Writing from the viewpoint of not doing vision quests since before I converted to Asatru but having had a couple of life changing dreams from the Aesir -
> They turned a weary eye towards me. "But you all just bicker, while the house falls down around your ears."
This from Odin who bragged to Thor that he spends years on Midgard stirring up wars. That makes it clearly not about the bickering. *Maybe* about the "just" part. More likely about the house part. Possibly advice that action more pronounced than bickering is now called for.
If it's about the house, how global or local is it?
The Aesir aren't bound to an economy of any sort so its not that.
The Aesir have a longer time span than humans so century long trends in world religion will only bother them if the events are going to lead to a decline in heathen population. No sign of that unless Sharia starts getting enforced in Europe. Oh right, events about that do indeed appear in the news. I don't have a problem standing side by side with agnostics and Christians in a face off with an expanding fundie movement, but there's a lot of friction in the world to make it about something other than a secular culture with religious freedom, MacDonalds, Pepsi and Nike infiltrating a fundimentalist culture with no religious freedom. One side using commerce and the Internet and the other side converting moderates using the new services.
> I wish I could remember what it was they gave me, but I don't think it was explicit in the dream either.
Because of the above I think it's an internal gift. So I'll try telling a story in the hopes you find a parallel. Of the two most important contacts with the Aesir I've had I tell of one, keep the other private. The one I tell is how or why I ended up Asatru.
In my real life at the time I was going through a large emotional turmoil. I was crushed and melancholy but not using the power of that melancholy to creative purpose. One night I had a dream that Odin appeared to me. Since I was not Asatru at the time I was amazed that I had instant recognition of Odin without any doubt whatsoever. I was being attacked by a spirit that might be called a troll, I took it symbolic of my emotional problems or as a creation of several Christian groups then praying for my conversion that had created a being in their interference. Gungnir was pointed at the troll in a way that felt like I was allowed to touch it. Symbolically this was inspiration as is typical from Odin and in this case the inspiration was as simple as becoming convinced that I could now handle my own emotional problems. My life took an upturn at that point so it's clear that inspiration worked. Then Odin gave me a wordless look that I understood with absolutely clarity meant "follow". No clue if I should follow him, his clan, or what. Just follow. Odin then disintegrated and after he did I woke up. It took me a year of considering before I decided that I would follow his clan as best I could and here I've been ever since.
> They turned a weary eye towards me. "But you all just bicker, while the house falls down around your ears."
This from Odin who bragged to Thor that he spends years on Midgard stirring up wars. That makes it clearly not about the bickering. *Maybe* about the "just" part. More likely about the house part. Possibly advice that action more pronounced than bickering is now called for.
If it's about the house, how global or local is it?
The Aesir aren't bound to an economy of any sort so its not that.
The Aesir have a longer time span than humans so century long trends in world religion will only bother them if the events are going to lead to a decline in heathen population. No sign of that unless Sharia starts getting enforced in Europe. Oh right, events about that do indeed appear in the news. I don't have a problem standing side by side with agnostics and Christians in a face off with an expanding fundie movement, but there's a lot of friction in the world to make it about something other than a secular culture with religious freedom, MacDonalds, Pepsi and Nike infiltrating a fundimentalist culture with no religious freedom. One side using commerce and the Internet and the other side converting moderates using the new services.
> I wish I could remember what it was they gave me, but I don't think it was explicit in the dream either.
Because of the above I think it's an internal gift. So I'll try telling a story in the hopes you find a parallel. Of the two most important contacts with the Aesir I've had I tell of one, keep the other private. The one I tell is how or why I ended up Asatru.
In my real life at the time I was going through a large emotional turmoil. I was crushed and melancholy but not using the power of that melancholy to creative purpose. One night I had a dream that Odin appeared to me. Since I was not Asatru at the time I was amazed that I had instant recognition of Odin without any doubt whatsoever. I was being attacked by a spirit that might be called a troll, I took it symbolic of my emotional problems or as a creation of several Christian groups then praying for my conversion that had created a being in their interference. Gungnir was pointed at the troll in a way that felt like I was allowed to touch it. Symbolically this was inspiration as is typical from Odin and in this case the inspiration was as simple as becoming convinced that I could now handle my own emotional problems. My life took an upturn at that point so it's clear that inspiration worked. Then Odin gave me a wordless look that I understood with absolutely clarity meant "follow". No clue if I should follow him, his clan, or what. Just follow. Odin then disintegrated and after he did I woke up. It took me a year of considering before I decided that I would follow his clan as best I could and here I've been ever since.
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