FEBRUARY 2 – DISTING DAY
Light a green candle, soft
green of spring, new as the leaves that will soon begin to show, new as the
grass as the snow melts. Craft a swan, origami, painted, or cut silhouette. A
drawing, maybe, or fashioned of clay. The swan is one symbol for Frigga.
Berkana rune. The colors
green and white. The reason: waking from winter’s deep sleep and beginning to
stir towards the fullness of the sun.
Honor the Goddess and your
feminine ancestors (The Distaff side) on this day.
In honor of Frigga, host a
Handmaidens Feast, serve honey meade or Birch tea with honey. Serve wheat cakes
topped with a swan drawn with whipped cream. Light candles on your hearth or
altar stone, green candles, the color of spring. Create collages of the
handmaidens (my current project). Help your guests explore their links to the
various Handmaidens and share stories of: for instance: a message received
(Gna), a victory in a dispute (Syn), a healing (Eir) or a time your guest has
felt as if permission had been given for entrance into a once-forbidden
territory (Lofn).
Let each guest take a bit of
roving and pour into it her hopes for the coming year. These can be twisted
into thread and kept for knot magic or spread thin and given to the wind or
hung in the trees for the birds to use in nesting.
Honor Frigga, the
Handmaidens, your feminine ancestors,
and the Great Mother, Earth. Use Green as your color and soften with
white. Use small amounts of other colors too, for new flowers that are
beginning, purple crocuses, yellow daffodils and dandelions. Make the altar
colorful with springtime, still somewhat muted; make it less colorful than your
Ostara celebration will be. More green, more white, only a bit of color. Use
the rune Berkana and use Fehu. Use the rune, Jera and use the rune, Wunjo.
Otherwhere in this Spindle find bits of Spindling to help you create the
celebration: Disting, with Frigga and her Handmaidens.
Note: A distaff holds the
fiber you will spin into thread. Distaff is also the name given to the feminine
side of your ancestry.
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