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AI Offerings and the Gods

Blurb:

I saw a post going around online regarding how generative AI is not an offering for the Gods.

Now, I am not entirely certain about my own feelings regarding AI. I do think that it perhaps can be helpful to humans but as all things, it must be put into balance in order to be at our benefit. When it makes already rich people richer and it creates irreversible disturbances in our natural environment, I can see how it all adds up to not be in our direct benefit at this time. I don’t believe we need to have so much of it at this time. I especially don’t think we need to see it in every single website and every search engine, ever.

I am, however, in support of human progress and development. I feel that it is important to continue to work alongside technological advances rather than resist and see how it might benefit us. For example, I used AI to assist in generating titles for my blogs. Titling things is like, my least favorite thing to do. I don’t enjoy creating titles nor summaries or anything of the sort because my ideas feel reductive. WordPress has the AI feature included on their engine to assist with much more and I do take advantage of it to some degree especially with grammar and sentence structure. I am not aware of how often I repeat words or when my sentence might seem unclear especially when I have an idea I want to get across and it’s complicated.

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Time is not existent to the Gods. They do not do things in a linear fashion.

If you’re worried about how often you work with a Deity or how often you reach out to Them - take a breath and realize the Gods actually exist outside of time. What matters is the quality of attention you give to Them. The depth of the lifestyle you live in accordance to Their values.

The time you spend with Them is of great value but the amount of times you spend a lot of time with Them is not. Quality is not equal to quantity. If you are not in the right headspace to reach out - reaching out regardless is not going to make it easier for you to communicate with Them. You’ll be so bent out of sorts about not being able to hear or feel things because you’re not wanting to be there. Half-assing it because you feel like that’s what you’re supposed to be doing or due to some form of obligation is not only painful and uncomfortable for you but also for Them.

Time is not an issue for the Gods - only for you. Quality exists outside of time just as They do.

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Something I see people post about a lot online is questioning how they can get in touch with the Divine after (insert event here).

The answer is always simple. Be with yourself.

Have you been doing anything mindful lately? Have you been able to step outside of the situation you are in and begin taking care of yourself? Have you been comfortable with how things are going in your life?

By no means do you need to operate like a perfect human being who does rituals or are always praying, but once you find yourself at the heart in all that you do, you won’t need praying, the Divine will already be there.

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Reposting this from last year.

Why Loki Isn’t an April Fool

It’s April 1st once more and as is tradition, many people see April Fools’ Day as Loki’s holiday because of His trickster aspect and the fact that He is full of surprises and jokes. When I first became His devotee, I thought of it as Loki’s day off because people were already making a mess of themselves enough in this world for the day that He wouldn’t really need to be around. I also thought He was significantly less present on the day we thought would be His holiday and I thought maybe He just needed a vacation.

However, the longer I sat with the thought of Loki being a “fool” and being full of jokes, the more I realized that this is not really an apt description for Him.

People see the word “trickster” and equate Him with foolish pranks and jest. They diminish Him to a fool to make it easier for them to feel like they can control the narrative around who Loki is. It’s not just people who don’t want Loki around – though that’s usually who mostly does this – but it’s also followers of His that I often see floating around. People are afraid of what they don’t know and I think that’s why April Fools just seems to be so incredibly reductive.

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The risk of mysticism

The reason most people have trouble reaching the Gods is because they do not consider that whatever trouble they are having is a direct reason to what they feel that they are risking as a response.

For example, if you think yourself unworthy of Them or constantly worry that They are mad at you, it is more likely than not that you have an underlying trauma that has led to people pleasing. Deal with that first because the Gods aren’t going to make that go away - They will probably make it worse, actually.

Any issue you have in any other relationship be it with friends, relatives, lovers, you name it - the Gods will magnify those issues tenfold just by existing.

Another good example is if you are upset because you cannot hear Them clearly, consider that you have not been close enough to Them yet. And if you aren’t close enough, what can you do to make it better?

It’s not that you’re not doing enough or that you have failed. It’s because you aren’t aware enough of yourself to even begin to understand the nuance of what the Divine can offer.

The problem with people on social media who think it is a cakewalk to have a relationship with a Deity tend to steer those people who have just started out towards failure. It isn’t easy to do this - it takes work and inner reflection and dedication. You don’t go into this and think you have a right to a relationship with a God and it should just be given to you because you exist. That idea came from Christianity.

