Overview: For those unaware, The Norns sit at the base of the World Tree, weaving strands of fate and calling on us to step into our role in destiny.

Overview: In The Norns: Weavers of Fate and Magick, we meet the ones who weave, measure, and cut at the base of the World Tree. With Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld we travel across time and meet ourselves as part of fate.

In this meeting, we join the Norns, weavers of destiny, and encounter the wyrd.

As was imparted to me growing up, in Norse mythology, the Norns were three wise women spinners who determined every allotted life span. One spun out the thread of each life, another measured its length, and the third decided when the thread should be snapped.

As noted, these Norse goddesses of fate, represented as three sisters named Urd, Verdandi, and Skuld, lived underneath the world tree, Yggdrasill, located under Urd’s well, and which were linked with both good and evil.

In actuality, the name Norn appears only in Scandinavian sources, but the cult of Nornlike beings occurs in several European folklores and, furthermore, in Norse literature the Norns are sometimes called dísir.

What author Irisanya Moon does in her new book Pagan Portals The Norns: Weavers of Fate and Magick is bring these three sister to colorful life on the page. Inclusive of academic source material, along with a deep dive into her own extensive hands-on history of the subject matter to hand, this what can also be described as guidebook to The Norns is as comprehensive as anything that has gone before it, of that you have my word.

Thus Moon’s personal experiences are the lifeblood of this magnificent read, which is as much a honed debrief of The Norns as it is an enthralling, nay impassioned understanding of them, which through her words, veritably come to life before our very eyes within these most wondrous pages.

All that said, and in her very own words, Moon wishes to say this about all her books with regard deities: Take what you will and leave the rest. [But] take a breath with me, and perhaps begin to feel the threads of time dance across your face and even your heart. Feel how you are already connected to the great mystery of what was, what is, and what is becoming. And maybe more.

About the Author: Irisanya Moon (she/they) is an author, witch, international teacher, poet, and Reclaiming initiate who has practiced magick for 20+ years. She has taught in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia, bringing her blend of grounded, graceful, and radically authentic facilitation to inspire transformation and liberation at the personal and collective levels.

She has written several books: Pagan Portals (Reclaiming Witchcraft - 2020, Aphrodite - 2020, Iris - 2021, Norns - 2023); Earth Spirit (Honoring the Wild - 2023, Gaia - 2023); and Practically Pagan: An Alternative Guide to Health & Well-being - 2020.

Plus, she has written essays, articles, poems, and blogs for Witches & Pagans, Pagan Dawn, Coreopsis Journal, Moon Books, Revelore Press, Llewellyn, Epona Muse Publishing, and more. In 2023, they self-published a book of poetry, wrecked: the insistence of grief.

Irisanya cultivates spaces of self-care/devotion, divine relationship (whatever that means to you), and community service as part of her heart magick and activism.

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