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September 5, 2016

The Weekly Rune – Gebo

For the week of  5 September 2016

The lore, the gift, and the confidence.



Raidho is the half-month rune through 28 September.  Gebo is the intuitive stave, and Kenaz reversed is the stave indicating the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Raidho, Gebo, then Kenaz reversed.


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 the last week, we’ve been examining travel–literal and metaphoric–how we tell our story with Raidho. Whatever the trip has thrown at us, we’ve internalized that we can’t be thrown off-path. We take what comes in stride, though not necessarily elegantly, and we keep moving down the road.


The nuance to that progression is finding comfort in the tension between the experience we have and what of it we share; between what is our fate and what is our choice. Many of the later runes in the Elder Futhark bring up concerns around orlog and wyrd, natural law and how we deal with it. In the proper ordering of the Futhark, Raidho brings the first point that we realize we have choice and also a deep connection to the Web, All Things, or perhaps a Grand Plan.


Gebo brings certain company to this journey. Last week we entered Mercury retrograde, which gives many a jolt in the munged communications department. Gebo suggests partnership, not just the gift of it or the opportunity for it, but a need for it. In other words, the companionship being offered at this time isn’t an option. Take it. Go into it with eyes on learning, ears on listening, and hearts on growing. Be open to support that comes along, even if its message is garbled. There’s a reason to see through the fog and persist on to the meaning of what’s being offered.


Kenaz reversed, as the rune of the planet’s need, suggests that fog may be more internal than external. This reversal appeared last month, also, and brought a similar message of not overlooking some valuable insight. From Earth’s perspective, Nature doesn’t obscure its wisdom from itself or anyone else. Doing so is purely a human insecurity. Nature doesn’t hold back, and at this time, neither should we. Whatever limitation we perceive, it’s exactly that: just a perception.


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September 2, 2016

Celebrate the Small Things – Gratitude

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


I’m grateful to have insight into pain management, even if it’s not a solid direction.


I’m thankful for a fun soccer weekend, which are three words I never expected to use together.


I’m grateful for proposal updates, even if they burn my brain, and a great agent talk!


I’m thankful for hope.


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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September 1, 2016

Life Betwixt – Planetary Soul Loss

Since my mind-altering  experience in February of this year, when the planetary Watchers told me that we need to be prepared to deathwalk Midgard (Earth) ,



my journeys have strayed far from anything they ever were. They’re no longer fixed on the personal, but on the planet. When I attempt to get info about a personal matter, I get the esoteric equivalent of elevator music. When I work on behalf of a client to get personal info, it’s garbled with their role in the collective–which is not why the client has come to me, and most often isn’t what the client wants to hear.


It’s been evident for some time that as pockets of Land Elders leave, the general hurry up and hold-on vibe perpetuates, deep unrest in the land mounts, and in the upheaval of systems around the world, that we’re living in a time of radical change. It’s become more and more apparent to me that even with those big shifts in mind, we’re not thinking big enough.


Through the Betwixt Series, I’ve made careful journaling of out-loud animism and shamanism. I’ve never been afraid to share my personal experience of how life works in the wild for a modern soul on a shamanic path. Only with this larger, more gut-punching and pervasively impacting info have I hesitated to speak openly. I’m pretty used to being fringe of the fringe, though I’m still not crazy about being, well, crazy, and that’s how some of what I’m seeing in journeys strikes me.


The first prolonged memo I’ve been getting is that all personal agendas are on hold, for now. It isn’t that we can’t accomplish personal goals. Rather, it’s like pushing a boulder uphill. It’s doable, though the elements are not in support of it. People with deeper resources and support will be able to seemingly still perform miracles, though even their miracles will be at a greater cost of energy, money, and collective resources. We will all feel the pinch of putting the collective before the personal. This is the memo for the whole planet.


Image by CarbonNYC at flickr2Over the last six months, when I journey from an open, “Okay, what can I do?” place, I’ve been taken to a strata or dimension where the souls of extinct animals, trees, etc now reside. They are in a space that is almost a replica of Earth, a vantage point from which they are able to see Earth, watch over it, steer how it responds to what’s coming. This is the only place I’ve been granted permission to visit regarding what’s in store for Earth, and it’s invitation-only. I’m only taken there; I can’t go by myself, of my own volition.


I recently wrote about spiritual self-reliance and the need to change it up, so I followed suit by journeying in that vein.  I journeyed to seek a new ritual or way to remain open to what is.