The Gods are not all-loving, omnipresent and omnibenevolent. Not all of Them even work with humans. And not all of Them care enough to go out of Their way to prove to you that They are real unless you put in your side of the effort to encourage Them to come to you. People who have 5-10 Deities they think are following them around all day don’t actually have 5-10 Deities - they are lucky if they have one.

Otherwise, if you’re okay with just giving offerings and seeing the Gods as a symbol rather than a real, living being who has needs and wants, then by all means. It just isn’t going to get you any closer to Them and a lot of people I see tend to assume They aren’t real enough of an authority to care either way.

To be clear, this is no fault of any person. This is the fault of a society that has failed in giving us a culture that allows the relevance of the Gods in ordinary to flourish.

What people don’t understand is that by walking a mystical path, you are already not going to abide by the standards of the religions that are most practiced in the modern world. What you do is not going to be what Christians or monks or nuns or priests do - it is going to be new and it is going to take effort to forge a new path into the future of paganism.

It won’t be completely from scratch but it’s also not going to have much of anything to do with Christianity no matter how much you love to hate Christians. It won’t have much to do with mainstream society at all, actually. The reality of mysticism is actually not terribly popular at all.

The people who walked closely with the gods and heard Them and felt Them always in ancient times existed outside of what was widely agreed upon to be society. It is otherwise not normal to be as close to the Gods in the way modern polytheists seem to think it should be or think it’s something everyone else is capable of doing while very few are willing to make that kind of sacrifice or risk being wrong long enough to successfully gain traction.

At the end of the day, it’s not a highly probable thing that 99.99% of people on the internet that newer people or even aged pagans compare themselves to actually have done the work to be able to claim the relationship that they believe they have with the Gods.

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Hi everyone,

I’ve been MIA because I’ve taken a step back from social media for a second due to *gestures vaguely* everything. I think Tumblr is where I’ll stay for now and I don’t foresee me leaving permanently unless there’s something going on that I don’t know about here, too,

Anyway, I was pulled to post this, as well. I don’t normally post many of Loki’s channeled messages here and that seems to be mostly what Loki’s been wanting me to write and post on my blog for a while so I haven’t been posting much here.

I’ve found some time ago that Loki’s words tend to make no sense to me when I type them and I don’t normally know why He wants me to post what He posts. I will usually go back and read them after a little while and find his words to become more clear and perhaps a bit… ominous considering everything that went on.

I wrote this for Him a few days ago right before shit was starting to go down in my country. Things took a turn yesterday and it wasn’t great. I read it now and realize that a lot of what is going on that people tend to worry about is a distraction from the bigger problem. And we have to ask ourselves what the distraction is about that the leaders are striving so hard to prevent us from seeing? I don’t have the answer to that.

Yesterday, the orange man was announced to be attempting to gut federal funding for federal grant and loan programs and hysteria ensued in particular around higher education (which is what my career is in), even though what he wants is illegal and would cause a riot. Which is, arguably, what’s going on. A distraction - a way in stewing up anger and rage over things that probably won’t happen to make sure we don’t pay attention to what’s actually going on. It’s a fear tactic, a play piece. It’s something that Loki has been warning me about for some time and now I finally understand why and how it is working to the advantage of those who wish to stay in power and keep us on our toes in absolute fear.

The message I wrote that I will post below was written on Sunday morning and yesterday, when shit began to truly hit the fan and panic ensued was Tuesday. The timing is uncanny and the message is, too.

Mostly, the overarching theme here is: be prepared. Be prepared for anything. Be prepared for the times to come and the times that have not been here yet. The tower is falling - it has not yet hit the ground. Things are moving now and things are underway that will help us see the truth behind the lies and deceit that are plaguing the governing bodies of the world. Brace yourselves for when it has fallen and realize that there’s no end in sight - not the normal kind of end where everything doesn’t begin again. But it’s all a part of a cycle of change and there has to be a new beginning after.

What happens after - time can only tell. That’s where Loki seems to be in all of this. Not in the chaos, but the decisive knowing that all of this is a game of the worst kind possible.

Loki knows games more than anyone - but He also knows how to win games and cut through deceit. He is the truth speaker and He who untangles knots and weaves words.

