Draw for September 28, 2016: Active Influence: Svipdag/Knight of Cups Rune: Raido (r) Hidden Influence: The Volva/Four of Swords While today may be a low energy day, or a day where you are not able to make much progress, it’s important to keep looking forward. Do not allow yourself to slide back and become stuck […]
If you are new to working with bindrunes, I suggest you read the introductory bindrune post here, then return to this post to read about this specific bindrune. No amount of external elements—admiration, affection, conversation, sex—will ever be enough to satisfy a person whose internal compass does not point to joy. ~ David Finch People need […]
Petersburg, 1913 ~ Anna Akhmatova, translated from Russian by D.M. Thomas In Petersburg we’ll gather again, Around the grave where we buried the sun. ~ Mandelstam Petersburg, 1913. Lyrical interlude: last recollection in Tsarskoye Selo. A wind, reminiscent or prophetic, mutters: Bonfires cooked the geese of Christmas, Carriages toppled from bridges, The whole funereal city […]
Draw for September 26, 2016: Active Influence: Thrym/King of Swords Rune: Ior/Jormundgand, The World Serpent Hidden Influence: Garm/Nine of Swords and Hela/Death (These two pulled out of the deck together. Let us take a moment to appreciate the fact that Garm is the hound who guards Hela’s realm from intruders.) Today calls for calm, focused […]
Hope Chest ~ Elaine Aqui It is shaped like a dunce cap. It is a bottle of perfume at the foot of a cross. It is a photograph that hums. It is early. It is day. It is a bed no one has ever slept in. It is just a dream. It is a rosary […]
