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Cycles in Rune Magick
You don’t need to purchase anything strange or expensive to benefit from rune magick. Though you might like to own a nice bit of jewellery or something with your rune on it, you can get the benefits of rune craft from simply doodling the rune on scratch paper or scratching it in the bare earth…
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Giant Symbolism in Thurisaz
Shall we discuss today’s rune magick topic of Thurisaz? I will go back over the basics. It’s not actually super complicated or anything. Rune magick uses a rune or small group of runes as an attentional focus, and the purpose is to attune oneself to the force of nature/reality represented by the rune in order…
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Thor’s Hammer Symbolism
Now Thor’s hammer… You can run up against the thorns at any time, be confronted by your giants for no reason you can determine. I think we experience this routinely, is this not so? Thor’s hammer is the same as the Buddhist dorje or lightning bolt. They are the same symbol. How and why would…
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Use of Thurisaz
As far as rune crafting goes, you incorporate this rune into anything and anywhere you feel it’s especially important to be mindful. In this aspect the rune is protective. Thor’s hammer is also akin to Damocles’ sword. It strokes both ways. If you would use this rune, you will discover that vigilance has both its…
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Thor and Freia
Thurisaz is pretty elemental, isn’t it? It is elemental. All of the runes are really. They are the elemental script of reality. They have even influenced the shape of English language characters as well. Would thurisaz have a “th” sound? It does. That character by itself stands in for that combination of letter in English…
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Way of the Warrior
We are talking about the Tyr rune, the sign of the warrior. For those who have been to my earlier rune classes, I will say that as obvious as this may sound, it can still be of help to have a symbol to remind you of the warrior spirit. Each rune is a force in the…
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Rune of Force
The Tyr rune is the rune of force, but people do not understand force. They use it unwisely. They try to force everything, by force accomplish everything, and just as in war this is always unfortunate. There is always loss. To use force wisely you must understand its way, see fullness of force and emptiness.…
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Iron Fist in the Silk Glove
I can bring it more down to earth. The Tyr rune is a sword. We all have this spiritual sword within us, and we all use it. We don’t all use it well, but we do all use it. The angry person uses his sword impulsively, hits everything, enemy and ally, and is weakened when…
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What do You Fight For?
If you are willing, may I ask you all, how do you use your sword? How do you direct your force? My “failing” is assuming that everyone is “OK” when actually, some of them are dealing with everyone else as NOT “OK.” You know why you make that assumption? You do have a reason. I’m…
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Understand Force to Preserve Peace
So any questions about the warrior way? The key behind it all, the essence, is simple. Have you heard of the sword of Damocles? Swords cut both ways. How and what they cut can only be controlled with awareness, vigilance. The sword seen one way is an instrument of taking life, seen another it’s the…
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Rune of Secrets
If you recall when I began the rune series, I said I would not be doing a treatment of the blank rune. It’s a modern tack on and really not at all useful, I think, and besides, the Perth rune represents what they say the blank rune means anyway. This is the rune of secrets,…
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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…
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.