Re: Times before

Date: 2025-01-06 11:30 pm (UTC)
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Well, I'm glad to hear that my analysis seems to fit, though, of course, sorry for it to be such an unpleasant prognosis. Also, that's fascinating on your parallel Ogham reading, and that's about how I'd read it as well. The one element there that I didn't pick up much of in the Rune reading is the confusion/deception side of Luis (Reversed), but Mor (Reversed) seems right in line with Hagalaz, and I could see Straif matching some aspects of a murky Tiwaz, though the Rune I most closely associate with Straif is Nauthiz.

As for your questions:
1) The single best-liked source among today's Heathens is Paul Baschatz's The Well and The Tree, which I wrote up here: https://jpowellrussell.com/#thoughts_on_the_well_and_the_tree

It's very hard to find for a reasonable price outside of libraries these days, but apparently Bauschatz has said he's fine with folks getting bootleg electronic copies, as the publisher has refused to reprint it. I'll let you decide how to weigh the ethics and legality of that one, if you want to track down a .pdf.

Also, Winifred Hodge Rose has a short collection of essays called Oaths, Shild, Frith, Luck & Wyrd: Five Essays Exploring Heathen Ethical Concepts and their Use Today, which is described here (and which includes a link to where it can be bought from her Lulu store): https://heathensoullore.net/oaths-shild-frith-luck-wyrd/ She's apparently working on a more extensive book on Wyrd, and some of that might be available on her website, but it's not out yet (I'm eagerly awaiting it, myself).

Other than that, it's mostly something I've picked up in bits and pieces from mostly magically-oriented heathen writings. I'd say Galina Krasskova and Edred Thorsson have likely done the most for me there. If you wanted to check them out, I'd start with Krasskova's A Modern Guide to Heathenry and Thorsson's Big Book of Runes and Rune Magic, which collects and slightly updates most of his earlier Rune books.

2) Sure, I'll be happy to do a reading on this as well, though obviously it's taken me a bit of time to get through the other requests. I'd propose asking "What does Vitranc most need to understand about navigating the path ahead in light of the earlier reading?" and drawing one Runestave for focus. I'll try to do so over the next day or so.

Cheers,
Jeff
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