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The Weekly Rune – Othala

For the week of 9 June 2019
When the Ancestors speak

Othala is the half-month stave through 14 June. Kenaz is the intuitive rune, and Ansuz indicates Change’s message to us. Read right to left is Othala, Kenaz, then Ansuz.

I truly believe that #theweeklyrune includes the keys to making better choices based on keen insight into the present, to help each of us be more active in creating a better reality for us all. That realization process includes learning to tend what can’t just be fixed, and using every tool at our disposal to accomplish that. The runes are such a tool, and in the Old Norse tradition, this process is wyrdweaving at it deepest potential. The runes provide one way we can create ourselves as fit elders, so that we can become well Ancestors upon death.

This is the free version of The Weekly Rune.  Get the full benefit of the   ad-free, detailed version every Sunday, by joining my private runes community at Patreon.

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the current runes’ impact on human life force 
insights on how to best manage the curves and twists therein
introspective prompts to nuance and tend self-work
galdr of the runecast, with sound files and instruction on how to use each sound
live video sessions
runic insights,  book excerpts, release news, free classes
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What’s a half-month rune?

“Half-month” is an astronomical concept in which each month is divided into two parts: days 1-15, then 16-month’s end. In terms of the runic calendar, the half-month rune is one of the 24 runes of Elder Futhark, and governs for a tad over two weeks (14 and 1/4 days, or a fortnight).

As we experience a shift between the half-month runes this week, the energies subtly reflect a change in focus.

Learn More

The Weekly Rune is a three-rune cast. Those runes are the half-month, the intuitive rune, and the overview. The half-month is a set rune, which for the most part follows the traditional ordering of the Elder Futhark. The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, to the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus. It suggests how we can best handle the half-month energies. The final rune (also drawn blind) provides a high overview of the current time, and speaks from different voices. These voices are usually Nature, Earth, Creation, though are sometimes others. I note who’s speaking each week, as it is revealed.

 

New to The Weekly Rune?

Catch a couple of my IGTV videos, which explain the intention and process behind the runecast, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.
Listen to my  What in the Wyrd  podcast, which is available across all popular podcast platforms, including Google Play and  iTunes.
A few people have asked the reason that I switch between different rune sets for TWR. The short answer is: because. The more nuanced answer is, I ask which sets wants to speak each week. I don’t assume the same elements are in play according to the timing of the runes; I also don’t assume the same elements of my runes are appropriate to speak each week. I did a podcast on this subject, so there’s more info there. (See above)
Also, for deep work on coming into relationship with the runes in season, check out my book, Runic Book of Days.

The Runecast

Everything in the north is leaning into Summer Solstice (Dagaz). Othala has given us significant preparation, maybe even hints, for what it will bring. What is assured is that good relations with the Ancestors would make it all a lot easier.

In the south, Isa wraps up needs assessment with movement into Winter Solstice. Also a significant point of closure, both solstices mark the two most prominent times of the year, and shifts in our psyches.

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

What does it mean?

We’ve spent the past couple of weeks in the runecast and podcast discussing that Othala is the rune of elderhood. From the standpoint of having to do the very adult tasks of managing estate, communing with the Ancestors, and teaching the descendants, Othala covers all aspects of third chapter life.

An aspect that isn’t talked about often (though I’ve brought it up a lot in TWR) is that of seeing self as lineage elder. Archetypally speaking we know it brings examination of very adult tasks, though at a spiritual level another dynamics enters: becoming The Elder of the family. For most of us, sooner or later in our lives, we will be faced with a point that we are required to see ourselves as the family leader. How’s that different from what I’ve already said? It’s not terribly, except that it requires, to a point, that we see our elders as our charges.

 

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Kenaz, as the best way to work with Othala, gives hope. It offers a light in the thick of things that allows us to suddenly sit well with something that’s prior to, created tension. It’s not necessarily something that’s stressful, so much as it’s something we just haven’t been able to hold or honor until now. In that awareness, it’s a sweet thing. It’s a provocative thing, as it gives us much-needed momentum and inpsiration to go forward with how Othala is affecting our lives.

Ansuz speaks as Change this week, and it directly addresses the dynamic of speaking our truth with regard to Ancestral work. Specifically, Change comes when we are fully aligned with our deepest needs and gifts to bear. For this half-month, that means when we really can have that AHA! moment and synergize the work that has to be done in family and community with the internal spark of inspiration, we can’t be stopped. That’s the magick of this week. To say nothing of the fact that that’s the formula of wyrdworking all the damned time. In the context of Othala, when we can do that work and live into how it situates into our soul work, nothing but truth cn come out of our lives.

For suggestions on how to weather the season gracefully, subscribe to my private runes community on Patreon.

#beyourcommunity

Originally published on Soul Intent Arts.

Resonant Galdr

Every week

 my Patreon community and I engage in crafting a galdr based on The Weekly Rune. It focuses on the current runes, but also the nuance of the full interpretation and personal affinity with galdr. In short, there’s no one way to do it, no right way to do it. The somatic resonance with the sound and tonic intention is the focus.

I’ve found galdring is the singlemost bonding experience I’ve had with the runes. Learning them and studying their cultural origins brought them to life, though chanting them, feeling their resonance in my body through sound made them personal. I have a long history with that kind of somatic necessity, and that direct relationship also has become as significant in soul tending to me.

Profound as it was, I still tortured myself over drumming “not working” as my vehicle for soul travel for a long while, and ignored the fact that I didn’t need any induction to slip into trance. I didn’t value that marvel and chose to agonize over not being one of the cool kids. With no elder helping to reinforce my path, I didn’t know any better.

Years later and shortly into my seidr study, singing changed everything. Singing plays an important role in trance work in seidr, and for me, singing meant allowing whatever organic tones my body needed to make–my body as a whole or a specific system, organ, need. I just went with it, and let singing lead the way for several years. I recognized that allowing my body to make whatever sounds it wanted to dropped me into a different kind of trance, thus, a different experience within it. More akin to shapeshifting, I found that I could access deeper reserves of myself, and different strata of the space around me. The flip side of that is… eventually it stopped working, too.

