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Random Heathen Ramblings: S3, EP14 - Solitary Sigrblot And Embracing Solitude · Random Heathen Ramblings

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  Well, alright folks, how's it going?
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  How's everybody doing? It's been a while.
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  Didn't have an episode last week as I had mentioned last week.
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  We had family visiting from out of town, out of state, not out
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  of this world, although sometimes those visits from
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  family, can feel like it's you know, out of this world man.
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  But no, it was a, it was my wife's family, her father's
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  sister and husband. So you know, aunt and uncle they
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  live on the West Coast. Most and they're up in years and
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  they don't come out here but that once a year and with some
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  of the you know pandemic restrictions and stuff from last
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  year or two they haven't they haven't made it out here so it's
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  been a couple of years since we all got to see him and we wanted
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  to use the time that we had spending with them you know to
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  be put to good use. So I had I had plans of, you
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  know, having a podcast last week but that changed as you can
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  tell. So actually let me do something
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  real quick and I do that. Yeah, I did.
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  All right so this week's episode is just kind of going to be a
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  recap of the one before and I was able to figure out.
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  Remember last time we had an episode, we had a call that I
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  wanted to listen to from Crow. He's a, do the out in Idaho crow
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  in Idaho. He's their tribe a Believer
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  called the deathlanders because You ever been to Idaho?
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  Those are the Deathlands. Pretty cool guy from what I've
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  gotten the chance to listen to from him.
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  So he had some comments about the topic of last week's podcast
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  or the last podcast I should say about, he didn't self-care and
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  stuff like that. So we're gonna be listening to
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  his voice mail you know and as a reminder the phone lines are 0
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  is open although I don't answer them live.
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  You can always Call in and leave a message, leave a message after
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  the beep. So we're going to be listening
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  to that and it's going to kind of be recapping a bit, the
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  Seeger bloat event that my tribe.
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  And I participated in small group Gathering nothing too
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  elaborate but it was good times. I've shared a little bit of of
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  of content about That. So if you guys go to the YouTube
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  channel, if you're watching this on Spotify or listening to this
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  on any other podcast platform head over to the midgard,
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  musings YouTube channel and you'll see a freyr wicker, man.
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  We call the prayer, man. It's a, it's our, it's our
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  tradition. It's become a tradition for us
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  at Suga, bloat, to make a wicker, man.
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  And Dedicate it to frere. We will gather limbs from the
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  nearby Deadfall of trees, bind it up, you know, with with
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  baling twine or with yeah, baling twine.
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  Usually works really well, we got some straw.
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  So all of the all of the material use to kind of make him
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  what he is, you know, assembled as a like a full-figured body.
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  D, where the branches and Limbs and straw that that made him and
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  then we always include for anybody.
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  That's not familiar with one of freres Infamous features.
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  He is he is, we dedicate our, our wicker van to Freire and in
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  all his phallic Glory. So if you guys go to the YouTube
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  channel and watch the burning of the Wicker, man of the fair, And
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  right, you'll notice that he has a phallic appendage made out of
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  another Branch, so we always do that.
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  We did it on the first years. We recommend that we made and he
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  was a bit crude. We had.
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  I think it was hedge apples. Somehow tied into the into the
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  frame to kind of replicate the Queen's, Right?
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  The gonads that this year, we didn't have any hedge apples.
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  It's really weird hedge apples haven't fallen yet.
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  Whereas a couple years ago, they had fallen aplenty, they were
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  all over the place. So this time we just had the,
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  you know, the shaft and yeah, that that's our thing.
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  So head over to the YouTube channel and check that out and
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  see what it is. It's all about.
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  It was, it was, it was a great time.
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  We did that, you know, dingoes daughter, then go be in our go
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  thee. you know we collectively him and I work together on
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  writing the ritual, you know, the words that we would speak
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  for the ritual and you know and the plan was that either he or I
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  was going to speak but his daughter Kaya Had asked if she
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  could read some of the and then it turned into, could she read
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  the whole thing? And I said, of course, that
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  would be great. So, I didn't record any of that.
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  And there's not going to ever be any recordings of us actually
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  conducting ritual. You know what I'm saying?
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  Like, the closest thing that I have that, you know, we we did
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  the frere, the ferryman burning right before ritual.
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  That was kind of a launch. Into the ritual as it were.
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  And But I won't ever like I won't ever be the one to record
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  any of our rituals just because it just out of respect, you
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  know, I feel like that's kind of one of those things that needs
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  to be kept private to the attendees.
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  Are our, our height are high feasts.
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  Are our holy tides that our tribe adheres to are closed off
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  to the tribe with the exception of you'll, we invite guests and
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  friends and near dear friends to Tribe to participate.
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  So, you know, at our you'll, we will invite either neighboring
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  members of the tribe members of neighboring tribes.
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  For instance, we have Greg Greg Strong whose Chieftain of the
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  Raven Moon Hearth in Nashville. We've had him at every one of
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  our you all events but the Seeker bloke thing.
