This started with a prank. It turned into a profound insight. Here is the story.

I usually do a mild prank every year on April 1st, in which I say or post something that is not true and see if anyone believes me. When I worked in a call center, one year on April 1st I told everyone there was a UFO in the parking lot.

This year, 2025, I posted this on my social media, and a more perfume related version on the perfume board, where I am hosting the Project Perfume Tray thread:

"I’m just going to go with apple this month. Because I’m not ready for winter to be over, Winter Candy Apple.

Winter Candy Apple BBW

Golden Delicious Demeter

Plus, Winter Candy Apple has a cinnamon note, which Loki loves, so it’s the scent of chaos. Which is related but not the same thing as the scent of entropy, which I would really like to win some of. We’ll all know tomorrow who won the L’Entropiste perfume giveaway because… you know what day it is today?

Do you all believe I’m going to wear one fragrance for an entire month?

APRIL FOOLS!

That’s actually my selection for April 1^st. After that I’ll switch to my April tray."

On the perfume board, this was followed by another post in which I posted my perfume tray, and another one in which I talked about seasonality, and how spring does not arrive all at once here. but my mom described spring in the far north as a single event that announced itself with loud booming cracks, and people gathered to watch the breaking of the ice on the river. I also mentioned that it was fall in the southern hemisphere, and asked people if they were relating to the seasons, and if so, were they following them or filling in what was missing, as I did. I’ll write more about my perfume selections and other Monster Powers and health related stories in my April Monster Powers post.)

April 1^st this year is also a Tuesday, and on Tuesday I usually honor Tyr and Zisa. But after I put on my apple and cinnamon selections for Loki, when I was thinking of also putting on my regular Tuesday fragrance, which is Icefall, Tyr and Zisa indicated to me that they wanted me to skip my Tuesday routine this week because “this is Loki’s real holiday.”

That was an interesting observation, and it applies to many people in modern Asatru, so I thought it belonged on my blog here. What they meant is that although I’m in the habit of putting on my Loki fragrance, Silver Wordsmith, on Saturday, Saturday is not really Loki’s Day. Historically Saturday is Bath Day, the day of ritual cleansing.

Many modern heathens and pagans devote Saturday to Loki, but for me Saturday is a free day when I can honor any goddess or god, but I happen to want a day of the week for Loki (and sometimes Hel) so that’s when I honor Loki.

Many modern pagans and heathens also devote the heliacal rising of Sirius to Loki. I sometimes observe that day too.

Both Saturday for Loki and rising of Sirius for Loki came to me through the internet, and I’ve never participated in any rituals offline that were organized by someone other than me for those holidays. April 1^st for Loki is one of the first annual holidays organized by a large organization and held as a public ritual that I participated in as a new young heathen in the early 90s. It was held by the old Ring of Troth and the kindred Freya’s Folk as part of the annual multi-day Ostara campout in northern California. Women rose at dawn, combed out our hair and tossed the combings into the bonfire. The rest of the day was devoted to jokes and pranks.

For me, thus, and for the gods communicating with me, that is Loki’s “real” holiday. The holiday of my people.

My people, as a heathen people, are the people in traditions influenced by the old Ring of Troth. That includes the modern The Troth but also other groups. And very specifically my people, as a heathen people, are the people who personally participated in the Ostara and Ravenwood festivals at which I used to camp out every year when I lived in northern California. I barely know any of them anymore, but Tom was one of them. Our mutual friend Prudence, who connected us after Tom moved to Nevada, was the leader of Freya’s Folk and organized some of the festivals. Almost everyone I knew from those days is either passed on or we just lost contact when I moved to Nevada. My people. I have not thought about it like that before.

But my people are also everyone influenced by those festivals and those times. Which is most of modern Asatru in the USA. And everyone influenced by me personally, either through my kindred activities or through my writing. People who read my book are my people. People who read this blog are my people.

So, to my people: happy Loki’s Day. Enjoy the holiday of our people.