00:00:00.000What we're doing as the Astro Folk Assembly is building something, and we're building something for ourselves, absolutely, but more importantly, for our children and for our grandchildren for the future.
00:00:13.620There's very little risk to being a solitary practitioner in the privacy of your own kitchen table or your own backyard with a few of your good friends, and that's nice, and I don't think that's bad in and of itself.
00:00:26.280I think that's where a lot of us started. But coming together as a folk, as a community and building a religion, a church, a faith for our children to raise our families in.
00:00:40.640It's amazing. And I've watched a lot of people, but in my own life, I met my wife through the Astro Folk Assembly.
00:00:48.060We now have a daughter we're raising in the AFA. And that's been the case with so many of our folk in the last five, six years.
00:00:55.580It's been beautiful to watch that happen, to watch families happen within the AFA.
00:01:00.860Together, we're able to establish Hoffs to honor our gods in, and we can really move the mission
00:01:08.400forward if we're just getting together by ourself and it's only focused on ourselves. It does very
00:01:15.760little to accomplish in the world, and it doesn't build reputation for our gods, for our folk,
00:01:22.820or for us. It doesn't build that legacy. And building that legacy is how we succeed. It's
00:01:28.760how we move forward. We owe that to our children. We owe that to our families. We owe that to our
00:01:35.220ancestors. And ultimately, we owe that to our gods to have them celebrated in the world,
00:01:41.180not just in the shadows or in private.