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  It's for victory, right? And so we we keep that one
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  closed off to to tribe only but so I won't ever like Or anything
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  like that and share it on the internet.
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  But so you get as much as you get from seeing the frere
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  wicker, man, being burnt, sokaya.
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  You know, read the ritual. And it was really sweet because,
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  you know, it's all handwritten. So she's I think six years old
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  now and she was reading, you know, in the dark only thing
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  that was Illuminating. I think dingo maybe had a
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  flashlight, but mainly By the Light of the fire that the
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  burning of the Wicker man provided so you know that whole
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  thing went up in flames and it was very Illuminating and you
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  know, she's six and she's reading the handwriting of Men
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  in their late 30s and several Pages.
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  Actually, you know, so it was a, it was a slower process like the
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  ritual reading lasted longer than it would have had, you
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  know, dengar myself been reading it.
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  But that was, that was the great thing about it is because the
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  time that it took for her, to read through it, she did it
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  very, very well. I mean, I'm, I got to say, you
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  know, for being Sixth and reading a whole, you know,
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  multiple LePage, ritual like that, that's impressive.
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  But I wanted, I wanted her that I wanted to allow that
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  opportunity for her, especially seeing, as you know, she asked
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  for it and asked to do it. I thought that I was a
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  tremendous, I would be a tremendous gesture to celebrate,
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  right? First of all, and have something
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  so, so strong added to the well, and become part of Tribal luck.
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  So, because it lasted a bit longer because, you know, you
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  kind of caught our cause to pause and think about everything
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  that's being said, because, even though you spent the time
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  writing it, right? Even though Dingo and I spent
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  the time pinning, it down, you know, from Pain, you know, from
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  the mine, to the pen, to the paper, listening to it, being
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  recited and having everything being said, you know, she
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  struggled with a couple of were. So there was a community effort,
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  you know, the tribe involved. Got involved to help.
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  Was that word? I'd say it says this, you know,
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  that sort of thing. So even though she read it, it
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  became a kind of tribal Affair. You know, we were all there for
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  it but it was very much a Hands-On thing and you get to
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  really put your focus on what's being said when it's being said
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  because you're not the one saying it so I don't know.
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  Like it worked out, worked out really well.
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  And I didn't want to make sure to tell that you know, here on
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  this podcast because I Oh, that not just our try but a lot of
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  other groups leading up to today.
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  And from you know, a couple weeks ago have been a lot of
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  groups have been observing a celebration of equivalents to
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  see your blog. You know, I know that Eric's
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  Eric shervin's people in Texas, the red gar folk.
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  They have a leaf guy celebration right around that time of the
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  week after we did. Our singer bloat and they have a
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  really neat dedication. I think they're they're you
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  know, Springtime celebration is dedicated to a boon for my
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  understanding. You can probably go back through
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  Eric's, catalog in his in his YouTube videos and find
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  something. I think he did a video or to
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  worry that, you know, he talks about Lisa and what that is.
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  And I know that Him. And I both did a collaboration
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  video talking about will star or a store, which is another
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  commonly referred to. And, and this is, you know, this
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  is this could be a whole conversation goddess. / Moon /
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  month, right? Deity.
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  Whatever. Around the same time of year.
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  So we did like a collaboration video.
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  There's a lot of, you know, stuff from that video that I
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  probably would Go back to and get needed.
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  A little nude polish that one up a bit but anywho between him and
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  I and the content that he's put out and I put out, you know,
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  we've talked about those Springtime celebrations, so you
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  know his tribe, they celebrate liefde, our tribe, clearly
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  Focus, celebrate Seger bloat. And then I've seen some other
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  groups of people or people that represent other groups, talking
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  about celebrating singer bloat, even as recent as this past, You
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  know, so there are a couple of weeks, you know, or at least a
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  full week, we can have whatever past the official date, right?
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  The, the actual date of the Moon, the full moon, but that's
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  fine, you know, whatever works. And then whatever works for you
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  and I see a lot of people when they talk about, Their ritual or
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  ask about what they should do. They get nervous and you know
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  there's there's there's concern like I'm not going to read it
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  right? Or I've never done this before.
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  I'm afraid I'm going to stumble over my words.
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  I'm afraid I'm going to, you know, botch this whole thing and
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  then I get to sit back and reply and say, hey, our tribe Our
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  ritual was led by a six-year-old.
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  It was great. You know.
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  Was it like the most? Like would you say like it's the
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  most eloquent the most elaborate, the most, you know,
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  aesthetic, perfect, you know, whatever.
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  Like know, there was a it was, it was rough around the edges
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  but in that roughness and in that imperfection, it was
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  perfect. And it was, it was great for us.
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  So, because it was so genuine because it was so sincere
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  because it was something that came from the heart, and it was
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  done In that way and in that fashion, right?
