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Chapter 6. The Sky 168
Worshiping and showing gratitude are ways in which modern folk can pick up
and participate in the spiritual philosophy of the ancient northern Europeans. “Participation”
is a key concept here. Over the past millennium people have come to
think of themselves as being in control and have striven to ever gain more and more
control over their lives, but to do so they have had to sink deeper into a pool of
illusion. The ancients understood that events came from the outside and the only
real control that any individual has ever had is in his or her own responses to the
events as they unfold. True, through participation in life people are able to change
events to some degree, but the results of their actions fall back into the Well of
Urð. While the movement of an Andean butterfly’s wings may eventually result in
a storm over China, there are many intervening factors which make the connection
seem implausible and totally unpredictable for the observer of the butterfly. The
best that anyone can do is to engage in weorth-scipe and to offer a gift of gratitude
to those larger Powers out there, and by doing so, better align himself with those
Powers. These actions result in power/ luck flowing toward the individual, family,
or community. Modern folk would do well to drop the pretense of “control” and
begin to learn to simply participate in life as it unfolds for the Waters of Life cannot
be held. They must flow.
The great Powers out there exist, and the ancient northerners were able to grasp
this concept merely by looking at the sky above, day or night. Midgard is part of a
larger complex, the World Tree, and all contained within its branches must, by the
fact that they are within, bow to honor the Waters’ currents of which they are a part.