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The Weekly Rune – Ehwaz Reversed

For the week of  3 July 2016

Restrained change interferes with divinity.

Fehu is the half-month rune through 14 July.  Ehwaz reversed is the intuitive stave, and Sowilo/Sowilu is the stave indicating the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Fehu, Ehwaz reversed, followed by Sowilo.

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.

We’ve enjoyed a productive time with Fehu, which reminds us what can be accomplished. Heralding the opportunity to tend our wealth spiritually and literally to our advantage is a boon of the season. By design, now is the time of building, action, and earthy engagement.

Given the plentiful nature of the week, it’s a good time to extend self and put creative energy to work for successful outcome. While the other runes in the cast express some hesitation, they in no way hamper the potential available through mid-month.

To learn more about Fehu, read the full runecast. Have it delivered to you first, four times a month, for as little as $5!

Ehwaz tells us that change is coming, particularly of a deep, primal nature. Ehwaz reversed, however, suggests that change is conscious, yet being withheld. The challenge of this reversed rune is to stay tuned to the rumbling change, and become aware of how to manifest it. Luckily, Sowilu sheds insight.

Stating the planet’s need, Sowilu means ‘sun.’ It brings with it all association of things bright and bold, powerful and available. The latter of these carries the most emphasis. To Earth, the sun is vital and thus far, never-ending. Everything on Earth depends on the sun. We depend on it, too. When we look at the sun, we are reminded of its necessity, it’s power, and the power that lies beyond it.

This week’s memo from Earth reminds us to stay aware of the connection of All Things, not just intellectually, but in how we live. Every time we look at the sun, let it be a reminder of the complex relationships that hold it all together, and that we are part of that. We play an important role in how it all goes on and survives us.

Such tenacity is the force that allows us to transmute the hesitation of Ehwaz reversed into the forthright and powerful action Fehu demands. When we remember our place in All Things, we remember our divinity. When we remember our divinity we shine.

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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 interview on Why Shamanism Now, with Christina Pratt.

I’m grateful for another year around the sun. To that end, I’m grateful for the guides, friends, and loved ones who have helped me grow this year, who have listened, given, prayed, and loved. It matters.

I’m thrilled that my new book is out–Life Betwixt – Essays on Animism in the Everyday and Shamanism Among. I intended to release at the end of last year, though health and life just didn’t commiserate. Check it out!

Along the same line, I’m grateful that Mars has turned direct. The last few months retrograde have brought the most intensely sweeping change I’ve had in two decades or more.

I’m grateful for finding some creative spirit amidst a really hard time.

I’m grateful for devious plans and the loads of support they’re getting from friends and loved ones.

I’m happy to welcome newcomers to the really real blog carnival– What It Is Wednesday.

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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What It Is Wednesday — Dauntlessly Dealt (Healing) Reality

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

Healing comes in odd ways. If there’s anything I can say I’ve devoted my life to, it’s healing myself and facilitating others to do the same. Due to whatever stellar alignment or cellular disposition, it’s what I’m most passionate about, and has been the most powerful bonding point between myself and other humans.

Years ago when I had my first internship, my supervisor told me something that stayed with me, since. He told me that assuming we get to live into elderhood, we all experience three radical life changes. Why in the world would the director of a state agency share that with peon me? That fact in itself is telling that, I, for whatever reason attract people who want to share themselves in a deeply authentic way, and who are also on paths of reclaiming self. I’ve also always recognized wisdom when I hear it, and I clutched that baby like it was gold.

I thought in his more mainstream way maybe he was referring to the three Saturn returns we all get if we’re lucky, or the stages of Maid-Mother-Crone. I knew what he was talking about, though I wasn’t old enough to have had a Saturn return, and I’d always felt like I skipped straight to Crone. I knew what he was talking about, because by the time I met him at 19, I’d already figured out that I was in serious trouble psychologically and emotionally, and as a result had already lived through one radical self change. That change was when I decided to stop seeing myself as a survivor and to begin seeing myself as a thriver.

That single, catchy pitch changed my life, at that young age. It took relentless mindfulness and willful honesty I’d never even imagined I was capable of. And it hurt. As a result of that experience, I went forward wondering what my second radical life change would be.

