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I used to write blogs here on my personal website and I have left them up. In August 2023 I started a Substack account where I currently post two articles a week on a variety of topics, generally featuring a shamanic perspective (email subscribers receive those pieces directly in their inbox, and it is FREE). I am slowly updating older content and moving it to Substack, to gather all my writing in one place. I also write about contemporary issues from an Old Norse and/or shamanic perspective. (Recent examples were what how the Norns might view suicide and how they might respond to humans using CRISPR technology to create animal-human hybrids or chimeras. I have also written extensively about spiritual narcissism and AI. I run a general series of articles I send out on days marking Old Norse and Fennoscandian feast days and traditions (most of which cluster around the Winter Solstice period). I hope that you will enjoy my blogs! If you would like to receive some soul food delivered directly to your in-box (about 6 - 8 times a year) please consider joining my mailing list! Please note that for years I used to write a blog on Wordpress.com offering a shamanic perspective on many life issues and major world events. Those blogs are still up and they offer wealth of specialised information on tricky questions and matters.
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TJUGONDAG KNUT - WHEN THE CRONE TIES THE COSMIC KNOT!
In this article Imelda Almqvist explores a Swedish festival called Tjugondag Knut, (in pre-Christian times the crucial day where the Crone Goddess ties the Cosmic Knot that holds t... more
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