Freya's Day!

Hey y'all :3 Happy Friday ^ ^ 

Today, as some of you may know, is Freya's sacred day (the word "Friday" comes from "Freya's Day"). With perhaps one of the largest followings among modern goddess devotees (especially those whose practices hearken back to ancient Europe), Freya is goddess of the fun stuff: sex, love, valor, glory, shamanism, magic, war, death, beauty and a few others that are more or less spinoffs of all that all fall under her domain. She also informed me in a dream that she reigns over cosmetics, too. Go figure.

When warriors fall in battle, Odin takes his share: half of the slain join him in Valhalla, where they do even more of what they did in life (if they were Vikings): drink and beat the shit out of each other. Fun, right? Best part: they can't even die, because it's the afterlife. So it's basically like doing shots while playing a fighting video game, but you have infinite lives and the night never ends. Awwwright.

However, the other half of the fallen go to Freya; their souls are spirited off the battlefield (hey puns) by Valkyries (Freya's servants), who take them to Folkvang, a lovers' paradise where love songs play continuously and mead flows like water.

Freya is also a spirit of mentorship: she appears in dreams and visions (as she has in many of mine) to teach magic, shamanism and mediumship. Matron of the moon, she presides especially over womens' magic, and may mentor devotees in the rites and aspects of sacred sex (aka, magical sexy time).

Arts she is particularly associated with include: potions, rune casting for divination and spellwork, and seidr (pronounced "seeth," or "say-thurr"), a form of Norse trance mediumship that (from what I understand) often involves the medium channeling a deity in order to bestow that deity's blessings on the other participants (these may include prophecy and general blessings such as prosperity, love, etc.). She may also bestow magical knowledge in other forms, including forms that are not common or are individually tailored to a specific devotee.

Freya has been one of my main matrons for about three years now; besides the handful of guides who are just kind of always around, Freya has appeared to me allllmost more than any of my other guides (which weigh in at about 140-ish, from about a dozen different traditions). Her and Kali are pretty much tied at first - though Kali's ahead by just a smidge ;}

Important things to keep in mind re:Freya:

1. She's an ass-kicker and a fierce, motherly protector. If you enter into any kind of relationship with her, expect her to stand up for you if somebody's being a dick. And expect to be stood up to if you're being a dick. She will teach you to laugh in the face of people who are being dicks.

2. Freya is a master (mistress?) of love and sex. Expect to learn (at least) a few new things about both of those.

3. Expect to learn a few things about magic, as well. Including the dos and donts. There are rules here, people.

4. Freya is traditionally honored with feasting and love songs. I've even got a "Freya mix" on Spotify that I play on Fridays - it's got love songs from pretty much every genre and modern musical era out there. You can also offer her perfume, jewelry, pork, apples and mead (though, be sure to drink lots of the mead yourself - it is damn good. It's basically liquid, alcoholic honey). 

…And, lastly, look for Freya in her feline form. She is extremely associated with cats, and often appears as a cat or cat-like woman. Look for synchronicities having to do with these. And the number 13.

In my experience, Freya is particularly fond of group worship. She just seems to make it happen. I've never actively created prayer circles or worship groups, but two or three different ones have just kind of sprouted up around her with various friends and fellow goddess folks - even (and perhaps especially) those who are completely new to any kind of goddess stuff.

Look for her in my novel (if it ever freakin' gets published), "#shamanism," about a small circle of high schoolers who become mediums together.

I Saw Freya When I Was Walking Out of This Bar Downtown

The other night I was leaving a bar downtown

and I saw Freya with some dude,

she was tipsy and giggling,

she had on fishnets

and short shorts,

with a denim jacket

and a shirt with a low neck

her golden curls fell over her shoulders

like rivers of liquid wheat

she caught my eye

and winked,

then at 2 AM,

she texts me like,

“man, this dude sucks at giving head,

I keep trying to teach him how to do it better,

but he’s being such a douche about it

anyway why don’t you come over,

I’ll fly you to Folkvang

and we can fuck on the clouds while Valkyries make us screwdrivers,

I’m like dude

I am so sleep deprived right now

I gotta get to bed

she’s like whatever

you suck

I’m like fine

I’m coming

she’s like yay!! Get over here soon

I’m so fucking bored

I’m like cool

be there in fifteen

she lives in a one-story palace near Wash Park,

that she pays out the ass for

but like hey

she’s a goddess

it’s kind of fine

anyway

I get there at like 2:20

and she flies out the door, literally,

and throws her arms around my neck,

“my hero!!” she shouts,

giggling gleefully,

and then she draws some runes in the air

and a motorcycle painted gold

with like actual gold powder mixed into the paint

materializes

it is studded with jewels

and it has sick fuckin’ speakers

she hops on and I wrap my arms around her waist,

she revs the engine

and off we go

the stars rush past

and the Lynx painted on the side of the bike detaches,

and becomes this like spectral traveling buddy

it runs through the sky beside us

Freya cranks up the AC/DC

and galaxies fall away behind us

and when we arrive in her paradise

the jeweled gates open

and golden light bursts over us,

Freya grins,

and the Valkyries have hung a huge welcome home sign

from the balconies of her palace,

she’s been gone what like a week?

Five days?

anyway

we do exactly what we planned

and afterward

I slam down screwdrivers ‘till I’m warm and drunk

and we cuddle in front of a fireplace

the size of a Lamborghini

I fall asleep in her arms

God it’s great

and I wake up draped over the back of her motorcycle,

she’s like sorry

I have some business early tomorrow morning,

there’s gonna be a big council

Odin’s gonna be there,

so is Taranis

and Hekate

Jesus too,

everybody’s freaking out

‘cause the world is so fucked

I nod sleepily

she takes me back home

and gives me a kiss at the door

I crawl into bed, and mutter a prayer,

well, mostly it’s an internal monologue

about how awesome Freya is

and Jesus and Taranis too

and all the rest

they’re all great

hopefully they can figure something out

because Freya was right

the world is pretty fucked right now.

Finis!

For more hot and steamy Frey action, here's this dope-ass Viking song that I found with Freya's prompting. And here's a cool picture of her by DeviantArtist xxEarthTones

 

'Till next time ^  ^ Be well, keep calm, and worship Freya so you can have crazy sex, and even crazier magic.

Shea out.