stories

1st February 2026

February 3rd, 2026 10:45 UTC is the TIME Spring 2026: Candlemas, Imbolc, karhu kääntää kylkeään

The timing! The moment. Not just on a particular day because it is convenient. Yet!! That is the challenge of living with Sun-Earth-Moon cycles/calendars. They coincide with Life and transformation movement release and coming together. When I think about the Fire and Story day to happen out in the kota -which is today- I am… Continue reading

animism, animismi, bear, Environment Ecology, fire, Hongatar, Imbolc, karhu kääntää kylkeään, RUNOT, shamanism, shamanismi, stories, traditional cultures, Uncategorized

animism, animismi, balance, bear, february, Imbolc, nature, pagan, poem, shapeshifting, spirituality, spring, witch, writing
17th June 2025

Spirit of Lingonberry

In the dream I watch. There are lingonberries everywhere. Sometimes there is one stem with one berry. Sometimes there is a stem with a small group of berries. We walk through the forest. I pick up a stem with one berry and a stem with many berries. I hold them and join them together. The… Continue reading

animism, stories, Uncategorized

#peace, animism, animismi, dreams, nature, peace creating, puolukka
14th May 2025

Cedar

Cedar – mother tree for me. All of her is sacred – lightening black, grey ash, sacred red and green, ground, woven, eaten, carved, scent of Life and the Holy. This dreamed like it was just yesterday. For they are off to settle the skies to be “safe” and nowhere to prepare her. Continue reading

Ancestors, animism, healing songs, Pyhä ääni, RUNOT, shamaanin matka, shaman’s journey, stories, Uncategorized

#cedar, #current times, #dreams, #future, #Sacred trees, life, love, writing
12th December 2024

Winter Solstice 2025

I see Sun standing still A shadow to follow on the face of my wall I mark the place Day in, Day out Over years. I see Sun passing through A late rising farther in the southeast A fast setting farther southwest I mark her coming and going in the white snow blanket With the… Continue reading

Ancestors, animism, Auringon pesäpäivä, stories, traditional cultures, Uncategorized, winter solstice

balance, nature, Sacred Earth Activism, solstice, summer-solstice, talvipäivänseisaus, Time, winter, winter solstice
3rd December 2024

Now I know…

I am influenced. Peoples of all indigenous roots have a story about a heart beat in Mother Earth. The differences being in shape, size, story, colour, side-characters of how that heart got there. And is still beating, pumping life into all who are upon, within and above her. Continue reading

animism, animismi, Environment Ecology, fire, George Clutesi, healing songs, Indigenous knowledge, Indigenous Peoples, Pleiades, Pyhä ääni, RUNOT, sacred song, Sápmi, stories, traditional cultures, Uncategorized

animism, balance, duodjii, George Clutesi, Harald Gaski, indigenous writers, men’s initiations, nature, poem, Sámi literature, shapeshifting, Songlines of the Seven Sisters, world heartbeat, writing
12th October 2024

They heard you come by

Here you are so much givenSo much receivedHow can this be?Outside in the dark nightLoud trampling and stamplingDeer four-legged running byOpening curtain looking outNo one is thereSo my eyes sayBut my body and ears!They heard you come byRunning with the deerFeeling each foot fallTruly thereComing byArise the dawnMorning sun fairThe small twinkling onesLight between brighter… Continue reading

animism, Death and dying, Deer Mother, healing songs, RUNOT, shamaanin matka, shaman’s journey, shamanism, stories

animism, death, dying, poem, praise, shapeshifting
30th January 2023

Bear Woman Golden Woman

Golden figure, golden woman, golden bear woman of great ancestry. There, Look! Bear woman has a cynt, the opening womb. Look at her expression. Look at her breasts. Look at her hair the headdress. Look at her legs. Look at her hands. Look at the zig-zags up and down her legs, ancient women sign. Look… Continue reading

Ancestors, animism, healing songs, Imbolc, RUNOT, sacred song, shamaanin matka, shaman’s journey, shamanism, stories, traditional cultures

bear, bear woman, golden woman, kultainen nainen, shapeshifting
22nd December 2022

The Mother Night – The Deer Mother – Light Bringer

The Give-away story of the Deer Mother or Goddess and Sun is very different. Continue reading

Ancestors, animism, Auringon pesäpäivä, Death and dying, Deer Mother, Environment Ecology, sacred song, shamaanin matka, shaman’s journey, stories, traditional cultures, Uncategorized, winter solstice

animism, animismi, deer, Deer goddess, Deer Mother, elk, Gennady Pavlishin, giveaway, indigenous rights, land protection, louhi, maral, nature, pergule, reindeer, rewriting kalevala, saule, talvipäivnseisaus, winter solstice
5th August 2022

Who will sing me across the river?

Who will sing me across the river?Who will sing me from my home?Who will sing my rememberings?Who will sing me from my home?Who will sing me across the river?Who will sing me skyward bound?Where the stars beyond the crownShow a wrinkle in the wind.Mother spun the cradleSang light and darkness inRound I swing behind the… Continue reading

Ancestors, Death and dying, RUNOT, stories, Uncategorized

Death and dying, grief, keening, loss, shapeshifting, song
28th July 2022

How to make a Staff

That is a long question. There are many responses, many experiences. Gleaning, I find a few. First, I ask from Spirit(s) – my helping ones – I ask from the Land. Very simply, to the point, for a staff. Continue reading

Ancestors, Ceremony Seremonia, healing songs, Pyhä ääni, sacred song, shamaanin matka, shaman’s journey, shamanism, stories, Uncategorized

keep it simple, listening to spirit helpers, luonnonhenget, sacred trees, seidr, Seiđr, song, Song and Staff, spirit, staff, trees, Tuva