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May 14, 2023

The Weekly Rune – Ingwaz

Ingwaz (carved porcelain tile) is the half-month rune through 29 May. Dagaz (carved antler slice) is the intuitive rune, and Kenaz indicates Mountain’s perspective. The spirits of place anchoring the runes this week are Honey Bee with element Timing, in the direction of Left (West/Vestri, green dwarf), in the season of Spring (tree button). Read right to left is Ingwaz, Dagaz, then Kenaz.
Moving from Laguz into Ingwaz gives a sense of accomplishment. Often folx express jubilance at the end of the runic year, though I feel it more as we enter Ingwaz. We spend so much of the early third aett building in tension, and in this cycle more than most prior. Ingwaz brings not only relief for that energy finally being directed somewhere, but glimpses of what that energy will do in the world. It’s a coming out rune of triumphant proportion.

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Published on May 14, 2023 02:35

May 12, 2023

May 10, 2023

The Body Awake – Maying the Body

Maying my body, gathering what sweetness it holds, exploring what a safe return into the forest of physicality can be.

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Published on May 10, 2023 08:01

May 9, 2023

May 7, 2023

The Weekly Rune – Laguz

Laguz (carved reindeer antler slice) is the half-month rune through 29 April. Tiwaz reversed is the intuitive rune, and Jera indicates the broad overview. The spirits of place anchoring the runes this week are Radiance, in element Flesh, the season of Autumn (tree button), and helping Spirit, Death, in the direction of Beyond (Earth marble). Read right to left is Laguz, Tiwaz reversed, then Jera. This watery season of Laguz has been characterized by a good bit of distraction from Flow. Not that we haven’t been attentive to Flow, or that we haven’t been intentional about our awareness of it. We have. The distractions have been bountiful. Laguz, Flow, offers insight into true Maying: creating ourselves as we truly want to be, with all the information on the realities of form.

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Published on May 07, 2023 02:35

April 30, 2023

The Weekly Rune – Laguz

Laguz (polished amethyst) is the half-month rune through 29 April. Tiwaz is the intuitive rune, and Dagaz indicates the broad overview. The spirits of place anchoring the runes this week are Mink Femur and element Unknown (empty bottle) in Summer (tree button), in the direction of Back (golden dwarf). Read right to left is Laguz, Tiwaz, then Dagaz.
Laguz, water, is the indicator of tides and a deep signifier of our own energetic states, of our awareness of Flow and sacred order.

Laguz is the rune of Flow, and perhaps to some degree, our capability of reading where we are within it. Many of the modern attributes we ascribe to water weren’t true in the rune poems--the attribution of femininity, emotionality, and that all forms of water mean the same thing. Rather, water is presented in all of its life-giving and treacherous aspects, which come with as many assurances as they do risks. The indicator of tides, water is also a deep signifier of our own energetic states. The implication is Flow indicates sacred order, and regardless of tide, we are in it.

Learn more about this seasonal progression, and how to draw its insights into the personal spiritual path in Runic Book of Days.

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Published on April 30, 2023 13:38

The Weekly Rune – Lgauz

 Laguz (polished amethyst) is the half-month rune through 29 April. Tiwaz is the intuitive rune, and Dagaz indicates the broad overview. The spirits of place anchoring the runes this week are Mink Femur and element Unknown (empty bottle) in Summer (tree button), in the direction of Back (golden dwarf). Read right to left is Laguz, Tiwaz, then Dagaz. The full runecast will be publicly available...

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Published on April 30, 2023 13:38

April 25, 2023

Intra-Pandemic-Complicated Mannaz

This is not our grandma’s Mannaz, but it is probably our great-great-great… grandma x11’s Mannaz. Intra-pandemic life is a lot more complicated than in previous cycles, though we do have a lexicon for it. It is the rune of humaning, which may be most clearly embodied in the context of relationships, in that we are exalted as well as deeply challenged by them. And our histories know a great deal...

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Published on April 25, 2023 12:22

Intentional Insights - Ancient Healing, Modern Shamanism

S. Kelley Harrell
Since 2004, Soul Intent Arts' shamanism blog Intentional Insights features The Weekly Rune, the Life Betwixt series, essays on life as a modern shaman and animist. ...more
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