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Random Heathen Ramblings: S6, EP08 - Shaping Our Luck · Random Heathen Ramblings

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Gosh, this this this week. 'S podcast episode is going to
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be kind of it's deep, deep like a well, if you will.
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And this would actually. Probably be a good.
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You know. It's probably be a good.
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Podcast to, you know, open up to other other things, other topics
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other. Bits about what?
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I'm going to be talking about today.
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So we're talking today about luck and what that means from a
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heathen's worldview or a heathen.
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Perspective. But it's it's such a, a deep
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subject or a deep topic. You know, you, you really can't.
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You can't. Thoroughly capture all of what?
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We're talking about. With.
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Luck in just one podcast or even just one conversation, I think,
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you know, you could get a bunch of heathens together in a room
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and, and, and talking about this and and.
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Revisit the topic. Again and again, and probably
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not cover all of the same things when you're talking about it.
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And why is? That it's It's because the the
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the. The thing about luck from a
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heathen perspective? Is.
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That, you know, there's really not just one word or one.
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Way to describe it. It's.
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There's, it's nuanced and it's multifaceted and there's so much
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that that kind of covers what I mean and what is meant by the
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term luck. So if you want to try and, and
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quantify it or, or, you know, say anything about it to, to, to
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somebody who doesn't know what we're talking about, you almost
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got to go all right. Well, where do I start?
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You know. Where do we start with this?
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And I don't know, I don't know why it came into my brain or
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into my heart to, you know, want to talk.
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About luck this week, but it. Did and as always, you know,
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I'm, I'm anxious and kind of curious.
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To hear what people's. Thoughts or ideas on it?
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It's always interesting to hear different, you know, different
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perspectives and how much of what we know ties into what we
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feel. You know when I say what we know
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what I mean by. That is, you know.
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Scholarly sources, academic sources, things about this type
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of concept, of this type of thing that have been studied.
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By. You know academics and those in
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the. Scholarly fields.
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So you know if if that's your angle, if that's where.
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You like to go. When it comes to.
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Research and you really like to have, you know, historical
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historically rooted. Things then I would.
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Suggest that you start. Probably with or definitely.
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If not starting that, you would definitely include the culture
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of the tootens. By by Vilhelm.
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Groenbeck link for that will be in the description and show
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notes Paul Bauschitz. The well in the tree is
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definitely also. Another good source because
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because you know these authors these.
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These folks, these men have have taken time to really explore the
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complexities of Germanic ethics, morals, world views of of pre
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Christian. Peoples of the pre Christian.
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Germanic peoples, so, so much of their information that they've
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written in these. Books is is is is well
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researched so I would I would definitely suggest that.
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If you're if you're wanting to explore, really get into the
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meat and potatoes of things that can't.
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Really be covered in depth. Or greatly on a podcast over an
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hour. Or so that.
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You invest the time to learn more about it in your own time.
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So there's a couple of sources that you can start with and
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then, you know, look up other things and, and find other
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things. I can't, you know, speak for
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everything out there, but I mean, my, my kind of view on
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things are that, you know, whatever you research.
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Whatever you read, whatever you. Learn about it's going to mean
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to be knowledge that you can. Add to your.
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Repertoire or you know, things that you are going to learn
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about that can either be useful or things that you're going to
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learn about that are going, wow, this is absolutely nothing that
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that. Serves a purpose.
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For me or it's it's. Way out in left.
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Field and I'll steer away from that, but.
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At the very least, it's. Still something that you're
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learning and that's, you know. That's that's that's part of.
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Learning it's you know you're not always going to.
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Get. Or end up with the the gems are
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the goods sometimes. You got to dig through.
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The dirt and and siphon through the siphon through the garbage
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before you find the gems you know but so any who you know
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breaking down. Luck I I feel that.
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We know enough about this concept most you know pre
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Christian Germanic. People that were still.
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Pagan that we're still heathen, that luck was was something that
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again, was complex, that encompassed a lot of different
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things in different ways, but that it was very strongly tied
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to ancestry and also what the family had down through their
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ancestral line that was passed to them through the primal layer
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or the laying down from previous generations.
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Of what we will refer. To and what we know of as.
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Orle or orlog so orle. Is this the old Saxon word?
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And and you see it in Old English too, but it's ORLAE and
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then G at the end, but. The G is is is.
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Pronounced more like AY in those ways.