Instantly whisked off to another planet, its spiritual guardian tells me to turn around. I look over my shoulder to see Earth leveled, mostly the northern hemisphere, blown away and left jagged and smoldering. The planet becomes offset and looks dead, but it isn’t. I realize as I grapple with intense shock over this vision that life still persists on Earth, clarifying the memo I was given back in February. It’s unclear if we originate this destruction or it’s the result of a natural disaster. It feels more the latter.


Despite that I do feel life still on Earth, something is missing. Right away I know what it is. The planet experiences soul loss–tremendous soul lossthe way anything does after a trauma. What’s evident in that revelation is we have the drop on it. We know it’s coming, and we can prepare for it. Not avoid, deny, or hope it won’t happen. We don’t attain enlightenment to rise above devastation, but to bear through it. There’s no skipping this process. It’s happening. It’s already begun. So our job is to get ourselves, our lives, and the soul of the planet ready for it.


Souls are made up of infinite aspects that come and go. This unconscious travel is how we expand our consciousness. We do it in dreams, willed soul travel, etheric engagement. It’s when a soul part that needs to return can’t, that problem begin. Usually at the point of trauma is when a soul part is locked out of the earthly awareness, and PTSD-like symptoms manifest. I’ve discussed this dynamic at an individual and collective level in Intentional Insights, several times. However, what’s being described to me from this guardian is something far larger, with far more impact than mere collective or amassed individual soul loss. I suspect it’s occurred before, as Earth has been through many iterations of destruction and creation. And if we dug back far enough, somewhere our shared biology remembers that. The psychological impact of living through something like this, though, we have no vestige of.


Most of the time, we don’t anticipate soul loss. We get no warning of trauma. Sometimes we do, though, as with divorce or surgery. We get time to prepare. We get time to educate ourselves on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual recovery.


That’s where we are, now. That’s all of our job, now. Get ready.


Ultimately, while we may have caused changes that contribute to why this, or why now, it’s not about us. It’s about the soul of the planet. We’re tourists, bystanders (not innocent). We’re symptoms. Our job is to tend Her. To hold Her up and let Her fulfill what She needs as She goes through this shift. The warning serves for us to give our support and hospice care as She readies for this change.


I asked how long we have to until this event in Earth time, and the guardian said, “Two years.” I shuffled uncomfortably around that detail, partly with the ego realizing no personal goals will be satisfactorily met  in that timeframe, and what is satisfactory will be what enables planetary survival.


I was taken to the Goddess, whom I’ve sat with off and on for years. To me, She is a manifestation of the Feminine Divine, which is a delineation only found in the earthly strata. For that reason, it was quite significant that She be the one I saw after receiving this dubious message. When I saw Her, She smiled, though Her usual light and uplifting charisma were absent.


I asked Her if this all was true, and She nodded. I asked Her how I can help Her prepare for this loss, and She told me to tend Her, help Her make the journey that She needed to, back into the ether. She said, “Be present for my fear and suffering. Midwife my transition and healing. Sing me home, when it’s time.” ‘Help her through her own crazy,’ I thought. 


The job description is pretty clear. A huge change for the planet is coming, one so vast it will cleave off part of its body, and part of its soul. We can’t stop it, nor should we try to. We can’t stop the loss of life that will be included in this event. We can create as soothing a space as possible available to us all, in our imaginal space. We can include Her in our daily blessings and prayer, that what great Divine lies above and beyond this planet hold Her in its care.


More actively, we can be that soothing life force as we move through the day-to-day, dealing with each other, witnessing, supporting, and holding compassion for us all. For those who walk light and shadow strata, we can dutiful fulfill the healing work needed. Track the ancestral lines and relieve them, then call on them to stand with us. Deathwalk the departed so they can be healed allies and healthy souls. Live well for ourselves, and be the force to facilitate healing for others. Engage the Nature Spirits. Within their wisdom, ready us all.


I know how it sounds; that’s why I’ve hesitated to talk much about these interactions. The reason that I do, though, is because of how life feels right now.


And I’m not the only one feeling it.


Thank you for the work that you do.


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August 31, 2016

What It Is Wednesday — Dauntlessly Dealt (unplugged) Reality

A weekly dose of dauntlessly dealt reality from the What It Is Wednesday Blog Carnival


I’ve been an IT professional for over 25 years. In that time, the changes brought by technology have been staggering. I truly count myself fortunate to have been on the planet at this time, when humans have so rapidly evolved the tech of how we live at granular levels, when we’ve accomplished so many amazing intellectual advances.


