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Your 2017 Personal Runecast–Your Outlook for the Entire Year!

Have you ever wanted to know what the coming currents are? Have you ever thought that if you could know, you’d better prepare for them? A personal runecast provides just that, with insights to get in sync with the rhythm that’s head for you.

The Year in Runes–for you, about you!

From now through the end of February, for $80, get a Personal Runecast for 2017, including a thirteen-rune reading! For each chart, the runes are cast just for you. Your chart is as unique as you are! One stave indicates an overall theme for the year, plus one drawn for each month to indicate what dynamics are in play with each half-month stave. That’s right–this year’s Personal Runecast gives the bonus info of the half-month runes plus those cast just for you, and insight into what that relationship means for that time.

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, and suggestions for how to work with the life force they bring. Please allow a week after ordering to receive your Personal Runecast.

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 and an intuitive stave. Together they inform on the life force available to use for the current week. Similarly, your runecast will provide valuable insight into 2017, and how you can best greet it.

Purchase one for yourself, or as a gift for someone else. Contact me for details, and to order a 2017 Personal Runecast!

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The Weekly Rune – Isa

For the week of 27 November 2016

In which the game is on.

Isa is the half-month rune through 28 November. Uruz is the intuitive stave, and Jera indicates the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Isa, then Uruz, followed by Jera.

The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks. 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 indicates the state and possibly needs of the planet.

Following is a summary of The Weekly Rune. Read the full runecast for more details on how these runes impact human life force over the next week, and how to best manage the curves and twists.

Last week,  Nauthiz forced us to face a deep personal truth, which in turn enabled us to meet that need. The middle of the winter trio–Hagalaz, Nauthiz, Isa–through its discomfort it motivates movement, which sets the stage for Isa.

Isa is the freeze before spring. It’s the long, dark wintry sleep that must happen in order for what must die off to so. Without that natural balancing of resources, what must be fed would starve. Isa, thus, is what must be fed.

Whatever is happening now, whatever truth was freed by Nauthiz, write it down. By May, when we reach Ingwaz, this new consciousness will have gathered all it can from the rime and be ready to burst onto the scene.

To get us started, Uruz is the life force most available to help us get that seed rooted. Still encased in ice, this sleepy but growing consciousness requires us to call on the most primal of feminine forces. Meaning “auroch,” which of course points to the Divine Feminine, Audhumla, we are again back at the beginning. Infer from that a need to self-start, to self-motivate, and having the elements in place to do just that at this time.

Interesting that Jera speaks what nature needs us to hear now, as its native time comes in another two weeks. It follows Isa, and exalts Winter Solstice. It would seem that Nature is asking us to begin our annual accounting early, at least where this new consciousness is concerned. What doesn’t suit growth, get rid of it, or groom it such that it does. Significant now is the motivation and support to work the process needed to set things in motion. A generally beneficial rune, enjoy its power to clarify what’s needed, clear what isn’t, and shed light on how to move forward.

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Originally published on Soul Intent Arts.

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Celebrate the Small Things – Gratitude

My weekly gratitude post, in the Celebrate the Small Things [ongoing] Blog Hop.

I’m grateful for festive time with family and friends.

I’m thankful for getting off the Rx my doctor recommended. Reaction wasn’t fun, and the withdrawal symptoms weren’t, either!

I’m thankful for feeling like my brain is back, largely due to the aforementioned RX termination. Got some writing done and website created.

I’m very grateful to have smoothly migrated all of my websites from BlueHost to SiteGround, after three weeks of not being able to access email or any in-depth hosted components at BlueHost. Dislike, which ended on Like.

What are you grateful for this week? How will you show thanks? Who is grateful for you? I am!

This post is part of Lexa Cain’s blog hop, Celebrate the Small Things, along with her  co-hostesses L.G. Keltner and Tonja Drecker. Participate by emailing laura.6eg(at)gmail.com to request to hop on, then post your gratitude every Friday.  Easiest blog hop ever! Thanks for coming with me on this journey of self-empowerment and collective awareness.

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The Weekly Rune – Eihwaz

For the week of 20 November 2016

In which we’re alone, together.

Nauthiz is the half-month rune through 28 November, at which point moves to the fore. Eihwaz is the intuitive stave, and Berkano (Berkana) indicates the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Nauthiz, then Eihwaz, followed by Berkano.

The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks. 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 indicates the state and possibly needs of the planet.

Following is a summary of The Weekly Rune. Read the full runecast for more details on how these runes impact human life force over the next week, and how to best manage the curves and twists.

Last week,  Nauthiz found us firmly entrenched in the Dead Time. The “not this” stave posits us in a betwixt state, specifically in that what we most need is what we most resist. If there’s a charm to Nauthiz, it’s that we become so uncomfortable in its presence that we accept the change. We accept the need. We fulfill what it needs. We struggle until we’ve exhausted anything but right direction. I know it’s not much comfort, but there’s that.