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So orle is that is that primal? Layer of of of the.
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Family's everything. You know every all.
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The the deeds, all the the. The characteristics, everything
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of spirit, I think. Would probably be a good.
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If you want to, you know, if you're having a hard time
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finding a similarity in in Germanic terms, you know that.
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The orlay is is that. Everything that was passed down
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from previous generations that we inherit and luck is found in
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that. And luck is is passed down to us
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through that, through those primal layers.
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Luck is not something that is inherently good or bad.
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It is all of it. It can be good sometimes it can
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be bad, sometimes there are things that can be done.
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I believe that are. Ways to strengthen luck.
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To build up the luck. And there are also things that
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can be done to weaken it or diminish it and.
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So. In addition to that, there is
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different layers or levels of luck, you know like.
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The luck of. The luck of a king, let's say at
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a time, would not be measured up against to the same as.
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The luck. Of the thralls, you know,
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because they're they're again what?
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Was was passed? To the King and and through his
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line is much different than that one which was passed down to
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the, you know, to the. To the other societal.
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Or economic classes of people you know.
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And I think even in now and today we we can agree.
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That that. Not everyone comes into this
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world with the same luck, you know, with the same success,
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with the same degree of accomplishments, you know,
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different, different. Levels or or degrees of luck?
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Come down through depending on where you've come from.
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And it's also not one of those things that is the end all.
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Be all to a. To A to a person's life, you
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know. Just because.
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One person might have been, you know, coming from a family or
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coming from a line that. That whose luck is lesser.
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Or or weaker perhaps, than those of another is not destined to be
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weak forever. There are things that a person
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can do, and there are ways that people can conduct themselves to
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to strengthen the luck and to. Improve it for the future.
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You know, generations for their descendants, you know, so it's
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it's kind of like a a hand you're dealt, but it's not a
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hand that you have to be stuck playing.
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You can change the cards out. You can be re dealt.
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Not all of the things, I mean some of the things you are
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obviously stuck with. It's it's, you know,
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characteristics and, and and whatnot, but your, your own
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behavior, your own ways, your own luck is, is something that
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you grow with and and. It grows with you and.
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The things that we do or don't do impact the strength of our
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individual luck. So as we travel through.
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Life and as the things that we do are, are being conducted, you
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know, with our day-to-day lives, our decisions.
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Our choices. You know, these are all things
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that are ultimately being added to our.
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To that, to that, to that orlay and.
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It becomes another layer that are again, our descendants and
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future generations who we're connected with and tied through
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receive, you know, and it's interesting that, you know, we,
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we, we think of this interaction, we think of this.
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Behavior as as. As things that we're doing as,
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as tying our, you know, tying our.
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Our. Threads together inner
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interweaving our relationships and that's that's a lot of times
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how it it plays out and it's it's no surprise to me to.
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To to to see that. You know these these terms,
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these words get used to describe much other many other things in
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in Germanic Pagan beliefs. You know you have.
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The web. The Web of Weird.
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Individual weird that individuals have and then you
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have. This this larger tapestry.
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Of that is. All of us.
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Weaving individual our individual threads and in in
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becoming intertwined and interconnected.
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You know, So what 1 what? One person's actions.
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Do for that. One thing in that one place that
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one moment in time have a lasting impact.
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Or or. Will have an impact later on
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down the line. May take a little while, may not
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happen right away. But it will have.
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An impact and it can. So that's why it's so important
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for SSD. Then when we think about the
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things that we're doing, is, is is not for.
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The idea of or the. Sense of some kind of eternal
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reward after death, but more. So that we have lived a good.
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Life we have done good and honorable things, our luck is
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strong and that once our once once our time once our.
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Physical body is has expired. And once once that time and
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weird has been reached. Because it's it's there for
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everybody. Every individual.
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Every man, woman, child. Everybody has had.
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That moment in time, woven into their weird.
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To die for their physical bodies to die.
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But that luck. Doesn't die with us that that
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luck can be passed down, can go to our descendants and and or to
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those again who have become interwoven into.
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Our our tapestry. And then have that connection
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that way. So the the this this this this.
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Luck, you know, we want it to be strong, our individual.
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Luck if you look at. Some of the of the like more the
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Norse side of things or Scandinavian heathenry.
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Norse heathenry you'll hear terms called like Haminga.
