Asatru Folk Assembly - 1⧸29⧸25 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 134 - A Fifth of Brandy： Beauty and Friðr

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00:03:00.000 Good evening, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Victory Never Sleeps. We have some

00:03:12.800 really great guests tonight that I'm excited that have joined us. We've got a Githya Sheila

00:03:17.800 McNallan, and we also have Mrs. Madison East. I believe, is this your first time on B&S,

00:03:23.860 madison yes it is it is so we've seen a lot of we we've heard a lot about mrs east over the course

00:03:32.820 of vns but this is our very first time coming on for the show so thank you ma'am for coming on it's

00:03:38.580 going to be a great episode um i believe githia uh katie is going to be joining us here in just

00:03:44.340 a little bit so we are going to have some great conversation and some fun things happening tonight

00:03:52.580 so glad you're all here with us so a couple top of the show things we should start out with where

00:03:59.860 you can find us and where you can listen to this later if you are not watching it live

00:04:04.340 we are on odyssey twitch twitter rumble youtube vk we are also streaming on apple spotify our

00:04:13.620 iheart radio and amazon so there's all kinds of places to catch up the best way to participate

00:04:19.540 is live so you can interact with us on here, ask us questions, get some answers, have a good time

00:04:24.840 in the chat. But if you do have to listen afterwards, catch us on the replays on Apple,

00:04:30.040 Spotify, iHeartRadio, and Amazon. All right, we got a couple things coming up. In February, we do

00:04:37.520 have Charming of the Plow at New York's Hof, February 21st through the 23rd. That is going

00:04:44.820 to be at New Yardshoff in Florida. Tickets are on sale at runestone.org. And I do believe,

00:04:51.240 do believe there's going to be a lot of folks there. Madison, you are going to be a charming

00:04:56.860 at the plow, correct? Yes. Yes, she is. You and her husband, Go the East, will be there,

00:05:03.780 along as many of, many other members of our leadership are going to be there as well. So

00:05:07.380 definitely go get your tickets. It's going to be a great time. Celebrate with your folk and

00:05:12.240 honor the god a couple of things you want to announce you're still doing great in the as a

00:05:20.520 true academy and we actually have get the mcnallan here tonight who works very very hard with that

00:05:27.080 program if you have any questions about the as a true academy please reach out to yes wonderful go

00:05:35.220 to as true academy.org reach out to go the rob stam you can reach out to get the mcnallan you

00:05:40.760 can also reach out to folk builder Sarah Alt who is one of our one of our leading folk builders

00:05:47.160 and really paving the way on that on that program so thank you to all of you that are involved

00:05:51.480 for making that program a reality and helping to educate our children

00:05:54.680 also Nick do we have an update on your top paying off in your top I mean we would if I had the

00:06:04.380 graphic ready, but I don't, but I can give you, I can give you some numbers. Well, how about our

00:06:09.900 producer, Nick, go ahead and give us our current numbers for New York's Hoff. Okay. Oh, where did

00:06:16.660 they go? I lost them. Well, while he's looking for them, ways that you can donate to New York's

00:06:25.000 Hoff. If you want to go ahead and go onto the New York's Hoff website, or you can go onto

00:06:29.480 runestone.org and donate to the New York's Hoff Fund. Help us pay off that Hoff. We have made

00:06:35.000 incredible progress over the past couple years getting that paid off. Always stress to the folk,

00:06:42.560 remember that every gift that you give to these Hoffs is literally a gift to the gods. You know, 0.70

00:06:49.280 this is part of the gifting cycle. We are building them temples here in Midgard.

00:06:52.960 we are keeping you know their names on our lips here we are keeping their worship alive and well

00:06:59.940 and building those temples has become a very important part of doing that and a gift for

00:07:05.400 those gods so please remember a gift to those hops is a gift to those gods make that part of

00:07:10.800 your gift cycle if you can with everybody's help we can get that paid off even quicker

00:07:14.920 and progress our forward motion on phrase hops all righty i got some numbers here for us as soon

00:07:22.900 as this loads. All right. We are right about a little bit better than we were last time we

00:07:30.180 talked about it. So that's always good. Here it is. There we go. There we go. So that looks like

00:07:38.960 a couple of the fundraisers that we've got going on. We've got New York's Hoff there.

00:07:42.380 It looks like a remaining percentage that we have is 23.41%. We have already paid off 76.59%

00:07:50.420 percent of New York's hop with $57,000 remaining. That is amazing. We've also got Sigurheim up there

00:07:58.100 on our way, making progress on that. That is amazing as well. Future for the AFA. And also

00:08:04.260 the Baldershof steeple. We are making great plans for that, learning how to do special

00:08:10.460 projects so we can make that even more beautiful and rebuild that steeple. That's such a beautiful

00:08:17.220 part of Baldursoft. We are looking at raising about $20,000 for that. With your help so far,

00:08:22.400 we have already raised $1,500 and some change. So thank you, folk, for your generosity. You are

00:08:28.960 part of the reason why we can do all the great things that we're doing. We appreciate your

00:08:32.820 support. And again, remember, gifting to the church is a gift to the gods because that's

00:08:37.800 what we're using it for. All right. So we do got a couple questions. I do just want to kind of get

00:08:46.780 off the bat before we get started. Also, Nick would now be a good time to talk about our giveaway

00:08:54.160 tonight. I think it would be. So tonight we're going to ask you to participate in the chat.

00:09:04.780 We are going to ask you questions and we would like you to think about them and put the answers

00:09:10.960 in the chat and engage with each other. And our producer, Nick, will be writing down your name.

00:09:16.780 and putting it into a random generator. And at the end of the show tonight, producer Nick is

00:09:22.780 going to tell us whose name popped out of that generator. And whose name popped out of the

00:09:27.900 generator will be receiving a copy of Heims Greenblatt, the Lee Hollander edition. It is a very

00:09:33.660 heavy tome. So for those of you that are familiar with our Days of Remembrance, our heroes, several

00:09:40.380 of our heroes do come. Their information is found in this book. So definitely something that

00:09:46.460 is good on a shelf if you don't have it already i will send this off tomorrow or as soon as you get

00:09:51.900 your address after nick tells us who that winner is tonight we will get have you send your name

00:09:59.420 and address to our producer nick he can pop his email address up on the screen here

00:10:05.420 and we will get that information and we will get this book sent off to you

00:10:08.620 can i participate yeah i'm just yeah i'll tell my husband to do it he can be in the chat there you

00:10:19.020 go absolutely so this is going to be one of those episodes where rather than us just talk we want we

00:10:26.620 want to get you to talk with each other in that chat room also don't forget to subscribe to like

00:10:32.860 and to share if you know someone that might be interested in what we're doing interested in

00:10:37.500 building that relationship with their gods please send them our way runestone.org any of our hoff

00:10:42.540 websites send them here send them vns all right so tonight we are going to talk about beauty and

00:10:52.940 frith before that we do have a couple questions i want to get to before we get right into it

00:10:58.380 we did have a question right off the bat here from amber in illinois whenever homosexuality

00:11:05.420 homosexuality comes up it seems like discussions always focuses on males are lesbians not also a

00:11:11.740 bad influence on the kid folk yes so when you become a member of the as true folk assembly

00:11:18.540 you are you are stating that you are a heterosexual white person you are not saying that you are a

00:11:26.940 lesbian on the side you are not saying that you are into that lifestyle that is not a lifestyle

00:11:31.260 that we support. Now, I know that a lot of the focus tends to be on the males, but the reason

00:11:35.980 that is, is because there is a difference between that relationship. You know, there is a difference

00:11:40.420 between that act in particular. There are things that once they happen, they cannot be undone,

00:11:47.080 right? But is that lifestyle a negative influence on our children regardless of gender? Yes, it is

00:11:55.100 a negative influence regardless of gender and is not something that we would support

00:11:58.700 as a active member of the Auditorate Folk Assembly. And then the second question that

00:12:05.040 we've got on there is what is the AFA stance on stuff like IVF, foster parenting, or adoption

00:12:10.000 if a woman can't conceive or thinks she is too old? If you are a woman that wants to bring another

00:12:15.720 child to the folk, please do. Do what you need to do to bring another child to the folk. 0.99

00:12:21.140 Take care of those kids that maybe you might be what can give them a better life.

00:12:26.180 by all means, take care of that child. Raise them with our values. Teach them to honor the gods and

00:12:31.520 the heroes. Teach them to honor the ancestors, even if they are not blood ancestors. Our heroes

00:12:38.000 are still their ancestors. Our mothers, our grandmothers, those are still ancestors, you know.

00:12:44.860 A lot of folk do tend to have a hard time connecting to the ancestors when, you know,

00:12:50.220 there's someone who does not know what that lineage is. But remember, just because you may

00:12:55.240 not know the name of your grandmother or the name of your grandfather, that doesn't mean that they

00:12:59.840 are not still there. That doesn't mean that they don't know you. That doesn't mean that you can't

00:13:04.940 honor our heroes, that you can't honor honored members of the folk who have passed through the

00:13:10.400 veil, you know, your friends that have passed through the veil. It's wonderful to speak their

00:13:16.300 names if you know their names and tell their story if you know their stories, but I personally

00:13:20.600 believe that they know you even if you don't know their names would uh either of our githias like

00:13:26.280 to comment on that go ahead katie um so something that it's important to remember too is that uh

00:13:36.120 the ossaroo folk assembly is forward-facing and we believe in science so when i say that

00:13:44.200 um what i mean is if you need medical intervention in order to be able to conceive a child

00:13:50.600 do it because that is a positive advancement in science that can help our folk um

00:13:59.560 we believe that

00:14:03.560 sorry i lost my train of thought but yes we are we believe in science and we believe

00:14:08.040 that we should take advantage of the things that will help us to move forward to advance our folk

00:14:14.600 So as far as IVF goes, I know that there's a lot of sort of contention about it because it's unnatural because you're using science to make it happen.

00:14:26.760 But I don't see why that would be a problem if it means that you get to have a baby.

00:14:32.880 Because I think for me personally, being a mother is like literally the best thing that ever happened in my life.

00:14:39.400 And if I hadn't been able to do it naturally, I sure as hell would have pursued.

00:14:45.400 help and if that wasn't going to work i don't see why adopting would would be bad adopting 0.65

00:14:50.760 or fostering a white child that would otherwise have ended up in very unhealthy situations through

00:14:56.600 foster care or perhaps by being adopted uh into a family that was going to raise it in a way that 0.53

00:15:03.640 would have been anti our folk if you can take that child and bring them in and give them a

00:15:09.080 healthy background i i feel like why wouldn't you if you can if you can do that if that's your

00:15:14.280 option obviously i think you should have your own children first if you can but

00:15:18.360 that is not the reality for all of us so

00:15:22.920 that is all

00:15:27.880 you're muted brandy

00:15:30.920 sorry about that githia mcnellen do you have any thoughts on that

00:15:33.960 there we go okay i'm unmuted um yeah i agree very much like katie i think that um

00:15:46.280 the whole thing of fostering as was done in the past um reminds us that it is okay to

00:15:54.440 bring children into our homes and guide them the best way we can we don't have that though

00:15:59.640 in this society you know where we know that there are a lot of kids who are struggling with their

00:16:04.360 parents living in poverty and whatever but somehow um well we don't have that in our own church where

00:16:11.320 people have become desperate enough to say please take my child i think a lot of us would and whether

00:16:16.760 would ever come to an adoption thing that's something else but obviously to help nurture

00:16:22.680 and a child of our folk is important and um i would say definitely if people

00:16:30.360 really want to have a children child and they can't have one in the way they would like

00:16:36.760 and they have the means to raise a child well definitely look into adoption or

00:16:43.160 you know talk with our folk and see what who might be out there who's needing a home

00:16:48.360 and uh yeah we should be there to help support all of our families who have children regardless 0.95

00:16:54.920 of the nature of that that birth um so long as it is you know a white family that we end up with 0.68

00:17:02.940 because that's what we want for our own children to be raised with 0.94

00:17:06.080 thank you ma'am and i also want to just put out there because this does come

00:17:13.860 up sometimes when some of our women folk are unable to be mothers and there's something that

00:17:20.020 we've talked about in the women's group and we've talked about on women's calls is

00:17:24.840 there are so many phases of femininity motherhood is one of those phases just one you know you can

00:17:34.480 be a daughter you can be a sister you can be a friend you can be a mother you can be a wife

00:17:41.560 you can be an aunt you can be a desir great-grandmother grandmother mother but it's

00:17:48.960 not just motherhood for those that are unable to be a mother being a mother myself I understand

00:17:57.100 how that can hurt and that can be painful and you feel like maybe you don't have something to add

00:18:05.280 but what I want to tell those ladies that are in that situation you have arms that can console

00:18:11.320 a crying child. You have women who need a shoulder and a friend and a confidant and support.

00:18:20.560 You have all of these children that you may not be their mother and you may not be their auntie

00:18:25.640 by blood, but they still watch you. They watch how you do your hair, how you hold yourself.