My experience is that anything I prop against when it comes to soul travel will eventually quit working. It has to, because the nature of soul flight is that it stay organic and ripe in its effort to evoke change.

I  began investigating galdr again, and made some powerful observations. I never attached to it the baggage of having to transport me elsewhere, which may be why it has persisted as a sonic force of tending. One realization I’ve had about it is the need to let the sounds just be. I’ve tried repeatedly to craft galdr based on a certain need or desire, focused on specific runes, set sequences. While I feel them when I approach galdr that way, they don’t root into my being as does just letting native sound evolve.

We don't heal
In isolation, but in community

~S. Kelley Harrell

Galdr and the Vagus Nerve

As I worked with galdr more, I began to realize that crafting specific sound just wasn’t where it was at for me. Taking set runes and galdring them gave my body resonance and expression, though it never synced my mind or emotional state into the zone.  In fact, toning or chanting a set sound became stressful and distracting, as did all the other sound induction methods. As long as I was cognisant of what sound I was making–in other words, as long as I thinking about it–I couldn’t slip into harmonious release. Yet I still craved the “voice” that galdr gave my body. I knew that expression was important at a cellular and system level. It allowed me to connect with my body as its own distinct life force, and I needed to find a way to allow that interconnection to happen, yet also get the rest of me restfully on board.

 

I started sitting with unconscious galdring, or just letting arise the runic sounds my body needed to make. Having made a connection between various styles of chanting over years, particularly Tibetan mantras and Japanese kotodama, my body found connection between those and galdring the Elder Futhark. The various chanting experiences were certainly not the same energies, yet they affected my body similarly.

A study was done in 2011 that showed a correlation between “OM” chanting and soothing effects on the limbic system, which controls base emotions and drives. It’s our reptilian brain. This study focused on the impact of chanting on the vagus nerve, which runs throughout the body and regulates every major bodily function. What this means is when the vagus nerve is stimulated through aural resonance such as toning, chanting, or humming, our primal responses drop, and we move into a deeply restful state that soothes our bodily systems. While the study focused on “OM” chanting, I understood from its findings that through the same resonance, galdring also doesn’t just quiet the mind, it heals the body. Finally my connection to unassigned sound for soul soothing made sense.

My experience of sound and its ability to serve as a tool for meeting spiritual needs has radically changed over 30 years of trance work. I understand the nuance of various approaches to soul sound now, and no longer have a one-size mentality about what needs it should serve. There’s a great deal of room within galdring for it to shape to need and situation, as well as in how it can function.

The Weekly Rune – Othala

For the week of 2 June 2019
Support roots here

Othala is the half-month stave through 14 June. Ehwaz reversed is the intuitive rune, and Fehu indicates the Earth Guardian’s message to us. Read right to left is Othala, Ehwaz reversed, then Fehu.

I truly believe that #theweeklyrune includes the keys to making better choices based on keen insight into the present, to help each of us be more active in creating a better reality for us all. That realization process includes learning to tend what can’t just be fixed, and using every tool at our disposal to accomplish that. The runes are such a tool, and in the Old Norse tradition, this process is wyrdweaving at it deepest potential. The runes provide one way we can create ourselves as fit elders, so that we can become well Ancestors upon death.

This is the free version of The Weekly Rune.  Get the full benefit of the   ad-free, detailed version every Sunday, by joining my private runes community at Patreon.

The paid runecast includes:

more detail 
ad-free
the current runes’ impact on human life force 
insights on how to best manage the curves and twists therein
introspective prompts to nuance and tend self-work
galdr of the runecast, with sound files and instruction on how to use each sound
live video sessions
runic insights,  book excerpts, release news, free classes
optional services with me
discounts on soul tending services














What’s a half-month rune?

“Half-month” is an astronomical concept in which each month is divided into two parts: days 1-15, then 16-month’s end. In terms of the runic calendar, the half-month rune is based on the Elder Futhark, and governs for a tad over two weeks (14 and 1/4 days, or a fortnight).

As we experience a shift between the half-month runes this week, the energies subtly reflect a change in focus.

Learn More

The Weekly Rune is a three-rune cast. Those runes are the half-month, the intuitive rune, and the overview. The half-month is a set rune, which for the most part follows the traditional ordering of the Elder Futhark. The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, to the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus. It suggests how we can best handle the half-month energies. The final rune (also drawn blind) provides a high overview of the current time, and speaks from different voices. These voices are usually Nature, Earth, Creation, though are sometimes others. I note who’s speaking each week, as it is revealed.

 

New to The Weekly Rune?

Catch a couple of my IGTV videos, which explain the intention and process behind the runecast, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.
Listen to my  What in the Wyrd  podcast, which is available across all popular podcast platforms, including Google Play and  iTunes.
A few people have asked the reason that I switch between different rune sets for TWR. The short answer is: because. The more nuanced answer is, I ask which sets wants to speak each week. I don’t assume the same elements are in play according to the timing of the runes; I also don’t assume the same elements of my runes are appropriate to speak each week. I did a podcast on this subject, so there’s more info there. (See above)
Also, for deep work on coming into relationship with the runes in season, check out my book, Runic Book of Days.

The Runecast

Everything in the north is full-tilt to Summer Solstice (Dagaz). That’s not to say that Othala doesn’t hold significant space of its own volition; it most certainly does. We could even say it’s the gatekeeper of handling solstice well.

Likewise, in the south, Isa is laying the groundwork for movement into Winter Solstice. Again, a significant close to an important progression through the winter runes, culminating at one of the two most prominent times of the year, and our psyches.

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

What does it mean?

Othala is the rune of inheritance, which covers the territory of death, assets and estate planning, Ancestors, and descendants. Its own rune of inventory, it serves as time to note status of estate affairs and get them in order, as well as how aligned we are with our Ancestors’ needs, thus if we’re accomplishing what is required for our descendants. In my vernacular, Othala is the core rune of eldering well. It is the ultimate embodiment of adulting.

