Asatru Folk Assembly - Sigrblót #afa #asatru #asatrufolkassembly #shorts

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In this episode of the Astro Folk Assembly podcast, we discuss why we don't celebrate Sigurbloat on the full moon in April, and why we celebrate it on the solstices in July. We also talk about why we chose to celebrate it in July rather than on the equinox.

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00:00:00.000 minutes behind but wondering why we do not celebrate sigur bloat tonight the full moon in

00:00:06.240 april um you're welcome go ahead it's fun oh in april yeah so i was going to say um by all means

00:00:16.320 you're welcome to do that if you'd like the reason that the afa doesn't do that is a couple of things

00:00:23.600 so first there are a number of our holy days that are based on that are based on nature

00:00:34.880 um you know the equinox happen when the equinox happens uh the the solstices happen when the

00:00:41.600 solstices happen but there's other of our celebrations that aren't so tied to a natural

00:00:51.680 cycle and sigurbloat was one of those it was celebrated in a particular time the attestation

00:00:58.880 that we have is is during the viking age where um this is the time of year where stuff is thought

00:01:06.720 enough that they could go and start mounting their uh their raids for raiding season and uh

00:01:14.800 And that was a very specific to a certain geographical instance as opposed to to a larger, you know, a larger natural truth. But the truth of that was to celebrate a to have a celebration to celebrate victory to beseech the gods to bless them with victory, and to to instill victory amongst the folk by sharing in a in a communal context.

00:01:44.800 And that's something that we do still do as the Astro Folk Assembly, but we've chosen to do that in July.

Asatru Folk Assembly - July 18, 2025

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