00:18:32.100 They watch how you react to situations. They see everything that you do. And to be 100% honest,

00:18:39.960 some of you aunties that are not the moms for some of these kids between the ages of 12 and 18

00:18:47.480 you're cooler than we moms are okay they will listen to you in times that they won't listen to us

00:18:55.480 they see you as role models they see you as strength they see you as a woman

00:19:02.600 you are just as much a woman to those children or to those other women as the rest of us who

00:19:10.340 have had a child so i just wanted to say that um motherhood is a blessing and it's absolutely

00:19:16.940 wonderful and it's great but there are so many other aspects of femininity that you can show

00:19:25.620 these children so many examples that you can be so many so many ways that you can be an inspiration

00:19:31.320 and still help raise these kids um anybody have any thoughts on that run into that ideas

00:19:39.300 go ahead Sheila yeah well obviously at my age where I'm not just a grandmother but a great

00:19:46.220 grandmother there's that role in life simply wonderful and something to really anticipate

00:19:51.440 for all women who get to that point but we all as we do get older play the role of grandmother for

00:19:59.060 for our kids especially if they're around our house so if they're in our kindreds

00:20:04.260 it is such an important time in life for the children as well as the elder who gets to build

00:20:12.420 those relationships um sarah and i had this experience with her son this last weekend

00:20:19.300 which was really cute and apparently made up a little song about me and i don't get to see him

00:20:24.340 that much but the time i had with him was important enough that he wrote the sweetest little song

00:20:30.980 and i love the time we had together this last weekend and you know it's every every child is

00:20:37.220 precious to us and we need to be equally as warm and loving as we can to the children that we're

00:20:44.180 around in our folk so regardless of our age but this time will come to all where we are the elders

00:20:51.700 and we're the great aunts if if not the aunts at that point yep and i i will admit my my sons the

00:21:01.220 people that they view as their aunties are so much cooler than their mom i'm gonna say that they they

00:21:07.620 they are so much cooler than mom you know i can say one thing and they go whatever mom but

00:21:14.100 But Githya Plorid says it.

00:21:16.280 Oh, it's the word of the gods, you know.

00:21:20.760 So all the aunties are cooler than their mom.

00:21:23.760 So I want you guys all to know that you hold sway over these young men and women.

00:21:29.920 All right.

00:21:30.860 We do got another question I'm going to give to you guys.

00:21:34.220 Coming up on February 1st is the Remembrance Day for King Einfrit of Bernicia.

00:21:39.480 How will each of you be honoring him in his memory?

00:21:42.220 so we are making a really big push for folk to worship together right we may be separated by

00:21:50.800 states countries continents sometimes

00:21:54.160 the worship of the folk is like a giant bonfire okay i want you to think about that so when all

00:22:05.880 of the folk are worshiping and doing something together that creates that folk flame it's a

00:22:11.000 giant fire it's a giant light for our gods to see when you do things individually yes you you will

00:22:18.680 be a spark in that fire you'll be like that spark that jumps out for a second there'll be a brief

00:22:23.800 light and it'll catch an attention but then the focus is always on that fire when we worship

00:22:30.920 together when we do things together the same time the same day the same purpose that fire gets bright

00:22:37.240 it gets hot and it really takes the notice of the gods in my opinion um so i definitely invite all

00:22:44.520 of you to celebrate the days of remembrance celebrate um the holidays we also have been

00:22:52.200 posting in our spiritual excellence group if you are a member of the afa and you are not on me we

00:22:57.880 yet you are missing out that's where the action happens please go there we are doing a wednesday

00:23:03.880 devotional that we are asking families to honor one of the, one of the Aesir, their wives, the

00:23:11.880 ancestors, um, Asenir, uh, celestial wardens, you know, all of these, all of these beings that

00:23:20.440 deserve honor, right? So we're choosing one of them every week. Um, and those are being posted

00:23:27.060 up into the spiritual excellence page. Um, and Nick kind of has, I think you might have one of

00:23:31.960 the pictures that we're posting up is just something of inspiration. This is going to be

00:23:35.740 an example of beauty. Something that we want you to focus on the beauty of the gods, the power of

00:23:41.780 the gods. We want you to focus on that as a group, as a folk, and make that folk flame burn especially

00:23:50.220 bright on Wednesdays. So I'm going to encourage all of you on Wednesdays, celebrate with your

00:23:55.900 family, talk about the god, the goddess, talk about the ancestors, whatever it is that's posted

00:24:01.820 on that Wednesday, join us in building that folk flame. And then afterwards, celebrate with your

00:24:07.200 family and then come watch on VNS and continue the honoring and celebration of the AC. So find

00:24:13.500 that in the Spiritual Excellence Group on WeWe. So that being asked, Sarah would like to know how

00:24:20.080 each of us plan to celebrate on February 1st for our hero, King Einfurt of Berenicea.

00:24:27.440 would you like to go first on that? Sure. So my daughter is up here with me because

00:24:36.220 she's being extra clingy these days. So I'm sorry if you hear my little ponies in the

00:24:43.180 background. Because we have little kids, we tend to keep things very, very simple because

00:24:49.540 we try to make everything we do for our entire family, which means we have to make it for

00:24:56.180 four-year-old and a six-year-old. So usually what we do is Witten Erickson prints out the picture

00:25:01.860 of the hero and we have a special picture frame that we put it in. We have that picture on the

00:25:06.420 table with us when we sit down for dinner. We serve the hero a meal he eats with us or we give

00:25:13.700 him a part of what we are eating and then usually either myself or my husband will explain to the

00:25:20.180 children who our hero is why we are honoring him we ask them to try and come up with examples of

00:25:29.460 ways that the hero is relevant to us in modern times it's easier said than done usually we

00:25:38.420 ask them and then we give them answers because they don't really they're not quite old enough

00:25:42.660 to make those connections although my son owen he's pretty quick sometimes he he's

00:25:47.780 savvier than i give him credit for but uh that's usually what we do um every once in a while um

00:25:54.740 and i say because we're not doing it when it's like negative a thousand degrees and our backyard

00:26:00.900 is like six inches deep in snow right now but uh we might light a fire and go out and and and do a

00:26:07.140 small bloat or um ritual to remember the hero but we have a pretty simple system and it's what we

00:26:15.940 use every time because when you build it consistently then the children it becomes

00:26:21.060 normal and routine and it becomes just what they do and once it's just what they do then we can

00:26:26.740 make it fancy and elaborate i'd much rather this become and by this i mean also true and the worship

00:26:32.740 of our heroes and our and our gods and our ancestors to be so ingrained in everything that

00:26:36.900 they do that it never even occurs to them that they're doing something that not everybody else

00:26:41.380 does um so yeah keep it stupid simple simple stupid whichever both 0.68

00:26:50.580 githia mcnell and how do you how do you plan on celebrating that uh that feast day in your home 0.89

00:27:02.180 i think you're muted sheila i am just figuring this out how to do it on this yard stream or

00:27:08.100 whatever it is um well i'm gonna be out at the house this weekend it's a work weekend we're

00:27:13.380 getting ready for trimming of the plow um we never really did a thorough cleaning following

00:27:19.860 you all and um there's a lot of organization needs to happen so i'll be out at earthen's

00:27:25.060 hop in the rain we have like five or six days of rain coming in but um i think it's a wonderful

00:27:31.940 place to be with other people and to be introducing them to another one of our heroes i am not

00:27:37.140 familiar with him yet so i will have to learn and share the knowledge with others who also do not

00:27:44.580 yet know but we'll remember that's an easy one remember february 1st um nice way starting off

00:27:51.220 the year and uh i think because that's where i'll be that's what i'll be doing

00:27:57.540 is uh educating others on this this obviously a great man

00:28:01.300 and mrs east i got a question for you regarding uh celebrations at home so how you live with a

00:28:13.740 godly right so how is it how does it feel to have a godly in your home that can lead you

00:28:21.000 to those celebrations has that made a made a difference in your practice and how you do that

00:28:26.540 um i'm very fortunate because i didn't come into the afa prior to knowing trent so i never had to

00:28:40.620 wing it that's that's definitely a huge bonus i didn't have to really wing it or do things myself

00:28:47.100 solo and so that's probably the biggest bonus is that he's pretty much always been around for my

00:28:56.140 whole journey that's a good benefit to have you have an in-home goalie that's pretty great

00:29:05.340 all right and we do have some donations i want to give some shout outs too

00:29:10.220 we've got gw farnsworth brought us five coffees that is 25 thank you so much for that

00:29:17.740 alexander casto bought us a coffee as well thank you so much sir appreciate that

00:29:23.100 and Angela Angela in New Hampshire donated $25 to the VNS fund thank you so much that really helps

00:29:32.060 keeps keeps that really helps to keep this platform going and get all of this these great

00:29:37.120 thoughts and these great people out to you thank you so much all right a couple more questions

00:29:44.120 before we get into the meat and potatoes of what we're getting into tonight I know it's 828 guys

00:29:48.900 hang in there we haven't even started on beauty and frith yet but you guys are active in the chat

00:29:53.000 I want to get those questions answered before we start getting into too much.

00:29:56.560 Stick with us because those giveaway opportunities are coming, okay?

00:30:02.740 We got a question.

00:30:03.660 How did you, from Lauren, how did you come home to As A True?

00:30:07.180 Could you tell us about your journey?

00:30:09.540 Madison, could you tell us your story?

00:30:11.440 I know I've already talked about mine quite a bit on VNS, but let's hear from Madison on that.

00:30:17.760 So I was never really religious.

00:30:20.800 I wasn't raised to be specifically Christian or anything like it wasn't it wasn't a huge

00:30:30.160 thing pushed on me I was more the friend that people would invite to come to church with you

00:30:37.240 just to uh they'd get like extra candy or some kind of brownie points for bringing a friend

00:30:42.140 I was that person. Um, when I would go, I, I didn't, did not like that, did not, did not enjoy

00:30:50.840 the, the community very much. Um, but then I got with Trent and he was like, I'm in this church

00:31:00.180 and you know, it's different. And I was like, okay, they had told me how important it was to

00:31:05.580 him and how the people were so important. And I was like, okay, well I need to meet these people.

00:31:11.560 i need to know who they are i need to know like you know these people are like your family

00:31:16.360 essentially so i i need to you know see what it's all about and it took me a while

00:31:22.600 um i came around to events for a couple of years um was like kind of unsure of things but like as

00:31:28.600 i like kind of came into the group and um became like a part of you know like the the group of

00:31:34.600 ladies it really um was something that i couldn't see you know going without so

00:31:41.320 then i finally joined in i think 2021 and that's kind of it

00:31:53.320 all right we do actually have a couple questions specifically for you madison

00:31:57.640 and one of them comes from uh godi mayo mrs east what kindred are you a part of and why

00:32:06.480 is there and what is their status would one say elite perhaps

00:32:10.600 uh yes that would be riggs blood kindred the elite kindred as we all like to introduce ourselves

00:32:19.760 and we also have a question for you from alexander cast casto mrs east what are some

00:32:28.800 common challenges you face when it comes to creating art graphics for the afa so before

00:32:33.840 you answer that madison can you get in can you let us know a little bit about what you do as our

00:32:39.120 quote-unquote art lady and what kind of uh journey that has taken you on through the years and then

00:32:45.520 go ahead and answer his question i don't even think it's a quote unquote it is officially art

00:32:50.400 lady listed on her email it is it is um so i can't tell you how many years it's been now but

00:33:01.360 at some point i started doing graphic design for the afa and it just became more and more projects

00:33:08.480 being done and um yeah i kind of started to put my own like spin on things my own style i guess

00:33:21.200 that i thought really fit with the afa and um what was the other question uh the other question

00:33:30.720 that they had was uh what challenges do you face when it comes to creating the arts and graphics

00:33:35.840 There's a couple, I guess, that come to mind. Sometimes I don't exactly understand what's

00:33:45.600 being asked of me. What people have in their head doesn't always show up in my head or something,

00:33:53.680 which that's a whole other thing, is I don't have any visuals in my head. I just see black.

00:34:00.000 i don't i i can't visualize so when i quote unquote have something in my head i don't know

00:34:07.360 what that looks like until it's right in front of my face so i tweak and i tweak until it's perfect

00:34:12.960 um so that's like a that's a big one other than that just not knowing you know exactly how

00:34:20.400 something should look if it's like an illustration and that's where um witness fawn really comes comes

00:34:25.920 in handy and we collaborate so all right and another question that we have specifically

00:34:37.040 for you madison is how does it feel to be part of the bestest half

00:34:45.840 uh it is great it's great being part of the bestest half we have the bestest ladies

00:34:50.320 and uh well i got the best of scofi so

00:34:54.760 good answer ma'am all right a couple more questions here um pam i do see your question

00:35:06.200 but i think we're going to answer that when we get into the uh the meat of what we're talking

00:35:10.940 about tonight so bear with me ma'am we are not skipping over you i'm just going to knock some

00:35:16.160 of these other ones out of the way before we get started. All right. Luke Hightower asks,

00:35:24.580 what are your thoughts on promiscuity with women who are in the AFA? 1.00

00:35:31.720 So what I think about that is that is the woman's business, to be honest. One thing that I do want 1.00

00:35:41.240 to stress is that while I may not, as a Githia, proclaim public judgment over what people do,

00:35:52.900 sometimes you always have to remember you need to do what's best for you, but that doesn't mean

00:35:57.280 that you are not subjected to the judgment of the folk. So when people make mistakes or people do

00:36:05.640 things that you don't like or you don't believe is right, that judgment is a natural thing that

00:36:12.440 happens within the folk. That's real. That's real. If a woman is promiscuous in the AFA,

00:36:18.940 is she necessarily going to get removed from the AFA? No. That's her business and what she's doing.

