No worries if it takes you a while to comment…you’re right, I know exactly how it goes :-)

As far as visualization vs. claircognizance, different people have different preferred channels of input (as my wife learned in cognitive science). Some people really go for visualization, others for audio, others for direct knowledge like yourself, still others for the sense of touch or smell. I use visualization almost exclusively — to the extent that I almost never hear anything in my “visions”. My wife, on the other hand, can “hear” voices quite well but can’t visualize to save her life. Most of the meditation products out there today focus on visualization, but that really does a disservice to those whose preferred channel is something different.

When I’m resonant with Njord, I don’t necessarily need the conversational style of contact because I can pretty much feel and understand what I’m needing to do already. A good example of this would be when I dedicated myself to his service on the tidal flats of the North Sea…a part of this dedication involved scratching my intentions into the tidal flats with the Runes. Shortly after I did this, I realized that although it was nice for me to take this extra formality, my devotion to Njord had been apparent to him for some time before then. A quality known to be possessed by the Vanir is that they have the gift of foresight…I think this is why my communication with Njord comes in the form of simply knowing, in a sort of claircognizant sort of way, rather than conversing outright. Like I said, harmonizing…and not easy to put to words :-)

It also makes perfect sense that, when the questions turn toward you or your life in specific, that the two gods would work as a team and deliver a similar message, if not in similar style :-)