LIR 51315 Weekly - Kunos, EihwazR, UrazR

This week EihwazR holds a different meaning for us. It still talks about how worlds can be separate, without bridges, without an overall view, but now it's more personal. Let's start at the beginning.

Kunos is left, EihwazR lower right, UrazR upper right.
 Link To Video of Reading  

Kunos denotes choices. Possibilities. Light shining into any corner you wish to explore. This week, Kunos tells us that it's time to narrow our choices a little. Time to solidify our plans.  Pick a color scheme, choose a team, decide on which seminars you wish to attend. Make a decision.

Now, we don't have to limit our choices - we can choose a myriad of things - the colors, the team, and the seminars. In fact, EihwazR tells us, the things we choose don't even have to be related to each other. So, I can love purple and gold, but root for the Dallas Cowboys (who are Blue and White. Or silver. I'm not sure.) I, for one, have a variety of interests, and each time I think I'm going to discard all but one, the others come knocking again. So, in this situation this week, I don't have to even apply the skills of just one trade, or the scheme of just one color, to my decisions.

UrazR tells us, however, that if we choose multiple focuses, we will have to be prepared for some shaky ground.

If you stick to one dream, one scheme, you can build it's tool box pretty quickly - heck, you probably already have the color scheme in mind. And the foundation will be solid, and you'll work steadily at building your truth.

If you have different dreams and desires, ones which have little to do with each other, that requires different toolboxes; or perhaps a larger toolbox; or maybe a toolbox, a soapbox, and a bookcase. Different dreams. Different tools. Different skill sets. Maybe even different places.

Steady foundation, or multiple dreams. Either choice can be right - it is your truth which tells you.

And remember, this is just for the choices that come up this week. Who knows what's going to happen next!

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Another adventure for me, this week. Beltania starts tomorrow - it is a 4 day festival celebrating spring, and the marriage of the Goddess and the God. It will be the first time I have attended a camping pagan festival (there are a few during the "sunny" months.)

I have all of my equipment and have even practiced setting up my tent in my raincoat. What I don't have is a real clue as to what classes / events / rituals I want to attend. So different from the Threshold gathering. Which could be the meaning of EihwazR for me, right there. That Threshold Gathering is its own world, and Beltania is its own world. Don't expect the same kind of focus and feeling. They are two different subjects, literally the beginning and the ending of life.

I know I wish to see SJ Tucker in concert. (Yay!). And there's a drumming group that will be giving workshops. But there's also the appeal of the daily services for the sun. So, though I do like to have a plan, I don't actually know what is going to appeal. So I'm going to go with the ungrounded, disconnected, floating version of the weekend. At least for this moment of truth.

I hope you have a great week!

-Lila

LIR 11414 - Kunos off the cloth

That underlying anxiety?  The feeling of pressure?  That could be the fear or the hope of too many choices.  Put the anxiety aside and focus on the truths of today.  YOUR truths.  Deep breath, and, go!

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I remember at the time of posting this reading, I knew exactly what my fear of choices was.  I don't remember now, but I do remember what I did.

I breathed.

Regardless of the availability of choices, the multitude of possibilities for the future, or even the fear that today's choice is going to negate possible better choices, there is only one thing to do.  Keep moving forward.  One step at a time.  And repeat the mantra - what is for my best and highest good, what will make me happy, is what is going to be.  And the only way I can truly achieve that is to be me, myself, to the best of my ability.

That is my truth.  Each and every day.

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LIR 11614  HagalazR

No storm today, so if you're prepping for a transition, you have more time.  Focus on the things (physical, emotional, mental) you definitely want to take with you - strengthen & secure them.  And breathe.

I hope you have a great day!
-Lila

January 2014

as seen in the Spirit Wise newsletter

The rune for January is Kunos (also known as Kano, cen, kaunaz, kenaz)

It's fitting that Kunos be the rune for January, the time many people make resolutions to improve themselves and their worlds.  Kunos is about possibilities, the choices we make, our individual personal decision about where to shine our light, where to invest our passion, what to create.

This month, Kunos tells us let all of your hopes and dreams be possible.  Don't just put the probable goals on your list, add everything you want.  From the lifestyle change to the lottery win, from the communication with exotic beings to the clean carpet.  Many of these may not manifest, due to timing, or lack of attention.  Some are just fun day dreams; some are seeds of ideas that will be passions next year.  But let the limits come later, as your attention and desires focus in on specific dreams.  For January, lay it all out and see what you really think you might want to be interested in.

Kunos tells us this also.  The progress of our dreams, our successes, is not measured by another's accomplishments, nor by their opinions.  Our deeds are not diminished because someone else is also doing it, has done it first, has done it differently.  The passion and the fire for each dream comes from each person; so the result, the art, the success of your dream is unique and all yours.  Whether it's the clean carpet or the lottery win.

Kunos, fire and air.  Dream big, dream large.  Anything is possible.  May the dream(s) that feed us be the ones that flourish.

I hope you have a great month!

-Lila

12913 - Kunos & WunjoR

Kunos - Choices become more specific, possibly spiritual in nature.
WunjoR - communication with clan is spotty.
Today is a good day to double check our truths and our assumptions.

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The thing that most comes to mind about this reading and my experiences of the past day is: "the trouble with Divination."