Anyway, here is the post I speak of. Take what you will from it:

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In 2025, may we all learn to not simply accept everything that is given to us. May we learn to be less at peace with the “same old, same old” and learn, instead, to take matters into our own hands and carve our own path.

No one is coming to save us. No one will be greatly concerned with making sure things return back to the way they were and making sure everyone gets the things they desire. Not even the Gods will be sure of that.

May we not be complacent in this world and burn it to the ground. May we rage against the things that restrain and oppress. May we not go quietly into this good night. May the morals you swear by betray you.

May your feet always be cold and consistent with the swift changes of the year(s) ahead. May the oppressors never know peace.

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The Gods are inherently disturbing.

What I mean is, they do not do things that humans do. They do not act like something we have ever seen before.

I want to dispel the notion that everything you do with the Gods and see of the Gods is pleasant and comfortable. If you see the Gods as inherently human, you are putting a bias on them that gets in the way of your discernment.

The quality of interactions with the Divine is to strip you from the need of complacency and repetition. Humans are used to the comforts of their every day cycles but the Gods are not human and that is something people need to get used to. They don’t function with our morals or societal requirements. They don’t pretend to fit in to our everyday customs. To be aware of the Gods is to be aware of things beyond our control and of our habits and being. To think otherwise is to be afraid of them and thus you are closed off.

Reconsider where you stand on this because it’s important if you want to have a solid relationship with Them. They aren’t who you expect and They never will be. They aren’t who you find people talking about online. They aren’t comfortable. And They will never be human.

Being comfortable with the discomfort is more important than assuming that you need to fear it. You can fear the Gods while also knowing that They aren’t trying to hurt you. Two things can be true at once.

Learning to not fear Them by assuming They are like us is reductive.

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I would say that the best ways of being open is doing exactly that: being open. A lot of people who are newer tend to have better discernment because they aren’t already swamped with doubt and paranoia of being wrong due to everyone else thinking that they should be doing it *their* way which is really kind of doing the opposite. Once you have too many assumptions regarding the reality of the Gods, it stops being real and starts being more of a story you tell yourself.

My best advice is always to step back from social media and/or other people who think they know things and listen to your own internal instincts. It will take time to reintegrate and listen for that inner knowing once you’ve already cast that shroud of doubt over it. But really, it’s about getting to know who you are and your own intuition rather than getting to know the Divine. They come as a result of knowing yourself because They are part of us.

Think of when you first started and the way you approached the Gods with a (mostly) blank slate. Whomever told you that you were doing it wrong likely didn’t exist at that point because you were just starting.

Take it from someone who nearly completely stopped hearing Loki for multiple years because I decided an in person community was more important. In reality, they effectively don’t know who the Gods were and they told people how to have relationships with Them in ways that were unhelpful and unhealthy. Though I learned a lot in those experiences, none of them were about how to get closer to the Gods, unfortunately.

Tl;dr go back to your roots. Go back to you. You’ll never find the Divine here on the internet or anywhere else.

I also have a whole blog series I wrote about this (sorry for the shameless self promotion) but instead of rewriting it all I figured that would be easier.

Does anyone have advice for hearing their gods? I remember when I first started my deity journey with Freyja and Loki I could hear Freyja pretty well, Loki sometimes not so much but I could very easily tell that Loki was there and talking to me.

But for a very long time since then I don’t hear them. I think I might’ve accidentally blocked them off bc of my fear of doing smth wrong and just never opened it back up. I’ve been using only divination methods of communication which is fine and world great. But now I want to try and open up communication like I used to be able to do.

Any advice?

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I am opening up free tarot readings.

This is a free service that I am offering for any who wish to receive any confirmation or guidance during the upcoming dark season. I may extend it further depending on how this goes.

Topics I center around include:

- Spiritual practices

- Deity work

- General spiritual path guidance

- General life guidance

I specialize in:

- Norse Gods (primarily Loki)

- Mysticism and devotional relationships

I do not offer readings around:

- Godspousing

- Oaths

Essentially, the more general the question, the more helpful it will be for everyone involved.

I reserve the right to deny readings if I do not feel equipped to help you and I will say so shortly after your submission.

You can message me directly on Tumblr or you can request a reading on my contact page on my website. If you submit an ask and it is anonymous, be aware that it will become public information.

