BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//thetroth.org - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:thetroth.org X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thetroth.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for thetroth.org REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Detroit BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20220101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20231202T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20231202T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T151913 CREATED:20230602T195652Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230624T195040Z UID:3118-1701532800-1701540000@thetroth.org SUMMARY:Heathenry Essentials Study Group DESCRIPTION:2 December\, 2023 – 4:00 PM UTC– 2 December\, 2023 – 6:00 PM UTC\n6 January\, 2024 – 4:00 PM UTC– 6 January\, 2024 – 6:00 PM UTC\n\n\n\nAbout the Heathenry Essentials Study Chats\n\nWelcome to Heathenry (also known as Asatru). \nPerhaps you are beginning your journey as a Heathen. You may have friends or family that have become Heathen and you’d like to know more about it. It is our hope that\, as you work through the readings\, essays\, and sample questions\, you will develop a fuller understanding of Asatru and what it means to be Heathen in a modern context. This is a free resource available to the public as part of our continuing mission to educate and to serve. You can take this course without a membership in The Troth so that you can learn more about the basics of our faith. \nHow the Heathenry Essentials Study Chat Works\nThe first 60 to 90 min will be a discussion of the current subject chosen by those who attend the chat\, focused on the area of their interest. \nThis part will be recorded.  After the focused study chat\, the remaining time will be open for social hour. This part is not required to attend for participation in the study group\, you can drop off if you’d like.  This portion will not be recorded.  If being recorded causes privacy to be a concern\, feel free to join with the video blocked\, or an attendee can put up a neutral picture in their free Zoom account. Attendees can change their names to a code name and use the chat feature if speaking and having their voice heard or recorded may be a concern. \nBy joining the zoom meeting for the chat part\, you are consenting and agreeing that you are aware the zoom chat will be recorded and posted to YouTube for students in the program. By joining\, you are demonstrating that you consent to this. \nAll who join the room first enter the waiting room and then are admitted into the zoom room by the host. Upon entering the waiting room\, each attendee is auto-set to join with their video and mic turned off so they can choose how they wish to present themselves. (To set their video/picture choices manually). This is also done in case when people who enter the chat after the start time can still join without disturbing the class. A student can join the chat/social at any time while the zoom room is open and active. \nIf not speaking\, please keep your microphone muted. This keeps background noise down and stops switching of the focus of the video off the speaker. Those leaving their mic on and having background noise disturbing the chat will first be requested to turn off-mic; the host may and will mute those who do not comply. For repeated offenses\, the person will be removed from the chat by the host. \nAll entering the chats agree to comply with The Troth’s position on Frith and inclusiveness:\n “The Troth takes great pride in being an organization that welcomes all people without judging them. We believe that no matter what a person’s religious or cultural background\, ancestral background\, physical ability\, gender identity\, or sexual orientation may be if the Gods and Goddesses called to them\, they are welcome.”  \nUnless actively speaking\, please keep your mic muted. \nThis course is taught in English. \nIf any questions\, please email heathenessentials@thetroth.org \nFor Troth Members: there is a Discord chat for the Heathen Essentials Study Group on the Troth Discord to continue conversations\, ask questions\, and have a study community. \nFor non-Troth Members: There is a voluntary mailing list for the Heathen Essentials Study Group to continue conversations\, ask questions\, and have a study community. Troth members who prefer not to use discord may also join the mailing list. \nAdd this recurring event to your calendar\nPlease download and import the following iCalendar (.ics) files to your calendar system. It will preload the entire year. \nMonthly: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZEuceCqrzMuGtXU9dcgNSOci1Gq1zywbbQN/ics?icsToken=98tyKuGtrT0jGNWdtBmGRpwMA4_oXerzmFxbjbdlqUbhACd9USz1P7NlI-NlCc_S \nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85369218401?pwd=Nk5Ea1lwM0p6WkZ0YWhYWVJRc2hJZz09 \nMeeting ID: 853 6921 8401 \nPasscode: 945402 \nOne tap mobile to connect via phone verbal only \n+13602095623\,\,85369218401#\,\,\,\,*945402# US \n+13863475053\,\,85369218401#\,\,\,\,*945402# US \nMeeting ID: 853 6921 8401 \nPasscode: 945402 \nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kdWV5hxkTi URL:https://thetroth.org/event/heathenry-essentials-study-group-12022023/ CATEGORIES:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thetroth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/placeholder-header.