Asatru Folk Assembly - 4⧸30⧸25 Victory Never Sleeps, Episode 147 - A Fifth of Brandy： Duty and Intuition

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00:03:00.000 good evening and welcome to another episode of victory never sleeps i am witten brandy and i

00:03:12.480 am joined tonight by githia's sheila and lauren thank you ladies for coming on with me tonight

00:03:19.280 first off how are you doing tonight sheila

00:03:24.480 oh you're muted ma'am

00:03:30.000 i think you're muted miss sheila

00:03:36.240 there sorry there you go i was not aware here i was saying technically we were spot on not quite

00:03:44.960 anyway good evening we're going to have a wonderful chat tonight looking forward to

00:03:49.920 to it with two of my favorite ladies in the afa wonderful githya lauren it is so it is such a

00:03:58.400 pleasure to be able to call you githia lauren how are you doing tonight ma'am i'm doing great thank

00:04:05.600 you it's an honor to be here hi everybody i'm usually just in the chat but here here i am

00:04:11.920 awesome great to be here well we've got a few questions that are already stacking up and we're

00:04:17.760 going to get to those here in just a little bit um but first let's get some top of the show stuff

00:04:23.440 um if our producer sir nicholas could pop up one of our uh new york's half updates let's see how

00:04:31.040 we're doing with our new york's half payoff it looks like we are currently at 82.3 oh i'm so

00:04:39.280 sorry yeah 82.3 percent paid off for new york's half so for those of you who are familiar with

00:04:45.360 the as true folk assembly and have been to that beautiful half you guys know that we have not had

00:04:49.840 that cough all too long and it's through the generosity of our membership and of our leadership

00:04:56.400 and of you know the sound fiscal decisions that are made by our i'll show you our godi that we

00:05:00.960 have actually been able to pay off 82.3 percent of new york's off our socks so we do have forty

00:05:11.040 three thousand four hundred and five dollars remaining um if everybody you know chips in

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00:09:03.660 please reach out to our staff. Awesome. Well, all right. So tonight, before we get to the questions,

00:09:13.580 kind of want to talk a little bit about what we've got going on tonight. So we are going to be

00:09:17.480 talking about a few of our feminine virtues. The two that we are going to talk about tonight are

00:09:24.740 going to be duty and intuition. And these feminine virtues, I want you to think of, you know, the

00:09:32.200 royal virtue are the noble, nine noble virtues themselves. We all know what those are. We learn

00:09:37.520 them when we first come to as a true, you know, courage, hospitality, honor, truth, discipline,

00:09:43.920 all of those, but there's more. Consider these noble virtues as something for the folk as a

00:09:52.540 whole, and that these other virtues that we talk about, you know, we're talking about some feminine

00:09:56.480 virtues, think of those as the spiritual feminine identity, things that are natural to the women,

00:10:05.540 things that make us better people, that make us better mothers, better wives, better sisters,

00:10:10.340 better friends, and better women for our folk and for the gods and our families.

00:10:16.280 So one of the ones we want to talk to you tonight about is duty.

00:10:21.040 What is duty?

00:10:23.720 What is it specifically that is a woman's duty, right?

00:10:30.340 We all know that there's things in our life that we're bound to.

00:10:34.340 We are bound to our families.

00:10:37.080 We are bound to our sisters.

00:10:38.760 and we are bound to our children and we have a duty to those things that we as women nurture

00:10:48.160 and care for there are going to be times when duty is not easy there's going to be times when

00:10:57.520 you would rather do anything but sometimes right

00:11:00.800 but duty is a feminine virtue because it is inherent to us we are built to nurture we are

00:11:11.640 built to birth children and raise them we are built to support and defend our families and our men

00:11:20.380 and that is our duty we are very naturally emotional creatures we care a lot

00:11:32.540 why were we built to care so much why do we throw ourselves so hard into the things that we love

00:11:41.740 because it is that innate sense of duty of responsibility

00:11:50.380 to those things and to those people.

00:11:54.840 Now, for some of us, it's our children, right?

00:11:58.640 For some of us, it's our spouse or our partner.

00:12:02.380 For some of us, it's, you know, promises and words that we've spoken to our friends, our deeds.

00:12:09.840 Some of us have committed our lives to the Iser, to the church.

00:12:16.080 Those are duties.

00:12:17.140 a woman will commit work for sacrifice for all of those things that are important to her

00:12:29.080 because we were given the ability to care very deeply

00:12:34.020 and to be very committed to those particular things not saying that men are not remember

00:12:43.220 we're talking about the ladies gentlemen you've got your own right but we're talking about why

00:12:49.060 that would be a feminine duty because we were built to care we were built to work for it and

00:12:57.860 to devote things money time energy health we do that naturally that is a natural feminine trait right

00:13:09.700 so i'd like to uh talk to get the ashila and get the lauren a little bit about what they feel

00:13:20.880 duty is to them what is that they personally have committed themselves to what it is that

00:13:30.920 they care about what it is they feel a sense of duty for so get the ashila could we start with

00:13:38.100 you? What is it in your life that makes you feel that sense of duty? What is it that is so

00:13:43.700 important to you? Now, when I communicate with our members, and that is where a main

00:13:53.820 focus of my life really is in the AFA, I always talk about well-being. And to me, that is,

00:14:03.440 if we can get people to a point where they feel there's comfort there is move wiggle room to make

00:14:13.920 choices to try harder to deal with problems but to overcome and um that is part of my role um is

00:14:26.000 it's oftentimes the one-on-one which i think i'm really kind of best at even when i was a teacher

00:14:31.200 it was kind of the same thing not so good in the whole group but seeing what some of these needs

00:14:37.040 are and to me it is helping people at a time of need or when they're questioning or when they're

00:14:43.920 searching for me my duty it has been the afa and it will be as long as i live i'm not going any

00:14:55.200 blaze and i just have to tell you that it has been very prominent in my life but how could it not be

00:15:02.720 because i'm i'm married to steven mcnellen and was here you know again people have heard this but i

00:15:08.800 gave the word folk and the austria folk assembly and because it had been austria free assembly

00:15:14.800 previous to that and uh it was all about the folk and to me that's where my duty is obviously

00:15:20.160 my duty is to my gods as well and that we are a church and we are here to honor our gods to

00:15:27.420 connect with them and to be better and for for our gods for our folk and for those ancestors

00:15:41.720 who are looking on who were just the continuation of that line so we have we have a lot of

00:15:48.300 responsibilities when you think of it we especially as Gideon um because we are taking

00:15:53.960 care of our people we're honoring our gods we're honoring our other leaders taking care of our

00:15:58.760 members and their families you know the family does not just it's not just the person whose name

00:16:03.780 is on in the database we were concerned about the families the spouses the children and that's part

00:16:11.580 our duty too and i have a situation where somebody um just needed to step away from the afa for a

00:16:18.700 while needs to kind of get his life in order but i said hey i'm there to help you and he's not on

00:16:23.740 the you know in the database anymore but that does not end my connection with somebody who could use

00:16:30.140 some support because he's not getting it elsewhere so that's part of my duty my duty continues

00:16:34.860 wherever it needs to go to give help and support to those in need yeah we do have people sometimes

00:16:45.820 that feel like they need to step away because they feel like they are either inconveniencing us

00:16:53.740 or they're ashamed to face their folk because of what they're facing um or they're embarrassed

00:17:00.460 about their situation or some of us tend to become hermits when things get hurt you know

00:17:09.260 and it's so sad to see people walk away because this is where the support is you know yes we're

00:17:16.060 yes we're gonna check on you you know sheila's gonna check on you and say hey how are you doing

00:17:20.300 you know do you want to you know are you ready to come back let's let's get this going you know

00:17:24.460 let us help you but when a member leaves in hard times you know you go from having

00:17:32.620 you know sheila who's always going to be checking on you to make sure you're okay

00:17:36.540 but you could have hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of other people

00:17:42.540 there to help you there to listen to you there to support you there to reach a hand down when

00:17:50.220 you need it none of us are going to kick you when you're down we're not because a lot of us have

00:17:56.140 been there we remember and you know what a lot of the a lot of the time when we were down do you

00:18:00.860 know who reached out and brought us back up people here you know so i'm always saddened when people

00:18:09.420 leave because it's hard times because you know they think that they're going to be a stressful thing

00:18:15.740 you know you're not part of you know the baldur's half um motto guided by true north part of that

00:18:26.620 is you know finding yourself finding your gods finding your ancestors but also finding your folk

00:18:35.020 and i believe it it says in our write-up about that that as true has never been nor will it ever be

00:18:40.380 a solitary faith can you by yourself worship the ice here i'm not going to say that you can't do

00:18:50.300 bloat by yourself that you can't do ritual by yourself that you can't honor the ancestors by

00:18:55.900 yourself yeah you can but when you are together with your folk that is magnified you know think

00:19:06.620 Think of, I know I've talked about the folk flame before, you know, imagine the folk flame

00:19:12.440 itself, you know, the spirit and the beauty of our folk in our collective worship of the

00:19:19.020 Aesir.

00:19:20.140 Think of that folk flame as a huge burning bonfire, right?

00:19:25.720 It is a giant fire of faith and piety and worship and gratitude.

00:19:31.680 And every once in a while, when you watch a large bonfire, you'll see a big spark, right?

00:19:36.280 you'll see like something like a firework went off and there's just this big and then you have

00:19:40.960 like all of these sparks but it doesn't last it doesn't last and it's not that the gods don't see

00:19:49.000 that spark of your worship right but it's a spark when you could really be part of the flame

00:19:59.740 the huge bonfire that can be seen you know the enduring fire fire of worship of worship

00:20:07.820 so yeah oh yeah unfortunately it's sad when that does happen um we hate to see people go

00:20:16.420 you know but come back come back don't be embarrassed about your situation let us help you

00:20:23.540 you know we're not going to demand to know your life circumstances but we're here if you need to

00:20:29.720 talk we're here if you need support and if this reaches anybody who's just like i would i've been

00:20:37.960 hanging around i've been watching what you're doing um you know watch vms follow the website

00:20:44.360 and i just really wish i could come back but i know that i left what's stopping you what's stopping

00:20:51.000 you email sheila she would like to know if you're okay you know that is something that is one that

00:21:00.120 that is a duty she performs because not because she has to but because she cares that deep

00:21:10.040 that she has committed she wants you to come home she wants to know that you're okay

00:21:17.160 she wants you to rejoin that bonfire

00:21:22.680 sparks are great bonfires are beautiful powerful and enduring so yeah

00:21:33.080 lauren can you talk to me a little bit about uh what's important to you what is it that you

00:21:38.600 care very very deeply for that you feel duty and obligation to take care of to protect

00:21:44.360 to work for it i feel i feel a strong sense of duty to um to to stewardship of our inn and guard

00:21:55.640 of our folk um and our gods um i feel duty towards my ancestors and also the ancestors of all of our

00:22:05.000 all of our people um in our church um i feel a duty towards um towards the children of our

00:22:14.260 members making sure they're okay and and they're being um they're being guided in a good way and

00:22:20.840 we're all we're all supporting them i just feel a lot of duty to um to my my husband um that's

00:22:29.600 really important to me and to my church and just making sure that everyone feels like they're

00:22:37.280 connecting to what they need to connect to. And I want to connect, you know, check in with people

00:22:43.320 every month. You might hear from me. We like to check in with people every month,

00:22:48.480 make sure everyone's doing okay. And, you know, I'm one of those ones that had that stepped back

00:22:54.900 from the AFA for a little bit for health reasons. And, you know, so I do understand that. So if

00:23:00.280 anyone ever is going through that, as Witten Brandy was talking about, then you can always

00:23:04.700 reach out to me and hopefully I can help you. So, yeah. Thank you, Naomi. So the next question

00:23:15.640 I have for my Githy is I'm not putting you on a spot, I promise. All right. But when it comes to

00:23:22.020 duty? How do you feel being a woman? How do you enforce is not the correct word. Sorry, sorry,

00:23:35.400 guys, words are hard for me today. But how do you fulfill that duty as a woman? Like,

00:23:40.440 what do you feel that you do in a feminine way that fulfills your duty? What it is? How do you

00:23:49.620 take that care how do you make that sacrifice so if we can start with let's start with uh

00:23:54.660 get the ashila how do you how do you fulfill that duty

00:24:06.580 i think i have to look at it each and every day and figure out how it's going to be

00:24:12.980 divided into my my life my my again my husband my life that i have here the complications of

00:24:23.060 daily living and that's part of my duty is to make sure that i can continue maintaining so that

00:24:30.820 it doesn't impact in a negative way my church you know so that's so much of it and it is taking

00:24:38.260 care of the the quiet times for myself the things i like to do a lot of people know i like genealogy

00:24:44.580 so i sometimes will take time for that for myself in order that i can continue with serving in the

00:24:51.860 way i need to serve um i think i've never had a problem stepping forth and helping people and

00:24:58.340 that's why doing the food pantry at odenshoff which we began i didn't actually start it but

00:25:04.900 boy when it did start i was right there it felt so natural to me and that's you know part of my

00:25:10.660 personality being a teacher for almost 30 years um i like that sense of assisting someone and

00:25:18.260 moving them on in life and providing them the things they need some of those tools so um yeah

00:25:26.420 duty at Odin's Hof is just pre-planning, making sure everything happens well, stepping back and

00:25:35.220 letting my leaders also shine, make their own decisions. That's something I need to do because

00:25:41.140 I've got some awesome leaders, but they need to have the space and not have me micromanaging

00:25:48.100 everything and yet there to give guidance. And so that's some of the things about being a Hofgidea,

00:25:55.380 which i am at odenshoff i think that's probably enough right now let's see what lauren says

00:26:04.340 lauren how do you feel like you fulfill your obligations to your duties

00:26:11.460 as a woman yeah i think it's um

00:26:16.340 i think that we we have a really like special honor like responsibility to to take care of