Because these are free readings, I am not requesting anything in return. My ability to serve is being compensated in other ways.

My turnaround time is within a day typically but if this somehow gets backed up, I will extend that even further and I will be sure to make you aware that it will take a while.

You will get anywhere from a 3-10 card reading depending on the situation. I don’t normally know how many cards I will pull or why.

Let me know if you have any questions about my service.

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Good timezone. I do appreciate the offer of general tarot reading and was hoping to take you up on that offer. I was raised in the fundamental independent baptist flavor of Christianity and after moving across the country two summers ago, I stopped attending church to figure out myself and what I believe and a friend sort of introduced me to Loki and to paganism by telling me about their experiences. I am working to unpack a lot of things I was taught, but I find myself feeling a little lost and like I'm floundering in the dark in a lot of ways. I find myself wanting to believe a lot of things more than I actually do believe, and my penchant for extreme and chronic avoidance doesn't help. (I have a dissociative disorder, so it's like medically diagnosed avoidance.) I feel a bit like I'm looking for something and I'm afraid to ask/look for the answer, even though I don't know how to ask/look for it. I dunno. My strand of fairy lights that I use in lieu of candles kicked on by themselves (there's no timer, and the remote was a good two feet from me) and it made me think of Loki and which reminded me that you've been offering readings and figured, may as well ask while I was thinking about it. Again, I do appreciate the offer and apologize for rambling. Have a good night.

Hi anon!

First, I totally understand where you’re coming from. Thank you for sharing with me your past. I acknowledge the level of trauma fundamental aspects of Christianity seem to give.

I pulled three cards to start: the tower reversed, 6 of wands reversed and page of cups.

The tower reversed speaks of imbalance and fear. Your perceptions are mixed with sorrow and your plans tend to take a small detour when it comes to needing to be able to grieve and acknowledge the road you’ve been on. It’s not that you’ve already processed it but rather you are waiting for a reason to. This is your reason to. Processing emotions take time and energy and though it makes you very impassioned, it also can take a toll on your subconscious.

The 6 of wands reversed. The 6 of wands typically speaks of coming away from your struggles and moving forward. However, in this circumstance where it is reversed, you are being faced with those struggles and it is making you stop. Stop forcing yourself to come to a realization. Don’t make things more difficult because you’re dependent on only seeing the truth of everything because you’ll only feel regret. There will be signs everywhere that only you can see but if you are waiting for the “right” one to come, you’ll be faced with a sense of failure repeatedly.

The page of cups is a version of you who has new ideas and constantly accepting yourself for where you are at this moment. You aren’t going to find that all of it will be beautiful but you will find joy in the times you are heading toward. You will learn quickly and use your knowledge to accept yourself and help others who are going through what you did. Take it easy on yourself and listen because you are a lot farther along than you thought. You’ll find that regret starves the mind of consciousness and defeats the purpose for where you’re meant to be.

I pulled another card for an overall meaning and I got the queen of cups. Given that you’re just beginning, the page was what I got before but the queen is a sign that you will move away from the place you were before you came to Loki and you will be successful when you decide to fall into this version of trust you have with Him.

In regards to Loki, I ended up pulling another card and got the knight of swords reversed. The knight of swords is an action card and this one is the opposite. Spend a little time with Him because you will realize that He’s not who you thought He was at all. Taking the time to know Him will make you feel a bit better overall because all that you think He is capable of will not matter. He will show you everything you need and it will be easier than you think. Don’t wait for it to be a disaster and think He is the one shoving chaos all around you. He is trying to assist you in showing you how to move on from all of this and has been for a while. He is willing to wait, though. There are all sorts of things that He feels you will come out better for.

All in all, it sounds like you’re afraid of making a bad impression or feeling uncomfortable. You aren’t invalid or wrong and you are doing much better than you previously thought you were capable of. Your success will come towards you and you will know soon the amount of plans He has for you. Don’t take it away from yourself to prove that you aren’t capable and shove it down. You are capable of moving forward. You are worthy of this and you will make it to the other side.

I hope you find this reading helpful and meaningful. Let me know if you need any further clarification and don’t be afraid to reach out. My DMs are always open.