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231216T160000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231216T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T151913 CREATED:20230917T152915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230917T152915Z UID:5570-1702742400-1702749600@thetroth.org SUMMARY:Heathenry Essentials Study Group 2nd Class DESCRIPTION:Heathenry Essentials Study Group 2nd Class\n\n\nAbout the Heathenry Essentials Study Chat\n\nWelcome to Heathenry (also known as Asatru). \nPerhaps you are beginning your journey as a Heathen. You may have friends or family that have become Heathen and you’d like to know more about it. It is our hope that\, as you work through the readings\, essays\, and sample questions\, you will develop a fuller understanding of Asatru and what it means to be Heathen in a modern context. This is a free resource available to the public as part of our continuing mission to educate and to serve. You can take this course without a membership in The Troth so that you can learn more about the basics of our faith. \nHow the Heathenry Essentials Study Chat Works\nThe first 60 to 90 min will be a discussion of the current subject chosen by those who attend the chat\, focused on the area of their interest. \nThis part will be recorded.  After the focused study chat\, the remaining time will be open for social hour. This part is not required to attend for participation in the study group\, you can drop off if you’d like.  This portion will not be recorded.  If being recorded causes privacy to be a concern\, feel free to join with the video blocked\, or an attendee can put up a neutral picture in their free Zoom account. Attendees can change their names to a code name and use the chat feature if speaking and having their voice heard or recorded may be a concern. \nBy joining the zoom meeting for the chat part\, you are consenting and agreeing that you are aware the zoom chat will be recorded and posted to YouTube for students in the program. By joining\, you are demonstrating that you consent to this. \nAll who join the room first enter the waiting room and then are admitted into the zoom room by the host. Upon entering the waiting room\, each attendee is auto-set to join with their video and mic turned off so they can choose how they wish to present themselves. (To set their video/picture choices manually). This is also done in case when people who enter the chat after the start time can still join without disturbing the class. A student can join the chat/social at any time while the zoom room is open and active. \nIf not speaking\, please keep your microphone muted. This keeps background noise down and stops switching of the focus of the video off the speaker. Those leaving their mic on and having background noise disturbing the chat will first be requested to turn off-mic; the host may and will mute those who do not comply. For repeated offenses\, the person will be removed from the chat by the host. \nAll entering the chats agree to comply with The Troth’s position on Frith and inclusiveness:\n“The Troth takes great pride in being an organization that welcomes all people without judging them. We believe that no matter what a person’s religious or cultural background\, ancestral background\, physical ability\, gender identity\, or sexual orientation may be if the Gods and Goddesses called to them\, they are welcome.”  \nUnless actively speaking\, please keep your mic muted. \nThis course is taught in English. \nIf any questions\, please email heathenessentials@thetroth.org \nFor Troth Members: there is a Discord chat for the Heathen Essentials Study Group on the Troth Discord to continue conversations\, ask questions\, and have a study community. \nFor non-Troth Members: There is a voluntary mailing list for the Heathen Essentials Study Group to continue conversations\, ask questions\, and have a study community. Troth members who prefer not to use discord may also join the mailing list. \nAdd this recurring event to your calendar\nMonthly:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZclduGspjwpGdQZVrE_PuylFtsT3jBUiioa/ics?icsToken=98tyKuGrpjoi\nHtySsxqHRpwqGoj4WejxiGZejadspin3Jh9jdxr6EPZRBuF1Mu3Zhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/tZEuceCqrzMuGtXU9dcgNSOci1Gq1zywbbQN/ics?icsToken=98tyKuGtrT0jGNWdtBmGRpwMA4_oXerzmFxbjbdlqUbhACd9USz1P7NlI-NlCc_S \nTopic: Heathen Essentials Third Sat \nEvery month on the Third Sat\, 4 occurrence(s) \nSep 16\, 2023 16:00 UTC\nOct 21\, 2023 16:00 UTC\nNov 18\, 2023 16:00 UTC\nDec 16\, 2023 16:00 UTC\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/83818487330?pwd=RGhzMnhBUEVpQWxJNFFxTmx6c1ZYZz09\nMeeting ID: 838 1848 7330\nPasscode: 364391 URL:https://thetroth.org/event/heathenry-essentials-study-group-2nd-class-2/ LOCATION:The Troth\, 325 Chestnut Street Suite 800\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19106\, United States CATEGORIES:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thetroth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Untitled-design-e1686834496528.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20231221T230000 DTEND;TZID=UTC:20231221T233000 DTSTAMP:20260430T151913 CREATED:20231221T021303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231221T021306Z UID:6169-1703199600-1703201400@thetroth.org SUMMARY:Mothers' Night Blót DESCRIPTION:Join Rev. Maire Durkan for a Mothers’ Night Celebration to begin our Yule celebrations for 2023! \n \nYule and Midwinter\nAccording to Bede\, the first night of Yule was “Mother Night\,” the night before the winter solstice (i.e. either the 19th or 20th of December\, depending on the year). It’s fairly common among modern Heathens to begin celebrating Yule on Mother Night (sunset on December 19) and end twelve nights later on New Year’s Eve (December 31). This has the advantage of fitting the secular holiday season well\, which may make it easier to get some free time to celebrate the holiday. \nWe don’t know much more about “Mother Night” than the name that Bede gives\, but modern Heathens often feel that this is the night to honor the family dísir\, the women ancestors who still ward their living kin. It’s possible that the name is also a reminiscence of the Matronae\, the goddesses or wights worshipped in Roman times along the Rhine. Since Roman soldiers from the Rhineland are known to have brought the cult of the Matronae to Britain\, and since at least some Rhineland Franks seem to have settled in England along with the Angles and Saxons\, it’s not impossible that a memory of the Matronae could have passed to the early English. \nScandinavia may have celebrated Yule somewhat later. Hákonar saga góða 13 describes how Hákon tried to uphold Christianity in his country\, although in the end he did not succeed: \n\nHann setti þat í lǫgum at hefja jólahald þann tíma sem kristnir menn\, ok skyldi þá hverr maðr eiga mælis ǫl\, en gjalda fé ella\, en halda heilagt\, meðan ǫl ynnisk. En áðr var jólahald hafit hǫkunótt\, þat var miðsvetrar nótt\, ok haldin þriggja nátta jól. \nHe established in law that Yule would be held at the same time as the Christians\, and then everyone had to have a measure of ale [i.e. brew ale from a certain measure of malt] or else pay a fine\, and keep the holiday as long as the ale lasted. But previously\, Yule was held at hǫkunótt\, which was Midwinter Night\, and three nights of Yule were celebrated. \n\nThis would be more helpful if we knew what hǫkunótt actually meant. Jan de Vries reviews doubtful suggestions that hǫku- might be connected with words for “witch” or “slaughter\,” and also suggests a link with haki\, “hook\,” since this is the time when winter “hooks” or “rounds the turn” from its first half to its second half. Whatever its origin\, de Vries identifies it as January 12\, which would be near the exact midpoint of the winter half of the year in the Icelandic calendar\, at least before the Gregorian reforms (Altnordisches Etymologisches Worterbuch\, p. 280). The name survives in Danish høgenat and Swedish hökenatt\, but Swedish hökenatt is defined as the longest night of the year\, or in other words the winter solstice (Dalin\, Ordbok\, vol. 1\, p. 751). \nIn Shetland and in parts of Norway\, work had to stop on December 20\, St. Thomas’s Day. In Shetland\, knitting and sewing could continue until December 24\, but after that\, no household work could be done for the next twelve or sometimes 24 days (Marwick\, The Folklore of Orkney and Shetland\, pp. 118-119). URL:https://thetroth.org/event/mothers-night-blot-yule-2023/ CATEGORIES:Virtual Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thetroth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/MOTHERS-NIGHT-2023.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR