I meant to get this posted a few days ago so I'm sorry for the late notice, but I WILL be doing an oracular seidhr session for May Day on Friday, May 1st. If you have a question for seidhr, email it to me: wodandis at gmail dot com.

I will be phasing this journal out soon, keeping it open for the sole purpose of redirecting people to my Lulu Storefront and public Wordpress blog, The Green World of the Gods. I really don't have the time (or internet access) to maintain two public blogs, so the Wordpress one will take over the task of being the place to go for announcements about seidhr, book releases, etc. There is even a feed, created for me by the lovely lwood that you can subscribe to here if you'd like the posts delivered right to your friends page. And there will be at least semi-regular topical posts (about Anglo-Saxon Heathenry, my spiritual practice, Aesic cultus, book reviews, etc.), so it will make for more interesting reading than this LJ has of late. :)

In case you hadn't heard, I'm also in the process of migrating my entire Weebly site over to the Wordpress blog. This will take me a while, so bear with me, but eventually it will be one-stop reading. Which is probably easier for all of you, and definitely easier for me.

Apparently, a while back lwood created a feed for the blog here. So for anyone who'd like to be able to get the posts delivered straight to their lj friends page, there ya go!

My latest blog post is here.

I've posted to my Green World of the Gods blog again, here.

Also, as noted in the 2nd post down from the top, I will be migrating the content from my Chambers of the Heart site over to Weebly; I just don't have time to wrestle with Weebly's fun quirks anymore. Those of you who are linking to either or both sites, please keep your links as they are until I'm done. I ill be keeping the Chambers of the Heart site open as a redirect to the site's new home on Worspress.

There's a new post on my Green World of the Gods blog here. It would have been posted a few days ago, but on Thursday night I cut my hand rather badly on a broken glass, resulting in my being Forbidden from typing for several days. (Oddly enough--or not--this happened a few hours after my monthly offering to Mimir, the Well-Wight, and the rune spirits; I guess They wanted more blood. ;)

Coming soon to the website will be photos of my shrines, information about some of my lunar-phase spirit-work "appointments," and more. Stay tuned!

This blog is not going to die after all! There are some updates here.

Our holiday altar:


And a close-up of the eggs-and-apples plate:


Our feast--bacon-wrapped pork roast with new potatoes and asparagus:


Also, I have been making some updates to the website including the addition of a ritual template for Eostre and a few other things. I hope all of you had and/or are having a wonderful holiday!

My next oracular seidhr session will be held on Saturday, March 21st, for Eostre. If you have a question to submit, email me: wodandis at gmail dot com.

Beyond Goddess: A Woman’s Guide to Forging a Personal Relationship with Male Deity is the first book for and about pagan women who have close relationships with male gods or would like to develop one.

After centuries of having primarily male models of divinity to choose from, The Goddess movement has helped modern women see the divine in ourselves, in our own bodies and social roles and in the very essence of femininity. And yet for many of us, there is still something lacking, in both our spiritual and mundane lives: the presence of positive male role models and masculine energy. The feminist movement has increased society’s awareness of the very real ways in which masculine energy has had a negative impact on women’s lives, especially when it is wielded forcefully in cases such as rape and domestic violence. However, there are also many positive ways in which we can experience male energy: the passionate lover, devoted husband, wise teacher, doting father, revered grandfather, and protective older brother—to name but a few. These roles are often overlooked or undervalued in women’s spirituality, largely because many of us lack them in our own lives, in a time when many marriages end in divorce, children often grow up fatherless, and so many people have difficulty forming lasting relationships.

Increasing numbers of pagan women have found a remedy for this situation by turning to male deities and developing their own personal relationships with Them. Not only can male deities fulfill our crucial needs for positive male energy and male relationships, They can also help us heal our relationships with the men in our lives by teaching us about the essence of masculinity and how to relate to it in a healthy and spiritually productive way. Most importantly, They can teach us to relate to the male aspects of our own natures, our male divinity within, and combine this with our awareness of our inherent feminine divinity to achieve spiritual wholeness.

If you are a pagan woman and have a close relationship with any male Deity, from any pantheon, I want to interview YOU for possible inclusion in the book of your story and insights into your relationship. Please email me at wodandis at gmail dot com if you'd like me to email you the interview questionnairs.

I'm happy to announce that I've just re-published my second Odin devotional, Water from the Well and Other Wyrd Tales of Odin, through Lulu, which means it is now available as a download (as well as a paperback book). The text is nearly exactly the same as when it was originally published last year, so if you bought a copy then (from CreateSpace) you won't need to re-purchase it. But if you didn't because you prefer a pdf download, now you can get that, for only $5, right here.

In the next few days I will finally be setting up a website for Wild Hunt press, which will include direct links to purchase this book, my previous book, a novel by Jolene Dawe, and all future Wild Hunt Press titles. Squee!

As some of you already know, since Svartesol and I abandoned the Sex with Gods book project I have returned to work on the book I had put on temporary hiatus in order to collaborate with her. This book, Beyond Goddess: Female Devotees of Male Deities, is an expansion of my newWitch article of the same name (printed in issue #11, January – March 2006). Rather than focusing on the God-spouse phenomenon exclusively, it takes a much wider look at the many different types of relationships pagan women are having with the Gods in our lives, from revered Teacher or Elder, to Father Figure, to wise older Brother, and yes, even Lover and in rare cases Husband. I will be looking at examples of relationships between modern worshipers and their beloved Gods from many different traditions and pantheons (as well as a few historical examples), attempting to find common threads but also highlighting important differences as I explore the nature of personal connection with the Divine and the many ways in which it shapes and influences our lives.

