Showing posts with label gifts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gifts. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 9, 2015

LIR 9915 Weekly - Perthro

Perthro is about outside influences - they flow toward us; they happen all around us. And we have no control over them.

Perthro this week is specifically about influences from the past… more like ripples. The butterfly's wings have flapped, the pebble has dropped in the pond, and the effects are now reaching our shores. We still have no control over it.

Perthro, as you can see in the picture,
kind of resembles a cup, lain on its side. In this case, we can think of ourselves as the cup. The energies, ripples, wing flaps, are rolling towards us, rushing to fill the cup. And, again, we have no control over these energies.

Until they are ours.

Once the energy, the influence, the result of whatever past action rolls into your personal bubble and becomes part of your reality, you have plenty of choices!

How are you going to act, once you know what's going on? Are you going to block the energy, neutralize the energy, accept the energy, use the energy, pass it on?

Let's look at it this way. A box arrives at your doorstep. This is the outside influence. Obviously, it's a past influence, for the box was sent (or ordered) a few days ago. You decide to open the box. Or not. You decide to bring the box into your home. Or not. You decide to keep what's in the box. Or not. You decide to use what's in the box. Or not.

Let's say it's clothes in the box and, in your opinion, they're too ugly to wear. Do you wear them? Return them? Donate them? Stuff them in the back of your closet? Pull out the sewing machine, the bedazzler, and the dye packets?

Let's say, in your opinion, the clothes are perfect! Do you wear them? Return them? Donate them? Stuff them in the back of your closet? Pull out the sewing machine, the bedazzler, and the dye packets?

Stuff is going to come in. We have no control of the influences, ripples, responses, energies flowing toward us. We can control what we receive, what we keep. And we can definitely control what we do with the gifts that arrive upon those ripples.

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This one was difficult to interpret. There's so much trepidation, for me, around other people's choices. I expect part of this is because I have learned a distrust of the human powers' that be. After all, any good story has to have something to struggle against, doesn't it? And oh, the bad guys we have created for our heroic journeys.

So I think I am going to practice changing that perception. For example, I know I'm not the only hopeful, bright-eyed, optimist who believes in unicorns. I know many people have at least one of those traits.

I also know that many people strive to become a power for the express purpose of affecting the world in a positive, hopeful, unicorn friendly fashion.

So I am going to practice believing in those energies, the bright shiny energies. If the government, and the world, is made up of humans (which, yes, is also a belief system), then i am going to make my "Vote" in the energetic world and support the positive. I am going to believe in fairies and other supposed mythical creatures like honest politicians and CEO's who work for and with their employees. And by this belief, this support, I am going to help create more!

And, yeah, I am going to color all of the ripples that come my way with my rainbow marker even before I decide what to do with them.

It sounds flighty, I understand. That's because I do like sparkles. But, really, what it is, is love. A deep, connected with everything, accepting everything, awesome love. It does require practice to stay aware of (hence the rainbow markers), but it's the most influential power I know. 

I hope you have a great and positively influential week!
-Lila

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

LIR 71814 - Dagaz, Uraz, Ehwaz, Othila, Fehu


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!
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i just have to say - five minutes after I cast this, just finished typing up the interpretation, and a company called.  They had already filled the position I had applied for, and wondered if I were interested in a different position.  

I don't know if I would have grabbed it anyway, but with this reading firmly in hand, I said no thank you.  I'm holding out for what I want!

It'll be interesting to see what the rest of the day brings.

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5 days later...  well, 5 is a good number.  A restful number.

I find it interesting which parts of a reading I latch onto.  Often it's the fearful parts I have to over come.  Like that little time rune, down in the lower right corner.  Part of me wants to scream, "HOW MUCH TIME?!"  So there have been days when I have simply been riding the whirlwind.  Or, to be more accurate, I have simply been being me, while the whirl wind flows around.

Have I firmed my foundations?  Well, I definitely confirmed I have no desire to stay in a retail job, no matter how awesome the people.  And, in my job search, I have realized also that transit time is not necessarily what I want right now.  Though, I leave that up in the air a little more than others, because it could be good to get my behind out of the house.

But is that my real foundation?  I am very comfortable in the house, but do I get any work done if there is no outside impetuous?

And is that important?

Right.

So.

Foundation -  More of a honing, than an expanding.
Time - both relaxing and stressful.
Arms open wide to accept gifts?  Hmm.  Let's see what today brings.