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The the term Haminga is a is a. Word for luck.
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Or as a word that means. The luck of a.
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Person that is a form of the person's.
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Self it is. It is part of the self, part of
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the soul. You know, a piece of a person's
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soul. That sort of is a.
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Again, it goes with them and it also can be loaned out or or
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borrowed. You know, if, if, if a person
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wants to give someone their luck or dole it out, you know we we
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see sometimes like a king will will often times wish their
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luck. To to go with this.
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Person that or another and it. Was it was a big deal?
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Because the King's luck was so strong and you know, wow, you
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know, if, if, if the King's going to do this.
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And then I. Will surely be victorious.
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Or, you know, accomplish these great things.
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So this this Haminga? This this this.
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Part of the soul complex of of of heathens.
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Is directly tied to. To luck, you know, it's not a
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happenstance, it's not a by chance, it's not a, you know,
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roll the dice, maybe I'll get lucky thing.
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It's it's it's, it's very much different than than what a
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modern. View of the.
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Word might be a modern English take on the word might be
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because that's what most people think of when they think of luck
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in in in a modern English application, the word in modern
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English you know to be lucky is, you know, fortunate you know to
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have fortune on your. Side to be, you know.
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Chance, you know, fate is is is on your side when you have good
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luck. But it's it's, it's much
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different than that. For, for, for.
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Heathens, you know, luck is something that is inherited and
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it's again, it's not inherently good.
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It can be. Good as a good.
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You know, strong, powerful, mighty.
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It can also be bad. It can, you know the, the, the,
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the. The luck that is passed.
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Down to us is is again, not always always.
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Good or all good, It's. There's bad things, there's I'll
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things, and then again, there's things that can be done in and
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throughout the person's existence.
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Just like doing things that are honorable and can can strengthen
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one's luck, there are things that can be done If if done
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I'll, you know, if I'll is being done.
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If evil works are being performed, then it diminishes.
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That luck or it? Weakens it and then that
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person's, you know, their. Luck is is is weak.
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And bad things can befall them because you know you have.
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This other aspect of luck, if you will, of.
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Through a person's. Filia.
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You know they're their follower. That sort of protects.
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Them and goes before them and make sure that things are OK and
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to have strong luck you know or and or to have strong humming
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you your your humming you is strong you're.
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Protected. You're you're guarded.
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It's almost like nothing bad can happen to you.
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Whereas if it's been diminished and those aspects have been
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neglected or offended or, you know, attacked even, you might
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see, you know, cases where you know this person whose.
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Whose luck is is weak. Just can't catch a break.
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You know. They've they, they, they.
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Can't ever get a leg up. It's something's always going
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wrong there, you know, Car is always broken down, something's
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always busted in their house. They're always sick.
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You know, losing their jobs left and right.
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Can't keep a job? I don't know, like just.
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You know nobody likes them. Nobody can stand them no matter
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what they do. You know they they can't
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maintain a healthy relationship with anybody.
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They're isolated. They're alone.
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It could be that that. Person's.
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Luck is is was weak. And they haven't done anything.
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To correct. It they haven't done anything to
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engage with. The process of.
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Rebuilding that and repairing that.
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So yeah, it's, it's, it's it's, you know, to, to really get
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into. The complexities of luck you.
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You almost have to embrace the idea that you're going to need
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to learn about the the the concepts of weird and orlay and.
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The. Soul the complex nature of a
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heathen soul you know the the the main.
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Which I talked what I didn't talk about yet.
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But the the main MEGIN. Is like your your your spiritual
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power. Which can also include physical.
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Power but. It's it's strength, it's power,
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it's, you know. That that is a particularly.
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That is an Old English terms. So some of these things you know
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that you know, you get into pronunciations and words, you
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know you're going to find them more in in some sources rather
24:11
than others. There are there are some
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similarities to the words, even though the words may not sound
24:21
the same what they are, you know, like for example, I think
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you know in in Old English and or an old Saxon like Saxon
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heathen ring, you know. There's the Shapers.
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Which in the Norse is the Norns or the Nornier, you know what I
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mean? So different names, but
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essentially, you know, meaning the same thing.
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So, you know, you might find, you know, terms as you go
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through. Like for example, I was he
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might, he might see this or he might.
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Hear this later but. This one guy from the.
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Altido old. Saxon Heathenry group.
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You know he doesn't like the term luck.