00:36:24.880 We're not policing her. Be smart about your actions and your decisions. However, always know

00:36:34.080 that whether you're a man or a woman you may not be removed from the church you may not be

00:36:42.240 you know we're not going to discipline you you know we're spiritual leaders not your parents um

00:36:49.440 but always remember that the folks see that too the folk may judge you you know and that is

00:36:59.440 something that has always been a part of our culture you know they used to outlaw people

00:37:07.760 right for things that they were removed from the folk and folk treated them as they saw fit

00:37:14.080 right so while it may not necessarily be a spiritual talking to from one of us githias

00:37:22.160 you know we may counsel you on you know decisions and being impulsive and what's going on

00:37:29.440 are you okay? Are you okay? But women especially, and this will come into some of these virtues

00:37:39.900 that we're going to be talking about, women have the ability to make or break relationships with

00:37:45.860 other people, right? And her decisions are often a big part of that. So yes, are the Githya is

00:37:56.120 going to come down on you and wag their finger. No, we're going to check on you and see if you're 1.00

00:37:59.660 okay. Why are you making the decisions that you're making? Am I going to kick you out of the AFA?

00:38:06.480 Not necessarily. But the folks see and the folk judges will. You know, if you want to be defended 0.99

00:38:15.880 for your actions, make sure that your actions are just and right. I cannot, nor can the Githias 1.00

00:38:23.640 on this call judge the opinion of your actions of other people people are going to think what 0.86

00:38:30.600 they're going to think they're going to agree if they agree and if they don't like it they might

00:38:33.960 tell you and those are the choices that are those are the consequences of the choices that you make

00:38:42.040 githias do you have anything to add on that

00:38:44.040 Something that occurs to me in terms of what you might call promiscuity or relationships

00:38:56.940 within the AFA is to be very, very careful because it takes very little to kind of unsettle

00:39:03.480 the group.

00:39:04.480 And when people have relationships and they split for whatever reason, obviously the closest

00:39:11.980 people to them are the ones that are going to feel it the most, but it does have a much broader

00:39:17.320 effect too. And, you know, I think something we do really well in the AFA is hold on to our

00:39:26.780 relationships and work with them. Sorry about that. I'm going to mute. I've got a video. We're

00:39:33.900 working on our house and the sod just started outside anyway um yeah um so be thinking long

00:39:41.680 term if you're in a relationship where's it going to go and um is this something that you have the

00:39:48.400 ability to maintain do you want to make this long term and then how is that going to look to

00:39:52.980 everybody else if it's with somebody within our church that can be kind of problematic so just

00:39:59.280 again caution for all people in their relationships and be thinking down the road aways how's it all

00:40:07.000 going to turn out do your best try to make it work be very subtle be very quiet in your

00:40:12.240 relationships if you're just dating kind of thing I'm going to mute now one of the other things

00:40:19.660 that I'll add about that is it is in the nature of the folk to be curious and to be in each other's

00:40:28.900 business. That's real. I'm not speaking at a turn in that. That's a thing. You don't just see that

00:40:34.500 in churches. You see that in school. You see that in your workplace. Everybody loves the tea,

00:40:40.140 right? Everybody loves the tea. But I'm going to caution you on that a little bit because

00:40:45.720 while everybody might be talking about this or that or something different,

00:40:51.060 you don't always know what's going on you don't you know the lives of members are their lives

00:41:00.840 you know the their private lives are their private lives we're not in their policing

00:41:05.920 what they do in their homes um you know as long as we are not they are not doing something that

00:41:11.480 would disqualify them from being a member of the as true folk assembly a lot of the time their

00:41:17.220 their lives are their lives you know we're here for spiritual guidance and spiritual growth i am

00:41:23.460 here to help you if you are making choices that are becoming self-destructive and you realize

00:41:28.580 that those choices are being self-destructive we are here to help you we're here to help you

00:41:34.500 we are here to help you correct those mistakes

00:41:38.500 but i will give a word of caution to the folk in general that you don't always know what's going on

00:41:43.940 with somebody um not in the church not at work not where you work not with the the kids that

00:41:51.220 your kids go to school with you don't know you see something but that t is like an iceberg right

00:41:58.980 you see this much of it but there's so much underneath that you don't see that you don't know

00:42:06.020 that the only people that may know in the church is that person and the go the ergithia that

00:42:11.780 they're receiving counseling from you know it's okay to feel some kind of way about something

00:42:20.260 but also understand that you may not always get the answer you like or the answer you want

00:42:25.620 because personal lives tend to be personal lives um yeah so that cuts both ways you know

00:42:33.060 that judgment of the folk can be real but also

00:42:36.580 Also, err on the side that your brother and your sister are doing something right, not wrong.

00:42:47.060 We always want to jump to conclusions to the worst possible conclusion.

00:42:53.060 We always want to jump to the most dramatic situation.

00:42:57.300 It's not always the case.

00:42:59.300 You know, there could be a lot going on underneath there that you just don't know about.

00:43:02.780 So, both sides of that coin there.

00:43:06.580 all right and uh this one is going to be from jilly the episcopalian bishop tried to humiliate

00:43:16.300 president and first lady did you see a clip of her sermon suppose they are as a true and you

00:43:20.860 were invited to deliver the message to the trumps what would you say to the president and his family

00:43:25.720 so jilly i'm really sorry if you want to send that clip to me i would like to watch it but to

00:43:30.440 be a hundred percent honest with you I have not I have not seen that as of yet so that's not

00:43:36.880 something that I'm familiar with that I can speak about um any of the other Githias see that have

00:43:42.540 an opinion on that I have not seen it uh I have heard about it um I know that a lot of our folk

00:43:50.700 are not particularly uh politically minded um but my husband is and because he is I have become

00:43:57.820 And so we were both very excited when Trump won again.

00:44:03.440 We hope for good things for our country through that. 0.60

00:44:06.840 And he did tell me about the fact that this woman stood up and tried to, like, belittle and embarrass.

00:44:15.060 And I'm trying to think of the word which just left my brain as I was trying to say it.

00:44:22.200 But then she got up and she was really quite inappropriate in his opinion.

00:44:25.880 And all I can say is that if I were a Gidea who was invited to give a speech to the Osatrub Trump, which would be odd but amazing all by itself, it would probably be very short in something along the lines of victory.

00:44:44.940 I don't know. I don't think you have much you need to say to him for the future, for our future to do great things.

00:44:53.040 and yeah i'm not really a speech giver so but yeah i've heard it was pretty awful so

00:45:02.160 get the mcnellen are you familiar

00:45:09.840 uh yeah and i did at least part of it um i found it abhorrent that she would do that

00:45:16.800 in a sacred space which is what it was and she made her political it was

00:45:23.040 out outright just poking at the values of others she didn't agree with them she should

00:45:29.680 she should have removed herself and not taken on that role it was totally wrong and i we would

00:45:35.040 never do that and i think if we had such an honored place to give some kind of of um

00:45:44.080 appreciation or recognition of someone who was deserving i think we would do it with full heart

00:45:51.440 and give the best we could and she certainly did just the opposite she would have walked out

00:45:56.960 perhaps i mean i'm i'm surprised that there was not an action that took place at that point

00:46:03.280 because it was so insulting what she did um you know it was interesting during um the

00:46:11.520 was it the inauguration whenever it was and they had the various prayers come up and they had

00:46:16.800 the jewish rabbi black pastor and the catholic priest you know they were trying to cover all

00:46:25.760 bases there certainly didn't have any polytheists maybe someday we will be allowed to kind of do the

00:46:32.480 same thing and be there up on the podium and give blessings for the benefit of all in our own ways

00:46:41.920 and hail the gods, you know, kind of thing. Hail the Aesir. That would be kind of neat. We're not

00:46:46.420 there yet, though. Thank you, ma'am. All right, one more question, and then we're going to get

00:46:52.940 into it, guys. All right, so Rune Arcadia asks, I've been thinking about joining the AFA. Quote,

00:46:59.140 you should. My husband is pagan but doesn't believe in organized religion, so he isn't 1.00

00:47:04.020 interested. Can I join without him? Yes. Go to the application on runestone.org. Fill out the 1.00

00:47:10.460 information, if you qualify for membership, and send it to us. If you want your husband involved,

00:47:16.560 talk to him. See if he'd be willing to come with you. Explain to him what you're doing,

00:47:21.340 how important this is to you. If he's willing to support you in that, great. If not, you know,

00:47:28.440 if this is something that you want to do, as long as you qualify for membership, you honor the Aesir,

00:47:34.740 and you want to join us and join what we're doing, please do. Go ahead, Katie.

00:47:40.460 So something that everything Brandy said is 100% accurate, obviously, I agree. And I saw in the chat that you said that you would join soon. So we're very excited and looking forward to that.

00:47:53.040 As far as your husband goes, I think we find a lot of our folk are sort of in this same organized religion is bad mindset because a lot of people come from, in my experience, you don't stop being Christian, which is what most of us were.

00:48:17.400 not all of us but most of us were before we transitioned to ostrich you don't leave that

00:48:22.620 without some sort of reason and usually when you have a reason for leaving the faith you become

00:48:31.740 angry about it some people manifest that in an outward anger some people manifest that and they

00:48:37.280 I'm just going to be a separatist and do my own thing forever and I don't want a part to be a

00:48:41.980 part of anything. It's normal. And I find personally that the best thing you can do

00:48:49.580 is just join and let your husband watch the positive, hopefully positive influence joining

00:48:56.340 the Ostrich Folk Assembly has on your life. It had a positive influence on my life. I think all

00:49:02.100 of the women on this call can agree that the AFA has changed their lives dramatically. I know

00:49:07.040 We have a lot of women in the AFA in general who say that the Ostrich Folk Assembly has changed their lives for the better.

00:49:13.860 And the best thing you can do is just let him see it happen.

00:49:18.160 And then if you convince him to come with you, showing up and seeing our community and what we do in person is one of the strongest experiences, one of the best experiences I personally have ever had.

00:49:32.480 And I think that a lot of people would agree with that.

00:49:34.560 it's amazing how many minds can change just by showing up and experiencing what

00:49:42.300 we do in person and not online or you know behind a computer screen and I will

00:49:49.060 stress that till the day I die doing what we do in person showing up in

00:49:53.800 person will always always be have a much greater impact on your life than not

00:50:00.760 showing up even when it means you have to drive an hour and a half or two

00:50:04.600 sometimes more from your house my husband and I have driven we drove five

00:50:10.000 hours to Boston for a dinner because a member asked us to and I was pregnant

00:50:16.600 with my son at the time I was like really pray I was like six months seven

00:50:20.200 months pregnant we drove five hours to Boston sat down and had dinner for two

00:50:24.100 hours and turned around and drove five hours back home all in the same night

00:50:29.080 now I'm a Gidea he's a Witten so that might not be what we would expect of

00:50:35.960 everyone I wouldn't ask that of most people but we do hope that people will

00:50:41.340 find the time to take an hour to to drive to to visit people in person

00:50:49.320 because nothing compares I don't know why I'm I'm looking at the chats as I'm

00:50:54.840 talking instead of at all of you should i do anyways i'm done sorry thank you ma'am all right

00:51:02.280 so we had a couple questions about beauty and we're going to answer those questions as we go

00:51:05.820 along so we're going to kind of get into um kind of kind of get into our theme for the night which

00:51:12.100 is going to be beauty and frith and beauty and frith are part of what we have been referring to

00:51:17.980 as feminine virtues so before we start getting into that we're going to need to give you a little

00:51:22.940 bit of background on where this came from. So I want you all for a second to think of the Algie's

00:51:33.060 room, okay? If it helps, go ahead and stand in the Algie's position wherever it is that you are at, 0.70

00:51:40.000 okay? So Nick, start paying attention to the chat because we're going to have some interaction

00:51:44.540 for this giveaway. I want you guys to put into the chat and talk to each other what does that

00:51:50.880 Algi's rune represent to you? What does this rune look like? Why do we stand in this position

00:51:56.140 when we greet the day, greet the gods, when we're hailing people? Why is that important?

00:52:02.220 What does that mean to you? So I'm going to kind of go around just a little bit. Githya,

00:52:08.800 Githya Erikson, what does the Algi's rune mean? Why would we stand this way?

00:52:14.380 you're thinking about it too hard there you go yeah you made i you know you put me on the spot

00:52:24.540 i'm really good when i have a minute to think about things so can we ask sheila first

00:52:28.460 think about this you know think about your body is that center right and your arms are out out

00:52:35.500 stretched into the alga's all geysering position right what are you reaching towards

00:52:40.460 to the heavens to the all the good the sun the light all the good things

00:52:51.340 yeah sorry yeah now and who are we reaching to what are we doing

00:52:56.860 you're muted ma'am

00:52:59.980 we're being an antenna we are putting out as well as receiving

00:53:08.620 so it is a this part of the gifting cycle in a way if you think about it wonderful so i want

00:53:16.040 everybody in this chat to think about the algae's room okay so we've got three parts of this algae's

00:53:22.480 room we've got in the middle and then we've got each of those branches here and i want you to

00:53:27.320 think of it this way just as a introduction into what we're going to be talking about next

00:53:32.260 The center of that Al-Gizrune, this is, you know, connection to the higher beings, connection, divine connection, understanding, protection, right?

00:53:44.760 Now think of the center of that Al-Gizrune as the folk. 0.68

00:53:49.540 Strong, straight, in the center, right?

