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January 1, 2018
The Weekly Rune
Confronting discomfort with the unknown.
Eihwaz is the half-month stave through 13 January. Uruz is the intuitive stave, and Perthro reversed indicates the planet's message to us. Read right to left is Eihwaz, Uruz, then Perthro reversed.
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The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks (a fortnight). The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, which brings the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus for the present week. It suggests how we can handle these energies. The planetary stave (also a blind draw) indicates the state and needs of the planet, and where noted, of Nature, well beyond the earthly sphere. If you're curious about how I do the cast every week, catch a couple of my Instagram videos, which explain the intention behind The Weekly Rune, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.
Also, check out my What in the Wyrd podcast. It's runes, wyrd, shamanism, animism--all together. Best yet, it's short, little conversational bites designed to help us all bring our paths more deeply into the everyday. It's available across all popular podcast platforms.
Winter Solstice, check.
"Hearth Accounting," check.
We're left with Eihwaz, which is a carefully greeted ally. Tinged with all nuance of unknown, it's often compared to the Death card in tarot, which is where all the fear of it comes from. Of course its historic association with death existed long before the tarot, which is where its grounding comes from.
Associated with the yew, like the tree, Eihwaz is considered a current of life and death. It represents the meeting point between the two, which is us--the middle strata--of animate, embodied life. So when this rune comes up in casts, it hints at a strategic moment we need to be ready to defend and take action on. The key word is "embodied," as all the inspiration in the world is pointless with the mental clarity and physical stamina to carry it out. Eihwaz is the fusion of these things, into our own higher guidance.
Called the High Self, True Self, etc., it is the introduction to the aspect of ourselves that is at the level we believe guides and Ancestors to be.Combined with the primal rawness of Uruz, there's a strong suggestion that our ability to do best by Eihwaz will come through the body. While the deep unconscious and body are different levels of being, of awareness, they are in a way more combined and informed on each other than our waking consciousness. They are our liminal signalling system that draws on old developmental instinct.
Again, this week's rune of the strange comes from a voice greater than our Earthly vantage point. From where, I don't know precisely, though it echoes the Jotnar life force. Perthro is all about chance. It's the rune of the unknown, the unknowable, and very similar to Eihwaz, it frightens people when it comes up in casts. The thing about Perthro is it's a natural force. When reversed, it presents not that we have less of a chance at some undertaking, rather that we have less faith in that chance.This week take time to come back into relationship with personal process. If parts of it aren't working to meet needs, identify them and set in motion what changes are needed in that process. Again, these are the parts we do have control over. If there's a general feeling of not liking the direction things are going, consider other options. Being open to consideration isn't commitment. It's opportunity for creative problem-solving.
Emotion can't get in the way of something that has to happen. That said, we can't just dismiss emotion. Where it (Perthro reversed) pops up as angst in turning the corner (Eihwaz), remember to fully embody unconscious and conscious wisdom (Uruz).
Ie, be the change.
Half-month Considerations
What's your comfort level with your own voice?
How do you experience your High Self?
How do you feel, when you do? How do you respond?
#beyourcommunity
#beyourplanet
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The Weekly Rune Eihwaz
Confronting discomfort with the unknown.
Eihwaz is the half-month stave through 13 January. Uruz is the intuitive stave, and Perthro reversed indicates the planet's message to us. Read right to left is Eihwaz, Uruz, then Perthro reversed.
Receive the ad-free, full weekly runecast by subscribing through Patreon. There, find more detail on how the current runes impact human life force over the next week, and how to best manage the curves and twists therein. With a paid subscription, also receive TWR on Sunday instead of Monday, for as little as $1 a week, or for more engagement with me, such as regular Soul Readings, Sabbat Runecasts, and personal runecasts, choose one of the higher subscription levels.
The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks (a fortnight). The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, which brings the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus for the present week. It suggests how we can handle these energies. The planetary stave (also a blind draw) indicates the state and needs of the planet, and where noted, of Nature, well beyond the earthly sphere. If you're curious about how I do the cast every week, catch a couple of my Instagram videos, which explain the intention behind The Weekly Rune, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.
