Today’s topic at Fjorn’s Hall is the Old Norse-Icelandic Calendar for 2019 -2020.

Following up on his original post about the Old Norse-Icelandic Calendar, Fjorn has incorporated new information, as well as correlating the old dates to the current year.

I’ve printed out the image and added it to my planner, because it’s fun to look at the dates and think about what I’d be doing were I living in the Viking Era, instead of the current year. (And yes, I know, planting and harvest are hard work, but some days, that sounds preferable to endless emails and perpetual meetings!)

If you’re not following Fjorn on his Fjorn’s Hall blog, I definitely recommend doing so! In addition to the blog, he produces a podcast which explores the medieval Norse through the Sagas. He also has a Patreon, which includes bonus content, and makes custom tea blends named for various Norse figures. Have some tea, read up, take a listen!

(Please excuse the fact that it’s a photo of the page from her book, rather than transcribed; as much as I mucked with the HTML, the text would *not* line up correctly.)

Monumental Alabaster
– Lysbeth Em Benkert

[sit]
~ Vera Pavlova

sit by the river
keep pitching
your troubles in it
watch them
float away
with the current
too light
to drown

I recently ventured into San Francisco for a routine medical appointment. I was chatting with the lab tech, who noticed the hematite I was wearing. He commented that he preferred lighter stones, such as rose quartz, as they matched his energy better.

We chatted a bit about energy work. I commented that dealing with the energy of a constant flow of people at his workstation must be challenging some days, and he said he didn’t really notice, he just did his job.

I shared that the bus ride to the building had been an exercise in maintaining energy boundaries. One of the men on the bus had been yelling into his cellphone, saying truly awful things about a mutual acquaintance of his and the person he was speaking with.

The lab tech asked how I did that, and I told him about visualizing a mirror to bounce the energies back to the person emitting them.

He replied, “Well, that’s not very nice!”

I stared at him, and said, “Why is it my job to process this person’s energies, just because I’m on the same bus?”

“Because you’re—”. He caught himself, and then made himself very busy putting labels on things.

I rolled my sleeve down, fastened my cufflink, wished him a good day, and left.

No, it is not my job to process some man’s stuff just because I’m a woman. He’s old enough to own an cellphone and ride a bus, he’s old enough to manage his own stuff.

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