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The Weekly Rune – Tiwaz

For the week of  22 May 2016

This week, dynamic use of resources goes a long way.

Ingwaz (or Inguz) is the half-month rune through 29 May. Gebo is the stave indicating the planet’s needs, and Tiwaz is the intuitive stave. Read right to left is Ingwaz, Gebo, then Tiwaz.

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

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.

My year-long Intensive Reclaiming the Runes – Putting the ‘Elder’ Back in Futhark is now available! This Intensive is focused on teaching the story  of the runes in as full an Old Norse context as possible, and instructing on how to work with them as a personal tool for growth, and a facilitator of gaining insight for others. If you’re not ready to commit to a full year, check out the one-month preview course starting 1 July, and see if it’s right for you!

The beginning of the year saw some adversity with  the runes, particularly indicating a great deal of external change, then later internal adjustment. Ingwaz represents the sacred seed manifest, though Gebo and Tiwaz bring differing ways the seed’s energy can be expressed.

Last week we talked about our time with Ingwaz as characterized by the sacred seed. It is a time of realizing certain work has come to fruition, regarding tapping into the core off what’s needed, who we are, how we can be of services, etc, and living it. It’s worth mentioning, also, a couple of ways to regard Ingwaz are influenced by the different futharks.

 

The elements are in alignment for us to connect with spirit allies of the highest order, and allow the highest, best aspects of ourselves act in collusion with them. What can come of work done at this time will be of the most beneficial to us, particularly as we draw closer to the close of the sun’s year-end.

To learn more about Ingwaz in the Elder Futhark and Anglo-Saxon runes, read the full runecast. Have it delivered to you first, four times a month, for as little as $5!

It’s wonderful, given the Ango-Saxon depiction of Ingwaz, that Gebo is the rune indicating the planet’s needs at this time. For the last three weeks, Gebo has come in either as indicating the planet’s needs, or as what life force is available to humans. To me that emphasis speaks of great power in partnership, in sacrifice, and in basic pleasantries amongst ourselves. Where that feeds the planet is asking what each of us can do. Take time this week to ask the planet what need [you] can meet. Be honest about aspects of personal life that must be re-arranged to do so. Gebo is the gift that is a sacrifice. It demands nothing in return.

Tiwaz in the place of life force most available to humans is telling, given the framing of Gebo. Indeed, Gebo (stacked Ingwaz) is about sacrifice. In the story of Tiwaz, what was sacrificed was Tuisto’s people. However, what was gained from that sacrifice was new life–life as we know it. Tiwaz is a survivor rube. It doesn’t play in doling grief or triumph, both of which come with an emotional toll. The fact that with Tiwaz they come at once isn’t coincidental. The tenderness of Gebo can blunt this process. Let it.

This placement of Tiwaz suggests sacrifice that has already been made, and coming to terms with how that change is currently rippling through life. Remember, even changes that bring us more deeply in to courage and authenticity disrupt stagnancy. Remember as those peaks and valleys are navigated, doing so is for a good cause.

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 fun time away with my family.

I’m grateful for fabulous classes exploring the death realms with Initiates in The Spirited Path.

I’m looking forward to sharing and reading weekly doses of reality on the hop What It Is Wednesday A girl’s gotta keep it between the lines somehow.

I’m grateful that I can learn.

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 following the link and adding your name to the Linky list, then post your gratitude every Friday.  Easiest blog hop ever!

Email laura.6eg(at)gmail.com to request to hop on, and thanks for coming with me on this journey of self-empowerment and collective awareness.

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What It Is Wednesday — Dauntlessly Dealt Reality

A weekly dose of dauntlessly dealt reality…

I’m always searching for meaningful memes, because we’re trapped in communicating in bitty bytes, yes? The modern challenge is to communicate much with significantly less. I’m lucky to have found the Celebrate the Small Things – a weekly gratitude blog hop with Lexa Cain, years ago. It’s sustains and attracts interesting people, and it isn’t fluffy, sunshine-up-your-ass sweet. It shares simple expressions of everyday gratitude, from people who work hard to remember thankfulness amidst the good, the bad, and whatever else comes along.

