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It’s ok if you find Loki through marvel.

That does not make you less Lokean or pagan or witchy.

It just means that Loki found you in media; They adapted to find you when you needed Him most.

Remember: Loki is a shapeshifter.

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what's the matter honey? you've hardly touched your fleeting experience of time on earth

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“I don’t want to be a burden” you’re more like a relief, a gift, a blessing actually

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good things will happen 🧿

things that are meant to be will fall into place 🧿

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I am so grateful to have Loki in my life 💚 they're the most loving and supportive spouse I could have ever dreamt of 💚 I feel so incredibly lucky 💚

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Friendly reminder that you probably need to put up wards in your home and on yourself.

Don't let your deities/guides do all the heavy lifting if you can do some of it yourself. They'll be proud of you for taking care of yourself and they'll be able to relax a bit and help you in other ways.

Don't overthink it, use whatever methods feel right for you, don't be afraid to use many different methods, it doesn't have to be overly complicated.

Better safe than sorry!

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Throwback to when I took painkillers and woke up with Photoshop open on my computer to this image I had made

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Lokean Holidays

art by Sceith-A

With holiday season coming up across all cultures, I have decided to do a little something in honor of one of my own dedicated deities — Loki. Following the holiday theme (and looking forward to one of my favorite Loki festivals), today's post is all about Loki-specific holidays.

I will start off by saying that He does not have any known traditional holidays. We have no surviving evidence of any Loki-specific Holidays, and few evidence of Loki even being worshipped in ancient times.

So keep in mind these are all modern holidays that many lokeans (those who follow Loki) have adopted.

It's also important to note that not every lokean follows all, if any of these.

And lastly, I won't mention any of the usual norse pagan holidays, but you can definitely still honor Loki on those alongside other norse deities. It's just that they are not specific to him.

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Loki Fool's Day

April 1st

This was probably one of the first lokean holidays created, in honor of Loki as a Trickster and deity of Mischief.

It was proposed by Dagulf Loptson in his book "Playing with Fire", but I believe many of Loki's followers already thought of Loki during April Fool's before that.

Ideas:

Have fun

Play games

Make jokes and pull tricks

Reflect on Loki as a trickster deity and the trickster archetype in all its forms

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Lokabrenna

July – August (roughly)

The star Sirius was known to the norse people as Lokabrenna ("burning done by Loki", "Loki's torch"). The star would be gone for one half of the year, so when it reappeared at its highest point, that would be the date of Lokabrenna. Because of the connection to Loki's name, the day of Lokabrenna became a modern lokean holiday.

The date varies because it's connected to when the star Sirius shows up in the sky, so it depends on location.

In the southern hemisphere, Sirius can be seen throughout the year. In this case, Lokabrenna can be celebrated when it shows during both morning and evening, rising with the Sun.

You can adopt a date between the beginning of July to the end of August for convenience.

The following reddit post (at r/lokean) details one way you can find out the day of Lokabrenna for your location:

Ideas:

Prapare a ritual for Loki

Celebrate the comming season (summer in northern hemisphere, winter in southern hemisphere)

Meditate on Loki as a fire good and bringer of light, knowledge and creativity

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Loki Sponge Cake Day

September 4th

TW: brief mention of bullying

This holiday popped up in the community as an anti-bullying holiday. Basically, this happened because someone got mad at a lokean who got some store bought sponge cake as an offering to Loki and shamed them for it.

So this is a holiday to commemorate modern offerings and promote anti-bullying.

Ideas:

Anti-bullying awareness.

Get some store bought cake or other modern stuff to give as offerings and celebrate

Reflect on Loki as a deity of the Outcasts

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Loki's Holiday

December 13th

This holiday was proposed by Dagulf Loptson in his book "Playing with Fire".

This is because, on Dec 13th in Scandinavia, there is the feast of St. Lucia and the festival of light, which would symbolize the coming of light in the midst of darkness.

In his book Loptson states that he had asked Loki if there was a special day he could celebrate him, and the answer was Dec 13th, which he later learned was the day of St. Lucia.

So yes, this is the author's UPG, but it was widely adopted by the community.

In scandinavian countries the date also used to mark the Winter Solstice. As the longest night of the year, it was believed that all sorts of foul creatures would roam the earth, and the bringing of light could symbolize safety and the hope of warmer days to come.

While Loki and Lucia may not be directly related, they share a relation in the sense that they may come as "light bearers". Thus, many lokeans find it fitting to honor Loki on this day.

Ideas:

Celebrate the coming of light and Loki as a deity that brings fire, warmth and light

Give gingerbread treats, cakes, cookies, sweets, etc, as offerings

Celebrate with other Lokeans!