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  So I always can go back to that moment that I was a part of and
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  that our tribe celebrated together and can say, you know,
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  look don't don't be so hung up on the On the specifics of it,
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  you know, don't be worried about messing up, right?
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  As it were, don't be worried about falling short, missing a
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  word mispronouncing, the word. I mean if a six-year-old can can
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  do it and if any work well then surely you can as well and just
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  let it come from the heart and let it be genuine and let it be
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  the thing that secures luck for your Kindred, your tribe, your
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  your group. So for everybody and anybody who
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  got the chance to celebrate, whatever else tarah a store, the
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  Seger bloats Leaf, go, whatever you call it, whatever your
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  Springtime celebrations are for the purpose of whatever they
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  are. I hope that all of your
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  celebrations have brought with with them, you know, good
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  results and that you've achieved the desired results in that you
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  receive. Good luck.
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  For the rest of the year into the times of bounty, into the
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  times of Plenty, you know, we look ahead now, into doing
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  things and into it, into achieving things to set
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  ourselves up for the next cycle. We've survived the harshness,
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  we've survived the darkness, we've survived the time of
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  leanness, you know, and Now, we look forward to times of Plenty
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  and Bounty, and celebrating those victories, winning those
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  victories achieving those Victory setting out and doing
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  those things. You know, lots of lives.
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  That's one of the things that, you know, we tried to
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  incorporate into our cigarette boat.
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  Is, you know, everybody here should have a victory that they,
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  that they can celebrate, or should celebrate.
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  Let's talk about that. Let's speak it into existence.
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  Let's Make it so right. Let's let's celebrate in those
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  victories together because one man's Victory.
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  One woman's Victory, one person's Victory amongst the
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  tribe is the tribes Victory and can potentially have benefit for
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  the tribe as a whole. And, you know, your joy is our
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  joy. Your sorrow is our sorrow, that
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  whole thing. And that's what I love love,
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  love, love about the the tribal approach to Heathen.
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  Rated It just fits so well. Out with, you know the very
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  inherent worldviews and then that sort of thing.
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  So hopefully you got a chance to celebrate singer boat with your
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  with your Cannon York. If your extensions of family and
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  even if you didn't even if you celebrate it at solitarily I
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  know we've got some people that are listening and watching that
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  have no real Grassroots Kindred or tribe or anything like that
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  similar close to them or that Not a part of it yet or that
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  they're looking for something, right?
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  And you but yet you still find ways to practice, solitarily,
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  any or solitary practitioner and you do things by yourself or in
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  the confines and in the privacy of your home or whatever Sacred
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  Space that you've set up or deemed appropriate.
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  And so for you as well, for all of our solitary practitioners
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  and I wish, you know, lots of luck and good victories for you
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  as well. And that kind of is a good, I
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  think, segue into crows call, so I'm going to pull that up real
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  quick. And I want us to listen to What
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  he has to say. So Crow once again, is in Idaho
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  and this is him calling in and reference referencing the last
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  podcast episode about, you know, self care.
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  So let's see what here, let's see what he has to say.
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  Like Listen by go out into the forest, or the desert, or the
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  mountains, or wherever you are take time to.
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  Well, listen to yourself, listen to what's going on inside that
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  assesses digest. It and just let it out.
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  Kind of like how smoke is to fire.
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  You burn it and it's gone also to keep an open mind.
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  Like people, I don't think really take time to embrace it
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  and there's just a lot of things that can be taken care of, with
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  an open mind, like, accepting things, like I said before, as
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  they are, or at least, you'll take our time to look at them.
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  Geico won't. If I assessed it this way, I can
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  overcome it. The last two things I think are
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  really kind of pertinent because that's how my wife.
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  And I view things is to Breathe new error in.
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  Find new dirt. No I'm not talking about going
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  like a cross the country or anything you know I mean who has
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  the money for that with flesh with gas prices.
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  They are now oh my God. But you know, they go out go to
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  a different board are or go out to a different mountain and get
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  your boots in this dirt. So when you come home, you can
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  look over it. Look over your boots and they
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  go. Wow.
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  That's that's a memory right there, right?
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  It's their milestones and I think that's most important for
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  healthcare, especially when it comes to us, heathens will very
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  nature base. Anyway, have a good day and
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  he'll Odin and drink lots of water drink, lots of water.
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  Yes. You know, he brings up some set,
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  several good points. And again, in light of the
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  attention on health, you know self-care, taking care of
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  ourselves, keeping an open mind, he's talking about, you know,
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  being Being open to the to those ideas.
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  And not. We talked about Embracing the
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  Solitude that was the word I was looking for embracing embracing
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  that Solitude, you know, there's a place for that.
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  There's definitely a place for it.
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  Even in tribal Heathen re, you know, obviously, the tribe
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  ideally doesn't doesn't function as good without each respective
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  member having a part in What thing in the tribes.
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  Mechanics right in the way it works.
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  Its the engine test to all the Pistons.