00:26:26.100 of others and i really do enjoy that um i really love my folk very much and i love my gods and i

00:26:33.700 love i love our church and um i just make sure to find a balance between i mean there's you know

00:26:42.580 about you have to find kind of a balance between personal life and and everything else but i mean

00:26:49.140 our church isn't is our lot it is our lives you know it's not like a side project to us this is

00:26:54.820 what we do every day and it's what we care the most about what we love the most and um yeah so

00:27:03.460 as a as a as a woman i mean we we have these um these royal virtues that that we try to embody

00:27:13.700 um and uh and duty is is one of them and um yeah we do that every day with with joy and compassion and

00:27:24.580 yeah

00:27:24.820 so things that i

00:27:29.520 that i have a duty to i have a duty to my relationships right you know my family

00:27:39.620 partner my children right those people that i trust that i love all of these things these are

00:27:51.180 i have a duty to my relationships right i also have a duty to my folk okay to my people

00:28:04.060 i have a duty to my gods and my goddesses to the icr into the awesome year

00:28:09.900 i am a i am a priestess of the icr that oath carries a duty and take very seriously

00:28:17.900 you know i i take the duty to my ancestors very seriously i am a very very firm believer

00:28:27.660 that our immortality lies in our stories in our memories and when someone speaks our name

00:28:37.820 you know we are we are

00:28:40.180 we're never really gone as long as someone knows we're there right

00:28:45.660 and i and i take that very seriously you know my my family my hof i have okay so when it comes to

00:28:56.200 balder's hof i i have a feral duty to balder's hof um you know anybody that went through that

00:29:04.540 whole experience with me you're gonna understand that you know the the amount of time the amount

00:29:11.260 of blood literally spilled because we were stepping on nails and you know smashing our

00:29:16.780 fingers with hammers and dropping things you know the literal blood sweat tears and time

00:29:25.820 you know i committed to that and i refused and to this day still refuse

00:29:33.260 to let that fall that will always be a very huge and very important priority in duty for me

00:29:43.260 you know but when we start looking at you know duty as a woman look at it a few different ways

00:29:52.580 you know you have your four pillars of of the isere your ancestors

00:30:00.420 you know your folk yourself those are pillars you guys if one of those things shake the other ones

00:30:10.660 are going to hold them up right you know if you're having you know health problems and you're

00:30:16.920 you're struggling on a personal level your relationship with your folk will help you

00:30:21.460 you know if you're having a spiritual crisis your folk can help you you can get through that on your

00:30:28.500 own your fan your ancestors are there you know if you're having trouble connecting your ancestors

00:30:33.920 you have the isir you have your folk so look at the areas of your life and see where those duties

00:30:43.180 are you know how best do you fulfill that duty to the to the isir how best do you serve that duty

00:30:49.480 to the folk to your ancestors and to your family name into your bloodline you know it's your

00:30:56.200 bloodline where your nobility lies your your noble heart that beats that that bloodline through

00:31:04.520 you have a duty to maintain that you know you carry you carry the honor of your family with you

00:31:12.600 always you know and how is it that i feel like i fulfill my duty right how do i act on that sense

00:31:22.600 of duty very protective for one you know and i i don't mean protective as i'm a man that's going

00:31:31.240 off to war i mean protective as if you come to me and githia mcnellen's name is on your lips

00:31:41.720 it had better be positive and it had better be with reverence because even if she's not there

00:31:49.360 i will make sure it is right i am loyal to those people that i've built those relationships with

00:31:57.000 i'm loyal to my ancestors by teaching my children about my about their ancestors about the trials

00:32:04.400 and tribulations that they went through to get where we are today and i'm loyal to my folk that

00:32:10.360 you know i'm going to make sure that i can provide for them spiritually emotionally mentally

00:32:18.040 you know i can't support everyone you know physically i would love to would love to

00:32:25.640 what i can do is support you spiritually emotionally mentally we do what we can to

00:32:33.400 help each other and that's where i feel like my duty lies you know i want to make sure that people

00:32:39.400 are okay and taken care of if i've ever looked you in the in the eyes and said it's okay no matter

00:32:46.280 what happens i'm gonna be here for you if i've told you that i mean it will do my best as long

00:32:55.480 as what you need does not conflict with any oaths that i've taken i'll do my best for you always

00:33:01.240 especially for our children especially for our children i get very attached to the kids that

00:33:11.700 that come to the hof i know i know githia mcnalen does as well i think you know githia lauren

00:33:17.240 probably does as well i think all of the githias have a soft spot in their heart for all of the

00:33:21.440 kids that come to the hof you know because we see our own littles in those kids you know

00:33:30.620 or if you know if we're not mothers ourselves we have that innate sense of duty

00:33:37.900 to protect and to provide for those kids

00:33:41.420 your children will always be able to look to me for help always as if they were you know one of

00:33:52.900 my own because that is a duty i take seriously our children need to be cared for and protected

00:33:59.080 and cherished you know they're our future i feel a sense of duty to our future

00:34:08.100 all right so i think before we get into intuition um

00:34:18.320 give you sheila do you have anything to add on that before we get into intuition

00:34:24.860 or any of the questions

00:34:26.520 um not really um no i love how you you summarize that i think we all agree

00:34:37.080 i would truly there was there have been times where we've had almost no children

00:34:43.120 at our gatherings or at our hafs you know just a few and maybe they were just kind of passing

00:34:48.700 through with the family and didn't really stay sometimes we had a few families that did stay

00:34:53.720 come in as young children, even infants, and grow through the AFA, but not very many of those. It's

00:35:00.840 not like today. So what's wonderful is that when we're hosting events at Odenshof, we're to a point

00:35:08.280 where for every two adults, we have one child. So typically we'll have 40 adults and 20 kids,

00:35:14.580 and that's pretty amazing um of all ages we have truly from infants to teens and there's a challenge

00:35:24.300 in that and i haven't quite figured out how to deal with it because my goal is to make sure that

00:35:31.220 each and every child connects understands why we're there and um it grows with our church and

00:35:40.520 understands its purpose in their lives and how it is something that will always be there for them

00:35:45.640 should that be the life that they choose and going in that will always be there for them

00:35:51.200 but um it is wonderful watching our little kids um come with their parents and then immediately

00:35:58.420 run off with their friends you know who they almost consider like cousins you know

00:36:02.360 those relationships are so close and you can see it in the pictures that are taken at events the

00:36:08.300 kids are often holding hands um lauren did a um wrote a an article this month about hexanoct and

00:36:17.380 there was a sweet picture of the children's symbol which we often will do sometimes it's bloat but

00:36:24.100 i think the symbol is much easier for them to understand the the purpose of it how to conduct

00:36:29.980 it with us and uh just when you see those little two and three year olds already with a horn

00:36:35.900 and and making a toast and taking that draft it just makes your heart go pitter patter and

00:36:41.980 it's it's the beginning it's there and it's the seed has been planted by those of us who've been

00:36:48.380 doing it and i hope that they grow up and always know who we are and how much we love them and wish

00:36:54.940 to take care of them now parents as we all know things happen in life and um sometimes families

00:37:03.420 separate for different reasons parents are sometimes not there for the kids and

00:37:09.420 i don't know maybe we can somehow still play a role in their lives should that happen to

00:37:13.660 any of these children that would be my goal that at least they can come back later on and say do

00:37:19.580 you remember me of course we remember you and we want you with us you're still family you know

00:37:25.580 that's going back to the idea that we welcome people into our family but we also welcome your

00:37:30.700 families into our family and the spouses and the children and that is the way we want to do it

00:37:42.700 all right so we do have a couple questions uh before we go into intuition we're going to go

00:37:47.100 ahead and answer those so we did have one question that was emailed in and that came from tyler

00:37:55.020 and it says hey there question for the show this week i was reading the true log mal and was

00:38:01.420 reading that the afa believes of what the afa believes about the soul it's interesting how you

00:38:06.580 divide it into various parts but some of them seem to overlap and i was wondering if you could

00:38:11.460 explain the various portions specifically what's the difference between the ek and the soul

00:38:17.920 as individual identity? These sound similar to me, but perhaps there's a nuance I'm not picking

00:38:25.120 up. Also, is Zephylchia an ancestor, a deity, or something else? People are always taking these

00:38:31.440 questions. It's very much appreciated. All right, let's talk about the soul. All right, so we have

00:38:39.420 the nine different parts of the soul. So we have, I don't know if our producer could find

00:38:45.260 the link for the previous um the previous vns episode that would be really great if you could

00:38:52.000 link that so that just so that we have a reference because i believe there's a whole vns episode

00:38:56.800 covering the soul and it's it's great it's with uh witness witness fawn in the al-shara godi so

00:39:02.980 please take a look at that so it is great but i am going to cover those nine parts just very

00:39:08.440 briefly and see if we can talk a little bit about uh the differences that you specifically asked

00:39:12.800 about. So, you know, we do have the link, which is like the physical body, right? That is, and I'm

00:39:19.460 going to keep this pretty short because we could spend the rest of VNS tonight talking about the

00:39:24.480 soul. We don't want to do that. I mean, maybe we do. How long these ladies got here? There we go.

00:39:30.980 Yeah. There's a cool picture. I think, was that drawn by Witten Swan? I think it was.

00:39:36.280 It was. Fantastic. So if we could actually, if you could find that link and maybe drop it in

00:39:42.280 the chat, um, on YouTube so that people could reference that and go back later. Cause that's

00:39:47.260 a really good episode. So if you want to go pretty deep into that, we can do that, but you know,

00:39:51.940 you've got your leak, which is going to be your physical body. Um, we've got the X, which is one

00:39:56.380 of the questions you have, and that is like the self or the ego, right? That is like your primal

00:40:02.340 being your instinctual self, right? That's, that's your ego, right? Um, it's

00:40:08.180 the easiest way to put it to in regards to the differences we're going to talk about

00:40:16.560 right it would be like um more like a primal instinctual self right um your huger or

00:40:24.500 your mind is going to be your your logical side it's the side that thinks it's the side that

00:40:31.440 looks with reason that looks with logic you know um your mini is going to be

00:40:39.200 memory that's going to be memories that you carry with you the things that you remember um

00:40:46.200 so i'm gonna throw a little bit of me in here it's also those those instincts that you have

00:40:57.240 your your blood memory right all those things it's your a lot of this is where you know intuition

00:41:04.460 gut gut instincts memories and things come from on there but that's going to be memory okay and

00:41:10.620 then we got the um owned and that is going to be the spirit of breath that's going to be like

00:41:16.300 our divine breath that was gifted to us by otan billion day when we had that um the hammer is the

00:41:22.860 um it's the appearance that you project right so people kind of get a little bit different

00:41:30.120 with this one where versus you know your physical body or the projection of the body

00:41:34.740 let's be 100 honest here who you are when you're alone is not who you are when you're with other

00:41:44.600 people some people will argue nope i'm the same person either way no you're not

00:41:50.880 no you're not you have a projection of strength sometimes that may not be real it's a projection

00:41:58.500 you might be terrified right but you were projecting that strength and courage

00:42:02.920 you know that's the projection of the self it's how you project yourself outwardly um and then

00:42:09.820 we have the soul which is the fundamental individual identity okay and we are taking

00:42:14.540 this from the true log mall which also producer nick if you could drop that link as well that

00:42:19.040 would be fantastic. We have the hymenia, the accumulated luck, right? And then we do have

00:42:28.300 the filkia, which is one of the questions you had as well, which is the protective guardian that

00:42:33.060 watches over a person or a family. So let's talk about it. So you have your physical body, right?

00:42:41.000 you have your projection you're you're you're leaking your hammer so similarly

00:42:47.940 you are going to have your ego and you're going to have your spiritual individual identity

00:42:55.920 so one of the things that um i talk about and that's some of this is where some of these you

00:43:02.320 know these virtues these feminine virtues that we're talking about right that is a feminine

00:43:08.460 spiritual identity now i am a member of the folk it is my birthright to worship the ice here

00:43:17.980 as a member of the folk right but some of the things i want you to pick up on are also

00:43:25.660 who are you as a mother spiritually what is a spiritual mother right what is a spiritual sister

00:43:34.860 are they the same thing a spiritual woman can be many things a spiritual woman can be a daughter

00:43:42.740 okay it can be a sister it can be your friend it can be your wife it can be a mother it can be so

00:43:53.180 it can be an aunt a grandmother a great-grandmother or a dc

00:43:57.840 it's part of your spiritual identity right and those will change and grow throughout your life

00:44:07.400 not only as you mature in age but as you mature in your spirituality

00:44:13.560 so i know the ladies on this call have been doing as a true a long time as long as me if not longer

00:44:22.820 right are you the same spiritual person that you were when you first found out

00:44:32.500 I'll tell you what I'm not I'm not I have grown and learned and connected and

00:44:46.880 and built relationships and worked so so very hard to fix myself in order to fix my spirit

00:44:58.480 okay so i hope that this is making sense and that i'm i'm taking the difference and showing the

00:45:05.680 difference between the nuanced parts of the spiritual identity a spiritual self and just

00:45:09.760 you know the ego okay you grow as a spiritual person and as a true and i i preach this a lot

00:45:18.080 as a true is just not have them all quotes and viking memes okay it's not just a warrior spirit

00:45:25.600 um and women you know barefoot and pregnant out of moot that's not as a true okay

00:45:31.600 okay as a true is worship it is growth it is finding and making yourself a better person

00:45:40.820 physically first of all physically pushing yourself to be always better

00:45:48.100 to be better than you were yesterday to overcome any obstacle that you have

00:45:55.120 to not let your illness, for example,

00:46:01.800 dominate whether or not you worship your gods that day.

00:46:07.920 Growing spiritually,

00:46:09.800 growing that spiritual foundation and that spiritual might,

00:46:13.180 it's a muscle.

00:46:14.440 If you don't use it,

00:46:17.160 you'll lose it.

