About The Austin/Bastrop Asatru Meetup Group

Asatru, as novices will quickly learn, is not without a large amount of historical, metaphysical and esoteric research. This research is vitally necessary in demonstrating several aspects of the deep entrenchment of the religious philosophy. It reasserts the scope and importance of the holidays we observe and may take for granted, not knowing their true origin and deep esoteric meanings. It educates or reintroduces historical facts to the growth of the societies of the Germanic peoples and brings to light the beauty and auspiciousness of our Germanic heritage. It serves as a tool for personal mental awareness and growth so that reaching into the timeless stream of ancestral superconscious thought can be easily attained and mental retained and accessed when developing the mind towards magical goals.

Asatru is hard work. It is mental conditioning. It is social conditioning. And it is a constant active mental function. Those who tend to be even minimally at peace with accepting ecclectic ways of religious training will have a hard time truly absorbing all the elements necessary to become a true Asatruar. But, once you have released yourself from what your scholarly research has proven to be false or, at best, minimally historical in reconception, your personal, spiritual and mental advancement will increase geometrically and the ease in which you solve problems and work your magical will will be astounding. "Nothing worthwhile is easy" is a very good encapsulating phrase to discovering the depths of Asatru.

Many aspects of Germanic heritage and, therefore, Germanic consciousness is present in our everyday world and becomes the quickest and easiest tools to use in taking the initial steps towards becoming Asatru. Except for Saturday, all of our days of the week are named after Germanic Gods and Goddesses: Sunday, Sunna's Day; Monday, Manni's Day; Tuesday, Tyr's Day; Wednesday, Odin's Day; Thursday, Thor's Day; Friday, Frigga's Day. We can also boast of several holidays being truly of Germanic and/or, at least, proto Indo-European: Christmas (which is the Yule Tide of 12 days and nights), Valentine's Day, Easter, Thanksgiving and Halloween. Traditional actions and mnemonic icons are quite common to Germanic folk as well: the Christmas Tree, the Jack o'Lantern, the heart and arrow, Santa Clause, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and its eggs. All these things alone can be researched and then understood and absorbed to get the mind functioning in a more Germanic way.

If you have read this far in this short diatribe attesting to the path, you may have what it takes to delve deeper into Asatru and learn what your true heritage is, thus unlocking the narrow capacity for willful magical exploration that has been suffering generationally over the past 100 years. All that is required next is to take the next step in your personal growth - get on the path to becoming Asatru. Be proud of your Germanic heritage. Remember your ancestry and the lineage you have all the way back to the Gods and Goddesses of the Northern European peoples.

Join us, won't you?

To learn more about Asatru and Germanic history, look for and/or request the following authors at your local bookstore: Edred Thorrson, Stephen Flowers, George Dumezil, Rasmus B. Anderson, H.R. Ellis Davidson, Nigel Pennick, Ross Shott, Swain Wodening, Leon Wild, Alice Karlsdottir. Search for Runa-Raven Press for many titles very specific to these areas of study.