00:53:54.740 Our folk follow the nine noble virtues.

00:53:58.540 That is something men and women follow.

00:54:01.600 It is something that is good for the folk.

00:54:04.260 It is virtues for the folk.

00:54:06.520 Okay?

00:54:07.600 So that center of the algae is nine noble virtues.

00:54:10.200 On each side of that, we've got two arms, right?

00:54:16.380 Masculine and feminine.

00:54:19.320 And so what we're going to be talking about today is going to be a feminine aspect of that.

00:54:23.560 Some of the feminine virtues.

00:54:25.720 The nine noble virtues are for the folk.

00:54:27.460 We're going to be talking about some virtues for our ladies.

00:54:31.600 okay men have their side as well and the men and women together

00:54:38.800 identifying as as men and women i want you to think of these feminine and these masculine

00:54:42.960 virtues as spiritual feminine identity spiritual masculine identity okay

00:54:53.040 this makes us the folk in these virtues on the side that's what helps us come together as one

00:54:59.200 folk, male and female, masculine and feminine. So some of the things that we've talked about,

00:55:05.520 the Githias here on this call have talked about with me, some of our female leadership have

00:55:08.900 talked about with me, is we have specific things that seem to be very natural for women.

00:55:16.360 They are natural virtues of femininity. Does not mean that the men cannot appreciate that. It

00:55:21.380 doesn't mean that they're off limits for the men. They're just things that come more naturally

00:55:26.400 for feminine for for our ladies for our feminine ladies and there are parts of the world and parts

00:55:33.680 of life that naturally come easier and make more sense for our men and two of those things and i'm

00:55:41.700 going to list these off really quick i'm not going to you know give you the big list but i'll name

00:55:47.340 these things that we've seen as the feminine aspects the feminine virtues and those are regality

00:55:54.680 frith duty beauty which we're talking about tonight with frith intuition altruism morality

00:56:07.240 charity and forbearance those are things that we experience those are things that we excel at

00:56:16.400 right the men again have their own side we'll get into that in another call if the guys want

00:56:22.220 to do that later on but i want you guys to think about this okay the nine noble virtues are for

00:56:30.720 the folk it makes us strong as a folk makes us good as a folk what identifies you as a spiritual

00:56:39.880 female as a spiritual woman where is that where does that power of femininity fit in in your

00:56:47.180 spirituality. And so that's something that we want to talk about tonight because beauty and frith

00:56:55.660 are something that are very natural for the ladies. Something that we thrive in them.

00:57:04.920 We nurture those things. We excel at them. We do them often without thinking.

00:57:10.780 these virtues that we're talking about we will often do without even thinking about it it's just

00:57:18.660 instinct it's just that instinct as a spiritual woman to do right so let's get into that

00:57:27.060 let's talk about frith first okay frith i'm gonna go ahead and let um get the ericsson would you

00:57:35.320 explain to us what frith is before we get too far into the weeds here and then in the chat

00:57:43.640 get those opportunities to get this cool book put your answers in the chat

00:57:51.560 um so a little bit later i'll probably touch on this again because i have a whole thing but um frith

00:57:58.680 Frith is such a complicated concept, but it's also not complicated.

00:58:04.780 We make it complicated.

00:58:06.080 A lot of people interpret frith as being peace, but it's not because peace implies that there

00:58:13.760 is no friction, that there's no unhappiness, or there's no contention at all.

00:58:18.980 It implies that everything is perfect and happy and wonderful, and we all know that

00:58:22.600 that's not what life really is.

00:58:24.960 We know that when you have a group of people in a room together, just look at the family dynamic.

00:58:31.860 Everybody gets together for Thanksgiving, and the common joke is there's going to be a fight, right?

00:58:37.120 Your uncle and your dad are going to fight because they start talking about politics or they start talking about football and they both like separate teams or something like that.

00:58:47.700 Frith is peace by choice.

00:58:53.380 And when I say that, what I mean is, and this is literally part of what I'm going to say earlier, so I'm sorry if you have to listen to it again.

00:59:02.320 But the more you hear it, the more hopefully it goes, wiggles its way into your brain and sticks.

00:59:07.240 That sounded condescending. I didn't mean it to be.

00:59:11.540 They internalized the idea that frith is like mouth is or the need fire.

00:59:18.380 You cannot create the necessary flame without the friction.

00:59:23.380 You cannot create the thing you need without the friction.

00:59:30.560 The friction is the men who might not get along very well, but who choose to put aside their not getting along because they're standing in a frith stead.

00:59:42.300 It's the men who two minutes ago were ready to punch each other in the face, but who chose to put that aside because there is a woman exerting frith over them.

00:59:51.440 And by exerting, I mean because she's present. Because a woman present is enough to make frith necessary. Because you don't act that way in front of your womenfolk. You restrain yourself. A frith stead is a place where people maintain frith. You hold frith.

01:00:10.100 and they don't have to be your favorite person they don't have to be your best friend

01:00:16.020 you don't have to like them at all but you acknowledge the fact that while we're in this

01:00:19.940 space we are choosing to be remain peaceful um and i think that's the most important thing

01:00:26.580 about frith is remembering that it is a choice you it is it's it is an expectation and oftentimes

01:00:35.140 even a requirement but you still have to choose for it you have to choose to maintain peace and

01:00:42.900 accord with the people you're in the space with so um that's what i got you know you made an

01:00:51.060 important a port in very important statement frith is a choice right frith is absolutely a choice

01:00:58.900 so we have different areas where we can use frith as women we can use this in a physical realm we

01:01:09.720 can use this at the hof in your homes at a family reunion at an afa event right so i want you to

01:01:17.600 think of a physical manifestation of frith physical something that you can see here um

01:01:25.120 um visual you know something that you can actually see somebody doing hear somebody doing um feel it

01:01:32.580 you know something physical something you would see an act maybe right so i want everybody to

01:01:39.500 think about that everybody who's playing along tell me what a physical demonstration of frith

01:01:46.620 would be. Especially you ladies out here. We do this all the time. So Mrs. East, when you go to

01:01:55.380 the Hoff and you see people that you haven't seen for a while, what are the first things that we do

01:02:02.040 as women? We always give a big hug. What is that? It's a physical example of what? A frith.

01:02:16.620 right? So when you get into that Hoff, what does it feel like, Madison, when you see these women

01:02:23.220 that you haven't seen for a month or maybe more, what kind of emotion is involved in that?

01:02:30.880 I'd say Woonio. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. It's the energy of happiness, of peace,

01:02:39.500 is a feeling of belonging.

01:02:44.520 It's a feeling of acceptance, right?

01:02:48.420 So frith doesn't just have to be physical.

01:02:51.120 Frith can be physical

01:02:52.660 where you're physically exchanging gifts, right?

01:02:56.140 You are physically defending your friend.

01:02:59.020 You are physically defending your friend's name

01:03:01.420 when your friend's not around.

01:03:03.000 That's a big one.

01:03:05.220 You know who your friends are

01:03:06.360 when they defend your name when you're not there?

01:03:08.920 It's frith.

01:03:09.500 physical acts of frith and madison just talked to us about emotional acts of frith

01:03:17.280 right that feeling of union right when we see each other when we share frith with one another

01:03:27.560 there is a a way of emotional frith i am giving you a sense of belonging i am giving you acceptance

01:03:36.940 I am valuing your feelings on something, right?

01:03:43.760 Now, I know you guys have heard the El Shirogo they say before that sometimes when you have a disagreement with someone, whether it's a breaking of an oath, a breaking of an agreement, you hurt somebody else, it is not always necessarily about who is right or wrong.

01:03:57.800 Sometimes that doesn't matter.

01:03:59.080 What matters is making it right.

01:04:02.100 Emotional frith.

01:04:03.900 What do you have to do to get that right?

01:04:06.240 What do you have to do to have that feeling of belonging?

01:04:09.820 What do you need to do to make them comfortable, to make them feel good being there with you, to feel like they're part of the folk?

01:04:17.400 What do you need to do to make them build a friendship and an emotional bond together?

01:04:22.800 So Frith can also have an emotional aspect.

01:04:26.480 What about a spiritual aspect?

01:04:32.120 Before we get into it, I want you guys to put it in chat.

01:04:34.320 give me an example of spiritual fruit a spiritual reciprocal exchange a spiritual choice

01:04:47.360 as get the erickson put it very well for this a choice for this a choice

01:04:56.000 so i'm going to pick on i'm going to pick on my ladies here with me get the mcdallon

01:05:05.280 thinking of of frith spiritually with the gods

01:05:11.680 how do we demonstrate spiritual frith

01:05:19.920 um

01:05:24.320 okay spiritual frith is um acknowledging their presence

01:05:31.440 to be focusing on them and to exchange through our thoughts or our words something that will be

01:05:41.680 we're taking i'm taking the time taking you know that is part of our gift is taking the time and

01:05:48.380 the recognition that this is an important thing for us to connect with with the quality powers

01:05:55.800 with the gods and uh that they benefit from that too this is always an exchange and um you know

01:06:03.000 it doesn't always require that we have need or something like that we can do it because

01:06:09.320 we're simply reaching out with our hearts full in the same way we do with our ancestors it could be

01:06:14.440 in lighting a candle um um putting flowers out to doing something special especially for like

01:06:23.240 the goddesses where we might do something a little softer have that cup of tea there

01:06:29.160 in a cup and and just acknowledge that feminine feminine um symbolism in that um

01:06:38.360 that i don't know um be interested in what others would add to that

01:06:43.800 but it is very much our divine connection with them we're putting in the time we're

01:06:48.440 putting in the our attention to them in a very joyous um wonderful exchange as family so okay

01:06:59.720 so we've got your physical frith covered our physical acts of frith we talked about that

01:07:04.120 we talked about our emotional frith right we just talked about spiritual frith

01:07:08.200 well they're kind of frith can there be

01:07:11.560 but frith in mind

01:07:15.020 partnerships when you are with someone that you are in a close partnership with whether it even

01:07:28.260 if it's a business partnership a work partnership a relationship when that is good and it is

01:07:35.760 reciprocal when it is reciprocal and you choose to put that relationship in the forefront

01:07:43.200 what does that do for you mentally as people

01:07:47.860 how does that bring you together mentally have you guys ever met two friends that can finish

01:07:56.780 each other's sentences have you ever met business partners that can just look at each other

01:08:05.100 and know what the answer is going to be

01:08:08.600 to this question in this business meeting.

01:08:13.460 Sheila, can you visualize the dreams of your husband?

01:08:20.840 I know you can.

01:08:22.120 You help build the AFA.

01:08:24.760 Of course.

01:08:26.340 Absolutely.

01:08:28.340 When you share that relationship with somebody,

01:08:31.820 Madison, when you are working with someone and you said you don't always see what's in their head,

01:08:38.280 in the end, do you get a product by building that relationship, by sharing these things,

01:08:43.860 by working together, by being calm and collected and trying to build a relationship with that person

01:08:49.740 to see that image and get it on paper?

01:08:52.320 Is that not an exchange of choice?

01:08:55.560 A mental exercise, so to speak?

01:08:57.860 you know yeah when you are in a fruitful situation with somebody whether like i said it can be

01:09:05.820 business partner it can be your sibling it can be your spouse it can be a co-worker that you

01:09:11.680 literally hand them something they know exactly what to do with it you don't have to speak

01:09:15.960 verbally you know each other's minds right mental frith you are you are interacting with that person

01:09:26.560 reciprocally you are building that relationship because you make it a priority you know them

01:09:33.240 you know how to support them you know what they need in that moment right whether it's something

01:09:39.920 physical something emotional but that's your mind that's trained to their mind what they need

01:09:45.600 yeah now i would like everybody in the chat i hope you guys are still playing along nick how

01:09:55.860 are we doing? Do we have participation in the chat? Are we going to have people that might get

01:09:59.400 this book? Yes, yes, yes, yes. We have probably 16 people on the list. Excellent. Excellent.

01:10:09.780 Let's keep going, guys. Let's get some more people to see if they want this book or not.

01:10:14.780 Now, I want you guys all to think of a rune that you are familiar with,

01:10:19.560 right if you do still if you are still learning them and you want to take a second and go look

01:10:26.160 up runes go ahead that's okay we all we all learn at different paces all in a different spot

01:10:32.660 but find a rune and think of a rune that means something to you okay

01:10:39.620 i want you to think about

01:10:43.680 how does frith relate to that room

01:10:48.000 i know madison mentioned wuneo earlier right that wuneo energy the meaning of wuneo

01:10:58.920 madison how does frith work into that room

01:11:04.920 i'm drawing a blank so what so frith is peace and relationships and friendships

01:11:16.620 and wuneo is that community right so those two go together pretty well right yes yeah

01:11:24.220 if you have that that fruitful relationship that choice that intentional choice to make

01:11:32.460 something important to give it gifts to give it honor to nurture that relationship and build on it

01:11:41.500 that's what creates community that is what creates joy you can take any of these runes it's it's an

01:11:50.220 exercise i'm not saying that you have to do this this is not something that's you know if a religious

01:11:56.540 study or anything like that it's just something that the else year ago the indulges me on talking

01:12:00.300 about but think about that how can frith affect the rune fehu you know with your how can it

01:12:09.740 affect prosperity how can it affect um how can it affect your anything you could apply it to anything

01:12:21.100 frith is all around us frith isn't everything we do if we choose to do it

01:12:26.620 And one of the reasons that we always say that this is something that's a feminine virtue is this is something that women often do without thinking twice about it, without thinking twice about it.