A lot of things that hurt over the years changed me. Many things about my life changed. With each one I’d whisper to my heart, “Was that the second one?” It never was.

Last year I went back into therapy for the first time since I was 23. I’d reached the point that my bill of soul was coming back clean and all needs pointed to developing deeper mindfulness. With that work, realizations came quickly that connected current limitations back to childhood patterning, things I would never have dreamed were related, or knew plain as day, though couldn’t reboot on my own. As I unraveled those murky synapses, I began making different choices in the present. Some of them generated upheaval literally, all of them, energetically. Along with the change I could affect myself, I asked for dramatic life change, with specificity.

In the last few hours of the most recent upheaval I realize myself as the agent of its change, and in so much can form the habit of seeing the adventure in the chaos, the passion, the learning. It is, has been, and will be chaotic for a while longer. I realize that’s the grist of change, and this time, I won’t forget its creation process. Neither will I forget what it feels like to be fully alive, nor will I forget the process that brought it.

If it’s not path, it doesn’t pass, period.

This time when I whisper that perilous question to my heart, it answers, “Yes.”

What does yours say?

If You Want to Be Real on your blog, visit the inaugural page —http://www.soulintentarts.com/what-it-is-wednesday/  and follow the instructions there to share your reality!

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The Weekly Rune – Othala

For the week of  26 June 2016

Valuing the tribe’s needs…

Dagaz is the half-month rune through 29 June, at which point Fehu moves to the fore.  Othala remains the intuitive stave, and Raidho is the stave indicating the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Dagaz above, Othala below, followed by Othala, then Raidho.

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.

The one-month Reclaiming the Runes preview course starts 1 July. This course offers a survey of Old Norse history and cosmology, how these pertain to the runes, then segués into the initial staves of the first aett. Modern concepts on the staves have distilled them to scratches in wood or stone and one-word meanings, omitting their rich cultural backdrop and archetypal narrative. Reclaiming the Runes preview course sets the pace for the full Intensive, to learn their story in as full a context as possible, and instructs on how to work with them as a personal tool for growth, and a facilitator of gaining insight for others. If you like the preview and want to continue from there, you can enroll in the Intensive and completely reclaim the runes your way!

Our time with Dagaz and the Summer Solstice was pretty intense, which is an understatement. However it’s manifest, the need for significant sacrifice and clarity on what reward could come of it was made evident over the last couple of weeks. Moving from the spotlight of Dagaz to the grounded care of Fehu for the half-month brings closure and support to what has been a transformational time. Most certainly, shifting from Dagaz to Fehu redirects the focus to more everyday needs and tasks.

 

As we move from the intensity of Dagaz into the earthy groundedness of Fehu, consider how we create ourselves. Examine how we use our resources to enable life as we know it, and create the possibility to change it.

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Curious that Othala is the rune of the human plight to weeks in a row, though more so that it intuitively situated itself alongside Fehu and Dagaz, futhark order be damned. This nudge to consider how ancestral healing factors into a radical personal shift and prospering true self henceforth is anything but subtle.

Othala always appears when the ancestral line needs attention. Whether it’s healing given in the rearview to needy ancestors or blessings carried forward for future seekers, the emphasis is to realize how important the present is. Choices made now need to include the tribe. There remains a need to heal reluctant ancestors and bring the ones who stayed behind to guide into daily ceremony. It’s time to become an elder and represent the family line in the way it currently demands.

It feels right that Raidho speaks for the planet, by reminding us to pay attention to how we tell our story. A rune of motion, through it Midgard challenges us to get up and get moving, travel and gain experience. Put newly gained wisdom to the test, and offer it to those who need it. How we share ourselves with the world determines what it shares with us.

Raidho suggests that to tell our real tale, we have to get out in the world and listen. To really tend that wealth, to represent for the tribe, we have to make something happen. There must be movement, engagement.

Let’s go!

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

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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 good times discussing the runes with Sarenth and James on The Jaguar and the Owl.

I’m grateful for Ibuprofen.

I’m grateful for my cousin’s improved health.

I’m grateful that I knew Buddy Becton and Marian Starnes.

