Journey to Find a Power Song and Pouch

This is a school assignment - my first final. The journey is to Midgard, to ask for a 'galdrar' or magical song, and our medicine pouch (pungr) - what it looks like and what should go in it. Also we are to locate our first tools - a staff, precious stones, tin buttons and a …

First Journey to Midgard

  To prepare for the journey I took a shower and then laid out my mesa/altar. I used singing to go onto trance. It was laborious. I carried with me my yew staff and a rock from my mesa to ground me. I went out my front door and down the path to my garden …

The Earth is in Our Bones

I grew up in a small town situated on an extinct volcano - up in the hills of it, surrounded by more mountains and forests. My mom was a hippy and a ski-bum. I learned to ski as a toddler and lost my two front teeth on the face of Red Mountain, BC. In my …

Trance with Song

  At the school we are asked to practice going into trance every week on Freyja's day - which is Friday. This is my first experience with crossing worlds via singing, instead of drumming or rattling. Amazing to be working on this, considering all the trouble I have had with singing this past year - …

Letting Go and Listening In

I feel no presence in my life, of spirit. I see nothing. But I hear things. Things that I feel in my heart at that moment, I am supposed to hear. Someone is trying to reach me. Sometimes I hear a voice in my head that stands out from the usual chatter - but this …

My Song

I'm a singer - and I always have been. All my life I have sung out loud without any thought of being shy or afraid. My earliest singing memory is about 5, when I was walking home from kindergarten singing Somewhere over the Rainbow at the top of my lungs. I came by it naturally - …

Journey to the Underworld

In the West (last summer) we were guided to meet with Huaskar (Huascar, Waskar), the Peruvian keeper of the Underworld. We were directed to give him a gift and then ask a question. He would give us an answer and a gift back. Because it was a guided journey, or because it was my first …