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  Have to be firing on all cylinders and everything has to
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  be. Everybody has a place and
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  everybody has a part but the solid, the Solitude solid dude.
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  Well, you know, solitary practitioners and salty.
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  There's a place for that. I find myself finding comfort
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  and solace in solitude a lot. And, you know, you can, you can
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  look at it two from like the perspective of the God's that we
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  venerate, you know, Odin is the chieftain of the aesir, you
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  know, he is their leader, he is their King, he is over that
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  tribe and he and he has many stories of being alone and
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  wandering by himself and not having a companion not having
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  anyone to go with. And there's probably some
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  inherent value to Y that is great, but especially when you
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  consider just you need a break from people sometimes sometimes
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  you just need to get out and get away recently myself, right?
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  I had I had that happen, never fails my phone rings, whenever
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  I'm in the middle of doing something, and this phone call
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  is, you know, way after my work hours.
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  So never fails though. As I said that the last time, it
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  never fails. Anyway, it's not important right
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  now. When I was to say this last week
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  or just this past weekend, rather, you know, there was a
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  gathering of pagans actually one of mentioned Greg earlier from
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  Raven Moon Hearth, he held a belting group or a belt and get
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  together is a belting celebration.
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  You Little early I guess, but it was, it was a beautiful day and
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  it was here in one of our local parks in Murfreesboro Tennessee.
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  And I couldn't attend but one of our One of our members of our
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  tribe did. So there was, you know, there
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  was representation there, which was great, but I was, I was
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  doing my own thing, right? I went out To one of my favorite
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  spots, one of my favorite locations off of the, The
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  Greenway hiking trails and stuff.
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  Right? Wasn't a very long distance for
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  me to go, but it was a solitary thing.
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  I had a purpose in it, you know, I wanted to meditate.
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  I wanted to be alone. I wanted to kind of separate
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  myself from the The world around me and in the end, be alone for
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  a bit. And that's okay.
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  That's actually part of taking care of yourself, right?
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  Don't be, don't be, don't don't feel bad.
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  And like Crow says, you know, embrace the solitude, it's okay
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  to step up step aside or step outside, you know, and go clear
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  your mind and find that like he's talking about.
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  Find that new are, you know, breathing new air and feel new
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  Earth granted, you know, this is Very kind.
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  I know this earth, right? I know the places that I went so
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  it wasn't like I was going to a new place but the experience can
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  be can be new especially as you go into it in a specific state
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  of mind, you know, if you want to You know, get into like a
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  ritual state of mind or whatever.
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  And kind of zone out a little bit and focusing on where you
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  are physically to be able to travel to go other places.
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  So going into the woo type stuff, but you know, it's
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  beneficial, it's beneficial to step outside of where you feel
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  like, you know, you're you're with your community or with your
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  tribe, you with your people, sometimes you just need Step
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  away. Sometimes being around all that
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  can get overwhelming or you just, you know, you need to
• 26:33
  clear your mind, clear? Clear at all.
• 26:36
  So it's very beneficial and works great.
• 26:38
  So like he's saying, you know, embrace the solitude, but don't
• 26:40
  get lost in it, don't go. I can't I'll never forget i-i've
• 26:47
  made reference to enough times I think on this podcast for people
• 26:52
  that are returned listeners, about my ritual journey in
• 26:57
  November that I went on with my tribesmen, you know, and That
• 27:05
  was a shamanic Journey, 100% shamanic that.
• 27:12
  It was a healing ritual. It was, it was a bunch of
• 27:15
  things, but it was very shamanic and one of the one of the key
• 27:20
  things that I remember about that whole experience was At
• 27:26
  some point, I wandered off. I left the circle.
• 27:31
  I left the I left the sanctity or the, or the, or the safety,
• 27:37
  right, the sanctuary at the sanctity.
• 27:39
  I left the sanctuary of My Tribe, right above those, who I
• 27:45
  was there with. I wandered outside of it and I
• 27:50
  needed to, I needed to go and do my own thing and I did and then
• 27:58
  I temporarily got lost not lost in the sense of I didn't know
• 28:03
  where I was but just lost in the sense of I can see where I need
• 28:08
  to go, but I don't know how to get there.
• 28:10
  Like the mechanics of it like getting from point A to point B
• 28:13
  just was not happening and I could see the end of the tunnel
• 28:17
  but I couldn't put my feet in front of each other to get to
• 28:20
  that point, right? And I needed help getting back.
• 28:24
  I needed help from my goalie and the advice that I received was,
• 28:29
  you know, it was it's something that I'll never forget and it's
• 28:32
  something I that I That I'm taking with me on many facets of
• 28:39
  my life you know. And what he said to me was it's
• 28:42
  okay to get lost love. It's okay to go out there.