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Othala embraces all the things we’re most terrified of, the most frightening of which is death. Of course to the Old Norse culture, death isn’t separate from life, so seasonally visiting Othala as a reminder to get affairs in order and dig a bit deeper into the Ancestors’ needs wouldn’t have been a huge departure from everyday perspective or effort. For us, though, it is. It forces us to face our own mortality, which is completely counter to our anti-aging cultural oath. It makes us consider that if we get the option to live long, we have to plan out how to prosper. We can’t just wing it. That kind of life assessment calls to the fore every inequity we’ve faced at a personal level regarding finances, authority, social standing and mobility, opportunity, education, etc., that cultural biases have imposed upon us. Nothing spells out limitation like culling through what we stand leave behind in treasure and torment.

Othala represents a late life stage, or at least the mindset of late life, where we realize this is the only life we have.

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Ehwaz reversed as how to cope with Othala this week tells us up front that we need to tread carefully into this territory. We will feel offtrack and clouded as we delve into inheritance matters. What’s important is that we honor the source of those feelings. It may not even be that we need to assess or change anything about the dynamic; rather, that we explore the feelings and be realistic about what they tell us about our lives.

 

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Fehu, from the voice of the Earthly Guardian, assures us that there is wealth in mundane healing. A new presence to TWR, this being isn’t the Earth spirit. This being has detachment from the everyday machinations of Earth, yet has every investment in its wellbeing, its growth and evolution. To that end, its message of wealth is about Earth, itself. Fehu in this position reinforces that our best insight into Othala will be at the mundane leve, right now. Examine assets that must be tended, though remember to include among them the value of Middle Earth, the spiritual aspects of all that we are among, and the animistic community we move through all day–every day.

Indeed, the value of this week is about what roots us here, so that we are the anchor to do the Ancestors’ work, to create our descendants’ future.

For suggestions on how to weather the season gracefully, subscribe to my private runes community on Patreon.

#beyourcommunity

Originally published on Soul Intent Arts.

Pace Yourself

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Go Gently.

The stress of learning cosmology, personal place on the path, and the tools to be successful on it–all at once–is real.

Something I tell students and Initiates in my soul tending training is that the stress of learning cosmology, personal place on the path, and the tools to be successful on it–all at once–is real.

 

For folks born into an animistic culture, their synapses are situated into a cosmology that supports who they are, their animistic experience, and their calling. Even though not everyone in their community is called to be a mystic, their community is born into an understanding of what the calling to mystic means.

Most folks on a path of modern shamanism or soul tending do not have or recognize a cosmology. They are running from a cosmology that confined them. They aren’t born into supportive community around that path. They’re often managing the grief of being dismissed by community. They’re not born into an animistic worldview. They’re forced to situate themselves into a duality that doesn’t fit.

What this means is we are simultaneously learning each of these things ALL AT ONCE, while healing the wounds the lack of them caused. Coming to understand and hold one’s cosmology is a rite of passage on its own, with all the perils, trial, and empowerment of any hero’s journey. Finding community that can support that journey, through all its awkward, ugly, and miraculous twists is nothing less than daunting. To find that kind of community is to risk vulnerability and trust. It is to realize trustworthiness in self. To gain the tools of a well mystic is to commit to the work across the board, for life, in all the manifestations that works takes.

Folks on a modern path are doing each of these things at once. It wasn’t meant to be that way, which is why this education, itself, is political activism. It is ancestral healing. It is sacred activism. When you commit to the work of soul tending, you reclaim your heritage, your path, your community, and your calling.

Don’t underestimate the distress this overlap can create.

Don’t underestimate the importance of why All Things needs you to do it, anyway.

#beyourcommunity

We don't heal
In isolation, but in community

The Weekly Rune – Othala

For the week of 26 May 2019
Stepping into power

Ingwaz is the half-month stave through 29 May. Kenaz reversed is the intuitive rune, and Dagaz indicates Rain’s message to us. Read right to left is Ingwaz, Kenaz reversed, then Dagaz.

I truly believe that #theweeklyrune includes the keys to making better choices based on keen insight into the present, to help each of us be more active in creating a better reality for us all. That realization process includes learning to tend what can’t just be fixed, and using every tool at our disposal to accomplish that. The runes are such a tool, and in the Old Norse tradition, this process is wyrdweaving at it deepest potential. The runes provide one way we can create ourselves as fit elders, so that we can become well Ancestors upon death.

This is the free version of The Weekly Rune.  Get the full benefit of the   ad-free, detailed version every Sunday, by joining my private runes community at Patreon.

The paid runecast includes:

more detail 
ad-free
the current runes’ impact on human life force 
insights on how to best manage the curves and twists therein
introspective prompts to nuance and tend self-work
galdr of the runecast, with sound files and instruction on how to use each sound
live video sessions
runic insights,  book excerpts, release news, free classes
optional services with me
discounts on soul tending services














What’s a half-month rune?

“Half-month” is an astronomical concept in which each month is divided into two parts: days 1-15, then 16-month’s end. In terms of the runic calendar, the half-month rune is based on the Elder Futhark, and governs for a tad over two weeks (14 and 1/4 days, or a fortnight).

As we experience a shift between the half-month runes this week, the energies subtly reflect a change in focus.

Learn More

The Weekly Rune is a three-rune cast. Those runes are the half-month, the intuitive rune, and the overview. The half-month is a set rune, which for the most part follows the traditional ordering of the Elder Futhark. The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, to the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus. It suggests how we can best handle the half-month energies. The final rune (also drawn blind) provides a high overview of the current time, and speaks from different voices. These voices are usually Nature, Earth, Creation, though are sometimes others. I note who’s speaking each week, as it is revealed.

 

New to The Weekly Rune?