Also, check out my What in the Wyrd podcast. It's runes, wyrd, shamanism, animism--all together. Best yet, it's short, little conversational bites designed to help us all bring our paths more deeply into the everyday. It's available across all popular podcast platforms.
Winter Solstice, check.
"Hearth Accounting," check.
We're left with Eihwaz, which is a carefully greeted ally. Tinged with all nuance of unknown, it's often compared to the Death card in tarot, which is where all the fear of it comes from. Of course its historic association with death existed long before the tarot, which is where its grounding comes from.
Associated with the yew, like the tree, Eihwaz is considered a current of life and death. It represents the meeting point between the two, which is us--the middle strata--of animate, embodied life. So when this rune comes up in casts, it hints at a strategic moment we need to be ready to defend and take action on. The key word is "embodied," as all the inspiration in the world is pointless with the mental clarity and physical stamina to carry it out. Eihwaz is the fusion of these things, into our own higher guidance.
Called the High Self, True Self, etc., it is the introduction to the aspect of ourselves that is at the level we believe guides and Ancestors to be.Combined with the primal rawness of Uruz, there's a strong suggestion that our ability to do best by Eihwaz will come through the body. While the deep unconscious and body are different levels of being, of awareness, they are in a way more combined and informed on each other than our waking consciousness. They are our liminal signalling system that draws on old developmental instinct.
Again, this week's rune of the strange comes from a voice greater than our Earthly vantage point. From where, I don't know precisely, though it echoes the Jotnar life force. Perthro is all about chance. It's the rune of the unknown, the unknowable, and very similar to Eihwaz, it frightens people when it comes up in casts. The thing about Perthro is it's a natural force. When reversed, it presents not that we have less of a chance at some undertaking, rather that we have less faith in that chance.This week take time to come back into relationship with personal process. If parts of it aren't working to meet needs, identify them and set in motion what changes are needed in that process. Again, these are the parts we do have control over. If there's a general feeling of not liking the direction things are going, consider other options. Being open to consideration isn't commitment. It's opportunity for creative problem-solving.
Emotion can't get in the way of something that has to happen. That said, we can't just dismiss emotion. Where it (Perthro reversed) pops up as angst in turning the corner (Eihwaz), remember to fully embody unconscious and conscious wisdom (Uruz).
Ie, be the change.
Half-month Considerations
What's your comfort level with your own voice?
How do you experience your High Self?
How do you feel, when you do? How do you respond?
#beyourcommunity
#beyourplanet
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Learn more about the Reclaiming the Runes Intensive and the preview course.
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December 25, 2017
The Weekly Rune
In which we must stand alone.
Jera is the half-month stave through 28 December, at which point Eihwaz moves to the fore. Algiz reversed is the intuitive stave, and Othala reversed indicates the planet's message to us. Read right to left is Jera above, Eihwaz below, Algiz reversed, then Othala reversed.
Receive the ad-free, full weekly runecast by subscribing through Patreon. There, find more detail on how the current runes impact human life force over the next week, and how to best manage the curves and twists therein. With a paid subscription, also receive TWR on Sunday instead of Monday, for as little as $1 a week, or for more engagement with me, such as regular Soul Readings, Sabbat Runecasts, and personal runecasts, choose one of the higher subscription levels.
The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks (a fortnight). The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, which brings the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus for the present week. It suggests how we can handle these energies. The planetary stave (also a blind draw) indicates the state and needs of the planet, and where noted, of Nature, well beyond the earthly sphere. If you're curious about how I do the cast every week, catch a couple of my Instagram videos, which explain the intention behind The Weekly Rune, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.
Also, check out my What in the Wyrd podcast. It's runes, wyrd, shamanism, animism--you name it. Best yet, it's short, little conversational bites designed to help us all bring our paths more deeply into the everyday. It's available across all popular podcast platforms.