I could expound on the virtues of streaming movies anytime I want them, or the ability to purchase an item from almost anywhere in the world and have it on my doorstep in a relatively short period of time. The most impressive feature I’ve gained from plugged life is the ability to simultaneously create space with people around the world to some intended end. If you haven’t participated in such a mass ritual, it’s stunning.


By the same token, I’m saddened by how we’ve allowed technology to take over our lives. And it’s not a weakness. If you want to be gainfully employed and participating in modern life (which I’m not suggesting is a goal), you have to absorb a certain amount of tech savvy into your life, and foot the bill it requires, economically, personally, educationally, and energetically. However, therein lies the rub. It’s easy to get sucked in by the shiny, colorful kaleidescope of online life.


#whatitiswednesday Unplugged I recall avoiding Facebook like the plague. Then, when I was pregnant I was put on bed rest for seven months. Facebook gave me social interaction when I would have otherwise had none, or very little. On a more practical note, anyone who runs a business of any sort and wants that business to thrive in a larger sphere of influence has and maintains an online presence. From a totally frivolous place, it’s virtually (see what i did, there?) impossible to go into a public space that has no TVs. What is that about?


Such is our now.


Over the last year+, my partner and I have been developing a concept for our local area that would bring tabletop gaming (board games) to a cafe setting. Part of our motivation to do that is to give people an outlet not to be online.  The research we did shows that people are tired of being plugged all the time, and even though being so had advantages, they want options based in actual interaction, engagement with others.


From a spiritual standpoint, I think finding places to unplug isn’t an option. It’s not merely a peaceful alternative to a plugged world. Rather, it’s a requirement. One major drawback from industrialization was the domestication of humanity. We stopped engaging with nature. We came to see it as an enemy that must be tamed, if not destroyed. On the surface, I can see how mass production of food and the creation of transportation systems enabled us to shift our focus away from the business of survival to a more leisurely emphasis of personal enrichment. In doing so, though, we forgot how to hunt. We forgot how to leave a minimal footprint. We stopped caring about leaving a minimal footprint.


Just as industrialization disrupted knowing our place in nature, the deepening roots of technology have left us not knowing how to survive in the human world–the unplugged world. We don’t know how to deal with face-to-face conflict, shared space, basic social graces. We have regressed when it comes to literal interaction with each other.


Don’t get me wrong. I’m as introverted as humans come.  I’ll order pizza online before I’ll pick up a phone, any day. While I’m grateful for that buffer zone after a rough interactive day, working the detachment of plugged life to my advantage isn’t necessarily a good habit to instill.


I have to say, that whatever places technology has touched my life, ultimately my sacred space stays in the rough. I love making ritual items with my own hands. I value my time with trees. I want my hands in the dirt and my eyes on the moon. With any luck, I can do just that and join other folks who value doing the same.


How do you unplug? What are your boundaries around plugged time vs unplugged? How is your spirituality plugged? Unplugged?


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August 29, 2016

The Weekly Rune – Thurisaz

For the week of  28 August 2016

This journey reorients, reunites.



Raidho is the half-month rune through 28 September.  Thurisaz is the intuitive stave, and Othala is the stave indicating the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Raidho, Thurisaz, then Othala.


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.


Over the last couple of weeks, Ansuz suggested that we use our words carefully. It portended the powers of a spell, and imparted insight into how, when, and where to evoke just the rights words for what we want. Followed by Raidho comes the time of putting the foot to the pedal, so to speak, in that now we begin the active part of manifestation.


Raidho is translated as meaning “travel,” as in the act of, movement, getting from Point A to Point B. In modern culture we’re told it’s the journey that matters, not the destination; however, I think Raidho is proof positive that both are equally important. Metaphorically, this stave speaks of seeing the best move and taking it, which is in essence being in flow with All Things. It’s the application of the wisdom earned from the first four First Aett runes (say that three times, fast)–Fehu, Uruz, Thurisaz (natural forces coming into form) + Ansuz (inspired spellsinging), which creates directed motion. With Raidho, we realize our capability of focused life force in balance with the life force of All. When viewed this way, Raidho is about how we tell our story. It’s the trip we took, the experience we had, and how we share that story with the world. It’s how we manifest our ideals, brewed through the intro of the first aett, and create lore for how we move forward.