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He'd he'd much rather. Refer to the.
25:19
Terms that he's familiar with in in Saxon heathenry, that being
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things like mean and and and orlay.
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Because they are. It refers to more of the.
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The things that were laid down, you know, again, those primal
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layers, the things that were laid down main, of course, is
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its is its own thing, but the the orlay being that that that
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layer, that primal. Layer.
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That was. That was.
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Laid down by the shapers or the NOR near if you want to.
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Use that, the Norse equivalent. You know, there's this, there's
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this in a sense of belief of, of things being faded to be.
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So the luck portion of things like again, it's, it's not the
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same as like. He got lucky by.
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Chance, right? I don't.
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And I also don't believe that I don't.
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I don't. Particularly believe that.
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Luck is random, you know, whether fortunate or
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misfortunate. I think luck again has been laid
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down and then what happens? Is as a result of.
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The things that the Norns or shapers, whatever term you want
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to put to them, have have woven and have put down for those.
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For that person or those people. And then some of the things
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along the way are our decisions, are our choices to make will
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facilitate the outcomes. You know, we, we know we're not.
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We we are fated to to be born and we are.
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Fated to die and. And, and there's certain things
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in between that that that may be faded as well, but I feel like
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for the most. Part our our luck.
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Is our own. It we is something that we've
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inherited. And we play that.
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That hand that we're dealt. Or we we adjust.
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You know, we, we, we, we we, we we toss in a few cards and get
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some new ones by by our choices. That's how I see it.
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You know. Was I?
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Was I fated? To, you know, do a podcast in my
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mid and late 30s, going into my 40s, I.
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Don't know if it was faded. To me, I don't know if that's,
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you know, with the nor near. Or the OR the shapers.
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Wove into my thread, but I made a choice, you know, over.
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Six years ago to start the process.
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I wove my own. Thread to do that.
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And I've exercised, you know, and and worked to build up my,
28:19
my main, my, my, my might and in this way to.
28:23
To do this. Podcast and and and to to have
28:26
this thing out here consistently for this long there's not a lot
28:33
of folks that I know that are doing this still to this degree
28:37
that. Started it either before or
28:40
after I started. Doing it, you know, So is that
28:43
it? Is that a?
28:44
Is that an example? Or is that a testament of my
28:47
main, my might, my my, my luck being strong?
28:51
To to carry this out. And and all that maybe I don't
28:55
know. But it is what it's.
28:57
It's what I've. Chosen to do when it's in.
28:58
It's what I've woven into my. Weird to carry out.
29:08
You know. Where I where I was?
29:12
At one point in my life to where I am now.
29:14
Were due to choices. That I made, you know, was it
29:17
all woven I. Don't think it was so.
29:20
Tightly woven into my weird. I think I wove that.
29:24
I think I wove. Those those threads.
29:26
Into my, into my. Weird.
29:28
I think the basic line from from point A to point B.
29:31
Birth to death or whatever. Was already there and then I'm
29:35
going along the way and it's what are you going to do now?
29:37
You know, are you going to, are you going to weave over here,
29:41
you know, weave over there? You know, what are you going to
29:44
do? And hopefully I like to, you
29:48
know, I like to to. See, you know and I do I see
29:50
along the way, you know, there were there were sometimes where.
29:52
The threads that I wove. Were were not good.
29:56
It's part of the learning process.
29:59
I I. I take a very conscious approach
30:02
now to really try hard to to weave strong threads.
30:11
I want my luck to be strong because I want that luck to be
30:14
transferred to my kin, my family, my descendants when I'm
30:19
not here anymore. Even though I may not have any
30:21
birth children or, you know, have sired any, any children, I
30:27
do have plenty of young people who have been woven into the
30:32
tapestry of my weird as well. And, you know, we've, we've
30:36
become intertwined that I want them.
30:41
To, to, to have. Good and strong luck.
30:44
You know when I wish them well, when I when I send them forth to
30:50
do things, I want my luck to go with them so that they are.
30:53
Successful so that they have. Good luck with them.
30:58
To to achieve. What they want to achieve and
31:03
whether or not they. See it that way?
31:05
That's how I see it and that's that's.
31:08
Why I do? What I do, and that's why I aim
31:10
to do the way I do it, it's, it's kind of, it's woven into
31:14
my. Threads it's it's.
