Asatru Folk Assembly - October 31, 2026


Halloween #afa #asatru #ásatrú #asatrufolkassembly

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Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

142.11

Word count

299

Sentence count

4

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00:00:00.000 Halloween's cool. It's a lot of fun. I encourage people to go out and have a good time.
00:00:08.560 Our relationship, I would say, is that we believe that this time of year in particular,
00:00:14.620 the veil between the worlds of the living and those who've passed on is the thinnest,
00:00:19.420 and our ability to connect with our ancestors and our loved ones on the other side of the veil
00:00:26.760 is special this time of year we celebrate that in a couple of different ways uh just recently
00:00:35.880 at better nighter winter nights we celebrate uh desa bloat which is the bloat to the desir
00:00:42.420 desir are female ancestors that look on from beyond and uh care for their loved ones and 0.50
00:00:49.380 their family and look out for us so we celebrate the dead this time of year and we try to you know
00:01:02.320 it's always a good time to venerate your ancestors and to invite them in your life and to do that
00:01:07.680 but it's particularly expressed this time of year while that veil is thinning and we have the
00:01:15.040 ambiance of fall to support it and it has similar roots to halloween
00:01:20.960 um matter of fact at sigerheim we have a graveyard where my mom is interred and we did our uh
00:01:31.680 decent bloat in that graveyard and it's always a special thing a special opportunity so
00:01:36.880 that's kind of our relationship with halloween we understand the you know the kind of
00:01:43.360 connection to the dead deep pagan roots of it and we celebrate that in a overtly religious fashion
00:01:52.640 um at our uh better night or winter night celebration and then we celebrate the fun
00:01:59.740 go around in costumes and get candy enthusiastically here in a couple of days
00:02:04.060 you know my daughter's really looking forward