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Things to Ask a Diviner When You Don’t Know What to Ask

So let’s say that you’ve found a diviner that you really like, and you want to get a reading from them, and you don’t know what to ask. Or, let’s say you do your own divination, and you want to ask your cards/runes/other divinatory tool something besides the general reading - some specific information that will help you, but you just can’t figure out how to ask.

Here is that list!

(P.S., This post was the idea of @resonance-of-libra​. I’m just the one who made it.)

Is there anything I would benefit from knowing that I have not asked about?

How will tomorrow be for me?

Are any spiritual entities trying to contact me? Who? What are they trying to say?

Is there anything I’m forgetting?

What does my subconscious want to say to me that I’ve ignored?

What do I need to focus on in life right now?

What is my pet thinking about?

What should I draw/write about?

Has anyone done magic on me without my knowledge? Who? What kind?

Is anyone gossiping about me?

How do others view me?

How can I be more true to myself?

What do my ancestral spirits think of me?

How can I connect with my god/spirits/true self/nature?

What did that dream mean?

Do I have any surprises in store for me in my immediate future?

What do I need to know about love/career/education/friendships/situations with another?

How can I move forward in my career/love life/education?

What can I do to evolve as a spirit?

What is the strongest foundation I have to build on when it comes to my career/love life/future/education/health?

What am I not considering in this big decision of mine?

What do I need to cut out of my life right now?

What issues or things do I need to avoid right now?

What are the pros/cons of this?

How can I enjoy life more?

What are my good traits? What traits do I need to work on? How?

What are the good things in life that I’m ignoring?

What are examples of times I’ve done a good job?

What things should I be grateful for?

What can I look to in order to find meaning in my life?

What lies am I telling to myself? Others?

Why am I afraid of this thing? How do I conquer that fear?

What should I learn from my past?

What is the lesson before me in my life?

What celestial/natural/biological cycles are affecting me right now?

What resources do I have?

How can I make X easier on me?

What do I need to let go?

What part of my shadow self do I need to address? How do I address it?

What habits do I need to change? How?

What kind of spell should I cast?

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Emoji Spell to strengthen a relationship (romantic or otherwise)

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emoji spell to have luck in love

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Norte Dame?????

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Love me some redheads!

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Fenrir & Sons: Hati and Skoll

HatiSkoll3When the Great Wolf, Fenris, began to run amuck, he first went back to the place where he was born. Tyr and the other Aesir had tried to keep him from going back to the Iron Wood, but one day he escaped and fled to his birthplace, and was reunited with his mother Angrboda, and his werewolf half-siblings. It is not known what happened to him there, save that when he left, his maddened devouring rage had begun in earnest, and a wolf-woman of the Jarnvidur had borne two wolf-pups, the very image of their father. In another account, the mother of Hati and Skoll was Angrboda herself, by Fenris her son, but we may never know the truth of this. Skoll's name means "treachery" in Old Norse, while Hati's name means "Hater". Hati is also sometimes given two different last names - Hróðvitnisson (Son of Rage) and Managarm (Moon-hound).

When Fenris was chained, Hati and Skoll were the only ones who came to defend him. Loki and Angrboda themselves did not interfere, knowing the necessity of the binding, but his young sons tumbled forth in a vain attempt to free their father. Instead, they were captured by the Aesir, and Odin put them to use, bespelling them as he had bespelled the Great Snake. Sunna and Mani had often been known to dawdle or change their course, which meant that the days and nights were not always dependable and on time. Mani was especially bad at this, as he liked to look down on what was happening, and the adventures played out below his feet enchanted and delayed him. There had been complaints about this from many mouths, and so Odin put the two wolves into the sky as a way to make the chariots run on time, as it were. Skoll was bespelled to chase Sunna's chariot as a dog herds sheep, keeping it to its path, and Hati (also known as Hati Hridvitisson, and Managarm) was similarly charged with herding Mani's dog-cart.

While they do not spend all of their time in the sky - when the Sun and Moon are on time and stick to their schedules, the wolves can run free on the earth below - if either sky-etin is late, they are lifted into the sky to do their job. Skoll is the quieter of the two, and says little; he does not love the involuntary nature of his job, although he gets some fun out of racing Sunna, but he is aware that it is a better deal than the one that befell his father. Hati is more outgoing and more moody; he veers from cheery mischief to wrath, and deeply resents the spell that pulls him so often to the sky. Both are aware that if Ragnarok comes, they will be able to chase and kill Sunna and Mani, and free themselves from Odin's spell, and they look forward to that day.

