Spirit Writer

Set of runes. Credit: shapkasushami/Pixabay In my Yule #8 blog post , I touched upon dealing with difficult ancestors in a religion that includes ancestral veneration. I think this is something many people struggle with. Vitki Gothi Kurt Hoogstraat of Thor's Oak Kindred in Chicago shares his bindrune technique in healing our own thoughts regarding this. While he does this as a heathen, I think this technique can be adapted to Wiccan or other pagan magical systems.

"Heimdallr stands by the bridge, blowing into Gjallarhorn." Credit:  Emil Doepler, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons On this final day of Yule, I honor Heimdall. He's the watchman of the gods who guards Bifrost, the Rainbow Bridge, which spans the length between Asgard and Midgard, aka between the dwelling of the deities and humankind. It is his duty to guard against the mountain giants. He has keen eyesight and hears everything, even the rustle of a blade of grass. He will one day sound the great horn, Gjallarhorn, to presage the coming of Ragnarok.  While the lore suggests humans were created by Odin, it's Heimdall who fathered three classes; slaves, freemen, and the rulers after posing as a king among humans. His great hall is called Himinbjorg, and of it Odin under his name Grimnir says: Himinbjorg it is called and there Heimdall rules over sacred places. There the watchman of the gods drinks in his comfortable lodgings, happily, the good mead. Asgard and Bifro