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Loki and Sigyn — 4th Day of Yule

December 23th

art by Ksenia Svincova

There is actually very little information on this holiday and how it came to be, and not many lokeans celebrate it.

So you may take this with a grain of salt.

From what I could find this one is actually tied to celebrating the 4th day of Yule and it honors both Loki and Sigyn.

It is a day to celebrate love (especially queer love) and devotion, as Sigyn loved Loki unconditionally, despite everything that he did and that had happened to him.

Supposedly, it also coincides with Saturnalia (Roman holiday, Dec 17th-23th), a day where social order is turned upside down — which is very much a Loki thing to do, as demonstrated in Lokasenna.

That said, I personally don't think the correlation with Saturnalia fits most heathens' practice. But Sigyn and Loki's relationship is highly defined by Her actions after Lokasenna, so I can see how you could make a connection.

Ideas:

Celebrate love, queer love

Pour libations

Do healing work and cleansing rituals

Celebrate Loki and Sigyn's union

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That concludes this post. Even if you do not work with, worship, or follow Loki, I hope you enjoyed the post!

Thank you for reading!

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i feel like sigyn has princess carried loki at some point in their lives and i think that it made loki swoon

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Sigyn, by Lunidäe

A few months ago, I went to a fantasy fair in Mons (Belgium) and I got to meet the fantastic and always lovely Lunidäe @luniidae

I commissioned her for a Sigyn fan art, and DAMN, isn't it amazing? It kinda reminds me of Uderzo? :D Such amazing talent!! <3

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I wonder what conversations they had in that cave.

I wonder if when Sigyn's arms shook and burned, when stinging sweat dripped into her eyes, if Loki sung her stories and spun her winding jokes to make her laugh.

I wonder if she sang back to him as she had to remove the bowl to empty it, if she reminded him of fields of flowers and the sun on their skin, of days without pain, and soothed him through the worst of his trembling.

I wonder if they cried together, if Loki couldn't help wrapping his fingers around his bindings, getting as close to his child as he could. I wonder if they spent hours, silent, sitting together in their grief.

I wonder if they laughed together, if they reminisced in the past and planned for the future, if they knew that this would not be forever.

I wonder if they processed anger together, if they softened together, so they knew that one day in the far future, they would be able to forgive if not forget.

idk i just wonder about them a lot

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Goddess Sigyn, Lady of Victory

Between two mean anons, I got a very nice commission!! The wonderful ellen.artistic on Instagram was kind enough to accept this commission, and LOOK AT THIS <3 Isn't Sigyn cute? Isn't her fox-form even cuter? :p

The haters can rage all they want, we have Lady Victory by our side <3

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Interpreting Loki as a nature deity

I interpret Loki as a nature deity, and find that a ton of his energy exists within the chaos of the wild, as nature itself is inherently chaotic. Most of the time, I actually find his energy isolated to nature itself, like it’s a core facet of Loki that inspires his chaos.

As a naturalist, I am constantly finding Loki surrounding me in my workplace. He is the essence of the chaos of forest fires, but yet maintains the balance in the ecosystem. He is the wolf, hated and ostracized when he was simply misunderstood. He is the wild itself, full of surprises and unpredictability. Stories begin in nature, laughter and entertainment are so often found in observing wild animals; I’ve seen it so many times on my tours, people laughing at the ridiculous and unpredictable things animals do! Gender is simply ambiguous and fluid within nature, trees and plants often both male and female or everything in between and beyond. He is the wisdom of the forest and its ancient age, he is the fungi underneath the ground facilitating connections in root systems. He is communication amongst all things wild. He is the sudden storm and the unexpected wind and the fresh snow. He is mimicry and camouflage and deceiving patterns on fur and skin, he is the trickster of survival. Trickery is inherent within even our survival, and is found in each and every turn within nature. He is the ocean and its fierce force, all its chaos with the waves and the tides. He is the ecosystem, the full cycle, the facilitator of change and adaptation.

Being a deity of chaos is being a deity of nature! To understand nature you must first understand its chaos and learn to navigate its unpredictability; anyone who works in the outdoors or environmental industry will tell you that!

Loki is the Wild.

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Loki’s such a God of Storytellers. Loki does it for the story, always has, always has been the core of debate as to his own stories, his own morals, interpretation of the truth, his purpose, etc.; Loki is the very essence of storytelling itself and, most importantly, knowing how to make people laugh.

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Beloved Shapeshifter, Drag Mother to Outcasts Young and Old; we thank you for granting us the ability to see who it is we truly are. Guide us as we continue our journeys of self-exploration and expression. May our example light the way for others and lead them to our blessed found family. Hail Loki!

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Maybe it's just because I worship a deity of change, but I've got the weirdest feeling that shit's actually going to be okay