01:12:42.060 men are more cautious, right? Men are more cautious. And why? Because while we're running

01:12:51.540 around, silly girls hugging everybody at the half, they're going, I don't know that one. I don't know

01:12:58.680 that one. And my wife, daughter, girlfriend, sister's about to go hug this person and welcome

01:13:03.600 them. I don't know him. I don't know him. I don't know that person. I've never seen this face before.

01:13:07.560 they are our protectors. That's their job. It is their job to be cautious for us because we are

01:13:15.460 inherently, oh my goodness, welcome to the half. Come on in. Here's a horn. This is so-and-so.

01:13:21.520 That's us, right? How many times have you guys seen the meme where the man's walking behind his

01:13:28.200 wife or beside his wife and he's like, the exits are over here. I have got a person at 12 o'clock.

01:13:33.140 I've got a dog over here and I've got this and she's singing like the Scooby-Doo theme in her

01:13:36.960 head. That's real, you guys. But that's also why frith is so much easier for the women because we

01:13:46.700 are so much more open in that regard, right? Now, trauma happens, life happens, things happen to

01:13:55.780 take that from you as a woman. But the ability to be open with your folk and to trust your folk

01:14:03.700 and to know that the men have got our back

01:14:06.300 so that we can be those frithful beings.

01:14:10.140 That is that beautiful balance

01:14:11.900 between our men and our women.

01:14:14.760 And that's something that spiritually identifies us as women.

01:14:18.760 The ability to know I can be welcoming.

01:14:23.080 I can do these things and build this community

01:14:26.160 and build these relationships

01:14:27.800 and bring these families together.

01:14:29.660 And it's okay for me to do that

01:14:31.120 because my men got our back.

01:14:33.700 right? I can be open. I can put myself out there and be in these relationships and build

01:14:42.340 these relationships because I've got our men behind us, making sure that we're okay, right?

01:14:51.280 So I went on about that a lot. Does anybody have anything to add about Frith before we

01:14:58.680 get into, Githya Erikson's got an example of a very fruitful woman. She's got some examples.

01:15:06.160 Does anybody have anything to add on that before we go forward?

01:15:12.160 Yeah, I think a good example of it is how we work together at our food pantries. Everybody

01:15:20.500 brings something to it. We might be all working together, bagging up stuff, but sometimes the

01:15:26.620 will take on a particular world and women will take on something else and i know i just love

01:15:32.780 being out there among the people and welcoming them and seeing my our staff our our team working

01:15:39.500 together and um taking care of of people you know there's that that sense of fulfillment

01:15:46.620 and appreciation of each other and that teamwork is just so fulfilling to do i i would hate to not

01:15:55.420 be able to do that someday because I think it's a really something very beneficial to the group

01:16:02.320 to be able to come together for something that is so important as feeding a lot of needy people

01:16:08.140 and we do it very much as as our own group but still we are affecting so many people in such

01:16:14.400 wonderful ways and they appreciate that and again that's kind of an exchange of frith as well

01:16:19.500 when we're out in public and we're doing because we feel it in our heart we want to take care of

01:16:25.060 others and be respectful we do it all and people are often so surprised that there are people who

01:16:31.220 still carry that in their hearts of um you know opening the door and doing those things and saying

01:16:37.700 please and thank you all those things that come so natural to us but i think we we ladies do it

01:16:43.460 so very well especially um at our hops um welcoming the new people making sure that those who are

01:16:52.660 around in a need of some kind of of support um get that whether it's in the kitchen or doing

01:16:59.460 something else we keep our eyes open for what's needed and help take care i mean that's part of it

01:17:05.460 is making sure things run smoothly and that's part of frith and working together with the

01:17:10.740 folk and keeping things running well as they should absolutely

01:17:16.500 all right get the ericsson you've got somebody that you want to talk about tonight that gives us

01:17:24.420 some information on frith yes yes ma'am and i'm going to do my face

01:17:30.560 my best not to make a lot of faces because i do that um

01:17:34.620 so i am going to apologize in advance i took a lot of notes and i'm going to do my very best

01:17:43.160 make sure that i stay on point but i do have a tendency as um as a witten facet sometimes

01:17:50.920 talks about i don't talk in a straight line and um rabbit holes are sort of a friend of mine

01:17:58.680 you know we're real cozy um so one of obviously the con the the topic of um

01:18:07.880 our call is very much about Frith this time, our call, our episode. And something that's really

01:18:17.040 important for women is that we are Frith Weavers or Peace Weavers. Many of you have heard me talk

01:18:25.500 about Frith before. If you're in the Asa True Folk Assembly, I've done it on previous episodes of

01:18:31.040 VNS. I talk about it at almost every national event that I'm at in which I am leading a women's

01:18:37.860 group. And I'm going to keep talking about it because Frith is inherently a part of what we do.

01:18:45.300 It's an inherent part of who we are as women. And I think that it is a very important concept for all

01:18:54.780 of our women in particular to really truly internalize. And that doesn't happen if you

01:18:59.680 don't talk about it a lot, if you don't learn about it at all times. You'll never really

01:19:05.380 truly understand frith but you can spend a lifetime doing your best to understand frith

01:19:11.460 but i feel that way about a lot of things we're never going to know it all we're going to do our

01:19:15.620 best though so um in this particular instance um i'm going to kind of veer off but i'm going to be

01:19:28.020 speaking about Weltyo. I have it written down over here how to say it so that I don't forget. It's

01:19:35.860 Weltyo, who is arguably one of the best known examples of a frith weaver in our stories.

01:19:42.580 So in Beowulf, Weltyo is the wife of King Hrothgar, the queen of the Danes. She is the cup bearer and

01:19:48.740 the frith weaver in the hall of her husband. And to understand the importance of this role

01:19:53.460 and the character of Weltio, it's important to really understand how the queens of old became

01:20:01.380 Frithwebers. So in the time of our ancestors, highborn women were in many, many cases most

01:20:08.900 useful to their families as a bride gift. Their greatest honor was to be given as peace brides

01:20:15.300 to enemy clans to create a bloodline that mingled the two tribes and therefore put an end to the

01:20:21.540 feud through kinship um in fact in many cases not in all cases but in many cases that is the only

01:20:29.540 way that a feud could come to an end is when the two warring clans or the warring kingdoms

01:20:36.660 became became king through the birth of a child um and that required

01:20:42.180 Sorry. Svan put over in the comments, as I'm sure you all can see. I lost it. She was a Herul. Queen

01:20:53.820 Wilteo. I don't know. I'm not good at the pronouncing of things. Shvigo. So, try to,

01:21:05.700 for our women in particular, but I think our men can probably do this too, try to take in

01:21:11.220 in a minute and imagine what it would be like to be a highborn young woman

01:21:19.300 and to be sent off as a a peace bride and peace bride is i don't know if i read it somewhere or

01:21:25.860 if i made it up but for our purposes it serves hopefully you understand what i mean when i say

01:21:30.820 a peace bride a bride that is given to the enemy to create peace um

01:21:36.260 as a highborn young woman you would likely be in the throes of grief your people are at war

01:21:44.340 you have family perhaps brothers or cousins or uncles and friends who have been killed

01:21:51.660 in the feud by the people of the man you're about to go marry so you'll you're you're sent

01:21:59.380 to a strange land to marry a man you don't know who is responsible for the killing of your people

01:22:04.080 And in doing so, you are going to a place where it is very likely the people are also grieving because they have family and friends that have been killed in this feud by your people.

01:22:17.040 Sounds kind of like a tense atmosphere, right?

01:22:19.220 Might be a little uncomfortable. 0.95

01:22:20.420 And this is where we see the difference between the real peaceweavers and those who are not.

01:22:25.440 So a highborn woman's most important role as a peaceweaver was to have children.

01:22:29.300 those children are literal tools of frith weaving because they combine the two families through

01:22:33.620 blood and force the end of the feud through kinship as i stated previously additionally

01:22:40.020 though frith weavers are known to be joyful they always seem to be so joyful they're happy

01:22:47.220 um they're calm they're closed mouthed as in they they keep counsel they don't gossip they don't

01:22:55.140 spread secrets or lies. They keep their own counsel. They're loyal, and oftentimes they're

01:23:03.800 very wise. They had an ability to encourage joy and calm in other people, as well as to create

01:23:10.660 and build the bonds between people and communities. More than that, Frithweavers,

01:23:16.680 they really had to be able to set aside their own personal jealousies and vendettas for the

01:23:21.960 greater good of their people and this can be really hard to do so not all women can find the 0.65

01:23:27.240 inner frith weaver it sounds kind of cheesy but some women focus on manipulation with the purpose

01:23:32.540 of divisiveness on vengeance or on general negativity and she will turn everything she

01:23:40.020 touches it to sourness and deceit and we all know negativity is easier to fester in than joy is to

01:23:45.720 maintain. And that sounds so it sounds so negative when you say it like that. But we I mean, we call

01:23:52.580 it being blackpilled these days, right? Like, it's a whole thing. You're blackpilled. And once once

01:23:58.360 you start, it's a very it's a very difficult cycle to break. If you can break it, though, there is a

01:24:04.600 path for any women. And we are because we are inherently fruitful to build herself up. And by

01:24:10.880 doing so to also build up those around her. So you see here the first, it's just

01:24:18.740 a quote, it's about Maudreth. In Beowulf we see Queen Maudreth who is at first

01:24:25.400 very angry and vengeful and she is seen as cruel and bloodthirsty, killing men

01:24:30.760 for casting their eyes upon her and innocent people for displeasing her.

01:24:35.940 she's full of rage and it and she took it out on everyone um and this is an example of somebody who

01:24:42.760 like i said above just she's stuck in that negative cycle um i'm not going to read the

01:24:53.920 quote um it's up there you can see it it basically just says she would it was not a

01:25:00.380 peace weavery lady-ish thing to do to go killing people for perceived slights basically um and then

01:25:08.480 in the next um quote if you don't mind nick there you go um it's oh i closed the screen by accident

01:25:19.720 sorry i need to pull my notes back up um in this next clip clip we can see if you read through it

01:25:29.960 And she, Queen Madreth, is sent as a peace bride to King Offa of Mercia.

01:25:41.440 and we see that she undergoes a transformation so completely that she is not only highly praised

01:25:49.260 but is considered to be a virtuous a virtuous queen who is a like a a paragon of of a peace

01:25:59.800 weaver how do you go from being angry and rageful and vengeful killing people for looking at you

01:26:07.260 funny to a virtuous and highly praised queen i am not going to go into that uh at this point in time

01:26:20.620 but i i can't not bring up modrith when i'm talking about frith and a woman's ability to

01:26:25.820 become a peace weaver without mentioning one of the best examples we have of a woman who becomes

01:26:31.260 one who starts in a negative place and ends in a positive place because we all have the ability to

01:26:39.420 do that men and women um it's just finding a reason um so anybody who's ever heard me talk

01:26:48.360 about frith before has heard me mention that frith is a in a woman is inherent and this is where i'm

01:26:53.080 gonna um repeat some things that i've already said um but frith itself is not peace it's more

01:27:00.380 complicated than that. It's a choice. You have to choose frith. You have to choose to remain

01:27:06.820 peaceful under the right circumstances in the right places. Two men who don't like each other

01:27:13.480 and who might in some circumstances participate in fisticuffs under other circumstances can find

01:27:20.280 themselves face to face in that frith stead and they have to choose to remain frithful. Breaking

01:27:26.680 the frith stead by not maintaining frith by breaking that frith there have less

01:27:37.540 people have been removed from frith steads and removed from their communities for lesser

01:27:45.620 things but i lost my train of thought on that one i don't know where i was going and i was in

01:27:53.900 middle of going there sorry um either way let you much like the rune mouth is the knee fire you need

01:28:01.260 the friction you need the friction to create the flame you need the the frictive energy of the men

01:28:08.060 in order for there to be the choice to make to maintain frith if it was easy it wouldn't be frith

01:28:15.020 and you can't be frithful by yourself it can't be just you frithful is an exchange for i'm sorry not

01:28:20.860 frithful frith is an exchange it's an exchange between a person and their ancestors a person

01:28:27.660 and their gods a person and their family or other people uh there has to be it has to be an exchange

01:28:38.220 so because of this frictive or kinetic energy that is so inherent in men who biologically tend

01:28:45.100 towards violence uh i'm going to say i think your warriors think of your protectors and sometimes

01:28:51.180 you have to think about your thugs because thugs are sort of the the negative manifestation of a

01:28:57.340 man's natural inclination towards violence um the protector is the or the warrior is the positive

01:29:04.620 manifestation of that that natural inclination and we need the fruitful energy of the peace weaver

01:29:11.420 who is calm and joyful and desirous of helping to build her people up it's a symbiosis of men

01:29:17.180 and women we have different skills we have different roles and when we are acting as good

01:29:21.500 and noble aryan men and women like we should always be striving to do we complement each other

01:29:30.060 and uh and uh it's important to recognize that because we're not equal men and women are not

01:29:36.700 equal. We are very different, we have different strengths, but it doesn't mean that we don't

01:29:45.260 belong together and that we don't fit in a way that makes sense. So a true Frithweaver has a

01:29:52.860 good deal of power. Her words are listened to and oftentimes, as we can see with Veltio,

01:29:59.500 we can change the very outcome of monumental moments. She even gives her

01:30:06.160 own daughter Freowaru in marriage to a warring kingdom as a peace

01:30:11.560 bride. So she's so invested in her role of being a peace weaver that she is

01:30:17.080 willing to send her daughter off to marry in an enemy kingdom just the way

01:30:22.180 she was sent to marry into an enemy's kingdom. So, Nick, if you'll bring up the first clip for

01:30:31.460 Welteo. Thank you. So I'm going to, this is Welteo in her role as a cupbearer,

01:30:43.380 and I'm going to read this one. Joyous then was the jewel giver, or Herod wore brave.