There aren’t many other such ongoing hops or memes related to dealing with reality on its own terms, so… I’m creating one. I’m old school Internet. I’m talking command line and the original Live Journal–which I miss to this day. I miss the candor that online journalistic composition provided, and I’d like to reproduce that large, and dauntlessly focused on living in reality. What reality? Whichever one is most pressing at the time. This weekly poke with the reality stick may consist of just me, though if you want to participate, you can find the info below. If you’re looking for a regular prompt to blog, to greet catharsis, to wax worldly, you’re welcome to join me on this exploration of What It Is. For now, the list is open to add yourself.

This Week’s Dauntless Reality

I’m not an optimist, though when I say that people assume I’m a pessimist. For the leventy-seventh time, I’m a realist, dauntless and shameless. I never know what reality I’m going to be in, but know for sure, I’m in it. And frankly, Wednesday can use some love. Hump Day just doesn’t do the middle sister justice, and Valley Day is too grim for comment. But reality, What It Is–the sweetspot between–will do just fine.

This week my dose of reality is fear of success. It always sounds intellectual and and appropriately self-help nuanced. In reality, it’s consciousness-changing and nightmare-inducing. For real. Daunting. But when my kids start to notice the toll the fear of not changing is taking, it’s time to act on that shit. The hardest part of facing the fear of success is realizing I’m the only one feeding it. Voices from my past influenced that fear, though now, it’s all me.

Learn. Network. Connect. Reach out. Easily suggested by anyone who’s not INFP. Yet, it’s become the law. In order to evoke change, I have to change myself, first. I am my success, and what comes of that startling revelation has to be better than fear. My reality of late has been taking classes in totally new territory, and opening avenues of life change I never expected to darken. Scary shit. Seeing it for what it is and still pursuing it–Step One in success.

That’s the reality that’s on my plate. What’s on yours? Do you fear success?

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The Weekly Rune – Ansuz

For the week of  15 May 2016

Keen specificity is called for this week.

Ingwaz (or Inguz) is the half-month rune through 29 May. Mannaz is the stave indicating the planet’s needs, and Ansuz is the intuitive stave. Read right to left is Ingwaz, Mannaz, then Ansuz.

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

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.

My year-long Intensive Reclaiming the Runes – Putting the ‘Elder’ Back in Futhark is now available! This Intensive is focused on teaching the story  of the runes in as full an Old Norse context as possible, and instructing on how to work with them as a personal tool for growth, and a facilitator of gaining insight for others. If you’re not ready to commit to a full year, check out the one-month preview course starting 1 July, and see if it’s right for you!

The beginning of the year saw some adversity with  the runes, particularly indicating a great deal of external change, then later internal adjustment. Ingwaz represents the sacred seed manifest, though Mannaz and Ansuz bring quite granular demands in living the results of that.

We enter our time with Ingwaz with a precious yet hard-won gift. Ingwaz is the sacred seed, which I think of as the infinite essence of something, in the palm of our hand. That sounds wonderful and powerful, yet fantastic things can hurt badly if not tempered with wisdom and common sense. The story of what Ingwaz is and can become has been shaped by our recent experiences with Isa and Mannaz.

Think back to our time with Isa, which would have been the end of last year, specifically mid-November through mid-December. What began then as an idea or newly turned dynamic at that time–a potential–is coming or has come to fruition now. Look again to what life was serving during Mannaz, which was mid to late April. What began with Isa took a significant turn in our favor or control during Mannaz. We came into resources or support that wasn’t available, prior.

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

Funny that given the role it plays in the manifestation of Ingwaz, Mannaz is the planet’s need. This tells me that while we have come through our own personal rebirth, the planet is still in that process. As we needed to call in tribe and new resources to support us during the visit of Mannaz as the half-month rune last month, we now need to consider what we can offer the planet as its community.

This week, consider how to give to what the planet needs, without projecting into or trying to know what that is.

Ansuz as the intuitive stave indicates particular need to speak personal truth, this week. We’re coming round the peak of Mercury retrograde, along with a collection of other masculine-dominant planetary rumblings. It’s okay to feel the pinch of those, and still maintain personal power. It can be done, and one way to do that is to make sure that what’s spoken, written, or otherwise put forward into being is what’s truly meant, intended, and desired.

While Ansuz fosters that we speak our truth, it also portends a climate in which that truth can be better heard. Take time this week to think about what’s come full circle with Ingwaz, how we create tribe for the planet to anchor that sacred seed, and how we create the space in which it prospers with our words.

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 giggly children, the end of soccer season 1, and rosy cheeks.

I’m grateful for the most complimentary manuscript rejection a girl could get.