• 28:47
  Which is don't go so far out that you that you forget your
• 28:50
  way back. So it's kind of a reminder to me
• 28:55
  like what you know Crow is saying is it's you know, embrace
• 28:58
  the Solitude just don't don't get crazy with it, you know,
• 29:01
  because you can you can get lost in that and it can become
• 29:04
  something so healing and something so beneficial and
• 29:07
  something so good can turn into something that ruins us and and
• 29:14
  you know you got to be careful. Don't don't get so.
• 29:17
  Austin. It don't feel that.
• 29:17
  You're so cut off for that. You're so just because you're
• 29:21
  not a member of a tribe or you don't have, you know, Kindred or
• 29:24
  a group or whatever you want to call it of people that you can
• 29:27
  associate with or that you think you can associate with, doesn't
• 29:32
  mean you have to stay. Hermit and isolated to the point
• 29:36
  where you have no interaction, as you can just become too.
• 29:42
  Definitely agree with that, you know, whenever you have the
• 29:45
  opportunity, go to new places, it doesn't have to be far,
• 29:49
  doesn't have to be, you know. Like he's talking about with
• 29:53
  traveling and stuff. It's it is it's a, it's
• 29:56
  definitely hard time. There's a lot of challenges that
• 29:59
  we as humans as Humanity. You know, we have a lot of
• 30:04
  challenges that face us but we persevere and we figure out, you
• 30:10
  know, what we have to do to make things happen and that's the
• 30:13
  other. You know, beautiful thing about
• 30:16
  tribe is that because when you have more people in your corner
• 30:21
  when you Have more people at your side than there's more
• 30:24
  opportunities to to meet those challenges and be victorious,
• 30:29
  right? Because one person by themselves
• 30:32
  faced with so many challenges is, is less equipped to beat
• 30:40
  them and to overcome them. When example, you know, I that I
• 30:44
  can think of right is You are our tribe events are very
• 30:51
  collaborative with each other, right?
• 30:52
  No one man does too much, but everybody has a role I say me.
• 30:57
  Invited me like no one person does too much when we get
• 31:01
  together and we have our tribal events.
• 31:04
  You know, we're usually preparing food as well and that
• 31:08
  in itself is his ritualistic, right?
• 31:10
  Because we're in the kitchen, and everybody has a role, right?
• 31:15
  Somebody's going to prep vegetable something.
• 31:16
  Gonna prep the meet some he's going to fire up the grill.
• 31:18
  Somebody's going to cook the bread in the oven comes home.
• 31:20
  He's going to, you know, whatever the stew.
• 31:23
  You know, everybody's going to have their hand in the pot to
• 31:25
  stir this to it. Make sure that it doesn't burn
• 31:27
  or doesn't boil over whatever. You know, if it was just one
• 31:33
  person doing all that, they be overwhelmed.
• 31:36
  You know, you burn the this, you don't overcook that it's set,
• 31:40
  something on fire, right, whatever.
• 31:44
  And and also to the point of the ritual space when where, or when
• 31:50
  we're at our VA, you know, no one person is cutting all the
• 31:54
  wood, you know? No one person is constructing
• 31:57
  the Wicker, man. We all had our hands on them.
• 32:00
  You know, some of us had our hands on places of Prayer for
• 32:07
  good luck. And we, you know, it's like you
• 32:08
  can't help. But I mean, it's just, it's
• 32:09
  there, you got to, you got to give them, give them.
• 32:11
  It'll give them a little tug, you know what I mean?
• 32:13
  For, good luck for good luck, and good measure.
• 32:17
  Not to get too graphic, but you get what I'm trying to say?
• 32:20
  Gotta keep Fair happy. So it's stuff like that, you
• 32:25
  know, everybody has their hands in and everybody has their their
• 32:29
  part. And again, it's just a beautiful
• 32:31
  thing about the tribe. You don't get overwhelmed with
• 32:34
  so much because you are helping each other.
• 32:36
  Nobody has their own thing even to the point of outside of that,
• 32:40
  you know, getting from point A to point B, you know, I mean I'm
• 32:42
  in a position right now where my car is not roadworthy.
• 32:47
  I need to get a lot of work done on it, not even a lot of work
• 32:49
  but I need to get work done on it.
• 32:50
  That's going to cost this. Right?
• 32:53
  So when I need to get places or when I need to, you know, be
• 32:58
  able to Get to the rituals place, you know?
• 33:02
  And my wife can't take me there or whatever, it's, you know,
• 33:04
  Dingo and Patrick there, always will make it happen, you know?
• 33:08
  And I compensate for that, you know, it's, you know, here some
• 33:10
  gas money. Let me, let me buy the me.
• 33:12
  Let me do this, let me do that. It's all about the continuous
• 33:17
  preservation. Of luck and it's a gifting
• 33:23
  exchange. It's a gifting Silas how we do
• 33:24
  it, that's how we preserve luck in.
• 33:26
  It's one of the ways I should say that that we do it is we
• 33:30
  keep that gifting cycle going. Keep that we keep those Wheels
• 33:34
  rolling, you know. So if you know we get together
• 33:38
  and it's you know, we're going to have dinner.