00:46:19.780 But as a true makes you better physically,

00:46:21.400 it makes you better emotionally.

00:46:25.120 you will learn a sense of control when you learn the virtues as you read the lore and

00:46:30.680 that's a whole nother conversation we're not going to get too deep into at the moment but

00:46:36.120 as you read the lore and you discover how to apply the lore to your modern life you find

00:46:42.840 lessons in there that help you mature that help you understand that help you be a better man or

00:46:49.500 woman right and as a true will help you mature mentally it will help you overcome all the demons

00:47:00.700 in your head if you put in the work and make that happen somebody constantly telling you that you're

00:47:07.760 not man enough that you're not woman enough that you are worthless you don't deserve to have a

00:47:17.620 wife or a family that you don't deserve to whatever all of that is a mental block that is

00:47:27.480 you letting somebody else determine your worth that's in your head and then you find as a true

00:47:34.780 and you realize worth is determined by your people your inner guard right

00:47:41.960 it will help you if you let it and then it will develop you spiritually

00:47:49.500 you finding the gods is step number one you reading all 33 of the books listed on the

00:48:00.840 recommended reading is step two

00:48:02.740 you finding your self-worth

00:48:07.460 your strength

00:48:09.660 and how to build a relationship

00:48:11.800 with the gods

00:48:12.800 step three

00:48:14.160 that's your spiritual

00:48:17.700 identity

00:48:18.280 it's your spiritual might

00:48:21.020 it's me as a spiritual woman

00:48:25.540 our ladies as spiritual women

00:48:29.660 our men as spiritual men

00:48:31.160 a spiritual husband that leads his wife to the gods a spiritual grandfather that speaks to his

00:48:39.880 grandchildren about you know thor's hammer and teaches his grandson that the gods exist

00:48:48.360 it is you helping your sister find courage right it is you being there extending hospitality to

00:48:58.420 your friend in her in when she leaves an abusive relationship those things are spiritual we don't

00:49:07.140 think that sometimes but when we apply our spirituality to every aspect of our life

00:49:14.260 we build our spiritual might we build our soul

00:49:20.980 anything to add on that gideon mcnellen

00:49:22.900 yeah i was thinking it in terms of like a reservoir i feel like i can always go in and pull

00:49:33.160 out in me now that i never used to have but there is there is substance in there it has mass it has

00:49:42.480 can move it can flow out and um i have so much more confidence than when i i knew nothing when

00:49:51.600 came to also true i just wanted to be a helper right i wanted to help produce the runestone and

00:49:57.520 and things like that and um yeah i'm still growing i wish i were younger i wish i was in my 40s and

00:50:07.600 could go back to that and uh with especially the wonderful people we have with us now to learn with

00:50:14.240 to share ideas and share experiences but it's okay i'm here and i you know i

00:50:23.520 i have a place i know my place um i see my place at odin's hof as as a daughter of frig and

00:50:35.120 how could i not because i'm married to a man who has followed

00:50:38.720 odin his whole life and uh again odin made that happen the fact that we had that one

00:50:45.600 half that ended up being odin's half all of it was not meant to be but it happened because it

00:50:52.480 was ordained by the higher powers to make that happen and bring us to where we are today this

00:50:58.160 point today everybody's listening in you're here for a reason take from it and know that there is

00:51:04.880 so much to gain from being in the afa um that's where the frustration is when people live far

00:51:11.680 away and they they don't make any effort at trying to connect with others whether they're

00:51:17.040 their nearest neighbors or somebody who's half a world away but online and it's not ideal but it is

00:51:24.880 more than nothing and we're sometimes so much closer with each other in fact we all feel that

00:51:30.800 this is family and um i think most of us feel the stronger connections with our afa kin

00:51:38.800 often than we do with our neighbors our co-workers or even our personal families

00:51:43.440 and there's sadness but not everybody does and thank goodness and blessings to you who can

00:51:49.200 balance it all and have kept family close but it doesn't always happen and um it's just

00:51:55.920 just so important to continue growing and be involved when you have the chance to attend

00:52:06.480 a moot even if it's three people engage there talk talk with them and then come up with a plan

00:52:12.800 let's keep this going don't let it die out it was a spark a tiny little spark of a few people

00:52:18.780 but it can grow and grow your area and all those things that we try to do but we can't do it when

00:52:24.560 not there but if you're there take it on take on that that little role and you're going to find

00:52:30.160 that you grow through that that one experience being with those two or three people will be

00:52:35.120 life-changing if you choose it to be that way you know take take some responsibility and some

00:52:41.440 charge in it and continue connecting to the holy powers the gods and goddesses to the ice air

00:52:47.360 and come up with some wonderful experiences

00:52:52.560 that you can share together and grow together.

00:52:55.000 That's all.

00:52:56.420 I could go on, as you know.

00:52:58.640 We could talk about this all night.

00:53:02.400 I said we're going to keep this briefly.

00:53:05.000 I know this is a question, not the topic of the night.

00:53:08.640 Githya, Lauren, do you have anything that you would like to add

00:53:11.980 about the questions about the soul

00:53:14.060 or anything that we talked about there?

00:53:15.440 I just wanted to bring up that Witten Daniel Young wrote a really wonderful series of articles

00:53:22.080 for the Runestone about the parts of the soul and I've really enjoyed reading those when he puts one

00:53:27.680 of those out. I think some of them are available on runestone.org and at the other Hop sites. I

00:53:33.120 would encourage everyone to, if you haven't read those, to go and go and check those out because

00:53:38.720 they're really wonderful they are he's about halfway through them and they're spread out

00:53:46.240 they're spread out throughout a bunch of different runestones but i think

00:53:49.520 probably once he finishes i might just compile them into one so somebody can find them in one

00:53:55.600 place that would be wonderful we appreciate the work you do on the behind the scenes nick to make

00:54:02.880 easy for us to find but if you if you do want to find those right now before he does put those

00:54:09.920 into a compilation go to runestone.org library so all of our runestone articles let's talk about

00:54:17.080 the library for a minute all right so the runestone.org um under library you've got

00:54:23.020 all of the runestones all of them and when i say all of them i'm super proud that there's a lot of

00:54:30.100 them in there because we worked for a very very very long time to find older versions we didn't

00:54:35.060 have um so everything is in there and you can literally see the evolution not just of the afa

00:54:45.460 but as you see the whole evolution you know from the time that that odin woke up founder mcnowen

00:54:54.760 until today. You can see this beautiful evolution and growth. And, you know, we were talking about

00:55:02.920 spiritual might a little bit ago and how it builds over time and you exercise that muscle

00:55:08.280 and you become more mature and you become more aware and your relationships with your gods

00:55:13.760 deepen and your relationships with your folk deepen. And then it turns into something so much

00:55:19.220 bigger, so much deeper, that well gets so much deeper. And you can see that in reading the

00:55:25.860 runestones. Plus, you get to see all the cool things that we're doing. I mean, we have moots

00:55:30.340 every week in the AFA, there's something going on. Like the sun does not set on the AFA. There's

00:55:36.560 always something happening. You know, you can see all the things going on at the hop, you know. So

00:55:41.100 take a look at the runestones. Go in there. If you are interested in writing something to the

00:55:48.060 cronestone, whether it's like a recipe, if you want to submit family recipes, we will take them

00:55:54.620 and we will cook them. We'll make them and bring them to the hop. If you want to submit some kind

00:56:01.780 of game or puzzle that you think would spiritually, you know, be intriguing for your folk to do, do it.

00:56:08.980 Submit it to us. If you have something that you want to write about, your personal relationship

00:56:13.760 and how that developed in the trials that you went through

00:56:17.140 and how you built that, submit that.

00:56:20.000 You know, if you have beautiful artwork,

00:56:23.200 if you're an artist, if you paint or you draw or you write poetry,

00:56:29.000 submit that.

00:56:31.200 Help us build and help us show that spiritual might that we're building.

00:56:37.200 We would love for members to do that.

00:56:40.420 You know, we would love for that.

00:56:41.620 it's it's more than just leadership telling you about upcoming events the runestone is more than

00:56:46.580 a bulletin board you guys it's a catalog of our history right and it's showing the growth

00:56:58.180 spiritual might it is showing how bright that bonfire i talked about earlier really shines

00:57:05.220 be part of it help spin that spiritual wheel grab a spoke and push it forward with the rest of us

00:57:12.840 so uh producer nick has got uh the email there so if you are interested in submitting to the

00:57:19.820 runestone press at runestone.org please do send us pictures send us pictures of your family

00:57:27.300 on a day of remembrance let us know what you did show people that you're there that you're here

00:57:34.700 now we're worshiping the gods together

00:57:37.940 all right

00:57:41.900 all right so we do have one more question that i'm gonna try to answer quickly but it may not be a

00:57:50.340 quick answer and then we'll get into intuition so yeah let's see this one comes from this one

00:58:00.680 comes from sierra says witten facet i often find ladies who take issue with stanza 84 of the hava

00:58:07.540 mall how do i explain the importance of this quote to our people ah the trust no maid trust no word

00:58:15.860 of a maid you know what sierra i i have often been been asked by women who um are critical of this

00:58:25.080 or are triggered by this and we're gonna we're gonna talk about it a man shall not trust the

00:58:33.960 oath of a maid nor the word of a woman speaks for their hearts on a whirling wheel were fashioned

00:58:40.680 and fickle their breasts were formed let's talk about it first of all what's a maid

00:58:50.360 what's a maid

00:58:50.920 does that say one shall well well one shall not trust the oath of his wife does it say that

00:59:00.460 no what's in me okay could i just yeah to me so much of the hofamal is written for young men as

00:59:11.940 children young men the age of your children brandy or they're getting ready to head off

00:59:17.940 into the world and we do know that they're going to be beguiled by ladies who are going to be very

00:59:24.580 lovely going to have their perfume on going to sweet talk them and um it can happen doesn't mean

00:59:31.380 all of them will and they will come back and they will find that lovely girl living next door maybe

00:59:35.860 or maybe at their local also true church but um yeah men will yes i think it's it's a warning

00:59:44.020 because we know especially our ladies in the afa are not going to do that but a lot of other ladies

00:59:50.260 will and so that's one way we don't want to be those ladies who take advantage of of innocent men

00:59:57.460 and um put them at risk for anything and heartbreak or anything so that's kind of the way i

01:00:06.820 look at it um but i'd be interested in hearing um yours and and lauren's ideas too yeah so i

01:00:15.940 build these things called lore webs and if we want to see whit and facet build a lore web

01:00:25.860 you better start commenting because i'm not going to do it if you if you're not paying attention

01:00:29.460 so start commenting in that uh youtube chat for me tell me what you think

01:00:36.920 of this particular havamal quote and we will build a lore web

01:00:42.360 okay but chat i need we need to see some activity in that chat tell me first of all tell me what

01:00:50.000 you think of this havamal quote tell me what you think it means be honest it's okay but we're going

01:00:56.740 to build a lore web out of this so the first thing that we see in there is it says a man shall not

01:01:05.300 trust the oath of a maid all right so first if you lauren what what is a maid can you

01:01:12.980 tell us what a maid is going to be generally a younger unmarried woman you know not a not not

01:01:21.480 your wife not your your girlfriend not your sister you know i mean or mother it's it's a very kind of

01:01:29.720 particular category i think that that we're addressing here with made phrasing it like that

01:01:36.360 yeah not as experienced in the world you know maybe a little bit fickle you know i think we all

01:01:45.240 yeah a little bit fickle so let's break that first line down real quick the man shall not

01:01:55.320 trust the oath of a maid it does not say your mom it does not say your wife it does not say your

01:02:01.640 sister does not say your daughter is your daughter a maiden probably but she's your daughter careful

01:02:11.240 though right women especially young women and this goes back to where we started why we feel

01:02:19.960 like such a sense of duty what did we start that conversation with we are built to be highly

01:02:28.040 emotional because high emotions cause attachment we are emotionally driven indeed

01:02:41.240 When we are young, we are also hormonally driven.

01:02:47.660 True story.

01:02:49.600 I have never come across a self-aware woman that has done the work and she has not gone back and said, I was a hot mess.

01:03:04.860 15 to 25, that age range might be different for everybody.

01:03:09.160 I am self-aware enough that I know I was foolish. I was immature. I was unpleasable. There was

01:03:21.880 nothing you could do right. I would always find fault in it. I was fickle with my emotions and

01:03:28.040 my attention. I am self-aware enough and honest enough to say yes. I was a maid at one point in

01:03:36.080 time. Absolutely. Was I malicious? No, I wasn't. But did my world revolve around me and my emotions?

01:03:48.840 Absolutely. Absolutely. And for a woman who's emotional, and I'm going to throw this over at

01:04:00.160 the other gethiyas as well when you are in a high emotional state and you are fixated

01:04:05.660 on somebody that did you wrong do you see the whole truth or do you see your truth

01:04:11.820 okay now amplify that by being a naturally emotional creature okay

01:04:21.860 now this is where it gets dangerous and it says a man shall not trust the oath of a maid

01:04:29.060 nor the word a woman speaks

01:04:33.140 for their hearts on a whirling wheel were fashioned

01:04:35.500 and fickle their breasts were formed

01:04:36.960 I want you to think about this

01:04:39.640 a young man trusts the oath of a maid

01:04:45.120 who only sees her truth

01:04:47.840 the truth is somewhere in her truth

01:04:52.160 but when you are self-absorbed

01:04:57.400 and over emotional

01:04:59.180 and you see your truth

01:05:02.220 that becomes that young man's

01:05:06.180 truth because you

01:05:08.160 are his entire

01:05:09.660 world

01:05:10.660 that man will move mountains

01:05:14.240 for you

01:05:14.820 women determine worth

01:05:17.700 I'll say it again

01:05:18.740 women determine worth

01:05:20.280 if a woman finds worth in something

01:05:24.160 the men take notice

01:05:26.060 right

01:05:27.380 if he can be her knight in shining armor and gain worth he will young men you are not off the hook

01:05:35.800 because you have a tendency to go ahead and rush into things and be that knight in shining armor

01:05:40.700 intentionally and with purpose and with with gusto good for you um but be careful

01:05:47.860 because you're seeing her truth or if this is a woman who does not have your best interest in mind

01:05:54.400 and just making me see a truth that's not truth at all.