Catch a couple of my IGTV videos, which explain the intention and process behind the runecast, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.
Listen to my  What in the Wyrd  podcast, which is available across all popular podcast platforms, including Google Play and  iTunes.
A few people have asked the reason that I switch between different rune sets for TWR. The short answer is: because. The more nuanced answer is, I ask which sets wants to speak each week. I don’t assume the same elements are in play according to the timing of the runes; I also don’t assume the same elements of my runes are appropriate to speak each week. I did a podcast on this subject, so there’s more info there. (See above)
Also, for deep work on coming into relationship with the runes in season, check out my book, Runic Book of Days.

The Runecast

For two weeks, Ingwaz has reached its climactic initatory close, and we’re left wondering if we’re ready. As we stand near the threshold of Summer Solstice in the north and Winter Solstice in the south, we’re about to find out.

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

What does it mean?

Ideally Ingwaz has prepared us for what is upon us now. In a lot of ways, it marks the end of the deep personal catharsis of the year, even though there are two runes left. By that I mean, the remaining two runes focus less personally, or are sort of the “lessons learned,” at the end of a project.

Recall that Dagaz and Othala are inverted in order, for the purposes of the runic calendar. This puts Othala on the rise for Wednesday. Until then, we remain under the watch of Ingwaz, refining exactly what this closure to initiation means. Carefully consider what began with the planting of the sacred seed of Isa, how it rooted and came to life in its own right with Mannaz, at this point it required presentation to the world. With Ingwaz it is its own life force with demands and a purpose, and we have had to adjust our lives to give it support for those things. In short, we can’t be mamby-pamby about moving out of Ingwaz. We must stand in our power, our truth.

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What follows with Othala is nothing less than the demand that we know how to hold our space healthily on this planet. The rune of all things ancestry and inheritance, Othala represents the Ancestors. If nothing else in all my words is retained, know that the transition from Ingwaz to Othala represents the bridge that must exist between humans and the unseen. It represents that both are required for either to function well. We have a job that must be done here, as our spirit allies, specifically the Ancestors, have a job that must be done There. In that sense, we anchor each other. The Ancestors’ work is manifest through us, while we hold the physical space for that manifestation to happen.

Our successful completion of the Ingwaz initiation indicates we’re fit to be that anchor.

Reflect on that for a minute, because it’s the crux of this runecast. It represents the point of the annual progression of the runes that we state a clear, “Yes!” to the Ancestors, to all of our spirit allies. It says we’ve done the work, and are committed to continuing it. It isn’t just acknowledgement of that anchor, but commitment to what being it entails.

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Kenaz reversed suggests we’re not as okay with that role as we may think we are. And because it’s Kenaz reversed, a rune of subtlety, it may not be evident what’s not jibing. As has been the current of Uruz reversed recently, some part of the personal system isn’t playing on the same team, and that lack of cohesion is creating dissent and inner tension. Because Kenaz is a rune of fire and creative spark, we need to examine the belief and mental levels of personal cosmology.

Recall, also, that a meaning of Kenaz is “kenning,” or the metaphoric combining of two things that don’t seem related until brought together and an entirely new meaning emerges. Think “mind reader,” as someone who knows the thoughts of another, or “tree hugger,” an environmentalist. Sit with the odds and ends of beliefs, memories, or thoughts that cycle around being the living anchor to the Ancestors, and see what new revelation comes. Look specifically among shadowed contradictions to find the light source of each. My bet is they are the same, and once revealed, they become part of the power arsenal.

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Dagaz as the voice of Rain is curious. For its first visit to the runecast, this presence suggests we hold things very lightly right now. We need to be willing to honor the meaning and growth offered by the transition from Ingwaz to Othala, yet realize it, too, needs to pass to its own life trajectory. Growth, revelation, AHA moments are not ours to hold onto. We are only with it for a short time. They pass through us, then move on to nourish something else, to find new iterations of themselves.

The focus this week is to realize what has been gained through Ingwaz, recognize what in that realization connects us to the Ancestors, and let it.

For suggestions on how to do that gracefully, subscribe to my private runes community on Patreon.

#beyourcommunity

Originally published on Soul Intent Arts.

The Weekly Rune – Ingwaz

For the week of 19 May 2019
New self, new balance

Ingwaz is the half-month stave through 29 May. Uruz reversed is the intuitive rune, and Jera indicates Tree’s message to us. Read right to left is Ingwaz, Uruz reversed, then Jera.

I truly believe that #theweeklyrune includes the keys to making better choices based on keen insight into the present, to help each of us be more active in creating a better reality for us all. That realization process includes learning to tend what can’t just be fixed, and using every tool at our disposal to accomplish that. The runes are such a tool, and in the Old Norse tradition, this process is wyrdweaving at it deepest potential. The runes provide one way we can create ourselves as fit elders, so that we can become well Ancestors upon death.

This is the free version of The Weekly Rune.  Get the full benefit of the   ad-free, detailed version every Sunday, by joining my private runes community at Patreon.

The paid runecast includes:

more detail 
ad-free
the current runes’ impact on human life force 
insights on how to best manage the curves and twists therein
introspective prompts to nuance and tend self-work
galdr of the runecast, with sound files and instruction on how to use each sound
live video sessions
runic insights,  book excerpts, release news, free classes
optional services with me
discounts on soul tending services














What’s a half-month rune?

“Half-month” is an astronomical concept in which each month is divided into two parts: days 1-15, then 16-month’s end. In terms of the runic calendar, the half-month rune is based on the Elder Futhark, and governs for a tad over two weeks (14 and 1/4 days, or a fortnight).

As we experience a shift between the half-month runes this week, the energies subtly reflect a change in focus.

Learn More

The Weekly Rune is a three-rune cast. Those runes are the half-month, the intuitive rune, and the overview. The half-month is a set rune, which for the most part follows the traditional ordering of the Elder Futhark. The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, to the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus. It suggests how we can best handle the half-month energies. The final rune (also drawn blind) provides a high overview of the current time, and speaks from different voices. These voices are usually Nature, Earth, Creation, though are sometimes others. I note who’s speaking each week, as it is revealed.

