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Getting in touch with my inner Frigg. I created this distaff and it's made spinning so much easier. I've been working on finishing spinning this plain wool I've had for a while. My yarn width is becoming more consistent. I'm so happy with my progress. When this is done I will spin my gray wool I just bought. When it's plyed it will be knit or crocheted into bags for my two rune sets. ❤

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How my Yule season has been so far. An altar for Eir asking for mercy and healing. Mercy results were here the next morining for someone suffering. Then a Mother's Night altar in honor of the Dísir. Followed by Yule vigil and then a rune reading for myself. This time if year really gets me into the spiritual groove. Anyone interested in a rune reading?

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@aliengonewild I drew three runes for you. They are for the past/what brought you here, things how they are right now, and where you end up with this current path.

Past- Dagaz. Present- Berkano. Path- Eihwaz.

Dagaz is a rune of rebirth and change like the cycle of Ragnarok. A major change in DDH may be unsettling, but maybe something in their life changed so drastically that they seem new. They may need to talk to you regarding this.

Berkano is a rune of new directions and projects. Also of fertility. Is the change of the past also throwing them in a new direction in life? Have they started something new that is wearing them out? Are they or their partner expecting? Things like that certainly throws someone out of sorts.

Finally we have Eihwaz. Whatever the problem may be, stay firmly grounded to protect yourself. This rune is to remind you to use your inner strength to prepare for possible chaos.

I hope I've helped.

Friend Of Mine

    Hello, my name is Red and I need help figuring out who exactly my friend is. Well, not who exactly they are, mostly their intentions with me. 

Lately I’ve been feeling like that there is someone in my life who doesn’t appear to really be the person they show me. They seem off and it’s unsettling. Her initials are DDH. Any information you get would be rather helpful.

Submitted By: @aliengonewild 

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I used a three rune draw of Past, Present, and Current Path Outcome. Hagalaz, Perthro, and Laguz are your runes.

Hagalaz or hail is the chaos and destruction you recognized in the past. Hail may wreck crops but when you got away from it the hail melted and things were ok.

Now you are realizing that this person it's pretty unpredictable like Perthro says. This friend can obviously go one way or another at any given time. This rune reminds us that we can't really control everything around us. This friend is definately that kind of force that can go either way. This isn't the fun kind of unpredictable.

Laguz is water. It's an element that can be a serene well, calming stream, or a chaotic sea. You should trust your emotions and intuition. Especially based on your past experience with them. Go with the flow of the waters away from them and never look back. It's more healing for yourself to do so.

Toxicity and the dark side of friendship...an intuition-based ask for help

Hello, 

Your help will be of great use for my situation; I’ve met someone living in another country as I do and we become good friends together. But as time goes by, her attitude has started to be really obsessive, lunatic and in some way toxic…my “little voice” got louder and louder about this person being a potential “danger” to me, I couldn’t take it anymore so I cut ties with this person.

However now, this person has sent me messages and seems to be the person I used to like again but my intuition is like repulsing this idea but I’m telling myself it’s only in my mind, I’m making huge things about little stuff. But she’s like saying she wouldn’t mind finding me in person if it’s necessary (since she managed to find my personal informations) 

I know it’s silly but…should I be wary of this person ? Is my fear got a part of reality or I’m just getting paranoid and she, is just being passionate ? Should I answer her messages and get in touch with this person again ? Or go away and never look back ? 

I would be really thankful to anyone who would like to help me in this tricky and weird situation…

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Rune divination

I want to work on my rune reading skills. I'm opening up my inbox to free 3-rune-readings that are done with the Elder Futhark. The 3 are past, present, and future (based on your current path). I will close this up if my inbox gets overwhelming.

Please provide:

Initials or a name to call you by. Some details pertaining to the question if you feel comfortable with that. A question that is not a yes or no answer. Please tell me whether or not you want my response posted publicly or privately.

Feedback after would be greatly appreciated.

Ask away! :)

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Found on Facebook.