01:05:58.820 Men will be foolish for women all day, every day.

01:06:04.840 So let's break this down.

01:06:08.940 When we look at this, we're going to build a lore web.

01:06:13.440 When we look at this particular stanza,

01:06:15.860 how can this stanza influence positively or negatively the folk what impact can this

01:06:32.180 stanza have on the folk think about that put it in the chat put it in the chat

01:06:40.400 how can this stanza in this instance

01:06:44.080 influence the folk in a positive or a negative way

01:06:48.280 i'll give you a minute to think about it

01:06:53.600 right it's there

01:07:00.000 how can the folk be harmed or made better by this stanza

01:07:11.280 Now, think about this again.

01:07:17.600 How can this stanza itself affect our ancestors?

01:07:24.880 Not as easy of a question to answer, but there's an answer.

01:07:30.960 How can this affect our ancestors?

01:07:32.640 how can this affect our families our lineage in our future our ancestors in our future descendants

01:07:48.660 what kind of impact can that have a family

01:07:55.240 put it in the chat

01:07:59.520 now

01:08:03.580 how can this affect

01:08:07.760 the Aesir

01:08:08.500 ooh now that's a more complicated

01:08:13.700 question isn't it

01:08:14.900 it's a more complicated question

01:08:17.180 we'll talk about it

01:08:18.540 but how can that affect

01:08:21.680 the Aesir

01:08:22.740 good or bad

01:08:29.520 And how can that affect you personally, right?

01:08:40.660 Let's build a web.

01:08:43.060 How can it affect me personally, okay?

01:08:47.760 I'm going to hit this at two different angles because I'm a mom.

01:08:50.980 I'm a mom.

01:08:51.660 I'm not just a mom.

01:08:52.900 I'm a boy mom, right?

01:08:55.880 Legos and dinosaurs.

01:08:57.620 I'm a boy mom.

01:08:59.520 As a mother, this is a genuine concern of mine.

01:09:08.800 And for all the feminists out there who want to come at me, come at me, bro.

01:09:15.680 Women are not always sound of mind or judgment or truthful.

01:09:21.280 And I have two young men that I feel I need to prepare and protect from those who do not have their best interest in heart or for those who might use them as a knight in shining armor.

01:09:37.860 That's real.

01:09:41.060 Right?

01:09:41.900 So as a mother, I feel that personally.

01:09:44.480 them but also as that woman who was once a silly maid

01:09:52.320 i had to come to terms with why i was silly

01:09:57.200 right if you are a woman who is personally triggered by this quote i want you to ask yourself

01:10:07.400 why if you are personally triggered is it because you have done this to someone

01:10:14.280 have you made that misstep and does it trigger you because you're embarrassed about it

01:10:24.760 or ashamed of it if you are embarrassed or ashamed of it

01:10:30.600 fix it fix it come to terms with it if you can make it right make it right

01:10:42.380 because let's be honest forgiveness is never guaranteed forgiveness is not necessary but

01:10:48.840 making it right is okay fix it fix yourself remember we had a conversation earlier about

01:10:57.980 how as a true can make you a better person if you let it why does this trigger you

01:11:05.120 ask yourself the question and be honest one of the things that i find when people do

01:11:11.660 spiritual work like this is they lie to themselves because it makes them feel better you will never

01:11:16.380 grow as a spiritual human being if you if you continue to lie to yourself ladies fix it okay

01:11:26.780 so that's for me personally so i've been talking about quite a bit so i'm gonna move this over to

01:11:34.460 get the mcnalen i'm going to ask her a question and get the mcnalen how can this particular

01:11:45.340 how them all quote affect our folk in general um good or bad

01:11:58.380 i think you're muted ma'am

01:12:04.460 there we go the music well i am that woman i was at 17. um i i had a goal it was not well founded

01:12:17.740 it um i ended up doing right by it and um making good but yeah i i realize very much because i

01:12:29.420 have not stepped back and looked at that but yeah i think you're right 15 to 25 you know you're just

01:12:35.820 finding yourself as you go into womanhood and some people may go off to college for me i wanted to

01:12:43.020 settle down and have get married and have a family you know it was me because i didn't have

01:12:49.180 is a solid childhood i was orphaned so i was always looking for that person of good my night

01:12:56.380 literally my night and you know i kind of started out abusing the relationship

01:13:04.220 i took advantage and that was horrible and uh in the end um

01:13:11.420 you know it worked out i grew and i was because i'm the kind of person i throw myself into it for

01:13:19.020 the eventually the right reasons as i grew it was for the right reasons it just uh there was

01:13:25.500 just such immaturity so we need to warn we need to watch our young people um be aware as parents or

01:13:38.140 you know try to guide both the men and the women um to first of all be friends don't rush into

01:13:46.220 relationships because that is what happens um the people will make commitments the idea of

01:13:53.100 othing with the i love you and you know who can deny that that's a very powerful three words we

01:13:59.500 don't want that for our people who are not ready for it and it can certainly cause problems and

01:14:04.620 we've run into that with even older adults who have taken advantage of the trust of the folk

01:14:13.260 and done things that brought great harm within uh local groups kindred groups

01:14:21.820 and ultimately the afa and families and it is you know it's one reason to pull our women together

01:14:29.580 and let them understand from the time that they are young adults maybe in teens to be

01:14:37.100 part of the women's groups and to understand that honor is expected in your relationship with others

01:14:45.020 including young men you know be good to them you treat them like they're your brother like

01:14:50.220 you love your brothers as you should maybe not always but that you need to respect and so i

01:14:56.380 guess that's it for for us as women in dealing with women and that's what we do in dealing with

01:15:02.300 men that's often left to the men of our of our folk to do that but i think there's also a role

01:15:08.220 for the women to do that you know we see something happen and a young man is getting kind of um

01:15:13.660 wooed by some maid and is going the wrong direction in it and may very well as we know

01:15:23.520 what happens often pregnancy and marriage and those things don't last so often and it's just

01:15:30.640 was never done for the right reasons and so we want people to develop relationships before they

01:15:36.160 get that intimate with each other you know meet like each other share things and uh we try we try

01:15:46.160 to support that healthy relationships that is not what we bred would not make for a healthy

01:15:52.080 relationships that's all i have to say thank you ma'am now think of the also the strife

01:16:01.760 that can be caused by that by this by something like this quote you can have two men that are

01:16:11.520 best friends and a woman woman comes in and all of a sudden they're not friends anymore

01:16:21.680 because all she did was make an accusation that may or may not have been founded

01:16:25.440 right

01:16:27.180 women will purposely

01:16:30.760 incite jealousy for their own

01:16:32.780 what is the right word on that

01:16:38.680 women are known

01:16:40.640 young women are known to incite jealousy

01:16:43.000 not necessarily

01:16:44.880 for amusement but for fulfillment

01:16:46.540 because they need to feel wanted

01:16:47.920 because there's a

01:16:50.800 reason that they do not feel wanted

01:16:52.660 in their life

01:16:53.500 if you're that woman again fix it you need to be you need to be able to identify

01:17:03.420 why ask yourself the hard question and tell yourself the truth right

01:17:11.880 so also with this one um you know we were talking about how can this affect the ancestors

01:17:18.000 our future descendants right so githia lauren how do you think that

01:17:25.260 this could negatively impact honor of families or integrity of families

01:17:32.180 well i suppose if you took this too literally you might be tempted to not trust women um to not to

01:17:41.520 not honor your female ancestors perhaps if you if you mistrusted did not if you did not trust women

01:17:49.120 that would be pretty pretty dangerous for our people i think it's just really important to

01:17:56.080 to point out that i mean the health mall also you know warns people to not trust men like for women

01:18:03.920 to not trust men and for people not don't trust your son you know don't trust this don't trust

01:18:08.560 that it's all about being it's all about being careful like it's all it's not saying stay away

01:18:14.880 from women or stay away from people it's saying just like when it talks about you know not shunning

01:18:22.160 the horn but to drink in moderation to drink and measure it's with with these things with people

01:18:26.720 it's saying be careful with people don't put all your trust into people you know just drink in

01:18:32.560 moderation trust in moderation it's really important to we can fixate on the woman part of it but i

01:18:39.840 mean the half of them all has so much about how how much joy we can find with people with other

01:18:46.000 people it's not about staying away from people it's just about being careful right as in moderation

01:18:51.760 in our dealings with people and how much we trust people everyone not just women and men

01:18:56.560 and how can that um how can that affect our families like how can that affect us

01:19:06.800 you know historically and for those in the future if we don't do that correctly

01:19:12.560 you know how can that hurt our families you know

01:19:20.000 yeah i mean not having trust it can really sow discord in a family and in a community

01:19:26.080 and it's really important for from for men and women to trust each other there's just so much

01:19:33.600 going on these days where where they don't trust each other and we we need that we need we need

01:19:39.680 men and women to trust each other we're our greatest allies and we really need to love each

01:19:44.960 other and support each other and trust each other yeah be careful you know but we need to rely on

01:19:52.560 each other and that's why i definitely wanted to point out it doesn't say don't trust your mother

01:19:58.720 it doesn't say don't trust your wife it doesn't say don't trust your sister yeah it says don't

01:20:04.080 trust a random lady that you met at the bar on a friday night who said she loves you that she

01:20:09.440 loves you round three you know it comes back to me where we use a lot is boundaries nowadays it's

01:20:18.000 kind of a modern term but it's true we need to keep boundaries around ourselves around ourselves

01:20:22.800 and and that goes back to the soul complex take charge of ourselves and not let bad influences

01:20:31.360 and we do see mistakes made by young men and women that they're carrying with them to the afa

01:20:41.760 and having to deal with things mistakes made earlier in life if we can head that off with

01:20:47.440 our young people of course we need to do that best we can um try to educate them and what our

01:20:54.640 true values are and why the folk are important and um to not um disrespect our our ancestral lines

01:21:05.600 our bloodlines by having children with others because that is not what it's not the way we

01:21:13.440 honor our ancestors and we are in fact our ancestors but let's not be them in a

01:21:22.960 more inferior form we want to be better we want to be the best we can be not an inferior

01:21:28.080 aspect of our ancestors so and the modern world calls for that so we have to be vigilant with

01:21:33.840 our young people so actually i'm getting so much out of this and thinking about it myself but

01:21:39.360 great conversation yeah well let's build another ring of the web well i don't know do you guys

01:21:46.560 want to build another ring of the web i mean we're not done we'll keep going there's a whole nother

01:21:51.280 ring to this web if we want are there any more questions from the people no i don't think we've

01:22:02.880 got really questions they're quiet tonight they are quiet indeed leave it to sierra though she's

01:22:10.080 always got good well we can i can talk about this for a while i can build this web for a while so

01:22:17.600 let's let's build the web somewhere let's look at one of the rooms let's take

01:22:25.280 let's take wunyo we all mostly understand on a personal level and a general level what wunyo

01:22:41.060 means so think of wunyo so lauren could you tell us a little bit about what wunyo means

01:22:51.040 when you work with wunyo what does wunyo mean for you i think above all else it means joy to me joy

01:23:00.320 um fulfillment success and something a lot of runes can mean success but wunyo is

01:23:07.280 like happiness of fulfilling a goal or a dream um the joy yeah

01:23:15.040 now nick can you pop that have them all quote back up there for me

01:23:25.920 can we apply wunyo positively negatively neutrally to this

01:23:32.560 to the joy of our community to fulfillment to love to success

01:23:39.520 how does wunyo work into this particular haramon quote

01:23:48.000 how does it affect it how does it affect wunyo in turn can wunyo affect

01:23:56.720 how can wunyo influence this situation

01:24:03.120 i'm not going to make it easy put it in the chat people think about it like think about it

01:24:09.520 Build the web.

01:24:12.920 Remember that we are modern people in modern times.

01:24:17.560 We are not living in the Viking Age.

01:24:20.780 When all of these things were originally written, we are learning understanding of the Lord and understanding of our spiritual selves in a modern age.

01:24:35.180 So think about this, guys.

01:24:36.620 How do you put Wunyo into this situation?

01:24:38.660 How does Wunil affect this Havamal quote?

01:24:42.080 And what kind of instance in this Havamal quote affects the spirit of Wunil?

01:24:47.680 Right?

01:24:50.440 So think about that.

01:24:51.640 That's another ring of that web.

01:24:53.620 How do the runes apply to that?

01:24:55.300 How about Hagloss?

01:24:56.200 Hagloss would be a good one, wouldn't it?

01:24:58.180 That's pretty.

01:24:59.640 That would fit pretty well in there.

01:25:01.480 Pretty obvious.

01:25:03.400 Right?

01:25:05.080 Yeah?

01:25:07.060 Build the web.

