

I'm pretty sure I know he's not in Valhalla but where would he be? I'm new to Norse Paganism,he was teaching me but we never discussed this unfortunately 😔 I'm just would like to know he's ok.

I can't provide an altar yet into her name nor the other gods where I live, and I'm wanting to learn more to work with her, because I'm humbled to be working with her and I need to correct myself first before I do anything and move forward with everything in working with Hel. With anyone who's worked with Hel, what's the threshold between things to do in her name and of course I do respect ALL gods, and I'm just trying to pick up the pieces and working on getting out of my he'll that's been unconventionally placed in my fate.

With my dark past in this time, I'm humbled to even find therapy, and affordable one (relatively) to help me figure out my adulthood.

I know this isn't pagan related, but a lot of my mental and physical stress is trying to figure out who I want to be, and I want to fix my relationships, but I understand we ourselves are the only ones who can change us.

But the Gods have helped me escape one path in my fate and I'm very humbled for it, I want to redeem myself and learn what it means to be spiritual and truly empathetic, and grow with my mistakes that I make along the way. I really want to make it through. I'm losing friends through my introspection and I know I'm a heavy weight for them to carry, I don't really have any friends I can lean on and I'm mostly by myself.

Thank you all for taking the time to reply, and ready my little blurb.

I've been listening to these guys for a little while and I think they sound great! Rock music that dives into norse mythology. Curious if anyone else knows about them or likes them. Thank you! -Z

Hello hello!

I'm wondering what all of the Norse/Nordic holidays are? Or special times in their calendar?

I have the more well known ones written down; Yule, Signblot, Haustblot.

But there has to be more that I'm missing. I'm pretty new to this (I've been a heathen all my life apparenlty. I didn't connect the dots until about six months ago though :) ).

Thanks in advance!

Lately, as I’ve been working more on my intuition and inner eye, I began to have some prophetic dreams of small happenings in my life. For instance, I dreamt of a friend I hadn’t talked to in a very long time, and the very next day he sent me a message. Another example is a vision of a blue sky with few white clouds during meditation, and the weather the next day being exactly that.

Of course, I’m still a beginner, but it has happened multiple times now. I also have people in the family who have dreams like this sometimes, but they’re not heathens.

So far I only work with Loki, is there any link between them and these dreams? Or could it be connected to some other deity? (I’m very interested in Freyja but haven’t worked up the courage to contact her yet)

Also, is there any way I can hone this skill further? Can anybody recommend me some resources on this?

Thank you! :)

Hi. I made a post a week or so ago talking about religion and anxiety surrounding praying to a non-Christian god due to PTSD. You are all wonderful people, I want to say, because I got a ton of support there and it made me feel so so good. Since then, I've worked on my altar more and made another. I've prayed almost every day (fell asleep unexpectedly and missed once but I tried) and I feel a lot better about it. I talked to some of my friends online about paganism in general and I started reading a book on it (Paganism by Joyce and River Higginbotham, I plan to read one of John Beckett's books after). I feel so much better. My chest doesn't hurt anymore and it feels a lot safer and it's really nice. Honestly, I just wanted to say thank you and I'm really happy to be here. I appreciate this sub so much. Thank you.

In the same way christians wholeheartedly believe they will die and go to heaven and that Jesus is their savior, do you all believe the same about norse paganism? Do you believe that some day Ragnarok will come? Or that Vanaheim, Asgard, Muspelheim etc are all real places connected through Yggdrasil? That dragons, elves, dwarves, etc are all real? I'm genuinely curious, so please dont just hate downvote this. Also kinda tagged on the end here, how do you guys feel about games like God of War? are they insulting?

Hey! So I’m looking into fully converting myself to Paganism, more specifically Norse Paganism. I’m generally new to the whole religion as it’s self but it seems really appealing to me. I don’t really know where to start is all. I know that’s a key requirement is to choose a god/ess to focus on and stuff. But I just don’t know much and don’t think I should choose one immediately. Any advice on things to look at or study up on or any advice at all would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all for reading this.

