-I found this article on a defunt magazine site! I am reprinting it, as they have no contact information, and my emails seem to be collected into the void as it were, so hopefully they don’t mind me reprinting it and giving them credit.

This article was found on: Widdershins, Imbolc 1996 Volume 1, Issue 7

Washed in the Water by Prudence Priest

Prudence Priest leads Freya’s Folk, a coven with a Norse focus that has been together for more than 20 years.

Although baptism is most often considered a Christian custom, the use of water as a purification is much more ancient. The Greeks, Romans, Aryans, Ugro-Finnics and the Teutons associated it with some form of initiation as well.

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Originally posted on Facebook under Temple of our Heathen Gods, Notes on October 15, 2010 by Mark Ludwig Stinson. This is a two part essay that I put together here for easier reading. The original articles combined were: “The Bare Basics of Luck” and “The Role of Luck in the Recognition of Kindred Leadership”: Sometimes we as heathens, use terms that not everyone understands.  Or terms that don’t mean today, what they used to mean to our ancestors.  I received a message the other day from a new heathen, asking me to explain what I was talking about when I referred to “Luck.”  And I thought I’d share that response here for anyone else that isn’t familiar with how our ancestors viewed and defined the concept of “Luck.”  Luck is something that was very important to our ancestors. Its not “dumb luck” or “random luck,” like we think of luck today. Read the rest of this entry »

12 Days of Yule by Vincent Enlund-Chieftain, the Wanderer Kindred and Chieftain, the Asatru Alliance-Web Sites: www.wandererkindred.org and www.asatru.org, originally posted on: Asatru-Asatru Heathen Yahoo Group on Wed Jan 12, 2011 Read the rest of this entry »