01:25:08.660 the lore is really really great i mean look at several translations of the lore you'll find

01:25:14.560 something different look at you know the meaning of the words themselves that were specifically

01:25:20.460 chosen for that and you'll find the meaning in there right but also look apply things to it and

01:25:27.940 see yeah so let's build it again let's build it again let's take we're not going to take an easy

01:25:40.760 one like truth let's uh get the mcdalen give us one of the nine noble virtues any one of them

01:25:48.560 throw them at me throw one at me

01:25:50.500 oh you're muted ma'am

01:26:01.620 mute how about discipline discipline oh yes that's a good one let's apply discipline to

01:26:12.140 the savamo quote right what's it gonna take so some of us may get a little bit overexcited

01:26:20.340 and i'm gonna i'm gonna take this one from a feminine aspect i might get a little bit

01:26:24.680 emotional and overexcited okay and i might call one of my my girlfriends and i might be a little

01:26:31.320 overexcited and i might be a little over emotional and i might be a little bit over focused um and i

01:26:37.660 might only see my truth right and we bounce things off of our friends

01:26:44.720 and sometimes we have to bounce things off of our friends because i will recognize that i can get

01:26:56.240 that i might only see my truth at that time so i might call call mandy or my friend heather

01:27:04.900 right my friend anna my friend lauren my friend sheila

01:27:10.480 tell me about myself please am i overreacting to have the discipline to check myself before i wreck

01:27:21.680 myself because i could very possibility make a real big mess of that situation if i don't

01:27:29.760 why because my heart is on a whirling wheel and fickle was my breast formed

01:27:40.480 checking myself before i'm wrecking myself that requires what discipline discipline right

01:27:49.040 self-control self-control

01:27:53.280 all right build it one more time and then i'll stop i promise

01:28:00.220 how does this look

01:28:06.840 in the case of mental health how can this affect your mental health and your mental well-being

01:28:15.780 as a man or a woman right

01:28:20.780 this can wreck you this right here right right backwards forwards this thing right

01:28:30.020 yeah you know what i mean that thing that can wreck you that can not only wreck the maid that

01:28:37.300 can wreck the man in here we talked earlier about the self-worth right like use as a true to find

01:28:43.500 your self-worth it's there this can destroy you up here it's where it comes in i'm not good enough

01:28:51.440 i'm not smart enough not good looking enough no matter what i did for her it wasn't enough

01:28:56.900 this can affect your mental health how do you combat that

01:29:02.580 can affect your emotional health we have got young men out there young white men who hate women

01:29:14.760 we see it every day and i'm not saying this is like it's an epidemic and we need to like

01:29:23.760 freak out because there's men that hate women but there are men who are very unhappy because this is

01:29:33.600 the kind of stuff that they face right you can destroy a man the first time he falls in love

01:29:42.720 with this kind of thing and he will never be emotionally well again you can have a woman

01:29:49.200 become addicted to the thrill of this the attention seeking see it all the time let me

01:29:57.600 post myself in a bikini on facebook or tick tock because that will fulfill me emotionally for a

01:30:06.560 minute and i'll tell them anything that they need to hear as long as just to keep their attention

01:30:12.320 because we're seeking endorphins through this artificial form

01:30:20.120 and we expect that constant gratification in our lives

01:30:25.780 and become emotionally broken and stunted

01:30:30.660 now look at the physical well-being of it right the physical health how can this affect your

01:30:38.860 physical health your physical well-being well this one's easy like let's say he trusts the

01:30:45.180 the word of a maid that he shouldn't have and then he goes into a bar and he gets in a fight

01:30:48.700 and gets a glass shoved into his cheek he has to get like 20 stitches obvious right right

01:30:58.620 now how about your spiritual health and i'm going to bring this up specifically because

01:31:03.580 i've seen it happen more than once a man and a woman meet in the church

01:31:11.740 and they get together and they're both dedicated and fulfilled well all of a sudden she doesn't

01:31:21.340 want to do this anymore because this takes up too much of his time too much of his attention that

01:31:26.780 should be spent elsewhere and she's constantly picking picking picking

01:31:38.780 and they leave i have seen men leave as a true in general to pacify a woman

01:31:49.340 to turn their back on the gods themselves to make a woman happy

01:31:56.780 spiritual endangerment spiritual manipulation right

01:32:05.520 and then we can look at this on the feminine the masculine side right like

01:32:11.320 what kind of feminine lesson is this

01:32:13.920 ladies use caution with your words and your deeds because your words and your deeds hold

01:32:20.300 significant power and authority use them wisely be truthful don't be malicious

01:32:30.380 and men guard your heart sometimes realize that sometimes when we are yelling and screaming we

01:32:38.460 don't want you to go out and punch a guy in the face we just want you to listen right

01:32:44.140 right? Yeah. That's a lower web. That was fun. All right. So we've been on here for quite some

01:32:58.320 time, so we probably should get to our next topic, guys. All right. So let's talk about

01:33:06.440 intuition intuition as a feminine virgin so i'm going to pass this one over to uh

01:33:15.560 githia lauren if she can tell us a little bit about what she feels intuition is and how that

01:33:24.360 applies to femininity how do you feel that as a woman

01:33:27.640 right well i mean we've all heard of the women's intuition so that's definitely that's a i mean

01:33:39.240 women with intuition it's definitely of like a virtue that our ancestors really respected um

01:33:46.680 you know the the cirruses in in germanic culture um to our ancestors or were figures to be respected

01:33:56.680 so women that could have that could harness that power of and virtue of intuition were

01:34:03.560 were highly valued um

01:34:09.160 right intuition um it's really you know we can we can really like we can stop harm from happening

01:34:18.760 if we can kind of have a sense of something that's going to happen um if we can harness that

01:34:25.080 um we can really do a lot of good in the world um as women for our families and for our faith

01:34:30.520 community for our folk so yeah what about you get the ashila what do you feel about intuition and

01:34:45.480 what do you feel about feminine intuition what do you think that is how does that work

01:34:50.600 you know i think it's interesting that we all of us have learned the soul components as adults

01:35:00.060 but you go back to it and we have the philia and it's almost like we have a person a

01:35:07.300 somehow there's some knowledge that comes to us it feels right and we respond to that and that

01:35:13.440 is our intuition and is that coming from our philia maybe there's always our philia who's

01:35:18.480 been with us from birth who is just kind of feeding that to us and maybe that

01:35:23.600 philia changes over time but I think that we use it for the best good I some

01:35:36.120 you know I'm thinking in terms of our our roles as priestesses but I think

01:35:41.820 generally speaking can make us feel very self-righteous because we tend to

01:35:48.300 believe you know we stand very firm in and what our intuition tells us it's

01:35:54.660 like it is a gift that comes to us and we're resolute oftentimes in our

01:36:00.460 feminine intuition and perhaps that is why we we can be contrary or

01:36:07.200 contradictory or argumentative is when we we just have this this idea that our

01:36:15.540 words our words matter this has to be done now it's the right thing to do and i don't know if

01:36:23.380 men have that i just know that i've had it i've had most of my life and i work with that a lot

01:36:31.220 in fact that tends to be how i tend to get myself into my predicaments is because i tend to not

01:36:39.940 rationalize as much as i probably should and i go with my instincts but it's also what makes

01:36:46.180 me the person i am and um i love the person i am so um yeah there's some things i change but

01:36:52.660 i still think that intuition is very very powerful for us women to use um i think it helps us come

01:37:00.180 together and and work together um because we understand what the purpose is we come together

01:37:07.380 in a in a group and to nurture the relationships and all those kinds of things um to be aware when

01:37:16.900 something needs to happen and that's again it kind of goes back to the idea of the vulvas

01:37:22.900 and all that and i think it's something we have lost in fact i was going to write an article one

01:37:27.060 time saying how much we seem to have lost the idea of the vulva uh and yet and i forget where i was

01:37:34.580 going to take it but i i felt that there were still other things we do to compensate for that

01:37:39.540 in the modern world um then anyway uh it's all something to continue to ponder though and i

01:37:47.860 i feel that yeah women's intuition is a beautiful gift we need to make the most of it use it wisely

01:37:55.940 and not try to upset people by pushing something that may not have validity to it but we don't

01:38:03.700 know until after the deed is done in a way so it depends what we've been talking about of course

01:38:11.700 oh yes i'll back off we can we can do a whole show just on intuition yes we've done a whole show just

01:38:18.900 on duty you know but you know intuitions when you look at this um a mother's intuition a wife's

01:38:26.580 intuition you know so think of like a time that you were worried about one of your kids because

01:38:33.140 you just knew that there was something wrong and then there was really something wrong

01:38:39.380 you know women's intuition we it is said that you instinct instinctfully is that the right word

01:38:50.340 instinctively words are hard for me today i apologize you instinctively judge someone

01:38:57.860 within a second of meeting them you do you judge them immediately immediately you have to for a

01:39:09.180 survival instinct right and then you get to know a person and that those ideas will change a little

01:39:15.060 bit but i don't know what the actual statistic was because i was reading i was reading about

01:39:21.020 this a long time ago but the actual statistic is in the end it might have been days later it might

01:39:27.220 have been years later. But your first instinct is almost always right. Almost always right.

01:39:36.740 And I think that as women, you know, we feel that a little bit stronger because we don't

01:39:42.580 have to judge just for ourselves. You know, for example, when we are pregnant, we automatically

01:39:50.280 become, you know, looking for the survival of not just ourself, but our child. And when we give birth

01:40:00.080 to that child, that does not go away. You know, this ties in with duty here. It is your instinct

01:40:07.680 to protect that child, and you will use your intuition to do that. Have you ever just known

01:40:16.400 when your kid's up to no good yeah it's a little too quiet too quiet and that instinct kicks in

01:40:24.080 and you've got to go find the toddler because it's been quiet for five minutes and you know

01:40:27.620 something's wrong uh-huh or when you just know that there is something hurting the soul of your

01:40:35.920 child like you know something has happened and they won't talk about it but you know there is

01:40:41.360 something wrong. They don't seem to be acting any different, but it's just the way they hold their

01:40:48.540 head. You instinctively know, you intuitively know there's something wrong by the way they

01:41:01.780 hold their head, by how much food they ate that day. Your intuition kicks in. And it could just

01:41:08.780 be you know you're observing people and it's just body language okay sure you're observing those

01:41:14.800 things but what's putting those things together right what's stringing these things together

01:41:21.160 what's what's tying them together what is looking in the well and finding these little glimpses and

01:41:27.620 nuggets and plucking them out and going this is the problem we instinctively know what's good for

01:41:35.900 our people it's good for our relationships what's good for our children we have the ability to know

01:41:44.100 what's safe and what's not the reason this is more feminine than masculine is because men are more

01:41:51.420 reactive right a man is more bound to take everything as a threat because to some men

01:42:02.300 everything's a threat you know if you are a veteran who has served somewhere overseas

01:42:08.220 everything becomes a threat right

01:42:13.740 but you are also more into that reactive protective nature where a woman is making a decision

01:42:21.580 right are we hunkering down are we running today you know are we taking five kids and

01:42:26.940 hunkering down are we running you know what are we doing fight or flight we are the smaller we

01:42:33.900 are the physically weaker we have to make those decisions quicker and i feel like the women have

01:42:40.620 a better sense of intuition now when we say that this is a feminine virtue this doesn't say that

01:42:47.020 men are not intuitive they are it's just hardwired in us a little bit stronger you know

01:42:56.940 can you think of a time when you just knew something without knowing i mean i don't know

01:43:02.620 how many times you guys have heard me say this like i don't i just know because i know and i

01:43:08.460 turn out to be right not always i don't have a perfect track record i don't think anybody does

01:43:13.420 but think of a time when you just knew and you were right lauren do you have any examples or

01:43:22.540 any kind of experiences with a time that you just knew and you were right yeah i've had feelings

01:43:30.780 with people in my family that i'm close to that something was wrong and then something was just

01:43:37.260 wrong and so i call them up and something is wrong so it's just you know when you know me

01:43:45.260 when you know you know so yeah yeah yeah definitely what about you get the issue

01:43:54.780 have you had a time where you just knew when you were right

01:43:59.900 yeah it is really an interesting form of communication isn't it it's what

01:44:04.060 really does just come to us and wherever it materializes it's so very clear when the time

01:44:10.540 come so we have to rely on that yeah i can think of numerous times um

01:44:17.980 because i rely on my intuition a lot i'm aware of it um and i think we do it more than men i know

01:44:24.540 i do it more than my husband does um it's just not his nature to use intuition at all it's like

01:44:30.460 it's all throughout my day that i'm making decisions based on those kinds of things um

01:44:40.540 yeah i i don't know i'm not at a point where i can come up with this specific but i think there

01:44:46.220 there are lots in people's lives but yeah it's it's fascinating the way it comes to us

01:44:52.140 um it just reveals to us without even you know it's instantaneous that something

01:44:58.380 needs to be acted on or something and you know one thing is when we talk about people

01:45:03.660 that goes back to the homer um right where the physical presence so you meet somebody and the

01:45:10.620 essence of who they are comes across to you and as you say you pick it up in in the the first few

01:45:18.140 minutes of what a person is like and um that judgment is often spot on what the person is

01:45:25.900 going to be like if they remain in your life you may not know details about them but um and again

01:45:32.300 that's that even instantaneous attraction that people may have when they see each other for the

01:45:37.020 first time and just know that that's the person they want to be with and that's intuition and it's

01:45:43.020 it's um sometimes not to be denied you know people just yeah you read about the old people

01:45:49.180 married for 70 years but they knew at the moment they met kind of stuff absolutely just also you

01:45:55.340 just people just know things you know you just you know and i've seen you do that sheila where

01:46:00.940 you'll look at somebody and there's like an instant and instant trust trust and you're like

01:46:06.540 yep you're you're one of us i feel that people and i have other people tell me that the person

01:46:14.140 is not what they come across and i still i will stand by that person i just i can tell when i've

01:46:20.540 got a good person i can tell from a phone call generally speaking yeah they come anyway i that's

01:46:26.140 i use my intuition a lot with people um yeah i forget what i was about to say though anyway um

01:46:41.820 one of our

01:46:47.100 one of our uh other githias uh get the heather young is very good at this

01:46:56.140 very very good at this so githia young she uh she always knows when there's something wrong

01:47:06.540 she doesn't know what it is necessarily but she knows and she always says that she smells um

01:47:13.260 cigarette smoke and roses and when she smells it i have to call brandy there's something wrong

01:47:20.220 if she has called me out of the blue in the middle of the night on a random sunday afternoon

01:47:26.140 what's wrong what's going on she knows and it's not just me she can do it with

01:47:31.760 you know she's amazing she's got that intuition you know she may not be able to pin it down on

01:47:39.220 what exactly is going on but dang it she's got that that scratch that she she feels she feels

01:47:46.740 that there is some kind of disturbance in the force and she needs to know what's going on

01:47:50.460 yeah to go back to that you know i started out talking about the philia on the other hand it

01:47:57.560 could just be the ancestral stream that is there and gives us deeper knowledge of what's really

01:48:03.620 going on with people that maybe we've had connections with previously in past lives i

01:48:09.300 mean we just don't even know all the dynamics that are possible there but um yeah i think and

01:48:16.280 i know that we take this into ritual i mean we will do things intuitively that just feel right

01:48:23.800 and um you know sometimes i will do a rich of my bloat uh where people will take a rune at the end

01:48:32.680 um that is well blessed you know we've gone through we've blessed it with the mead and

01:48:37.000 everything and it's understood and the rooms that come up are always the right one for that right

01:48:43.240 person the woman who's in her early pregnancy with with ingwasa berkenau and and all those kinds of

01:48:51.320 things that happen and like the pieces fall into place when you make some decisions and they're

01:48:58.600 the right ones and yeah and i think we as is give you see that a lot uh when we're doing our own

01:49:07.000 rituals. Absolutely. All right. So I'm going to answer Corey's question first, because it's

01:49:16.600 relevant to the topic that we're talking about here. Corey asks, sometimes I think my intuition

01:49:22.020 gives me false red flags. How can you balance listening intuition and not being overreactive?

