Loki, of Fire, of Change, of Chaos
Disclaimer: This may or may not have been triggered by seeing a post going around. This is ALSO very much my own very unique personal perception of Loki, and how I tend to explain Loki and my relationship with Loki to others.
So I have always experienced Loki as fire, when he's present beyond the quirk of my lips as I try and decide whether I'm cussing him, or laughing at his prank, or a strange mix of both, it's always that sensastion of warmth you'd get from a blaze, contained in a hearth. It's a comforting feeling - I can feel it now. Apparently they're rather entertained I'm even writing this about them.
But this for me comes with a balance. Loki has always been about change, about nurturing new habits. Good habits. About being true to myself, and that has always come with the knowledge that just like that warm fire trapped in the hearth, safe and contained, sometimes you need to step away from the idea of fire being this warm safe thing.
Sometimes its loud. Sometimes its destructive. Sometimes it rages like a wildfire. If a hearth fire is akin to passionate love, and care and nurture, the forces of change when ignored - or left to run uncheck will destroy things. But for me this is oddly fine. Sometimes you need that wildfire, or that untamed raging volcano (though that for me is always more Sutrs area, and not a deity I work with), to run through, destroy things - no matter how painful it is at the time - because then in the ash and destruction, the blackened wastes of what you thought you needed only to realise what you don't need and need to destroy utterly to ensure that you don't go back to a thing that no longer serves you, you find new growth. Little green shoots popping up, thriving, fed by the ash of what was.
You discover new aspects of yourself you maybe didn't know. These reasons combine to why for me Loki is always intrinsically linked with Fire. Along with the fact that fire always has this mischievous energy to it, and just like Loki - and I say this with all affection for them - has that warning. Mishandled, ignored, or otherwise just on a whim should a stray spark leap and hit a dry bush. Fire can go from being this nurturing source of warmth to a force of destruction. Fire at it's core is change. Loki for me is change, a change to improve myself.
This has always been the case for me, and always how my personal relationship with Loki has been. They're the deity that had me draw triple death from one tarot deck. The one card that is all about change and rebirth.