• 33:40
  So if we all contribute or we bring something to drink you
• 33:43
  know it's I mean we are We are literally folks.
• 33:48
  So, you know, there's always some good strong whiskey going
• 33:50
  around of different stories. I don't think we've ever had the
• 33:54
  same whiskey more than twice in a year at an event.
• 33:59
  You know, it's always usually something different.
• 34:03
  Might have a staple that we keep around, but it's like, always
• 34:07
  something new. We all contribute to that,
• 34:09
  right? So solitudes, you know, and in
• 34:17
  solitary practitioners, you don't get that same experience
• 34:23
  and that can, that can be, you know, that can put a lot of
• 34:27
  people into a mental funk. I get it, you know, especially
• 34:30
  when you see things being shared and it's like, man, I want to be
• 34:35
  a part of that. I want to do that, you know?
• 34:37
  And you can, yeah, absolutely can like for, you know, with
• 34:41
  with with, with Greg's With Greg's event this past weekend.
• 34:50
  The belting thing, you know it was an open Event, pagans
• 34:54
  heathens atheist. I mean, anybody, really, I mean,
• 34:57
  obviously belting, it's, you know, a pagan observance of,
• 35:01
  but, in that way but I mean it's open to anybody, you know, all
• 35:06
  ages and I can almost say for sure that In most places, I mean
• 35:14
  I'll speak to the United States. I do because I can't really
• 35:17
  speak to what's going on outside of the domestic us.
• 35:20
  But I think in the majority of places in the United States that
• 35:24
  anybody that wants to organize an event similar to that, if
• 35:28
  they want to put a public event on Facebook, you can do it.
• 35:32
  And I would be surprised at just the the if you don't have
• 35:36
  somebody that you're, you know, a group or a kindred or
• 35:39
  whatever. If there's not people that you
• 35:41
  are, Already connected with create an event like that, where
• 35:43
  you're like, hey if your Pagan or Pagan friendly come on out
• 35:47
  and meet guarantee you you're going to get people to show up.
• 35:51
  I would almost put money on it, I would put money on it
• 35:53
  actually, no matter where you are, Sometimes it's just taking
• 35:57
  that step if nobody else is doing it, then you'd be the one
• 36:00
  that does it, right? And I got that that I got that
• 36:04
  spark and that idea, thanks to Eric sure.
• 36:09
  You know, I watched one of his videos years ago and he was
• 36:13
  talking about you know Pagan events or Heathen events and
• 36:18
  meetups and how important it is to establish tribe and how
• 36:21
  important it is to you know, Have have a local community and
• 36:29
  all that the importance of of tribal, even re and I really
• 36:33
  sunk my teeth into it and started learning about things
• 36:36
  and realize that, wow, yeah, there's a lot of different Pagan
• 36:39
  groups around here and there's even, you know, the Raven Moon.
• 36:42
  Hearth Kindred has been around for a while and they are
• 36:44
  definitely Germanic Pagan a little bit to eclectic, right
• 36:48
  for my particular style at large great people and I said, Greg is
• 36:54
  a very good friend of mine and on.
• 36:55
  Honored guests at our hall for our Yule events and you know
• 36:59
  nothing bad to say about the guy like that.
• 37:01
  Hey, I just, you know, as far as being a part of a, another
• 37:05
  extension of families that that wasn't where I was going to go
• 37:09
  with it. So what did we do?
• 37:11
  We started something of our own and in the Middle Tennessee
• 37:16
  area, there's a lot of other, I think Pagan, you know, subgroups
• 37:21
  and then things it's very for being in the Bible Belt.
• 37:24
  I got to say, for being so, you know, Christian focused here.
• 37:31
  There's a there's actually a lot of alternative religion actually
• 37:37
  live down the road from a believe, it's a Buddhist temple.
• 37:43
  So, I mean there's a lot of alternative religions not just
• 37:46
  your regular Christianity sort of thing.
• 37:49
  So for being in the South, like there's a lot of those types of
• 37:52
  things. And, but we have our Middle,
• 37:55
  Tennessee, heathens group. And there's all, you know, it's
• 37:57
  not very large, its A few hundred members and it's kind of
• 38:01
  quiet nowadays but that's a start it's a start for something
• 38:07
  and our tribe exists and as small as it may be it exists.
• 38:11
  And it can with the right Care at the right Focus.
• 38:15
  It'll grow. And then that's kind of where we
• 38:18
  are at. You know, we're in that young
• 38:20
  early growth stage, where you got a kind of Be careful with
• 38:25
  the growth. You don't want to grow too fast
• 38:28
  and not have a good strong Foundation, right?