 

New to The Weekly Rune?

Catch a couple of my IGTV videos, which explain the intention and process behind the runecast, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.
Listen to my  What in the Wyrd  podcast, which is available across all popular podcast platforms, including Google Play and  iTunes.
A few people have asked the reason that I switch between different rune sets for TWR. The short answer is: because. The more nuanced answer is, I ask which sets wants to speak each week. I don’t assume the same elements are in play according to the timing of the runes; I also don’t assume the same elements of my runes are appropriate to speak each week. I did a podcast on this subject, so there’s more info there. (See above)
Also, for deep work on coming into relationship with the runes in season, check out my book, Runic Book of Days.

The Runecast

Ingwaz brings the dawn of new consciusness. Over the last week, some existing dynamic that has needed clarity or a new dynamic sprang into being. Either way, it’s a time of giving space to that new life force, and allowing the recallibation to support it.

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

What does it mean?

Ingwaz comes at the end of a long progression through initiatory runes, which is detailed in Runic Book of Days and in my Reclaiming the Runes intensive.  What’s significant to note is Ingwaz is the end of this initiation. It indicates a time that the paces have been endured, and what emerges is a polished, new awareness. 

Historically, this emergence is noted through Ing, Yngvi (Freyr), the god of the Ingaevones, the people of the northern Germanic sea region. The significance of Ing as a fertility god and bearer of blessing is attested throughout history, though Ingwaz epitomizes that same spirit of taking elements and making the best of them.

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Uruz reversed visited us a couple of weeks ago, bringing the message that we have to tend our personal cosmology. This is also the memo now, though in a more optimistic light.

Without oversimlifying, Uruz is all about the personal, internal cosmology -body/mind/soul/feelings. Reversed, it means some part of that isn’t functioning as well as it could or should be. It may be the whole thing needs a reboot, or that part or parts  of it needs tending.

Our cosmology has changed because we have. The internal balance that fed us before and during this long initiatory process served us well. However, it isn’t what’s going to sustain us now.  We need a new balance, and we have to devote some effort and time to understanding what that is or will be.

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This week’s Big Perspective comes from Air. Ever moving, always chasing out what needs to go, filtering what is, and blowing in what must be, Air in the lens of Jera is about assessment, inventory. It’s about the objective evaluation of our personal cosmology: what needs to go, what needs to be brought in, clearing what is, and blessing the whole.

This assessment is the nature of our change, this week. Manifestation isn’t all-inclusive. When we manifest an intention, we still have to do the work of creating space for that manifestation in our lives–internally and externally. If the skills for that kind of assessment and self-support are lacking, engage the Dream Team for help.

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Manifestation is one thing. Having the chops to sustain it is something else, entirely. In order for this initiation to root and bring the opening in our lives that we ached for, we are required to get both.

For suggestions on how to do that gracefully, subscribe to my private runes community on Patreon.

#beyourcommunity

Originally published on Soul Intent Arts.

The Weekly Rune – Ingwaz

For the week of 12 May 2019
The Mannaz we’ve been waiting for

Ingwaz is the half-month stave through 29 May. Mannaz is the intuitive rune, and Sowilo indicates Casting’s message to us. Read right to left is Ingwaz, Mannaz, then Sowilo.

I truly believe that #theweeklyrune includes the keys to making better choices based on keen insight into the present, to help each of us be more active in creating a better reality for us all. That realization process includes learning to tend what can’t just be fixed, and using every tool at our disposal to accomplish that. The runes are such a tool, and in the Old Norse tradition, this process is wyrdweaving at it deepest potential. The runes provide one way we can create ourselves as fit elders, so that we can become well Ancestors upon death.

This is the free version of The Weekly Rune.  Get the full benefit of the   ad-free, detailed version every Sunday, by joining my private runes community at Patreon.

The paid runecast includes:

more detail 
ad-free
the current runes’ impact on human life force 
insights on how to best manage the curves and twists therein
introspective prompts to nuance and tend self-work
galdr of the runecast, with sound files and instruction on how to use each sound
live video sessions
runic insights,  book excerpts, release news, free classes
optional services with me
discounts on soul tending services














What’s a half-month rune?

“Half-month” is an astronomical concept in which each month is divided into two parts: days 1-15, then 16-month’s end. In terms of the runic calendar, the half-month rune is based on the Elder Futhark, and governs for a tad over two weeks (14 and 1/4 days, or a fortnight).

As we experience a shift between the half-month runes this week, the energies subtly reflect a change in focus.

Learn More

The Weekly Rune is a three-rune cast. Those runes are the half-month, the intuitive rune, and the overview. The half-month is a set rune, which for the most part follows the traditional ordering of the Elder Futhark. The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, to the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus. It suggests how we can best handle the half-month energies. The final rune (also drawn blind) provides a high overview of the current time, and speaks from different voices. These voices are usually Nature, Earth, Creation, though are sometimes others. I note who’s speaking each week, as it is revealed.

 

New to The Weekly Rune?

Catch a couple of my IGTV videos, which explain the intention and process behind the runecast, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.
Listen to my  What in the Wyrd  podcast, which is available across all popular podcast platforms, including Google Play and  iTunes.
A few people have asked the reason that I switch between different rune sets for TWR. The short answer is: because. The more nuanced answer is, I ask which sets wants to speak each week. I don’t assume the same elements are in play according to the timing of the runes; I also don’t assume the same elements of my runes are appropriate to speak each week. I did a podcast on this subject, so there’s more info there. (See above)
Also, for deep work on coming into relationship with the runes in season, check out my book, Runic Book of Days.

The Runecast

Over the last week and a bit into this one, Laguz challenges us to up our awareness of how we fit into All Things.  Verging into Ingwaz brings a sense of accomlishment, and finally a comfort in sharing it.

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

What does it mean?

