#lokean devotional

[devouredbyflame]

Being so afraid of being wrong that you can’t move is actually the worst thing you could do for your practice.

You aren’t imposing on anyone.

You aren’t insulting the Gods. Arguably, you don’t actually know what would be considered insulting unless you’ve actually asked Them.

You’re not going to be beaten up and told you are the worst devotee ever.

You aren’t going to be told by any Deity you are morally imbalanced or impure.

The only thing the Gods are actually concerned with is the ability to get you to listen to Them which means peeling away layers and layers of trauma, biases, and patterns that take you away from Them. They would not forcibly remove you from Their attentions just because you wanted to try something new or do something that no one else is doing.

The ultimate goal of any Divine relationship for either side should always be to draw nearer to Them, not be pushed away because your discernment is inaccurate while you are learning.

[ph4os]

even if you can't feel your deities, they are still here, and they still love you.

[sparrowmp4]

HEL LOKIDOTTIR (and Garmr)

I’m contemplating on coloring and adding more details (especially on her skin) but this is what I have so far and I wanted to share with you guys <33

Design based off of @sigyn-foxyposts ‘s Hel

[lokahjarta]

"there is no clear evidence of Loki's worship in ancient times"

But stories were told of him - yes?

And did they make people laugh?

Did they make them squirm?

But a hearth stone was carved of him, yes?

Someone's love and time emptied into little mouth stitches and a curly mustache

They imagined him, right?

And someone looked at the sky

Saw Thiazi's eyes

And the old dwarf's toe

And saw the red one, burning bright

And named it Loki -

Right?

Does a lack of worship mean

A lack of love?

What about a million scintillating threads tying the web of stories, great and small?

What about kindling the imagination

Like wildfire

Like dandelion seeds

Blowing across a northern sky

Why does worship not mean

Deeply Beloved?

I am with Them - They are with me

Everyone who once heard a story who heard a story of a god called Loki

And told it to someone who told it someone

Until it got to me. To you. To us. That's worship. That's love to me.

[lokislittlefox]

Loki devotion tip: Loki loves sweets, cinnamon, shadow work, soda, hot tea, coffee and lighting a candle as an offering 🦊❤️ also sharing things online pertaining to Loki and what they stand for counts as a major offering. Loki is often misunderstood and deserves the love!

[notthesomefather]

Invocation of the Smiler

[[written by me]]

Hail to the Smiler, the One who grins

With sneers and scars adorning Their lips.

We invite You, child of Laufey.

Hail to the Trickster, the One who laughs.

Take part in our joy, be with us now.

We invoke You, Sigyn’s beloved.

Hail to the silver-tongued shape-shifter.

Find welcome in our altars and homes.

We honor You, Angrboda’s bliss.

Hail Loki!

[groovy-lady]

Fellow Lokeans, I want to get a book about Loki, but am unsure which one to get! What do y’all think of these books and/or do y’all have any Loki related book recommendations?

*Pagan Portals - Loki: Trickster and Transformer by Dagulf Loptson

*Trickster Makes The World by Lewis Hyde

*Blood Unbound: A Loki Devotional by Bat Collazo

*Unbinding the Trickster: A Collection of Lokean Verse, Rokkr Chants, and Heathen Poetry by Gralok Loptsson

*Trickster, My Beloved: Poems for Laufey’s Son by Elizabeth Vongvisith

*Loki and Sigyn: Lessons on Chaos, Laughter & Loyalty from the Norse Gods by Lea Svendsen

[transcendingblood]

All of my Lokean art so far! ❤️‍🔥

I sell prints of these too!

[lokeanlady94]

Nine Lokean Virtues:

1. Truth: Be real. Be true to yourself and allow others follow their own truth.

2. Humor: Learn to find the humor in things, especially yourself.

3. Humility: If you need to tie your balls to a goat to accomplish your goals, suck it up buttercup.

4. Cunning: Try to think outside the box. Don't make a mess so big that you can't figure your way out of it.

5. Transformation: Don't be afraid of change, because that's how we grow. Don't be afraid of self-examination and listen to constructive criticism.

6. Creativity: Create awesome stuff. Try new things out. If you don't like it, blow it up and try again.

7. Accountability: You are the only one in charge of your own destiny, your own life, and your own actions.

8. Empathy: Try to see things from more than one perspective. Shape-shift into someone else's shoes before you pass judgement.

9. Experimentation: A mistake is only a mistake if you do it twice. Until then, everything is an experiment.

[devouredbyflame]

If Deities came to speak with humans face-to-face, most modern polytheists would be wrong.

If called down, Deities would actually be capable of making our lives easier when it comes to working with Them and listening for Their voices. The reason why it’s so hard for people to listen for the Gods is because people don’t necessarily know how important it is to develop their own personal relationship with the Divine.

We are so, so worried about being wrong and we look to other people to tell us which way we go. But there are very few experienced practitioners, even fewer effective teachers (if any at this point) and it is the blind leading the blind.

In all of my years of working with Loki, every single time I had a problem with discernment, it was always due to other people telling me I’m wrong or that their opinion was more important than my intuition. And I believed them because they seemed more knowledgeable. My beliefs I held strongly to in the beginning of my devotion to Him were always bent down by other people thinking they know more than me even though years later, they turned out to be truer than the thoughts I had after I was in a community.

You can call it beginner’s luck, but after years of seeking community, His voice became quieter and quieter. It was when I left pagan groups that I became explicitly aware of what He actually wanted from me. Confirmations started happening, the energy became denser, and things just magically started to work out that never did before and I could hear His voice speak to me in ways I didn’t think were possible prior to this reawakening.

