What is Divination:

DIVINATION is conversation between you and your SELF or you and the Gods. It is you, tapping into the stream of all that is. Runes are only one way of carrying on this conversation. Branch out and explore all the other ways. Conversation with the Divine is never demeaning or making low use of runes or tarot -- it is a high calling.  You are not predicting the future, however. You are only reading the stream of energy and using your knowledge of what that means to forecast the possible events. SPIRIT, the Universe and your own Spirit Guides and Ancestors are willing and eager to give guidance.

RUNE MAGIC FOR WRITERS

RUNE MAGIC FOR WRITERS

FEHU begin it,

URUZ test it,

THURISAZ give it spunk,

ANSUZ, word it well,

RAIDHO, give it rhythm

KENAZ, craft the creative spark,

GEBO, my gift brings return,

WUNJO, My story (poem, etc) follows its bliss,

HAGALAZ gives the story action and with each storm, a seed,

NAUTHIZ heightens the tension and gives solutions in due course,

ISA Hones the idea to perfection and solidifies it,

JERA, cycles of change give my story variety within wholeness,

EIHWAZ, Mystery and an edge of intrigue fills my story,

PERTHRO, mysteries unfold as information comes forth,

ELHAZ, I weed what needs weeded and heed what needs heeded.

SOWILO, My story is a success and finds the spotlight,

TIEWAZ, my story's aim is true and finds its audience

BERKANA, The story is nurtured to completion,

EHWAZ, What I've created now finds its expression perfected, and draws a harmonious response

MANNAZ, My interesting and intelligent story finds its place in a community of peers,

INGWAZ, All the wisdom of my story is now gathered in one place and draws interest

DAGAZ, My story is creating a bridge of transformation in all who read it,

OTHALA, And my words live long, my legacy to my kinsmen…

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RUNE ROSARY

RUNE ROSARY

Send your runes around you in a circle in whichever way suits you. For this one, using the three circle aetts to create circle makes sense as you'll see.

Fehu, Hagalaz, Tiewaz

Uruz, Nauthiz, Berkana

Thurisaz, Isa, Ehwaz

Ansuz, Jera, Mannaz

Raidho, Eihwaz, Lagu

Kenaz, Perthro, Ingwaz

Gebo, Elhaz, Dagaz

Wunjo, Sowilo, Othala

Make a rune cord with 8 knots, while chanting the account from the Havamal telling Odin's Ordeal. Then pour your runes into them in three passes through the length of the cord.

The first aett, then the second, and then the third. Breathe the rune into yourself as you visualize it in front of you. Then breathe that rune into the knot, giving it life.

Three times each knot will pass through your hands and be ignited by your breathed intent, the breath blown into it -- one breath for Fehu into that first knot and following with the second knot awakened to Uruz. Then when you are finished birthing the first eight, return again to the first knot and breathe into it Hagalaz, and so on through the second aett. Then the third, beginning with Tiewaz and ending with Othala.

I know that Freya Aswynn teaches the runes with the last two reversed and she is following historical precedent in doing this. For awhile I followed her lead, but found that in my life, the need for balance and integration of "day and night" (Dagaz) had to come first before finding tribe and home (Othala).

You, of course, have to decide that one on your own. All other runes must be chanted in the way they are given: Fehu, Uruz, Thurisaz, Ansuz, Raidho, Kenaz, Gebo, Wunjo, Hagalaz, Nauthis, Isa, Jera, Eihwaz, Perthro, Elhaz, Sowilo, Tiewaz, Berkana, Ehwaz, Mannaz, Lagu, Ingwaz, Dagaz-Othala.

This cord you are making can then be used as a prayer cord. When you use it, chant the runes through to begin, seeing them arising from the cord and surrounding you as they do in the rune ring. Then chant your prayers -- either prewritten or created at the time of need -- and end by chanting the runes once more, seeing them return to the cord.

A NINTH knot may also be added, with embellishment, such as a Thor's hammer or the glory twigs. On this you can recite a retelling of Odin's ordeal.