I spoke too soon, regarding a break from Mannaz. However, it’s finally exalted in its position as the modifier this week, and the spotlight is at last somewhat comfortable. I say somewhat, because for some folks, it’s never comfortable. What makes it more palatable this week is we’re finally standing in it with wisdom.

The transition from Laguz to Ingwaz happens Tuesday, and until that point, we’re still in refining-our-relationship-to-flow mode. What happens mid-week is a shift into comfort with that work. In fact, it’s a transition around finally getting comfortable with much bigger work that began back in November. If you’ve read Runic Book of Days or taken my Reclaiming the Runes intensive, then you are fully aware of the long initiation that plays out beginning with Isa, Tiwaz, Mannaz, Laguz, and manifesting with Ingwaz.

 

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Ingwaz represents a finish line, which requires us to maintain ethics and integrity. The moment isn’t just about wrapping up a long-gestated dynamic, also it requires that we do so fully seated in the wisdom we’ve gained about ourselves, All Things, and the dynamic, along the way. It’s the point that our projects are handed off to themselves. We have to trust that we’ve given them what they need to sustain on their own.  As well, this week brings a sense of closure, relief, and need for self-tending. This is where Mannaz is the best medicine we could receive. This week a delicate balance of the kind of self-care that nourishes, and the social engagement that affirms.

Understand: This isn’t party-til-you-drop, gain-approval, or sacrifice-self-for-the-collective social need. The kind of community involvemnent this week is the kind that builds self and the community, period.

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Sowilo underscores the emphasis on supportive engagement. Speaking from the voice of Casting (a new entity for TWR), the feeling around that pressence was foremost to remember that the methods we use are life forces, not just the tools used in the method, not just the outcome of the engagement. The method has agency and conscousness. As I sat with that to form this runecast and what that voice in particular needed to say about it, I came back to the base anthem of Sowilo: Divinity shines through all.

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When we work casts, it is our responsiblity to have that same kind of vision–to realize it isnot just the method, tool, or message delivered that is before us. It’s also how we allow ourselves to shift in that transaction, and how we carry that shift forward into all of life.

And really, that’s how we need to approach everything we do. That doesn’t mean take no downtime, fret every gesture, and allow no spontenaity. Rather, it means hold space for the option. Develop awareness for the potential. Allow diversity. Be open.

For suggestions on how to do that gracefully and to show your support for my work, subscribe to my private runes community on Patreon.

#beyourcommunity

Originally published on Soul Intent Arts.

The Weekly Rune – Laguz

For the week of 5 May 2019
Supporting self in flow

Laguz is the half-month stave through 14 May. Uruz reversed is the intuitive rune, and Dagaz indicates Tree’s message to us. Read right to left is Laguz, Uruz reversed, then Dagaz.

I truly believe that #theweeklyrune includes the keys to making better choices based on keen insight into the present, to help each of us be more active in creating a better reality for us all. That realization process includes learning to tend what can’t just be fixed, and using every tool at our disposal to accomplish that. The runes are such a tool, and in the Old Norse tradition, this process is wyrdweaving at it deepest potential. The runes provide one way we can create ourselves as fit elders, so that we can become well Ancestors upon death.

This is the free version of The Weekly Rune.  Get the full benefit of the   ad-free, detailed version every Sunday, by joining my private runes community at Patreon.

The paid runecast includes:

more detail 
ad-free
the current runes’ impact on human life force 
insights on how to best manage the curves and twists therein
introspective prompts to nuance and tend self-work
galdr of the runecast, with sound files and instruction on how to use each sound
live video sessions
runic insights,  book excerpts, release news, free classes
optional services with me
discounts on soul tending services














What’s a half-month rune?

“Half-month” is an astronomical concept in which each month is divided into two parts: days 1-15, then 16-month’s end. In terms of the runic calendar, the half-month rune is based on the Elder Futhark, and governs for a tad over two weeks (14 and 1/4 days, or a fortnight).

As we experience a shift between the half-month runes this week, the energies subtly reflect a change in focus.

Learn More

The Weekly Rune is a three-rune cast. Those runes are the half-month, the intuitive rune, and the overview. The half-month is a set rune, which for the most part follows the traditional ordering of the Elder Futhark. The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, to the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus. It suggests how we can best handle the half-month energies. The final rune (also drawn blind) provides a high overview of the current time, and speaks from different voices. These voices are usually Nature, Earth, Creation, though are sometimes others. I note who’s speaking each week, as it is revealed.

 

New to The Weekly Rune?

Catch a couple of my IGTV videos, which explain the intention and process behind the runecast, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.
Listen to my  What in the Wyrd  podcast, which is available across all popular podcast platforms, including Google Play and  iTunes.
A few people have asked the reason that I switch between different rune sets for TWR. The short answer is: because. The more nuanced answer is, I ask which sets wants to speak each week. I don’t assume the same elements are in play according to the timing of the runes; I also don’t assume the same elements of my runes are appropriate to speak each week. I did a podcast on this subject, so there’s more info there. (See above)
Also, for deep work on coming into relationship with the runes in season, check out my book, Runic Book of Days.






















The Runecast
Over the last week, Laguz has challenged us to get right with flow, or how we fit into All Things. The suggestion isn’t that we aren’t in flow, but that we become more aware of how we are.

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





























What does it mean?

Laguz means water, or more specifically, the qualities of water. When we talk about water, archetypally, we refine our perspective back to the oceans of the world, from which all of life as we know it emerged. All of being stemmed from salt life, and at deep levels, we all long to go back to it–or back to our sense of it. For that reason, when we work with Laguz, we’re dealing with inner aspects of self that are likely not being spoken or manifest in our external lives. Should they be? I can’t say. I suspect it comes down to whether we feel sated by our current experience of flow, or starved by it. The complexity of the question is a bit unfair, really, because which self are we talking about? A mundane expression? Transpersonal? A combo?

The reality is, different levels of self have different relationships to flow. They aren’t all working with the same availability of information or agency, which is where tension can erupt. And of course, this week it does.

