Hello Fallon,
Well, I don't know where to start. I was raised and stayed a devout atheist until my later twenties when I started getting into magick. I would call myself asatru now for many reasons. The first reason would be that the runes spoke to me the very first time I saw the elder Futhark and I have been using them as a divinatory tool with great success for several years now. The second and most important reason is that I now have a personal relationship with the gods of the north. During my weekly rituals I have been visited by Freyr and Freyja, Thunar, and to a lesser extent Idhunn and Loki. Thor has even helped me out of a couple of dodgy situations that I've had this year.
As my studies proceed, I'm feeling quite at home with the whole Norse worldview. From the world tree Yggdrasill and the nine worlds to the concept of wyrd, it all rings true. I also feel at home in the way asatru is a way of doing instead of beliving. The nine noble virtues of courage, truth, honor, fidelity, discipline, hospitality, industiousness, self-reliance, and perseverance are things that I've always tryed to apply in my life and I've always found lacking in other belief systems. I could go on and on but I hope start having discusions here because all of these things can be talked about at length.

Hi Fallon,

That's very cool to be raised family-trad in this faith! I picked up the runes at 18 and then dropped them for about 6 years. I moved to NorCal and met some folks I liked who have a monthly rune class so I started attending and then later joined their Kindred, HammerOak Kindred.


Paula