Hi
Easter is arriving fast now. 10 days of vacation. In my family it usually means outdoor activities, meeting family and friends and eat a lot of chocolate 🥰. An early spring has arrived and melted away most of the snow, so I hope there will some days resting against the wall and read something - maybe get to that Jack Racher book that has collected some dust on my shelf 😊. Do you have any plans for the easter?
Enough of that - today I am going to talk a bit about imaginary friends. As a kid I remember that I used to talk to myself all the time. Actually, I still do. When I hear or read about Aurora’s imaginary friends, it's a concept I really recognize as something familiar - but at the same time, I can't remember if I ever gave my talk-to-buddy a name. Or a shape. Did you?
We know Aurora had many imaginary friends. One of them is Alk1, an 11-year old boy that never ages. Another one is Igor Septimus, and that’s the one the story today is all about 😊
Aurora spoke about Igor Septimus as her spirit friend that came to her when she was a little child. A friend that had his own human shape or form, but that could take place within Aurora’s animal-pets. From what I understand from her interviews, Igor Septimus has taken many pet forms.2 3
Aurora did actually have a cat when she was a child. We have seen various photos from her childhood with a cat by her side, and in an interview she did with the radio channel NRK P2, she said: “I used to listen to my cat purr when I was little. It was my favourite sound of all.”4 She has also talked sometimes of a cat following her along the way to the schoolbus - and that it met her when she came home.
We're not sure if she already thought about Igor, her spirit friend within animals, when talking about her childhood cat. On the other hand, we suppose she was talking about him being inside the small animals and insects Aurora talked to when she was exploring the forest behind her house. Maybe a squirrel, a bug, a spider or one of the seagulls in her garden?
During her stay in Switzerland back in 2017, at one of those two festivals she performed there, one of her fans gave her an algae ball in a small bowl of glass filled with water. She learned that this was actually a living thing, and that it could live for 200 years. That’s how she found her childhood friend, Igor Septimus, within it - and she treated it as her pet. She even gave him a tiny castle in the bowl. She also learned that algea balls liked cold temperatures, so she would put him in the fridge sometimes to give him a sense of going to the spa.
She spoke a bit about this algae ball in an podcast-episode of “Bra damer” (good ladies” back in March 2018). During the talk, she suddenly started to breathe faster, and the lady she spoke with, Guri Solberg, asked if she had some kind of anxiety. Aurora then said that it for the first time dawned on her that Igor was now trapped inside the algae ball for 200 years, and that she would never see him again in his true spirit form. “I might have to kill it”, she said as a joke.
Later, in May-June 2019, Aurora was on a five weeks tour in Brazil, Mexico and the UK. Before she went, she forgot to place Igor Septimus in the fridge. Leaving him in her living room while she was away. Her apartment got too warm for the algae ball to thrive, so sadly it met its final demise then5. On the bright side, Igor Septimus is now free to visit Aurora in his spirit form, and who knows, maybe he’ll be reincarnated as a new pet of hers in the future 🥰.
By the way
She also spoke a bit about Igor Septimus here:
Final words
Yes - That was it for this one. I found it quite fun to dive into Aurora’s imaginary world. I am so grateful that there still exists so many sources of information available on the internet - And diving into those to try to figure out how Aurora grew up to become the artist we know today brings me real joy 🥰.
Have a day
Rune
SOURCES:
DT.no, Elvefestivalen, 08.07.2026, “AURORA om møll, fantasivenner og reisekatter“,
https://www.dt.no/elvefestivalen/kultur/kongsberg/aurora-om-moll-fantasivenner-og-reisekatter/f/5-57-395098
Bra Damer Podcast, March 2018, - In Norwegain:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/58zwuyvnkNRuKzFtYyd0lL?si=066ce62b901f4b90
AURORA - Sheroes Mixtape Memoir:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmXGMrYSm2g&list=PLtgoOJuVpwhs3be6S79IUgG4fnbWAH89Q&t=683s
NRK P2 “Spillerom”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLIUKSEhy3E&list=PLtgoOJuVpwhs3be6S79IUgG4fnbWAH89Q&t=426s
Dagbladet.no, 25.06.2019 , “Jeg er vanskelig å elske“,
https://www.dagbladet.no/magasinet/jeg-er-vanskelig-a-elske/71242856?fbclid=IwAR1yf1aKqplG9B_OsrJa0J_nlKyyW3M_-10saAWvK9aGo46VdQA4LvECKlo