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Monthly Archives: March 2013

Gyrfalcon Circling the Spruce: Another Frejya Episode

Hearth Moon Rising's Blog Posted on March 29, 2013 by Hearth Moon RisingMarch 29, 2013

Frejya has appeared to me as a stocky young woman against a backdrop of tall spruce forest, standing on the snow beside the kind of weaving, shallow streams that develop in the north as winter moves into spring. She comes … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Midsummer, Trees, Yule | Tagged boar, Brisingamen Necklace, Falcon, Frejya, Freya, Freyja, gyrfalcon, Horus, Norway Spruce, Pagan Blog Project, runes, spruce, sun

Frejya’s Three Forms

Hearth Moon Rising's Blog Posted on March 22, 2013 by Hearth Moon RisingMarch 22, 2013

So what does boar, fir and falcon say about Frejya?Let’s look first at the falcon. Freya’s falcon is probably the Gyrfalcon (JER-falcon), the largest falcon, who likes the northern climates. If she migrates at all, she is driven by scarcity … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Trees, Yule | Tagged Adonis, Arduinna, Asclepius, Attis, boar, Bran, Cerridwyn, conifer, Cybele, Demeter, Dionysus, Falcon, Freya, Freyja, Freyr, gyrfalcon, Horus, Mithras, Norway Spruce, Osirus, Pagan Blog Project, pig, pine, pine cone, sow, Tammuz

The Fir and Falcon

Hearth Moon Rising's Blog Posted on March 16, 2013 by Hearth Moon RisingMarch 16, 2013

The Fir and Falcon sounds like a good name for a medieval tavern. I can picture the large room with the riotous crowd, a bit too warm from the bodies and the fire in the hearth. The orange glow in … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Midsummer, Trees

The Magic Comb: A new post at Return to Mago

Hearth Moon Rising's Blog Posted on March 15, 2013 by Hearth Moon RisingMarch 15, 2013

I have written an article on the comb as a shamanic tool at the Return to Mago blog.

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Posted in Magical Tools | Tagged comb, Magoism

Eostre and the Egg

Hearth Moon Rising's Blog Posted on March 8, 2013 by Hearth Moon RisingMarch 8, 2013

The egg plays a pivotal role in many creation myths. In the early Greek “Pelasgian” cosmology the great goddess Eurynome “assumed the form of a dove, brooding on the waves and, in due process of time, laid the Universal Egg.” … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Eostre | Tagged brown hare, cottontail rabbit, eggs, goldeneye, lapwing, Pagan Blog Project, St. Bede

WITCHCRAFT IN EUROPE 400-1700: A documentary history, 2nd edition (Review)

Hearth Moon Rising's Blog Posted on March 1, 2013 by Hearth Moon RisingMarch 1, 2013

Edited by Alan Charles Kors and Edward Peters (University of Pennsylvania, 2001)Much of the information available to pagans about the witch persecutions of European origin is biased and distorted, if not downright inaccurate. This is even (or especially) true of … Continue reading →

Posted in Reviews | Tagged Aland Charles Kors, Edward Peters, Pagan Blog Project, witch persecutions, witchcraft, Witchcraft in Europe 400-1700

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