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Northern European classes for Free Spirit Gathering announced

Posted on May 13, 2013 by mohnkern

Free Spirit Gathering has a tentative list of classes out.  My classes include: Blots every morning Two Sumbels Runevaldr Making a rune set The Philosopher and Mystic Pagan Publishing  

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Wonderful Blessing

Posted on April 29, 2013 by mohnkern

I ran across this on an email list I was on, and thought it was wonderful: May Odin give you wisdom, may Freya give you passion, may Frigg give you comfort and fulfillment, and may Skadi make you keen.  May … Continue reading →

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Seiðr Workshop

Posted on January 28, 2013 by mohnkern

This weekend I had the opportunity to attend a Seiðr workshop offered by Laurel Mendes in Columbia, MD.    While I won’t go into specific details to protect the privacy of those who attended, I thought I’d give a general … Continue reading →

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Heathen Problems

Posted on August 2, 2012 by mohnkern

I love this Tumblr Site.

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Odr Blot

Posted on July 26, 2012 by mohnkern

Óðr Blot This blot was originally held on 7/25/2012 in North Potomac, MD

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Honoring our Ancestors – ancestry.com – Types of links

Posted on July 18, 2012 by mohnkern

In a previous post I espoused using ancestry.com to to genealogical research, and how it could be used to honor our ancestors.    If you start doing research on your ancestors when you are linking one relative to another there … Continue reading →

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On Honoring our Ancestors

Posted on July 11, 2012 by mohnkern

Circumstances in my life (My parents moving to a location that isn’t horribly far away from me to retire) have caused me to consider ancestors and honoring our ancestors.

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Migration to WordPress

Posted on July 9, 2012 by mohnkern

Well, after much soul searching, I’ve decided to move the Modernheathen web site to Wordpress.   We’d been running on Joomla for a number of years, and I just concluded that it was too difficult to put up content, and WordPress … Continue reading →

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An interesting quote

Posted on June 29, 2012 by mohnkern

Lately has been a time where there have been a lot of spiritual “disputes” in my life, and I was reading Idunna #88 today, and ran across the following quote from the Havamal, and felt the need to post it: … Continue reading →

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Interfaith Guidelines – a Heathen perspective

Posted on June 20, 2012 by mohnkern

The question of interfaith activities and religious tolerance has been a topic that I’ve been thinking a lot about lately.   While I’ve read several interesting guidelines, none of them seemed to include the heathen perspective on what tolerance is. … Continue reading →

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