Ásatrú Utah and Northern Wisdom Kindred of Utah

Ásatrú Utah is sponsored by Northern Wisdom Kindred of Utah


The Northern Wisdom Kindred of Utah is dedicated to the practice of the living religion of Ásatrú


Here you will find What Ásatrú is and how it relates to the greater Pagan community. Who are the Ásatrúers, how the religion is practiced and how to get involved.

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Come in, sit down and explore to get started. Read about us, what we do our beliefs and rituals. You'll find the information that will help you to make a decision if we are someone you want to practice with we know that Ásatrú is not for everyone. And that the way we practice might not meet your needs but it just might. So I invite you to explore our website and to visit one of our rituals, you just might find what you're looking for may the gods be with you

Kelly
Senior Gothi Northern Wisdom Kindred of Utah

Site news

Charming of the Plow/Class/Board Meeting 8 March 2009 by Bernadene Whitten - Tuesday, 3 March 2009, 07:55 PM

Upcoming open rituals of Northern Wisdom Kindred of Utah Charming of the Plow, will be held at Gothi Roland's house, 1196 N 1100 W Farmington, UT 84025, on March 8, 2009.  We plan to start around 1:00 P.M. with a short board meeting, followed by a pot luck lunch around 1:30pm. After the lunch, we will have the Charming of the Plow ritual around 2:30pm, after ritual we will have dessert, tea and coffee around 3pmish. After dessert we will then have the Asatru class on rituals around 3:30pm ending at or around 6pm. **Remember to set your clocks ahead 1 hour on Saturday Evening 7 March.** We encourage all those interested in our board meetings to attend.  Everyone is welcome to join us in celebrating the coming of Spring. Blessings, Ursea.

Winter nights ritual by Kelly Richan - Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 08:58 AM

A small history lesson first: Winter nights marked the final end of harvest and the time when the animals that were not expected to make it through the winter were butchered and smoked or made into sausage. The festival is also called "Elf-Blessing", "Dis-Blessing", or "Frey-Blessing", which tells us that it was especially a time of honoring the ancestral spirits, the spirits of the land, the Vanir, and the powers of fruitfulness, wisdom, and death. It marks the turning of the year from summer to winter, the turning of our awareness from outside to inside. Among the Norse, the ritual was often led by the woman of a family - the ruler of the house and all within. One of the commonest harvest customs of the people was the hallowing and leaving of the "Last Sheaf" in the field, often for Odin and/or his host of the dead, though the specifics of the custom vary considerably over its wide range. The Wild Hunt begins to ride after Winter nights, and the roads and fields no longer belong to humans, but to ghosts and trolls. The Winter nights feast is also especially seen as a time to celebrate our kinship and friendship with both the living and our earlier forebears. It marks the beginning of the long dark wintertime at which memory becomes more important than foresight, at which old tales are told and great deeds are toasted as we ready ourselves for the spring to come. It is a time to think of accomplishments achieved and those which have yet to be made. Winter nights also marks the beginning of a time of indoor work, thought and craftsmanship. The ritual and feast celebrates the accessibility, veneration, awe, and respect of the dead. This was also a time for contemplation. To the ancient peoples death was never very far away, and it viewed as a natural and necessary part of life. To die was not as much of a surprise or tragedy it is in modern times and death was not viewed as something "scary" or "evil". Of higher importance to the people was to live & die with honor and thereby live on in the memory of the tribe and be honored at this great feast. Date: October 18, 2008 Time: gathering at5pm, lore lesson at 5:30pm, feast at 6pm, blot at 7pm. Where: 729 Adams Avenue, Ogden UT, 84404 What to bring: Food to share, food at this time of year was the end of the harvest fruits and vegetables, and meats. A camp chair, please plan on bringing your own chair, or a blanket to sit on. Blankets, this will be held outside which may be quite cold. Anyone competing in the banner logo, please bring your art work to be voted on. Bring an ancestral item to share with everyone, this is about ancestors and at this time of year is when we honor them. This ritual is open to everyone, everyone is invited to join. Blessings of the harvest, Kelly Richan Bernadene Whitten "Cattle die, kindred die, Every man is mortal, But I know one thing that never dies, The glory of the great dead" Havamál

Winter Finding Schedule-Tenative by Kelly Richan - Sunday, 14 September 2008, 10:38 AM

Winter Finding will be held at the Ren Faire site on the Tippets Family Farm. For those coming either North or South on I-15, take the 346 Exit, turn west/left, go through the lights and this will put you onto West Pioneer Road, heading straight, West, for a half mile. Watch for the signs, entrance to the Tippets Family Farm will be on the south, (left) side of the road. (We will attempt to put out some sort of sign for the Kindred.) Friday Since most people get off around 5pm, potluck will be at or around 6pm, since this will also be with the group that runs the Ren Faire. Kelly and I work until 8pm that night, do not let this stop you from starting the dinner. We will bring dessert since it will be so late. I will make up several batches of brownies. Saturday Breakfast pancakes, bacon, juice and coffee classes so far: Kelly-Lore lesson on Odin Ursea-shrine class and discussion on ancestors, since I was not able to do the shrine class at PPD I still have all the materials to make shrines and we can cut them out and decorate them. I will be bringing all the items to make the shrines. Kelly-Rune class there is no set time these classes will happen, as this is also a working weekend with gathering lodge poles, cleaning the site, and such. Lunch peanut butter/jam sandwiches, cookies, fresh fruit Business meeting for the Kindred, please attend as we need everyone's input, and vote, this will be before dinner, tentatively around 4pmish. This should only take an hour. Items for discussion, board members, Althing next year, schedule for the rest of the year, Yule, and more. Dinner:5pm corn chowder, green bean salad, jello salad, french bread, cobbler for dessert. Dinner will be the start of ritual. Ritual will be at 6pm We will have the cobbler before sumble. Sunday Breakfast Cowboy Breakfast Casserole, Traditional-modern, pork (Spam), Juice, Coffee, English Muffins. Clean up site, help Roland pack and deliver things to his place, help each other with what needs to be done. Kelly leaves for work at 10:45am. This schedule is tenative, can be changed and is most likely to change. Let us know if you want to do a class, donate food, money, or your help in working at the site. You can reach the Gothar at: Kelly: gothar@asatruutah.org, Roland: roland@readytck.net, Ursea: lunaaileen@yahoo.com Blessings, Ursea. Hail the Kindred!

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