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MY RUNE POEMS

RUNE POEMS OF MY OWN

FEHU

Open hands hold the harvest,

But hoarding withers vines

URUZ

In steady strength,

single steps gain ground

THURISAZ

When might rules reason

Ruin shatters the shield

ANSUZ

With loud cry or silent song

Sorrows flee

RAIDHO

A rocky road in rough terrain

Readies the rider

KENAZ

Kenaz quickens the cunning mind,

Sparks swift perception

GEBO

Gebo gifts with giving

Agreement binds the blessing

WUNJO

Kinsmen together

Gather joy

HAGALAZ

Storm stones singe the halted harvest,

hasten the farmer in his field,

fashions singleness of vision

NAUTHIZ

He who fashions the fire delivers

Himself from darkness

When need narrows the vision

ISA

From i to I,

The way is won in silence,

Condensed into solitary steps

JERA

Cycle of seasons yields a year

Health and harvest in a field of plenty

EIHWAZ

What was becomes what is

As peace perfects the pattern

PERTHRO

Birth is best in season

What is ready reveals.

ELHAZ

Spirit’s cause connects protection

Strengthens safety in whispered wisdom…

SOWILO

Success shines as sun’s gold

Illumines the way with weal

TIEWAZ,

A warrior’s way wends high and true,

A strong arm is sometimes bound

For a higher aim

BERKANA

A babe at the breast

And a birch’s thirst

Are we, in the keep of the Goddess,

EHWAZ

Body mirrors spirit’s swift movement,

Communion follows true commitment…

MANNAZ

Man is mindful of Man

When mind rules emotions…

LAGU

Deep waters deliver lasting impressions

When intuition rules reason,

INGWAZ

Gebo ok Gebo, great in gain

Pregnant with potential

Power honed to perfection…

DAGAZ

Day is a delight to daughters of men,

But night is the nourishment of dreams...

OTHALA

Home heals the heart

Ancestors stir the soul,

What is held holds,

Binds as well as frees...

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RUNE BASICS

BASIC RUNE MEANINGS:

Fehu -- Tangible representation of energy, often used in commerce

Uruz -- Test of endurance, skill, independent strength

Thurisaz -- A conflict of wills

Ansuz -- Speech

Raidho -- Right action, rhythm

Kenaz -- vitality, comprehension

Gebo -- Union, gift

Wunjo -- Contentment, tribe

Hagalaz -- Pulled in two directions

Nauthiz -- Self reliance born of necessity

Isa -- Stillness, inactivity

Jera -- cycles (a year)

Eihwaz -- life/death

Perthro -- secret, purse

Elhaz/Algiz -- connection to the Gods, protection

Sowilo -- power, purpose

Tiewaz -- justice, man, warrior

Berkana -- healing, woman, birth

Ehwaz -- connection, horse (also car)

Mannaz -- collective mindset

Laguz -- ebb and flow

Ingwaz -- potential,

Dagaz -- transformative stress and new light from same

Othala -- inheritance, ancestral lands, house

Note: this is a starter set of meanings, collect your own by drawing one rune a day and at the end of the day, write how that rune has shown its meaning. After awhile, you will have quite a collection of communications between yourself and Spirit or your own High Self. Communication is what we are doing in Divination.

RUNE CIRCLE

CLOCKWISE the runes encircle a Ve' -- In the North, FEHU, NE:ANSUZ, in the East, GEBO, SE: NAUTHIZ, in the South, EIHWAZ, SW: SOWILO, In the west, EHWAZ, NW: INGWAZ.

That will give you a bit of a guideline as you're learning to sing the runes around you -- there are two runes between each of those settings you see above.

Work also with the pairs of opposites and the runes that are "square" to other runes. How does a square react, when speaking of runes?

For instance, Fehu, Gebo, and Ingwaz -- a flowing energy, an exchange, and a holding of energy. If you think in one of energy's simplest terms -- currency -- you can see moveable wealth as something you can buy and sell. What is the difference between this and Gebo's form of exchange? and how does Gebo's exchange oppose Ingwaz' holding (as in a bank). Fehu squares Ingwaz in that Ingwaz holds to build the energy, but Fehu allows the energy to flow and with the flow generates a space whereby other energy may flow in to replace it. Gebo, the opposing rune to Ingwaz, actually builds capital "behind the scenes" in goodwill -- which, in turn, pay forward into Ingwaz (so that it works as a "seesaw", this pair of opposites.