31:15
Part of my ancestral beliefs, however far back down the line
31:22
you want to get. That's where it's been so.
31:29
And that and that goes back to one of the key things about luck
31:36
is that according to Grown Beck, you know.
31:38
Luck is the life. Of the clan, I'm telling you, if
31:42
you if you want to really just get into the.
31:46
To the real deep good. Stuff about it, you know,
31:49
Culture of the Tootens volumes one and two, I think, I think.
31:56
You really start getting he's. Really starts getting into it.
31:58
Groenbeck does around, you know, chapter 5, maybe a little bit
32:04
before. But there's a lot.
32:08
In here, you know. That that, that that covers
32:13
luck. And it's complex nuances.
32:17
You know, there's going to be a few other things to like how
32:24
luck is manifested, items that can carry strong luck or be
32:32
considered lucky. You know, a certain familial
32:37
heirlooms and things again, luck being the life of the clan, the
32:41
life of the family it is it is heavily tied in with the family
32:49
line and you know that's. Such a that's such a.
32:55
It's such a beautiful thing. That that that exists.
32:58
In Heathenry, but that unfortunately.
33:03
Over the. Years and over time, it's it's
33:05
it's it's something that's kind of gotten forgotten, I don't
33:07
want to say. Lost but maybe misplaced and
33:10
hopefully. He's being, you know,
33:12
resurrected and and and brought back.
33:14
To brought back to light because it is it, it is, it is.
33:20
So deeply woven into the fabric of the family's.
33:24
Weird luck. Is, I mean, you know, and it and
33:31
it was something that was lost when when when heathenry began,
33:34
began to be eradicated and then was dying out across across
33:41
Northern Europe. But yeah, there's the, you know.
33:50
I think that's. Why?
33:51
You know, Like if you look in my background, you know.
33:54
There's there's, there's always. Some things here that you'll see
33:57
kind of displayed in my backdrop, you know, there
34:00
there's various things that. To anybody else, just be like,
34:06
well, that. Looks cool, you know, or that's
34:07
neat, you know, but. They have.
34:09
They have. Power to them to you know, there
34:12
there's. Been they're there, they have.
34:17
Their own main, their own spiritual power.
34:20
Their own. Source of power.
34:25
That have been used in rituals and ceremonies and and and
34:28
things to to enhance the luck of not just the individual.
34:35
But of the people that were gathered together.
34:37
In that collective, you know. To experience that luck
34:44
together. I'm going to believe.
34:47
It's also. One of the main, you know, let's
34:52
say reasons why, but but. It's also one of the.
34:54
Big things. Why?
34:55
Why? Ancestral?
34:57
Ancestral Veneration. Ancestral.
34:59
Worship is so key. You know to to Heathen Reese
35:04
because there was a time that you know the ancestors.
35:12
Were revered and. Then seen as powerful guardians
35:17
of the home of the family's line of the individuals of the
35:21
family. That's why when a lot of people
35:24
if. If you ever have talked.
35:26
To me through a, you know, social media message or an
35:30
e-mail, and I've asked me about what you can do.
35:36
For like luck. With an endeavor or you want a
35:43
good outcome for something you know a.
35:47
Lot of people will ask. Well, you know, what can I
35:49
sacrifice? Who can I?
35:50
Sacrifice to what? What can I do?
35:53
You know, and they think of the gods and you know, a lot of
35:58
times my answer. Is is.
36:00
What about your ancestors? You know what have you.
36:03
How have you gifted to? Them.
36:07
How have you acknowledged them? Because they're the ones that
36:12
are your guardians. They're the ones that that can
36:14
impart their. Their luck.
36:15
Their. Their.
36:16
Their. Main, you know.
36:18
Through orlay to you. It's there for you to receive
36:24
like it's you. Inherited it.
36:25
It's your inheritance. It's your birthright.
36:30
And so if we're not? Taking care to.
36:35
Revere those ancestors and to to make them an important.
36:38
Part of our practices, our daily.
36:41
Practices, our observations, our acknowledgments.
36:44
You know, if we're not doing that, then.
36:48
Is that is that a slight? To them.
36:50
And is that in a way weakening our luck, diminishing our luck,
36:56
you know, not giving them the proper attention?
37:03
That they deserve as our guardians, as our protectors.
37:10
You know, and it's not all, I mean look like it's not all
37:12
ancestors. Some ancestors just don't.