I’m not saying we should be without community, but community resources need to be rewritten to accommodate the fact that us in the West know very little about working with the Gods. We used to. But we have no context for it anymore within society.

We can try to reconstruct a dead culture because you feel like yours is lacking but unless you’re actually receiving direct correspondence with the Divine, you will likely be unlucky in finding Their truest nature.

[sh4k3squ33r]

my current mini altar

[I'm a college student so all of my altar materials are currently in a storage unit :(( ]

[bowldrips]

NINE (9) WORLDS POSTERS

This collage and/or its individual panels are now available as museum-quality posters. Made on thick matte paper, panels with art representing the Nine Realms of Norse cosmo/mythology in a style inspired by Greek red/black-figure ceramics, Viking Age knotwork and petroglyphs.

Art adapted from a cover I did for Verses of the Nine Worlds by Nico Solheim-Davidson. It's a book of Homeric and Orphic-inspired poetry about Norse deities.

Pre-order book (ends Oct 8) here

Original post about cover here

[lokahjarta]

We imagine Loki's punishment in the mouth of the cave. After all, He is the god of many mouths, Hveðrungr, Gullveig's last stop, and Stitchlip. Why would he not be in the mouth?

Because you don't put out a fire by giving it, O Loptr, fine mountain air, sunlight, or wind.

You don't squelch a light with more light. You leave it in darkness to rot.

O, that dark primordial Thing. That cold-blooded Prometheus of the frozen north. How do you kill the deathless? You torture it to finality. Liver meet eagle. Sisyphus get happy. Loki, meet hole. (tale as old as time)

You leave him as deep as you can get him. Deep as the quick, that Blood Gave Loðurr.

And you leave that Goatballed Jester without the only thing he ever wanted. An audience. The sound of laughter. Good company.

And you leave that thrice bound sucker there to rot, wrapped round with the promise that your children, too, will be snuffed out like votive candles. Rot with them now and crawl home to your daughter. Crawling King Snake, welcome home.

That's what makes Sigyn so compelling. Sigyn, Victory Woman, The Thing With Feathers -

Rabbit says; "Joy To The Fettered,"

She flies down the tunnel, she comes heartbroken, she comes alone.

This is an Oubliette - who would choose to come but the Victorious?

This isn't Orpheus come to find her blushing bride.

This is Persephone making her bed with the mother of Monsters.

And she comes out again, from the depths which grant no mercy, with neither light, or joy, or wind, or sky. Just a bowl of poison, thirstier once emptied.

Sigyn, The Thing With Feathers, comes out of the cave and the stink and the rot. And does she stop a moment? Does she breathe the alpine air and sigh and maybe, just maybe, weep?

We know just this. She goes back.

Sigyn, The Thing With Feathers, knows that Nothing Lasts Forever. And someday, we know, all hell breaks loose.

[candlelit-cemetary]

Hello and good AM/PM!

I want to touch on a subject that I have questions about, and while I am also doing my own research on the side, I am curious about everyone’s UPGs with this certain topic.

I have noticed a certain deity sort of jumping into my space, as of a few months ago, who is quickly becoming more and more prevalent in my life.

At first, I denied their advances to work with me and be a deity to worship, as I wasn’t sure if i could handle the type of power they have, and was quite intimidated.

They have been very persistent (though very kind) and it has gotten to the point where, in the beginning, they hid items from me, and I had to ask them not to. Of course, since then, they have respected the boundaries I have set, but keep checking back in, as if to say “Ok, are you ready… now?”

This being is the Norse godex (*) of Chaos, Loki.

I have been quite intimidated, like I said, and though I know he is kind, I worry about not being ready to match his energy or expectations of me.

So! Onto the question: what is your personal relationship like with Loki? What does worship look like to you? Is there anything I should be prepared for? Please comment/repost your experience or thoughts!

- Ironically as I type this, my kitten comes over rubbing on me for pets, and then got bitey.

(*) I personally refer to Loki with gender-neutral terms as well as all pronouns, since they are VERY genderfluid

[lokean-mischief]

Sometimes, He is not pretty.

Disheveled, stinking of piss and filth.

A frightening homeless man

Shouting at me from the other side of the train station:

The face that you often see is nothing but a glamour crafted to be pleasing to you.

But, sometimes, I am tired of that

face, and you will see Me as I am

An ancient being, whose face bears the ravages of time, and what appalling marks

Grief, pain and madness have inevitably made upon Me.

While it may be easy to approach Me in a finer guise,

Silk cravats and topcoats, leather and flash, I am

Also this, at My core. This is also Me.

I am bloated with rage, and careless

grime settled in the creases, compulsively licking

The blood and the spittle that collects at the corners of My ragged lips.

My yellowed, broken teeth have gnawed and ground down upon the offal and

bones of My very long memory.

I call to you

but you must approach Me.

Would you kiss My mouth?

Source: https://nightcompanion.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/sometimes/

[notthesomefather]

Prayer of thanks to Loki

[[original prayer]]

When we dance as if no one sees, You are the music in our hearts. When we lose our egos in the magic of fun, You are the spark of play. When we extend kindness to those society has left behind, You are our open minds.

When we break our chains, You are the strength beating in our blood. When we question what is mandated, You are our daring curiosity. When we find ourselves home in many worlds but bound by none, You are our freedom.

We offer You our full-bellied laughter, our tears of mirth. We offer You our refusal to let our inner flames be dimmed. We offer You our gratitude, respect, and devotion.

Hail Loki!