Fehu opposes Eihwaz as one is the movement of energy and one turns the energy inward until it bursts forth renewed (Eihwaz is a bit like a spring with its coils pressed tightly together until such a moment as it springs forth again. In spring forth, it can only go so far, with a great burst of movement, not the freeflowing movement of Eihwaz.

RUNE PRONUNCIATION:

There are several different pronunciations for many of the runes. For instance, Rune 2/7 -- the seventh rune of the second aett is Elhaz (Ale-haaz) or Algiz (all-geez). I have used the (I suppose) Americanized pronunciation for quite some time. SO-WEE-LO (with long O), Ing-waz, not Ing-vaz. Give this pronunciation a try:

fay-who

ooh-rooz

thuh-ree-sahz

ahn-suz (long u, as in school)

rye-thoh

kay-nahz

gay-boh

vuhn-yoh

hah-gah-lahz

now-theez

ees-uh

yair-uh

eye-vahz

pear-throw

ahl-gahz or ahl-hahz

so-vay-lo

tea-vahz

bear-can-oh

a-vahz

mahn-nahz

lah-gooz

ing-vahz

dah-gahz

ohth-ah-lah

DISTING

FEBRUARY 2 – DISTING DAY

Light a green candle, soft green of spring, new as the leaves that will soon begin to show, new as the grass as the snow melts. Craft a swan, origami, painted, or cut silhouette. A drawing, maybe, or fashioned of clay. The swan is one symbol for Frigga.

Berkana rune. The colors green and white. The reason: waking from winter’s deep sleep and beginning to stir towards the fullness of the sun.

Honor the Goddess and your feminine ancestors (The Distaff side) on this day.

In honor of Frigga, host a Handmaidens Feast, serve honey meade or Birch tea with honey. Serve wheat cakes topped with a swan drawn with whipped cream. Light candles on your hearth or altar stone, green candles, the color of spring. Create collages of the handmaidens (my current project). Help your guests explore their links to the various Handmaidens and share stories of: for instance: a message received (Gna), a victory in a dispute (Syn), a healing (Eir) or a time your guest has felt as if permission had been given for entrance into a once-forbidden territory (Lofn).

Let each guest take a bit of roving and pour into it her hopes for the coming year. These can be twisted into thread and kept for knot magic or spread thin and given to the wind or hung in the trees for the birds to use in nesting.

Honor Frigga, the Handmaidens, your feminine ancestors,  and the Great Mother, Earth. Use Green as your color and soften with white. Use small amounts of other colors too, for new flowers that are beginning, purple crocuses, yellow daffodils and dandelions. Make the altar colorful with springtime, still somewhat muted; make it less colorful than your Ostara celebration will be. More green, more white, only a bit of color. Use the rune Berkana and use Fehu. Use the rune, Jera and use the rune, Wunjo. Otherwhere in this Spindle find bits of Spindling to help you create the celebration: Disting, with Frigga and her Handmaidens.

Note: A distaff holds the fiber you will spin into thread. Distaff is also the name given to the feminine side of your ancestry.

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Kitchen Prayer (Two)

.KITCHEN PRAYER

Let the hands that stir the brew

Be guided by you,

Let the leaf that steeps the tea,

Be blessed by you,

Let the broom sweep clean

And your guidance be seen,

May all that we do,

Keep us close to you,

Mothers, hear my words

May the bread rise

And the kettle boil,

May home be formed

By this earthly toil,

We can fashion,

We can form,

But the spark that keeps us warm

Came from the Kin,

Before we were born,

Ancestors, hear my words

From seed to plant,

From plant to plate,

With Spirits of the Land,

We co-operate,

As you’ve aided us,

So we honor you,

Earth Spirits, hear my words,

Cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, clove,

Sprinkle all herein with love,

Not a word shall boil,

Not a threat shall bubble,

This blessed hearth

Repels all trouble,

Gods and Goddess,

Elder Kin,

Bless this kitchen

And all within.

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Kitchen Prayer (one)

Kitchen prayer

Hey hey, Mama,

Mothers of olde,

You fed us, you feed us,

Your nurture unfolds,

As we clatter and clammer

And we bake and we boil,

Our fires and our hearths

And our hands in the soil,

Are your hands and your hearts,

With all that you know,

You keep us and coach us,

And care as we grow,

Now we carry the seed

Of all that you grew,

Onward to children

Grandchildren

And you....