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Hello, if it's not a bother I was hoping to get a reading for my spiritual journey. I'm sorry if I don't know how to phrase some things. For about three years now, I have been very pulled towards the beliefs of Norse paganism, and it has lead to a lot of healing and positive change in me. I feel more connected to myself and the world than I ever have. Unfortunately, I am also at conflict with other large parts of myself; even asking for this is a challenge because I really don't believe in this kind of stuff. I have always been non-religous, and have never believed in spirits or deities.

At the best of times I feel like I've done my research and taken the beliefs that I need to better myself, and at worst I feel like I'm being silly, but I always feel like I just need to let it go already because I've never taken any steps to solidify this as a part of my life. I've never been someone to have spiritual practices because these kinds of things lose meaning to me as soon as they become routine. On top of all that, I genuinely feel like there has been something trying to contact me during this journey, and I'm having the worst time trying to come to terms with that idea; I don't want to believe it but I also know that there have been too many things that just can't be coincidences. I guess I'm trying to ask if there is a step I should be taking? Something not obvious to me? Or should I just move on and push the idea of this out of my head? I guess it would also be nice to know if something has been keeping tabs on me this whole time. I just feel like I've gone through years of driving myself crazy, constantly going through cycles of wanting this and being scared of this, especially if there might be an entity involved. I don't know if I keep coming back to it just because it helped me during hard times, or if it's a feeling of being called home.

I know you asked for a reading but I felt compelled to give you some advice in general. I doubt tarot cards will help you understand this better.

Consider the perspective that you don’t always know what you’re doing. You’re not always going to know what you’re doing, ever. In fact, most people don’t always know what they’re doing. The Gods hardly know everything there is to know about what They want Themselves. You would think that, by now, every person would already know how to be spiritual because it is second nature to them yet society has made it so very clear that being spiritual is not reasonable.

Given that you’re not always going to know what you’re doing also means that it’s not going to be obvious even when it hits you in the face. Being spiritual means that you need to be aware of the fact that the world around you is much bigger than you see. You are just one person. The universe and cosmos are simply not reasonable and certainly not going to fit in one person’s singular narrative or perspective.

So, why bother? Why be spiritual if we can’t know what we’re doing? Why do anything spiritual if you can only guess the reality of things and distortion is surely going to happen because we do not live in a world that spirituality is rewarded or sensible all the time?

The act of being spiritual is also a misnomer because really, in order to be spiritual you actually need to get closer to being human. If you go back far enough, humanity’s instincts were to offer things to beings and concepts they cannot fully grasp. Humanity has always had something they would look to that is above them. They had always known that, in a way, they were being watched over and the Gods have always watched over humans.

It is normal these days to assume that these ancient humans (and, actually, even before our homo sapien ancestors walked this earth, we have evidence of various hominid species that took it upon themselves to do ritual and document it) did not know better and they had no choice but to look to the Divine because their environment put them in a position that made them vulnerable to the elements and dangers of the world so they needed the Divine’s guidance.

We assume that the Divine is just a greater terrestrial feature of this earth that qualifies as “bigger than us” and so therefore we called them “Gods.” Like Thor being the cause of thunder or Zeus, lightning. This is an inherently modern concept. We cannot possibly boil down the nature of the Gods into specific categories and so when science came around and could not explain them, they paired the Gods with naturally occurring terrestrial phenomenon and that was it.

However, in order to fully examine the cause of the Gods and early humans, we’d need to think critically of ourselves. What, in our nature, are we missing enough to want to believe in something, somewhere? Even the most atheistic of people believe in something they cannot measure and would, in fact, create a religion themselves around logic and practice proselytizing to each other the wonders of science and factual evidence so that everyone could see how smart they are.

We’d want to hope that we are inherently fulfilled and complete without some external force that is uncertain and ever-changing. We’d want to believe that this external force could easily exist without us. And we could and They do. However, when humans cross paths with these external forces and the Divine mingle with humans, we have evidence of great progress. I think of the Mayan architecture and the Greek and Roman empires before Christianity infiltrated or perhaps even ancient Egypt, Japan, and India. Our version of world history does not cast a favorable eye on the progression made by societies who have documented ancient polytheist cultures because history was written by the victor and notice how everything gets easier to understand the moment the predominant religions of the world today came around (except Hindu and Shinto, but even they have been mildly affected by Abrahamic faiths that historians classified as just a change in perspective).