01:30:50.040 help waited help awaited the bright danes prince from beowulf hearing folks good shepherd such

01:30:57.080 firm resolve then as laughter of liegemen's loud resounded resounding small on my screen

01:31:04.280 with winsome words came wealth teo forth queen of hrothgar needful of courtesy gold decked greeting

01:31:11.480 the guests in the hall and the highborn lady handed the cup first to the east danes heir and

01:31:16.520 warden bade him be blithe at the beer crow carus carouse the land's beloved one lustily took the

01:31:26.840 lustily he took banquet and beaker battle famed king through the hall then went the helming's

01:31:32.840 lady to younger and older everywhere carried the cup to come till come the moment when the ring

01:31:38.840 graced queen the royal hearted to beowulf bore the beaker of need she greeted the gates lord

01:31:45.160 God she thanked in wisdom words that her will was granted, that at last on a hero her hope could lean for comfort in terror. The cup he took, hearty in war, from Wiltia's hand, and answer uttered the eager for combat. Beowulf spoke, Baron of Egtho.

01:32:08.140 this was my thought when my thanes and i bent to the ocean and entered our boats that i would work

01:32:14.900 the will of your people fully or fall or fighting fall in death in the fiends grip fast i am firm

01:32:21.760 to do an earl's brave deed and end the days of this life of mine in that need hall here

01:32:27.520 will these words well these words to the woman seemed beowulf's battle boast bright with gold

01:32:34.460 the stately dame by her spouse sat down so well tiao her is herself what i refer to earlier as

01:32:46.840 the peace bride she was given to given as a bride to the enemy to contract peace and in this role

01:32:53.960 she she really excelled we have this passage from beowulf which i just read showing her in the role

01:33:00.860 cupbearer she's adorned very richly with expensive clothing and many articles of jewelry

01:33:06.700 and they they make a point of really talking about the fact that she is well adorned because

01:33:13.020 as a as a noble lady and a cupbearer and a peace weaver it was important to make sure that the

01:33:23.980 people knew she was important and that she was of high standing because it was really a value

01:33:30.540 a valuable role to be the queen or to be the cup bearer um

01:33:38.540 she this it demonstrates to everybody this the status of that she's a powerful woman

01:33:45.580 as a cupbearer she starts with her husband the king giving him the first sip and she ends with

01:33:50.220 beowulf and this is in fact showing great honor to beowulf who as the last to receive the horn

01:33:55.740 is also given the final speech or his battle boast and it wasn't until beowulf was finished

01:34:02.380 that the queen took her sink next to the king and his words because they were pleasing to the queen

01:34:10.540 were accepted it by everybody the fact that she chose to acknowledge that speech and and like it

01:34:15.980 It said, sorry, well these words to the woman seemed, meaning she approved of them, and a woman approving of a man's words over the horn was a very important thing because she has the prestige of her role and as not just the queen but as the cupbearer that implies, or not implies,

01:34:43.320 um, it gives Beowulf even greater honor. So I have to get to the next part of my note, sorry.

01:34:57.800 Um, yes, so there's also mention later, I don't have, um, the, the, um, the clip of this,

01:35:06.680 um but there's mention of her power the power of her very presence when she enters the hall

01:35:14.640 and with just the touch of a word the touch of a hand in the word a word she's able to soothe a

01:35:21.860 pair of flaring the flaring tempers of a pair of men who had just engaged in

01:35:26.660 what might be considered a contentious fighting or a poetic smackdown if you will

01:35:33.060 Weltyo is in fact held in such esteem that she's able to speak with the authority of a man in a

01:35:41.300 manner that the men don't find unusual or uncomfortable in fact they listen and they

01:35:45.640 take heed and we see this in her next speech to her husband Hrothgar if you don't mind Nick

01:35:53.000 Thank you. So, in everything that I have seen, people often refer to this as Veltio's sermon in response to the speech that her husband Hrothgar makes, which they call Hrothgar's sermon.

01:36:11.000 And Hothgar, in his gratefulness to Beowulf for his heroic deeds, publicly makes the statement that he would like to see Beowulf become his heir. And in fact, he even exclaims that he would like to adopt Beowulf, making him his son.

01:36:24.980 And Wilteo is not as super excited about that because she has her own kids and she doesn't want to see this become a problem or a feud.

01:36:43.320 um I'm gonna pull it up on my screen but only because on the screen in front of on the VNS

01:36:52.300 screen my oh Nick you knew what I was gonna do thank you I appreciate that he's always on top

01:36:59.540 of everything so I'm going to read this one too uh I'm gonna read her sermon um said the queen

01:37:06.140 of the shielding shielding yeah shielding I had to write that one down too so I would remember how

01:37:12.200 say it said the queen to the shielding my lord and protector treasure bestower take thou the speaker

01:37:19.160 joyous attend thee gold friend of heroes and greet thou the geetmen and the gracious with

01:37:25.400 gracious responses so ought one to do be kind to the geetmen in gifts not niggardly a near and afar

01:37:35.000 now peace thou enjoyest report hath informed me thou have for a bairn the brave battle the battle

01:37:42.840 brave hero now is herald cleansed ring palace gleaming give while thou mayest many rewards

01:37:51.160 and bequeath to thy kinsmen kingdom and people on wending thy way on wending thy way to the

01:37:57.800 the wielder's splendor, I know that the noble young troopers he'll care for and honor, lord

01:38:10.380 of the shieldings, if earth joys thou endest earlier than he doth. I reckon that recompense

01:38:17.700 he'll render with kindness our offspring an issue, if that all he remember what favors

01:38:23.580 of yore when he yet was an infant we we awarded him for his worship and pleasure then she turned

01:38:32.300 by the bench where her sons were carousing hreth hrethric and rothmund and the hero's offspring

01:38:40.220 the war young together there the good one was sitting twixt the brothers twain beowulf of

01:38:47.020 Geatman. So I know that's probably easier to follow if I wasn't reading it. Sometimes reading

01:38:56.540 it yourself is easier. I don't know. It's easier for me to read than to listen sometimes. But

01:39:01.260 basically what happened here is Wiltio's speech is clearly indicating her concern regarding Hrothgar's

01:39:09.180 statement that he views Beowulf as his son. She's reminding Hrothgar that his own children are his

01:39:14.380 rightful heirs and that if hrothgar should pass away unexpectedly there is contention now for

01:39:23.260 his seat on the throne her speech is an example of how much power and involvement that she has

01:39:28.940 is the queen and political matters and her advice is designed to avoid is designed to avoid the

01:39:35.180 potential struggle between the geese and the danes because if hrothgar dies and beowulf is now an heir

01:39:44.380 by virtue of his adoption, and he wants the throne, there is a potential feud with Beowulf

01:39:52.900 and the Geats and the Danes with her sons who's going to sit on the throne, and are they going

01:39:58.280 to have to battle it out? She's trying to avoid that. And in the next half of her speech, which

01:40:05.740 Nick is going to pop up for me, after having given Beowulf lots of gifts in the form of gold

01:40:12.740 and jewels, and I think some horses, which shows some even greater honor, Wiltio addresses Beowulf

01:40:20.700 directly. Wiltio discoursed, the war troop addressed she, this color and joy thou Beowulf

01:40:27.800 worthy, young man in safety, and use thou this armor, gems of the people, and prosper thou

01:40:34.720 fully, show thyself sturdy, and be to these liege men mild with instruction, I'll mind thy requital,

01:40:42.740 thou hast brought it to pass that far and near forever and ever earthman shall honor thee

01:40:49.300 even so widely as oceans surrounded the blustering blifts blustering blifts blustering bluffs yes

01:40:58.100 be whilst thou livest a wealth-blessed eighthling i wish thee most truly jewels and

01:41:04.020 treasure be kind to the suns thou living in joyance here each of those nobles is true unto

01:41:11.860 is true unto other gentle and spirit loyal to the leader the liegemen are peaceful the war

01:41:17.140 troops are ready well drunken heroes do as i bid ye then she went to settle

01:41:24.180 so she goes to sit down after having addressed beowulf directly and with the speech she

01:41:30.980 she's reasserting her earlier wishes directly to beowulf in this passage she's reminding him

01:41:36.660 that he is now considered by her, via her first speech, to be an official protector of Hrothgar

01:41:43.220 and Wiltio's two sons, and that he shouldn't do anything that would jeopardize her son's rights

01:41:48.740 to the throne. And even though Wiltio's speech to Beowulf is friendly and polite,

01:41:55.060 the last line is a command that Beowulf would have understood clearly. And this moment in the poem

01:42:01.780 is to me a stroke of political brilliance on her part as the peace weaver in the hall she remains

01:42:08.020 calm and pleasant as she should and yet she is still able to redirect the entire moment firmly

01:42:13.780 without causing tension between herself her husband and beowulf in front of their comitatus

01:42:19.700 which is warband in front of the warriors i don't know i decided to choose a fancy word but

01:42:24.500 But now as modern women, we aren't going to be given as peace brides to an enemy tribe,

01:42:31.620 but that doesn't mean that our roles as fourth weavers aren't just as important,

01:42:35.820 particularly in the Ossetree Folk Assembly as we tried to rebuild our folk

01:42:39.700 and to build this future for our children and for their children and their children and so on and so forth.

01:42:46.040 We live in easy times in many ways, but peace weaving has never and will never be easy.

01:42:50.940 and a lot of that stems from our own personal battles to become and maintain our fruitful

01:42:56.940 inheritance it is really easy to think one little nasty thought and that one little nasty thought

01:43:04.740 sometimes slowly and sometimes quickly depending on our moods can spiral down at the very slippery

01:43:10.740 slope of negativity and jealousy and I argue that we live in a society that wants us to live in this

01:43:18.840 cycle of negativity and jealousy and self-gratification because it prevents us from

01:43:24.920 fulfilling our natural roles as mothers and as friends and as the catalyst that can build our

01:43:30.040 folk up from being, build our folk up and bringing them together. So one of the biggest things our

01:43:40.720 women need to do, and I'm not saying that we're all at different stages of this, sometimes

01:43:48.100 we

01:43:50.260 I speak for myself

01:43:54.640 because I really I'm not going to choose to speak

01:43:56.680 for other women I don't know everybody's

01:43:58.960 personal stories but I know that

01:44:00.800 I have

01:44:02.460 periods in my life where

01:44:04.440 it is easier than others

01:44:06.040 to maintain a

01:44:08.580 positive attitude and I know that there

01:44:10.620 are definitely times where it's much harder

01:44:12.540 where the negativity is just

01:44:14.720 it's lodged

01:44:16.620 in there and it's hard to get out and i think that we probably all experience that sometimes and

01:44:24.380 i think one of the biggest things as women we can do is make a conscious effort whenever we

01:44:31.980 we remember to to let go of the negative to let go of the the selfish inclination towards isolation

01:44:41.580 and separatism and i call it selfish because i'm speaking on a larger scale i'm not doing myself

01:44:48.860 or anybody i know any good by sitting in my room and not talking or by um

01:44:57.660 not engaging with the folk and doing my best to build that frith and to weave that piece so um

01:45:07.260 again I'm like I said it's I'm not speaking I'm speaking in a broader term

01:45:12.260 when I say the selfishness there the desire for instant gratification we

01:45:22.800 need to we need to work our way out of that because instant gratification

01:45:26.740 really is the bane of a lot of things because it centers on us we become the

01:45:33.880 entire center of our own universes when we worry only about gratifying ourselves, especially

01:45:39.440 when it's the instant kind.

01:45:42.260 I believe with all my heart that women are happiest and most fulfilled when they can

01:45:46.200 learn to, when necessary, think first of the whole. 0.99

01:45:53.520 In my particular instance, having children is one of the best examples and the most in-your-face 0.87

01:45:59.320 example of a woman choosing to put herself second for the betterment of the whole in this case the 0.98

01:46:08.200 children being the whole the future the family all of that um not every woman woman is going

01:46:17.800 to feel that way though i under i understand that not all women can have children not all women want

01:46:22.200 children um whether you think that's good or not just if a woman doesn't want children

01:46:29.400 i would prefer she not have children um if a woman can't have children and she wants children 0.89

01:46:37.160 um i want them to be aunties like brandy was saying earlier we can always use more aunties

01:46:48.040 i lost my train of thought sorry um

01:46:52.200 We've all met that one mother who was always miserable because they were so wrapped up in

01:46:57.720 themselves that everything else was a point of contention, even their own children.

