Join me for a monthly rune workshop from the comfort of your home! Each month, we’ll look at a pair of runes in detail—their names, descriptions in the various Rune Poems, associations and interpretations both historical and modern, and ways of working with their energies to make your readings rich, deep, and meaningful.

This month, we’ll look at Ior and Laguz. Ior, the rune of boundaries, is associated with Jormundgand, the World Serpent. Laguz, the rune of flow, seems to be the opposite of Ior. We’ll explore how they work together to create a dedicated space for your work.

This online workshop is held at 7:00 PM Pacific Time, and runs for 90 minutes. We use a Google Hangout for real-time video and audio during the workshop. The link for the workshop will be sent the Monday prior to the event.

Each workshop is a stand-alone event, so you don’t have to attend all of them. It’s more fun if you do, of course, but it’s not required!

Register on the Tarot Media Company site:http://bit.ly/2rV3bym

See you online in July!

If you are new to working with bindrunes, I suggest you read the introductory bindrune post here, then return to this post to read about this specific bindrune. Remember that working with bindrunes, as with working with any kind of magic, does not carry guaranteed results, and may produce results quite different from what you expect.

Many people suffer from depression (my own self included). Some people find their way through with the help of a mental health professional, pharmaceuticals, the support of loving network of people, and/or changes to their living patterns. What works for one person may not work at all for another. Each person’s brain chemistry responds differently, and sometimes it feels as though you’ll never find something that really helps.

I devised this bindrune to help me deal with my own depression. The energy of the bindrune moves from the left, where you entered the void, through the center to the breakthrough, and out of the void and into life again.

Wan, Dagaz, Wunjo

Wan (left tile, grey in bindrune): Wan is the primal void, the emptiness before creation, which we call Ginnungagap. This represents the void you feel caught in when you are in a depression. You are surrounded by infinite potential, but you are unable to see any of it, or feel any connection to it. This is the dark, cold, desolate feeling of disconnection from yourself and everyone and everything.

Dagaz (center tile, orange in bindrune): Dagaz is the turning point, the breakthrough. The darkness gives way to light, night turns to day, and your energies return you to your self. You are back on your feet, and feel alive again.

Wunjo (right tile, gold in bindrune): Joy! You are once again able to feel joy, pleasure, happiness, love, passion, creative inspiration—the energies that help you take each day as a gift.

The bindrune on the left was done in colored pencil. The one on the right was done with fine point calligraphy markers. They are shown in two different media to give an idea of how the same bindrune looks different depending on how it is created.

You could put a drop of peppermint oil for emotional cheer, rose for self-love, or lavender for calm. You could also use your favorite oil on it to reinforce the energy with your personal scent. You can also use a magical oil, such as a hoodoo oil or other type of specially prepared oil.

Use this bindrune—and all bindrunes—entirely at your own risk.

Say It
~ Joyce Sutphen

Say that it is the continuous life
you desire, that one day might stretch into
the next without a seam, without seeming
to move one minute away from the past
or that in passing through whatever comes

you keep coming to the faces you love,
never leaving them entirely behind.

Say that it is simply a wish to waste
time forever, lingering with the friends
you’ve gathered together, a gradual
illumination traveling the spine,
eyes brimming with the moment that is now.

Say that it is the impulse of the soul
to endure forever. Say it again.

Weather
~ Faith Shearin

There is weather on the day you are born

and weather on the day you die. There is

the year of drought, and the year of floods,

when everything rises and swells,

the year when winter will not stop falling,

and the year when summer lightning

burns the prairie, makes it disappear.

There are the weathervanes, dizzy

on top of farmhouses, hurricanes

curled like cats on a map of sky:

there are cows under the trees outlined

in flies. There is the weather that blows

a stranger into town and the weather

that changes suddenly: an argument,

a sickness, a baby born

too soon. Crops fail and a field becomes

a study in hunger; storm clouds

billow over the sea;

tornadoes appear like the drunk

trunks of elephants. People talking about

weather are people who don’t know what to say

and yet the weather is what happens to all of us:

the blizzard that makes our neighborhoods

strange, the flood that carries away

our plans. We are getting ready for the weather,

or cleaning up after the weather, or enduring

the weather. We are drenched in rain

or sweat: we are looking for an umbrella,

a second mitten; we are gathering

wood to build a fire.

alignment
~ Amy Saul-Zerby

not that i
understand
but that
i want to;

that i would like
my intentions
to mean something,

if not to you, then
to the sky.

i’d like the moon
to tell me
how i got here.

would like for it
to matter how
i got here,

if not to you,
then to an empty
room.

if not to you,
then to the air.

to feel that there’s
a reason for

ssomething is
enough
if you let it be

i am trying
hard
to let it be.