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The idea of self-care is very big business today. Everybody wants to sell you all sorts of lotions and potions and this and that. It can get very expensive, and all of the bubble bath in the world doesn't necessarily mean that your Self is being taken care of. So, how does one start to truly take care of themself? The first step is to make sure that you are maintaining a whole self to take care of. We are faced these days with a plethora of entities that chip away at who

As a new middle-aged guy, I’m experiencing things that I have always heard about happening to you when you reach the half-century mark and beyond, and it has not disappointed me in the least. The biggest thing, other than deepening the sense of your own mortality, is the newfound ability to look back. Until this point in a person’s life you’re very busy living life and don’t spend a lot of time reflecting. I’m about to be 51 and for the last 25 years of my life, I have been a

Non sibi sed aliis "Not for self, but for others" It represents a philosophy of selflessness, service, and altruism, often used to encourage contributing to the common good rather than personal gain. This has been a motto for my life as far back as I can remember. Honestly how could it not be when this is the example my mom set for me. In 1970 America, it was neither popular, cool, or even normal to find yourself pregnant without a husband. It actually brought shame on your f

Everywhere we look we can find one reoccurring theme: The world seems to be a dark, divisive place. People are angry about everything, trained to find offense everywhere. People are alienated from healthy interpersonal connections, choosing false tinder romances and social media friendships over anything with genuine connection. Men are being trained to believe that just existing is almost the very worst thing they can do, and women are being told that children are a burden t

Night of the Witch, a long and mysterious history, lays at the feet of this holy tide. Nornanótt, Hexennacht, or sometimes know as Walburgisnacht, has been celebrated amongst our people under different " lenses" for a very long time. Whether for protection, or preparation, sanctity or demonized or christianized for various purposes the core of this theme is protection of the Folk by our sacred feminine from the dark forces and the feminine side of chaos (which is often a mock

Most people think the sacred exists somewhere separate from their daily lives. They imagine it confined to a place, a ritual, or a moment set apart from everything else they do. But there is no real separation. There is only what you do each day, and whether or not you treat those actions as having weight. I didn’t arrive at this idea through philosophy or reflection alone. I was forced into it. A diagnosis has a way of stripping things down to what is real. The numbers don’t

Ausa Vatni (baby naming) at Baldrshof