01:49:29.060 So one of the things that I always recommend is to try to develop your intuition versus react to

01:49:36.840 your intuition. Okay. So sometimes, and this is one of the things when you start trying to hone

01:49:42.500 the skill in particular, because there's a few things that I always recommend women do when

01:49:47.220 they're trying to hone the skill of intuition. Those things are water, lots of water. Your body

01:49:57.980 is fluid, right? What is the well made of? Water. Okay. Where did Odin throw his eye in order to

01:50:09.320 gain that wisdom? In the well. What's in the well? Water. Drink water, ladies. If you have not had

01:50:16.220 your water today, drink your water. Hydrate. There you go. Drink your water, but also journal. Okay.

01:50:24.440 so when you have these intuitive hits whether it is um dreaming dreaming is a type of you know

01:50:32.680 divination but it's it's your intuition speaking to you sometimes right keep track of your dreams

01:50:39.340 do you see things before they happen or do you get hints of things before they happen

01:50:46.100 do you have like this intuitive hit going hey you need to watch something write it down

01:50:52.540 also recognize what's accurate and what's not right so sometimes you just have this knowing

01:51:00.560 you just know sometimes you might have like this flash like this image and you see this image and

01:51:08.020 you just know everything there is to know about this image you know what it smelled like what

01:51:12.980 day it was there's a whole background and a whole 20 page history of this image in your head right

01:51:18.100 write it down right don't be afraid to write these things down and don't be afraid to keep

01:51:26.380 track of your success and failures because you will start learning the difference between

01:51:32.900 trusting your intuition and reacting out of a fear-based thought a lot of the times when we

01:51:42.580 talk about intuition we talk about things that are going wrong premonitions of things going wrong

01:51:47.560 right? That is most often what we talk about, right? Because that's a strong fear-based thing.

01:51:54.980 So one of the things I always talk, you know, talk to women when you're trying to develop your

01:51:59.220 intuition, keep track of your success and failure, but keep track of how you feel, okay? When I know

01:52:06.740 something's going to happen that, for example, while I'm driving,

01:52:12.540 and the palms of my hands in particular start to tingle that's unusual for me i routinely will

01:52:22.760 experience tingling in my fingers and down the side of my arm right with my illness but the

01:52:29.380 palms of my hands in particular i have never had an issue with and all of a sudden it'll feel and

01:52:35.980 it's not like like they're fell asleep it's like somebody's digging into my palms okay

01:52:41.560 and i'll be like whoa okay so i'm going to slow the car down put my seat belt on because i'm

01:52:47.160 notorious for not wearing your seat belt don't be like whit and brandy wear your dang seat belt

01:52:51.580 do as i say not as i do um but i'll slow the car down and then a deer will jump in front of the road

01:52:57.400 right things like that and i always and that started after my grandparents died

01:53:07.120 so that could be the intuition it could be my grandmother because when you know grandma wanted

01:53:14.140 to get my attention because i was being dumb what do you think she did just back my hand

01:53:18.900 so i relate it very much to that you know but pay attention to stuff like that so if my hands

01:53:28.520 if i get that feeling in my hands i will instantly slow down look around what's going on because for

01:53:34.880 me, it's like a warning system. Is it accurate 100% of the time? Absolutely not. Does something

01:53:42.900 happen every single time that my hands tingle like that? No. But has it made me slow my car down

01:53:49.020 from 90 to 50 before? Yes. Did a deer jump out in front of the road? Yes. Would I have hit that

01:53:56.860 deer at 90 miles an hour? Absolutely. I trust it whether it's happening or not because that's a

01:54:03.940 sign for me but that is after trying to pick that apart and go what does this mean actively trying

01:54:09.740 to find out what it means but journal keep track of your success and failure also we talked earlier

01:54:17.400 about as a tree will make you a better human being right you have to acknowledge your triggers and

01:54:22.500 you have to be honest with yourself because your trauma your insecurity will trigger what you

01:54:32.020 believe is an intuitive response to something. This goes back to fix it, right? So you have to

01:54:39.240 be able to address any kind of trauma that you've experienced and be aware of what your natural

01:54:45.660 trigger is and what your natural response will be so that it does not inhibit or influence your

01:54:52.840 intuition. So, Corey, I'm not sure if I answered your question. Githya, Lauren, Githya, Sheila,

01:55:01.660 do you have any kind of recommendations on that? Any recommendations for Corey on that at all?

01:55:13.060 Oh, also, Witten's Fawn wants me to talk to them about the ghost woman I ran into

01:55:19.300 with the yellow handbag i just see that in the chat yes i will i will do that witness one so

01:55:25.180 this is really strange this is at my last place of employment

01:55:30.680 i went to the restroom i came out of the restroom and when i opened the door and went to go

01:55:38.240 you know run out to the desk i stopped like dead stopped because i almost ran over this

01:55:46.320 itty bitty little gray haired lady with a yellow purse right and like she went like this and i

01:55:54.160 went i am so you're not real you're not real i saw her i stopped i panicked i thought i was going to

01:56:05.000 run over an old woman like i felt like a horrible human being and i i went oh i am so oh you're not

01:56:13.660 here i went to see if we had cameras in that hallway because we had cameras in the building

01:56:21.100 is there a camera in this hallway because even if it's not on camera you were going to see the

01:56:25.020 most hilarious reaction i you've ever seen ever from me like literally it was like if i had been

01:56:31.180 a cat i would have jumped 15 feet in here so i started talking about this little old lady that

01:56:37.660 i almost ran over and comes to find out they're like um so her husband owned the place he's still

01:56:47.980 here too they think it was the previous the previous owner's wife and they hear him upstairs

01:56:55.020 all the time in his old office where he used to go hide and i explained her in detail and they

01:57:03.020 pulled up an obituary and they didn't tell me about this entirely but i got a phone call at work

01:57:11.740 from one of her children the next day and asked about what was she wearing and i explained it

01:57:19.020 and he goes is there anything in particular you can tell me about that and i was like

01:57:23.260 the purse yellow purse you know the handbag she just and he choked a little bit and he goes that

01:57:31.900 was the one thing that she asked for christmas every year it was a new handbag yellow

01:57:43.100 so those kind of things happen right they happen and you know he of course

01:57:52.540 asked the questions about you know um you know do you think she needs anything

01:57:57.740 no i think she was just going out to the shop and i just almost run her over you know no i don't

01:58:07.840 think she needs anything she didn't seem like she was in danger you know i just almost ran her over

01:58:17.300 but that's where she used to go to go out to the shop that was the door she went out of

01:58:22.060 so those things are real guys pay attention to them because also don't be ashamed of them

01:58:31.000 because you will never know who needs to hear something right like have you guys ever had a

01:58:37.780 something that pops in your head and you're like i just have to say it like a sumble toast for

01:58:42.640 example like i don't know why i need to tell the story but i'm going to tell the story

01:58:48.040 and you do i have told a story at sumble about you know my my

01:58:54.360 the patriarch of our family was thrown in an irrigation ditch and left to die

01:59:00.600 right and i told that story about sumble about you know how he

01:59:04.220 you know he survived and he's the patriarch of a family that's huge you know hundreds thousands of

01:59:12.120 us you know i say don't ever forget how important one life can be and i've told that story and i

01:59:20.360 only tell it when i feel the need to tell it but i've told that story and i've had people come up

01:59:25.640 to me and say you know i was honestly contemplating suicide like i came here to say goodbye i wasn't

01:59:36.120 going to say goodbye but this is my last hoorah just wanted to come to an event before i did it

01:59:45.240 you know

01:59:48.280 as a woman always trust that you know what your people need and if you feel the need to share

01:59:56.680 something say something or walk up to a person and compliment them or just let them know that

02:00:03.000 you're here or if you feel the need to call somebody like i don't know why i need to call

02:00:07.000 this person but i'm going to do it do it you never know when that intuition might save somebody's life

02:00:17.080 yeah uh i'd like to just say that the lady with the red head uh yellow head bag reached out to

02:00:25.960 you i mean it changed your life you're telling us it's affecting us and how we look at this

02:00:30.600 right um she didn't have to appear to everybody but she appeared to you so consider that a gift

02:00:35.800 you know in the elderly calls um or mcdallan's pub you guys know that steve and i do those um

02:00:43.240 we often will talk about the paranormal type of events that have happened in life

02:00:47.960 and they are such teaching tools for us you know why were we the people who had that experience

02:00:54.600 what does it mean where does go from here kind of stuff and um i i think we'd all like to develop

02:01:02.760 more of that i know that i if despite despite being very irish i don't really have the gift

02:01:08.760 like a lot of people do um but i would love to have more of it and so again my intuition is good

02:01:17.240 but i'm not you know going back to intuition when we're doing bloat you know um i'm very aware of

02:01:25.800 the surroundings and change of wind and change of light and all those things

02:01:32.200 and i make note of them and that is some of the effect of doing bloat for me and then hearing

02:01:40.520 from others but sometimes we'll see things in the fire and pictures are taken that have mysterious

02:01:49.640 lights or smoke or whatever and it's fascinating when that happens and some pick it up and others

02:01:57.400 don't you know we're all so individualized that way with what what we have but i would like to

02:02:03.240 think that we can all develop the gift more they always say we can and that is is something that

02:02:09.560 again all the water i'll be drinking more water now

02:02:14.280 and writing my journal yep just remember what are you looking into the well what's in the well

02:02:20.600 water um i totally get that yep finrave has a question do you think one can learn to improve

02:02:31.000 their intuition or is it something one has or they don't have okay so my personal thought on

02:02:37.240 this is everybody has this to one degree or another right you all have that at the most

02:02:45.080 basic level of yourself you have the flight or the fight or flight instinct where you where

02:02:51.160 your instinct is run or fight that is the most basic level if your fight or flight mechanism

02:02:58.200 is broken or you don't have one maybe you don't have the intuition but it's your most basic level

02:03:03.160 that's your most basic level of intuition and instinct right intuition is learning to listen

02:03:08.760 to your instincts and take the lead and develop communication with your instincts right that's what

02:03:16.680 that is um so yes i do believe everybody has the ability to some level differences would be like i

02:03:26.600 said i i personally believe women have it a stronger knack for it but that does not mean

02:03:33.960 that a man cannot be too highly intuitive and it does not make him less masculine if he's highly

02:03:39.560 intuitive right i'm just saying it's something that is just overwhelmingly present in a in a

02:03:48.200 spiritual female um yeah i think everybody has it whether or not you cultivate it is entirely up to

02:03:56.040 you whether or not you hone is entirely up to you yeah all right and then we do have another

02:04:04.920 question on this one and it is from oh there's a kitty hi kitty this is runa

02:04:16.840 all right so we've got a question from whiteverse as a true tacitus spoke of

02:04:25.860 a manis as ancestor in the edis he disappeared however odin and heimdall are ancestral gods

02:04:31.580 question mark did one or both take over menace's ancestor and first priest aspects

02:04:38.220 okay so those that are tacitus experts correct me in the chat if i am wrong

02:04:46.840 write something in the chat anyway. What are you doing? If you're just sitting here listening to

02:04:51.220 us for an anthem or go to bed, I'm going to call every single one of you later and wake you up.

02:04:56.760 All right, so put it in the chat, but I do think that Tacitus is the only actual historical

02:05:03.980 reference we have of that. There have been other people who have written about him,

02:05:08.440 but I think Tacitus might be the only actual person who has written that that's a thing,

02:05:14.740 in that he had three or four sons that were kings of various tribes.

02:05:22.940 But as far as being a divine aspect on that one,

02:05:27.500 you know, he's not in the Eddas, right?

02:05:31.120 However, Odin and Heimdall are ancestral gods, question mark.

02:05:34.780 Okay, let's talk about it.

02:05:37.540 Let's talk about the gifts that you've been given by the gods.

02:05:40.800 That's where we're going to start with that.

02:05:42.160 so the very first gifts that we were given to the were given were by the gods by the gods

02:05:50.220 the three brothers gave us three gifts and what were they right what were they breath

02:06:01.540 right

02:06:03.800 it's the other one

02:06:05.000 movement

02:06:05.980 thought and reason

02:06:09.560 right

02:06:10.300 that was the first gift

02:06:13.280 from the divine

02:06:14.220 Odenville y Ve

02:06:16.640 took us from nothing to something

02:06:18.880 okay

02:06:21.660 the next time

02:06:23.380 we were blessed

02:06:24.460 and gifted

02:06:25.720 was from Rick

02:06:27.180 three times

02:06:29.060 while odinville and vey gave us life as we know it the basics of life rig gave us our nobility

02:06:44.440 it is through rig that we have become the noble people that we are and how we are linked to them

02:06:52.500 as our most ancient ancestors right you know he came to us three times and every time

02:06:58.820 Rig blessed us

02:07:00.340 and our folk became more noble.

