Wow. Yesterday it was just before the Spring Equinox and now I wake up and it’s freaking November! Where has this year gone?

Dear friends this past summer has been chock full of things that kept me busy and away from my website. Planning and planting a vegetable garden, setting up flower beds, hauling wood chips, building a chicken coop and run (yes, you read that right. I got chickens!!), cleaning up the yards, and doing my best to do the same in the house. Every time I thought I was good and could sit back down to write something else came up. I wish I could say that all of the above was immensely successful and I had one hel of a harvest to show for it but alas I cannot. Bugs, heat, and lack of water/irrigation meant that what should have been an amazing garden year only produced a few beans, two squash, some peppers, and a couple of small cucumbers. Instead of being down about the lack of abundance I am choosing instead to think ahead to next year and begin plotting my next attempt with several changes. But my garden is not really what this blog is about, is it?

What about all those stories I listed back in March?

To be honest, while I have a little more on the burner for them they haven’t really come together into a delicious dish of mythos just yet. Jörð share a little more but I need to have a seat with her this winter and talk out what she would like me to share. Spring through fall she is so busy in the northern hemisphere that there hasn’t been time to have a good chat. Njörð was all set for me to tell the story but Heimdall was a bit hesitant. Out of respect I will wait until he is ready. Óðr has disappeared for a bit, probably on another adventure, but I feel certain he will be making an appearance again before Twelfth Night.

To be frank, I was so preoccupied with the house and garden that I didn’t even keep up with my devotionals. I kept meaning to but I didn’t have the same draw as I did before my last post so I waited until it felt right again. Which is now, funny enough. I think to kick it off on this new moon I will add my devotional prayers to this website. I am not yet certain why I was driven away from my spiritual work for these past couple of seasons but I can’t help but think that I will discover the reason and be all the better for it.

Here in the states it is Thanksgiving Day. A time to remember how thankful we are for what we have, our family, as well as the ability to grow and learn each day. And though commercialism and capitalism try hard to make us feel like we can’t be happy without the newest gadget it’s nice to just take a bit and pause for what is important to us. So, while I work on updating my modern myths and putting out new content I would like to extend warm wishes to all of you throughout this Yuletide season regardless of how you may celebrate or not.