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In the old north, Hel is not a villain but a keeper of thresholds—the quiet hand that steadies us when we meet what cannot be changed. Tonight we walk her road to face a modern affliction: the dread of endings—breakups, lost work, illness, the slow wintering of a dream. Anxiety urges flight from the dark. Hel teaches us to sit with it until our eyes adjust.

First, name what is ending. Speak it without embroidery or apology. The ancients knew an unnamed thing becomes a noisy ghost. Say it plainly: this chapter is closed; this person is gone; this version of me is finished. Feel how the breath loosens as truth lands.

Second, practice the Hel-breath: in through the nose for four heartbeats, out through the mouth for six, as if fogging winter air. On the long exhale, picture frost clarifying a windowpane. The extended out-breath signals safety; the body learns the ground will hold.

Third, light a small candle and ask three questions Hel loves:

1) What is truly dead and deserves burial?

2) What is only sleeping and needs time?

3) What is trying to be born from this ending?

Write the answers without judgment. Grief and growth are siblings; both sit at Hel’s table.

Fourth, take a threshold walk. Find a doorway, a bridge, the line where stone meets water. Step across and back three times, naming what you leave and what you carry. Ritual gives the nervous system markers; the body believes what the feet rehearse.

When memory rises like cold fog, place one hand on chest and one on belly—the Hel-rope that anchors breath to heartbeat. Whisper, “I can be with this.” Shame loses power when met with companionship. You are not alone; ancestors who survived harsher winters keep pace beside you.

Finally, make a covenant: for nine nights, tend one small living thing—water a plant, clear a drawer, write a letter you do not send. Hel honors those who feed life while grieving the dead. Anxiety starves when life is nourished in steady, faithful portions.

The secret of Hel is not morbid but merciful. Endings are doors. Sit in the dim long enough, and you’ll notice: the dark is fertile, and your eyes remember how to see.

Be Well my Friends,

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Here in the North, the first frost carries a lesson. Today’s show, “The Path of Ullr,” steps onto that crisp snow—where sound travels farther, tracks speak louder, and every breath counts. Ullr, silent archer and master of winter travel, is not a god of spectacle; he is a guide of discipline, focus, and purposeful movement. Walk with him and you waste nothing: not an arrow, not a word, not a step.

Ullr’s gifts are practical and demanding. He teaches us to read a land that looks uniform and unforgiving—how to choose a safe line across ice, listen for hollow snow, and move lightly so we don’t invite the mountain to test us. He is the still point from which accurate action emerges. Stance, breath, and gaze aren’t ornaments; they are ethics. You don’t take a shot because you can—you take it because it is clean, necessary, and aligned with duty to place and kin.

We’ll travel three layers of this path. First, skill: bow, breath, body. Practice until the body remembers what the mind forgets under stress. Second, awareness: tracking the seen and unseen. Trails, wind, light, and the language of birds become a moving scripture. Third, oath: wearing “Ullr’s ring” as honest vow—keeping faith with community, game animals, and the winters that still sustain us.

There is healing here. Precision is an antidote to chaos. When life scatters our attention, Ullr returns us to a single arrow—the next right action. He is a patron of thresholds: the first step onto new snow, the breath before truth is spoken, the moment we learn to do hard things without hardening our hearts. This path is not about becoming colder; it is about becoming clearer.

Begin with a small practice: sit tall, plant your feet, soften your jaw. Inhale for four, pause two, exhale six. Feel the ribs draw in like an unstrung bow. This is winter stance—calm, honest, ready. From here we’ll explore tools and boundaries: when to move or wait, speak or keep counsel, and how to cross conflict like a snowfield—testing carefully, committing fully, and leaving the lightest track.

Be Well my Friends,

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Under Yggdrasil (World Tree)’s canopy, “The Gift of Idunn” turns myth into something you can hold in your hands. We begin with a nine-breath ritual mapped to the World Tree: three root breaths to claim belonging, three trunk breaths to steady posture and voice, and three crown breaths to offer calm outward. Use the 4–2–6 cadence—inhale four, hold two, exhale six—so your nervous system reads safety and lets choice return. Then we follow the path of World-Tree axis, Bifröst (Bridge of light) crossing and make it practical. When mind-noise rises, greet Huginn and Muninn—Thought and Memory—and practice cognitive defusion: name the raven, note its message, and return to one long exhale. For sudden spikes or intrusive bite, use Name–Frame–Tame: name what’s happening, frame it as a nervous-system surge (not a verdict), and tame it by lengthening the out-breath. Runes become pocket practices: Eihwaz and Laguz lead tonight. Try 4–2–6 breath, then pair it with Name–Frame–Tame. Keep each move small and repeatable so your body can trust you. We stitch ritual into daily life: nine breaths at first light, three trunk breaths before hard conversations, and a short note to Mímir (Mimir) each night—“What did my breath teach me today?” This is not about exiling pain; it’s about growing capacity—steadier mood, clearer thinking, kinder self-talk. If you’re in active distress, pair these practices with professional care; myth is a lantern, not a diagnosis. Let this episode be a calm harbor where you can practice and re-enter the waters with more skill and a gentler voice. Choose a daily cue—boiling water, opening a door, sitting in the car—and tether one slow breath to it. When it helps, notice that it helped; when it doesn’t, notice that you noticed and try again without blame. Consistency builds capacity, and capacity makes courage possible in ordinary hours. Return to the nine-breath ritual and the 4–2–6 cadence; keep it tiny, repeatable, and kind. Tie one breath to a daily cue—boiling water, opening a door, sitting in the car—and notice what changes without judgment. Practice builds capacity; capacity makes courage possible in ordinary hours.

