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Random Heathen Ramblings: S4, EP12 - What Do The Runes Say? · Random Heathen Ramblings

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it's really cool. So, yeah, before we also a
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couple other things I want to really just, you know, one major
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thing, I guess I want to mention is I've talked in the past about
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attending certain local. Like public events.
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That that other groups around here put on some some like
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vending events where there's like games and other vendors,
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other Heathen or Pagan vendors. Usually attending some public
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events that are hosted by Raven Moon Hearth.
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So I do want to mention to you is all that next month and this
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has been, you know, this is a yearly recurring thing.
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So next month in May up in Spring Field.
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Think it is. Yeah.
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Springfield, Tennessee. Feast of the Fallen.
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It's a middle of may like it's the yeah, it's a weekend of May
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12. So May 12 13 through 14.
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It's a camping Feast that the, The Hearth puts on and up there
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and just outside of Nashville. And anyway, there's going to be
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an event like that I'll post out so you guys can check out more
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about it, but they It's an annual event that they host
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every year, again, they do camping, they do games, they
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have ritual. And it's a, it's an event to
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commemorate. And remember and fondness those
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who have who have died that have have fallen military members,
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you know, people who have Pass on in combat, I guess.
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So they have, I've never been to one of these rituals before and
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they've been one of these particular events before.
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So I'm really excited to attend for the first time.
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My wife and I will be there. I will be offering as I like to
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do offering grune readings. I will be teaching a class on
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the topic yet. I don't know what will be the
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subject matter, still coming up with that.
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But, you know, once I get that out, probably announce that on
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next week's podcast, You guys can be looking to looking
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forward to that as you're coming out to the event.
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And then my wife will be there offering some some Goods.
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So we've got goods and services, I will be providing the
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services, my wife, she's got the goods.
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It's a wood-burning project that she has that she does on the
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side just for fun. But she's gonna be making some
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things and selling some things and I'm sure taking orders.
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If you want something that we don't have that, you'd like for
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her to make some other like, Necklaces earrings and some
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Pagan themed jewelry. So, yes, we will be there at
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feasts of the Fallen. We will be there all weekend
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long, so Friday, Friday night, Saturday, and Saturday night.
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And then when everything's done will be leaving Sunday, but we
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will be there and we hope to see you there as well and
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information for that is down in the show notes and description.
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So be sure to check that out. I think it's for like the whole
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And I think the weekend passes, like 45 bucks, and that includes
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your meals for I think dinner Friday night, breakfast, lunch
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and dinner on Saturday and then breakfast on Sunday, and then
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they usually call it off. They they shut the event down.
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By lunchtime, and I don't remember if lunch is included.
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But either way, I mean, you get three Square meals on Saturday,
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you get, you know, workshops lessons, vendors games, ritual,
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like again, it's a great time. The Hearth puts on a really
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great event. I've been to their soon upload
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event, couple times, went to Shadow mood last year, will be
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returning for shadow moved this year.
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So for those of use, for those of you that are that are, you
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know, in the relative area that want to travel for something fun
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here in May, It's going to be, I said, May 12th through 14th.
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Looking forward to seeing you also check all that out down
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below in the link tree, link and or not the link to it in the
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show notes in the description. All right. so this is, this is
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this is one of those weeks where I was seriously contemplating on
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which topic I wanted to cover where I wanted to go, you know,
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with, with the the subject matter this week, what I wanted
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the episode to be about, there's so much stuff that's You know,
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circulating in my mind and that I even have just kind of sitting
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on, in the backlog of things. I've got You know, Graphics of
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thumbnails or whatever that I've made, four episodes that I've
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never released that, I've never recorded recorded and, you know,
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so those things are always kind of like brewing in the back of
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my mind. I know what I'm going to do that
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might be this week on something else comes up and this week was
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one of those weeks. You know, I was also not what I
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wanted to do something about. I kind of had my mind set on one
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particular thing. but then as quite often happens, I see a
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comment whether it's on a post from another content creator or
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whether it's on a comment made on a post that I made on one of
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my social platforms, you know, or just somebody that I'm
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connected to socially through other social apps, you know,
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something that they've talked about or we've chatted on the
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side And you know, so much of what these episodes end up,
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becoming are fueled by or inspired by stuff like that.
