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May/Wonnemond 21, 2010 ERE Friday/Frowastac

5/22/2010

(Wonnemond = Blissful Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or CE)

Plans: Audie to doc appointment…not sure after that…

AM Prayer: Friday, we pray to the glorious siblings, Walburga Frouwa/Freyja and Ing Fro/Freyr, and lighting a gold candle (for Freyja’s tears and Freyr’s golden boar, Gullinbursti).
Walburga Frouwa/Freyja, who could not love you? Women admire you for your own inner glory and highest attainment as the self-made woman, men for your beauty, passion and strength. Praise to you for the gift of life, and for the love that makes life worth living. Remind us always that it is the strong who love the best and the most, and that only the mighty can truly be gentle. Fill our lives with passion and lust that we may live our lives to the fullest. HAIL WALBURGA FROUWA/FREYJA!!

Ing Fro/Freyr, you are the god of “Ar”, the good harvest and prosperity: you are indeed the lusty enlarger of life. When the day to day wears us down, remind us of pleasures and joys. Help us recall the wonderful excesses that brought our lives into being and which sustain the human spirit during good times and bad. Without you, there would be no life and certainly little delight. Thank you, Ing Fro/Freyr, for the rushing life spirit and the eternal play of passions that make our lives fruitful. ING FRO/FREYR, HAIL!!

Rune Summons

Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Holy Runes send my way
Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune: Dagaz (irreversible): The light of day, total enlightenment, an awakening, the AH-HA moment, achieving balance and harmony, an ending prior a beginning, transformation.

Outcome: Who’d have ever thought there was a social anxiety drug, but there is one! Audie’s doc has her on it. Whatever it takes for her to be social I’m all for it. Now THAT’S transformation! THAT is breaking into the light of day!

Kicked around…

We actually had some fun today! We went bowling!

I had a WONDERFUL conversation with my good friend, Steve. I love his intelligence.

There’s just ALWAYS something popping up with Audie…JsMrFnChst…there’s just always something. I suppose I should be use to this by now.

PM Prayer: Ostara/Idun:
Ostara/Idun, keeper of the golden apples of youth, keep us young inside. When we are starving for laughter, hungry for the lightness that comes with having few years on our shoulders, slip us one of those gleaming fruits that we may see the world through youthful eyes. Let springtime be in our steps, love in our hearts and a song on our lips. Change us to the core! Fill us with optimism and dreams for the future. HAIL OSTARA/IDUN!!!

PM Rune: none

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May/Wonnemond 20, 2010 ERE Thursday/Donarstac

5/21/2010

(Wonnemond = Blissful Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or CE)

NOTE: Laguz (R) is still evident. Audie had a rough night and is having a rough morning. This shows how the Runes not only look at me but also how others around me might directly affect me. When Audie has a rough time I have a rough time.

Plans: don’t know…

AM Prayer: Thursday, we pray to Donar/Thor, and lighting a red candle:
Donar/Thor, thunder forth in our lives. When we would hold back, let us advance. When we would be weak, help us be strong. When we would shun life’s pleasures, sharpen our appetites for that which is lusty and good. Help us grow from strength, and teach us, elder brother, how to throw our own Hammer, and slay the giants who appose our will. HAIL DONAR/THOR!!

Rune Summons

Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Holy Runes send my way
Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune: Two Runes:

Gebo (irreversible): The gift and giver, repay gift for gift, an exchange between people or gods and the Luck that accompanies it; freely exchanged, contracts, relationships, sometimes sexual, sacrifice, and hospitality.

And

Berkana (U): The feminine, the birch tree, birth, becoming, life changes, the Earth Mother, Frija/Frigga at her most motherly, healing, a significant life passage

Outcome: Now THIS is encouraging!

Audie has started to realize a few things. It has taken quite a bit of guts to admit some of the things she has. There could be some real growth in our relationship because of it. I could honestly feel Frigga’s arms around me letting me know that she’ll be okay!

We went to a talent show at Kami’s son’s elementary school. Despite some sound system glitches the young man pulled it thru: he was quite the trooper and definitely THE MOST ENTERTAINING act there this morning. GOOD JOB CONNER!

A few more errands

Audie planned to go to a group dinner with a friend of hers. She made me some smothered pork chops for me while she was making her “Audie’s world famous chicken enchaladies” for the dinner. Her friend never called and never showed up. That’s no way to treat someone. That’s okay, though: I get to reap the benefits from this and am very well fed because of it!