I’m happy to welcome newcomers to the really real blog carnival– What It Is Wednesday.

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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What It Is Wednesday — Dauntlessly Dealt (Empathy) Reality

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

Everyone always assumes that all intuitives are empaths, or at least they never question that there’s a difference between intuitives and empaths. Intuitives have the ability to know things through other channels than the five senses. Empaths feel other peoples’ feelings, or have the ability to imagine another person’s feelings. Intuitives can read an oracle to pull together insights about a life dynamic, while an empath feels how you feel about that dynamic. Some empaths are intuitives and vice versa, though each slice of awareness can exist without the other. IMO, ideally someone working professionally as an intuitive is both.

Why does it matter? I’m glad you asked.

A few months back, I spontaneously worked with an intuitive, which wasn’t the smartest thing I’ve ever done.   To set the stage for this session, I held an intention in mind without speaking it aloud, and the intuitive drew cards based on that unspoken intention. There was no discussion about where I was in life, what needs I had, how I felt… We just dove right in. The results were very harsh insights, delivered to me without so much as batting an eye. The result left me feeling extremely uprooted and unnecessarily challenged. I’m down for hearing how it is–or I wouldn’t have engaged the lady to start with. However, the manner in which she delivered her message is what I found problematic.

Don’t misunderstand. When I do divination for someone, I don’t sugar coat the hard-to-speak truths, though I always take the time to do an intake interview and figure out where s/he is in life, what s/he really wants to get out of the session. I don’t censor the information, though understanding more about the person helps me deliver it in a way that s/he can hear it in a way that is relatable and inspires confidence. I make sure that I have a means of helping the client process that information and have an action plan in place for how to proceed in live, after. That set up  is exactly why I stopped focusing on single sessions and more on mentoring in my shamanic work. I have no interest in stirring up clients, just to turn them loose in their lives more stressed out than they arrived on my doorstep.

No such preparation or afterthought was given to me in this session. I walked away from it reeling and entirely aware that this intuitive had no idea who was sitting in the chair across from her, how she’d walked through my being and intentionally plowed through. She didn’t take the time to. Moreover, her attitude during the session was like she was doing me a favor.

I understand that despite the shaking off of the sketchiness that the Psychic Friends left on the profession of divination well into the mid-nineties, it’s not a profession driven to provide care. By  and large, intuitives just relay intel from other layers of being, and they have no desire to do more than that. To me, that’s the difference between someone who is an intuitive and someone who is a shaman. A shaman doesn’t just divine Otherly info;  s/he also helps the client to process that info and find a workable means of integrating that insight into everyday life, immediately and ongoing. Part of the ability to do that well employs empathy, or having learned to thrive beyond the wound. This added layer of awareness and care stems from the discipline and commitment of the wounded healer.

This experience reiterated that most intuitive practitioners of any modality have no formal training in counseling, let alone ethics. Given that, there’s no assumed boundary or professional discipline pointing to such. Even many modern shamans can’t provide this extension in their services. Part of my Masters included specific training in both counseling and ethics, and I wish other intuitive professionals would seek out such training. I’ve witnessed time and again intuitives who tactlessly deliver sensitive insights blunted only with ego.

This interaction was a great reminder why I don’t allow just anyone to do intuitive work on me, why I don’t accept or do divination (or healing work) on-the-fly, and why I won’t do any of the above again. It also underscored the reasons for why I work with others over time and not just in isolated sessions.

What about you? Have you ever worked with someone who dealt you more than you asked for, then left the mess in your lap to sort out? How did you handle it? How did it change how you seek out intuitive work, after?

If You Want to Be Real on your blog, visit the inaugural page —http://www.soulintentarts.com/what-it-is-wednesday/  and follow the instructions there to share your reality!

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The Weekly Rune – Othala

For the week of  19 June 2016

Life after initiation, this week.

Dagaz is the half-month rune through 29 June. Othala is the intuitive stave, and Hagalaz is the stave indicating the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Dagaz, Othala, then Hagalaz.

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.