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And so that's what this week's episode is going to be about.
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It's going to be about how we can sort of reconcile or bring
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together the modern forms of dealing with I don't know what
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you want to call it, like, just life, you know I guess just life
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in general how we can reconcile or make friendly the the modern
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way of dealing with things and marrying it or incorporating the
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more ancient and maybe traditional Methods or models
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that get taken. So, this this image you guys
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have probably seen it, you know, pop around, and on your various
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social platforms. It's been out for years.
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I've even shared a few times and it makes me laugh every time I
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see it and it's like a screenshot from a, from an old
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movie. And I don't exactly recall what
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movie it's from. But this image, it's, it's,
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it's, it cracks me up every time because I always feel like I'm
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called out, right? And it, Says you know, the
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heading of it for those of you that are watching this on the
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video platform, it's here of now.
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But for those of you that are listening, it's it's kind of
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like one of those memes that has, you know, the the frame,
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the still frame of a movie with like a quote underneath it.
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But above it. It says me a rational
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intellectual who reasoned out the entire plan and entered into
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it with prudence and good judgment.
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And then says, also me and then below that is The image, the
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still, you know, the the frame still frame from a scene of a
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movie. It's like these, you know, Norse
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like Viking looking guy sitting around and it says, what do the
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room say? And I crack up laughing because
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I'm like it's a me you know like just at me next time.
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Why don't you because I've been there and I'm sure we all have
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to wear you know we're facing some sort of a Could be
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anything, I mean and I think quite quite often this sort of
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thing comes into play for us as heathens are pagans when we are
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faced with something of a challenge, right?
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In our life. Something that hits us that
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could really gum up the works or throw a monkey wrench into our
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plans. So you know, we go through all
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of the rationalizing of it, the making things seem logical and
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You know. Talking through it, maybe with
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some friends, or peers or confidants, you know, are near
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and dear loved ones, maybe a spouse or a partner, or just a
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close friend, you know, whatever.
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The the dynamic with it, with of, it would be.
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We, we find ourselves going through the process of again,
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rationalizing, making something logically reasoning to through
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things and then and then we also get into this mindset. it will
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let me consult the runes and let me do some sort of, you know,
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Different divinatory work, you know some some of our magickal
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workings that we find ourselves incorporating whether it's Taro
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or oracle cards or reading of bones or tea leaves or rooms or
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any other sort of thing. That a lot of non-traditional
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religious practices might incorporate.
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As I do know, a lot of folks who are not strictly you know
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dedicated to an or space. Authority Germanic path of
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paganism but that will, you know, incorporate the runes into
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their into their divinatory work. and, So again I saw this I
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left this is this was somebody who I'm not like personally
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connected to have not met this person before but we're friends
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on social platforms and he he responded to I cuz again I
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responded with a Mario gift that says, it's a me because I do.
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I always feel like called out like, I'm that guy.
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It's, that's me right there. Yeah, I give if I'm a meme,
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that's it. And he said, you know, that that
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might actually make for a decent podcast episode in his question
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or the thing that he poses is how do you reconcile more modern
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forms of knowledge and thought with ancient and traditional
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models of life and thinking? man, that's a that's a relatable
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topic, you know, because I think I said I'm not the I can't be
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the only one that goes through life and experiences some of the
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things that I experienced that we experience and You know, find
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ourselves. Again, going through that
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rational thinking okay, you know, what should I do?
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How should I do it? What's the smart way of going
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about it? How should I execute it?
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And then also, you know, lighten our candles and incense or, you
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know, smudging, an area or whatever we do in our
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individual, you know, private ways are individual cultic
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practices that would fall under eight lassies as he's putting a
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name or maybe ancient traditional.
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Modes or models, you know, of going about it.
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And I have to think about, you know, we often times were going
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to look to maybe sources or we're going to go you know,
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based off of maybe folklore or other stories of, you know, what
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was done in ancient times that Falls under this category.
