A man should always sport a beard. It is his duty to nature and to the old gods. A long beard, bushy beard, goatee, substantial, straggly. Choose whatever style suits you. A beard is your power. Your life force and your verve. A beard is the mark of a warrior.

Create a wooden idol of a Norse or Saxon god or goddess of your choice - or a whole family of gods - and ask them for whatever it is you need, and leave an offering. From historical sources, it is pretty clear that our Northern European pagan ancestors would take offerings to a circle or ring of wooden idols that depicted the gods, and would litera…