The one-month Reclaiming the Runes preview course starts 1 July. This course offers a survey of Old Norse history and cosmology, how these pertain to the runes, then segués into the initial staves of the first aett. Modern concepts on the staves have distilled them to scratches in wood or stone and one-word meanings, omitting their rich cultural backdrop and archetypal narrative. Reclaiming the Runes preview course sets the pace for the full Intensive, to learn their story in as full a context as possible, and instructs on how to work with them as a personal tool for growth, and a facilitator of gaining insight for others. If you like the preview and want to continue from there, you can enroll in the Intensive and completely reclaim the runes your way!

Last week’s runecast landed hard and likely scattered heavy debris that we will still be sorting out this week. The Summer Solstice coupled with Saturn retrograde intensifies this natural time of initiation. Particularly in conjunction with Hagalaz, we’ve got some serious personal empowerment on the horizon.

Last week we discussed the intensity of Dagaz and Summer Solstice as opening a sacred portal of initiation. For those on EST time, that portal opens at 6:34pm, today. Our friends in the southern hemisphere honor Winter Solstice, today.

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Whatever has held your attention and distracted from mundane tasks of late will have reached critical mass by Solstice. However, it’s the perfect time to bring closure to the waves it created. Dagaz, Summer Solstice, is a natural time of initiation. Left unattended, its stress only grows. Use the reprieve of light and shadow inherent in this solstice to zip up the issues and to heal the wounds of the last week.

We tend to emphasize the light of Summer Solstice, yet the light is only defined by its shadow. Take this time to honor all of self. Give all of self voice, as well as compassion, particularly for the things we likely don’t want to hear.

To learn more about Dagaz and Summer Solstice, read the full runecast. Have it delivered to you first, four times a month, for as little as $5!

Othala as the rune indicating the life force available to humanity indicates that the ancestors are waiting. Perhaps in the suspended moments of solstice is where they can be found. It is right at this time to include them in the healing and closure, as well as envision self as strong, capable, and willing to go forward. Ultimately, Othala reminds us that we aren’t alone, whether looking back at lineage or forward at legacy. It also fosters in us the drive for direct relationship, active participation in the world around us.

Symbolizing the planet’s needs is Hagalaz. This rune demonstrates controlled crisis, over which we will triumph. That’s nice to know, though crisis is still crisis. We grow through it only when we realize our strength and value our skills. Regarding the planet, we all have much to learn in honoring what she brings, and the crises we face in her unrest. Ecopsychology teaches that what dynamics play out in Nature play out, also, in us. It is our responsibility to observe and provide for the needs of Nature. It’s the only way she can provide for ours.

Therein lies the crisis. Our actions impact her, who sustains us.

Therein lies the control.

Read the full runecast.

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

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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 fabulous game of Alchemists! It’s not a game people often want to play, and I love it!

I’m grateful for pain relief.

I’m grateful for the support and blessings from everyone this week, as it’s been a ridiculously challenging time.

I’m happy to welcome newcomers to the really real blog carnival– What It Is Wednesday.

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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What It Is Wednesday — Dauntlessly Dealt (Hate) Reality

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

In the last week media coverage has seized upon the Standford rape case, the culprit’s father’s reaction to his sentencing, and the Orlando shooting. In the reporting of each of these stories media radically biased the shit out of the reporting, because for some reason, the events, themselves, weren’t awful enough. I like to think that we know what hate is, and that when we see it manifest in violence, we all stand united on the basis that it’s wrong and in compassion for those personally affected by it. The sad reality is I’m wrong.

There’s a lot of deliberation these days about whether hate is a mental illness, if we can chalk up someone’s hatred of a person or group to something gone wrong in the psyche. I’m not the person to gauge that, though I do see hate as layers of many experiences twisted by passionate direct revelation. I’ve long studied the Jungian journey of the hero, which in essence is the path of initiation. This path begins with the revelation of a dynamic that has become problematic and can’t stay the same for the individual to feel well. So begins the methodical stripping of  the familiar, inlaid with crisis and elements of aid that generate a radically changed perception of self and the initial dynamic, which result in victorious mastery of the crisis and creation of a new norm.