Just past (northern) Winter Solstice, we're deep in the throes of "Hearth Accounting," which is external and internal housecleaning of the deepest level. In the progressing narrative of the Elder Futhark, that's not for no reason. Later this week, we shift into the half-month rune of Eihwaz, which many fret over. It's the 13th rune, and it carries associations with death. Meaning, "yew," this rune is no joke. It bears the characteristics of a tree that has incredible longevity, as well as a poison that can kill within hours.
With such power, the yew is considered a tree of life and death. It represents the meeting point between the two, which is us--the middle strata--of animate, embodied life. So when this rune comes up in casts, it hints at a strategic moment we need to be ready to defend and take action on.
Called the High Self, True Self, etc., Eihwaz is the introduction to the aspect of ourselves that is at the level we believe guides and Ancestors to be. Instead of having the luxury of seeking insight beyond ourselves, this this stave we are required to embody in our experience, middle and messy as it is, and be our own resource.
As the rune informing us how to best work with Eihwaz, Algiz reversed reinforces the fact that we're on our own, for now. Meaning 'elk/sedge,' this rune evokes a sense of protectiveness born of solidarity with the Home Spirits. Reversed, it suggests some complication in being able to reach the usual depth of connection, not that it isn't there, but something in the works complicates it.
Again, not readily feeling available spiritual resources is part of life. We don't always get the luxury of feeling our support--or feeling anything, for that matter. Sometimes we have to act from faith, do the work, and do our end to hold the space until things find the next balance.
This week's rune of the strange comes from a deep voice within the Elder Futhark, as a collective. When I drew this rune, it very distinctly told me it wasn't the planet or Nature speaking, but the Futhark, as a whole. Reversed, Othala suggests a shift in the Ancestors. I can't make this stuff up, so I will just say it as it was told to me: This brief period is like the needle coming off the record. The music remains in the grooves, the record is still spinning, our capacity to hear it is intact. The needle is taking a break.
Over the next week, a reboot of Other is happening. I don't know what that means, or how it will manifest. To me it sounds a lot better than other scenarios we've been presented with over the last two years. For this time, keep the home fires burning. We're capable. We can tend the homestead by ourselves. And where possible, lift up a prayer for those who have carried us, those whom we have considered untouched and untouchable. Whatever space they need to withdraw and recalibrate, let us be the mature, capable humans they have helped us to be, and give them what they need at this time.
Half-month Considerations
How do you turn blind corners?
Where in your life do you need to act more autonomously?
How do you best defend yourself?
#beyourcommunity
#beyourplanet
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December 20, 2017
What It Is Wednesday — Dauntlessly Dealt (Personal Theme) Reality
About this time last year, I blogged about my ridiculous luxury of meeting with a great group of mystics monthly for the last 13-14 years. In the last year health and work have complicated my ability to do so, though I aspire to get back to our regular date.
One of the bajillion things I've gained from these amazing people is the refined focus of setting themes for myself, every year. Over fried green tomatoes and rutabagas we'd discuss what our theme would be, and how we could live into it, maybe help each other to do just that. As nothing in my life happens that isn't written down, I have thirteen years of trackable personal themes. Yesterday we discussed our themes for 2018.
Needless to say, these themes are always challenging. Choosing them isn't Wishlist territory. They're not things I wish I could master, but challenges appropriate to What Truly Comes Next in my personal growth. While they aren't total shoe-ins for success, they also aren't Mount Everest. They are challenges appropriate to life, in the moment. In other words, settling on the right one requires brutal self-honesty.
In the past, my themes have been along the lines of, "Recognize Patterns," "Find a Better Feeling," Appeal to the True Self." They always had an active component of me making strides toward some change to better a condition, state, or dynamic in my life. And to be honest, I did it. It worked. I'm a doer.
I was a doer. I'm now sort-of-a-doer.
Over the last two years of health complications and the organ failure and subsequent two surgeries of this year, I've had to re-evaluate everything from life dreams and carrying out soul commitments, to how to earn a living and show up on the planet as a woke person. In short: it's all changed.