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THREE KINDRED PRAYERBEADS (Shared with permisson)

THREE KINDREDS PRAYER BEADS, A Druid Devotional            This version of the Prayer Beads is more Druid in content, honoring the Three Kindreds: The Ancestors, spirits of the ancient dead; The Earth Spirits who share this world with us; and the Gods, or the Shining Ones.

It is best to string your own beads. Follow the instructions below, which is the same procedure for the Goddess Prayer Beads, but substitutes Gold for Silver, because Druid spirituality is Sun oriented rather than Moon oriented.

13 white 8mm beads for the Gods & Goddesses
13 red 8mm beads for the Earth Spirits
13 black mm beads for the Ancestors
1 silver 10mm bead representing the Sun
52 silver spacer beads (class "E" 6/0) representing the Sunlight.
Nylon thread clear, monofilament

You may begin and end stringing anywhere in the loop, but the tie-off is less visible in the midst of the black beads.

The gold Sun bead is separated from the white God/Goddess beads by four (4) gold spacer beads. Each white God/Goddess bead is followed by one gold spacer bead, but the thirteenth bead is followed by four (4) spacer beads. Then come the red Earth Spirits beads, each followed by one gold spacer, but the 13th bead is followed by four (4) spacers. Then come the black Ancestors beads, each followed by one gold bead, but the 13th is followed by four (4) spacers.

And so we are back at the gold Sun bead.

In other words, beads of the same color are separated by one spacer. The three sets of beads and the larger Sun bead are separated by four spacers. Thirteen (13) beads are used in each set to signify the thirteen months of the lunar year. The gold spacers represent sunlight issuing from the Sun bead throughout the Three Kindreds of Ancestors, Earth Spirits, Gods & Goddesses.

Prayers are said on each bead, while meditating on the mysteries of the Three Kindreds, and the experience of human life.

PRAYERS FOR YOUR DRUID BEADS

On the gold Sun Bead say:
Blessed (Father, Mother,) come to me,
and cast your lovely, golden light.
Give light to earth that I may see
your glory shining ever bright.
Triple Kindred, Blessed Be,
and true well met, my soul's delight!

On the space say:
I bind unto my self today the
Memory of the Ancestors.

Meditate on the Memory of the Ancestors . . .
On each Ancestor Bead say:
Ancestors, Ancient Ones,
Remember me as I remember you
Old Ones, hear my prayer,
And accept my offering of love.

On the space say:
I bind unto myself today the
Comradeship of all Earth Spirits

Meditate on the Aid of the Earth Spirits . . .
On each Earth Spirit Bead say:
Fur and feather, leaf and stone,
Aid me as I aid you.
Earth Spirits hear my prayer,
And accept my offering of love.

On the space say:
I bind unto myself today the
Power of the Gods and Goddesses.

Meditate on the Honor of the Shining Ones . . .
On each God and Goddess Bead say:
Gods and Goddesses, Shining Ones,
Honor me as I honor you.
First-Born of Earth, hear my prayer,
And accept my offering of love.

On the space say:
I bind unto myself today
The Presence of the Three Kindreds.

On the gold Sun Bead conclude:
I bind unto myself today
The virtues of the starlit Heavens,
The glorious Sun's life-giving ray,
The whiteness of the Moon at even;
The flashing of the lightning free,
The whirling Wind's tempestuous shocks;
The stable Earth, the deep salt Sea,
Around the old eternal Rocks.
So may it be.

OakWyse
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Your MOON journal

MOON PHASES

NEW MOON: Rises at dawn and sets at sunset. You can’t see a new moon because its bright side is toward the sun. Sun and moon are both on the same side of the earth.

WAXING CRESCENT MOON: Rises after sunrise and sets after sunset. See it in the west, just after the sun goes down. (2 days after New)

FIRST QUARTER MOON(Waxing Square):  Rises at noon is high in the sky at sunset and sets at midnight.  Looks like a bright D in the sky. (One week after New)

FULL MOON: Rises in the east as the sun sets in the west.  See a full moon in the south at midnight. (Two weeks after New)

THIRD QUARTER MOON (Waning Square): Rises at midnight and sets mid-morning. Looks like a backward D or a light-filled in C. If you wake at 2 in the morning and look out your window to the southeast, you’ll see this half-moon.