You see that religion over time - at least, organized religion - becomes less about encouraging people to look within themselves for their inner guidance and more about what they feel is correct morally. Which then leads to problems because moral compasses are easy to target when you seek to control the masses.

So, to wrap up this whole argument about faith, consider that having a Divine source call to you is actually a naturally occurring human experience. It is not a moral argument about how right you are or a black and white answer as to how logical it is. Associating meaning with logic is not how we are going to progress as a society. It has led to faith in the Divine being associated with a book or a person who they insist existed all that time ago (and even when they find evidence that would counter that argument, they develop whole museums as to why they are wrong).

We also have cast the polytheistic practices of the early ages as “silly” and “strange.” We feel that they aren’t evolved enough to see the “true meaning of the world” that we can easily describe as logical or sensical.

However, humans have always been logical creatures. We do what we can to survive. We adapt to environments that are not conducive to our inhabiting it but do it anyway. We are flexible and strong and we have behaviors that the Gods are envious of. The Gods have always been there in the crevices of the history of ourselves, and yet, we have always shoved them away and written off their existence as logical parts of ourselves.

The Gods have been apart of human lives ever since we could first be aware of ourselves as “people.” Every breath we have taken and every living person has always had a Divine attachment simply because we, ourselves, are Divine and They are a part of us. We have just ignored that side of ourselves because predominant religions have cast the Divine as Something Else.

That was a very long-winded explanation but I felt as though more people possibly needed to hear it. All of this to say that, you’re going to be reached out to. The more you look deeper into yourself and the purpose as for why you are doing this, things stop becoming logical in the way that the material world would like them to be and becoming more logical in the way that the patterns that have helped you get to this point were all focused on getting you to believe that there is more going on here than what we can see at face value.

If you hang every single reason on it being “logical” and your logic solely depends on what you can see, it will never be real. If your logic depends on your experience (which, by the way, is just as real as the material), then you’re going to find that a lot more is possible and can possibly happen. You become more than just a human being getting through a day to day existence stuck on this giant rock in space.

My best and most simplistic advice to you would be to let go and see what happens. You’re not going to lose anything by trying and you’re not going to gain anything by not. If your purpose in life is solely based in the material, you’re never going to get past the point you are now so why avoid trying? Isn’t it worth the progress?

As for whether or not something is reaching out to you, my gut feeling is Loki. Most people don’t know this about Himself but He is the Divine doorway. He gave us each this part of ourselves that long for the Divine. He is a trickster, yes, but consider that in order to inspire you to look beyond the material, you would need to look outside of the box you were born into and see outside of yourself. That is what tricksters are there for and that is likely what He is intending on helping you do.

I hope you found this helpful and if you need to talk, my DMs are open.

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Troubleshooting anon here one last time. Thank you for the clarification! Loki was right. It does all make sense now. As for the sass, I think I get that, too. I'm pretty sure Loki's totally over my dithering and obsessive need for perfection, lol. I'll keep working on that with Him. Very thankful for His presence in my life and for your readings. Thank you!

You are so welcome! I am glad I could be helpful!

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Hello again! This is the "troubleshooting" anon. Thank you so much for giving me Loki's message. I have been thinking on it and there are a couple things I think I'd like some clarification on if possible. I'm still a little confused on the significance of the word "troubleshooting" in the context of His message. I'm just not making the connection between the word and what I think I'm being told. I'm unclear about what's meant by "the anchor to the situation He needs to spell it out for you," as well. I also would love some guidance on how to journal to more effectively to communicate with Him. I've done some journaling in my practice before but never had much success with it. I'd definitely like to try again though.

Thank you again for your help!

Hi anon!

I can definitely get some clarification for you. I asked Loki to boil it down a bit and pulled a few more cards and this time I got the high priestess, three of cups, and knight of cups. These are a bit more positive than the last ones but I am hearing that this is clarifying the word “troubleshooting.” He said not to worry though because even if you can’t understand this reading point blank, you’ll understand tomorrow.

The high priestess is about following your intuition and believing that you are going to work towards something that is not only going to change your attitude but going to change your perspective. Things look different for the high priestess because she doesn’t see things for how they were in the past but rather how they are now and that makes all the difference.

Three of cups speaks to relying on your differences of opinion and being at peace with them. Sometimes you’re going to walk a different path than the people in your life but it’s not always because you don’t belong with them but because you are going to progress in the way that you are going to make a difference.

