16/08/2024
Sometimes, the path we walk can seem overwhelming. Especially when faced with change. Balancing Hugr can be very tricky during these times and sometimes we all need a "great re-set". That can come by ourselves, through trance and Journey, it could be a large ritual gathering. It could be via divination.
However you do it, it's important to focus on your Intent. What do you want to achieve? Is the re-set to find lost purpose? To deal with a diagnoses, a relationship change?
Historically our Job as Völva was to guide and heal. We often spent a lot of time between the settlements of an area, helping people to cope with the hardships of medieval life. We were drs, nurses, midwives, ritual leaders, diviners and counsellors as well as being teachers and guides.
Today's world is not always easier to live in. We suffer hardships that are very different. Modern fertiliser helps us to very often avoid failed harvests, modern medicine helps us heal disease. But it also comes with a high financial burden, bartering services is no more, working weeks are long and children have a lot less time to grow outside of school.
But that doesn't mean we should neglect our Hugr. It is still a vital part of who we are. It is still as vital to look after ones mind as it was before, and modern techniques can only go so far.
The Völva are still here. We still walk midgard, helping where we can, guiding ritual and divining the paths we walk.
So the gods pull us to our fates. We will walk amongst you. Remember us. We are here for you all. We have much to teach the modern world of times passed.
In love and Frith
Ælfrùn x