WANING CRESCENT MOON:  Rises before the sun and sets before the sun sets.  If you look out your window during the darkest house, just before dawn, you’ll see this moon. People often find they are tired and weepy, worried over trifles during the time of the waning moon. It’s then you need to remember the old saying: “The darkest hour is just before dawn.”  Soon, the moon will be dark and rebirth occurs and the cycle begins again.

RUNES

I've been studying runes since late 1999. I spent a year WITH runes, that means every day, almost all day. I sang them, meditated on them, carved them, wrote their poems (my version) and studied them esoterically rather than intellectually. I carved them on food and cast them into drink and "took them in". Rune magic saved us from pain and sorrow more than a few times. I credit Heimdall, Great Teacher, with many insights I gained concerning runes. I met Heimdall, in meditation, at five o'clock every morning for one year. I know the runes better than I know the back of my hands.

There are other ways to approach the runes. You can begin with their history. Unlike tarot, you really need to know where they come from. They are a language. The culture of their discovery or invention (I'll leave the notion of which up to you) is important if you are to understand each rune and how you may interact with them.

You can get far with the runes by carving them, one by one, and mediating on each for nine days before moving to the next rune. You can also do as Thorsson suggested and draw a rune in red on a bland index card and set this on your altar and send out a breath to lasso the rune and bring it in, while inwardly intoning the name of the rune.

Try this: light a candle in a dark room. Sit in front of it and see the candle. Close your eyes and see the candle with your eyes closed. Keep this up until you can see the image for quite a while, and in fact, until you can bring back the image once it fades.

Now  set up your first rune card and do the same. You should have enough light to see the card clearly, but not overhead lights. Use candle or lamp that illuminates the card. Empty your lungs and then breathe in, 1,2,3,4. Hold the breath to the count of three. Breathe out, 1,2,3,4, and see your breath as if it were a lasson going out surrounding the card and bringing the card in again on the next inhalation. Give it plenty of time. This is best done at night right before you go to sleep. 

When you are finished with this first lesson in runes, you will be ready for more. I'll set up a page for this and link it to this post.

Blessings,

Keldarune 

Chant for Ancestor -- Chant for All-Mother

Honor your ancestors

For the Disting (Imbolc) --

Mothers and mothers and sisters and kin

Grandmothers, the children are calling you in,

To the center to meet where it all once began,

In the circle, the center again,

In the circle, the center again

And again…

Mothers and Mothers, Grandmothers and all

Come to the circle, oh come at our call,

For we seek thee for answers,

We seek thee for might,

We call for our loved ones tonight,

Oh, we call for our loved ones tonight,

Oh, tonight.

Sisters and Sisters, our sisters so fair,

We call for you dancing, oh, dancing on air,

As we circle and sing in this center we share,

And there’s no telling who will come here,

Will come here

And there’s no telling who will come share

With us here.

For Loafmas (Lammas)

Fathers and Fathers and brothers and kin

Grandfathers, the children are calling you in,

To the center to meet where it all once began,

In the circle, the center again,

In the circle, the center again

And again…

Fathers and Fathers and brothers and kin

Come to the circle, oh come at our call,

For we seek thee for answers,

We seek thee for might,

We call for our loved ones tonight,

Oh, we call for our loved ones tonight,

Oh, tonight.

Brothers and brothers, our brothers so fair,

We call for you dancing, oh, dancing on air,

As we circle and sing in this center we share,

And there’s no telling who will come here,

Will come here

And there’s no telling who will come share

With us here.

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(If you have created a special candle for your feminine ancestors, light this candle now. A large candle is good to use, so that you can light it again at new or full moons throughout the year. A good practice to stay in touch and strengthen ties is to do Friday blessings to feminine ancestors, keeping this theme throughout the year. (Friday is Frija’s day, a day of Venus energy).

