Asatru Calendar

Runic Era Calender
Feast Days and Days of Observance
This Asatru Calendar has been prepared to aid members of the Asatru Faith properly schedule Feast Days and days of mandatory ritual observance. Some Feast Days may be observed on the nearest Saturday to the actual observance. However, the High Feast days of Ostara, Midyear, Winter Finding, and Yule must be observed on the listed dates because of their solar significance. NOTE: This is year 2012 CE

Snowmoon / January
Snowmoon 3,
Charming of the Plow: This is the date of an agricultural ritual performed in Northern Europe from ancient times. Grains and cakes were offered for the soil’s fertility, and the Sky Father and Earth Mother were invoked to that end. Meditate upon your dependence
Rud Mills of Australia, Sveinbjorn Beinteinsson and Thorsteinn Guthjonson of Iceland. On this day reflect on just what YOU can do to promote the growth of our ancestral religion and protect our sacred heritage and traditions.

Haymoon 9,
Day of Remembrance for Unn the Deep Minded: Unn was a powerful figure from the Laxdaela Saga who emigrated to Scotland to avoid the hostility of King Harald Finehair. She established dynasties in the Orkney and Faroe Islands by carefully marrying off her grand daughters. As a settler in Iceland she continued to exhibit all those traits which were her hallmark-strong will, a determination to control, dignity, and a noble character. In the last days of her life, she established a mighty line choosing one of her grandsons as her heir. She died during his wedding celebration, presumable accomplishing her goals and worked out her orlog here in Midgard. She received a typical Nordic ship burial, surrounded by her treasure and her reputation for great
While at first it may seem a daunting task it is my firm belief these ideals can be achieved in your life. I also believe that even the attempt to implement them, using the examples our Gods have laid out for us centuries ago, will foster in us an awakening and deeper commitment to those Gods. I am not promising that your faith will equal wealth or that it will be easy. Yes you will have to shed some ideals within you that may be remnants of the Abrahamic religion you were brought up in and in some cases the socio economic environment that formed your earliest ideals. But if we take them one step at a time, demonstrate how this principle can reinforce and support this virtue, it can be done and we can achieve the six fold goal in our lives and hopefully the lives around