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What are Omens?
Omens are phenomenon that occur independently of any “practice” you might be involved in. They are like the little signs that occur before a quake or volcanic eruption or a violent storm, and this is part of how you can recognize an omen from an unrelated event. Because daily, you also move through events that have come…
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Omen Questions and Answers
Do we hurt it if we ignore or deny an omen? We can, especially if you are deeply connected to the event matrix. The omens are in part a manifestation of your very personal energy. It meshes with other energies, and if you resist a heavily weighted event, it can feel like being psychically drawn…
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Repetitive Life Patterns
For me, anything I get deeply enmeshed in seems to have a death clock start. There is a powerful creative initial surge, and then it winds down. I can feel the event playing out and losing any life. Sometimes this is healing for the person, and whatever falls apart needed to for their best interest.…
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Ancient Runes Script
Today we are talking about the runes. They are ancient to the point of prehistoric. The only thing necessary for something to be prehistoric is for it to have had its advent before written history. The first instances of runes as we know them today show up as ancient petroglyphs at various locations around northern…
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Communion with the Spirits
They say in conventional scientific circles that we perceive figures and patterns where there are supposedly no such thing. So as they began to discover the runes, the word rune itself roughly translates as “mystery”. It likely felt as if there was a spirit speaking through the figure, even perhaps a god. Some of the…
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Balance Your Karma with Symbol
Could you cast runes, not just to predict the future, but to manipulate it? Actually, they were not usually cast to predict the future. It can be cast for that purpose. It’s not invalid. It just wasn’t their most common focus. It was thought that your future was dictated by your personal luck. We get…
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Use of Runes
Are there standard methods to use when casting runes, or a wide variety? A wide variety. It was heavily influenced by the inspiration of the runemal practitioner as well as their traditional training. As long as the understanding of the runes was strong, the form didn’t matter as much. The reason they trained skalds to…
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Shaman’s World View
I will start by asking, what do you know about totems or shamanism in general? I know something about shamanism working with animals and nature, and journeying. Are totems representations of spirits? The physical artifacts are representations, yes. They serve as mental focuses when preparing to meet the spirit they depict, thus the reference to…
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On the Medicine Wheel
In the shaman’s world, spirit wasn’t a thing you could possess for yourself. It was something shared like the air we breathe, and the life force we possess is shared with us by everything else in our world. Sort of like a fire, it could grow in strength and brightness or it could be depleted…
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Sharing of Spirit
In the shamans world view, all existence is spirit, and there is nothing that exists that is not a spirit. So the statement that you are what you eat had some meaning even to them. Thus you had to be very careful about eating herbs that you didn’t understand or make peace with, and even…
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Way of the Totems
I will ask you, how many ways are there of doing any single thing in the world? I am talking about focused tasks. There are only so many ways to get a fish, and only so many ways to find your way home, and which of those steps was your strength was explored through your…
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Your Place on the Medicine Wheel
How do you find your place on the shamans medicine wheel? Observation of behaviour and affinities with elements and animals? Yes. I will go there if you are ready friends. Ultimately, you find your place on the medicine wheel because you will yearn for home. You will naturally gravitate to your spiritual origin place. It’s…
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Totem Hunt Process
I can use a leaf animal totem pool as an example of the totem hunt process. First clear your mind, relax, get into a listening state, and then sit your avatar on the leaf. Animal Vision Quest welcomes you to your vision quest. Animal Vision Quest: whispers: Calm your mind, and concentrate on the pool,…
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Examples of Totems
Do you see our totems? I do, and I do see badger in one of you, not really wolf. I do see racoon, and crow. I am thinking of taking the pen name of Crow. You are a burrower and forager, defensive but not aggressive and like hidden things. Also enjoy exploiting people’s perceptual blind…
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The World Will Show You
The world shows you how you relate to it if you reflect. This is why the reflecting pool is a good symbol. You may very well not see it while you are going about your ordinary day, thinking in the ordinary way, but when you calm your mind and settle like a still pool of…
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Rune of Beginnings
Shall we discuss rune magick? The word rune roughly translates as mystery. The reason you don’t hear about rune magick much is it doesn’t provide concrete projects for people to do. It is not related to specific rituals or practices. I intend to cover a number of runes under this topic. This one is berkana,…
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Rune Symbolism
The symbolism is necessary to understand as we begin to discuss rune magick, but it isn’t sufficient by itself. Rune magick is contemplative rather than ritualistic which is why you rarely hear about it. People prefer collections of things to do rather than things to understand. The significance of all the runes (the word rune…
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Use of Berkana
Shall we discuss the use of this berkana rune? Well, first you would either create or acquire a rune item to serve as a focus or reminder of your intentions regarding this rune, and while you are using this rune take note of creative thought and impulse in the world around you. Notice the creative…
Category: Signs
Signs are graphical representations of relationships or exchanges of energy. Read the complete series of posts on signs or jump to the section on:
Omens: There is a force behind the human existence, a force behind all existence.
Runes: “Mystery” It was believed runes held spirits. Contemplation of runes was communion with spirits.
Totems: All existence is spirit. The world shows you how you relate to it if you reflect. Intuitive recognition.
Talismans: Give people a focus to anchor their perception and reconnect to those insights that might otherwise slip their mind.