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How to Bless and Protect Your Home (Frigg’s Hearth Ritual)
Seiðr Craft, Spiritualism, All Ellesha McKay Seiðr Craft, Spiritualism, All Ellesha McKay

How to Bless and Protect Your Home (Frigg’s Hearth Ritual)

Discover the ancient Norse way to bless and protect your home through Frigg’s Hearth Ritual — a practice of peace, honour, and connection with the goddess Frigg, Queen of Asgard. Rooted in the old traditions of the North, this simple and mindful ceremony invites the warmth of the hearth, the strength of the ancestors, and the protection of the land spirits into your household. Learn how to prepare sacred offerings, invoke Frigg’s presence, and weave harmony and courage into the fabric of your daily life.

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Seiðr craft - chapter 1: Introduction
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Seiðr craft - chapter 1: Introduction

Seiðr-craft is not a pastime or performance. It is an ancient Northern art that bends the will, pierces the veil, and weaves into wyrd itself. Before trance, vision, or rune-song comes something quieter but far more essential: learning how to stand — to ground, to centre, to take your place within the web of fate.

In this opening chapter, I share the foundations of the craft of seiðr. We look at spiritual gifts and growth paths, the chaos cycles that repeat until their lessons are learned, and the importance of aligning your hugr (spirit-mind) and hamingja (fortune, spiritual strength) before you attempt deeper work.

Most importantly, I introduce the Five Laws of Seiðr: Virðing (Respect), Þolinmæði (Patience), Mörk (Boundaries), Sannindi (Truth), and Ábyrgð (Responsibility). These are not restrictions, but alignments. They are the frame of the high-seat and the grain of the staff — the laws that hold your practice steady and safe.

This is the beginning of the staff-road. Without these roots, no branch can hold.

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Types of Spiritual Gifts - A Complete Guide
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Types of Spiritual Gifts - A Complete Guide

Not all spiritual gifts arrive in the same form. Some burn quietly like embers, while others strike like storms. In Norse tradition, such gifts were never casual talents—they were rare burdens woven into wyrd itself, sacred responsibilities that shaped a life and demanded respect. This guide explores modern spiritual gifts—energy work, empathy, vision, song—and their echoes in ancient Northern practice, revealing how each must be carried with honour, patience, and discipline.

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Breaking Free from Chaos Cycles
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Breaking Free from Chaos Cycles

Freyja, the Norse goddess of love, passion, war, and seiðr, speaks to Midgarðr with a timeless message of courage and truth. She reminds us that beauty is sacred, desire is strength, and to feel deeply is to hold true power. Her words call us to rise, embrace our fire, and live unashamed in honour of ourselves and the divine.

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- You are not here by accident.
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- You are not here by accident.

You are not here by accident. The Norns weave no thread without purpose, and every scar, storm, and trial has been given to forge you stronger. Like Yggdrasil scarred yet unbroken, you endure, and like the gods who sacrificed for wisdom and truth, your worth is proven in courage, not perfection. You are wyrd made flesh, a living saga still being written—rise, carry fire, and walk forward knowing the gods walk with you.

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Begin the Path: Understanding the Wyrd, the Flame, and Your Own Calling
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Begin the Path: Understanding the Wyrd, the Flame, and Your Own Calling

New to Norse spirituality? Or feeling the stir of something ancient calling your name?
This post lays the foundation — explaining what Wyrd truly is, how the gods speak in flame and vision, and how to begin your spiritual journey in alignment with truth, not trends.
You’ll learn the basics of Norse cosmology, what it means to walk as a Seer or spirit-worker, and how to connect with the gods and ancestors with respect, strength, and clarity.

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A Message from the Gods — Oðin, Gullveig, Freyja, Tyr and the Norns.
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A Message from the Gods — Oðin, Gullveig, Freyja, Tyr and the Norns.

A Message from the Gods

This is not just a message—it is a remembering. A call from Oðin, Gullveig, Freyja, Tyr, and the Norns themselves.

It’s for the ones who feel restless, out of place, or too wild to fit the mold. The scarred, the seekers, the burning-but-unbroken.

The gods are gathering their own—not the perfect, but the true.

If you’ve felt the fire rising in your chest, if you’ve heard the whisper that you are more than this story—this is your sign.

Are you ready to answer the call? 🔥

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Cleanses - What are they?
Spiritualism, All, Seiðr Craft Ellesha McKay Spiritualism, All, Seiðr Craft Ellesha McKay

Cleanses - What are they?

A cleanse, in the Norse way, isn’t quick magic or “love and light.” It’s a deliberate confrontation with what weighs you down—negativity, chaos, old wounds—and a preparing of self and space for sacred work. Drawing on seiðr and galdr, and tools like water, smoke, stone, and fire, cleansing clears stagnation and strengthens your thread of wyrd. But deep work can destabilize if rushed; a strong cleanse stirs what’s buried and can flood the unwary. This piece lays out personal and space-cleansing practices, the shadow-work at their core, and a layered, safety-first approach—intention, grounding, aftercare—so transformation becomes possible without breaking the self.

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