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World Mythologies + War Goddesses

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Nevermore by mynameistran

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me: *getting ready to sleep*

the demons in my head: cat.(ding ) I’m a kitty cat. and I dance dance dance.

me: what year am I in

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This may be exactly what I'm looking for. I don't know if anyone else is interested in this but I think I might take on some of these readings to work on my rune divination.

Attention Divination Community! 🔮🕯✨

Need a place to practice your craft? [Tarot, Pendulum, Runes, Scrying, etc]

Check out The Free Reading Exchange!

(It’s sort of like The Witch Exchange, but for free readings!)

It’s a place for readers to practice their abilities without the obligation of having to answer the hundreds of ask messages that come through your inboxes. Plus, you get feedback from the person you read for! All you have to do as a reader is scroll through the submitted reading request posts and reblog or reply to it with your reading. In exchange, you’ll receive feedback from the requester within 3 days.  

Personally as a reader myself, I feel really bad when I can’t get to everyone because my energy gets drained after the first 5-6 people, so this is my solution to ensuring that people with requests get the insight they need, and that readers can practice their divination abilities whenever they want and read for as many people as they like, all while receiving valuable feedback for their time and energy. 

Anyone can read for the Free Reading Exchange – even if you’re just starting out! This is a place for readers to practice their skills, no matter what level they’re at. 

If you guys could signal boost this, that would be so amazing. 💕 You could even reblog it or suggest it to people you don’t have the energy to get to. Overall, I really hope this sort of system can help readers and free reading requesters alike. 

Love and light blessings,

Malina

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Wonder how fast we could crowdfund it.

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Dad kept hiding pine nuts in the pages of this magazine and letting Edgar root around for them.

(Edgar cannot be released to the wild due to an injury. He now works as an ambassador bird and general household nuisance.)

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Happy Birthday, Ursula Le Guin - Important words and an important video

Le Guin is my favourite living author. She turned 88 this weekend. She was first published more than fifty years ago and even now her work still feels incredibly visionary, progressive and grounded in purest human experience. I saw her speak in Seattle once and got to ask her a question. It was like talking to God.

I feel now is as good a time as ever to reflect on some things she said at a convention address once, to what seemed to be a largely male audience in a largely male field. They’re words about gatekeeping, about inclusion and about fan attitudes. She spoke about fans feeling alienated by having a niche interest: 

“I can’t blame those of my generation who don’t want to see the walls crumbling down and who cling to their ghetto status as if it were a precious thing, making a religion out of science fiction which the touch of the uninitiated will profane. They were forced into that attitude by the attitude of respectable society, intellectual and literary, toward their particular interest and it was perfectly natural for them, like any persecuted group, to make a virtue of their necessity. I don’t blame them, but neither can I agree with them.”

She also spoke about how that interest isn’t so niche any more:

“To cling to a posture of evasion and defense, once persecution and contempt has ceased, is not to be a rebel but to be a cripple.”

She spoke about not only how  things were changing, but that things should change, about how change is good, healthy, radical and exciting:

“What I’d like to see is science fiction continue to rebel. I’d like to see science fiction evade not those who despise it, but those who want it to be just what it was thirty years ago. I want to see science fiction step over the old walls and hit right into the next wall and start to break it down, too.”

She also explicitly addressed this largely male audience and asked to conduct some extremely important self-examination. 

“I’d like to ask the men here to consider idly, in some spare moment, whether by any chance they’ve been building any walls to keep the women out, or to keep them in their place, and what they may have lost by doing so.”

Here’s the video of the full address, which contains all this and much more. Note that date.

Nineteen seventy-five.

Now consider replacing every instance of “science fiction” with “gaming.” Or, really, with anything.

Visionary. Progressive. Grounded.

Happy Birthday, Ursula Le Guin. You are one of the most beautiful humans the world has ever known.

