I recently made mention of my status as a skeptical believer. Sometimes, my skepticism veers into a sense of spiritual blindness. My Loki blog even has the tagline, “Musings of an Oblivious Heathen.” Case in point: I grew up as a military brat in a family that valued Odhinn the most, and I was raised to believe that Valhalla was the ultimate goal. So naturally, I thought of myself as an Odhinnswoman (with a strong penchant for Loki) for most of my life. I even joined the Army myself in 2004 with the specific intent of being deployed and cashing in my one-way ticket to Valhalla. Why is this considered the height of obliviousness? Because even as I was donning valknuts and prattling on about that old One-Eyed Bastard, my friends were calling me, and I quote, “the Lokeanist Lokean to Ever Lokean.” Everyone around me knew I was Loki’s, but I insisted I was Odhinn’s. HA!