 (Honor the Mother of ALL)

If you have been making a toast in this rite, to the Handmaidens, to Frigga, to your Ancestors, now it is time to make one more, another glass of honey mead is poured:

Mother of All-Mother,

Mother of us all,

We seek to walk lightly,

Your wisdom to keep,

To follow the way of the Earth,

Mother, All-Mother

In meadow and Hall

Pathways to oldways

Now waking from sleep

Show us the way of the Earth

Mother of All-Mother,

The song when it calls

Sings to us nightly

And visits in sleep

And we follow the way of the Earth,

Mother, All-Mother

We rise and we fall,

From living to dying,

The crest and the deep,

To follow the way of the Earth

In the seed and the song

Of the Earth…

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OGHAM

OGHAM SCRIPT

Memorization: Create a sentence for each group of letters using words that begin with the letter you want to remember, in the proper order for the placement of the letters.

BLFV-SN: Beauty Lives For Varied-Sunless Nights.

HDTC-KQ: Heaven Drinks Time’s Celestial-Kisses Quick.

MGNgZ-StR: Mystic Gurus Negotiate Zen-Star Reasoning. Or: Moon Goddess, Night Goddess, Zen Star Reigns,

AOU-WEI-Y: Ancient Ones Unite-With Earth’s Inspirations, YES!

OGHAM SCRIPT

B             Beithe     Birch

L              Luis        Rowan

F-V          Fearn      Alder

S              Saille       Willow

N             Nion       Ash

H             Huath     Hawthorn

D             Duir        Oak

T             Tinne      Holly

C-K         Coll         Hazel

Q             Queirt     Apple

M            Muin      Vine

G             Gort        Ivy

NG          nGetal     Broom

Z-St        Straiph   Blackthorn

R             Ruis        Elder

A             Ailm        Fir

O             Ohn        Furze

U-W       Ur            Heather

E              Eadhadh                Aspen

I, Y          Idhadh   Yew

OGHAM

Begin learning Ogham by writing in your journal using Ogham script. The letters are divided into groups of five and may be written left to right or bottom to top of your page. (If you were to pick up a horizontal line of Ogham and turn it vertical, the right hand side of the line would be at the top.) You will notice there are many English letters that are not used in this particular branch of Ogham. Other versions exist which add five letters more. These are:

 (B may used to represent P and G may represent J).

OGHAM Divination

Birch:               cleansing, beginnings

Rowan: protection against enchantment

Alder:               A message is looking for you. Listen.

Willow: Night vision, feminine

Ash:                 Linking the two worlds

Hawthorn:        Catharsis, protection, restraint

Oak:                 Doorway, strength

Holly:               Active protection, Vigor, blance

Hazel:               Poetry, divination, mediation

Apple:              Choose, hide, use discretion

Vine:                Instinct, inner development

Ivy:                   collective unconscious, assist others

Reed:               skill, direction, direct action

Blackthorn:       negative viewpoint, clinging brings harm

Elder:               Renew, cycles, change, new life in death

Silver Fir:          Big picture, clear sight, in tune

Furze:               Collecting skills, coming together

Heather:           Look within, healing     

White Poplar:  strengthen your shield, don’t fear

Yew:                Remembering past lives, fresh vigor, rebirth

For those who don’t wish to add these additional newer Ogham forms, you may substitute: B may used to represent P and G may represent J). 

Another version uses a series of dots for the vowels (AOUE and I). These dots are set up the same as the notches above, one dot for A, two dots for O and so on.

Sigdrifa's prayer

SIGDRIFA's PRAYER

This prayer comes from the Poetic Edda. It is a prayer for the between times known to us as Twilight, both morning and evening. Those times when the light balances between that which is called Day and that which is called Night. This prayer is powerful. Many people use this prayer and the collective focus on these words have imbued it with ond (lifeforce).

Hail Day!

Hail Day’s Son!

Hail Night and her Daughter!

Look upon us, Twain,

With loving eyes

And bid us good speed,

Hail Gods!

Hail Goddesses!

Hail much needed Earth!

Sayings and sage wit

Grant to us, the Storied Ones

And healing hands in this life.