 


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Thurisaz is the edgy, unknown antagonist of this journey. However, as blunt and hard-hitting as it is, the craving for change that preceded it is what’s familiar. Its reality, though, is it brings wanted change. The lightning strike doesn’t come out of nowhere. What’s significant to heed is detach from it. Approach it symbolically, no matter how in-your-face it seems. Remember the greater story being told, that we each are playing out with Raidho right now, view the change as an expected part of the plot.


In fact, the planetary rune, Othala, indicates we should court the past before we make any moves. Last week, it visited us reversed (merkstave), which hinted that we weren’t taking our Ancestors’ experiences into consideration of how to navigate our own. From a shamanic standpoint, it’s always good policy to include the Ancestors’ wisdom in current affairs. Some might say, in fact, that’s what they’re for. Upright though, this stave urges us to think of what we’re leaving for future generations. It encourages us to think of ourselves as elders, and think before we act, speak, or engage.


Reclaiming the Runes Preview Course, Spirited Paths, by Soul Intent ArtsThis rune more than any other is about remembering the collective, and not just the collective on the planet, now. We are the embodiment of all that came before and all that will come. It’s up to us to move forward in a way that embraces and sustains the integrity of that for ourselves and others.


 


Read the full runecast.


Learn more about the Reclaiming the Runes Intensive and preview course.


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August 26, 2016

Celebrate the Small Things – Gratitude

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


I’m grateful to feel better. Even little colds wipe me out, now

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August 25, 2016

Life Betwixt — Adornment: Body as Altar

A weekly dose of dauntlessly dealt reality from the What It Is Wednesday Blog Carnival

For most fetishists, it’s not untoward to suggest the body is an altar. In animism and shamanism, fetishism means holding sacred items that symbolize relationship to an spirit ally. They could also mean relationship to the item, itself. One of the first things I suggest to all clients, students, and Initiates is to come into relationship with spirit guides, totems, Nature Spirits, Home Spirits, you name it. It’s all there to tap into and engage, and it’s the first step in an animistic life. Well, okay, maybe second, after the realization that everything is alive…


Most often this engagement through form happens on an altar, prayer mat, or shrine–a place where fetish items are sacred and set apart from the stuff of everyday. However, our most direct point of empowerment is our person; meaning, when we adorn our body with those sacred items, fetishism takes on entirely other proportions.


Having sacred items in our familiar serves many purposes. Their presence offers us a point of empowered focus during the monotony of the day. We can by looking at them experience somatic recall of working with that being, and in doing so, embody the power of unifying with it. Keeping them near us enables the relationship with the spirit being to become stronger. In doing so, our ability to reciprocate in that relationship becomes more automatic, more unconscious.


As we approach that liminal boundary, we become capable of shapeshifting more readily with these spirit allies. As far back into human history as it’s possible to trace, we have evidence of our species donning the guise of others. By that I don’t just mean wearing furs and skins for physical protection and warmth, but the teeth, the bones, the shells, the bark, the feathers–for sacred decoration. At this point in fetishism, we branch from animism into shamanism–a more personal and direct experience with the aliveness of all things.


Shapeshifting is the ability to merge consciousness with another being, and perhaps in some guise, to find common cellular relationship. What occurs during shapeshifting is one of the deepest synergies of connected formed reality, which transcends language, biology, personality, ego, sense of space and time.


Through shared physicality we have the opportunity to bridge anything, and that’s what makes adornment of spirit allies so powerful.


We become something more, merged. Our capacity to express and observe expands exponentially, which is the crux of shamanism as a life path. It is the recognition of All Things separate, united, embodied. This way of carrying self as the embodiment of path is truly walking with a foot in both worlds.


Body as altar can be as simple of clothing worn, choice of fabric, skins, furs, metals, feathers. Through color, the sound of tinkling jewelry, scents worn, the adornment of plant spirits via makeup and body paint–all of these invoke us to be more present in ourselves, as well as can serve to invoke the spirit of the adornment, through us. Permanent body modification such as scarring, ink, burning, or implanting bone, gems, or other material may be done as methods of invocation of, or ways to honor the spirits of those adornments, the allies they represent, through sacred pain and/or marking the body.


However you express the sacred of your path through adornment, embrace not only what the attribute brings you, but the process of its creation. Just as we create space for the sacred in our lives, so must we engage it in our cells. So must we be it throughout who we are.