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You know you read about as much as Odin knows we'll just go down
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with that example. Write as much as Odin knows and
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is always seeking knowledge. You know, he goes and he
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consults the Cirrus And and wants to know things that even
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he himself doesn't doesn't know, right?
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So, he could rationalize things or he could think through things
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in a pretty logical way with Odin being who he is.
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But still goes in, goes down that path of seeking knowledge
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in a more mystical through Mystic mystical Channel.
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We don't know exactly if they were runes.
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It's I think it's largely assumed that they were but you
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know when in tacitus takas tacitus however you say it, the
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Roman guy who wrote his Germania and in documents not necessarily
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eyewitness things. But things that is troops had
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witness he's sort of like secondhand Source writing things
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down about how Germanic tribes that Did you know in tacitus is
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Germania? We hear about how the the tribes
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or the the people would cast a lots.
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And they were symbols of they were they were there were marks
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cut into branches of a fruit-bearing tree or whatever
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the terminology. I think it's, I think it's a
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fruit-bearing tree. If they were pieces of the, of
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the wood, from a fruit-bearing tree, where symbols were carved
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or marked into them, and they were cast at random again.
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It doesn't say that they were runes, I don't think they, even
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in the older translations, it could even be Thought that they
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are rooms that he's talking about, but because we don't
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know, I think it's just been popularly assumed that they got
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to be rooms. And as we all know I mean like
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runes have been used for a relatively short period of time
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in the sense of divinatory or more magic and Ivan also seeing
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a lot of controversy up lately between the academic or
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scholarly types of our rooms themselves magic are they not
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there seems to be a an argument in favor of both.
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You know, from both sides, I think It.
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Ultimately, if you're going to think that the runes have any
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sort of inherent magic in them, then there's a lot of There's a
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lot of UPG that that's rooted in, you know, your own personal
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unverified, gnosis has experiences things that have
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happened that you no longer are real for you that, you know, you
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can't necessarily say it's real or true for everybody.
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But I think there's there's there's there's compelling
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arguments on both ends of the spectrum too. you know, to make,
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I've personally worked with runes enough to have feel feel
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to have feelings that there is Maybe not just, maybe they're
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not inherently magical, but that, that the working with them
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is, is where the magic Comes Alive.
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You know, we're things can be manifest or things can be seen.
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And so, you know, whatever, whatever form of divination you,
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you tend to dabble in. If it's a mixture of many
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different types or if you were a bit more focused, like I mean,
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myself personally, I don't know the first thing of tarot
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readings, I don't really I've had the cards read.
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For me a number of times for different in different
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scenarios. I've had other things read,
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like, bones and scales and nand and other animal remains, you
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know, like a mixture of teeth. Shells, bones.
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Klaus. You know, scales.
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That guess I like a bunch a mixture of different organic
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things that have been used as a divination method and I find
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them all very fascinating and I think there's there's something
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to be said for them all. I am a believer in magic in that
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way and if you do or don't, that's neither here.
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Nor there. but the point being is that You know, we all I think
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tend to find ourselves in situations in our lives.
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Where are we? Want to. not discount, the
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validity, or the or the importance of Tapping into the
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realm of the Unseen, the spiritual room to either seek an
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answer or seek some sort of guidance. you know, and I again
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with not being an expert on all forms of divination, I'm not
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going to try to speak the things that I don't, I saw personally
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have any experience in but when it comes to runes and reading
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rooms, From my experience it's never been for me.
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That the runes give us answers. It's not like a Magic 8-Ball,
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you know? I think when we, when we Enter
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it to into a situation where the rooms are being consulted or
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where we're looking for some sort of consultation from the
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runes. We're looking at.
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What's a possibilities? Maybe not even probabilities,
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but potential outcomes based off of.
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Certain actions. And again, I think that what the
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runes present or what the runes tell us in divination is largely
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going to be based off of things that we've already done.
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How much we have put into. Words.
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Well, The Well of alert. What?
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What have we actively done already.
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So this marrying of the reconciling of two seemingly,
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you know, polar opposite ways of conducting ourselves?
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As you know, do we Can we how do we?
