Spiritual Fatigue: What It Is & How To Break Free
The Hamingja Podcast
Feeling discouraged, disconnected, or stuck in a rut on your spiritual journey? You may be experiencing spiritual fatigue – a common yet often misunderstood challenge on the spiritual path, especially at its onset. In this episode we’re answering a fellow pagan’s ’headache’ – taking a look at what spiritual fatigue is & how to deal with it. We’ve all come (or will come) to a point in our learning curve where we feel overwhelmed, weighed down, confused, even frightened by everything that ‘has to be learned’ and taken in. We sometimes come to a blocking, or it might feel...
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Q&A: Answering Your Questions About the Hamingja Pagan Membership
The Hamingja Podcast
Curious about the Hamingja pagan membership? In this episode, I answer your most common and important questions about the platform — from how it’s different from a course or social media group, to who it’s really for, what it includes, and why now is such a powerful time to reconnect with our Indo-European roots. We’ll talk about: Why modern people are craving purpose, structure, and ancestral wisdom How Hamingja blends ancient spirituality with real-life integration What members can expect each month — live events, content, community & more How both beginners &...
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16. The Memory Palace: Memorize Pagan Prayers & Rituals
The Hamingja Podcast
Have you ever wished you could remember long prayers by heart? Or recall every step of a ritual, smoothly and confidently? Then this episode's for you. Today you’ll learn a very simple and powerful memory technique that can make that possible – facilitating spiritual growth and making you a better spiritual leader. What if you could step into a ceremony knowing every word, every step, every blessing — not from notes, but from within? What if remembering long prayers wasn’t a struggle but second nature? One of the challenges that both new and experienced pagans often mention as the main...
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Pagan Storytime: The Wrítros Algorithm pt 1 (full length)
The Hamingja Podcast
The boy must die, for the man to live. As the storm rages and the past refuses to stay buried, a young man stands at the threshold of his final trial. There’s no more running. His life spent without purpose, without direction, without the fire that once burned in the hearts of those who came before him, he must now reckon with stagnation, doubts and everything he has feared to become. The storm is building. The choice is his. The Wrítros Algorithm is a modern serpent-slaying myth, an ancient struggle reborn in the modern world. We have lost our rites of passage and coming of age traditions,...
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Pagan Storytime: The Way of the Kóryos pt 2
The Hamingja Podcast
Listen to part 2 of a new pagan story! The young warriors are now lost out on the moonlit steppe, after their first real challenge. As if it couldn't get worse they now also smell smoke. Smoke means people, and people might mean threat. The importance of storytelling in Indo-European spirituality and culture cannot be overestimated. Here you get the luxury to relax and listen to a story about raids, coming-of-age rites and the spirits of the land. The soon-to-be-launched Hamingja platform will be filled to the brim with stories, prayers, rituals, guides, pagan documentaries etc, so...
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15. Mother’s milk: Pagan cow goddesses and their fascinating origin & myths
The Hamingja Podcast
Within Indo-European spirituality, cow goddesses occupy a unique and venerated position, symbolizing fertility, prosperity, and the nurturing aspects of nature. They play a central role in the mythologies and religious practices across various Indo-European cultures. Their symbolism extends beyond the realms of agriculture and animal husbandry, intertwining deeply with concepts of marriage and the life-giving forces of rivers. This episode is about how the plethora of Indo-European cow-associated and -depicted goddesses all belong together, represent the same functions and constitute a...
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Pagan Storytime: The Way of the Kóryos
The Hamingja Podcast
Listen to a new pagan story! On the moonlit steppe a young war band is making offerings for success in their first raid. An unexpected encounter turns the reward into something more precious than what they’ve come for. The importance of storytelling in Indo-European spirituality and culture cannot be overestimated. Here you get the luxury to relax and listen to a story about raids, coming-of-age rites and the spirits of the land. The soon-to-be-launched Hamingja platform will be filled to the brim with stories, prayers, rituals, guides, pagan documentaries etc, so I recommend you...
