Tribe of the Fox wish you a wonderfull solstice.

Today's harvest from my walk in the park: 5 empty beerbottles. Some people litter the park and throw their empty beerbottles, plastic weedbags, pizzaboxes, fastfoodpackages and energydrinkcans (healthy lifestyle😂) in the bushes. The trashcans were set on fire a long time ago. These people have no respect for nature and the naturespirits that live in the park. There is one good thing tough....empty beerbottles have a value of €0,10 when returned to the supermarket. So i always pick up the bottles if i find some. The other trash i kick to the benches so the cleaners can easily pick it up. Maybe i can buy a book if i find enough empty bottles, that would be nice😀!

Between the roots

in hidden cavities,

through the branches

through the wind,

where you find the voice of Mrs. Holle

Holunder – Elder Tree


In Germany there is an old saying „Willst du aus dem Leben scheiden, tue den Hollunder schneiden.“ - „If you want to pass from life, go and cut the Elder.“

The Elder is the most important tree. It was the peasant's pharmacy. Tea from Elderflowers is anti-viral, Elderberries have a strong immunomodulatory effect.

The Elder is where the dwarves and fairies gain access to the world, it is also the residence of the House Kobold. That is why far into christian times, up until the 20th century in fact, offerings were placed at the foot of the tree. Peasant wifes spread flour there for example, or poured some beer or milk for the fairies.

People that suffered an illnes would go to the tree, pictured the illnes in their mind, bound them and gave it to the Elder, which transported them into the underworld.
In medieval times, people said „to give the illnes into the kettle of the devil's Grandmother“. This of course was in fact the kettle of the old Goddess, Earth Mother, in which all things dissolve before they take new shape.

So, the Elder tree is connected to Frau Holle, as we called her, further north Mutter Elder, Hollemutter, Hildemör, or also Elder Mother.
Every farmstead had in fact a House Elder tree that absorbed everything negative from the household.

The Elder tree is devoted to our oldest Goddess, the paleolithic Goddess that resided in the cave (German word for cave is „Höhle“), the one that lives in the depths of the Earth, like in the fairy tales, where her world of light, Lichtwelt, is located.
There the wild animals grew up, until she released them so that the hunters could feed their families.
When people settled into houses, she also became the guardian of the seeds. She took in the dead and released them again as children.

She is the Goddess of Fertility and of Death. The Elder has white blossoms and black berries. She encompasses everything. She can be the deadly Earthdragon, the wild, angry Forest Goddess, Percht of the Alp regions, the Goddess covered in bright radiance, that comes in spring with her host of wild spirits, or the Fair Goddess (die holde Göttin), the Virgin, the Healer, the one that guides the herbalists.

Like wells, caves and dreams, the Elder tree is an entrance to the realm of Frau Holle. Her realm is one of the paths to the realm of the dead. They had a long way to go, like the girl in the fairy tale of Frau Holle. That is why the old Teutonic tribes always buried their dead with well crafted boots, even if they didn't own good shoes in life, so they could walk this long path well.

All this is connected to the Elder tree. This is why the tree is revered everywhere. It was not unusual to see people take their hat off in salute when they passed an Elder tree.

The Northsea is a small sea connecting many Northwestern-European countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, England, Scotland, Germany, Denmark and Norway). The Northsea has always been beneficial for this part of Europe. Lets have a look at the Goddess of the Northsea, her name is Nehalennia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwmn0DLyGzA&t=77s

Tohtori the Finnish Shaman has returned from his solstice journey into the woodlands of Finland 🇫🇮 He has legally shed his former Christian slave name, which he traded for an indigenous ancestral one, and sealed the deal with some Nordic spiritual imagery ink 🦋🌱 ☀️

Hear, hear to embracing your heritage, purposeful transformation, and self-driven raising of power levels! Wizards 🧙‍♂️ of the Oakwood 🌳 are stepping forth and reclaiming our culture!!

