Frigga, Norse Goddess

Frigg is a Norse Goddess, she’s a member of the Aesir, and she is said to know all the fates of people although she doesn’t tell them to people. She is associated with divination, wisdom, the hearth, home, textile arts such as spinning, and keys. The keys are not in the original source materials, but have come to be associated with Frigg over time, as she holds wisdom that makes entry into other realms possible. I have a key on my necklace and a key on my altar to request the ability to step into a new level of employment I have yet to experience, a salaried and steady career.

Frigg is the wife of Odin. I mention this not because this relationship defines who she is, but because contrasting her with Odin reveals some truth about who she is.

Both Odin and Frigg represent knowledge. However Odin leaves home to find his knowledge. He is the wanderer, he travels the 9 realms, sacrifices an eye, and hangs upside down for 9 days to gain his wisdom. While he is gone, Frigg runs the house, runs the community. Her wisdom is more practical, quiet and pragmatic. Hers is the wisdom of doing what needs to be done, even if it doesn’t involve adventure or excitement.

Frigg has become associated with divination, although she isn’t explicitly seen doing any divination practice in the lore. She is known as knowing all people’s fates, though she doesn’t speak of this wisdom, and she knows her son Balder will be killed. One thing I love about Paganism is that our Gods are not above human yearnings. Even though she knows all of fate, Frigg tries to save Balder’s life. She does not succeed, thanks to Loki, but she tries.

I see divination as being about more than the tools we use to understand the energies of the world. The tools are a way to access knowledge about wyrd, about fate, but they aren’t necessary. Just as Frigg isn’t seen using runestones or other methods, we all have the capability of divining fate without tools ourselves. This can come from softening our gaze, and looking at a leaf or a flower. Our inner knowing can rise up to reflect the patterns of the web of reality that we live within. I used to do something I called nature scrying. I’d immerse myself in nature that was far away from humans, I’d soften my gaze, and take in knowledge from the plants, trees, animals, river, and the land.

Because this information can so often come in the form of metaphor or riddle, it’s important to not take it completely literally or we can end up making a mess of our lives, I’ve made this mistake. We have reason for a reason, and we don’t need to turn off our intellect or our common sense when we connect the wisdom about fate.

I’ve been doing a lot of spellwork to try to find work, and while I don’t believe that divination can 100% predict the future – I do believe that we can intuit and divine the possibilities that are approaching, we can see ranges of potentialities. I sense that I might truly be approaching a time of financial stability in my life, and I try to steer my path towards energies that have that energy of Frigg’s keys – door opening possibilities in my future, while still balancing my intellect and reason to make sure I’m making solid and safe decisions. In Frigg’s running of the household, of the community, she wouldn’t have had time for flights of fancy. I embrace Friggs practical and pragmatic balancing and weaving of the elements and energies needed for life. I attempt to spin my own life that will support family and hearth as well.

May it be so.