Drawing a card from the Mystical Shaman Oracle Deck with incense lit for Loki. I believe I had also placed on the altar an offering of chocolate or coffee for Loki. I had done some reading about the experiences of one of his priests on A Polytheistic Life website.
The crow, like Loki, can bring hard messages. The guidebook warns, “Look deeply into your heart and remain alert, lest you convince yourself of something that isn’t deeply true for you, or perhaps is not the highest truth.”
One of the many images of Loki on the internet includes this transgender symbol, suggesting that Loki as a shapeshifter inhabits the liminal spaces. Kyaza explains this concept much better than I can:
“Balder’s dreams prophesy his own death – his fate is foretold, his death is ascertained. Frigga takes it into her own hands to try and prevent that fate. She attempts to cheat death; she attempts to prevent change from happening.Loki, as the agent of change, the god who relies on accidents, happenstance, and chance in order to continue existing himself (as he could not exist outside the realm of change, being the embodiment of change), cannot let Frigga’s actions stand. So, he investigates and finds a way to re-introduce change.
“This is the first interpretation of Loki’s role in the Balder story that has made perfect sense to me because it highlights two opposite forces, and Loki tends to walk the boundaries that fall between opposites. He’s a troublemaker, yet a problem solver. A god, yet a giant. An adult, yet a child. A man, yet a woman. He is the personification of the in-between. He is the rebel that fits into society just enough to not get thrown out, but he is also the god who introduces change into that society.” –Kyaza
As I have been approached by or as I have approached Loki recently, I have noticed some synchronicities: (1) a professional reader mentioned Loki when the Devil of Tarot of Vampyres came up in a spread…
(2) a science fiction show I was watching (I hate to mention it because it’s so bad, probably B quality, and I can’t believe I watched through the finale–but it was “Another Life”) brought in all kinds of romantic relationships–gay, trans, threesome, A.I. with human, A.I. with illusion of human…I don’t think the writer’s brought in the aliens yet…
(3) new vibes in meditation and an almost drug-like experience last night listening to Tibetan singing bowls and burning a special incense for Loki
And at the same time, I have experienced anti-synchronicities, as though a trickster were near: (1) coffee spilling, even some that was an offering, (2) a rune symbol on an index card set up for Freya strangely marred, (3) minor glitches and miscommunications at poignant moments..and even technical difficulty that quickly fixed itself as soon as my heart threatened to turn bitter–as if these incidents were meant to be friendly pranks and reminders, like a tickle or a tease.
I will draw three runes and a RWS card as a reflection on my recent experiences with Loki:
I may need to sit with these symbols longer but off the top of my head they say that real fellowship and identity is possible, that Loki is both fire and ice (the last two runes represented by the English letters of his name) so that some stability and stasis is possible. (It comes to mind that in the polycentric concept of polytheism, all the gods reflect all the others, like Indra’s net.) The rune Ansuz may suggest he is speaking, sending messages, or that I am in tune with him at this time. Perhaps the Sun card shows he is a part of my healing as much as Odin and Freya, a bright friendship, too, and not only a dark deity of the underworld. He is liminal and includes light and shadow, ultimately bringing truth as much as any god.
I am having a hard time thinking of tarot cards that express this Loki energy. Maybe:
Experiencing Deity 