Odin’s Eye

Your Birth Chord

Before you had a name, you had a sky. Nine nights lead from this threshold down to the moment you arrived, and back: your sky measured, sung, and read as a mirror.

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I ween that I hung on the windy tree, hung there for nights full nine … offered I was to Othin, myself to myself.
Hávamál 138, translated by Henry Adams Bellows (his stanza 139)

Night I The Well

When did the sky first see you?

Odin paid an eye for one drink from Mímir’s well. Yours costs only the moment you were born: a day, an hour, a place on the earth.

Read my sky in the tradition

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    Your sky stays private. Places from GeoNames.

    I know where Othin’s eye is hidden, deep in the wide-famed well of Mimir.
    Völuspá 28, translated by Henry Adams Bellows (his stanza 29)

    Night II The Sky That Met You

    The sky that met you

    Night III The Song

    Your sky is singing

    Night IV The Form

    Your sky, taking form

    See it
    Read one layer

    Night V The Runes

    And there below I looked; I took up the runes …
    Hávamál 139 (Bellows 140)

    The runes in your sky

    Night VI The Seal

    Your seal

    Night VII The Mirror

    Soul they had not, sense they had not, heat nor motion, nor goodly hue; soul gave Othin, sense gave Hönir, heat gave Lothur and goodly hue.
    Völuspá 18, translated by Henry Adams Bellows

    What the mirror shows

    Three lights are read first: the Sun, the Moon, and the sign that was rising in the east as you were born. The old way reads them as spirit, soul and body. Each mirror shows what the sky held, what it is read to mean, and a question to carry.

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    Night VIII The Weave

    Today’s sky, through yours

    Night IX The Return

    Carry it back

    If you keep it, your birth date, time and place, and any words you wrote, stay in this browser only, so the threshold can greet you with today’s sky. Nothing is sent anywhere.

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