10313 Perthro, HagalazR

It looks like today shall be calm, if a little full of outside voices.  Listen carefully, but, as always, make your own choices!

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I often take a picture of the runes, for the Tumblr/ Twitter/ Facebook post of Life in Runes.  (I may eventually remember to upload them to this blog, but I write this on a different device... shrug... technology is fun!)

Anyway... I did not post a picture for today and I rather wish I had.  Because I seem to have been the outside voice for others, and this might have been indicated by the direction in which the Perthro rune faced.  That we would influence others, as opposed to being influenced by them.  (It would be interesting to know if you, dear reader, had the same experience.)

Given how busy today was, with outside activities (oh.  Hmm.) I was focusing more on the calm aspect of the reading, as in maintaining mine.  Breathing deeply.  It was a beautiful day, and I found myself very happy, brimming with it, in fact.  My book (Not Really a Murder Mystery) finally made it through the - upload, format, tear hair out, try again - process and is officially a Nook book.  (yay me!)  I downloaded the sample, and I read it and I liked it! (something a little new for me, accepting and enjoying my books after they are officially finished.)  So I was breathing deeply and trying to pay attention and not roll over people in my exuberance.

Now, I have to remember, this was a general, universal community reading and... it (the outside voices/influence) may not have applied much to me.  Or it might have applied to something so small I missed it, while it applied to huge events for others.  And it might in fact have meant (for me) that I was the voice, the influence.  Perhaps my suppressed but leaking exuberance made someone think about dancing on the rooftop, even if they chose not to. 

And here's an interesting thought.  What with the publication in a new format (BN.com -- hint hint, wink wink), I am being subtly influenced by the whole wide world.  And in turn, I am influencing them.  You.  Us?  

So maybe it doesn't matter which way Perthro was turned.  Even speaking creates as much of an influence on the speaker as it does on the listener.

Yup.  It's time to rest my brain.

I hope you had a great day!

-Lila