Your Name Number

YOUR DESTINY’S NAME

1  A  J  S                 2  B  K T                                3  C  L  U

4  D  M V                               5  E  N  W                              6  F  O  X

7  G  P  Y                               8  H  Q  Z                               9  I  R

               

Use this chart to convert your name into numbers. Compute each name separately, reduce to a single digit and add the totals to find your destiny number. Use your name as it appears on your birth certificate, even if a mistake was made at the time, even if your birth certificate says only baby girl or has the wrong last name. Sometimes the Norns have a bit of shuffling to get your web begun as it should be. The only time when a different name is used to compute your numerology chart is when a second birth certificate was issued, such as in the case of an adoption. Then you must use the adoptive name for purposes of computing your information.

The number of your name, your Destiny number, tells what you must do in this lifetime. Add the numbers for your first name. Then the numbers for your middle name. Then for your last name as it appears on your birth certificate. Reduce every set of numbers until you have three one-digit numbers.*7

                After you have the three totals, add these together and again reduce until you have a single digit. This is your Destiny number, the number of Divine command. It doesn’t tell what you ARE, (that comes from adding the numbers of your birth month, day and year), but it gives insight into your purpose for this lifetime.

                Furthur insight is given by adding up the numbers of each vowel (for the Soul urge) and of each consonant (for your secret dream or inner desire).

                No one number will give you all you need to know. Relationships between numbers must be taken into consideration and each understood according to its placement and plane of existence. For furthur information, contact Hazel in care of Yarrow Press.

(If  the number 11 or 22 is present, reduce this number as you would  the others, but keep these numbers in mind as they add an extra dimension to the reading of the total. An 11 has a strong will and determination and will bring light to others if well aspected. A 22 will have conflict between spirit and form and will often find himself in the company of people or circumstances that hold him back from his goal.)

GODDESS SHOPPING

A Goddess is no more real than a poem. Graspable as a wisp of smoke, she dissipates when you try to hold too tight. There are all kinds of theories, and on the sunniest days, you want to debunk them all and just remember that God spelled backward is Dog.

But When I step into circle alone, I know someone else is there. Maybe that's not the same as those God/esses you have to invoke with the right kind of stone and the right offering, a touch of wine and a white rose.

I'm just saying ...  If it's all made up anyway, how can you get it wrong?

First time I stepped into a formal circle for a Goddess, I tried to make Her fit the only God I'd ever been given. "To the North I turn... the Rock of Salvation endureth forever."

I lit a candle and poured wine, blackberry Merlot, only wine on the place. "The breath of life, the fire of Pentecost, the living water and the Holy, Holy Spirit dwells within this space, within this place between the worlds. So Be It and Amen."

Some such words. I don't recall exactly.

Blackberry Merlot and a borrowed book and soon I knew that Bridgid was the Goddess of poetry. She loved fire and blackberries, kept a healing well where water quenches a fever fast and in the forge of her fire, smithcraft and poetry carry a power to transform.

Bride, as she is called, had a father, the good god, Dagha. And in the same pantheon, Cerridwen stirred a  wisdom brew and Gwion … (but that story is told elsewhere).

The laughing God, the dancing God, the poet God, the Mother Goddess, Virgin, Mother, Crone.... and all this on a Blackberry wine. And years clicked by...

Mother of All-Mother,

Mother of us all,

We seek to walk lightly,

Your wisdom to keep,

To follow the way of the Earth,

And then the Runes called and Heimdall coaxed with a Dagaz rune, my symbol. Year of the Snake, Death and Regeneration, and even the Mayan astrologer agreed. Hints and notions. So this God of transformation cast his rainbows in my peripheral view.

And when snows fell deep and the world filled with that kind of silence that winter brings, a Goddess named Skathi, came to whisper the blue of twilight in January.

Then came the Spinner. Card the wool and spin and ply. My hands found the way my mind couldn’t see. And as I learned these skills, stories wove themselves into the wool. Her name is Frigga, the Hearth Queen, the Spinner. And with her are the twelve Handmaidens, Saga, Eir, Fulla, Geifion, Syn, Hlin, Syofn, Lofn, Vor, Var, Snotra, and Gna. Little tokens found their way to my hand and they flooded my pages with words.

I'd been Goddess shopping for a long time when Frigga came along. Now I'm wondering who shopped for whom?

If you're shopping for a Goddess, pay attention. One will find you by and by.

Author: Keldarune
http://cozycauldron.blogspot.com/
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