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14. Pagan Wedding Traditions
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Celebrate an authentic Indo-European pagan wedding! What does a honeymoon really mean? Would you let six of your relatives watch you & your spouse consummate the marriage? Why mustn't you see the bride before the wedding ceremony? This highly requested episode dives deep into genuine Indo-European pagan wedding & marriage traditions so you can avoid the new-age social media make-belief & get married honoring native pagan customs.
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13. Slavic paganism the authentic way
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Slavic paganism is perhaps the least well-known of the Indo-European spiritual branches. It is unfortunately also heavily distorted by new-age and other modern influences. This episode will remedy that! A great resource for those who seek their native Slavic roots and for those who want an even broader understanding of Indo-European culture and spirituality.
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How Thor changed a young man's life – #paganjourney
The Hamingja Podcast
Hear the story about how Thor the Striker changed this young British man’s life at young age. Are you new to paganism? Young? Lost in life? We continue our pagan journey, our portraits of how some of our members found their ancestral spirituality and their true nature. That's exactly what us at Hamingja help people do – finding and practicing their Indo-European spirituality in an authentic way. Here we meet Elliot, a young man from the UK telling his story about how he came to Indo-European paganism, how Thor changed his life and about the importance of finding one’s way back up...
info_outlineWe help people find their true Indo-European spirituality, nature & purpose. We often see people who really want to deepen their Indo-European pagan spirituality, but don’t get going since they feel they don’t know where to start, how to do things in an authentic way and that they lack words. We’ll do something about that now. This is a guide to an authentic and well-attested morning prayer ritual aligned with Indo-European paganism.
This is a bonus episode where I go through an authentic Indo-European morning ritual step by step. It’s so important that we don’t just talk about our native spirituality, but that we actually practice it.
It’s originally a YouTube video, so for you who also want to see me perform the ritual I recommend you to go over there. But I know many of you love to listen to podcasts, so I’m posting it here too. And you’ll understand perfectly well just by listening here. At the end of this episode you’ll also hear the two prayers or mantras I offer to Dawn and Sun, but in a much better and melodic version, so stick around for that.
And what better place to start than in the morning? As the title suggests this video is about how to perform an authentic pagan morning ritual – getting into a healthy and spiritual routine.
A spiritual and mindful start of the day that definitely will make you feel that the day has begun in a meaningful way, and that you’ve already seen beauty.
For this morning ritual you’ll need water, a candle, incense and some barley. As you’ll see, one bowl of water will be used for purification, and a smaller amount will be used as a libation. If you have an altar at home it’s a good idea to always have holy water standing there.
I sometimes add on some more beverages as libations to the All-gods – like milk, wine or juice – but libations to the Sun and Dawn should be non-alcoholic.
So let’s begin! Before you’ll see me perform the ritual and say the prayers there are some preparatory steps that are just as important and just as much part of the ritual.
First of all – wake up early. 6 o’clock at the latest. Already by doing that you’ll feel that you’ve done something good. Stretch a little in bed before getting up.
As soon as you get up, try to get 2-10 minutes of sunlight or daylight. There’s great health benefits of doing that. That’s of course not always possible depending on what time of the year it is and where in the world you are, but do your best. Be mindful of that the Sun represents our highest consciousness and the higher self.
Now drink one or two glasses of warm water. This kickstarts your metabolism, and activates your body’s fuel.
Take a really cold shower or bath. Start with 30 seconds. Cold showers and baths give both health benefits and a sense of uniting with nature. Be mindful in the cold water. You’ll feel connected to nature, and this purification also makes all that society forced upon you the day before.
It’s of course even nicer if you can get out in the garden or nature and pour cold water over yourself, connecting to Mother Earth.
After that – meditate for as long as you feel you have the time for. Studies show that 15 minutes of meditation has the same physical and psychological effect as one full day of vacation! But if you only have two minutes, that’s great too!
When I open my eyes after the meditation I often think of things I look forward to or things I’m grateful for.