Daily Routines?

[Baron Samedi]

What are some of ya'lls daily routines? I really have no set regimen myself.... Chaos rules the life, I suppose.

[Atlas]

Waking up, having a coffee with a cigarette, then a shower, then work/university then either relaxing at homes or hanging out with friends, that's my daily routine.

[Vulpix]

LOL actually I think the OP was asking for heathens' daily heathenry routines :p.


Waking up, having a coffee with a cigarette, then a shower, then work/university then either relaxing at homes or hanging out with friends, that's my daily routine.

[Oresai]

Well, heathen-wise, I raise a passing salute to Sunna when she deigns to show her face here. Isn`t often, this time of year, tsk.
Not so much daily but regularly enough I offer blot to Thor and to the landwights of this place, am lucky enough to have an outdoor hof, tiny wee place, made of very old Orkney stone, with a fireplace in it, open roofed and with the threshold facing north. In there I perform such acts as scrying, blotting, toasting marshmallow.....;)
Most of all my heathen lifestyle is dictated to some extent by the honouring of my ancestors, in deed and thought, for they`re never so far from me that I don`t consider my actions and care about what they would think of them. I`m very aware that without them, the good and the bad, I wouldn`t be. And I do want them to be proud of me. :)
This place where I live is somehow, steeped in the `feel` of heathenry, it`s a most definate pagan place and it`s easy to live a heathen life here. :)
From the sky above my head, to the earth and rock my feet tread, I`m always aware of old Gods and landwights, of the weight of history and the lines of peoples going back to times when christianity was unborn and the whole world was pagan. :)
It makes simple acts like lighting the fire in the hearth often, quite special. :)

[Beorn]

None, other than knocking on wood when I have had a bad thought or in need of some comfort. I then kiss my hand and ask for the mentioned people to be looked after or the act to be guided by more than my own intuition.

I have always done this, and I know it stems from my OCD as a child, but I carried it on to adulthood.

[Aemma]

Heh, seems I can see myself in all of you. I too great Sunna when I see her, and that is often for us. We get those brilliant nordic-like winters here, bloody freezing cold but with clear blue skies and Sunna resplendantly caressing us. I literally feel The Apricity. :D Likewise, we always notice Mani in the evening and hail him. The orientation of the major living spaces of our house (the living areas face south-west/west) makes it ideal for us to often acknowledge these deities. When we first became heathen I had tried to start "praying" using some of the morning and nightly prayers that I had acquired from the AFA, but I'm not much into that--it never worked for me. My style is to rather talk when the mood strikes. :)

I see myself in what you also described BeornWulfWer...instead of knocking wood though (which I used to do and still do in front of company let's say) I usually do the Hammer sign and talk to Thor, asking him for safety. :)

I do the hammer sign over my supper meal with my fork and take a minute to thank Freyr and Freyja, my ancestors, and the landwights for this bounty and then I eat. Funny but I rarely do that with other meals.

I too feel the presence of my ancestors. For me personally heathenry is more ancestral than anything else. :) I acknowledge that they live not only in me but with me...literally. I told my sister once that we'd have to get a bigger house now that we have sooooooooooooo many relatives living with us. ;)

We blot and feast during the High Holy Tides of course. I tend to blot solitarily during other occasions more often than not...my guys' fondness for ritual is a bit different than mine let's just say. ;) The org of which I am a member has special monthly blots which I try to adhere to, but often fail. But then heathenry is very much a non-dogmatic religion. There is no guilt involved in whether or not you do blot now or later. We have special Midgard-wide blots however where all of us worldwide blot at a specific time. The energy created from these are palpable. It is truly an amazing feeling knowing that Odinist sisters and brothers from all over are doing the same...you can really feel the bond.

Hmm seems I went into a bit more than just daily routines. Ooops sorry! :)

Anyway, you get a better picture of what I am like as a Heathen now. :D

Cheers!...Aemma

[Brynhild]

I am getting into a routine by honouring the Norse deities on their respective days of the week. I would normally greet Sol by going for a walk first thing of a morning and taking in those early morning rays. At the moment, it has been raining bucketloads so obviously, that's out of the question!

I love going out at night to greet Mani and take in his beautiful luminescense and watch his ever changing face. I'm sure there are other things that I do, but this is what I can think of right now.

[Amarantine]

None, other than knocking on wood when I have had a bad thought or in need of some comfort. I then kiss my hand and ask for the mentioned people to be looked after or the act to be guided by more than my own intuition.

I have always done this, and I know it stems from my OCD as a child, but I carried it on to adulthood.

Knocking in wood is traditionall in my country from similar reasons...There is no daily routine for me for "heathen" things, it's just when I felt internal or external needs.

[HawkR]

No daily rutines here, unfortunally. But I do sometimes ask for better weather:p And of course, I blot, well, I have only done one real, the Spring blot, no biggie except some blood. Otherwise I guess I'll learn/evolve the habit of greeting the gods when I get up in the morning and when I go to bed. Can't wait for summerblot though:D

[Amarantine]

No daily rutines here, unfortunally. But I do sometimes ask for better weather:p And of course, I blot, well, I have only done one real, the Spring blot, no biggie except some blood. Otherwise I guess I'll learn/evolve the habit of greeting the gods when I get up in the morning and when I go to bed. Can't wait for summerblot though:D

To which Gods you usually thank?