• 38:30
  You don't want to, Stay route down for too long either, but
• 38:35
  there's there's there's movement, there's definitely
• 38:37
  movement and there's, you know, there will be more that we
• 38:40
  definitely more. So, what I'm saying is that it
• 38:42
  can happen, some people actually prefer to be solitary, they
• 38:47
  prefer to be on the outskirts and not be a part of a group or
• 38:50
  whatever. And hey if that's your, if
• 38:53
  that's the way you like the Mambo, then then then by all
• 38:55
  means keep on dancing, right? But for those that may feel a
• 39:00
  bit discouraged or bit Wanting of things.
• 39:07
  It's possible like you can do it and you know, anybody can if
• 39:11
  there's nothing in the area that, you know, of and people
• 39:13
  aren't doing it already. You can be the one to start it
• 39:17
  and you don't always have to be the one that is stuck in that
• 39:21
  solitary rut, you can find Community, you can build
• 39:25
  community, you can you can start something yourself, right?
• 39:29
  And we even talked about not not in great detail but on the last
• 39:34
  couple of episodes Emmanuel frere is you know talking about
• 39:38
  making some big steps to have a kind of a community a literal
• 39:44
  Community built. On property that he's going to
• 39:48
  be purchasing or plans to purchase and have you know,
• 39:52
  Community Resources for heathens, you know, schools and
• 39:59
  markets, maybe or whatever on a camp.
• 40:02
  I want to put ideas where they are in any but it's you know,
• 40:04
  having all that, having a Temple of Hope a place of worship that
• 40:08
  sort of thing. Very ambitious and in really
• 40:12
  great to hear and great to see So it can be done, you know, to
• 40:18
  whatever degree, your resources, allow you to, to do that.
• 40:23
  Then by all means do it, right? Don't sometimes waiting for
• 40:27
  something else to happen or for somebody else to do it, it's
• 40:32
  going to leave you waiting for a very long time and you may never
• 40:37
  get the results. They may just may never happen.
• 40:40
  You may be waiting for nothing. So I definitely appreciate you
• 40:47
  Crow for calling in and leaving that really good advice.
• 40:54
  I love the idea of going outside of the places that you know
• 40:58
  breathing in new new are you know we're doing that our tribe
• 41:04
  is doing that later this year. We have plans of going out to
• 41:07
  North Carolina and meeting up with jme Olufsen and And if
• 41:13
  y'all with your Workshop, you guys have heard me talk.
• 41:15
  Plenty about about him, really great guy.
• 41:19
  And that's going to be new new air, new Earth for our tribe to.
• 41:24
  I have it. I have been there before, but
• 41:26
  it's definitely not the norm for me around here.
• 41:30
  Obviously, I don't see him that often.
• 41:31
  So it's going to be very refreshing and it's going to be
• 41:34
  new for the rest of the tribe, right?
• 41:36
  So we're going out there with a purpose.
• 41:40
  Definite purpose, a specific purpose.
• 41:43
  But the very Journey itself, the very essence of going there is
• 41:51
  part of the part of the purpose to its journeying together
• 41:55
  literally for another journey and breathing in that that new
• 42:01
  are feeling that new Earth, you know, connecting with connecting
• 42:05
  with your you know the earth-mother connecting with you
• 42:09
  old in that way. Opens up a whole different
• 42:14
  perspective on things. I think it's, you know, being
• 42:17
  like Crow says, you know, very nature Centric. and then, It's
• 42:26
  reconnecting in that way. It's charging man, like it's so
• 42:29
  electrifying and it could be, you know, that II feel more of
• 42:36
  that from recent experiences from my recent shamanic journeys
• 42:40
  and all that. But I think it's heightened
• 42:42
  because of that but I've always felt it.
• 42:44
  I've always felt better. when I'm in nature, and when I'm away
• 42:50
  from, you know, Like, I remember being a kid and growing up, I
• 43:02
  was always wanting to go outside and play, you know?
• 43:07
  And when I moved with my family to a place where we had, you
• 43:11
  know, wooded property, my dad had at the time nearly 17 Acres,
• 43:15
  you know, that's where it's all a, where I want it to be, you
• 43:18
  know, when I wasn't in school when I wasn't working, I didn't
• 43:22
  want to go inside and watch TV. I didn't want to Inside and play
• 43:25
  video games. I didn't want to go to the mall
• 43:28
  and I wanted to be in the woods and I'm talking like I'll be
• 43:32
  back when it's dark kind of kind of thing.
• 43:34
  I can just go out there, sit down.
• 43:36
  You know, I went in the woods like I went walking, I went, I
• 43:41
  went exploring, I went places and I saw things and experience
• 43:45
  the life around me and I've been it and it felt like home it just
• 43:49
  it felt like that's where I wanted to be.
• 43:52
  You know, the lifestyle that I grew up in was very dated, I
• 43:59
  guess you could say. I mean, it's, you know, I grew
• 44:01
  up not on a farm, but I work on a farm several days a week.
• 44:04
  So, you know, in that way I did grow up working on a farm for
• 44:08
  like a decade from like a time, I was like, 10 or 11 years old
• 44:12
  until I moved away and move to Tennessee.
