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Chapter 2. Connections 52
journey and met up with Afi and Amma (Grandfather and Grandmother) with the
same results except that they became the original parents of the race of peasants
(free men under a ruler or king). After a time, he met up with Faðir and Moðir
(Father and Mother) who engendered the social class of free men and royalty.
A common Ásatrú interpretation of this lay is to help explain and rationalize the
existence of royalty; however, taken at face value the lay says only that people are
not born equally, that they do not have the same lots in life. A popular trend in the
20 th century as a way to avoid one’s starting point in life is to accept reincarnation
and to look into the “karmic” past or the “akashic records” for some sign of royalty
or heroic personages to compensate for what is conceived to be poor a starting
point. This trend often involves selectively searching familial history to find royalty
or another aesthetically pleasing personality, and once such a personage can be
claimed, rightfully or not, he or she becomes the material for serious “name-dropping.
Most of us can find something good in our personal lineages, I suppose, but we find
a lot more that is unacceptable to our overly sensitive 21 st century tastes. The
tendency is to consciously and conveniently “forget” the disagreeable characters with
the polly-annic attitude of “Out of sight, out of mind,” (therefore, “out of reality”)
but this is a game only to fool ourselves. Accepting one’s starting point as it is not
always easy or comfortable, but at some point, it is necessary.
There are and most likely will always be some people who either accept their
starting points in life and have adequate access to power/ luck or who do not accept
it and seem to enjoy adequate access anyway. They seem to be settled in their
ways and do not have any real problems in maintaining their status quo. This can
be somewhat disconcerting to some. However, simply by being born into Midgard,
each has a connection to the Flow of the Waters of Life regardless of whether a
person believes it or not; belief is not an issue here, a workable worldview is. Some
of these folks live out their lives completely unconcerned about ancestry yet always
continuing to access power/ luck from their familial lines. This is often the case
with many children who are adopted. Adoption also usually allows a child to begin
life with strong interactions with another lineage adding to the power/ luck their
family histories. They begin life with complex starting points. There are others
who have, for whatever reason chosen to turn their backs on their heritage and seem
to continue accessing power/ luck by acquiring and maintaining close ties to other
lineages. As long as these maintain those ties by living their lives in such a manner
that they remain in good standing with the communities of Læraþ, the World Tree,
and they continue to live well. Other people simply go along through life until their
power/ luck runs out, then a change in the way of life becomes necessary.
An individual starting point is the opening through which one’s lineage/ luck
can be tracked back to the source of the Waters. If one turns his back on his