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Uruz reversed as the best way to move with Laguz this week suggests that a deeper part of us isn’t getting what’s needed from flow, or that it is impeded from flow, in some way. I know last week in the runecast and podcast I said that we can’t be out of flow. It’s not possible, and I completely stand by that assertion. This doesn’t mean that we aren’t disconnected within the layers of ourselves, in such a way that we can’t step with flow the way we really need to.

Uruz reversed speaks directly to this dynamic, in how the runes congregate this week. Uruz is all about the body as the vessel that houses the soul. It emphasizes how we must take care of the body in order for the soul to perform as it requires. It also suggests there’s no distinction between body and soul, or that the body has its own experience of soul, unique from all other parts of the system.

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Dagaz as the message from Trees brings great simplicity around what seems to be a very complex examination: Find meaning. I’m not one to believe that everything has a meaning. Shit happens. Teams win. Sink holes open up. I do believe that we can find meaning, in a way that facilitates healing, though we are never required to. And pressuring self or others to claim meaning in the face of trauma only generates more trauma.

The meaning Dagaz is referring to is the kind that keeps us motivated on a day-to-day basis, and the implication there is it can change just that often. What brings meaning one day may not be applicable the next. Be organic. Be resourceful, like trees. They know how much water is needed for themselves, and every plant around them.  They know when to draw up more water and leave the excess. They know how to conserve energy when there’s not enough sunlight, when to drop seeds. They know this because they constantly base their needs on the moment, and in this runecast we’re asked to behave similarly. They don’t sulk or withdraw from the forest; they adapt.

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The task list this week includes listening more closely for diverse aspects of self, and their commentary on flow. What do they have to say? How do they enhance awareness of it? How do they hide from it? With that knowledge, kick up the self-care. Do the things needed to take care of them, and self.

Because that kind of deep self-wareness… is flow.

For suggestions on how to do that gracefully, subscribe to my private runes community on Patreon.

#beyourcommunity

Originally published on Soul Intent Arts.

The Weekly Rune – Laguz

For the week of 28 April 2019

Flowing alone, calmly

Laguz is the half-month stave through 14 May. Mannaz reversed is the intuitive rune, and Wunjo indicates the Planet’s message to us. Read right to left is Laguz, Mannaz reversed, then Wunjo.

I truly believe that #theweeklyrune includes the keys to making better choices based on keen insight into the present, to help each of us be more active in creating a better reality for us all. That realization process includes learning to tend what can’t just be fixed, and using every tool at our disposal to accomplish that. The runes are such a tool, and in the Old Norse tradition, this process is wyrdweaving at it deepest potential. The runes provide one way we can create ourselves as fit elders, so that we can become well Ancestors upon death.

This is the free version of The Weekly Rune.  Get the full benefit of the  ad-free, detailed version every Sunday, by joining my private runes community at Patreon.

The paid runecast includes:

more detail 
ad-free
the current runes’ impact on human life force 
insights on how to best manage the curves and twists therein
introspective prompts to nuance and tend self-work
galdr of the runecast, with sound files and instruction on how to use each sound
live video sessions
runic insights,  book excerpts, release news, free classes
optional services with me
discounts on soul tending services

What’s a half-month rune?

“Half-month” is an astronomical concept in which each month is divided into two parts: days 1-15, then 16-month’s end. In terms of the runic calendar, the half-month rune is based on the Elder Futhark, and governs for a tad over two weeks (14 and 1/4 days, or a fortnight).

As we experience a shift between the half-month runes this week, the energies subtly reflect a change in focus.

Learn More

The Weekly Rune is a three-rune cast. Those runes are the half-month, the intuitive rune, and the overview. The half-month is a set rune, which for the most part follows the traditional ordering of the Elder Futhark. The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, to the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus. It suggests how we can best handle the half-month energies. The final rune (also drawn blind) provides a high overview of the current time, and speaks from different voices. These voices are usually Nature, Earth, Creation, though are sometimes others. I note who’s speaking each week, as it is revealed.

New to The Weekly Rune?

Catch a couple of my IGTV videos, which explain the intention and process behind the runecast, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.
Listen to my  What in the Wyrd podcast, which is available across all popular podcast platforms, including Google Play and  iTunes.
A few people have asked the reason that I switch between different rune sets for TWR. The short answer is: because. The more nuanced answer is, I ask which sets wants to speak each week. I don’t assume the same elements are in play according to the timing of the runes; I also don’t assume the same elements of my runes are appropriate to speak each week. I did a podcast on this subject, so there’s more info there. (See above)
Also, for deep work on coming into relationship with the runes in season, check out my book, Runic Book of Days.

The Runecast

Mannaz wasn’t any more gentle than Ehwaz, and while Laguz brings a more laid back state, some self-work frames it, this week.

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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What does it mean?

Laguz is the rune of flow. People think of it as water and attribute it with emotional aspects, though there’s no historic precedent indicating that emotional association was there, back in the day. I think it’s okay to bring in the associations we each experience in relationship with it (or any runes). We have to be able to hold their historic context and find how they still relate, and I’m dedicated to the effort of doing both.For me, Laguz brings up concerns around being in greater flow, and that, of course, is All Things.

We can’t be out of flow with All Things.  I could say that 56 times and still have someone write me and say, “But I AM.  This week’s cast taps directly into the tender points between realizing our reliance on network and our inherent connectivity into the Big One, lots of little ones, very personal ones. It also elaborates on the discernment of knowing when we need to be self-reliant, which is still doable within a network.

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We’re not good at that kind of discernment–humans, I mean. It’s been domesticated out of us. Nature knows when to risk its neck for the collective, when to tuck in and rest, when to cruise along, when to lead, when to follow. Humans are the ones who don’t use base wisdom, or even instinct, around how we relate to collective. So, of course, that’s what this week’s focus is.