MLS http://www.mlssoccer.com/

Columbus 3:1 NY (on ESPN2)(good road win…unfortunately)

LA 1:0 Dallas

PM Prayer: Wuldar/Ullr:
Wuldar/Ullr, god of ski and bow, you glide through the snow-clad forests bringing death to game and life to your people. Remind us that life feeds on life, and that the beauty of the prey is formed generation after generation by the culling ferocity of the predator. Let your Yew-bow be the great World-Yew under another guise, so that through the spirit of the hunter, we may climb its branched to ever higher levels of awareness. HAIL WULDAR/ULLR!!

PM Rune: none

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May/Wonnemond 19, 2010 Wednesday/Wotanstac

5/20/2010

(Wonnemond = Blissful Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or CE)

Plans: we shall see what we shall see!

AM Prayer: Wednesday, we pray to the Divine couple: Wodan/Odin and Frija/Frigga, lighting royal blue (for Wodan/Odin) and light blue (for Frija/Frigga) candles.
Rune god! Wolf God! Raven god! WODAN/ODIN!! We call out to you, not as a slave or on bended knee, but on our feet and opened-armed as befits your offspring. Watch us as we struggle, but the fight and fame must both be ours! Grant us that victory which we win by OUR might and mane! If we live well, Wodan/Odin, grant us access to one of the Great Halls where we may feast, drink and be merry with those who have gone before us until the time comes to live or fight once more. WODAN/ODIN, HAIL!!!

Frija/Frigga, teach us to be patient but not passive; wise but not haughty in our wisdom; far seeing yet not blind to that which is before us. May we nurture life, increase life, and live our own lives more fully. Through you we give honor to our human mothers. Through you we see all the beauty that surrounds us as well. FRIJA/FRIGGA, HAIL!!

Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Holy Runes send my way
Advice on how to spend the day

AM Rune: Laguz (R): A dried-up body of Water, the lack of respect for the feminine, emotions out of control, fear, deception, void of growth. Offset this with extra precautions

Outcome: Well damn…

Thor rumbles...

As far as I can tell I am finished putting stuff on the RHK website: http://rheinwood.weebly.com I finished the part on the Norse afterlife this morning. It just has to be okay.

Absolutely nothing else of note was done all day; seriously, no growth, nothing! It was just s kick-back kind of day…and after a semester like I had, doing an awful lot of nothing is welcomed…at least for now.

PM Prayer: Scata/Skahdi:
Scata/Skahdi, fleet on your skis and let me be the game you bag with you bow. Stun me with your grace and beauty, tuck me in the skin-sack at your side, and then take me to your home where wolves howl. There, teach me to know the pleasure of the hunt, the joy of exertion, and the crisp freedom of winter and wilderness. Brand my soul with wind-burn, so that even in the tedium of daily life, I will feel your warm breath, warm on my check, telling me to be strong, able and worthy of you. SCATA/SKAHDI, HAIL!!

PM Rune: none

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May/Wonnemond 18, 2010 ERE Tuesday/Ziustac

5/19/2010

(Wonnemond = Blissful Month)(ERE = Eternal Roman Empire; rather than BC, AD, BCE or CE)

Note: Computer crashed a few days ago. I lost a lot of this including three years of journaling because I, like a dumb-ass, didn’t back anything up. With the money I had left over from books at the beginning of the semester I got a new computer. I’ve been planning on this anyway, it just became immediately necessary.

Plans: We’ll see…

AM Prayer: Tuesday, we pray to Ziu/Tyr and lighting a purple candle (for honor):
Ziu/Tyr, you chained the Fenris Wolf that threatened the worlds. We can’t do that, but we can do other things, some ordinary, others heroic. Remind us of your bravery and your sacrifice. Give us the courage and strength we need to fetter out own Fenris. Keep us mindful of our duties, and help us keep our fears bound as tightly as you bound old Slaver Mouth. Thus doing, we may we share in your glory by imitating you. ZIU/TYR HAIL!!

AM Rune: Two Runes:

Sowulo (Irreversible): The Sun, Sonne/Sunna, a lightening bolt, victory, success, spiritual guidance, and leadership

And

Raido (U): Wheel, riding, ordered/rhythmic movement, a journey, the law of the cosmic right, freedom and moral responsibility of the Self, ordered change, the proper course of faring, progress

Outcome: There has been several times where I was ready to pack it all in as far as my relationship goes. There have been a few times where she was making plans to move out. Yet we keep coming back together. This has not been an easy relationship. Even before Audie moved here I knew the Runes loved her: that was made very obvious. Our decision to stick this out has been given approval from Sowulo and Raido. Sometimes I don’t understand this. She is not Heathen. She has no plans to be Heathen. I don’t get it.

