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July for Loki is a concept/idea of taking the month of July to honor Loki originally presented by Galina Krasskova. While I do not support Krasskova and in fact actively avoid her writing as she is a well known bigot and folkish (see here for more on this), I do like the idea of July for Loki and the celebration of the helical rising of Sirius.

Why July?

Loki is a deity of fire and flame and I have always felt his presence closest at the height of summer when the sun blazes like fire in the sky and as someone who lives in the Norther Hemisphere, July and August are when I would consider summer to be at it's hottest. In these months I can feel Loki's excitement and energy, so what better time is there to honor him?

What is Lokabrenna?

Lokabrenna is the Scandinavian name for the star Sirius. It translates to something close to "Loki's Brand" or "Loki's Tourch." Lokebrenna can also be referring to the helical rising of Sirius and is often considered to be the marker of the height of summer's heat.

How to Celebrate

There is no set way to celebrate July for Loki or Lokabrenna. The idea is simply to honor him in someway during this time. Weather that is every day of the month of July or once a week. You can also opt to do just one thing at some point in July to honor and recognize Loki. These things don't need to be huge blots and can be a simple as lighting a tealight candle in his honor or sharing some of your morning coffee with Loki. July for Loki isn't about following some big dramatic tradition. It's only really been around since 2012. It's more about being mindful and taking the time to recognize, spend time with, and honor Loki! That being said, one way you can celebrate is by dedicating Lokabrenna to him.

When is Lokabrenna?

Lokabrenna is a celestial event and therefore doesn't have a set date. In addition the date and time will be different for everyone based on their location on Earth. It generally takes place during in late July/early August.

How to Calculate Your Personal Lokabrenna

I posted about this a few years ago here, but I wanted to share again. For anyone who's interested in finding their personal date for Lokabrenna, I used the info from this post from the Lokean reddit thread, but here are the important instructions: https://in-the-sky.org/ephemeris.php - set type to Any and Object to Sirius and make sure it has your area or a town/city within 50miles/80km of where you live, then find when it changes from "Not observable" -> a time, meaning its observable, e.g. for me it says "05:48 until 05:49", since the heliacal rising is when the star is finally visible after being hidden by the sun for a season, we want the first day it is visible. i set the date for somewhere in July and then selected 100 rows of days and scrolled until i found a time in the "observable" column as mentioned above. (via. r/lokean)

My silly sweet stupid ineffable idiots who advocated for free will more than their existence.

The only beings in creation who dared God to change the narrative.

My dads, your honor. They raised me, you see.

MY LORD?? there is no way I can follow you there!

I’m keeping Asa and Anthony. I mean, look at them. All sweet and OLD. With their little sweaters and matching lawn chairs. Subtle frangrance of Earl Grey and Bengay wafting after them wherever they go.

They’re CUTE.

And Slorch is a winner I don’t care what anyone says. Gimme that goth queen with his Muriel Deetz sidekick.

The Ice Cream Bentley has a permitted spot in my heart’s garage, next to Dean’s Baby.

Jesus, sorry you didn’t get enough screen time, kid. You seemed nice. I liked you WAY better than Mel “That Fucking Psycho” Gibson’s version.

That being said, I am not going to be trading in the OLD universe either. I like this universe. It’s cosy,dependable and talk about ROOMY! You can fit all kinds of stuff in here. The eldritch horrors learning how to be human, the biblical lore but FUNNY and the oh so juicy religious trauma! Mr. Brown with his disturbingly toned glutes alone is worth keeping it around. (Oh, that’s not canon? That’s just me being a weirdo? Huh.)

Plus Aziraphale is PEAK. He’s Aura. He’s SKIBIDIokay I don’t know cool kid lingo.

He’s MY GUY (shoves Castiel out of the way.)

I’m not giving up on MY GUY(avoids eye contact with Samwise Gamgee.)

You don’t Thanos MY GUYYYY (steps over drunken wet cat Spike) and expect me to be cool with it. I’m VERY not cool with it.

*insert Elmo surrounded by flames meme here*

Just like a vampire who had a cup of rice thrown at their feet, I am sat down and focused on picking up those little angel atoms. I got my Elmer’s glue and a mighty need to avoid reading anymore Breaking News these days. Have you SEEN what’s happening out in the wild? NOT GREAT, BOB.

I got the time, is what I’m saying.

So don’t be surprised when (when NOT if) you see a post of mine and it’s the NEW universe and the OLD universe together doing really weird things with their tongues.