Please join us for our autumnal celebration of the Vanir, especially the deities Freyr and Freyja. This will be a thanksgiving for the harvest, a plea for peace, and a celebration of magic in the darkening season. We will make offerings to the Vanir and recieve their blessings in return. We hope you will be there to worship with us!

Date: Sunday, September 22, 2024

Location: Pasquerilla Spiritual Center, State College, PA on the Penn State University Park Campus. Parking at the Nittany Parking Deck or bus access at the Pattee-Paterno Library.

Schedule: 

• 5pm Welcome

• 5:30pm Pre-Ritual Briefing

• 5:45pm Freysblót rite

• 6:30pm Coffee, Cider, and Doughnuts

• 7pm Farwell!

Freysblót is the modern Norse Pagan form of the Wiccan Autumnal holiday of Mabon. This is a time where many people honor Freyr as god of harvest and peace, as well as his role as King of Alfheim. This also involves worship for the elves: the Faeries and ancestors in the land. Our grove celebrates with harvest thanksgiving, offerings to the Vanir and Alfar, and this year a rite to the twins Freyr and Freyja.

Freyja: Freyja is Freyr's sister and daughter of Njǫrðr, and a chooser of the slain. She is a goddess of desire, love, lust, magic, sexuality, fertility, and war. She is a very popular deity, and is very powerful in arms and in magic. She taught magic to Óðinn and the Aesir. She is a leader of the Disir (female ancestral fate spirits) and a master of Seidhr. She rides a chariot pulled by cats and has a cloak that turns the wearer into a falcon. She is a fierce and powerful deity that is worshipped by many.

Freyr: Freyr is Freyja's brother and son of Njǫrðr, and the king of Alfheim. He is a god of peace, joy, justice, oaths, harvest, rain, sun, fertility, sexuality, and kingship. He was one of the major deities found at Gamla Uppsala when it was a major temple alongside Óðinn and Þórr. He is also the king of the Alfar or elves which are the ancestral spirits in the land as well as the Faerie folk. Freyr rides the golden boar Gullinbursti, and wields an antler as a weapon. He is a kind and  generous god who brings good things in life.