LIR Weekly 52715 - Raido

Being the rune of movement, Raido can cover a lot of ground - metaphorically as well as literally.

This could be actual physical movement of travelling out of the space you're currently in. This could be the movement of cycles, repeating the same steps in a situation with a different perspective. This could be moving forward in your plan, your project. It is most likely a movement you've been contemplating for a while. But you've been hesitant.

Raido says, now is a good time to do it.

But the unknown can be scary, even when it's wished for. How do we allow ourselves to move, with grace and ease and comfort?

The secret, the important part of Raido this week, is to realize that every step we take is new. Every time we make a choice, we gain experience. Even when it feels we are walking in circles, we are actually moving up and around, a spiral. We may do the same thing over and over again, but each time we do it it's easier because we have new knowledge, new skills, more practice under our belt.

Anyone who has watched a movie more than once knows that each experience is different - not because the movie is different - but because the watcher has more or less knowledge, is in a different mood, has more experience in each situation.

So choosing something obviously new, while it may hike up the adrenaline because of evolutionary response, is no different than choosing something "old". You are a new person with each decision you make.

 And each choice creates movement.

Like the situation, the choice of movement doesn't have to be huge. It could be changing seats on your porch. Stepping out with your right foot instead of your left. Skipping instead of walking. How does that change the movement, the perspective? The truths?

To sum up the question, or thought, Raido is proposing: are you ready to move forward, possibly in something you've been contemplating for a while? Are you ready to make a choice and take a step? Do you want to move outside of your comfort zone?

And if you are the one with the question, then the answer is yes - Now is a good time to move.

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Has it really been only a week? Actually, is it true the month isn't over yet? I have taken steps, done a lot of movement, in the past 30 days. I'll be interested to see what the next opportunity is.

Yes there will be travel again this week - and I was going to say, but that's not about me. However, every choice I make is about me. So… But… And…

Hmm. I guess that's all I have to  say today! At least on this subject.

I hope you have a great week.

-Lila

LIR 71514 - Taiwaz, Sowelo

Question of the day:

what choices will lead to happiness & success?

which sacrifices are worth it?

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Since this was a question, I automatically asked and answered it.  What sacrifices are worth the success?  And the only thing I could think of was time.

Then of course I started obsessing with sacrifice.  But let's look at the first part of the question.  What choices will lead to happiness?  Time could also be the answer to that.    Spending time working on things, being with people and in places which create happiness.  Doing things that make me feel happy will lead to doing more happy things.

And back to the obsession about sacrifice.  Like "work" it has a negative connotation.  But really, all it means is choosing, doesn't it?  Choosing one thing over another.  Choosing this or that.  Choose excitement over fear.  Choose happiness over drama.  Choose to spend the time on things which make me happy, instead of bemoaning my anger or frustration or sorrow.

The important word is choice.

As always.

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LIR 71814 - Dagaz, Uraz, Ehwaz, Othila, Fehu  (lol - "from a trickle to a roar".)

A little more time, a little more thought. Firm your foundations, ride the emotional wave, accept your gifts & open your arms wide. Your dreams are coming!

I hope you have a great day!
-Lila

LIR 62214 - PerthroR

Look. It’s not about the outside influences. It’s not about what others want or think is right. It’s not even about fate, destiny, or what “should” be.

It’s about what we want. It’s about what makes us happy. Each, individually, uniquely happy.

So. What do you WANT?

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Yes, at first, this reading does (did?) seem like a continuation of the last posted reading, about taking time to decide what really works.  Weighing influences, in a fashion.  And I thought, "Okay.  Today I walk into the world with my head held high and my goals in sight and I will not let anyone sway me from my path."

Except.

Except.

What about when i want to be swayed?  When I want to be influenced?  When I want to stop for a few minutes and hang out with friends?  What if being under the influence of friends or family is what I WANT?

Ah, I realize as I sit here.  But that's still my choice.  My influence.  My responsibility and my decision.  It's like answering the body's need for calories.  I get to choose what form the calories take.  I even get to choose, to some extent, when I partake of those calories.  I find a balance.  I do not (anymore) eat the whole pint of ice cream just because the first half of the carton tasted so good.

Oh yes.  I do want to sit with friends in a bar all afternoon and talk.  Or sit on the couch and watch a marathon of Lost Girl or Elementary or Agents of Shield.  But, I also want to do that indulging with a happy heart.  With all of my brain.  With the knowledge I am working with myself, not in spite of myself.

So it's really not about the outside influences.  It's about the inside ones.  My responsibility.  My choice.  My WANT.  And my need.  Feeding my body, resting myself when it's time.  And getting up and working some more when it's time.  Stepping forward and trying to fulfill what I want when it's time.

Because that time is now.

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LIR 62314 - Isa

Today is a good day to isolate yourself a little, to stand apart, to shield from other people, outside influences, habits of the past.

I hope you have a great day!
-Lila

LIR 42414 - Naihwaz & Hagalaz

Sometimes, we find the biggest transformation is at the end of the storm.  The person who started the journey is not the person who ends it, and does need room and time to accept her or his new self.

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I'm still working on this one, it seems.  I spent some time with a person who made me wonder if I used to be like that...  and this is neither a positive or negative, because all aspects have a person can be enjoyable and then annoying...  or perhaps am i still like her in some aspects.  I'm learning that my reactions to people tell me a lot about myself.  And working the retail has brought a lot of old patterns back to the front.  And some of them make me happy; some of them don't make me happy; and some of them feel like simple survival skills.