All day running errands…

Mowed yard before the rains set in and the sun set: barely made it, but made it.

PM Prayer: Paltar/Baldr
Blameless Paltar/Baldr, shining god, let your goodness and your reconciliation smooth our paths on Earth. When our days here are over, light up death’s darkness with the promise of rebirth. Help is to avoid evil, and seek the good. Inspired by you, we will keep our reputations spotless that our lives be proclaimed a victory of the Spirit, and out leaving this life a tragedy. PALTAR/BALDR HAIL!

PM Rune: none

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May 17

5/19/2010

Computer down

May 16

5/19/2010

Computer down

May 15

5/19/2010

Computer down

May/Wonnemond 14, 2010 ERE Friday/Frouwastac

5/15/2010

(Wonnemond = Blissful Month)(E.R.E. = Eternal Roman Empire [rather than BC, AD, BCE or CE])

Plans: mow yard…

A.M. Prayer: Friday, we pray to the glorious siblings, Walburga Frouwa/Freyja and Ing Fro/Freyr, and lighting a gold candle (for Freyja’s tears and Freyr’s golden boar, Gullinbursti).
Walburga Frouwa/Freyja, who could not love you? Women admire you for your own inner glory and highest attainment as the self-made woman, men for your beauty, passion and strength. Praise to you for the gift of life, and for the love that makes life worth living. Remind us always that it is the strong who love the best and the most, and that only the mighty can truly be gentle. Fill our lives with passion and lust that we may live our lives to the fullest. HAIL WALBURGA FROUWA/FREYJA!!

Ing Fro/Freyr, you are the god of “Ar”, the good harvest and prosperity: you are indeed the lusty enlarger of life. When the day to day wears us down, remind us of pleasures and joys. Help us recall the wonderful excesses that brought our lives into being and which sustain the human spirit during good times and bad. Without you, there would be no life and certainly little delight. Thank you, Ing Fro/Freyr, for the rushing life spirit and the eternal play of passions that make our lives fruitful. ING FRO/FREYR, HAIL!!

Rune Summons:
Born of Fire, born of ice,
Life is lived at such a price.
Holy Runes send my way
Advice on how to spend the day

A.M. Rune: Thurisaz (R): OHG: Thorn, Outside the favor of Donar/Thor, the strong One, beware of enemies from the outside, defenselessness, disruptive opposition, lack of fertility, shadow of the unconscious. Offset this with extra precautions.

Outcome: My only plan for the day, mowing the yard, has to be postponed due to excessive wetness. Now what do I do? ROFLMFnAO…

Outside forces attacked via Newman. After I accepted the Rad Tech program, I found out that financial aid is a far cry from what I need. I feel pretty defenseless. Audie offered to help using her divorce settlement; which she is capable of doing right now. Her offer is in place of an addition on the house. I will probably accept her offer; I just hope that doesn’t create other outside problems.

I have to let Newman know my decision by Monday.

Lunch at Merle’s

I just kind of hem-hawed around the rest of the day.

Not in the best of moods…

P.M. Prayer: Wuldar/Ullr:
Wuldar/Ullr, god of ski and bow, you glide through the snow-clad forests bringing death to game and life to your people. Remind us that life feeds on life, and that the beauty of the prey is formed generation after generation by the culling ferocity of the predator. Let your Yew-bow be the great World-Yew under another guise, so that through the spirit of the hunter, we may climb its branched to ever higher levels of awareness. HAIL WULDAR/ULLR!!

P.M. Rune: none

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May/Wonnemond 13, 2010 ERE Thursday/Donarstac

5/13/2010

(Wonnemond = Blissful Month)(E.R.E. = Eternal Roman Empire [rather than BC, AD, BCE or CE])

Plans: finally relax, my brother’s birthday…

A.M. Prayer: Thursday, we pray to Donar/Thor, and lighting a red candle:
Donar/Thor, thunder forth in our lives. When we would hold back, let us advance. When we would be weak, help us be strong. When we would shun life’s pleasures, sharpen our appetites for that which is lusty and good. Help us grow from strength, and teach us, elder brother, how to throw our own Hammer, and slay the giants who appose our will. HAIL DONAR/THOR!!

