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A final call to take lessons learned, and coexist with the natural world around us.

What has happened to us? Why does humanity as a whole feel the way it does? Lonely, depressed, anxiety ridden, emotionally detached.... The answer can be as simple as; we've lost our connection...

Animism is, at its simplest, the belief that the world is alive, not just metaphorically, but literally. It holds that animals, plants, rivers, mountains, storms, tools, and places all possess spirit, awareness, or presence. In an animistic worldview, nothing is truly empty or inert. Everything exists in relationship with everything else. For the Norse and broader Germanic peoples, animism wasn’t a philosophy or a label, it was simply how the world worked. You didn’t live on

High Gothi Brandon Sample   Across many media and social outlets, we see people claiming that our ancestors used the runes strictly as a writing tool. Throughout the Sagas and Eddas though, we see that this is a false narrative and wasn’t believed by those who wrote down our stories. Within our sources we have a plethora of examples of magical runic use, below we will list quite a few of them and a brief description of what they mention: Poetic Edda (Havamal) : Describes Odi

There are many beings throughout Norse Cosmology. The Gods (Aesir/Vanir), Ancestors, Jotnar, Ljosalfar, Dokkalfar, Dwarves, and the many other beings of the cosmos can be summed up under one word, Vaettir. One class of Vaettir often gets overlooked, however, and they are the ones that surround us every day on Midgard. They are known as Landvaettir (Land Spirits), Husvaettir (House Spirits), Skogvaettir (Forest Spirits), Fjallvaettir (Mountain Spirits), Sjovaettir (Sea Spirits

The Norse View on the Afterlife Written by High Gothi Brandon Sample One topic that is steadily talked about and debated amongst Norse...

Not everyone knows that we are children of nature. However, the true nature is that we are of nature. This is because of the simple...

One of the aspects of Norse culture and faith that can be the most confusing to people is their concept of Fate, or Orlog. There are many...