So, I’ve been Norse Pagan for some time, maybe a year, and for the most part my journey has been pleasant. I have an altar that I thoughtfully made above my dresser and other little pagan tributes around my room. Now, I’ve had nightmares before but they usually don’t last more than one night. But recently they’ve just been non stop for the past 4 days now, and they’re all spiritual or religious dreams, or just down right unsettling. My family members turning on me or becoming possessed and attacking me, and all around just very demonic things that wake me up in the middle of the night (writing this at 1 AM) and stress me out during the day. Normally I wouldn’t pay it any mind but it’s affecting my sleep and zapping my energy.

I’m posting this here because I don’t know if somehow these dreams are connected to my spiritual conversion or something sinister just trying to intimidate me into submission. I read up on some Christian posts and they all seemed to say that it was God calling you back to Christianity, but that just doesn’t sit right with me. If God were all loving and forgiving, why would he terrorize you in the night? Or scare you into worshipping him? Why not send uplifting guidance rather than disturbing images that supposedly represent falling into the hands of evil? Is it because fear speaks louder than kindness? Or is it because the Christian God is not happy when he loses a soul and this is his way of flipping the table?

Another thing I’d like to mention is that I haven’t been very religious recently. I haven’t meditated in some time and, though I tend to my altar, I’ve been kind of out of touch. I keep telling myself to meditate, make plans to call for guidance but life has been very busy and overwhelming lately.

Sorry for rambling. If you’ve read all of this and maybe know more than I do on this matter then please let me know. I think I’m going to take a walk in the morning with my dogs to see if I can clear my mind a little. I’d really just like to sleep peacefully.

Hello, I'm very new to Paganism. I have practiced Norse Paganism for a month. I want to look into different pantheons, and I want to know if this will "offend" any of the Norse Gods. It probably is a weird sounding question, but I was a Christian for a long time. I feel like I have cultivated a little bit of a relationship with Odin and Freyr, and I am afraid of losing the little I have with them. The reason I want to look into different pantheons is to "find my Pagan path" and to be connected with my ancestors (my ancestors are Celtic.) I apologize if this is a dumb question, may the Gods be with you all.

Hey all!

I'm wondering if there are any Norse Pagan moms in here?

I've been pagan all my life apparently. I was raised cultishly christian, but it never felt right. I was never good enough or devoted enough or loved 'God' and hated myself enough.

I've always felt very connected with nature and with the other side of the veil. I've lived with ghosts, told them off on one occassion lol, and try to stay as in tune with that part of me as possible. Anyways. There's more to it, but that's the jist.

I've only recently discovered norse paganism (I traced my lineage back) and it was like everything I've believed in or felt connected with was all there. It was amazing. Again, anyways.

Everyone I know is some branch of Christian (nothing wrong with it. They're all very respectful). One friend is pagan and the other is pretty much atheist but not completely. Like I said, they're all very respectful, the last two I'm extremely close with, but I would love to connect with some more like minded moms.

Long story short, I made a facebook group as that seemed like the easiest option. If anyone would like to join, I would absolutely love to grow the community. I also have some questions so it would be super nice to get some of those answered.

Thanks for listening to my rambling.

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I work with Loki, and I've been wanting to get his Sigil tattooed on me, like I have with my other two dieties I work with, but I can't find it online anywhere. I've looked it up and there tons on there but all are different. Does anyone know exactly which one is his? I don't want to do the wrong one.

Does anyone else suffer from severe depression here? What all do you do in terms of remaining consistent in your practice even when the weight of the day feels so heavy? I get it. This isn’t a “therapy” group. But I suffer from overwhelming depression that makes it hard to stay faithful.
Or do any of you have anything you do WITH your practice that helps aid you with depression? Talking to certain gods, rune workings, etc? Anything and everything is appreciated.

On November 25th I gave an offering to Ullr, hoping for a successful hunt. This was some raw chicken I offered and placed outside later after meditating at my altar. This was a waning crescent moon. I did not realize I wasn’t paying attention to the moon phases and that offering a blot or raw meat is not good AFTER the full moon. This week 7 out of 11 of our chickens died