Leaving Home

More than Heathenry itself, Loki was the lynchpin of my spirituality, the guiding star and supporting bedrock of my life. When I finally admitted that we were done, it wracked through me in wave after wave of tears. I had, I realized, grown too far from the person I had once been. I looked at my father’s gifts and I could no longer tolerate the cost.

Oathring

“How are you supposed to know you gave up anything, if nothing changes?”

Column: Tending the Altar

This is why I tend my altars so often: things change. I have a tendency to forget things that I do not put my hands on occasionally.