Knight of cups speaks to adventure and finding your new “normal” once this happens. Once you finally let go, you won’t limit the way that He works in your life and you can reach the ultimate potential and trust that He’s going to be there while you do.

I am getting that the way you are going about things is good - there is no trouble deciphering that. Troubleshooting tends to mean that in order to figure out how to make things work that are already in the process of working, you will have to make tweaks and adjustments in order to progress. I am getting that the cards above are regarding those “tweaks and fixes” that don’t necessarily mean you’re not already growing but “trial and error” is being employed.

I didn’t pull any cards for this next section regarding journaling because I think I can understand Him clearly enough and based off the cards I pulled before, I think I can understand what He’s getting at in regards to that. Stream of consciousness is what comes to mind - don’t inhibit the words that you are writing and just let go. Sometimes this could also mean typing it out so that you aren’t thinking as hard about the way that the words sound. The more you let go of the words and how you are talking even just to yourself, the easier it will be to listen. When you write and just write no matter what - about something happening or something going on in your life and then you take a moment and read it over when you’re done, you’ll find you come to more conclusions about things intuitively than you wouldn’t have guessed otherwise.

Communicating with the Gods is all about loosening up the filter between what you think they’re saying and what they actually are saying. The more you let go, the easier it will be to listen. It may sound weird at first, but the practice is important.

He also doesn’t mind if you write things about how you feel about Him or any anxieties you have or troubles. That could be helpful writing it out. You could address it to Him that way that the journal becomes something that’s also devoted to Him and it would be easier for Him to connect it to you.

That’s also what He means by “anchor.” He needs to be able to develop an anchor to you as best as He can which means having more things devoted to Him and things you spend time doing with Him will help you hear Him more - journaling is an easy way to start.

I think He might have been a bit sassy before. I don’t know why He felt the need to be sassy but He does have strong opinions about things and tends to not beat around the bush regarding them.

Hopefully that makes sense? Let me know if you need anything else.

[devouredbyflame]

A Message from Loki to His People

I typically post a snippet but I don’t feel it appropriate to post a portion of His words without posting the whole thing.

This is for whomever to read who feel called to do so. Take what meaning you will and leave the rest. Whomever this message is for will understand.

[devouredbyflame]

Hi there! I am fairly new to working with Loki and have never had a reading of any kind before but I just keep getting this feeling that he's kinda been poking at me to ask you for one ever since I saw your post offering them. If you feel pulled to answer, is there something that he's been trying to get through to me that I've been missing? I also feel like I've been feeling a lot of anger and frustration and sadness from him because of the state of the world at the moment. Is there something he'd like me to be doing to better serve him or ease some of the suffering (either his or the rest of us)? Or am I totally off base here and reading too much into our latest interactions, lol? Anyways, even if you don't take this request, thank you for offering these readings to the community. I appreciate you and your work.

Hi anon! Thank you for reaching out.

I am most definitely able to give you a reading.

First, I pulled three cards and two of them are major arcana and one is minor and all three are reversed. The word “troubleshooting” comes to mind, too, and I am not quite sure what that means.

I pulled the tower and the hermit reversed and then I also pulled the page of wands reversed.

It sounds like you are coming to terms with the reality of things and it is making it difficult for you to get the fact that it may be a bit harder than you expect to do so. It is mostly going to be difficult because the way you are approaching it is limiting the way you feel about Loki. He is trying to adjust your expectations because it’s only going to get a bit worse as time goes on because it can be annoying for him to deal with and he does tend to get a bit frustrated with the way things so often end up going. He wants to get into the bulk of the issue rather than dancing along the edge of the subject with you if that makes sense.

It’s not that you’re difficult - you’re only human and He has His own faults He has to come to terms with - but He is wanting you to enjoy the way that growth happens rather than assuming it will come all at once and wreak havoc on your daily life. Not everything will be made obvious at once. You may see improvement if you let go and try to understand that the point of this is not to dismay you but for you to respond in a way that is uniquely yourself - fully embodied and capable even if it doesn’t feel like it at first.