• 44:14
  You know, I worked on a farm, I cut firewood with, you know, I
• 44:20
  was I was operating chainsaws. I was I was Operating Splitters
• 44:23
  and splitting wood by hand, with axes and malls, and wedges and
• 44:29
  sledgehammers. And you know, Couldn't get
• 44:32
  cutting and baling hay in the summertime and repairing fences,
• 44:36
  and just being outdoors, literally more than I was
• 44:39
  indoors. My job was Outdoors for a lot of
• 44:42
  the time, you know. So I was When I when I, when I
• 44:47
  tell you like, you know, I moved to Tennessee and I found a
• 44:50
  different life and I started finding a different career and
• 44:54
  navigating through my youth and into my young adult years.
• 45:02
  You know, the concept of, you know, sitting inside or how, you
• 45:04
  know, climate-controlled jobs and all of the modern
• 45:07
  conveniences. I was like, whoa.
• 45:08
  There's this now, you know what I've become like pretty used to
• 45:12
  that. Like, that's great.
• 45:13
  I like it. I like not having to, you know,
• 45:17
  kill myself basically to earn a paycheck.
• 45:19
  But, you know, some days like the other day, it was, you know,
• 45:24
  Just I need to get out. I need to go.
• 45:26
  I need to be, I need to sit on the earth.
• 45:30
  I need to breathe in the fresh air.
• 45:34
  I need to feel the sun on my skin.
• 45:37
  My eyes, I need to take all that in, you know, and I need to be
• 45:42
  recharged and it did. Like it's great so you can do
• 45:49
  that anywhere man, you can get you can get no matter where you
• 45:52
  even if you're in a city you know, there's Parks there's and
• 45:54
  you know granted you're going to have a lot of other.
• 45:57
  It's very busy, you know, like there's a lot of stuff even here
• 46:00
  where I usually go right as nice of a day as it was for for me to
• 46:05
  be out. So is everybody else, you know?
• 46:08
  So you know you and you encounter unexpected company
• 46:12
  sometimes when you go into places that are available to the
• 46:14
  public, we even talked about that.
• 46:17
  A few podcasts go about, you know, having ritual in public
• 46:21
  areas where there's the possibility of being interrupted
• 46:24
  whether by accident or on purpose.
• 46:25
  There's there's always that there's always that chance and
• 46:32
  then, you know, like, there's a highway not too far from where I
• 46:34
  was sitting so, you know, you got that noise pollution.
• 46:36
  But again, you do the best you can you get what?
• 46:40
  You can get out of it. We're in from wherever you are.
• 46:43
  So, what I'm saying is that there's really no, you know,
• 46:47
  There's a will there's a way if you want to then you make it,
• 46:51
  you make it happen, you'll find a way you find a way or you make
• 46:56
  away. So but yeah, the last thing that
• 47:01
  I did want to bring to everyone's pensione is tomorrow.
• 47:11
  Tomorrow for those out of watching this on the unknown,
• 47:13
  you to so for like you channel members that are catching this
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• 47:19
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• 47:45
  you can do that. Anyway, tomorrow, Friday, the
• 47:49
  29th April 29th, I will be for the very first time ever live,
• 47:55
  streaming and gaming at the same time, right now.
• 47:59
  That's a thing. That's a big thing.
• 48:01
  I know there's a lot of game mirror gamer streamers Gamer
• 48:06
  streamers. And I'm not one of them, but I'm
• 48:10
  going to try something new. I'm going to be playing Plague
• 48:14
  Inc. So join me on Friday night.
• 48:19
  I think I'm going to start the stream at like 7:30 central
• 48:22
  time. So I'd be 8:30 Eastern 5:30
• 48:24
  Pacific. On the YouTube channel, going to
• 48:29
  be live streaming and playing The Plague Inc.
• 48:31
  We're going to try to run it. We're going to try to wipe out
• 48:34
  Humanity. With a virus.
• 48:37
  Sound familiar. Yeah, but anyway it's not a very
• 48:40
  it's pretty common game. I know a lot of folks, I've
• 48:43
  engage in the interest over the last couple of weeks or whatever
• 48:46
  people like yeah, I remember that game.
• 48:48
  I still play it occasionally. It's been a while since I've
• 48:50
  played it but I thought man what what a cool thing to do, you
• 48:53
  know? So we're going to stream.
• 48:55
  We're going to game. You guys want to help the
• 48:57
  channel and help me in any way. Pay for my costs on the card.
• 49:01
  You guys can donate to the channel.
• 49:02
  It's going to be a fun time. We're gonna be talking about you
• 49:05
  know, you see me playing this game.
• 49:06
  We're going to talk about pagan stuff to Ethan stuff.
• 49:09
  So I'm really looking forward to it and I hope that you'll join
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• 49:44
  And I hope to make these a regular thing.
• 49:47
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