 


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August 24, 2016

What It Is Wednesday — Dauntlessly Dealt (feminist health) Reality

A weekly dose of dauntlessly dealt reality from the What It Is Wednesday Blog Carnival



Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), also referred to as myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) or ME/CFS, is a complex, chronic illness that affects about 1 million Americans. Women are two to four times more likely than men to be diagnosed with ME/CFS.[1]


 


When the first thought came to me, “Women’s chronic fatigue/pain is a feminist issue,” I rejected it outright. Things happen. Life happens. We don’t know we’re going to be set upon with an autoimmune disease, or trauma, or whatnot. Pshaw. State of health is a result of chance and circumstance, genetics, kinda sorta. But it’s got nothing to do with feminism.


As most of you know, I’ve managed chronic health issues for over 16 years. A good bit of that time I lived in a bubble, thinking it was just me, an unfortunate turn of things. Then I began stringing together seemingly unrelated correlations to fatigue that at some point or still pertain to my experience, such as, “Women [who] faced three types of childhood adversity had a sixty percent greater risk of being hospitalized with an autoimmune disease as an adult,” [2] and, “In 2015, female full-time workers [make] only 79 cents for every dollar earned by men, a gender wage gap of 21 percent,” [3] or, that women are charged higher medical insurance premiums than men, [4] and that divorced women are twice as likely as married women to have no health insurance. [5]


Then I thought about how we really do have to work harder to almost make the dollar amount that men do: tired


We have less health coverage than men have: tired


What health coverage we do have is more expensive than it is for men: tired [6]


We are more likely to miss work/have to use paid time off to care for kids/take them to the doctor: tired [7]


We are stressed just by leaving the house because rape culture: exhausted [8]


We are more likely to be single parents: tired [9]


We are more likely to be victims of sexual or physical assault: fried [10]


Truly, these are just off the top of my head, without actually digging into the wider picture: sick



Nobody has that many spoons.


Yet we function through it, everyday.


Women are more likely to encounter abuse, working harder, for less income, to pay more for healthcare that has less coverage, heading more single-parent households than men, losing more PTO than men for childcare, fielding rape culture every time they step in public or read the news.  Absolutely that ongoing stress takes a toll that results in chronic health conditions. How can it not?


Maybe philosophically fatigue isn’t a feminist issue. The systemic biases that don’t support women are, however, and these biases play a direct role in the energy expenditure women give on a daily basis. That lack of systemic support that makes it a feminist issue. Possibly the most difficult part of that fact to process is the only people who are likely to change it are the ones who are already overworked, exhausted, and trying to figure out how they’re going to get through the day, let alone change an institutionalized paradigm that works against their base health.


How does fatigue impact your perspective of feminism? Where is the lack of systemic support evident in your life?


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August 22, 2016

The Weekly Rune – Laguz

For the week of  21 August 2016

Listen, flow, say the sages.



Ansuz is the half-month rune through 29 August.  Laguz is the intuitive stave, and Othala reversed is the stave indicating the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Ansuz, Laguz, then Othala reversed.


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.


Last week, we used our words carefully. The powers of a spell, Ansuz has, and knowing how, when, and where to evoke just the rights words for what we want is key to its magick.


To learn more about Ansuz, read the full runecast. What you read on Intentional Insights is merely the highlights. Have the full cast delivered to you first, four times a month, for as little as $5!


LReclaiming the Runes Preview Course, Spirited Paths, by Soul Intent Artsaguz, upright, is a particularly busy element. Representing water, it gives us the image of water flowing within its banks. We have movement, a somewhat controlled setting, and elemental support for those things to sustain.


Othala reversed sheds a great deal of light on what’s needed, at this time. Sounding the planet’s voice of wisdom, this stave reminds us not to forget the hard work and insight of those who went before us. All-focused on ancestry, in the merkstave position, it nudges us to actually engage the ancestors in our present. They took to their graves wisdom we have no idea about, and that’s the bit of info needed to really put the formula of spell work right.


Such is what we need, what the ancestors need, the dynamic, the planet. When we approach our own spell working, truth-speaking, with forward and hind wisdom, we give it greater opportunity to flow, to go out into the world and do its best–for us all.


Read the full runecast.


Learn more about the Reclaiming the Runes Intensive and preview course.


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August 19, 2016

Celebrate the Small Things – Gratitude

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


I’m grateful to have only gone through one round of antibiotics, this time.


I’m grateful for finishing a new piece of art.


I’m thankful for all the support and advocacy we’ve gotten at our announcement of creating Clever Play Cafe, a board game cafe, in Raleigh, NC!


I’m grateful for my family.


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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