So, without further preamble, my Personal Theme for 2018 is "Bear Better." I've been bearing, and I've honestly done the best I could with it. I've remained awake and active throughout all of it. A great deal of my life at this point is focused on tending, and the best I can ask for isn't miracles or even minor change, but to bear it better. Whatever appears on the plate, I seek the resources--spiritual, emotional, mental, physical--to call in the resources, guides, wisdom--what-the-hell-ever, to bear it better.
I can't categorically say the optimism of my youth to be the active principle and seek to change the source of discomfort is completely gone. It's now more of an instinct that is a factor among many in deciding how to actually be. What's more accurate though, is I've reached middle age. I've reached the point that I know what I can change and what I can't. I still have energy to expend. I still have a family to show up for, a planet to be an intentional citizen of, and a life to live such that I feel worth as a person. The difference now is I know what my boundaries are, I've learned how to say no, and I give one shit less about the small stuff, every day.
What's your Personal Theme for 2018? How can you show up for yourself to live it?
As always, thank you for what you do. Thanks for showing up. I wish you the best and brightest 2018.
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December 17, 2017
The Weekly Rune
Abundant restraint.
Jera is the half-month stave through 28 December. Fehu is the intuitive stave, and Laguz reversed indicates the planet's message to us. Read right to left is Jera, Fehu, then Laguz reversed.
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The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks (a fortnight). The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, which brings the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus for the present week. It suggests how we can handle these energies. The planetary stave (also a blind draw) indicates the state and needs of the planet, and where noted, of Nature, well beyond the earthly sphere. If you're curious about how I do the cast every week, catch a couple of my Instagram videos, which explain the intention behind The Weekly Rune, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.
Also, check out my What in the Wyrd podcast. It's runes, wyrd, shamanism, animism--you name it. Best yet, it's short, little conversational bites designed to help us all bring our paths more deeply into the everyday. It's available across all popular podcast platforms.
With Jera, the Dark Time gives us all the assets we need, to get us back to the light half of the year. The half-month rune of (northern) Winter Solstice (which falls this year on 21 December, at 16:28 UTC), Jera, means "year." In application it refers to the accounting process of reviewing the work of the year--specifically harvest--and deducing whether it was beneficial. It's the appropriate time for assessing what worked, what didn't, what to do, what never to do again. To that end, I call Jera the rune of "Hearth Accounting." It represents external and internal housecleaning of the deepest level.
Our challenge is to do the hard rituals without worry or judgement.
2017 has been hard for us all. More times than we can count this year, we didn't know where it was going to come from--literally, energetically, emotionally. Yet, here we are. Rough-housed, worn, and weary, yet still capable and showing up. We've had no choice but to find a way through, and that's the prosperity of Fehu in the darkness, right now. We are digging into deep reserves. We are tapping the roots of our deepest needs and applying the reserves that meet them.
This has been a survivor year. Take that wisdom into the accounting of this season. Leave the judgement and fear out of it, as challenging as that is. Just set aside some time to realize we're still here. We're not alone, and the light is upon us, at least in a very animistic, whole, reliable way.
Laguz reversed indicates a place where we aren't flowing. I always think of it in terms of Big Flow, Multiversal Flow, All Things Flow. However, it could mean that we just can't get into the groove of the flow around us. And the question there is, is it a flow we should be in? Could be, though maybe not. Maybe we're done with that rivulet, and it's time to move on to our own stream.
Another caveat of the narrative of these particular runes is how comfortable we've gotten in our darkness. It's been a shitty time for a lot of us, and even crummy times can have their lures. For me in particular, I love the cloak of darkness. It's the strata in which I get the most accomplished. It's also usually the most fraught with drama and crisis, and I have to realize that fondness ain't no accident. Consider that given the chaos of this year, darkness is actually very calm. Whether it should be, we all have to decide for ourselves.
When we deal with upside down water, sure there are worse messes to clean up. Yet, the mess is what it is. Whether it's not drifting in the Big Flow or some micro lack of finesse in our lives right now, a dam is on the horizon, and it's telling us to get our accounts in order, and find some gratitude, some hope, for how we go forward into the light. All of Nature knows it is carried. This is the time we need to remember it, and that we also have oars.