Be Well my Friends,

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Under Yggdrasil (World Tree)’s canopy, “The Weaving of the Norns” turns myth into something you can hold in your hands. We begin with a nine-breath ritual mapped to the World Tree: three root breaths to claim belonging, three trunk breaths to steady posture and voice, and three crown breaths to offer calm outward. Use the 4–2–6 cadence—inhale four, hold two, exhale six—so your nervous system reads safety and lets choice return. Then we follow the path of World-Tree axis, Bifröst (Bridge of light) crossing and make it practical. When mind-noise rises, greet Huginn and Muninn—Thought and Memory—and practice cognitive defusion: name the raven, note its message, and return to one long exhale. For sudden spikes or intrusive bite, use Name–Frame–Tame: name what’s happening, frame it as a nervous-system surge (not a verdict), and tame it by lengthening the out-breath. Runes become pocket practices: Eihwaz and Laguz lead tonight. Try 4–2–6 breath, then pair it with Name–Frame–Tame. Keep each move small and repeatable so your body can trust you. We stitch ritual into daily life: nine breaths at first light, three trunk breaths before hard conversations, and a short note to Mímir (Mimir) each night—“What did my breath teach me today?” This is not about exiling pain; it’s about growing capacity—steadier mood, clearer thinking, kinder self-talk. If you’re in active distress, pair these practices with professional care; myth is a lantern, not a diagnosis. Let this episode be a calm harbor where you can practice and re-enter the waters with more skill and a gentler voice. Choose a daily cue—boiling water, opening a door, sitting in the car—and tether one slow breath to it. When it helps, notice that it helped; when it doesn’t, notice that you noticed and try again without blame. Consistency builds capacity, and capacity makes courage possible in ordinary hours. Return to the nine-breath ritual and the 4–2–6 cadence; keep it tiny, repeatable, and kind. Tie one breath to a daily cue—boiling water, opening a door, sitting in the car—and notice what changes without judgment. Practice builds capacity; capacity makes courage possible in ordinary hours.

Be Well my Friends,

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There is a rhythm beneath the noise of this age. It is older than traffic and time cards, older than screens and the hum of wires. When you ask if you can live the old ways now, you are really asking if the drum is still beating. It is. The work is learning to hear it where you stand. Begin by making a small fire you can keep: not with wood perhaps, but with attention. Choose one daily act to hold as sacred—pouring water, opening the door, greeting first light. Name it a rite and keep it. In doing so you stitch old time to modern hours. Next, remember you are not a colonist on the land you live upon; you are a guest. Step outside, breathe until your breath matches the breeze. Offer a quiet thanks to the beings who are already at home: the soil, the spruce, the crow, the unseen that we address with respect. Old ways are not costumes; they are relationships.

Build a small altar that changes with the week: a leaf, a stone, a photo of a grandparent, a rune you are studying. Keep it simple. When you pass, pause your rush for one full breath. That is prayer enough to begin. Eat one meal each day without a screen, and let your first bite be a blessing spoken aloud. The ancestors recognize the voice that blesses.

Finally, do not try to live yesterday’s village alone. Find or form a tiny circle: two or three who agree to check in, share a story, make a plan for kindness. The modern world is not an enemy to defeat but a river to cross with good companions. The old ways walk well on new bridges when you travel with humility, consent, and reciprocity. Keep one promise, keep it small, keep it every day. The drum will meet you there.

How can I honor Celtic-Norse and Indigenous ways while living in a modern city and job?” — Maya, OR

“Be Well my Friends,

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S2E190 – The Hunt of Skadi.

Skadi, goddess of the hunt and of winter, walks the snow-clad mountains with bow in hand. She is fierce independence and the chill breath of survival. To the Norse, she embodies the harsh beauty of the wild North. Indigenous traditions too honor the hunter — not as conqueror, but as one who takes life in balance, offering gratitude in return.

