Plans: Winter Solstice, Rheinwood Youth Yule in Mt Hope
NOTE: Winter arrived at 5:12 CST. GIVE HAIL TO THE WINTER SOLSTICE!
http://www.almanac.com/content/first-day-winter-winter-solstice
2nd Day of Yule – The Winter Solstice
The Winter Solstice represents the shortest day and the longest night. From this day onward Sunna gains strength and eventually breaks winter's spell. Celebrate Sunna's return and the fertility she brings! Take time to honor this very holy night.
So much for the Mayan Doomsday stuff:
*http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57560400/its-the-21st-no-doomsday-yet-mayan-calendar-aside/
*http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2012/dec/21/mayan-calendar-explained
*http://www.businessinsider.com/world-survives-end-of-ancient-mayan-calendar-2012-12
So where’s the KABOOM? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot73XFXagMw
Frija, Great All-Mother; caregiver of Family, Hearth and Home. 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. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HAIL, FRIJA, as we honor the Frija that resides in us all!
Frouwa
, most lovely of all goddesses; who could not love you? Women as their 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. WE GIVE YOU
MOST A HEART-FELT HAIL, FROUWA, as we honor the Frouwa that resides in us
all!
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the physical man today
Jera (irreversible): Harvest, 12th Rune of the Futhark, the number 12, cycles, a turning point, cause and effect, the Rune of return, two halves of a cyclic whole, harmony-in-movement-in-balance, improvement, expansion, growth, progress, patience, the result of a previous action, reward for the right (or wrong) action.
Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
Is: Rest, Ego, das Ich, Positivity, activity, will, self-domination, influence, personal power, magical power, power to banish evil,
unity in the universe, duration, action in the cosmos, activity, will,
self-domination, influence, personal power, self-discipline, unity in the
universe, duration, magical powers, action in the cosmos, elimination of that which is unnecessary.
Havamal 153.
A ninth I know: when need befalls me
to save my vessel afloat,
I hush the wind on the stormy wave,
and soothe all the sea to rest.
Interpretation: A return (Jera) of personal power (Is).
Outcome: 1st breakfast; two eggs, sunny-side-up and hash-browns w/ onions:YUM!
Toby was well behaved on his extended walk; 1 mile plus Meeka Park.
My sweet-tooth is RAGING this morning. I may have to get 12 (Jera) Krispy Kreme doughnuts to bring it under control (Is).
2nd breakfast; 6 Krispy Kreme http://krispykreme.com/home original doughnuts; well, plus a really well frosted snowman. How could I resist?
Wal-Mart http://www.walmart.com/ more Yule prep
Brother invited me to lunch with him and his wife! It wasn’t fancy but it certainly was good food. The waitress, THE WAITRESS, gave them a $20 gift certificate: WOW. He also agreed to change my oil. I, in turn, took two of his filled oil containers to Jiffy Lube
http://www.jiffylube.com/ for proper disposal. My brother and I are cool!
Since the snow is 99.9% gone and it’s once again warmer, it’s family time outdoors. It didn’t take long for Essie to discover the hay-bale-cathouse. She went right in and made herself at home; all warm and snuggly. Socks is yet to discover it.
Rheinwood Youth Yule was FANTASTICK! There was story-telling, dancing and singing…PERFEKT!
Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) http://misl.uslsoccer.com/
Baltimore Blast 10:12 Chicago Soul (WOW!)
Missouri Comets 4:10 Wichita Wings (DOUBLE WOW!!)
http://www.kansas.com/2012/12/21/2612584/all-phases-working-for-wild.html
Nirdu, brother to Nirda, parents of the Wanâ; Ing-Fro and the Frouwa, beloved god of harbors and seas close to land; help us to remember the cargoes of wealth that float to
our doors daily from the wonderful universe in which we live. Though our misfortunes may rise and fall like the tides, the chance of prosperity, like the eternal sea brimming with fish, is still there. Like the salt-sea spray, awaken us to the possibilities that surround us, so that our nets may be cast wide and return full of life’s gifts. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HAIL, NIRDU, as we honor the Nirdu that resides in us all!
PM Clarification Rune: none
Comments: cared for animals
Alaf Sal Fena!