Half-month Considerations
How do you find hope?
In what darkness are you most comfortable?
How do you best deal with active stillness?
#beyourcommunity
#beyourplanet
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December 11, 2017
The Weekly Rune Jera
Accounting inner nurture, or bust.
This week, enjoy the full cast, as it's posted at Patreon! If you've ever wondered how the subscription version compares to the public one--here you go! Receive the ad-free, full weekly runecast by subscribing through Patreon. There, find more detail on how the current runes impact human life force over the next week, and how to best manage the curves and twists therein. With a paid subscription, also receive TWR on Sunday instead of Monday, for as little as $1 a week, or for more engagement with me, such as regular Soul Readings, Sabbat Runecasts, and personal runecasts, choose one of the higher subscription levels.
Jera is the half-month stave through 28 December. Uruz is the intuitive stave, and Nauthiz indicates the planet's message to us. Read right to left is Jera, Uruz, then Nauthiz.
The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks (a fortnight). The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, which brings the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus for the present week. It suggests how we can handle these energies. The planetary stave (also a blind draw) indicates the state and needs of the planet, and where noted, of Nature, well beyond the earthly sphere. If you're curious about how I do the cast every week, catch a couple of my Instagram videos, which explain the intention behind The Weekly Rune, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.
Also, check out my first What in the Wyrd podcast, focused on The Weekly Rune. It's available across all popular podcast platforms.
Holy mackerel, these last few weeks. Where Isa showed that we won't move forward from the current dynamic until we've gained the skills to, Jera follows it up with ample assessment that we're truly up to the task.
The half-month rune of (northern) Winter Solstice (which falls this year on 21 December, at 16:28 UTC), Jera, means "year." In application it refers to the accounting process of reviewing the work of the year--specifically harvest--and deducing whether it was beneficial. It's the appropriate time for assessing what worked, what didn't, what to do, what never to do again. To that end, I call Jera the rune of "Hearth Accounting." It represents external and internal housecleaning of the deepest level.
As this is the Winter Solstice stave, it demands that we thoroughly examine the last vestiges of shadow, of darkness, and lay a plan for how to illuminate it. Sure, this can be done any time of year. This moment is of the essence, because native forces of the season support us that effort. We aren't going it completely alone, and we can call on that help to get our jobs done.
Curious that Uruz is the rune playing backup. Referring to the wild unconscious, again we are deflected back into a well of feminine, which suggests that we not only know how we're nurturing that sacred seed of Isa through its initiation, but that we become it. We can't really understand the raw creativity we're developing if we don't step directly into it. There's no testing the waters, here. Uruz is the point that we realize, or in some cases return to, our most primal drives, and it demands that we dive into however that's manifesting in our lives, right now.
The theme of the winter runes has been coming more deeply into the human cycles of hardship and benefit, birth and growth, growth and death, manifestation and loss, having and having not... Within this very clarifying assertion that the wheel will always turn (Hagalaz), we're given the opportunity to hone in on exactly what we want to do with our time, here. We're told to define our needs and gain the skills to learn to meet them (Nauthiz-Isa), and assess how our actual lives stack up to enabling us to meet them (Jera). In that controlled process, we're now being told to unleash Uruz. Let the untamed auroch into that fine balance we've set up to create momentum in our lives, and see what happens.
Will it all topple? Will it root out what's not needed? Will it bring in some wild new desire we've been afraid of honoring?
We're about to find out. What's certain is the outcome will serve. The moxy to stick with it until the end sources from that assurance.
Nauthiz as Nature's wisdom on the subject advises we not rush. None of the winter runes hurry, which is usually what makes them so uncomfortable. Yes, each introduces nuance of refining how we cope with change, though each does so through a frozen state of deep reflection. It's that suspended animation that makes their cycle seem. so. hard.
This week we have another chance to stand at our crossroads, and make sure we're clear on our needs. Nothing in Nature ventures forward unless it understands the reason to do so--including risk and reward. And there's no pressure to leap. Take the time given to thoroughly assess what's needed where, how much, when. All the same, bring keen awareness to the act of busy stillness. That age old challenge of allowing the active masculine to do its job to protect the embodied feminine...