Skadi calls us to walk with strength, to honor the wild, and to survive with dignity. Her hunt is not cruelty, but the sacred exchange of life. When we walk her path, we remember that the cold teaches endurance and the hunt teaches respect.

Tonight, may Skadi’s hunt remind you of your own strength and your bond with the wild world.

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S2E189 – The Watch of Heimdall. Heimdall, ever-vigilant guardian of Bifröst, hears the grass grow and the wool upon sheep. His gift is awareness, the watchfulness that protects all realms. In Indigenous wisdom, the watchman is sacred — a protector who never sleeps, who guards the circle of the people.

Heimdall teaches us to awaken our senses, to notice what others pass by, to honor the role of guardian. Though his horn Gjallarhorn will one day call the final battle, his lesson for now is presence — to see and hear the world fully.

May Heimdall’s watch inspire us to be attentive, to guard what is sacred, and to live in readiness without fear.

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S2E188 – The Song of Bragi

At first light we turn to Bragi—a rite of becoming carried by breath and by memory. Before the world is loud, we step into the hush where thread becomes road and intention becomes fate. We will name the snarls we carry—promises dropped, paths delayed—and learn to loosen them with patience, warming each strand with breath until it moves again. We will spin honesty into cord, cross mercy with resolve, and feel new cloth appear beneath our hands.

Under the patient eyes of the North, we gather what is true, choose a pattern, and tie it into morning. The Norns may measure, yet we make dwelling from what is measured. We set warp lines—steady customs, well‑kept vows—and pass the weft of daily courage until the song returns to the loom. Salt for keeping, flame for courage, water for clarity—simple rites to remind the hands what the heart knows. This is not the clang of war but the soft, relentless craft that mends a life: small brave acts, repeated. We thread compassion through anger, and truth through fear, until the fabric can bear our future. When dawn finds us, let it find us ready: hands sure on the shuttle, our names bright upon the first gold thread.”|”In **** we enter the quiet workshop beneath speech, where fate is practiced, not imposed. We loosen old knots with patience, lay new warp through the day, and pass the weft—small, brave acts—until the fabric holds.

Salt for keeping, flame for courage, water for clarity—simple rites to remind the hands what the heart knows. We gather what is true, choose a pattern of mercy and resolve, then thread compassion through anger and truth through fear. When morning lifts, may it find you standing at the loom of your own becoming.”|**** invites us into Frigg’s quiet, where thread becomes road. We loosen knots, set fresh warp lines, and pass the weft—small acts repeated—until the cloth holds. We thread compassion through anger, and truth through fear, until the fabric can bear our future. The loom waits; step in when the light edges the horizon.

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Under Yggdrasil (World Tree)’s canopy, “The Shield of Frigg (Frigga)” turns myth into something you can hold in your hands. We begin with a nine-breath ritual mapped to the World Tree: three root breaths to claim belonging, three trunk breaths to steady posture and voice, and three crown breaths to offer calm outward. Use the 4–2–6 cadence—inhale four, hold two, exhale six—so your nervous system reads safety and lets choice return. Then we follow the path of Frigg’s hall, threads of care and make it practical. When mind-noise rises, greet Huginn and Muninn—Thought and Memory—and practice cognitive defusion: name the raven, note its message, and return to one long exhale. For sudden spikes or intrusive bite, use Name–Frame–Tame: name what’s happening, frame it as a nervous-system surge (not a verdict), and tame it by lengthening the out-breath. Runes become pocket practices: Othala and Berkano lead tonight. Try home anchors, then pair it with routine stacking. Keep each move small and repeatable so your body can trust you. We stitch ritual into daily life: nine breaths at first light, three trunk breaths before hard conversations, and a short note to Mímir (Mimir) each night—“What did my breath teach me today?” This is not about exiling pain; it’s about growing capacity—steadier mood, clearer thinking, kinder self-talk. If you’re in active distress, pair these practices with professional care; myth is a lantern, not a diagnosis. Let this episode be a calm harbor where you can practice and re-enter the waters with more skill and a gentler voice. Choose a daily cue—boiling water, opening a door, sitting in the car—and tether one slow breath to it. When it helps, notice that it helped; when it doesn’t, notice that you noticed and try again without blame. Consistency builds capacity, and capacity makes courage possible in ordinary hours. Return to the nine-breath ritual and the 4–2–6 cadence; keep it tiny, repeatable, and kind. Tie one breath to a daily cue—boiling water, opening a door, sitting in the car—and notice what changes without judgment. Practice builds capacity; capacity makes courage possible in ordinary hours

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