End of the year reflection

Heathenry is a spirituality of homework. Not that researching what one practices isn't important, but heathenry has a lot to learn. Due the nature of having a decentralized realm of information, you have to really dig into everything. From the sagas, the eddas, and even roman notes on heathens at the time. 

That isn't including the minefields that were left due to the folkists and nazis that have and still practice heathenry too. Their dogwhistles aren't as obvious sometimes, making a new book you've found a possible bomb of racism, or a good historical text. 

However, that is just Heathenry in general, when you start analyzing Anglo-Saxon Heathenry (ASH) versus Norse Heathenry for example, the amount of sources changes. ASH is so much more limited in terms of sources that many rely on the blogs each other write to find anything.

It's a little overwhelming at first. However as this blog has shown, I have a thirst for knowledge and a stubborn drive to fact check. 

So my little journey has begun with the Poetic Edda, the Jackson Crawford translation, and digging into Njal's and Hrafnkell's sagas. Its a lot to read, and has given me even more sources to read as well. 

As what always happens, my reading list grows and never shrinks. 

Additionally, I have been a part of a few community rituals, and a few small ones of my own this year. Yule was a bit rushed solo, but the recent Lunar Eclipse was a blast as a community. I have and continue to learn so much from them. 

See you all next year, and happy yuletide season friends.

-Elle