We've got this.
Half-month Considerations
How do you best take stock of your life?
What shadows remain unexcavated?
How do you best deal with active stillness?
#beyourcommunity
#beyourplanet
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December 3, 2017
The Weekly Rune
In stillness, words bring action.
Isa is the half-month stave through 13 December. Ansuz is the intuitive stave, and Tiwaz indicates the planet's message to us. Read right to left is Isa, Ansuz, then Tiwaz.
Receive the ad-free, full weekly runecast by subscribing through Patreon. There, find more detail on how the current runes impact human life force over the next week, and how to best manage the curves and twists therein. With a paid subscription, also receive TWR on Sunday instead of Monday, for as little as $1 a week, or for more engagement with me, such as regular Soul Readings, Sabbat Runecasts, and personal runecasts, choose one of the higher subscription levels.
The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks (a fortnight). The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, which brings the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus for the present week. It suggests how we can handle these energies. The planetary stave (also a blind draw) indicates the state and needs of the planet, and where noted, of Nature, well beyond the earthly sphere. If you're curious about how I do the cast every week, catch a couple of my Instagram videos, which explain the intention behind The Weekly Rune, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.
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Isa has shown us that we won't move forward from the current dynamic until we've gained the skills, foundation, and/or chutzpah to do so well. The final of the winter trio, this icy stave bears a "ring not pass" quality, in that despite how much we push and shove things to move forward, they simply won't until they're ready. The subtext of that is, neither will we.
Isa, the culmination of the winter runes, begins an initiation within the runes that doesn't culminate until late in the third aett. As the Elder Futhark, itself, is a wide process of initiation, when confronted with these micro cycles, it can feel a bit like doubling down. However, the initiation that starts with Isa, then progresses through Mannaz and Ingwaz is subtle. It's internal, in that it requires us do a lot of personal tending of our needs, calling, and desires. In order to do that well, we have to master balances of the masculine and feminine.
People often point out the battle metaphors in the runes, which while on-pointe for ancient northern culture, we modern westerners think it implies a dominance of masculine polarity, with a lack of feminine. Look again.
While I have a theory that the polarities of masculine and feminine are breaking down, they are still very strong in our psyche. At base levels, the role of the feminine is to stir the inner worlds, so that dreams become plans, which become manifestations. The role of the masculine is to contain the feminine, to protect it so that inner work can be done. If the feminine doesn't get to complete her process, there's no manifestation. If there's no manifestation, the masculine has nothing to protect. Aspects of humanity that don't have a job, that don't get to serve their purpose, become blocks not just to individual accomplishment, but to the entire community. Masculine and feminine are useless without each other. We are useless when we don't heal and allow the development of both.
This balance is the foundation of the Isa initiation. The protection and nurture of the sacred seed (Isa) is the initiation of the feminine's job that's playing out behind the scenes of the progression of the rest of the second third aetts--which the masculine are working to ensure will come to pass. Our culture has focused on the masculine. Isa challenges us to remember and tend both.
How appropriate then, that Ansuz is the stave describing how we can best do that. Often translated as "mouth," Ansuz is really about breath, or that force which makes everything possible. Our ability to engage the mysterious process of breathing, so that we can be, do, show up is the most potent alchemy there is.
The significant thing about Ansuz is that it comes right after lessons in clarifying intent (Thurisaz), and before deciding how we tell our story (Raidho). With that framing comes the assumption that we've figured out what to do with our breath. We've figured out how to speak truth, which is the magickal formula that makes life satisfying. If we can't speak what we mean, what we need, how we see life and ourselves in it, then we can't create from within our own power.
That would be a tragic loss.
We're all needed.
The hint here is, take some time this week to consider how we arrive at our truth, and how that ties into newly revealed needs. It's likely sticky territory, because those are the synapses that generate life change. Once we realize our needs and truth, we can't stay the same. When we change, it makes other people uncomfortable. It makes jobs and relationships not fit anymore. Given the bustling holiday season, this may not be great timing for such personal revelation. However, the winter trio occurs this time each year. Find some solace in the season knowing how to support us its impact.