This announcement serves two purposes: to let everyone I haven’t already spoken to know that this project has moved from the back burner to the front burner again, and to invite people who’d like to be interviewed for the book to email me (wodandis at gmail dot com). I’m in the process of putting together a questionnaire and will be ready to send it out soon. I can’t promise that each and every interview will make it into the completed book, because I will be trying to include examples from a variety of pantheons and relationship-types, but I am hoping to collect a decent amount of material to choose from, so if you are a female pagan of any description and are close to any male Deity, regardless of the type of relationship, I hope you’ll consider participating. This is a project that has been a long time coming, and one which I truly believe is needed.

(Wide circulation of this announcement would be appreciated.)

First of all, on behalf of Svartesol and myself, we have decided that we will NOT be releasing the God-spouse book project (Sex with Gods). This was a mutual decision based on both of us having a lot on our plates right now, as well as our feeling that some of the information in the book is inappropriate for wide exposure at this time.

An essay I wrote for the book may appear on my web site in the near future, however. (If you've been to my site lately, please excuse the sawdust there; massive revisions are underway.)

Secondly, as some of you are aware, I have a lot less online time than I used to, and trying to keep up with LJ posting and commenting is eating up a larger chunk of it than I can spare. For that reason, I am no longer going to be making personal posts of my own, nor will I be reading or commenting on anyone else's posts. I will be keeping this account open as an information resource, however the only posts I make to it in the future will be public announcements concerning seidhr, book releases, and God-dolls as they become available. I will also be setting up a separate site for the God-dolls, and will link to that site here.

I truly will miss interacting with some of you here, but those who are truly my friends (you know who you are) are always free to email me, and everyone is free to keep this journal friended, or to watch it for announcements.

Weebly finally cooperated with me, and I have updated the oracular seidhr page on my website. You may want to go check it out, especially if you're considering asking a question for my upcoming session on February 1st; I've explained a little more about what I actually do.

I will be doing an oracular seidhr session on the evening of Sunday, February 1st, for Ewemeolc. If you'd like to submit a question, email me: Wodandis at gmail dot com. (More information on what I do can be found at the Seidhr link on my website, although Weebly isn't cooperating with my attempts to update that page today, for whatever reason.)

I just finished reading Walking the Heartroad: The Devotional Path for Spirit-Workers by Silence Maestas (which I was fortunate enough to be able to read a section of a while back, when the book was still in progress) and had to rave about it. It is a priceless gem of a book that every spirit worker NEEDS to read, and that anyone else who may be curious about spirit workers (why we exist, what we do, the complexity of the relationships we have with our Gods and spirits, why we can't just be "normal" devotees) should read in order to gain a deeper understanding. It's brilliantly written, with a simple clarity that goes right to the heart of the subject and brought me to tears at several points. I am so grateful to the author for writing it, and I am sure I will be re-reading it many times in the future just to remind myself of certain things I should not forget or lose track of, but often do.

The book is available from Lulu and Asphodel Press; if you haven't read it yet, go get yourself a copy. Seriously.

Just to let everyone know--I WILL be doing an oracular seidhr session for Yule, on Sunday the 21st. If you'd like to ask a question of any of the Gods or Wights, or to have me look into the Well for you at this powerful time of year when the veil is at its thinnest, email me: wodandis at gmail dot com. I do ask that anyone submitting a question make a libation to Odin as a gesture of thanks.

Okay, my new Wordpress blog now has an About This Blog page here:

http://greenworldofthegods.wordpress.com/about/

As well as an About Me page, here:

http://greenworldofthegods.wordpress.com/about-me/

Whee!

And I'm sorry to post and run, but the cafe is getting extremely noisy...

My new public Wordpress blog (dealing with priestess-y stuff as opposed to the more spirit worker-y slant of my existing Weebly web site) is now online here:

http://greenworldofthegods.wordpress.com/

There isn't a whole lot there yet, but feel free to go take a look; I have added a number of my friends' blogs to my blogroll already. (Let me know if I forgot yours; if I think the subject matter is relevant or at all connected, I'll link to it.) Of course, I'd appreciate being added to your blogrolls, too. :)

Coming soon will be the obligatory "About This Blog" and bio pages, along with more actual content.

And speaking of my Weebly site, I've updated the index and "About Me" pages, as well as giving it a new look for the holidays: http://chambersoftheheart.weebly.com/

My next oracular seidhr session will be held on the evening of Monday, November 3rd. In case you're new to my journal or just don't remember, here's the deal with this: eight times a year, on or near the holy days of the Wheel of the Year (which I observe because they match up pretty well with the ancient Scandinavian/Anglo-Saxon holidays, give or take a week or two for climate differences), I journey to the Well of Wyrd to speak with the Gods and wights and ask Them questions submitted to me by the community (this means you). Given my close relationship with Odin, He tends to weigh in quite a bit on these questions, although input can be requested of whatever God you choose. (Doesn't mean They'll give it, but I can request it.) If you have a question you'd like me to ask for you, send it to wodandis at gmail dot com.