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

LIR Weekly 5615 - EihwazR, EhwazR, JeraR, Perthro

I forgot to take a picture when I did the reading, so I'm hoping to link to the video. 

Runes are read from bottom to top

From the position of the runes (EihwazR being below the chain,) it appears this is a continuation of last week's work with projects or divisible worlds - worlds which need bridges, connections. Last week we decided if they needed bridges, or if it was better to let them - each world, each part of the project, each section of the choir - work alone.

This week is a good time to look at those disparate worlds and see what it is that keeps them from flowing together. Is every part operating under the same goals, the same culture, the same language? Is everyone singing the same song? Comparison and judgment can be good tools.

And, again, do you (do we, do I) want it to be in flow? Is the discordant effect wrong, or right for the truth we're seeking?

This week will probably not produce anything, for all the work and effort we're putting into this project; perhaps it's not time for it to produce anything yet. (so, don't sing the song for the public, don't present the report). There may be another question to ask. Is all this work worth the expected harvest?

It is a good time to get some outside opinions, however. A dress rehearsal, beta testing, or even taking a perception of the project(s) from the overview, instead of from the inside. Recording, practicing, seeing the piece as a whole can help wiggle out where some tuning might be helpful.

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Of course, my own insecurities do pop up immediately - OH NO! What am I doing wrong? Why won't it fit together? Why doesn't anything go the way I want it to?

Then my inner coach gives me my pillow pet and reminds me, there are no mistakes. This is all practice. Big and small, stage show and outfit, final test for college and new business launch. You can only do what you can do. I cannot do your best. You cannot do my best. WE can each only do our best. So how much do I want to give to this project, regardless of its production value? How much time, energy, love, passion, do I want to exert?

And when I put it that way, I can think of a few situations which might fall into this reading very nicely. I'll have to think about the outside influence though. That's something which will require practice… well, I guess it depends on which situation I'm in.

Hmm. I wonder if I can apply the accepting attitude of a place where I request outside information (like voice lessons) to the places I don't want it so much (like when I'm talking about writing and everyone wants to tell me how to get things published.)

Thank you, and I hope you have a Great week!

-Lila

LIR 22514 - Taiwaz & Perthro

Today's situation is based on past decisions, past actions.  Some choices were yours, but other people's choices affect us too.

So when you're celebrating your current fortune, you might take a moment to celebrate everyone who chooses.

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There was no one specific moment, but I did spend a lot of time contemplating the past, and which moments - well, which stretches of time, seemed the happiest to me.  

I know we can't go back in time; I know that change is part of my life cycle.  i seem to like the challenge of it, especially if the change creates a project, like moving into a new house or starting a new job.

And I know other people make their choices and those choices can affect us.  Like the house we had viewed and viewed again and made an offer on, and never received an answer, diverting us to a different choice.  

But every day is like that - small moments and big ones.  Every day is based off of previous decisions, ours and others.

Shrug.

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LIR 22614 - OthiloR

Today's answers may lie somewhere other than the traditional path.  Look not amongst the skills & gifts handed down from family.  Reach outside your ancestral box.

I hope you have a great day!
-Lila

LIR 2314 Perthro & MannazR

Is the energy you're putting out there what you want to put out there?  Is your influence in line with your truths?

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Well, the last two days, I have been pretty UNenergetic.  Perhaps the cold (which is extreme in my perception) has tapped the ancient urge to hibernate.  So I cannot say I brought this reading much to mind.  In fact, my influence has been missing the last two days - at least in doing the readings - because I was so focused on whether I was actually warm enough to get out of my chair.

I still desire to do the readings.  I enjoy them.  But I seem to be stumbling over (or playing with) the delivery of the readings.  Video camera on tripod, phone camera, quick snapshot; with intro or summation; wordiness of written reading... the question may come down to, how much work do I want to do related to the readings?

The answer may be, not that much.  Hmm.  So, I may be pondering this reading a little while longer.

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LIR 2614 Mannaz & Ansaz

Be patient, be attentive; be still.  The balance, the inspiration, will come to you, but it has to be able to find you.

I hope you have a great day!
-Lila

111813 - Perthro, UrazR

We hope to have some outside help today, some spark to move us forward.  So let that line in the sand be movable.  Listen with more than your personal truth.

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Right.  Well.  If this is about my computer, my line in the sand ain't movin!

Actually, I still have some studying to do this evening.  I'll be reading Christopher Penzac's book on Shamanish later, so hopefully I will be reading with an open mind  and a willingness to contemplate things which make me uncomfortable.  Because really, it is nice to believe, even for a moment, that I do know it all, and thus I need study and grow and learn no more.

But, well, today is not that moment.

So, actually, you have it right there - the daily reading in action.  My hope for a peaceful, helpful, learning experience... and a situation where I am willing to TRY to read another person's advice before doing the visual equivalent of sticking my fingers in my ears and singing "lalalalalalala".  

I hope you have a great day!

-Lila

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

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