Rune Summons:
Born of Fire, born of ice,
Life is lived at such a price.
Holy Runes send my way
Advice on how to spend the day

A.M. Rune: Uruz (R): OHG: Ur, A weakened position, an impulse towards inaction, a severe lack of foundation and energy at low levels, reduction, elasticity, taking no risks at this time, illness: Offset this with extra precautions.

Outcome: HAHA…lots of INACTION with the semester’s end…and that’s okay!

Spending sprees make me helluh nervous; granted, I’ll benefit from her purchases but that doesn’t negate an uneasy feeling about it.

It was a good rest of the day with a tendency towards inaction.

I’ve started reading Grimm’s Teutonic Mythology: so far an interesting read.

MLS http://www.mlssoccer.com/
Houston Dynamo @ Real Salt Lake on ESPN2; Salt lake wins 1:3. I don’t know why I have such a dislike for either of the Texas teams (Dallas and Houston) but I do.

P.M. Prayer: Paltar/Baldr
Blameless Paltar/Baldr, shining god, let your goodness and your reconciliation smooth our paths on Earth. When our days here are over, light up death’s darkness with the promise of rebirth. Help is to avoid evil, and seek the good. Inspired by you, we will keep our reputations spotless that our lives be proclaimed a victory of the Spirit, and out leaving this life a tragedy. PALTAR/BALDR HAIL!

P.M. Rune: none

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Alaf Sal Fena

May/Wonnemond 12, 2010 Wednesday/Wodanstac

5/12/2010

(Wonnemond = Blissful Month)(E.R.E. = Eternal Roman Empire [rather than BC, AD, BCE or CE])

Plans: Physiology final

A.M. Prayer: Wednesday, we pray to the Divine couple: Wodan/Odin and Frija/Frigga, lighting royal blue (for Wodan/Odin) and light blue (for Frija/Frigga) candles.
Rune god! Wolf God! Raven god! WODAN/ODIN!! We call out to you, not as a slave or on bended knee, but on our feet and opened-armed as befits your offspring. Watch us as we struggle, but the fight and fame must both be ours! Grant us that victory which we win by OUR might and mane! If we live well, Wodan/Odin, grant us access to one of the Great Halls where we may feast, drink and be merry with those who have gone before us until the time comes to live or fight once more. WODAN/ODIN, HAIL!!!

Frija/Frigga, teach us to be patient but not passive; wise but not haughty in our wisdom; far seeing yet not blind to that which is before us. May we nurture life, increase life, and live our own lives more fully. Through you we give honor to our human mothers. Through you we see all the beauty that surrounds us as well. FRIJA/FRIGGA, HAIL!!

Rune Summons:
Born of Fire, born of ice,
Life is lived at such a price.
Holy Runes send my way
Advice on how to spend the day

A.M. Rune: Wunjo (U): OHG: Uuuna (Woon-ah), Joy, the Clanic relationship, social contacts, fellowship, social and domestic harmony, good cheer, new social relationships, Fridu/Frith; within a secure setting, the good side of Wodan/Odin.

Outcome: JOY HAS RETURNED TO THE HALL!!!

Got in some good study time

OMFnGs! All the studying in the world would not have prepared me for the test; but ya know what? I AM SO GLAD THE SEMESTER IS OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Haircut

We had dinner at Outback Steakhouse: Audie’s treat. She got a rare steak with baked potato and I got her salad. I got the Mediterranean chicken wit rice and broccoli; the proverbial role reversal for dinner!

Thor rumbles…heavy rain and pea-size hail…

Audie to bed early

Thor’s display of power continues…

Nighty-night

P.M. Prayer: All you gods and goddesses bless and keep your Holy Folk. From the cold shadows of the glaciers to the colder shadows of space, always, we have been your people. Guide and guard your North folk as you did in ages past. Wodan/Odin, give wisdom and craft to wits shaped by ice and fire that our foes be foxed. Donar/Thor, give us strength and the will to use it. Ing Fro/Freyr and Uualburga Frouwa/Freyja, give full wombs so that bodies will be found for the souls of heroes. Let your Northern Folk grow in number and in power, so that our kind may live, love, survive and thrive, not just today, not for a millennium, but for ever and ever!

P.M. Rune: none

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