Meetup for February

Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010

Time: 2:00 p.m.

Location: Pinecone Hearth

Charming of the Plow and Disting

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Coastal Empire Asatru Meetup

Date: Saturday, February 20, 2010

Time: 2:00 p.m.

Location: Pinecone Hearth

Charming of the Plow and Disting

Charming of the Plow is a ceremony that marks the beginning of the planting season; when the first furrows are made in the fields. The Vanir Gods, Nerthus [Earth Mother] and land wights are honored at this time for the coming Spring and to wish a healthy season for the crops. Farm tools are blessed and an offering of bread and mead/milk are traditionally given to the land wights upon the first furrows made into the earth. Bring garden tools and/or seeds for blessing.

Disting (Old Swedish: thing [law court] at the time of the sacrifice to the Disir [mothers, grandmothers and family female spirits]), is still observed as an annual market in Upsalla, Sweden. Traditionally, it was a time when many would gather for the Thing of All Swedes, hold a great market and a special blot at the temple in Upsalla for the Disir.

As always bring pot luck.

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