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"It gladdens me to know that Odin prepares for a feast. Soon I shall be drinking ale from curved horns. This hero that comes into Valhalla does not lament his death! I shall not enter Odin's hall with fear. There I shall wait for my sons to join me. And when they do, I will bask in their tales of triumph. The Aesir will welcome me! My death comes without apology! And I welcome the valkyries to summon me home!"

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DISIR

The female spirits known as the Disir (pronounced “DEE-sir;” Old Norse dísir, Old Saxon idisi are one of the most enigmatic and vexing groups of beings in the mythology and religion of the pre-Christian Norse and other Germanic peoples.

It’s impossible to cleanly separate the Disir from other kinds of spiritual beings recognized by the ancient Germanic peoples.

For example, the Valkyries, female helping-spirits of the god Odin, are referred to as “Odin’s Disir” (Herjans dísir) in one Old Norse poem. The Disir, like the Valkyries, are depicted as being at times warlike, and at other times nourishing and protective.

The Disir are often portrayed as being tutelary (guardian) spirits of a particular person, group, or location. Such portrayals never seek to distinguish them from other tutelary spirits such as the fylgjur, hamingjur, and especially the land spirits. The land spirits, known in Old Norse as landvættir, are sometimes, when female, even called Landdísir in certain literary sources and place-names in Iceland and Norway. As that example indicates, even the names for these kinds of beings are often used interchangeably with one another.

The Disir are often depicted as the spirits of dead female ancestors, which suggests a considerable degree of overlap with the elves, who are often characterized likewise.

At some point in the winter – the exact timing differed widely across the Germanic lands – a festival was held in honor of the Disir. In Norway and Iceland, this festival was known as the dísablót, “sacrifice to the Disir,” and took place at the beginning of winter. It could be held in either a private house or a formal temple, depending on the availability of the latter. From the name of the festival, we can infer that a sacrifice was its principal ritual act, and literary sources add that a lavish banquet (which probably followed the sacrifice) was another central part of the event. In Sweden, the Disting or dísaþing (“Disir-Assembly”) was held at the beginning of February, and unfortunately the sources have even less to tell us about what transpired there than they do in the case of the dísablót.

The Anglo-Saxon counterpart to the dísablót and dísaþing seems to have been the modraniht (“Mother’s Night”), which took place around New Year’s and is probably connected to the continental Germanic and Celtic “matron” cult. The “matrons” are female spirits who are very much like the Disir and Valkyries and every bit as varied – fertility spirits, guardian spirits, warriors, etc.

In other instances in Old Norse literature, the word dís, the singular form of dísir, is used as a generic term for “goddess”or even simply “woman.”

What are we to gather from all of this apparent confusion? Who and what exactly are the Disir?

It must be borne in mind that the pre-Christian mythology and religion of the Norse and other Germanic peoples were never systematized or codified. There was never any established doctrine on what a dís – or anything else, for that matter – is. It should therefore come as no surprise that we find so much confusion and contradiction in the sources themselves, both between texts and within a single text – and, of course, instead of “confusion” and “contradiction,” we could just as aptly say “dynamism” and “vitality.” When the religion in question was a living tradition, it went through countless different permutations across time and space, as all living traditions do, and the Germanic peoples themselves apparently never felt any particular need to restrain that process the way that certain other religions have often done.

Who and what were the Disir? The answer depends on which text – or, in other words, which person, group, place, and/or time – you choose to consult. The only common element in the above portrayals is that the Disir are always female. They seem to have been thought of as some sort of nominally distinct group of spiritual beings – just distinct enough to have a festival in their honor, but still indistinct enough to be impossible to really differentiate from females of other types of spiritual beings. The rest was entirely up to interpretation.

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The 9 Noble Virtues

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Thor has two goats...he can kill , cook and eat and if he stacks their bones the next morning they are resurrected and ready to go....that's WAY cooler than water to wine....….Something I like to say to Christians .

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The Grey Wanderer #HailOdin