In the shamanic perspective of this progression, the result is also acclaimed by a community, which then views the individual as triumphant, a hero, and/or wise in the life areas impacted by the journey. The process has shaped the individual as fit to be a leader. This entire process can be summed up in the animistic viewpoint as coming into direct revelation with the initial dynamic. The projected sociopsychological wrappings of the dynamic were stripped away, so that direct contact and interaction could shape passionate personal perspective. In short, initiation is a mystical experience of compounded passion and inspiration. It’s heady stuff. When we talk about the path of initiation, we assume it’s for positive outcome, for growth. Those things, of course, are all in the eye of the beholder.

I lay this process out carefully, because none of us are born hating. We learn to hate. Whether we’re discussing an individual electing to rape someone, or a group or individual carrying out a terrorist act, pre-dating that conclusion was an initiation that ignited passion to carry out the act. This is the truth of hate crimes that I have only recently begun to understand. Standing on the sideline and stating how horrible something is doesn’t account for the perps who didn’t who didn’t think it was horrible, or other onlookers who don’t think it was.

In understanding why a person carries out a hate crime, it isn’t about why they hate, so much as understanding what twisted inside them during that passionate initiation to result in a drive to harm.  And we can never understand that.

We are being confronted with this reality all too often. My only recourse for it is to be informed, to speak out, and to act on behalf of those most often targeted with hate.

And to not hate back.

What about you?

If You Want to Be Real on your blog, visit the inaugural page —http://www.soulintentarts.com/what-it-is-wednesday/  and follow the instructions there to share your reality!

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The Weekly Rune – Ansuz Reversed

For the week of  12 June 2016

A time of extremes is upon us.

Othala is the half-month rune through 14 June, at which point Dagaz is at the fore. Ansuz reversed is the intuitive stave, and Wunjo is the stave indicating the planet’s needs. Read right to left is Othala above, Dagaz below, Ansuz reversed, then Wunjo.

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.

The one-month Reclaiming the Runes preview course starts 1 July. This course offers a survey of Old Norse history and cosmology, how these pertain to the runes, then segués into the initial staves of the first aett. Modern concepts on the staves have distilled them to scratches in wood or stone and one-word meanings, omitting their rich cultural backdrop and archetypal narrative. Reclaiming the Runes preview course sets the pace for the full Intensive, to learn their story in as full a context as possible, and instructs on how to work with them as a personal tool for growth, and a facilitator of gaining insight for others. If you like the preview and want to continue from there, you can enroll in the Intensive and completely reclaim the runes your way!

A great deal of emphasis has been placed on balancing internal and external change, as the sun move closer to Summer Solstice. Poised alongside the other runes, the intuitive rune this week, Ansuz reversed, speaks volumes.

Last week we discussed Othala’s emphasis on knowing the legacy we’re leaving behind. With only a couple of days left in Othala, we carry our understanding of that legacy into Dagaz, which despite being known as a marker of time, brings about intense change.

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Initiation is ultimately what Dagaz brings. At its heart is an opportunity to stand center of ourselves and All Things, and drawn down the Ancestors we’ve been working with, the wisdom of the work of this last sun’s time, and mine from it what gives our lives meaning. Dagaz is heavy stuff, and this week, it’s framed in challenging company.

To learn more about Dagaz and Summer Solstice, read the full runecast. Have it delivered to you first, four times a month, for as little as $5!

Ansuz reversed hasn’t visited since last fall. In this position, it indicates a time when dynamics around us aren’t what we think they are. We are intentionally misleading ourselves, or someone around us is doing so. It may be that we know well what our truth is, though we can’t discern it amidst some other drama that’s playing out.

Luckily, that’s where Wunjo comes in. In the position of the planet’s needs this week, we are asked to locate joy within ourselves. We’re asked to give joy as the highest offering we can make to Earth. A lot of us couldn’t fake joy if we had to. However, even when we’re in the throes of our own drama, we can feel someone else’s. We can recognize it in others, and in so doing, make a faint connection to some memory of our own.

Given the intensity of the other runes this week, it may not be as easy to feel joy, as it is in lighter times. However, take heart in Nature. Look to the blessings of this season, how Earth, herself, shines joy upon us, needs joy, and in that recognition, let the memory of our own be ignited. If possible, be lit with the brightness of this time, and let its brilliance show the way into next week’s initiation.

Read the full runecast.

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

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