02:07:06.000 We were gifted

02:07:07.400 again

02:07:08.420 by Odin

02:07:10.020 with the runes

02:07:12.340 when he made that sacrifice.

02:07:15.260 But

02:07:15.520 who gave the runes to us? Was it Odin?

02:07:21.600 Who was it?

02:07:23.900 Think of your Lord.

02:07:28.820 who passed that on to jarl and carl or pass it on to carl or euro it's been a long day i apologize

02:07:36.340 who passed those runes on to the people you know

02:07:43.140 so we've been gifted many many many times so yes um

02:07:49.300 did one or both take over menace's supposed to be ancestor and first priest aspects yeah

02:07:57.300 so he's not in the eddies because you know he's not in the eddies and i think the only

02:08:02.380 place he pops up is tacitus and if we've got an academia nut in the chat please correct me if i'm

02:08:09.540 wrong at least me reading wikipedia you're not it's just tacitus there's a few like scholars

02:08:19.760 to think he's connected to

02:08:21.580 like Midas

02:08:23.060 and Manu.

02:08:25.600 But in reality

02:08:27.740 though, I mean, if you look

02:08:29.820 at this from, you know, a

02:08:31.660 Pan-Arian perspective,

02:08:35.040 you know,

02:08:35.480 this is all made of the same tree.

02:08:39.140 Right?

02:08:40.760 This is all made

02:08:41.780 of the same tree.

02:08:44.980 They're all

02:08:45.740 interconnected. They all represent

02:08:47.840 that greater

02:08:49.380 spirituality of the folk

02:08:51.120 you know

02:08:54.240 but yes

02:08:57.300 talking about the gifts of

02:08:59.440 Owen and Heimdall

02:09:01.580 alright and Ron

02:09:05.440 Borgman asks ladies

02:09:06.720 for each of you what is the first thing you

02:09:09.440 evaluate on as a true man

02:09:11.280 as a true man on

02:09:12.820 besides his beard of course

02:09:14.660 from Ron Borgman so

02:09:16.840 I'm going to ask Lauren other than

02:09:19.160 Other than his beard, what is the first thing that you evaluate and as a true man on?

02:09:28.080 I notice kind of a sense of reliability, I think, pretty quick with men.

02:09:34.960 Just whether I can trust them at their word, you know, what they, what, things like that.

02:09:41.760 Whether, just reliability.

02:09:44.500 Yeah.

02:09:44.640 yeah what about you sheila tell us how you evaluated that as a true man of yours

02:09:54.480 oh well i guess in just meeting men in general for meeting anybody it's eye contact and smile

02:10:02.800 and if it's not there that lets me know that it's going to be more on me to reach out and

02:10:08.800 find out a little bit more about that person but it does say something um if somebody comes in and

02:10:15.200 they're kind of have an open presence about them so you can kind of see it in the face and the way

02:10:21.680 they approach um and also if they hold back because they're probably socially uncomfortable

02:10:28.560 you know that happens all the time at the hof when people meet us and we have to expect that

02:10:33.840 and then just give them time give them time to find something that they can talk about and be

02:10:39.200 comfortable with but um yeah there are all sorts of ways of evaluating men and women but um really

02:10:46.480 have a lot of men that come to the off so we get a lot of experience lauren and i yes i'm going to

02:10:54.240 put this out here if you are a white noble woman of any age doesn't matter if you're 18 65

02:11:06.320 if you are looking for a solid reliable most of them are bearded

02:11:12.400 as a true man we have got a healthy lake stocked with prized fish i'm just gonna throw this out

02:11:26.780 there i'm just gonna throw it out there you know everybody always asks how do i meet how do i meet

02:11:32.060 a good man come to church come to church we acknowledge physical excellence we encourage

02:11:39.760 financial excellence. We are

02:11:41.860 spiritual and pious

02:11:43.680 and community-oriented. They're

02:11:45.880 all straight, ladies. I promise

02:11:47.800 all the men in the church are straight.

02:11:49.780 You don't have to worry about weeding them out.

02:11:54.700 How easier can it be?

02:11:56.000 Come shoot fish in a barrel. Come meet a man

02:11:57.920 with a house of church.

02:11:59.340 So if you are a single white

02:12:01.780 lady looking for some menfolk,

02:12:04.220 come on over.

02:12:07.220 We've got

02:12:07.840 straight men here for you.

02:12:09.760 bring your sisters if they're looking for one as well they're always like you know everybody's like

02:12:18.800 i don't know how to meet a woman or like my my friends are like i can't find a good man

02:12:23.220 i know hundreds of them where are you at do you want somebody who shares a a community values

02:12:31.920 traditional families traditional gender roles where you don't have to compete with him

02:12:37.920 come check out as a true and come to church

02:12:43.220 just saying you don't have to worry all of them are straight we promise it's not a joke it's like

02:12:51.060 a literal requirement so you're good all right so what do i evaluate from our men

02:12:59.300 honestly when i meet a man one of two things is going to happen

02:13:06.600 um i look at you and i put you into a box and i i want you guys to understand like i'm being

02:13:15.920 open and honest with you right so am i going to be mother you or not that is the very first

02:13:25.960 instinctual thing that i am going to judge you am i going to have to mother you or not

02:13:32.860 if i have to mother you that's all you're ever going to be is one of my kids

02:13:37.960 and this didn't didn't matter when i was 21 or now when i'm

02:13:43.600 you know what year is it 2025 44 right

02:13:48.080 21 i had the same thing you know i judged men based on do i need to take care of them or can

02:13:58.440 they take care of me real talk guys if if i have to mother you you'll never be anything but my kid

02:14:09.540 and i will always see you that way you might be 60 years old and i might be 75 and i'll still see

02:14:17.680 you as one of my kids if you give off that i need you to mother me and don't get me wrong i will

02:14:24.340 mother the hell out of you i will be there for you i will support you i will guide you i will

02:14:31.140 mother you if that's what you need but then you're always going to be like you're always going to be

02:14:35.760 a kid that's the first thing i evaluate i could say something something else and something easier

02:14:45.840 and something that you guys want to hear but i'm going to give you the truth do i have to be your

02:14:51.940 mom or not. And I will act accordingly. And, but again, put yourself in the box, you know?

02:15:02.920 All right. Looks like we do have one more question tonight, guys.

02:15:12.520 And it is from Witten Svan. He says, I am a big believer in cultivating a relationship with the

02:15:19.800 divine? Do you have any special at-home prayers or bloat to do with any of the maidens of Fensaler?

02:15:28.900 I'm going to give that over to Githia Lauren first. Could you walk us through how you cultivate

02:15:36.120 your relationship with the maidens of Fensaler? I just did a small bloat the other day to Iyer

02:15:45.080 um because the goddess of healing just because i've been struggling with a monster flu this month

02:15:52.300 and um and i found that she's quite easy to talk to um and just to check in with her and just ask

02:16:02.700 for her blessings on me and my husband was struggling with the flu a little bit too so

02:16:07.320 I just wanted to do some special prayers to her too just for healing and for

02:16:15.120 recovery and yeah so but I would like to I would like to deepen my relationship

02:16:22.740 with the other maidens and that's one of my what's one of my things I would like

02:16:28.140 to improve on because there are so many and they're all just so special in their

02:16:33.780 own ways so yeah i'd like to do more of that

02:16:41.220 what about you get the mcnellen do you have um anything you'd like to share

02:16:44.980 about how you cultivate your relationship with the maintenance of

02:16:47.700 fence solid

02:16:50.980 yeah well um i've always had a close relationship with gaffian

02:16:56.900 um due to charming of the plow and this has been a very very special

02:17:03.140 uh experience for me doing bloat and drawing in her energy which i've always done when i've

02:17:09.140 done load and i think of her and her role and um what is said about her um and being the

02:17:19.060 caretaker of the maidens who who pass and need to go to a hall and they go to her

02:17:25.460 but that's always been a goddess that i particularly connect with you know what steve and i do most

02:17:34.280 mornings is what we're calling actually and thanks to brody sutherland is the valkyrie's prayer which

02:17:40.880 is hail to the day hail to the sun's a day the way we do it a lot of people see us do it we do

02:17:46.380 it at odin's off every saturday morning bring everybody out facing the sun and do that beautiful

02:17:52.820 prayer to start the day and of course it ends with healing hands and um that is so important to me

02:18:01.220 i mean healing the folk we if we can all every day find somebody some way to heal and it could

02:18:08.740 just be a smile it could be getting a shopping cart for someone or opening a door or calling a

02:18:16.820 friend or a mother or grandmother uh staying in touch you know it's that that healing nature that

02:18:23.380 we have the power to do and we overlook it and we should all make it a point of of doing that

02:18:30.980 that will make us better people that is the honorable thing to do to personally involve as

02:18:38.260 i have to agree with with lauren you know i could fuller for for um her big help helpmate of uh frig

02:18:49.460 but i really have not done specialized bloat to the maidens of vensilaire and it is it's something

02:18:57.220 that would be i need to i think i will set that up as a standard practice of my life and uh see

02:19:04.500 where that takes me so there we go so i i do have specific you know prayers and things that i do for

02:19:15.620 each one um so some of you may not know but i write terrible poetry right um i've turned them

02:19:24.820 into prayers so me and my terrible poetry that is my gift for the maidens of van soler but also for

02:19:32.660 the other is here as well you know it's it's part of my daily devotion to greet the day with um a

02:19:40.340 prayer and you know sometimes it's 10 minutes i would prefer it to be 20 but sitting in reverence

02:19:49.140 for that you know that house or that also some of the things that um i want to do i would not

02:19:58.580 call it meditation for a reason because um me meditating is like a squirrel holding still

02:20:06.260 um i'm not good at it and the littlest thing will make me be like there's a nut over there that i

02:20:11.380 need to go get and bury like doesn't work but what does work for me is active meditation

02:20:20.020 is the chanting of mantras you know or prayers or the singing of the runes repeatedly

02:20:26.340 that will help me focus right so going through like a uh a runic sequence for example

02:20:36.220 over and over and over and over and over i'm not keeping track of how many times i do it

02:20:41.300 i set timers i set a timer if i've got 10 minutes i do 10 minutes i would prefer 20

02:20:46.720 but go over different rune sequences that you associate with one of the uh maintenance offense

02:20:55.040 song right you know pick three if you're really good at it and you practice this you can get nine

02:21:02.100 right do nine runes in a sequence but it becomes habit it keeps you active because you want your

02:21:09.460 mind active because what do you see do you see her what does she look like do you see something

02:21:16.460 that's supposed to represent her right so when i do this i will see things like let's say seaf

02:21:23.320 for example it may not necessarily say see for herself and i've actually shared this

02:21:28.880 mini vision with a couple other members of the church but you see a woman walking through

02:21:36.820 a wheat field with her hands trailing across the heads of the wheat with long beautiful golden hair

02:21:44.280 you know just just that vision just that beauty of it understanding that our world is good

02:21:54.120 and that we are fertile and our land is fertile and we should give thanks for that

02:21:59.420 gold can have a lot of needs right gold everybody always anticipates gold to greed

02:22:06.560 right don't be so negative about it how about prosperity how about abundance

02:22:13.300 how about a field that is literally a gold wave of something that can put bread on your table

02:22:20.940 and feed your family you know so different things i have different prayers but you can do

02:22:27.800 three or nine you know whatever you're comfortable with whatever you're good at but sit down and

02:22:33.200 think about it you know what i mean just because i use this one this one and this one doesn't mean

02:22:38.160 you do you might have an understanding of wunyo that i don't have you might have an understanding

02:22:44.000 of fehu that i don't have right but when we were building the web earlier remember relate the rune

02:22:54.000 to this how does the rune affect that and how does the situation affect the room think about that put

02:23:00.000 it in regards to the energy that you feel from the maintenance of pencil think about it what do they

02:23:06.640 mean to you. We know what they generally are in charge of, but think of the gifts that mean

02:23:16.480 something to you, right? Let's take any of them. Salga, for example. Salga can be a lot

02:23:31.840 of things to a lot of ladies and to a lot of our menfolk generally speaking she is the keeper of

02:23:39.200 of the things and of the knowledge and of the stories right you know she sits upon the banks

02:23:43.760 and she listens to odin and she pours horse him meat into a golden chalice right

02:23:48.400 there's a few different ways to look at them okay saga number one is sitting

02:23:56.640 next to a stream on a bank.

02:24:01.640 When you think of stream, what do you think?

02:24:06.460 Water.

02:24:10.320 But what kind of water?

02:24:12.420 Is it peaceful?

02:24:14.660 Is it clean?

02:24:17.420 Is it pure?

02:24:20.920 Right?

02:24:22.240 For me personally,

02:24:24.040 it's peace and tranquility.

02:24:26.640 the golden or the the green banks the healthy grass the bank itself

02:24:32.960 right i see that as like a lush you know a lush field of comfort right fresh

02:24:42.920 but healthy it doesn't say she's sitting in a in a bank full of mud and rocks right like no

02:24:55.020 it's healthy and vibrant

02:24:57.860 so we've got two things

02:24:59.880 that are ready, tranquil

02:25:01.260 peace

02:25:02.780 health and vibrance

02:25:05.180 right

02:25:06.060 so what can that tell us about Sauga

02:25:09.440 right

02:25:12.280 good things

02:25:14.620 and what is she doing

02:25:16.600 she's listening

02:25:21.000 she's listening

02:25:24.000 what is she listening for

02:25:27.260 someone has to keep the history

02:25:31.320 someone has to

02:25:33.520 remember the deeds

02:25:34.820 how

02:25:37.160 how many times have you been like

02:25:39.720 I have to write this down I have to say this

02:25:41.800 before I forget it

02:25:43.160 Saga is the one

02:25:45.720 that's listening to us

02:25:46.620 right she's the one listening to

02:25:49.740 Odin

02:25:49.980 now think of this

02:25:53.700 as well. She is serving

02:25:55.660 Odin.

