On these long winter days we've been having, it's nice to have a little something in the house to remind you that Spring is coming.
I love the fragrance of paperwhite narcissus, so I started a few bulbs. They are beautifully flowering by my kitchen sink!
For the last ten years I've chosen a word to focus on each year. At the end of the year, I reflect on what has happened in my life and how the word played into the year.
First let me apologize for not visiting the posts!! I'm having some serious computer issues - one has a dead keyboard and now won't even recognize the wireless keyboard - and the one I'm using has some corrupt files so sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't! Looking at new ones now. Until that new one gets here, please bear with me!
And now - onto the the party! The holidays are over and the new year has begun. We've had some wild weather, so I have been working indoors - cleaning and planning my spring garden!
What have you been doing? Many of us are stuck indoors and need some ideas!
So come on in, share your creative posts - cooking, crafts, gardening, journaling - anything that can spur those creative juices!
On the first and 15th every month a new party will start and run until the day before the next one is to start (14th and last day of the month).
Please remember to share something you did not share at the last party.
Tonight is 12th night. It is a celebration of all the godesses and gods. A meal of ham or pork is served. The mead is broken open and a pot of wassail is put on the fire.
It is also a time for beginnings and endings.
This 11th day of Yuletide celebrates Valkyries and warriors. Armed with a spear, these ladies served Odin and rode on horseback into battle. She is tasked with choosing worthy warriors from the battlefields to join the gods in the afterlife.
The idea of how angels might look may have originated in the versions of Valkyries. But Valkyries are goddesses, daughters of Odin.
On this tenth day of Yuletide, tribute is paid to the sun goddess, Sunna. She becomes stronger and stronger with each day and shines longer and longer until the the summer solstice.
On the 8th day of Yuletide...
The 8th day of Yuletide is a celebration of the hunt and winter. Tonight's celebration is the feast of Skadi and Ullr. These are Norse gods of winter and they are honored for the blessings they will bestow in the season.