When you choose to eschew the normal rituals and paraphenalia of the heathen path, it is liberating on one hand, but can be demoralising on the other. When you don't blot every day, talk to the gods, make offerings, etc it can make times like these - where we are limited in what we can do (i.e. lockdown) difficult. After all, what parts of my daily life at the moment are actually heathen?
I wear a mjolnir pendant. I have a tshirt with odin on it in my wardrobe. I have norse gods as usernames for some of my favourite websites.
Doesn't really seem enough, somehow.
Then again, if I were blotting every day and making offerings to the wights in my local area on heathen feast days, why would those things make me more heathen?
Maybe it is enough to be heathen in your heart and mind - where it counts?
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