Devoured by Flame

Like everyone else on social media, of course I went out to see the Northern lights with my roommate last Thursday. I expected something very cool to happen because I knew the scale of the geomagnetic storm we were experiencing was rare and only happens once every 40-50 years or so. What I didn’t expect was the fact that the lights seem to have a story and an energy of their own.

In my last post, I wrote about my theory that the Northern lights are what the ancient peoples thought were the bifrost. The energy from the lights were likely enough to sense the Gods and to assist in Their manifestation here on Midgard because of it being a bridge from Asgard to here.

For further context, I don’t believe that the Gods are the northern lights or that the northern lights happen for any other reason outside of the fact that the sun projectile vomits enormous flares that create a reaction on the geomagnetic outer layer of our world. Especially recently, with the environmental changes of the day and how they are impacting our world is not exactly going to be a fun time for any of us at all in the near future. Nothing like that.

There are a lot of misconceptions that tend to be insinuated on people such as myself who frame this sort of thing as a way of interpreting the Gods and how They appear to humans. We think Thor actually is thunderstorms or that Zeus is lightning and that can be extremely reductive of not just the nature of the Gods but the Divine itself.

The Gods, Themselves, are energy. They are not from the sun but They are manifested by harnessing the resources They have around Them. They can more properly interact with Midgard during times like these where the energy from the solar flares can essentially make Midgard more accessible to Them and things can shift. Similar to how the time during a solar eclipse acts as an extremely liminal space, so do the Northern lights when they are around. Essentially, the lights have assisted in raising the vibrations of our world in order to make it a more suitable environment for the Divine to exist in. The environment and atmosphere itself is more susceptible to change and fluctuations similar to how the Divine move through our human perceptions.

That being said, my experience of the Northern lights seems to continue this theory. I was expecting magical lights in the sky, but I did not expect the feelings associated with Them.

When I experience the Gods up close and personal, emotions run rampant. I tend to cry or double over. I might not be upset, but the release of emotion is the best way to compensate for the overwhelming intake of energy. The same thing happened here. I couldn’t help but become overwhelmed by the enormity of the atmospheric energy shifts that happened.

The lights ebb and flow according to the density of both the solar flares and the way the geomagnetic outer shield of our world reacts to them. As they rise and fall, the colors shift and become more vibrant which creates a sort of glittering. Where my roommate and I are located in the east coast, we were not going to be seeing them as directly overhead as we would in the northern parts of the coast as we are in the Mid-Atlantic. However, we could witness the horizon as the green center of the lights tended to rise above the tree line and fall, throwing more colors on the spectrum around like a rainbow.

We could tell the lights got brighter from where we stood because we could see the shifts in the night sky with our naked eyes. With a camera, the show became even more visible and vibrant because of the way the camera picks up on more spectrums of color than human eyes do. At the same time, the energy fluctuated and changed and we watched it happen alongside the data in real time as well as feeling it. The shifts in energy happened which we could pick up on ourselves and I could use the Glendale app on my phone to watch the substorm as it happened.

In a way, it was a lot like waiting for the Gods to arrive. I couldn’t really see it – it was not obvious – but I knew They were there and I knew They were coming just by the way the energy shifted and changed and moved.

All and all, it was a spectacular experience. I have also picked up a new hobby and fully intend on going again next time I hear the geomagnetic storm should approach these high levels – I have been following along since May so I have picked up a thing or two.

If you’ve experienced the northern lights and also had weird experiences associated with them, either comment, shoot me a DM on my Tumblr, or send an email. I always am looking for people into the same weird stuff I’m into.