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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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Geomantic Balance
Talismans. The word itself seems kind of intimidating, no? Yes, a bit. Powerful. Sounds like antiquity. And yet, they are perhaps one of the most basic tools of magical practice the world over. It can be hard to even track the variety of talismans there are. Typically, people think of some sort of pendant or…
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Hawaiian Nine & Lono
We [native Hawaiian] have a counting system based on 4, however we also interlace it with the number 5. They yield a 9. That gets spooooooky. Nine is the final number. May I tell you how ours becomes a nine? Hold up your hand, stretch the fingers apart a bit. How many empty spaces between…
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Freeze Frame Reality
So yes, the numbers and math, the grids and abstract lines… These are the rounding element of any talisman. Even something as simple as making certain the lines of text are straight fulfills this element. The symbols and words on a talisman would correspond to the horizon. They form a sort of map of the…
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Create a Pocket Reality
In a talisman, we can gather the aspects of reality we want? Yes, need to in order for it to be effective. The key thing is the idea must always come full circle. The picture must always be complete, and in fact most of the talismans you see for sale in curio shops are incomplete.…
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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…
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Natural Thinking
What would happen if we allowed thinking to arise naturally? Would we accomplish less? As a person who has worked from home, I know the necessity of outside motivation. I’ve had a few moments of that happen, cultivated through meditation I’ve found, and it was very useful and insightful. I have met some very naturally…
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.