July For Loki Using 30 Days Of Deity Devotion Prompts, Day 29 Any Interesting Or Unusual UPG To Share?

July for Loki using 30 Days of Deity Devotion prompts, Day 29 • Any interesting or unusual UPG to share?

Neon Goats.

So many strange things happen when you deal with Loki, that I had to ask my good friend Sigyn if she, as an external observer, could name an unusual thing I told her about my experiences with Loki. Being the godsdamn genius she is, she came up with the brightest (literally) hint: neon Goats!

The Helheimr does that mean, you ask?

Well, it’s a vision I had last Winter, on a feverish night. I found myself in a place that vaguely resembled Iceland, only everything was neon. And there were all kinds of neon Goats all over the place. All kind of Goats: domestic Goats, Alpine Ibexes, Chamois… name a Goat, or an animal resembling a Goat, and it most likely was there. As I woke from this psychedelic dream, I remember thinking about Loki, and smiling because I felt him near. Via neon Goats. 

Makes sense, uh?

Well, in fact he’s tied (pun intended) to Goats, according to the myths, so it might not be a random association, but I’ve never heard of neon Goats (nor neon animals in general) associated with him. Therefore, I agree with Sigyn: this must definitely be my most unusual UPG.

To honor this vision, after I found a Chamoix skull in a thrift market, I decorated it with neon acrylic paints. Not a particularly excellent work, since I’m not a pro of course, but I had good fun painting it according to the colors of my vision. It’s been sitting on Loki’s altar since, and he seems to enjoy this funny gift too.

sketchbook pages

This is so accurate it hurts.

art garfunkel: hey paul bestie. my favorite architect frank lloyd wright just died. can you write a song about him for me :)

paul simon: uhh yeah sure bud. i don’t know who that is though so i’m actually just gonna write it about you

paul simon: i am mourning the slow ongoing death of our close friendship and creative partnership but instead of saying anything im just going to write a lowkey ode to you but stick the name “frank lloyd wright” on it

paul simon: actually i’m going to write TWO songs about this exact point of contention instead of talking about it. what then huh. why are you breaking up with me

art garfunkel:

art garfunkel: i wasnt paying attention can you repeat that

paul simon writing sad songs about his feelings towards art garfunkel but disguising the songs as being about other things and then making art sing the songs……is just…..next level messy

July for Loki, Day 31 • The End

Yay for me, and for all of you reading my posts of July for Loki!

It's been relatively hard to keep the focus for 30 days straight, following 30 Days of Deity Devotion prompts; to write briefly and hopefully not too boringly about matters that would deserve pages and pages each was not easy. But it was good fun too, and a way to connect with my patron god even more deeply, which is always a good thing.

One of the services I've been asked to perform for Loki by Loki himself is to talk about him, speaking my own truth about the way I know him. Trust me, this is tough for me, since I used to be a pretty secretive person about my whole spiritual sphere. But hey, now this is part of my path, and it's a way to honor him, so that's why I felt this July for Loki was the right thing to do, the way I did it, after all.

The conclusion to my July for Loki will be simple: I send firey blessings to y'all, and may Lughnasadh bring you nothing but marvelous gifts! 🖤

Pic: Laughing Fox by Paul Ward

I took a nap and dreamed Loki was playing the fiddle and singing a drinking song with the message of, "The roads we have to travel tomorrow are long with lots of bad weather, but right now we are here together and drunk and that's what matters most right now."

It might sound kind of silly on paper, but it was incredibly comforting.