I mean yes!  Yes!  I accept.  *G*

Really, if I pay attention to what I, myself, my body and my happiness meter are telling me, I can separate the hobbies from the work which feeds me.  So once more, accepting my gifts means also accepting how I want to use those gifts.  Or not, as the case may be.  Which means, again and always, accepting myself.

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LIR 72314 - Jera
How do you know your hard work will pay off?
Look where you are now! Only you could have made the choices which led to this harvest, these rewards.
It only gets richer, fuller, happier from here.
I hope you have a great day!
-Lila




Tuesday, November 12, 2013

111213 - Othilo, Naihwaz

It is ok to gift today, be it knowledge, energy, stuff.  A helping hand now means when you're in need, you will have more than enough.

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My difficulty with today's reading was the number of opportunities to give.  From charity calls to doing a little extra for someone close to hand, the day was full of moments of guilt.  "Was that the person I was supposed to help today?"

But.  When I step back and look at that statement, it just feels slimy.  Gifting something is not an obligation; if it feels like one, then I'm not actually freely giving.

Also, just because the stones say, doesn't mean I HAVE to do it.  Maybe the reading would have been, for me, "There will be many opportunities to give... knowledge, energy, stuff."  But, as always it is my choice what I give and what I retain.  Just because there's a little extra energy or time today in no way devalues our own choices.

Looking back at today, there were moments I  easily stepped in or stepped away, sent out my thoughts to others, gave of time or energy.  That was gifting.

I hope you had a great day!

-Lila

ps - and a side note.  Naihwaz may also have meant, for me, "Yay.  The the end of the project is in sight. Keep going!  You can relax when you're finished. You have plenty of other projects clamoring for your attention, so don't stop now!."

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

102313 - Othilo

Oh!  Um.  Hmm.  It looks like I didn't actually get the reading posted today on Twitter/ Tumblr/ Facebook.  The You Tube video went up.  Hmm.

And that would be why!  Just watched video.  Not my best work, and not very conclusive at the end.  I shall recap with a little more coherence.

Othilo is the rune of gifts;  it definitely has a spiritual quality to it, whether  of Spirit (a gift to balm the soul), or from the spirits (ancestors - like DNA, inheritance, talents.)

the way the rune was laying (lying?), sideways, lent the thought that the past (or possibly future) has some influence on today's gift.

The conclusion was: today is about gifts, possibly gifts received in the past that will be of importance today.  It will be interesting to see who manifests what.

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Tempted as I am to delete the video from You Tube, I will not.  It may serve as a teaching tool.  (How not to read the runes publically.  Even awesome people have uninspired performances.  Think before You Tube.)

What i find interesting about the whole thing is, I felt today that I was following (or benefitting from?) yesterday's reading.  (Uraz in spirit.)  I received much needed support.  I gave support naturally, easily, without all the second guessing.

So maybe my gift today... 
    ...well,  one gift of today was definitely the support I received this morning.  (Thanks, Warrior!)
  But perhaps the other gift was the opportunity to improve on yesterday's performance.



You may have noticed there's no elemental aspect to today's reading.  Yesterday was the third day in a row I had difficulty, not only with mixing the runes themselves, but with seeing the symbols.  The paint is already coming off, and it's very difficult to distinguish between the colors to get the elemental influence.  So, I decided it was time to break out the polymer and get started making my own runes from clay, as I've been planning to do for at least two years.  Naturally, I am only halfway through the first set.  But.  I am inspired  (by the mess on my table, if by nothing else).

Okay.  You may have also noticed new pages available to peruse... since the blogs are where I am giving the most energy, I am making it/them the center.  I am slowly but surely "growing" my dream.  Thank you for being a part of it.

I hope you have a great day!

-Lila

Saturday, October 12, 2013

101213 - Othilo & Eihwaz in Spirit

Today let's discuss the spiritual choices of the clan.  Othilo is about the gifts we will leave; Eihwaz about balancing paths. 
"What actions/ words will express my truth while allowing others to express theirs?"

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Gentle Beings:

(long long long pause)

I don't know.  I think today was a day where I'll be able to judge the impact of the reading on some future day.  

Perhaps it was about the children today.  There were only a few, but even influencing one can/ will make a difference.  So.

I would have to say that today I was very occupied with doing my best to be true to my truths; and trying to balance between what I wanted, and fulfilling my responsibilities.  Hopefully, I was an example of which I will be proud later.

I hope you had a great day.

-Lila