Disregard some of the things He has said that has influenced the way you look at things. The way the world is going is something He has seen far longer ahead than we ever would have imagined. That is why, in fact, the message He wants to get out is that now is the time for Him to be here and He wants to be with humans and He wants to help us battle our own worst enemies so that we can also come home to our own belief systems instead of going along with everyone else’s. He is struggling to communicate most of all with the people He really wants to which is why He has taken it upon Himself to use people as His voices. He wishes to ease the panic He has caused in humans and readjust the assumption that everything that happens is their doing and their fault and set an example for things to come before shit really hits the fan. Things are deliberately set up for a reason and it is not going to be what people think it will be.

Going back to the word “troubleshooting” and the cards I pulled, I think He adequately addressed it all in His message. He is mostly concerned with the reactions He’s had and the anchor to the situation He needs to spell it out for you. He would recommend you starting to journal or write to Him so He may more easily get across to you His point. That would also serve as an anchor as well as it would be something you created that He can easily use to keep track of everything more efficiently.

I suppose tarot ended up not being the way He wanted to communicate and instead just directly ended up with a message. I hope that is everything you needed to hear but let me know if you need any additional clarification and I would be happy to provide.

[devouredbyflame]

I'd be interested in getting a general reading if/when you have the time. I'm kinda stuck between asking for a general reading and asking about my relationship with Loki specifically. I've been feeling very stagnant and stuck in my life lately. So I suppose you can take your pick on whichever you would like to do?

Hi anon! I can perhaps try to give you a bit of insight on both because they feel related.

I drew two major arcana cards and two knight cards which is interesting. The two major arcana denotes some overarching theme here and the knights shows that you’re in the beginning stages of something.

I’ll start with the two major arcana - I got the sun and the magician reversed. I feel as though these two denote that you are going through something that is going to impact you in the way that you are not necessarily going to see as beneficial but it’s going to give you a lot more authority over the things you are needing in order to get somewhere else. The way you are going seems to be difficult to get off the ground because you already understand that you do have some sort of potential but you are mystified by the result - perhaps perturbed, even. You are scared of where it is going and what it’s going to look like. But you don’t have to be.

Now, for the minor arcana which is the knight of cups and the knight of swords and they both tell you very similar things but bring more nuance. Knights are all about going somewhere even when you don’t have a clue about what it’s going to look like. It’s a brave sort of innocence, if you will. You’ll pretend it’s okay because you’re fine, but it’s not really fine. There are conditions and rules you’re afraid of. Boundaries, perhaps, that don’t really seem to be getting anywhere.

I feel like I need to pull more cards because Loki is tapping my shoulder so I’ll go ahead and say that those two sets of cards were mostly about a general overview? A bunch of cards jumped out at me and he is very impassioned (as He often is). The first two cards were the page of wands and two of pentacles and those initially made me feel like you are sort of hanging between two paths. On one hand, you feel sad because you don’t know which one you should take and the other hand you know something is wrong about one of them and perhaps you can’t put a finger on it yet?

I also got the devil, the six of wands and the 8 of cups. All of these are also similar in that you are broken up about those results not getting you things you want. You’re brave and I can tell from the knights energy that you want to move forward but you’re stuck because of limited focus on something that perhaps you are proud of. That’s not to say pride is a moral failure but rather that it’s something that could get you hurt if you’re not careful. It’s dangerous to be too prideful because it could get you to being short sighted and you will cut off your nose despite your face.

You should be having a look into the sorts of things that you feel are possible and not limit yourself to the ways in which He or you think you should be going.

I am getting that Loki is essentially trying to tell you to stop second guessing things. He’s sick of trying to tell you it’s not working - He wants me to add that it’s not that He’s upset at you, but He wants you to get something that is not within the general vicinity of your emotional boundaries. And that takes a bit more trust than you’re willing to believe He is capable of receiving. Don’t make yourself feel insufferably prideful because you don’t know what you’re doing - not until you get to where you’re supposed to be should you look back on things know that you couldn’t have known that had you realized it before.

It’s like walking through the forest with a blindfold on and He’s holding your hand and you keep stopping in the middle and He can’t get you anywhere because you feel as if your shoes are sinking into the mud because He told you you’re not going anywhere you think you are. It’s an awful feeling - and it’s an adjustment to correct yourself when you get stuck - but soon you’re going to see the end result and the payment is going to be worth it.

That’s all I have for you at this moment. Please reach out if you have any clarifying questions!