01:47:06.600 And sometimes we meet those false frithweavers. These women, they always seem to be joyous and

01:47:13.080 wise and kind. They draw you in and we may not always recognize the negativity or the

01:47:18.600 destructiveness or the manipulation. These women, they don't understand what frith is or they just 1.00

01:47:24.740 haven't realized how unhappy they are. Maybe they have something deep down inside that they don't 0.65

01:47:29.440 even know they have to overcome, but it manifests as manipulation and divisiveness. They build

01:47:34.740 themselves up by making those on the outside of their group, be it their family or their friends,

01:47:40.760 the bad guy. And ultimately, rather than creating a healthy and strong community, they will build

01:47:46.240 one full of venom and that poison will just keep spreading out until everything it touches is just

01:47:54.240 shriveled up and yucky. On the other hand, we have all been drawn to that one woman,

01:48:00.780 the one who always seems so happy and kind and respectful and the one who doesn't talk smack

01:48:05.400 about people who aren't around, the one who's always willing to defend her friend even when

01:48:10.140 her friend isn't there to hear it, the one who always seems to offer the best counsel even when

01:48:15.720 didn't know you needed it. We have many of these women in the AFA. I believe that our Giddias are

01:48:21.160 a very good example of this, but I want to name a specific woman in Heather Young, who I believe

01:48:29.240 she's one of our beautiful Giddias in training. And she is one of the people that I believe is

01:48:35.880 such a shining example of a natural frith weaver. And anybody who is watching this right now who's

01:48:42.200 in the afa if you don't know what i mean i i am sorry but most of you have probably spoken to

01:48:48.840 heather at some point even if it was because she just texted you i wouldn't stop texting you until

01:48:54.120 you responded to her because that's what she does she's just and so inherently spreads light through

01:49:03.000 every life she touches and i i firmly believe that my life is better for knowing her so i wanted to

01:49:08.920 to give her a small shout out in this because I believe she is really just the best shining

01:49:15.900 example of a natural frith weaver I know. I'm almost done. So I am by no means a perfect

01:49:25.300 person. I stayed earlier. I definitely have my moments where I get stuck in the negative

01:49:30.860 and I have to drag myself out and sometimes it's with bloody fingernails because I got

01:49:37.020 a claw you know um but i believe the greatest joy and purpose i have in my personal life is being a

01:49:44.860 wife and a mother when i want to just get some sleep or i'm sick or i'm uncomfortable and i just

01:49:51.560 can't rest because the kids need something even then all i have to do is stop and i just look at

01:49:57.080 my kids and they'll be busy doing something they have no idea i'm watching them and i just see

01:50:02.160 their faces and my heart swells and I forget that I'm upset about something or that I'm tired or

01:50:08.600 that I just want to take a dang break or even a nap. I haven't had one of those in a really long

01:50:13.540 time and I'm not really a mushy person but I love being a wife. I feel I probably genuinely thank

01:50:22.700 the gods and the ancestors at least three times a week for my luck because I firmly believe that

01:50:30.860 the act of giving to my family has made me a better person it has given me

01:50:38.520 fulfillment and it it helps remind me to be joyous because like I said all I have

01:50:43.040 to do is look at my kids sometimes all I have to do is look at my husband but

01:50:46.760 not always that's that's a different thing but we love each other we respect

01:50:52.020 each other and we communicate with each other and those three things are three

01:50:55.760 things that peace weavers really need to be able to do and to build within their

01:51:00.100 communities whatever that community is so for me that is my tether back to the positive frith

01:51:10.660 weaver that i know i can be as my family i am lucky enough that i get to do that for my kids

01:51:16.340 and then i get to do that for my husband and then i get to do that for the afa as a givya um but

01:51:23.540 this is my own personal experience and to our women i want you all to spend some time thinking

01:51:28.500 about the things in your life that are good think about the things that fill you with joy and purpose

01:51:33.940 and i want you to think about the things that don't

01:51:38.260 what can you do and how can you alter the way that you think about these things to begin that

01:51:44.180 shift towards becoming a frith weaver for your immediate family or for your friends

01:51:49.700 for your community whatever it is wherever it is and i want you to remember that the life

01:51:56.020 Wiltio, that life...

01:52:05.220 There have been women for centuries before us who have found the strength and the courage to

01:52:09.620 build for it, even in the most hostile environments. And Wiltio is a good example of that.

01:52:18.740 There are many examples. I have a list of them. I'm going to finish up and just say

01:52:23.940 that we have those women we have our ancestors we have our gods we have each other as women

01:52:34.980 to lean on and to find examples in so that we can learn and we can grow and we can build

01:52:41.620 and that's all i'm going to say about that thank you ma'am that was great i appreciate that thank

01:52:49.060 you very much now one more exercise on frith get ready if you want this book get your fingers on

01:52:57.220 your keyboard or on your phone i need you in the chat i want you all to think of one of the nine

01:53:04.420 noble virtues remember the nine noble virtues are that center post of algy's room we the feminine

01:53:09.380 masculine virtues royal virtues are on the side put in the chat one of the nine noble virtues

01:53:16.340 any one of them that you're comfortable with

01:53:20.340 okay honor yeah

01:53:25.100 industriousness fidelity yeah now i want you to put in the chat how does frith

01:53:34.720 relate to that virtue that you just put in the chat

01:53:41.580 how does courage relate to frith

01:53:44.040 what about frith requires courage what about frith relates to hospitality

01:53:54.200 how does what about frith relates to honor

01:54:00.560 right put that in there how does frith impact industriousness how does frith impact victory

01:54:12.140 whoever does how frith impacts victory nick i want their name in an extra time

01:54:18.960 that's a big one we've been talking all night about how that can happen

01:54:25.780 get your name in twice if you do that so think about that as well we've talked about

01:54:33.700 how frith can be you know um physical manifestations of frith mental ones

01:54:39.940 emotional, spiritual examples of frith, how frith can tie into runic energies, meanings,

01:54:51.600 pathways. And now think about how those, how frith can tie into each of those nine

01:55:00.520 noble virtues. Because you can put frith into every one of them, how?

01:55:05.320 and i don't ask you these questions because i want you to regurgitate my answer i want you to

01:55:12.560 think about it because i want you to be able to take that virtue

01:55:17.260 and tie it into that center post of the folk and those virtues as well

01:55:23.560 expand and grow learn about yourself right and last but not least i want you to think about

01:55:36.180 what does frith look like in relation to our folk it's pretty obvious we've been talking about that

01:55:42.980 all night right right how does frith impact your relationship with the gods

01:55:54.100 how does frith impact your relationship with your ancestors

01:55:58.340 again these are answers i can't just give you you need to think about them

01:56:01.140 right you've got your three steps your folk your ancestors your gods

01:56:08.020 right you've got all of these runes that you can explore with the concept

01:56:16.500 relate them to the center post of agis nine noble virtues

01:56:25.540 so we have talked about frith for about two hours guys

01:56:31.140 We're going to move on to beauty. This one, I think people understand on a more basic level.

01:56:39.620 So let's think about beauty. This is another one of those virtues.

01:56:43.560 And we're going to kind of do the same thing here now that we're used to the concepts that we're talking about.

01:56:48.380 What is beauty? And there's a couple of questions that people had that we want to go ahead and get to.

01:56:55.680 And one of the questions that we had was, what do you, oh, let me find that.

01:57:02.380 I'm sorry.

01:57:04.880 See, I scrolled past it and then I lost it.

01:57:06.680 I apologize, guys.

01:57:07.660 I'm going to answer this one really quick. 0.52

01:57:09.940 Can white Mediterranean people with Southern European heritage worship Wotan?

01:57:14.940 Or should they call the Celestial Father by the name of Jupiter or Zeus?

01:57:19.620 You can absolutely honor Odin.

01:57:22.920 Absolutely.

01:57:25.680 Odin's name was hailed all over, all over Europe, from north to south. Absolutely.

01:57:37.220 All right. And if any of my ladies do have to work tomorrow, please feel free to say goodnight

01:57:42.760 when you need to. I know it's getting late. All right. So we're going to go ahead and talk about

01:57:47.920 beauty. And one of the first questions that we had tonight was about beauty. And it was,

01:57:54.940 githias what do you find most beautiful about the hops aesthetically so let's go ahead and start

01:58:00.780 with githia erickson i'm gonna be really cheesy and say i think beauty is my children it is

01:58:17.580 they're asking about the house that's specific oh about the hops i'm sorry

01:58:21.340 What is the thing I find most beautiful about the Hoffs? Was that the question?

01:58:30.460 Their existence, that by themselves, is about the most beautiful thing in the whole world.

01:58:36.460 If we're talking about aesthetics, I am particularly fond of Florshoff.

01:58:44.780 my husband and I actually did look for a Thor's Hoff before it was found down in North Carolina

01:58:55.580 and I'm very very glad that we were not successful because I love that Hoff it was the first Hoff I

01:59:02.620 had ever no I had been to Odin's Hoff before Odin's Hoff is beautiful I love it I love the

01:59:07.080 fact that it has the yard and it's the it had it looks like what I think the Hoff was supposed to

01:59:12.980 look like before I saw Thor's Hoth. But the fact that they exist, I think, is the most beautiful

01:59:19.020 thing in the whole world, because it means that my children live in a world with a Hoth. And I 0.99

01:59:23.580 know you'll hear a lot of us say that, but I've been Asatru in one form or another for almost

01:59:30.500 20 years now. And if you had asked me 20 years ago if my children would grow up with four

01:59:36.040 plus and counting hoffs in the world um i wouldn't have believed it because i wouldn't have believed 1.00

01:59:44.300 that any group of people could come together and actually make it happen uh so that's what i think

01:59:50.520 is the most beautiful thing about hoffs madison what do you believe is the most beautiful thing

01:59:55.680 on the hoffs aesthetically wise aesthetic wise i'm gonna have to say the murals that witness

02:00:02.840 responded definitely what about you get the mcnellen what do you enjoy most about the aesthetics of the

02:00:09.960 hoffs

02:00:21.720 got it okay um

02:00:25.320 um i have not yet been to new york's off i will be there next month i certainly know odenshof

02:00:33.240 but i have to say about thor's off and bouldershof is that yes they were former christian churches

02:00:41.240 but that is it because they transformed so beautifully to our needs um to our um we filled

02:00:49.240 the space with our spirit and the way that both Hoffs in similar ways redesign them and they're

02:00:58.860 they truly are places of sanctity and peace and the murals and each of those those murals is what

02:01:07.640 really pulls it all together it gives us the focus the lighting everything about them it just is

02:01:13.740 breathtaking to see photos and know that i've even been there before for odin's hof you know it it is

02:01:21.420 uh was the old grange hall so it was never a church like the other ones and um it's taken a

02:01:27.780 long time to give it uh that that uh sense of sanctity that the others have and it will never

02:01:35.860 really have it quite certain because it's a multi-purpose room um and yet i think we've

02:01:41.520 done a really fine job with what we have with our Ancestors Table and our Wiede von List and all

02:01:46.980 in our own Mural to Odin. But also our doors are amazing. The Ritual Circle, which was built so

02:01:57.560 many years ago by one of our kind of bands of young men who came and left, but they did the

02:02:04.860 the black sun in in brick surrounded by trees we have thorgrin odin godi thorgrin odin's three god

02:02:15.180 poles there and the giant stone that was there the first time we ever saw it and knew that it had to

02:02:21.980 be an altar stone for us just it reminds us how um how it was always always a sacred place from

02:02:30.860 the moment we stepped there it it felt like it was meant to be in fact everything that

02:02:36.140 led to that that one occurrence of being there the timing of it all and everything i mean we

02:02:42.460 were led by the gods and um so it makes odinthoff very very special being the very first one and

02:02:49.660 very unusual compared to the other ones that have come along but they're all places of great

02:02:55.580 sanctity and beauty in their own ways so wonderful run on again

02:03:04.620 so we're talking about uh beauty as a feminine royal virtue

02:03:10.460 right why would that be something inherently feminine why is that something that is more

02:03:16.620 natural for our women it doesn't mean that men don't appreciate beauty men appreciate beauty

02:03:22.460 men create beauty men love art music theater we're going to go through again like we did with frith

02:03:32.380 what is the material manifestation of beauty when we think about beauty in the physical world

02:03:40.140 we can think of a woman's hair or her clothes can think of the beauty of our hops

02:03:45.900 what else can be beauty madison what else can be material physical beauty can you think of

02:03:56.140 something beautiful you put me on the spot i do that i'm so sorry when you look at something

02:04:06.940 with anything what is what anything can be physically beautiful what comes to mind for you

02:04:11.900 um nature

02:04:17.320 great answer absolutely there is a there is a stirring of the soul at sunsets sunrises

02:04:28.040 in the mountains watching the northern lights there is something that speaks to your soul on

02:04:34.900 that your soul recognizes that beauty your heart recognizes that beauty which your eyes see

02:04:40.480 translates into something that causes emotion stimulus happiness right nature absolutely that's

02:04:49.180 one we can all absolutely relate to so physical beauty is something that i'm going to ask you guys

02:04:57.000 answer in the chat if you're still playing along who decorate madison who decorates the house you

02:05:02.300 were trent i do sheila who decorates the house you were steve katie who decorates the house you

02:05:10.320 cliff if we're up to him he would but it's not so what and why do you think that is you guys

02:05:20.240 why are women so attracted to the hominess the coziness right why because it's something that

02:05:27.920 we can do you give me stuff and some bricks and a roof on i'll make you a house and a beautiful home

02:05:34.240 right i'm going to bring bring beauty into that home because it brings comfort love peace right

02:05:43.600 beautiful things cause beautiful emotions right and that's another aspect of it think of it

02:05:50.960 emotionally how does beauty reflect in our emotions what kind of emotional response do we have to

02:06:00.240 beauty think about that put it in the chat what does beauty do to us emotionally

02:06:12.720 kind of talked about a little bit right sometimes it can make you euphoric if you

02:06:17.520 see a beautiful piece of art it can inspire you right could music be beautiful

02:06:23.840 music can be beautiful right

02:06:27.180 can music motivate you

02:06:31.660 can galder motivate you

02:06:36.060 can galder give you an emotional

02:06:39.420 spiritual mental physical response

02:06:41.400 with its beauty

02:06:43.660 yeah

02:06:46.040 have any of you ever seen

02:06:49.560 something at a bloat

02:06:50.680 that you reacted to that was beautiful flowers on the altar the folk flame

02:06:57.680 the fire burning the way the flames shot up when the gifts were given

02:07:04.100 you're having an emotional spiritual mental response to something that you were seeing

02:07:12.500 physical right how many of you feel connected in a beautiful park or the mountains in a stream

02:07:25.300 you feel the beauty there does it connect you spiritually

02:07:32.020 does it bring peace to your mind

02:07:35.940 does it create emotion

02:07:39.620 yeah

02:07:42.500 We see that in the beauty in our children.