Of course, the first down side to Divination is proving a negative.  How many accidents have we avoided, how many bitter paths have we missed, how many ill feelings have we escaped because we turned right instead of left?  Oh yeah?  Prove it.  

But the second down side is about focus:  If all you focus on is the event or situation, how can you know what else is possible?   

A member of my clan read me an astrological prediction for 2014 (obviously a general prediction, but Yay Leos!).  It was very encouraging, but now I find myself limiting the choices I'm considering so my bright and shiny future will fit into that reading.

And that's just silly.  I put a lot of work into a lot of things this year - emotional, personal, spiritual and business (al).  Any number of doors could be the way to fulfill my ultimate goal.  And the focus mentioned in the prediction can be a side benefit of many of those doors.  Why limit myself to just that narrow perception triggered by specific words?

"I see a tall dark stranger, and a tropical island."
      Immediate perception:   Ooh!  Captain Jack (a lot steadier on his feet, and wearing a tux) is going to walk into the grocery store one day and decide I need to sail away with him.
       Reality:  A brunette basketball player has to cancel her vacation because she's picked for an All Star team.  I'm idly shopping cruise sights and voila!  the tickets are available for the right time and right price and right place for me.  
       Danger:  That I pass up this opportunity because it didn't fit into the perception.   (And, let's be honest, if a stranger tried to sweep me up, I'd probably scream and beat him with my purse.  Especially if he looked like Captain Jack.  Too bad Legolas is blonde.)

The point is this.  Perception needs two eyes, one on the broad view and one on the narrow, allowing all sorts of possibilities.  The truth of today is not necessarily the truth of tomorrow because the focus changes every day.  I pick my path moment to moment; and while my past choices may limit my current choices, there's no need to narrow the future before it even happens.

I hope that made sense.

And I hope you have a great day!

-Lila

112213 - Kunos

oooh. choices! open doors. You decide what you’re going to make.

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I may as well interpret this now also.  Cause all the choices I made today seemed to fill my day (and tomorrow) and leave me little time to post!

But that is okay.  But I chose to purchase tools today that will help me be more efficient (and have fun).  May the TechDieties continue to smile upon me!

I hope you have a great day!

-Lila

101013 - Kunos in fire

Looks like today we'll benefit from past choices, or we'll be making final decisions on where we really want to put our energy!  We're aiming for what makes us happy!

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Hmm.  Okay.  Benefit from past choices.  

Weeellll... I've been craving butterscotch cookies for about a month and haven't found any in the grocery store.  Tried to substitute straight butterscotch chips - but only found them once.  And, as I had no desire to actually try and make cookies, they were too sweet by themselves.  Tried butterscotch pudding - it didn't set up well, and again was too sweet.  And yes, I love the salted caramel cocoas, but... 'tsnot a cookie.  (ME WANT COOKIE!) 
Today I went to the grocery store for dinner ingredients and I was complaining to my shopping companion about the dearth of butterscotch cookies.  As we walked through the dairy, I glanced at the very full clearance section and LA! there was a stack of oatmeal scotchies cookie dough - just break apart and cook.  I laughed and laughed.  (and people looked at me, and I didn't care.)
  My shopping companion grabbed me 3 packs.  She has, by the way also taught me a most excellent and quick form of cookie cooking.  Put the dough on the plate, put the plate in the microwave for 15 to 30 seconds.  I like 30 seconds, because it gets a gentle crust.  Warm.  Melty.  Soft.  The problem with baking cookies, I've always thought, is when they're a day old, the steam of flavor is missing.  Microwaving cookie dough is much better.  In my opinion.

So, that's a benefit, for my taste buds at least.  And I was happy.  But I don't know if it really applies to the "fire" portion -- unless you consider butterscotch chips are orange.

In other news, in my personal reading (which involved communication) I was so concerned about all the things it might have been, I actually missed it when it happened.  Ah well.  Next time I'll try harder.

But back to this reading, beginning and ending of the day, I did put my energy into the things I enjoy.  And actually, oh yeah!  
I am a bit of a planner, and I know if I try to concentrate on too many things at once, I just get (well, the word is pissy) cranky.  I had set this evening aside as family time.  But... the family was off each doing his/her own thing.  So, instead of sitting around feeling useless and put upon (and instead of playing video games), I went back to my office and was productive.  I felt much better after that.  I'll admit, I did not have this rune reading in mind when I did it (I was still festering over the missed opportunity).  But past practices of learning how to set aside the expectations, of seeing the situation for what it is, allowed me to do for me today.

And that spurred me to do more writing, which made me so happy, I actually had to force myself to stop so I COULD fulfill my family time duties.  

Goodness.  I am a babbling.  And I do want to play SOME video game today.  So.

I hope you had a great day!

-Lila

91713

Past choices show up again today as another project gets a kick start.  All part of the harvest package here in the universe.
    *I will keep moving forward!*

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What an excellent way to lose a day - trying to figure out how to write a formula in Excel to quickly find data.  If it'd looked up all the figures manually, I would have made more progress.  Sigh.  Preparing for the future is oftimes a little frustrating; especially when dealing with "help" sites that don't answer the question I'm trying to ask.

But.  I will keep moving forward.  I am moving forward.  And I think I'm a little stubborn.  Hmm.

don't know if a project took off, but I certainly tried to remember stuff I'd done years ago in a different version of the program.  Yay?!

-L