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Norse Aesthetic (Images from We Heart It)

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Something to keep in mind is that there are rescues that work specifically with purebred dogs. It's probably the same amount of work as finding a breeder. If you're looking to buy a dog and you buy a pitbull, I'm not a fan of you. They are over bred and purebred pitties are often in the shelter. You would like an afghan dog (or other obscure breed) for whatever reason and find a responsible breeder, go for it. We aren't seeing them homeless all over the place. Also, breed doesn't always cement the personality and traits. Whatever type you choose just please take the time and meet all the doggos. Maybe foster dogs so you can find out personalities and maybe foster fail into the best friendship. You never know where you'll find that gem. Also, check and double check that the breeder (if you go that route) isn't a trash human.

But what about people selling dogs and therefore taking away a potential home from a shelter pet? Only really applicable to people only buying a pet, not a dog for a specific task. Not really disagreeing with you for the big picture, but I have to smh at people who buy just a pet.

Well again, the idea that someone buying a dog from a breeder is ‘taking away a potential home’ from a shelter dog isn’t accurate. Just because someone doesn’t buy, or can’t buy, a dog from a breeder doesn’t mean that they will want or will adopt a dog from a shelter.

A lot of it is situational. People who want a pet dog have specific requirements based on where they live, their lifestyle, their energy level, how much they’re willing to groom, how much they want to exercise a dog, etc. There may not be a shelter dog in their area that fits their needs. In my city, for example, there are very few dogs available at the local shelter. They usually average 10-15 dogs at any one time. There have been times they have had no dogs available at all. That’s just my city. Other cities may be overwhelmed with adoptable dogs, and have an enormous range of dogs to choose from, giving potential adopters a greater chance of finding the dog that will fit their needs.

And I feel like it can’t be emphasized enough that people need dogs that fit their lifestyle. An older retired lady who wants a companion is not going to want a 1 year old 60 lb herding mix. A younger guy who jogs every day is probably not going to want an elderly chihuahua. Families who already have dogs, or cats, or children, will need a dog that has been socialized or can be socialized to live with dogs/cats/children. A shelter puppy with unknown parentage can be socialized to live with dogs/cats/children, but genetics could rear their ugly head when that dog grows up and turns out to be dog aggressive.

Rescue animals are fantastic. But with rescue animals there will always be some element of mystery and risk involved. Mystery breed, mystery socialization, mystery training. I’m not saying all rescues are ticking time bombs, but knowing the background of an animal can make a huge difference in taking them into your home and being prepared to care for them and meet their specific needs. If you’re prepared to take on possible health or behavioral problems with a rescue animal, that’s great! That’s what I’ve done with most of my animals. But if you are not prepared to deal with possible health or behavioral problems, if you have a lifestyle that limits itself to a specific type of dog, rescue may not be the best option for you or the rescued animal.

If you buy a dog from a responsible breeder, you’re going to know all the traits of that breed, you’re going to be able to meet the parents, you’re going to know how that puppy has been socialized and what they’ve been exposed to from day one. This can be extremely important for people who have children, who already have other pets, who want some advance knowledge about what they’re getting into and how this dog is likely to grow up.

And again - if somebody wants a pet, but they have specific requirements for that pet, and there are not rescue animals that fit those requirements, they will not rescue an animal as a pet. This is not a home being stolen from a rescue animal, because this is not a home that can handle having a rescue animal.

I mean long story short every prospective animal owner needs an animal that fits their lifestyle and their capabilities (this is how animals stay in homes instead of bouncing back to a rescue situation). Every prospective animal owner lives in a different area where their access to breeders good and bad and rescues good and bad varies. When some breeders are shitty, some rescues are shitty, some breeders are great, some rescues are great, etc etc etc, it all comes down to people being educated and taking the responsibility to find a dog that they can guarantee keeping for its whole life.

Adopting a dog because it feels good and there’s pressure to ‘adopt, don’t buy!’ means nothing if that dog makes them miserable, gets stuck in a kennel in a backyard for the rest of its life, bites another dog and ends up euthanized, or just gets dumped at the shelter again. And that’s the main reason I will never shame people into adoption over purchasing a pet, because adoption should be undertaken with the exact same amount of care, research, and commitment as buying from a breeder.

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Finished seaming the Hue Shift Afghan last night. Onto the border! Only took a little more than TWO YEARS. (it’s so heavy. IT’S SO GODDAMN HEAVY.)