Friday, July 29th, Today We Celebrate
Icelandic Festival
VOLUSPA
Themes: Foresight; History; Perspective; Divination; Time
Symbols: Stories or Storybooks
About Voluspa: This Nordic goddess was born before all things, with the knowledge of all time within her. When asked to tell a tale to the gods, she recounted history, including the gods’ downfall. To commemorate this, wise women and seers in northern climes are still sometimes called Voluspa.
Voluspa teaches us the value of farsightedness and of remembering our history. We cannot know where we’re going if we don’t remember where we came from.
To Do Today: An old festival in Iceland known as the Islendin-gadagurinn preserves Voluspa’s energy by recounting local heritage and custom in a public forum including theater, singing, writing, and costumes. For our adaptation, I suggest taking out or working on a family tree, or perhaps a personal journal. Read over the chronicles of people from your ethnic background, and honor their lives in some appropriate manner (perhaps by lighting a candle). Voluspa lives in these moments, and at any time that we give ourselves to commemorating the past.
Alternatively, get out some good storybooks and read! Turn off the TV for a while, and enrich your imagination with the words of bards who keep Voluspa’s power alive in the world. Especially read to children, so they can learn of this goddess’s wonders.
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Patricia Telesco
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