02:25:58.720 Does that mean?

02:26:02.080 And I can't give you the answers,

02:26:03.700 you guys. I'm giving you my own answers.

02:26:06.760 Right?

02:26:09.640 She's not only listening to him, she's

02:26:11.560 serving him. Why?

02:26:16.720 Why?

02:26:22.080 Or

02:26:22.520 the wives out there,

02:26:26.460 the partners, the girlfriends,

02:26:28.740 the partners, the wives.

02:26:31.660 When your man is telling you about his day,

02:26:35.160 what are you doing?

02:26:39.740 Should be listening.

02:26:44.200 If he came home and he had a great day

02:26:47.040 or a not so great day,

02:26:49.780 he wants to tell who he wants to tell you.

02:26:52.520 why. You are his peace and tranquility. You are also his vibrance and emotional and mental health.

02:27:09.180 You are listening, right? But you are also serving. You are serving him peace. You might

02:27:18.880 be giving him a beer if you aren't good for you he probably wants one that's great if he doesn't

02:27:25.280 give him a nice tea right comfort peace let him lay the burden down a man needs a confidant

02:27:41.500 does it say in there that um saga is telling him all about himself and what decisions he made that

02:27:50.440 day no what is she being it's confident yes she's recording the history is absolutely vital

02:28:01.480 she's also listening to listen and giving him peace

02:28:10.060 right how many of you can do that as a sister

02:28:16.280 do you have to be a wife to do that no

02:28:21.580 absolutely not can women do that for each other

02:28:28.360 how many of you have got out the got on the phone and said guess who called me today

02:28:35.040 right and you might be her peace or you might amp her up but you might she might just need that

02:28:44.260 peace you're being that confidant you're also remembering for her because when she falls in

02:28:54.340 love with them again you're the one that's gonna remind her hey girl remember two months ago when

02:28:57.680 this happened don't tell me you're not gonna you're gonna you're gonna remind her it's what

02:29:02.140 you do as a friend. Right? There is so much more to our Asenir than one paragraph of the

02:29:14.900 Gilfaganin. But you'll never find it if you don't look for it. Right? Flex that spiritualness.

02:29:32.140 all right let's see who else has got in the chat oh mick asks

02:29:43.920 how does one go from treating this as some club or organization and truly diving into the faith

02:29:50.840 and community of an actual church let's start with githia mcnallan on that i'm going to read

02:29:56.120 it one more time because it's kind of a paragraph how does one go how does one go from club or

02:30:04.080 organization and truly diving into the faith and community of an actual church get them it now

02:30:10.760 no it's interesting to hear when people come to us what they're looking for and sometimes they

02:30:20.280 just want that community um and they're not searching with the church and we hope that they

02:30:26.680 if we do our job well if we instill enough spiritual might and and connection during the

02:30:36.280 days when they're at our church of course that's where i go when i start talking about this

02:30:43.880 one hopes that they will realize no this is so much more that i was not expecting you know we

02:30:49.800 have realized at odin's hof that we were amiss and not doing uh sumble regularly um we have

02:30:58.840 you know full weekend with people but i know that the other hofs they kind of encapsulate it with

02:31:04.200 a bloat and assemble right together and they get a lot done and we because we have a acreage people

02:31:11.560 spread out it's hard to pull them back in for talks and various things we don't have a sing

02:31:17.560 well we do have a single building with still people spread out and with that um we haven't

02:31:24.760 we haven't really set the parameters that we needed to for a really spiritual

02:31:31.160 day and now that we have we're finding that people say wow this is so cool it was such great

02:31:37.080 you know doing some people were leaving without experiencing assemble you have to do bloat and

02:31:42.680 you have to do symbol because that gives the full picture on how we come together as as a folk

02:31:49.480 community and you really if you don't stay for both if you don't experience both you're not really

02:31:57.880 going to begin understanding how we connect with the holy powers with the acr and i have a fellow

02:32:06.520 who recently joined us came to the hof and didn't stick around for anything of a spiritual nature

02:32:15.960 he just said when he came in it didn't feel he didn't just pick up the vibes

02:32:21.560 maybe you could at balder's hof or thor's hof especially because they're former churches and

02:32:28.360 they have that that ambiance the the shadows and the tall spires and all that it's hard

02:32:35.560 at Odinzhoff and it's probably a bit hard at Njordzhoff in a way as well you know you've got

02:32:41.940 to give it time it doesn't just come just doesn't hit you forcefully the first time but he left

02:32:48.900 because he said there was nothing spiritual for him and it really made me sad and he wrote with

02:32:54.040 regrets but he was not going to come back and try it further and just say no this sometimes it may

02:33:00.980 come to you and you just know this is what we do

02:33:04.280 this is why we do it it's a very impactful

02:33:08.240 personal religious experience

02:33:12.000 to be with others to do bloat

02:33:15.580 gathering at a pizza place yeah you're probably not going to feel it you're going to enjoy

02:33:21.440 some good people but if you could make it to a hof or go someplace

02:33:24.880 where people are actually hosting an event where there is

02:33:29.260 a bloat and food blessings and maybe a baby naming that takes it way into being a church

02:33:38.720 and not an organization we used to use the word organization for too long so we kind of

02:33:45.100 when steve and i were running the afa that was it was religious organization we held off on calling

02:33:52.760 it a church but even i would end up saying later on that well church goes back to the greek and

02:33:59.080 And it's circa, and it's, you know, everything to, you know, all the variations of that being a circle, a circle.

02:34:08.920 And that's, you know, I've always said to people, that's what our ancestors did.

02:34:12.560 They gather in a circle in the woods.

02:34:14.420 They do the religious, the religious place.

02:34:16.800 And the same thing with God being our word, not a Latinate word.

02:34:20.760 They took that too.

02:34:22.420 So it's fine to use the word church.

02:34:24.180 It's fun to use the word God or gods or goth, even as we do.

02:34:31.460 And it's really important for people to see that.

02:34:34.660 Give it time.

02:34:35.560 If you have not felt that, it will grow in time with you.

02:34:40.720 Some people feel it initially.

02:34:42.980 But people come to us for all sorts of reasons, and they're trying to find connection and community.

02:34:49.020 And community with the Aesir is what we hope they'll always find.

02:34:54.180 Thank you, ma'am. And it looks like we do have one last question for the night here,

02:35:04.280 and it is from Sierra. Why is it important for women to step up to be folk builders,

02:35:10.320 then grow to be Githias? Lauren, would you like to take the last question for the evening?

02:35:16.080 Sure. Well, I think it's just really important to have a balance of men and women in our

02:35:23.940 church and you know i i i feel like men and women both bring something different very different and

02:35:32.100 very special to whatever they're bringing that to and so we need to need to have enough women

02:35:38.620 folk builders to balance out our wonderful men folk builders um who are doing a wonderful job

02:35:44.000 and we have a new folk builder in um apprentice folk builder in odenshof by the way so that's fun

02:35:50.980 Yeah. And then to grow to be Geethias, well, of course, we have a duty to pass on our faith to the next generation, to the children of the folk, to the folk who haven't come home to us yet.

02:36:10.280 we have a duty to to to pass that on and so that that really helps if you can you know really dive

02:36:18.520 into it and do that so i would encourage anyone who's interested to to reach out and talk to us

02:36:24.920 about it outstanding anybody who is interested in joining the ranks of leadership if you feel

02:36:31.640 a calling um and a duty to serve your gods and your folk please reach out to uh go the nathan

02:36:39.560 erlinson he is our folk builder coordinator and he can fill you in on that if you do not necessarily

02:36:47.000 oh we said it was the last question so they're coming in ladies um if you do not feel comfortable

02:36:52.520 being leadership or you don't feel like it is the right thing for you um please reach out if you

02:36:58.440 still want to volunteer because we do have several opportunities for you to volunteer

02:37:03.240 as just a member so please reach out even if you're not leadership we definitely have ways you

02:37:08.200 can help all right so we do have two more questions sierra asked somersault question

02:37:14.520 thorshoff and yorkshoff have singles dance around the maples and then couples after that at yorkshoff

02:37:20.120 is there a reason for just the singles to dance around and not everyone so i am going to invite

02:37:27.160 wouldn't spawn to speak on thoris hoff specifically in the chat because i know he's lurking in there

02:37:34.120 um but typically um maples were actually danced by singles that's traditional um

02:37:43.400 we don't necessarily do that all the time now because we don't it's a good problem to have we

02:37:49.320 don't have a ton of single people a lot you know we pair up pretty quick in the church you know

02:37:55.560 what i mean so we don't always have a lot of singles you know we might have the young ladies

02:38:00.360 we might have some single men um but traditionally it was the singles uh fun fact if i have mentored

02:38:10.040 in any way um agothi or agithya they do have my very special maypole blessing

02:38:17.960 so that maypole blessing includes a nine-tiered knot and there's a very specific prayer that

02:38:27.320 goes over those knots and i am not exaggerating in the last people to take all those maypole

02:38:34.240 ribbons last year you know who you are don't let me down everyone who has taken an end of that

02:38:40.620 maypole ribbon since we started doing the maypole at baldersoff has been blessed with a beautiful

02:38:48.760 child within two years every single person man and woman because we had men that took the ends

02:38:56.140 of that maypole ribbon as well weren't even in a relationship yet but they wanted a wife and child

02:39:01.000 and by golly they got one we are not exaggerating this is real so for those of you who took all of

02:39:09.800 the maypole ribbons last year do not do not mess up my classroom but it's true but they do have

02:39:19.760 that very special blessing i did pass it down to people that i have mentored so hopefully

02:39:24.080 that can continue cory says worked for her dang right it's good cory well done

02:39:30.920 all right. And then Finn Wraith asks, how do you celebrate May Day in a lot of places here

02:39:40.980 in Europe? It's a big celebration. Is it a celebration over there? Yes. May Day is a

02:39:46.240 fantastic holiday. May Day includes feasting, flower crowns, dancing, frolicking in the clover,

02:39:53.820 doing the maypole um mayday is very much of course a fertility ritual right um the phallic symbol of

02:40:04.140 the maypole um the dancing around the maypole blessing our women and our men with fertility

02:40:09.760 and health and vitality um you can take it into an agricultural state where we're requesting

02:40:15.240 fertility to grow um you know reaching up into the sky and bringing the rains down to to pour

02:40:21.820 down upon our fields so that not just our women are fertile but also our fields to feed those

02:40:26.780 beautiful babies um there's so many beautiful things about mayday beautiful magical things

02:40:34.420 about mayday um it is a big celebration um if you are on or in an area where you can attend a hof

02:40:43.380 you can find those celebrations the third saturdays of the month and if the good producer

02:40:50.580 could please pop up all of those websites for all of our hoffs. That would be amazing.

02:40:55.900 So find a hoff near you or reach out to any of our folk builders and they can get you situated.

02:41:02.460 Not only are we celebrating May Day at the hoffs, but we are celebrating May Day in those far-flung

02:41:07.560 areas that are kind of, you know, separated from the, not separate is not the right word,

02:41:12.180 but a little bit further than the hoff that people are able to drive for a day.

02:41:15.280 so we do have May Day celebrations

02:41:17.720 all around the country

02:41:18.920 if you go to runestone.org

02:41:21.620 and take a look at the calendar

02:41:23.260 or go to any of these websites

02:41:25.700 and look at their calendars

02:41:26.920 you'll be able to see

02:41:28.240 where all of those May Day celebrations are

02:41:30.360 I hope that answered your question sir

02:41:34.060 all right

02:41:38.040 I'd like to just add something

02:41:42.940 at the line. Go ahead, Sheila. Okay, I was just going to say, you know, a lot of people wait

02:41:50.760 until the national event that is held at each of the Hoffs. Every Hoff has one or four Hoffs plus

02:42:00.040 Siegerheim, and those are usually the fourth weekend of the month. Otherwise, it's the third

02:42:06.200 weekend when we celebrate at every Hoff. We celebrate these holy days, but I want to say

02:42:11.700 don't wait until a national event if you can get on a plane and sometimes the airlines the flights

02:42:18.980 are really cheap get on a flight and come up and experience it and we really don't want you to wait

02:42:25.460 come come this time mayday is a wonderful time to celebrate with folk um we've got the beautiful

02:42:31.460 colored ribbons and we're dancing around in springtime and ladies with hair wreaths with

02:42:35.700 flowers and fine feasting all that it's a wonderful time to come folk for the first time so i encourage

02:42:43.380 you no matter where you live figure out even if it's not your own hof district if you could

02:42:48.980 if you're out in in louisiana and you can fly up to minnesota really cheap do it or come out to

02:42:57.540 fly into sacramento and come to odinsoff we'd love to have you come out just come experience

02:43:03.860 but it's like being with a large group of people who are very committed to celebrating together

02:43:10.020 to honoring the aesir and um making the world a better place through all of our efforts so we

02:43:18.260 want you to come out so there we go mayday is wonderful for that mayday is a great event yes

02:43:26.580 well that looks like those are all the questions that we have tonight we have covered duty we have

02:43:31.620 have covered intuition. I have jumped down about 26 different rabbit holes tonight. It's been a

02:43:37.420 lot of fun. I want to thank Gideon McNallan, Gideon Anderson. Thank you so much for being

02:43:42.600 here. I appreciate you ladies joining me. Look forward to doing this again soon. Until next

02:43:49.260 week, same time, same place. So hail the Aesir, hail the folk, hail the AFA, and remember,

02:43:56.140 victory never sleeps.

02:44:01.620 Thank you.

02:44:31.620 Thank you.

02:45:01.620 Thank you.

02:45:31.620 Thank you.

02:46:01.620 We'll be right back.

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