Experiencing Freya

I sacrificed myself to myself.

— Odin.

NOTE: 2024 UPDATE TO THIS POST AT END

This is my first journey into WordPress and I am not sure where to start. I already posted some material on another site that I called “A Blended Path” ( https://ablendedpath.weebly.com/ ), some writings and videos to act as “bread crumbs” to help me see the journey that I have made spiritually so far. I ended up here because at the end of last week I had some mystical experiences with Odin and came across a site here called “A Polytheistic Life” ( https://apolytheisticlife.com/paths/ ). I guess I’ll jump right in and describe an encounter with deity that I had yesterday.

First, I should provide one bit of background that makes the encounter more understandable. After making a video detailing my mystical experiences with Odin and posting it at Religious Forums, I received an encouraging reply from another member at the forum saying that he could see I was walking a path less traveled “for sure.” He also posted a picture of a bug with natural camouflage, having a body and tail that look just like a leaves among actual leaves. He seemed to be making the analogy that myth and personified deity is like that picture in that we cannot always tell what is the bug and what is the leaf and what is the bug-leaf.

Now on to the encounter. Yesterday, in my office at the community college where I teach, I was waiting for two students from another instructor who needed to make up an exam. In the meantime, I had copied a picture of Freya from the internet onto a Word document. You can see her beautiful red hair and lush surroundings here:

I was musing over whether she might be a face of Goddess I needed to connect with because of her relationship to Odin who seemed so overpowering to me recently. The image was still up on my screen a few minutes later when the first student knocked on the door so I could get her started on an exam she had missed. I was startled to see that her face, figure, and long red hair resembled the picture of Freya. After getting her settled on a classroom computer, I came back to my office and reflected on this odd coincidence. I thought that perhaps the synchronicity was confirmation that Freya wants to be part of my life. Although I already work with a personified deity that I know as a dark-haired Empress from the tarot with overtones of Venus and Gaia, Freya might even already be an aspect of this Goddess I work with. I had seen Freya described as Lover and Earth Mother.

Not much later, the second student came by the office and I took her down to the classroom to get started. At first I didn’t notice, I think because she had on a backpack and jacket, but it didn’t take me long to notice she was wearing a dress made out of the kind of camouflage material that hunters wear, a fashion statement I don’t remember seeing before. The picture and post about the camouflaged bug immediately came to mind, and I had the strong impression that just as Goddess could come through these students to communicate, so she could come through the various archetypes and images that speak to my heart.

There were other details and subtleties to my experience with these students that resonated with me and confirmed something otherworldly was going on, but these are the broad strokes. I will continue to seek and consider what kind of relationship. fellowship, or communion Odin and Freya may intend or allow. I know the Empress continues with me strongly and may counsel and guide me in the process.

And that is my first blog post.

2024 UPDATE

2016: Tarot Cards

2018: meditation; Goddess worship

2019: Regular client of priestess; left church

2020: Witches Coven; Left-hand Path; Black Mass to Satan

2024: Dedications to Santa Muerta, Venus, Lilith, Isis, Babalon, Hecate as witch and mystic “priest” on the sensual path of sacred sexuality.

During a final exam, a red-haired student, looked much like the one described above in the post kept having computer glitches to the point of absurdity, until she was seated next to another red-haired student–who was a less glamorous and more studious but very similar in appearance. I didn’t make a mental note until later Freya appeared in an online tarot reading for the card I picked and I saw an image looking very much like the red-haired students under the full capital text: FOR YOU.

My heart is touched by this synchronicity, especially as the tarot reading seemed to encourage my continuing on this strange sensual path that may be easily misunderstood. The online reader, who calls herself the Empress, channeled the encouragement to choose freedom to work “outside the box” of conventions or constraints, to continue any practice without giving up until the desired result comes, and to “stop counting the cost” according to the values of others. Freya seems to appear in virtual (anima), embodied (animate), and mythic (Anima Mundi) forms.

Similarly, Hecate has appeared to me through meditation and videos. I have dedicated through tarot deck (altar work), locked necklace, and body art. My initiation was marked in the night as a truck crashed into my car at the three-way crossroads, where I live. My boss wore all white as did a sound healer for the Capricorn Blue Moon meditation: I feel called to expansion at work and on my spiritual path.

Both Lilith and Hecate seem to be giving me a similar green light, and I have had some encouragement from priestess to go all the way without giving up. I am very grateful to Goddess and the divine feminine.