The sticking point of this week lies again with the planet's affirmation of Tiwaz. It smacks of something that needs to be let go. Clinging to some failing Plan A is preventing the successful Plan B from coming. Again, because Tiwaz isn't the half-month stave, it doesn't mean significant heart upheaval. Rather, it means holding a general place of adaptation. Anything gripped tightly right now, particularly if it would interfere with the nurture of the feminine or the timeframe of fostering the sacred seed, needs to be examined. Yes, it's a busy time, though the craziness of hols may give exactly the cover needed to weed out heart, path, and wyrd.
And Winter Solstice is right around the corner. Take the time to shore up loose ends now, to greet that closure well.
Half-month Considerations
How do you rest?
What in you is waiting to be born?
How do you best learn
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November 27, 2017
The Weekly Rune
Thinking twice about thinking.
Isa is the half-month stave through 13 December. Jera is the intuitive stave, and Tiwaz indicates the Ancestor's message to us. Read right to left is Isa, Jera, then Tiwaz.
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The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks (a fortnight). The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, which brings the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus for the present week. It suggests how we can handle these energies. The planetary stave (also a blind draw) indicates the state and needs of the planet, and where noted, of Nature, well beyond the earthly sphere. If you're curious about how I do the cast every week, catch a couple of my Instagram videos, which explain the intention behind The Weekly Rune, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.
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For the last last couple of weeks, Nauthiz brought us front-and-center in identifying and meeting needs--or at least clarifying where that process is needed in our lives. We also talked loosely about the winter staves, Hagalaz, Nauthiz, and Isa, and the general role this mini initiation beginning the second aett brings.
Humans don't relish stillness, which is the hallmark of Isa. It's a feminine aspect lost on a heavily masculine western society. Nonetheless, in that stillness we're faced with letting go of what doesn't serve how we can best move forward. In fact, until we allow that culling, we won't move forward. Through the ice rune, the final bout of winter before any warmth can come, we are bound. We are the sacred seed choosing captivity to be thoroughly prepared before our springtime debut.
Because thrusting ourselves out into the world before we're ready serves whom?
Meaning "year," Jera points to setting increments of accountability, points at which we check ourselves, our process, and ensure they're still benefiting us. In short, we need skills. We don't just up and know how to do everything. In order to know what we don't know, we have to assess our process. Once we understand where our process is serving or failing, we can requisition teachers for the skills we need. Such is our homework, while the sacred seed of Isa prepares itself. Figure out what skills are needed, how to get them, and structuring life so they can be applied.
Tiwaz as a message from the Cosmos affirms that need to re-think things. Meaning "Tyr," and calling up the story of Tuisto/Buri, its focus is the shove all gods eventually feel to shed popularity for the newer, shinier gods. Tiwaz = Making peace with God 2.0. Yes, I'm oversimplifying, yet that's what it comes down to. Everything eventually has to face its expendability, that some heartfelt dream isn't going to happen, or at least it's not going to happen on the current trajectory. Yet instead of just changing trajectories, most of us get stuck in the grief that Plan A isn't going to work. We can't overcome the emotional process to realize that there is still a way, or at least a really good potential.
Because Tiwaz isn't the half-month stave, I don't think we're up for significant heart upheaval, right now. What it indicates, instead, is that we need to sit in that stillness to tie up any emotional and ego-based loose ends. Isa is nonmovement. We can't shove ourselves from where we are at this time. Jera emphasizes planning, while Tiwaz insists on clearing the grief of loss. These are the two most perfect activities nonmovement could wish for, and this week they're the best skills we can teach ourselves.
Half-month Considerations
How do you rest?
What in you is waiting to be born?
How do you protect your feminine?
How do you strengthen your masculine?
#beyourcommunity
#beyourplanet
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November 20, 2017
The Weekly Rune
Needful planning, with force.
Nauthiz is the half-month stave through 28 November. Jera is the intuitive stave, and Thurisaz indicates the Ancestor's message to us. Read right to left is Nauthiz, Jera, then Thurisaz.