If being dragged into despair flips the necessary switch, so be it. If it can be flipped without that, write a book. We’d all read it.

Now, don’t freak out when I say this, but Eihwaz can help with that. Again, I say “can,” because it’s a choice. Eihwaz is the 13th rune in the Elder Futhark, and it portends a death, of sorts. That’s the freak out part. However, with the heaviness and tension in the air at this time, Eihwaz is a relief. It’s a signpost of required change. We forget that death is the ultimate healer. It is the turning point that signifies assured change. What’s the change? Focused alignment with the High Self, for one. This is the stave of realizing personal power and running with it.

Berkano, or what the planet offers at this time, can be a somewhat solitary state, also. It brings a time of reflection after a goal met. That phase of sitting with accomplishment and really beholding what has transpired–do it. Remember that Nature gets the job done, then it assesses the environment and elements. It pauses to check the weather, then gets to work with what can be done under those circumstances. Such is the reprieve that Berkano offers. Dues are paid.

With this week’s runes, we don’t have to understand each other. We don’t have to know each others’ demons, needs, battles, or victories. We just have to each do our part of the work, and give it to the world.

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Originally published on Soul Intent Arts.

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Celebrate the Small Things – Gratitude

My weekly gratitude post, in the Celebrate the Small Things [ongoing] Blog Hop.

I’m grateful for the collective awakening that’s happening.

I’m thankful for relatively benign medical results.

I’m thankful for a really great hypno session that helped me reconnect with needed support.

What are you grateful for this week? How will you show thanks? Who is grateful for you? I am!

This post is part of Lexa Cain’s blog hop, Celebrate the Small Things, along with her  co-hostesses L.G. Keltner and Tonja Drecker. Participate by emailing laura.6eg(at)gmail.com to request to hop on, then post your gratitude every Friday.  Easiest blog hop ever! Thanks for coming with me on this journey of self-empowerment and collective awareness.

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The Weekly Rune – Berkano

For the week of 13 November 2016

In which we’re in it.

Hagalaz is the half-month rune through 13 November, at which point Nauthiz moves to the fore. Berkano (Berkano) is the intuitive stave, and Laguz reversed (I know it looks like Eihwaz; it’s just a shadow) indicates the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Nauthiz, then Berkano, followed by Laguz reversed.

The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks. 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 indicates the state and possibly needs of the planet.

Following is a summary of The Weekly Rune. Read the full runecast for more details on how these runes impact human life force over the next week, and how to best manage the curves and twists.

Hagalaz began the Dead Time,  in which we are now firmly entrenched. The energy has shifted from any tingly thinning of the veil to full-on life in the shadows. The tugs we feel personally and collectively to both crawl under the covers and stay there and to charge the king’s gate are real.

As do all the winter runes, Nauthiz calls our attention to betwixt states. As it is the middle rune of the chilly trio, it represents a bound position, and the tension that comes with it. Indeed, it’s the latter that we most identify with. Often referred to as the “not this” rune, Nauthiz presents a dynamic in which what is needed is what is resisted.

Luckily we have Berkano on hand to apply any salve needed in the aftermath of the fire. The most healing and soothing stave in the Elder Futhark, Berkano is the rune of midwifing. It is the gold star that says “dues paid,” and offers a brief reprieve from work. Such is the life force most available to us this week, as we grapple with Nauthiz. Allow the time to process what’s transpired, without looking forward. Just sit with the work that’s been done, and honor it.

Laguz reversed suggests that what’s happening in our lives currently isn’t with the flow of natural order. As we know, nature is self-correcting, no matter what  stymies the process or forces a new way of doing things. That’s what we need to keep in mind, right now. Whatever seems to be interfering with right flow, there is a way to move forward. There is a way to re-sync with natural flow and stay abreast with it.

The memo for this week is to meet deep personal needs head-on, so that we’re not collectively paying for that lack, down the road.

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Originally published on Soul Intent Arts.

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Celebrate the Small Things – Gratitude

My weekly gratitude post, in the Celebrate the Small Things [ongoing] Blog Hop.

I’m grateful for surviving two-and-a-half hours of MRIs.

I’m thankful for my family.

I’m thankful progressive, thoughtful people who can include others in their dreams, rights, and vision of the present and future.

What are you grateful for this week? How will you show thanks? Who is grateful for you? I am!

This post is part of Lexa Cain’s blog hop, Celebrate the Small Things, along with her  co-hostesses L.G. Keltner and Tonja Drecker. Participate by emailing laura.6eg(at)gmail.com to request to hop on, then post your gratitude every Friday.  Easiest blog hop ever! Thanks for coming with me on this journey of self-empowerment and collective awareness.

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The Weekly Rune – Ingwaz

For the week of 6 November 2016

In support of new consciousness.

Hagalaz is the half-month rune through 13 November. Ingwaz is the intuitive stave, and Fehu indicates the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Hagalaz, then Ingwaz, followed by Fehu.

