Modern American Shamanism

Nine Realms/Nine Worlds of Yggdrasil and Lewesbaam   Yggdrasil Nine Realms: Asgard – home of the Aesir Alfheim – home of the Light Elves...

Odin and Fenrir: Odin means Spirit and Fenrir means Greed. Odin must engage in his final battle against the most dangerous quality of the...

What is a fylgja? Is it like a Native American totem animal or is it something distinctly Northern European? In short conversations I...

Freya (Her name means "The Lady”) is the Norse Goddess of love, beauty, fertility, war, wealth, divination and magic. She belongs to a...

Bragi sitting playing the harp, Iðunn standing behind him (1846) by Nils Blommér   Idunn, her name means "ever young", "rejuvenator", or...

(I would like to start out with that this blog is for information purposes only. I would also like to point out that we are not doctors...

Ground Ivy (Glechoma Hederacea)   (I would like to start out with that this blog is for information purposes only. I would also like to...

Copy of The Warrior of Hirschlanden (German: Krieger von Hirschlanden) Cornelius Tacitus was a Roman historian and ethnographer who...

German Folk Magic Healing Charms Atrophy Healing Spell: Gain in the limbs, Gain in the flesh! Gain in the veins and the blood, As certain...

Odin’s animal companions Geri, Freki, Huginn and Muninn and Sleipnir. If we look at what their names mean, we can get a better...

Some of Odin’s names: There are over 170 different names for him so I will only offer a few here. The first two are simply different ways...

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I am the God Thor, I am the War God, I am the Thunderer! Here in my Northland, My fastness and fortress,...

This level starts where the first level leaves off. The big change in level two is the lack of sound or visual stimuli. The goal is to...

Part One of the Meditation Cross Training Series. Modern American Shamanism’s meditation practices are simple, straight forward, and...

1.     I believe the running of a household is one of the most important and valuable jobs in Midgard. 2.     A household run well adds...

The knowledge that comes down to us maybe fragmented, but those fragments are there for us to piece back together. We must also put in...

Forseti is the Aesir god of justice, mediation, and reconciliation. In the Grímnismál, a poem in the Poetic Edda, it is said that...

By The Swedish History Museum, Stockholm from Sweden - Pendant, CC BY 2.0, Freya Pendant Freya (Her name means "Lady”) is the Norse...

Some of the more important rituals/activities take place on Mother’s Night which starts at sundown on December 20. The first one is the...

Yule is a festival of twelve nights that starts at sunset on the winter solstice which usually falls on or around December 20. The first...