Clouds of perfume, caring, nurturing, children are welcome. So am I.... my friend the lime tree

Indigenous European pagan gods & goddesses have a basis in truth and reality. Unlike the monotheistic god of Abrahamic religions, who is unknowable, and who exists in some abstract, other realm, the pagan gods can be known by people in the here and now. From what I can tell, indigenous European pagan spirituality did focus some on the unseen/ spiritual realm, but mostly it focuses on this physical world. Christianity either avoids acknowledging the physical realm, or at talks negatively about the material world, and says that the physical world belongs to Satan. Christianity hyper focuses on the afterlife. It’s like a death cult, because their entire religion is focused around the death of Jesus.

Globalism is embraced by the worlds elite and by a lot of people and pushed upon the worlds population. However globalism is opposite to tribalism. What must it be like for young pagan guys to grow up in a world that is dominated by unhealthy globalism? In this video the Tribe of the Fox speaks some encouraging words to young pagan guys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNivOjLGkUA

Nice!

“Lithuanian folk song to the Oak Trees” - thanks to MsAlocin for posting on my YT
https://youtu.be/A2r-uspx6LM

Watch "The Making of The Anglo-Saxon Runes" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/Na4JlurvaOE

One of the most important tools of the wizard or witch is the staff. The Tribe of the Fox talks about this ancient Northwest-European practice. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSyjM-FsIU0&t=4s

How do we find back to our roots?

Short clip of German ethno-botanist and author Wolf-Dieter Storl where he talks about the importance of ancestors and the influence of a specific environment on a culture or people.

When he talks about "forest people" he specifically means Teutonic, Celtic, Slavic and Baltic tribes, amongst others, regarding the northern hemisphere. He writes about that in his books.

You can activate English subtitles in the video options.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqsegDcFWtM

If you do not see mother earth as divine, then in my opinion, you do not know your indigenous pagan ancestors.

If you don’t see your native land as sacred, and you don’t understand that you don’t need to look outside of this material/physical reality to find spirituality, then in my opinion, you still don’t understand your indigenous pagan European, Slavic ancestors.

If you do not feel deep, profound love, empathy, care, and respect for the earth at large, but especially for your native ancestral landscape, ecosystem, your native ecology/environment, in my opinion you still have much to learn about your ethnic pagan European/ Slavic ancestors.

Usually the Tribe of the Fox posts 2 video's a week. Today its time for a short bonusvideo🙂. Dirkje and me visited a beautiful area called 'Broekpolder' not far from the city of Rotterdam. Here we enjoyed nature and made this video about the Stone Age Vlaardingenculture. Enjoy, my friends! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR-bsZrC0Gs

Protection magick. Thor is the defender of our Folk, you should think of some kind of invocation to him as a protective deity. Maybe draw the Thurisaz rune on paper and carry it in your wallet or something.

Dagaz is the Dawn rune but it is said to be able to produce concealment or protective invisibility. Berkano is associated with Frigga (mother goddess) and it’s also supposed to have protective properties because it’s like enveloping you in a protective womb.

To make a bind rune you play around with drawing them over each other so they share some of the same lines and then you can set the intention and burn one to set it off into the ether and keep another with you as a talisman. You can use any other runes that call out to you. Stay safe and ride out the storm! - @OakwiseBecoming

I’m not the only one who needed to consult the Runes today! My friend went for a bit of a ride! 😂

Time for a holiday? Going to Bermuda, Ibiza, Costa Rica? No way, lets go to Myrkvider, the Dark Forest! Myrkvider is an inbetween world where some of the dead people go and it is not a place where you want to go after you die. Both Dirkje and Martijn have experience visiting this realm so let us be your tourguides. Lets go, my friends! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS0cnRpGi9s

From a Dutch friend - Someone posted this about Dutch White privilege in 1920, it's a good one. Because the truth is that life was very harsh, there was no wealth coming from trading slaves. My ancestors were fishermen and farmers and there was a lot of poverty, hard work and infant mortality as I look into my familytrees. Our ancestors build our country themselves. This picture is about how they lived in the North of the Netherlands during digging out channels.