I’m grateful for slow, steady empowerment.

I’m grateful for an agile mind, an open heart, and the will to start all over again.

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 following the link and adding your name to the Linky list, then post your gratitude every Friday.  Easiest blog hop ever!

Click here to hop on, and thanks for coming with me on this journey of self-empowerment and collective awareness.

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The Weekly Rune – Gebo

For the week of  7 May 2016

In which we are All Things.

Laguz is the half-month rune through 14 May. Nauthiz is the stave indicating the planet’s needs, and Gebo is the intuitive stave. Read right to left is Laguz, Nauthiz, then Gebo.

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

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.

My year-long Intensive Reclaiming the Runes – Putting the ‘Elder’ Back in Futhark is now available! This Intensive is focused on teaching the story  of the runes in as full an Old Norse context as possible, and instructing on how to work with them as a personal tool for growth, and a facilitator of gaining insight for others. If you’re not ready to commit to a full year, check out the one-month preview course starting 1 July, and see if it’s right for you!

Over the last few weeks,  the runes have mapped the rocky terrain of personal change. Laguz continues to facilitate us through those jagged edges and into a space that we can better be carried by resources available to us. The repetition of Gebo last week and this week brings a new take on an otherwise awkwardly placed Nauthiz.

Entering this second week with Laguz, bring the focus back to what feels right in life and what doesn’t. Should autopilot drift in, turn it off, and re-engage. Begin again. The thing is, we know what feels right and what doesn’t. The deeper challenge is to stay in that awareness. It’s much easier to just shrug it all off and not notice, because once noticed discomfort must be dealt with. Laguz in its natural seasonal placement is here to help do just that. Make wise use of it this week.

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

Nauthiz in the position of the planet’s needs displays tension. If there’s one thing I wish to convey through my work with our transitioning planet right now, it’s that if Mama’s restless, everyone’s restless. And best I can tell, everyone I’ve come into contact with for several months has been upheaved.

From the standpoint of the planet, this means that what’s required at this time may be what’s hardest to give, and we’re being asked to make a sacrifice. The rune in the position of energy most available to humans this week is Gebo, which means partnership, or gift. What’s significant about this stave is that exchange, as is implied by partnership, implies sacrifice. It means that we must give if we are to thrive–a gesture of seeming opposites. In Old Norse culture this rune is associated with two expressions: “A gift given freely,” and “A gift for a gift.”

This week we are being asked to remember to connect with flow, and by coming into clarity of our own needs, we become more able to help others meet theirs.

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 seemingly finally being rid of this respiratory bout of horror. Two rounds of antibiotics and steroids, later…

I’m grateful for a relatively seamless re-integration to everyday life after vacation.

I’m grateful for revelations from my spirit teachers about What Comes Next.

I’m grateful for certifications in hand! Progress and knowledge are always good!

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 following the link and adding your name to the Linky list, then post your gratitude every Friday.  Easiest blog hop ever!

Click here to hop on, and thanks for coming with me on this journey of self-empowerment and collective awareness.

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The Weekly Rune – Hagalaz

For the week of  1 May 2016

Expect supported change, this week.

Laguz is the half-month rune through 14 May. Gebo is the stave indicating the planet’s needs, and Hagalaz is the intuitive stave. Read right to left is Laguz, Gebo, then Hagalaz.

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

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.

My new year-long Intensive Reclaiming the Runes – Putting the ‘Elder’ Back in Futhark is now available! This Intensive is focused on teaching the story  of the runes in as full an Old Norse context as possible, and instructing on how to work with them as a personal tool for growth, and a facilitator of gaining insight for others. If you’re not ready to commit to a full year, check out the one-month pilot preview course starting 1 June, and see if it’s right for you!

Over the last few weeks,  the runes have mapped the rocky terrain of personal change. Laguz serves to facilitate us through those jagged edges and into a space that we can better be carried by resources available to us.

As the half-month stave, Laguz gives a natural time that we could be in flow with elemental currents. We don’t have to feel that we’re carrying the load ourselves, or that there’s too much to carry. I say that fully qualified with a modal auxiliary, as it’s our choice to recognize that help is there, and to allow it to support us. If we can’t slow down and take a minute to realize that we could be in flow, flow may as well not even be there.

To learn more about the relationship between Laguz reversed, read the full runecast. Have it delivered to you first, for as little as $5 a month!

