Thanks Gorm, I've been meaning to read some more from Imbas, but school gets in the way...

Take your fist and extend it in front of you.  Move it straight down, then to the left, to the right and return to center.  While you are doing this some people use one or another of the name chants, I usually just take it as an opportunity to give a quick "hail and welcome", to let the gods know that I'm thinking of them, and back on duty if there is something they had that needed doing.

I figure that eloquence they can expect from me with a meadhorn in hand and a few hours of consciousness behind me.  Before my first coffee if I got through dressing, making coffee and a quick hammersign, I'll leave it at that.

[QUOTE=PaulaEdwina;996485]What's hammersign?

Paula[/QUOTE]

Hammersign is just basically taking your fist and making an upside down T.  Its a quick little blessing to Thor who is traditionally portrayed when sitting as holding his hammer reversed with the business end down and haft up, forming the upside down T.

Along with being described as the strong son of earth (hence the link to food), he is the protector of humanity (always nice to have on your side), and renowned for laughing in the face of adversity, so a good god to have firmly fixed in your mind while you are striving to make and drink, not spill and wear, your first morning coffee.   If you do end up wearing your coffee rather than drinking it, having put yourself in his frame of mind gives you a better chance of laughing at it and moving forward chuckling into a day that is probably going to be full of surprises, or getting all mad right at the start and dooming any chances of the day going well.

Take your fist and extend it in front of you.  Move it straight down, then to the left, to the right and return to center.  While you are doing this some people use one or another of the name chants, I usually just take it as an opportunity to give a quick "hail and welcome", to let the gods know that I'm thinking of them, and back on duty if there is something they had that needed doing.

I figure that eloquence they can expect from me with a meadhorn in hand and a few hours of consciousness behind me.  Before my first coffee if I got through dressing, making coffee and a quick hammersign, I'll leave it at that.

[QUOTE=PaulaEdwina;996485]What's hammersign?

Paula[/QUOTE]

Hammersign is just basically taking your fist and making an upside down T.  Its a quick little blessing to Thor who is traditionally portrayed when sitting as holding his hammer reversed with the business end down and haft up, forming the upside down T.

Along with being described as the strong son of earth (hence the link to food), he is the protector of humanity (always nice to have on your side), and renowned for laughing in the face of adversity, so a good god to have firmly fixed in your mind while you are striving to make and drink, not spill and wear, your first morning coffee.   If you do end up wearing your coffee rather than drinking it, having put yourself in his frame of mind gives you a better chance of laughing at it and moving forward chuckling into a day that is probably going to be full of surprises, or getting all mad right at the start and dooming any chances of the day going well.