37:15
Deserve. That they don't, they don't,
37:16
they don't have a place, you know, there's not a place for
37:23
them, but the ones that you do, the ones that are there and
37:27
don't forget, you know, ancestors can be more than just
37:29
your blood kin. I you know, I have had a number
37:36
of. People that have passed away.
37:41
You know that have that have. Shed their their their physical.
37:44
Form. That were a key part.
37:49
Of my upbringing that weren't necessarily related to me by
37:52
blood, you know? But because our fabrics of of
37:58
weird. Were interwoven, you know, they
38:01
were like kin and we were like kin.
38:03
So, so much of the way the family dynamic is nowadays, you
38:07
know, with families being. Displaced for for.
38:10
Various reasons, whether it's, you know, relationships
38:15
dissolving deaths, you know, whatever other people that come
38:23
in and fill those gaps, fill in those roles to be that nurturer.
38:28
That that guy, that. That for the for those young
38:30
people, you know, they become again, we it's becoming
38:33
interwoven, you know, into, into each other's weird.
38:40
So in time and as time goes on, whether or not they were.
38:45
Related at first they. Become such because they've been
38:48
grafted into that tree by by by tying those threads together.
38:56
So that's my answer all the time is is you know, OK, don't you
38:59
know it's fine. You know, you want to think of
39:01
the gods and then and what gifts you can give to the gods.
39:03
That's important. Yes, it is.
39:05
But what are you doing for your ancestors?
39:07
And and and because they're ready, they're there.
39:09
They they want. To they're like.
39:10
I want to be a part of this. I want to help, you know?
39:13
And they can and they do. But I'm just trying to think of
39:26
anything else that might ring a bell for me.
39:29
Like I said, this is this is going to be something that I'd
39:31
probably come back to over the next.
39:35
I mean, I don't know, maybe over the next.
39:37
Few episodes at. Least because, again, like we.
39:40
Could we could dedicate episodes about luck about weird about
39:45
orlay about? Mean about the soul, you know,
39:50
I, I mean, I've done, I've done videos and it's been years, you
39:52
know, since I've done, you know, the soul complex and, and, and
39:55
stuff and I think I've even done some.
39:56
Podcasts about it I. Don't know you might have to do
39:58
some some digging to find it and if I can find anything I will
40:01
but some of that. Stuff you know is.
40:03
Is dated for me and I want to revisit it again, but yeah,
40:11
this. Is this is this?
40:12
Is like its own little mini series I feel.
40:15
Because it is such a, it is such a deep subject.
40:20
You know, and I, I don't want to do it justice.
40:25
It's you know, it's not everything.
40:28
You know, you can't, you can't summarize this into into just
40:31
one one podcast, I feel. I think it would.
40:34
Be a great thing to just go into some more, some more topics and
40:38
and and fill in some more. Gaps with it.
40:46
So yeah, I think that'll. Be that'll be it for today it
40:49
it's. Kind of a a lighter episode, so
40:52
something to ease yourself into for maybe the next few ones.
40:57
So, and I'm also interested to again, you know what what you
41:01
all think and if and if this is a.
41:03
Topic that that really piques. Your interest and you'd.
41:05
Like to, to, to talk. With me going forward about
41:08
this, I invite you. Yeah, definitely.
41:11
Please e-mail me, let me know. What particularly about these
41:17
topics or a topic that you'd like to talk?
41:19
With me about on an episode, my e-mail address is
41:22
midgardmusingstn@gmail.com and just let me know what it is that
41:27
you want to want to ramble about.
41:30
Like I said, over the next few weeks, it'll probably be stuff
41:32
pertaining to this. So definitely Heathenry
41:39
advanced, let's say intermediate to advanced stuff come to the.
41:44
Table with sources if you. Got them when it comes to stuff
41:48
like this. And yeah, let's see what we can
41:52
find out more about. The complexities of luck.
41:55
Shaping it again. I'm I'm, I'm I'm firmly in the.
41:59
Belief that we do shape our luck.
42:02
Things that we are given, things that we inherit, is a kind of a
42:06
launching off point. It's a starting point, but just
42:10
because it's what we've been dealt doesn't mean that's what.
42:12
We're stuck with. If we want to change it, we can
42:16
change it. So that'll do it for this
42:21
week's. Episode I hope you all enjoyed
42:23
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42:24
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43:24
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