Articles Archives - Ondheim Theodish Fellowship https://ondheim.org/category/articles/ Theodish Fellowship in the Hudson Valley Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:59:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://i0.wp.com/ondheim.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Ondheim_Favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Articles Archives - Ondheim Theodish Fellowship https://ondheim.org/category/articles/ 32 32 201364353 A Heathen Naming: What Actually Matters https://ondheim.org/2026/10/17/a-heathen-naming-what-actually-matters/ https://ondheim.org/2026/10/17/a-heathen-naming-what-actually-matters/#respond Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:00:54 +0000 https://ondheim.org/?p=2058 People ask me how a heathen naming ceremony works, and I can hear what they’re really asking: give me the old words. The exact thing the Vikings said over a newborn. Like there’s a script in a drawer somewhere. There isn’t. What we have is smaller than that, and honestly more interesting. The sources don’t ... Read more

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]]> https://ondheim.org/2026/10/17/a-heathen-naming-what-actually-matters/feed/ 0 2058 A Heathen Wedding: What Actually Matters https://ondheim.org/2026/10/10/a-heathen-wedding-what-actually-matters/ https://ondheim.org/2026/10/10/a-heathen-wedding-what-actually-matters/#respond Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:00:01 +0000 https://ondheim.org/?p=2056 People ask me how a heathen wedding works, like there’s some ancient script hidden in a drawer somewhere with the exact words the Vikings used. There isn’t. Anyone who tells you “this is exactly what they did in the Viking Age” is selling you something. Here’s what we actually have. Tacitus, writing about the Germanic ... Read more

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]]> https://ondheim.org/2026/10/10/a-heathen-wedding-what-actually-matters/feed/ 0 2056 The Obligation Remains https://ondheim.org/2026/07/08/the-obligation-remains/ https://ondheim.org/2026/07/08/the-obligation-remains/#respond Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:00:24 +0000 https://ondheim.org/?p=2026 There comes a moment in most lives when the question stops being whether something is fair and becomes what must be done next. It is rarely a moment we would choose for ourselves. Sometimes it arrives with the death of someone we love. Sometimes it comes through illness, betrayal, financial hardship, or the collapse of ... Read more

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]]> https://ondheim.org/2026/07/08/the-obligation-remains/feed/ 0 2026 SPÆCRAFT: Ráð, Perception, and the Discipline of Seeing Clearly https://ondheim.org/2026/06/24/spaecraft/ https://ondheim.org/2026/06/24/spaecraft/#respond Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000 https://ondheim.org/?p=1901 Modern people often approach practices of perception through one of two extremes. Some dismiss them entirely as fantasy or superstition. Others approach them primarily as vehicles for personal spiritual expression where emotion, symbolism, and subjective interpretation gradually become more important than clarity itself. The surviving sources point toward something very different. When speaking about spæcraft, ... Read more

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]]> https://ondheim.org/2026/06/24/spaecraft/feed/ 0 1901 Building Worth: From Consumption to Stewardship https://ondheim.org/2026/06/21/building-worth-from-consumption-to-stewardship/ https://ondheim.org/2026/06/21/building-worth-from-consumption-to-stewardship/#respond Sun, 21 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000 https://ondheim.org/?p=1943 Modern culture has it backwards. It measures importance by volume — who’s loudest, who’s most visible, who got the most attention this week. Recognition first, substance if there’s time. The old way ran the order in reverse. Achievement first. Recognition followed — if it followed at all — through witnessed conduct over time. Worth wasn’t ... Read more

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]]> https://ondheim.org/2026/06/21/building-worth-from-consumption-to-stewardship/feed/ 0 1943 Blót: The Act of Exchange https://ondheim.org/2026/06/17/blot-the-act-of-exchange/ https://ondheim.org/2026/06/17/blot-the-act-of-exchange/#respond Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000 https://ondheim.org/?p=1898 Blót: The Act of Exchange Modern people tend to approach ritual through feeling. Did it move me? Did it feel meaningful? Was the experience powerful? The old way didn’t measure it that way. Blót wasn’t primarily about feeling. It was about exchange. At the center stands a plain principle: relationship with the holy powers was ... Read more

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]]> https://ondheim.org/2026/06/17/blot-the-act-of-exchange/feed/ 0 1898 Thew is NOT Rigidity https://ondheim.org/2026/06/09/thew-is-not-rigidity/ https://ondheim.org/2026/06/09/thew-is-not-rigidity/#respond Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:00:00 +0000 https://ondheim.org/?p=1880 One of the most common misunderstandings about thews is that they demand rigidity — the same move, every time, no thinking, regardless of what's actually happening. That's not thew. That's machinery. The old world didn't prize rule-followers. It prized wise men. There's a difference, and the lore never lets you forget it. Take Óðinn. He ... Read more

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]]> https://ondheim.org/2026/06/09/thew-is-not-rigidity/feed/ 0 1880 Why the Horn Is Passed https://ondheim.org/2026/05/31/why-the-horn-is-passed/ https://ondheim.org/2026/05/31/why-the-horn-is-passed/#respond Sun, 31 May 2026 05:03:45 +0000 https://ondheim.org/?p=1937 People drink now to relax. To celebrate. To escape. Ritual drinking at modern gatherings is social lubrication — a way to loosen up. The passing of the horn was nothing like that. The horn moving hand to hand around the circle wasn’t about drinking. It was a structured ritual act — and through it, speech ... Read more

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]]> https://ondheim.org/2026/05/31/why-the-horn-is-passed/feed/ 0 1937 Testing: The making of a Theodsman https://ondheim.org/2026/05/28/testing-the-making-of-a-theodsman/ https://ondheim.org/2026/05/28/testing-the-making-of-a-theodsman/#respond Thu, 28 May 2026 06:50:16 +0000 https://ondheim.org/?p=1887 A man is not truly known by what he claims about himself.Words may begin a path, but they do not complete it. Intentions may sound noble when spoken aloud, yet intention alone carries little weight until it survives hardship, obligation, consequence, and time. Within the older Heathen worldview, worth was never assumed merely because it ... Read more

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]]> https://ondheim.org/2026/05/28/testing-the-making-of-a-theodsman/feed/ 0 1887 Reputation:  What Remains After Death https://ondheim.org/2026/05/27/reputation-what-remains-after-death/ https://ondheim.org/2026/05/27/reputation-what-remains-after-death/#respond Wed, 27 May 2026 04:00:55 +0000 https://ondheim.org/?p=1653 Every man dies. This much was obvious within the older world. Strength fades. Wealth changes hands. The body weakens and eventually returns to the earth. Even great households and powerful leaders eventually pass from the living world into memory. Yet the surviving Norse and Germanic material repeatedly returns to a deeper question: what remains afterward? ... Read more

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