02:07:45.840 And I'm going to say, no matter what your baby looks like, your baby might be covered in boogers, right?

02:07:54.360 Hair might be all matted on one side, might be dirty, got played out of a mud puddle, might be missing two front teeth, right?

02:08:03.660 That baby is beautiful to you, right?

02:08:08.580 Husbands, think of your wives in the morning.

02:08:10.360 teeth all nasty, hair's all a mess, right? Ain't got no makeup on. She's beautiful though, isn't she?

02:08:21.520 Yeah. So beauty, physical beauty, just talked about it. It can have all of these responses.

02:08:28.620 Let's talk about, let's talk about emotional beauty.

02:08:34.140 What kind of things are emotionally beautiful? Sheila, you got your hand up on that one?

02:08:38.880 yeah um when you get to my age um become very sentimental and looking back at photos

02:08:48.800 the thinking about the past um and just the beauty of it all you know to have come this far

02:08:56.240 and had so many wonderful things happen in my life um it is really profound and it does it

02:09:02.800 increases as one gets older and you have so many more and then often think of uh huguen immune and

02:09:08.560 and the memories that are there we don't want to lose those and we want to keep our our minds

02:09:14.080 active and and um forever um functioning well and the whole thing that again we we realize that um

02:09:25.360 life as we know it here at minkarth you know starts coming to a close and um

02:09:32.800 yeah there's so much beauty in the past that we each of us share and have experienced and

02:09:41.520 you know look at my home the things in my home it's not just the things the colors and whatever

02:09:46.560 but what is in my home that brings so much joy and satisfaction having had those things

02:09:53.360 and collected them over time you know things passed on and again collections of photographs

02:10:00.080 there's nothing like them have to wonder about the the poor people who lose their homes

02:10:05.280 um they they walk away with their lives and they're so um so thankful for that but they've lost

02:10:13.520 everything except what they have up here there's nothing left and there's so you know such sadness

02:10:20.160 but still so long as you can remember and visualize those things that happen in the past there's

02:10:25.680 beauty in that and speaking of losing everything beautiful right and like you said sometimes all

02:10:33.220 you have is what's left up here let's talk about a beautiful mind mental beauty what's that look

02:10:42.200 like put it in the chat tell me what a beautiful mind looks like tell me what's in it tell me how

02:10:50.220 it works what makes it that beautiful again i'm not going to tell you that this is the answer to

02:10:57.660 it i'm not i'm not giving you the answers that you need to write down in your notebook and this is

02:11:01.820 what you need to do i'm asking you what makes your mind beautiful what makes your partner's

02:11:09.480 mind beautiful how many of you can see a pretty face and it's just a pretty face but oh that

02:11:15.460 beautiful mind though yeah that's real that's real the reverse to that though is the beautiful face

02:11:26.420 with the ugly mind it's amazing how quick a person turns ugly when they're a nasty person

02:11:32.340 absolutely that mind can be affected yeah put it in the chat what makes a beautiful mind

02:11:39.060 are they well read do they are they wise

02:11:45.460 Do they think the same way you do?

02:11:50.520 You know?

02:11:53.140 Is a beautiful mind full of, like, song lyrics that you can sing together off the top of your head?

02:11:59.980 You know?

02:12:01.720 What is it that's beautiful in a mind?

02:12:07.520 And how can we, as women, nurture that?

02:12:12.580 Think about that.

02:12:15.460 When you were a kid, was your teacher a male or a female?

02:12:23.700 What are, what, what, what most teachers in elementary school are men or women?

02:12:30.060 Do you guys know?

02:12:33.080 Women. 1.00

02:12:34.680 Why is that?

02:12:38.180 Because we are help growing beautiful minds.

02:12:40.780 We are nurturing knowledge, morals, ethics, values, and tradition.

02:12:50.760 It comes naturally as a parent.

02:12:53.500 It comes naturally as an auntie.

02:12:56.660 Nurture the minds.

02:12:58.320 Create beauty in that mind.

02:13:01.080 Right?

02:13:02.520 Are you teaching the children to be vile and negative and hateful all of the time?

02:13:09.100 Are you teaching them how to spiral down a path of negativity?

02:13:16.320 Or are you teaching them to be wise, to learn, to observe, and learn from the mistakes?

02:13:27.260 A great gift is to see the mistakes of others and not repeat that mistake yourself.

02:13:32.760 Right?

02:13:34.660 Learn from the past.

02:13:36.980 Learn from what you see.

02:13:39.100 but women will nurture a beautiful mind when you see it in the way that we do it with our children.

02:13:45.200 You see it in the way that we interact with each other, right? How many women on this call have

02:13:51.140 ever felt absolutely horrendously ugly? How many of you have hated the way you looked at one point

02:13:57.840 in time? How many of you had another woman holding you up, telling you, oh no, you're gorgeous.

02:14:04.960 You're great.

02:14:05.820 You're wonderful.

02:14:09.300 Women can nurture the beauty of each other's minds.

02:14:12.420 How?

02:14:13.540 By building each other up.

02:14:16.860 By changing those thoughts in our head that tell us we're horrible, we're dumb, we're wrong, we're worthless, we're ugly.

02:14:25.780 And reversing those into nurturing thoughts.

02:14:29.340 Beautiful thoughts.

02:14:31.660 You are a woman of worth.

02:14:33.000 You are a woman of beauty.

02:14:34.300 you are a woman to be proud of you are creative you are smart

02:14:38.620 showing you all the things to remember how beautiful you actually are

02:14:44.180 nurturing a beautiful mind and women do that naturally for each other and they do that

02:14:50.200 naturally for others it's that nurturing nature we have the spiritual beauty what does spiritual

02:14:58.640 beauty look like how many of you have ever been touched by a prayer that you've heard

02:15:05.200 a bloat that you've been to an imagery put onto an altar how many of you have ever been moved

02:15:15.220 by just a moment when you had a realization that i get it i get it i understand

02:15:22.660 i feel that connection with the gods spiritual beauty right

02:15:31.480 so that's what i've got for beauty guys

02:15:35.780 does anybody have any thoughts on that any questions in the chat on that anything to add

02:15:43.380 on any of those things

02:15:45.280 and the same thing kind of goes applies you know take beauty

02:15:51.940 now go back into your nine noble virtues give me one any of them truth honor

02:15:58.780 industriousness perseverance what's beautiful about that

02:16:05.080 what makes truth beautiful somebody tell me what makes truth beautiful

02:16:10.180 find a way to make it work take your understanding of truth and put another layer of understanding on

02:16:20.960 truth? What does it mean to you? How does truth grow as a virtue when you add it to another

02:16:29.480 virtue like beauty? Yeah? The runes. Take a rune. Any rune you like, any rune you're comfortable

02:16:40.600 with, any rune that you want to work with or concentrate on. How can you relate that

02:16:45.520 to beauty how can you make that energy beautiful does it need to be counteracted for beauty does

02:16:54.480 it enhance beauty is there something about it that's beautiful is the look of it aesthetically

02:17:01.760 pleasing again these aren't answers i can give you these are answers you have to find on your own

02:17:09.840 but take something simple and build upon it with another layer of understanding

02:17:15.520 All right. I think we do have one more question from Go the East. Ladies, which hop is your

02:17:25.780 favorite and why? Sheila, I want to go ahead and start with you. You're getting muted though, ma'am.

02:17:33.920 muted unmuted 0.99

02:17:43.980 odin's hof was such a turning point in my life a turning point in our lives we never thought we 0.99

02:17:54.380 would ever really have a hof it was always out there you know a bit of a dream like

02:17:58.900 is no matter how many years we kept trying to raise the funds

02:18:03.980 in a way you know we didn't look we didn't look for a hoff we just

02:18:10.500 kind of thought it would happen someday but meanwhile we'd save the money and when that

02:18:18.300 moment happened when it was basically gifted to us as we were inspired to go check it out

02:18:24.880 it felt so right and it was so life-changing for every one of us in the afa the fact that

02:18:33.460 um hudenshoff was there the old grange hall was there for us at the right price at the right time 0.65

02:18:38.820 in the right community where people the worst thing they are is christian you know they're not

02:18:44.240 going to bother us they just are have their intolerance through their ignorance and we've

02:18:50.820 done so many good things in that community. It's central enough that people can come from

02:18:56.180 all over. We can camp there. We can have wonderful celebrations there. It is quite the ideal

02:19:04.220 for being the very first Hof of the AFA. So with that, yeah, what a joy it's been. It's

02:19:10.400 got to be my first love, you know, and the other Hofs are just as beautiful in their

02:19:17.140 ways but this is um this is very special in what it's meant for all of us what about you madison

02:19:25.460 what's your favorite hoff and why um i'd have to say my my version of odin's off for sheila is

02:19:34.420 gonna have to be uh thor's off it's where it all began for for me and for trent and it's

02:19:41.860 It's such a big part of our lives and the friendships and everything that we've made

02:19:49.960 there are incredible.

02:19:52.380 And so I love all the other ones.

02:19:54.880 I love Nordshoff, but Borshoff does hold a special place.

02:20:00.300 So, yeah.

02:20:01.840 For me, of course, it's going to be Baldershoff because the walls literally have my blood,

02:20:08.220 sweat and tears mixed with the paint in that building there there is always going to be a

02:20:16.060 piece of me in that building and there's probably always going to be a piece of that building

02:20:21.340 somewhere under my skin i have more holes from nails and splinters and did i ever mention that

02:20:27.820 every member of my family got a tetanus shot because of that hoth true story but yeah it's

02:20:35.180 always going to be my favorite you know as many hops as we get we could have one that's grander

02:20:41.260 bigger more expensive more stained glass cleaner different paint majestic

02:20:49.020 falder's hop would always still be my favorite it's it's always going to be home you know

02:20:56.940 all right that looks like that is all of our questions oh wait hold on one second

02:21:02.780 we did have a donation monica in british columbia donated a hundred dollars to the south african

02:21:12.640 fund thank you so much that is so generous we appreciate that so much and the folk over there

02:21:18.980 appreciate that as well thank you very much all right so that is going to bring us to the end

02:21:26.480 producer nick can we get a drum roll maybe if you have one on hand and the result of throwing all

02:21:33.360 of these wonderful commenters into a random name generator can you tell us who is going to get

02:21:39.920 a copy of heim screen the lee hollander translation

02:21:47.760 here we go

02:21:48.320 isn't he great he is amazing

02:21:55.340 oh right okay okay i am gonna need you rachel to go ahead and send us the address where you would

02:22:09.100 like to have this book sent and we will get it mailed off to you congratulations we definitely

02:22:16.100 know miss rachel and all of us know her daughter's artwork i think we got her address i'm pretty sure

02:22:21.540 we've got her address i just didn't want to put her on the spot but somebody needed to let miss

02:22:25.780 rachel know that she did win because i think she had to take off if i saw that in the chat didn't i

02:22:33.300 maybe no are you still here rachel

02:22:40.660 she might be gone already so we need to let rachel know that she's got a book coming her way

02:22:46.100 All right. Well, we appreciate all of you guys being here. Please share this if you thought it was helpful. Discuss it with each other. If you are interested, we can definitely go through more of these awesome feminine royal virtues if you would like to do that on the fifth Wednesdays of the month.

02:23:04.300 As you noticed, the Elshira Godhi and producer Rice gave us a pretty neat name for our fifth Wednesdays of the month, and they are called the Fifth of Brandy.

02:23:15.240 So I will be your host on the fifth Wednesdays of the month with my fellow lady leadership and some other special guests as we go through things.

02:23:23.520 So I look forward to talking to you guys next time, and we'll go over this again if that's what you'd like to do.

02:23:29.460 Appreciate all of you being here.

02:23:31.020 Appreciate your support.

02:23:32.060 hail the gods hail the folk hail the afa and remember victory never sleeps a great night good

02:23:40.100 night i'm supposed to have a video ready aren't i okay you are

02:23:46.200 all right everybody good night good night good night oh where's that video i've just

02:23:57.760 ruining everything. Here we go.

02:24:01.980 Here we go, guys.

02:24:27.760 Thank you.

02:24:57.760 We'll be right back.

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Asatru Folk Assembly - January 30, 2025

1⧸29⧸25 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 134 - A Fifth of Brandy： Beauty and Friðr

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