Gebo in the position of the planet’s needs is refreshing. Since incorporating this rune into the cast, its requests have been tinged with shadow. We all on some level realize we’ve reached a point of no return in the imprint humans have left on the planet, though we may not realize there’s still potential for partnership. Gebo is perfect balance in relating, which means not projecting what we think the planet should be, what its destiny should be. Our role at this time is to look around and see what the state of things truly is, and to act in concert with how we can support. We’re generally aware of what support we need. Shift that focus a bit, and see where support to Mother Earth can be given. Even the smallest ways count.

Hagalaz as the intuitive stave hints at change. Very much connected to blunt external/environmental change, this rune comes after a long internal shifting. Weaving wyrd always starts within. Only when we’ve really struck upon the balance of that work does it manifest in external change. The time of that manifestation is now.

Go with the flow. Find the places to give, and hold open the space for wanted change.

Read the full runecast.

Learn more about the Reclaiming the Runes Intensive.

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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 meeting great people at a fabulous event, over the weekend.

I’m grateful for a time away with my dear heart, and for trustworthy childcare!

I’m grateful for the stunning beauty our planet provides.

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 following the link and adding your name to the Linky list, then post your gratitude every Friday.  Easiest blog hop ever!

Click here to hop on, and thanks for coming with me on this journey of self-empowerment and collective awareness.

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The Weekly Rune – Uruz Reversed

For the week of  24 April 2016

Keeping sure footing and tending wounds is the focus, this week.

Mannaz is the half-month rune through 29 April. Hagalaz is the stave indicating the planet’s needs, and Uruz reversed is the intuitive stave. Read right to left is Mannaz, Hagalaz, then Uruz reversed.

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

Starting 1 May!

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.

My new year-long Intensive Reclaiming the Runes – Putting the ‘Elder’ Back in Futhark will be available 1 May. Stay tuned for sneak peek discounts! This Intensive is focused on teaching the story  of the runes in as full an Old Norse context as possible, and instructing on how to work with them as a personal tool for growth, and a facilitator of gaining insight for others.

Uruz reversed has only been the stave of the week once since I began writing this series in 2012. It first appeared about ten months ago. Further, it occurred immediately after Othala was The Weekly Rune, which it also was last week. These kinds of patterns serve to inform us even more deeply on the relationship between the staves, and the impact they can have on us.

To learn more about the relationship between Othala and Uruz reversed, read the full runecast.

Uruz reversed is an omen of lacking steam, that extra oomph to get things going. In short, there’s not a lot of movement this week. Rather, we have a great opportunity to sit right where we are, get to know what’s really going on in that space, and tidy it as thoroughly as possible.

Hagalaz as indicating the planet’s needs underscores this stillness. Known as “hail,” Hagalaz points to a space between states, neither here nor there, not really manifest, though not totally ether. “But hail!” you say. Correct. This rune hails (see what I did there?) turbulence, though given the pattern of Othala and Uruz reversed, we know what we’re dealing with. It won’t be an ambush while we’re already down. The creative force behind Uruz always yields water for growth. Hail melts. It becomes part of the cycle of healing that’s happening right now, and quenches thirst after much-needed relief.

Remember when reflecting on healing ancestral lines (Othala) that the entire planet is our ancestor. Include her in the healing requested via Othala, and face the music of what comes in that process. If we weren’t capable of doing this, we wouldn’t be asked to.

Given the holding pattern of the whole cast, the half-month rune, Mannaz, expresses a new awareness having come over the last couple of weeks, and our need to become very clear in what that is. Now that it’s arrived, it must be supported. It must be allowed to grow. It needs new life force, which means an ongoing cultivation of tribe and resources that break ground for us. I’d even go so far as to say that the stall we’re feeling right now is because we need to get those things in place before we attempt life as usual.

It’s not usual. There’s been a big shift in the last two weeks. Give it time, space, and nurture to root. Find a team of support that can help with that. No looking ahead. Rather, indulge vigilant tending of personal needs, and forget the rest, for now.

If healing is needed, contact me and we can explore that work in-depth. What isn’t released from our ancestors, we carry. The heaviest burden carried is the one in addition to our own. This week is a good time to address any heaviness that isn’t ours. In blessing the ancestors we come into wisdom, as well as how to value it.

Read the full runecast.

Learn more about the Reclaiming the Runes Intensive.

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