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Reality is Porous
The Perth rune depicts that reality is not a closed system? With the open edge? Indeed. The thing kept secret seems secret because we at first think it isn’t there, or that it was lost, as if we had the truth of life all along but then discover we have a hole in the pocket…
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Be Aware of the Immanent Reality
The ‘what if’ is always lurking somewhere. The ‘what if’ is actually perceptible, predictable, non-mechanical though. This time your car may start, but at some point in the future your car will fail to start, and it always happens in such a way that it makes total sense. Doesn’t this seem a bit mysterious? Reality…
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Walk the Stairs
What use is it to stand on a single step? Is it to stand on a single step? Screw in a light bulb? Reach something on a shelf? Only if you had that intention in mind before hand, and notice none of this has anything to do specifically with the act of stepping onto that…
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Trust Your Feet
The course of events isn’t “coincidental.” Everything is happening, has happened, and will happen against the same backdrop of persistent reality it always has no matter how much we try take it apart and declare one system as being separate from another. Your stairs climb your tower. My stairs climb mine. Our stairs exist in…
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Drop the Red Tide Wave
Perhaps the clearest example of the process I am trying to describe… We all are familiar with our social trance, yes? The role we are used to playing and the behavior that has become habit? Ever have a moment where your ability to ride that wave snapped? You just couldn’t keep balanced with it? Did…
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All You Own & All You Are
This is the rune othila, also known as odal. It is the symbol of inheritance, legacy, tradition, family and nation. Collectively, these all fall under the category of what’s mine. We are often very much absorbed in considering how to get things that fall into the category of what is not yet mine, and this…
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Experience of a Living World
Let’s take this to a more practical level. Why do you do anything for anyone else? Why does anyone do anything for you? Do they have to do anything? Do you? To be human and have a connection? To be human is to accept your inheritance, to accept the legacy of experience that was handed…
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Grow in Your Sense of Presence
How would we use the Othila rune? If you would seek to grow in your sense of presence, commitment and investment in relationships and missions you undertake, marking and bearing this rune can serve to remind you of that. Meditation on this rune can strengthen the virtue of devotion, perhaps even piety if you value…
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Throwing the Bones
How do you do a rune reading? Well, have you heard of “throwing the bones/stones”? The stones are runes, and they were just as often carved on antlers as they were on anything else. Do you pick them out of a bag? You can just draw one, after of course handling and moving them for…
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Reality is Shaped by Flows
This is the rune laguz. If the rune seems to suggest the word lake or leek, there is a reason for that. This is the rune of water, flow and that entire dynamic in the world around us. So where should we start first in discussing flow? The flow of our lives? Where does it…
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Attention is the Stone
When a being emerges into this reality it creates a breach wave. An array of probabilities collapse and come together to make space for the newly emerged being. Probability doesn’t create you, it’s created by you. It’s your shadow or footprint in the world around you. Now all the information flowing around you is influenced…
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Finesse the Blade of Your Attention
What do people generally do with flow? Probably not much. Why? They don’t know they can. This rune is a ships rudder and a warriors blade as well. We are convinced we can do nothing with flow because we are told we will bleed, that there will be loss. Everything about what we are taught is…
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Patterns of Attention
Anyone want to offer a test situation? Any situation? Yes. Right now, in Guild Wars 2, I am trying to figure out how my guardian can take on many enemies at once. Ok, that will work. Where do you stick your sword? You can look at the mechanical facts, there are many enemies, and you…
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No One Fails
It may seem that the world does whatever it wants. This is only a superficial observation and not very helpful really. Ever notice that the events or outcomes of the lives of people you know well are largely rather predictable? I have. More in some than in others. We know people who always go with…
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Respecting Process
Today’s rune is jera, pronounced yerah, and it is the sign for the complete procession of the seasons. It is also considered symbolic of the harvest. The wisdom it has to offer is not one that people are generally receptive of in today’s world. They say that everything works out for the best in the…
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More Genuine Reality
Jera looks a bit like the yin yang symbol, yes? In Chinese philosophy the concept behind Jera would be synonymous to the Tao. Yes, a bit. It also looks like greater than / less than or not equal to. It also looks like a rectangle that has the half of two sides missing. All rune symbols…
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You Change the World
People commonly declare that you can’t change the world. This is a popular and very superficial observation, meaningless really. Your actions arise from the process of the world. Changes of your state are changes in the world. Changes in your belief are changes in the world. Change your behaviour and you change the world. Yes,…
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Process in the World
I joke with my wife when we are in the mall. They play a Christmas song quite often. “Have your self a merry little Christmas now…” So I tell her to do it, that she has to do it now. I will try it with you. Beat your heart! It’s your moral responsibility to beat…
Category: Runes
Runemal was reserved for the wise people. It wasn’t taught to everyone in the tribe as it was believed the runes held spirits. Contemplation of runes was communion with the spirits, and this contemplation wasn’t confined to the casting of lots, but involved ritual sites with markers bearing runic script as well as the recordings on tribal relics. It was thought that by having the proper runes craft into your tools and clothing, you could balance the influence of your luck.
Individual runes have special meanings, and their meanings are much like the Chinese hexagrams from the i-ching. They have a seasonal correspondence. They also are connected to elements of nature and the environment. They even have numeric values. So you could do a runic numerology if you were so inclined.
Runes: Berkana | Thurisaz | Tyr | Perth | Othila | Laguz | Jera
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“Love conquers all; let us too yield to love.” Norse Runes 1150-1350