The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks. 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 indicates the state and possibly needs of the planet.

Following is a summary of The Weekly Rune. Read the full runecast for more details on how these runes impact human life force over the next week, and how to best manage the curves and twists.

Hagalaz began the Dark Time,  which calls our attention to betwixt states, encourages us to examine our relationship to status quo, and reinforces that impermanence is the law of the land. It is the stave that begins Heimdalr’s ætt, which emphasizes that we know not just our places in the greater order of things, but that we actively carry it out. While we may feel the inner rumblings of our unconscious telling us what we most need, the lightning strike Hagalaz brings from outside is the motivator to make it happen.

Ingwaz plays a part in that realization and transition, as it is the sacred see come to fruition. It is the final point in a process of gestating a new and deeply needed consciousness. To understand what that consciousness may be, look to last week. Consider what dynamics were beginning in the heart. When that’s known, what comes next will be more evident.

Giving us a hand with that work is Fehu, a rich resource offered by the planet. Significant to Fehu is we have to recognize wealth when it’s offered. We have to be willing to take it. Nature doesn’t question the benefit of rain. It just drinks. It doesn’t balk at the offering of sustenance. It just ingests.

Likewise, the planet indicates the need for us to give of our resources to support it. There’s plenty going on right now with Standing Rock, burst pipelines, and coal ash spills to become cognizant of how to support individuals and organizations who support the planet.  Through Fehu the planet reminds us that what we do for self impacts All. However we manifest supporting self, make it an offering worthy of us all.

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Celebrate the Small Things – Gratitude

My weekly gratitude post, in the Celebrate the Small Things [ongoing] Blog Hop.

I’m grateful for a great date night, celebrating our 20-year anniversary!

I’m thankful for a fun night of trick-or-treating.

I’m thankful a diagnosis that’s been 15 years in the making.

What are you grateful for this week? How will you show thanks? Who is grateful for you? I am!

This post is part of Lexa Cain’s blog hop, Celebrate the Small Things, along with her  co-hostesses L.G. Keltner and Tonja Drecker. Participate by emailing laura.6eg(at)gmail.com to request to hop on, then post your gratitude every Friday.  Easiest blog hop ever! Thanks for coming with me on this journey of self-empowerment and collective awareness.

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The Weekly Rune – Mannaz

For the week of 30 October 2016

This week, the external manifests the internal.

Hagalaz is the half-month rune through 13 November. Mannaz is the intuitive stave, and Isa indicates the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Hagalaz, then Mannaz, followed by Isa.

The half-month rune is set by the runic calendar, and governs for a tad over two weeks. The intuitive stave 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 indicates the state of the planet.

Following is a summary of The Weekly Rune. Read the full runecast for more details on how these runes impact human life force over the next week, and how to best manage the curves and twists.

In our time with Wunjo, we talked about it pointing to a relatively peaceful time. Wunjo closes the ordeal of the first ætt, through which we learned to fend for ourselves, spiritually. Part of Wunjo and all of the staves that close ætts is the natural opportunity of a slight reprieve. It is of course up to us to take advantage of that reprieve, and also to see that it’s merely in passing. We don’t get to hang out there for the long haul. Certainly Hagalaz, the current half-month stave, reinforces that impermanence.

Hagalaz comes at the traditionally recognized point of Samhain, or beginning of the Dead Time. For the Old Norse people, this would have been Alfablót, or a time of sacrifice to the elves. Akin to the western European tradition of leaving a place setting for the deceased, in the Northern Tradition we find offerings of mead and meat on burial mounds. So our focus also turns to what is dead in our lives, what must be let go, our ancestors, and what we can learn from all of it. Interesting that we encounter that juxtaposition of worlds between the living and the dead as we approach Hagalaz, which begins Heimdalr’s ætt.

Hail is also an extremely effective motivator. This abrupt and frequently damaging external jolt is the force of Hagalaz. It is a wake-up call, a stirring of the status quo, calling our attention to what?

Mannaz indicates a need to be involved with social groups other than those with which we currently engage. The stave of the mind and multicultural interaction, in the place of how humans can best flow with what comes up this week, get out. Interact. Open up. Allow self to share, to listen, and to broaden awareness. What is rote will not facilitate direct relationship with comfort between. What’s been working isn’t going to position us well to meet our current needs.

Isa as the planet’s advice encourages us to sit with this whole process. Don’t rush it. Don’t bypass it.  Isa is the sacred seed of each thing that is, the part of it that never dies and continues to grow. It’s the part that remembers what came before, and naturally bends toward the best resources to greet what’s coming.

This week we have these diverse influences rubbing against each other. Hagalaz suggests a poke from the external world will urge us to find better footing between worlds, while Mannaz encourages us to explore new consciousness to refine that footing. Our ability to do that speaks to creating a nurturing, safe place for the brew of Isa to develop and grow–internally.

Read the full runecast.

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Originally published on Soul Intent Arts.

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