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The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks (a fortnight). The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, which brings the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus for the present week. It suggests how we can handle these energies. The planetary stave (also a blind draw) indicates the state and needs of the planet, and where noted, of Nature, well beyond the earthly sphere. If you're curious about how I do the cast every week, catch a couple of my Instagram videos, which explain the intention behind The Weekly Rune, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.
We spoke last week about Nauthiz presenting a natural point to identify why/where in life we feel constrained, and to work with unmet needs around that spot. Most likely, last week dealt with identifying that dynamic, which leaves this week open to intentionally engaging it and generating change.
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Nauthiz is the "not this" stave. It provokes feelings of resistance that aren't necessarily based on rational information. That's a tough one, yes? Anything at the feeling or need level is always tricky business.
As we go into this second week, remember the options. Jera is the "Hearth Accounting" rune, in that it represents that culminating point in the annual cycle that we take stock of things. We note how it went, how we could improve outcomes, what we should do again, what we should never do again, what new tricks to try.
In terms of Nauthiz and identifying need, Jera's memo is that we assess and make plans. Do the mindfulness techniques. Do the soul searching. Do the interpersonal communication that's part of identifying need, then learning how to meet it. In situations that we feel we have no control, we forget that these things are our control.
What's challenging about Thurisaz is that it points toward internal conflict, which muddies everything. It presents a force-meets-force dynamic, of the unconscious variety. It's that feeling of being out of sync with something that on the surface should be fine. In other words, when our unconscious conflicts with our conscious awareness. It has other information, something lies in opposition that we're not aware of--something inside becomes conflicted.
This week our challenge is to be aware that we possess the emotional depths to identify need, while simultaneously possessing the mental skills to framework with it well and hold in check our animal motivations driving it all. This week we get to experience some of our strongest complexities as humans, all at once. Disregard none of them, and through honoring them all we cultivate bad-assery befitting our Ancestors.Half-month Considerations
How do you recognize your own needs?
What skills best help you work with personal needs?
How does internal conflict manifest for you?
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#beyourplanet
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November 17, 2017
Your 2018 Personal Runecast–Your Outlook for the Entire Year!
The Year in Runes--for you, about you!
From now through the end of February, for $80, get a Personal Runecast for 2018, including a rune drawn for each month, a summary of the dynamics in play with each half-month stave , and one stave to indicate the overall theme for the year. No two casts are ever alike. For each chart, the runes are cast just for you. Your chart is as unique as you are!
And--dear runesters--this year's cast includes insight into the Rune of the Age. Over the last year many of us have noted feeling outside the current that we're used to, though we haven't quite gotten into the groove of whatever it's become. Power dynamics are shifting, cosmologies have been upended. Insights into the Age we've left and the one we're entering sheds deep insight onto the upheaval experienced around the planet, and how to cope with it in the context of the Personal Runecast for the year.
You will receive your Forecast as a 5-6 page PDF via email, including descriptions for the overall runic theme for the year, a description for the rune of each month alongside the half-months, the Rune of the Age, and suggestions for how to work with the life force they bring. Personal Runecasts won't be delivered until after the first of January 2018. Each is customized to order, and it takes some time to do the cast and pull it all together in a meaningful manner.
Not sure a Personal Runecast will have meaning for you? Check out The Weekly Rune, the column that I write based on the half-month rune, an intuitive stave, and rune carrying the message of the planet. Together they inform on the life force available to use for the current week. Similarly, your runecast will provide valuable insight into 2018, and how you can best greet it.
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My Route to the Runes
I started reading the runes when I was 19, which for those keeping track, that was 27 years ago! The runes bring impeccable clarity to life dynamics, and I find them to be the most no-nonsense oracle to work with. About 8 years ago, I began studying various runic calendars and working with them in the seasonal progression of half-months. In that relationship an entirely other way to appreciate the runes was revealed to me. From that excitement The Weekly Rune was born, as was my work through Patreon. The short version is, I love working with the runes, and sharing them with others.
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