Mannaz isn’t done with us yet, as it follows its half-month stint by showing up in reverse. And for those keeping score, it was the reversed modifier rune the week before it was the half-month rune. That means we need to really sit with what it can give us, and live into its wisdom. This reversal speaks directly to that feeling of being outside, outside the fun, the intel, the love. However that sense of being “off-path” is showing up right now, that’s what this rune is prodding. Its memo is that we aren’t going to just suddenly feel back on the path. Rather, we have to do something about it. Maybe there’s big assessment and digging to be done to figure all of that out. My guess, though, is that we’ve already done that. Tat’s why Mannaz has visited in some position for a solid month.

This isn’t out-of-the-blue stuff. We know what’s working and what isn’t, and we’ve even had some clues around what to do to bring things into balance. To state the obvious in this reversal, no calvary is riding in. The revelation and change around this will be self-derived, and we can trust ourselves to make good on it.  We can trust flow, and that’s the deeper message this week.

We’re already in flow. Realize it. Make use of what it can readily give.  

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Wunjo is always welcomed, though even more so when it speaks for the Planet. We can look at it as the culminating rune in the cast and leave it as ending on a high note. We can break it down further and say that when we find the balance between our role in flow and our role as individuals, that’s joy.

Guess which one I’m going with.

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#beyourcommunity

Originally published on Soul Intent Arts.

The Weekly Rune – Mannaz

For the week of 21 April 2019

Needs, community, and knowing when to reach out

Mannaz is the half-month stave through 29 April. Berkana is the intuitive rune, and Nauthiz indicates the Season’s message to us. Read right to left is Mannaz, Berkana, then Nauthiz.

I truly believe that #theweeklyrune includes the keys to making better choices based on keen insight into the present, to help each of us be more active in creating a better reality for us all. That realization process includes learning to tend what can’t just be fixed, and using every tool at our disposal to accomplish that. The runes are such a tool, and in the Old Norse tradition, this process is wyrdweaving at it deepest potential. The runes provide one way we can create ourselves as fit elders, so that we can become well Ancestors upon death.

This is the free version of The Weekly Rune.  Get the full benefit of the  ad-free, detailed version every Sunday, by joining my private runes community at Patreon.  The paid runecast includes:

more detail 
ad-free
the current runes’ impact on human life force 
insights on how to best manage the curves and twists therein
introspective prompts to nuance and tend self-work
galdr of the runecast, with sound files and instruction on how to use each sound
live video sessions
runic insights,  book excerpts, release news, free classes
optional services with me
discounts on soul tending services

What’s a half-month rune?

“Half-month” is an astronomical concept in which each month is divided into two parts: days 1-15, then 16-month’s end. In terms of the runic calendar, the half-month rune is based on the Elder Futhark, and governs for a tad over two weeks (14 and 1/4 days, or a fortnight).

As we experience a shift between the half-month runes this week, the energies subtly reflect a change in focus.

Learn More

The Weekly Rune is a three-rune cast. Those runes are the half-month, the intuitive rune, and the overview. The half-month is a set rune, which for the most part follows the traditional ordering of the Elder Futhark. The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, to the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus. It suggests how we can best handle the half-month energies. The final rune (also drawn blind) provides a high overview of the current time, and speaks from different voices. These voices are usually Nature, Earth, Creation, though are sometimes others. I note who’s speaking each week, as it is revealed.

New to The Weekly Rune?

Catch a couple of my IGTV videos, which explain the intention and process behind the runecast, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.
Listen to my  What in the Wyrd podcast, which is available across all popular podcast platforms, including Google Play and  iTunes.
A few people have asked the reason that I switch between different rune sets for TWR. The short answer is: because. The more nuanced answer is, I ask which sets wants to speak each week. I don’t assume the same elements are in play according to the timing of the runes; I also don’t assume the same elements of my runes are appropriate to speak each week. I did a podcast on this subject, so there’s more info there. (See above)
Also, for deep work on coming into relationship with the runes in season, check out my book, Runic Book of Days.

The Runecast

I wanted Mannaz to go a bit easier than the runes of the last couple of months, and it has. Sort of. It’s made us deeply consider where we fit into social groups and what role they should play in our healing, tending, fragility, and calling.

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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What does it mean?

Mannaz is the rune that urges us to take what we’ve learned, not just brushed against and thought would be a good life tid bit, but really learned, and bring it to the world. It demands that we bring heartsong level revelation into new community, and wear it like our spring best.

Mannaz isn’t attributed any particular tribulation. If anything, it carries an air of triumph, of having clarified an important life detail, and celebrating it with others. That sounds all well and good, except that that process can also be a massive slap of reality. For those of us who are introverted, we’d rather stand naked in public than have to share a new personal revelation. Same difference. Aside from even that part of it, Mannaz demands that we not just share our new awareness, but that we give ourselves completely over to it. It is where we are right now, and it’s also every arrow pointing forward.

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Along that line, Berkana says we need to remember to nurture ourselves while we venture out in to this new community. Of course it’s not so simple as a spa day, or even a proper self-care.  Berkana comes with caveats, which are that we have healthy emotional distance between what we should expect to gain from community and our own solid judgement. It begs us to ask the questions: Are we engaging in confirmation bias? Are we just hearing what we want to? Are we expecting other people to give us something we are unwilling to give to ourselves?

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Nauthiz takes any touchy-feely-ness out of the equation. Ever the stripper of superfluous fluff, this rune forces the needs assessment at a deep level. From the voice of Season, wherever we’re located, this rune asks us to keep it local, with regard to filling our needs. Don’t over reach. Don’t ask for more than is needed or can be tolerated. This isn’t nut-storing season. Stay efficient and economical. Take in what’s needed; let go of what isn’t. Don’t bring in what isn’t needed. Give to whomever has needs can be filled. Don’t mire in any particular emotional state around anything. 

There’s a mathematical quality to this week, along the lines of sleek frugality and deep nourishment, far outreach from a fortified foundation, and the discernment to know how to healthily do all of the aforementioned.

For suggestions on how to do that gracefully, subscribe to my private runes community on Patreon.

#beyourcommunity

 
Originally published on Soul Intent Arts.