I know it's easy to look at all the situations around us and say "why me?"  And I think the point of this reading is that answer - because we are unhappy with who we are.  I want change, so I embark on a huge path of change.  And at the end, I decide which aspects I keep and which I throw away.  Because no one can truly take anything from me without my permission.  So the changes, the huge sweeping transition brought on by the storm of Hagalaz, is only a suggestion.  Only the strong things survives the hailstorm, but nothing stops me from running right out and replacing the old destroyed things I miss.

So when I reach the end of the storm, when I wash up on the beach with Naihwaz - the tools I need to survive - they are the tools of my choosing.  The tools and patterns, memories and thoughts I have chosen to cling to, to drag with me through the change.

We are the mistresses & masters of our destiny.  Whether we choose to put our lives into the hands of a Divine Being, or whether we choose to maintain an iron control, we are in charge.  We Choose.  So at the end of the storm, to really achieve the change we desire, we must allow ourselves, our patterns, our judgements, our realities to change as well.

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LIR 42714 - No Rune

No new advice; you're doing well.
You have all your pointers, there's no more to tell.
Breathe, expand, to thyself be true
And every choice will be right for you.

I hope you have a great day!
-Lila

LIR 2814 Taiwaz

Taiwaz is about sacrifice, balancing the needs and desires of now against those of the future.

Someone has made a choice in your favor (either your past self or someone else) & today you feel the results.

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Sacrifice is such a scary word.  And I do get all closed off, possibly even uptight when the word comes up.

But really, what is sacrifice?  Well, okay.  I just looked it up and it has a pretty heavy subtext of giving something up.

Then maybe Taiwaz isn't necessarily about sacrifice, with all that heavy weighty portent.  Because nothing I felt yesterday, or participated in, felt like the end result of "sacrifice (dun dun duuuuun)".

I can see some end results.  Behavior yesterday that was refined because of practice in the past.  Additional fun & prizes yesterday because someone decided to give their game tickets to us some months ago.  Work accomplished today because of practice through the year.  And there are/ were probably a hundred little things which contributed to yesterday as the result of work and choices made in the past.

So, Taiwaz, in any position, need to not be portentous.  As my next blog will state (coming up next on the Meanderings page)  it's all about the little things.


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LIR 2914  HagalazR

The storm is not coming.  But we no longer need trauma to effect a transition.  We breathe, we choose, we change, we grow.

I hope you have a great day!

-Lila

121213 - Odin's Rune (the Blank Rune)

The universe has no advice or key phrases today.  Just keep being you.  We hope you have a great day!

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For myself, the actual video-taped reading was more accurate... and that is one of the problems with trying to sum up even a 1 rune reading.  On the other hand, there are different audiences for different media forms.  I believe that each person connects with the information she needs to receive at the proper time.

In the video, I talked about another reason for the Blank rune.  That some decisions haven't been made yet, so the Universe has no advice.

It makes me think of Minority Report, a movie based on a short story.  (I have seen the movie; I have not read the story (by Philip K. Dick), so I don't know if the backbone of the stories are the same.)  In Minority Report a person can get arrested and prosecuted for intending to commit a crime.  And the "recall" of the psychics is somehow taped and used as judicial evidence.

But, it is not only a woman's right, it is a HUMAN's right to change her mind.  How many times have you, mad as Medusa on a cold day, and righteously so, intended to wreak havoc upon your transgressors?  And yet they still live and breath and (other than that zit which you privately celebrated) continue to appear untraumatized?

It is a long, long trip from the moment of intention to the moment of action.  And we well know how a small thing can create a big change.  Heck, the Butterfly Effect is a movie also!

The future, the future is always always changing.  

So for me, and the utterly interesting past day, the Blank Rune had to have been about the effects of decisions that hadn't been made.    Which, in the end, comes down to the same thing it always does.

Be the best me I can be.  Breathe.  Stand in my truth.  Act (not react) from my truths.  Choose what I want to be a part of, and what I don't.  What makes me happy?

 Big or small, personal or global, within and without, above and below, it's all the same.  The things practiced for small events are the same moves for the big events.  And really, there is no such thing as a small event.  But that balances out by meaning there is no such thing as a big event.  Everything, every moment, every choice has the importance and value of that moment.  Then, it's over and time to move on to the next.

So, while the Blank Rune did portend a rash of interesting behavior from others, the "sum up" is still the same and it was what I remembered.  I kept being me.

And I hope you have a great day!

-Lila

92913 Perthro

Today is a good day to hear what others have to say.  (listening <> doing; choice = yours).

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Well, I certainly needed to get out of my own head, today.  But it seemed all I heard from others was not information but demands.

some issues were my own expectations meeting reality with a fatal explosion.  these I managed to accept.  but other issues... well, someone still has a lot of practice to do.  Sometimes I think it's me, sometimes I don't.

But, at the end of the day, having woken feeling spiritual and connected, and going to bed feeling cranky and hermicidal (the desire to commit hermitage), I worry... Okay.  Truth.  I am talking myself out of worrying that I missed something vital.

The beauty of the universe is every death brings a chance for a new life.  sleep is a little death.

shrug.  So.  That was my day.  Hope you had a great one.

-Lila