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Incorporate them both, you know, effectively.
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And I think one can't be done without the other, you know, if
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you're not the type to consult any sort of, you know, magical
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medium, whether it be a Volvo or via turkey or a or a, or a save
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mom or save Kona or any other sort of, you know, serious
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spiritual worker. You know, anybody that has that
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sort of vision. You're not the type to Down that
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path. And then then then don't, you
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know, like that's again it's it all a matter of personal things
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but it was done in those times, it was done in ancient times
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where, you know, if you were looking for an outcome of
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something, if you wanted consultation from somebody, who
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could see things that you couldn't see, that's who you
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went to, you didn't do it yourself.
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You know, it's like kind of like, I look at it as like a if
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you're not a dentist, you're not going to give yourself a root
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canal. I don't even think you would, if
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you were a dentist to be honest with you, you're not gonna do
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that kind of surgery on your son yourself, but, you know, you're
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not a, you're not at least a capable mechanic, you're not
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going to place your own transmission, right?
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Like you're going to Seek out the expert of the thing that you
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need done to get it done properly.
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And similarly, if your Looking for answers for things that you
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maybe. Feel that, you know, have a
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place. To have divination done or any
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sort of spiritual workings done on, then they should be that you
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go to the person or to the people who have proven through
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their deeds through their works. That it's the right person to go
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to, you know, Which is tough nowadays, because so many
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people. You know, they they buy a book.
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Or they maybe attend the seminar.
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Or they go to a workshop or something, you know, that one
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person. At that one time.
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And then all of a sudden, they're there are a guru,
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they're an expert, they've figured it out and they come,
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they come up with this fake name or this, you know, mystical name
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that makes him a more than what they are.
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And it's if they're charlatans, you know, like it's there just
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to take your money and they, there's no, there's no realness
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behind them. Now, there are those who have
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dedicated their life to being taught by people who have,
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Dedicated their lives to it, right?
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So there's this almost like lineage.
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Kind of mentality of behind it. Where, you know, you get taught
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by the one who was taught by the one who was taught by somebody,
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who might like, there's this again, this like, lineage
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mentality behind it. So they have that reputation.
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They have that your friend if he will.
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That says, I know what I'm talking about.
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I've got the credentials. I've got the the experience.
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I've got all the things that are Confirming that I know what I'm
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doing. You know what I'm talking about.
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Not just some fly-by-night, you know, got my certificate printed
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off at Kinkos yesterday and you know I'm a victim.
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Now I'm a goalie. Now I'm at this.
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I'm at that. Right.
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So how do we reconcile that? That's how I feel.
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You know if if you're not the person to do it and if you're
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not the then don't try you know seek out if you're if you're
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considering incorporating this until your thought processes,
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you know if like hey I've done everything.
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I think I should do. I want to see maybe the other
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side of it. I want to see more to it than
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than meets the eye. Go to someone who is trusted, A
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task, right? Don't just go for the person
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that first pops up and says, oh, I know what I can.
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I know how to do this. I'll help you out right vet
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them. Make sure they're worth that
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effort and that that energy that you that you that you're
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investing in. and whatever it is, you know, whether it's
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Runes, whether it's some other sort of. divinatory method that
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you maybe haven't seen or heard of before, like, for those that
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have been in the area that we're at Shadow moot last year, Our
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Thule, our tribal, fill my friend Patrick you know he's
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been developing a system for the larger part of 20 plus years.
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That is not strictly you know based around like reading of
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cards. It's actually bit way more
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intricate and complex than just that but from his system that
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he's developed this a grown man see system, which I would I
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would have, you know, he's got a crazy schedule and I think, you
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know, one of these days we're just going to have to figure out
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a time to get him on this podcast and talk about this, you
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know, in a bit more of a You know, like, break it down as
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much as we're able to. Because if you not met the man,
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if you not been in person, he doesn't do much on it with
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social media because he's still trying to figure out how to do
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it. It is that complex, it's not
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just like, oh well, here's a deck of cards, here's how you
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read them, you know, here's a book on how to do it.
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It's like, there's, there's multiple Decks that make up this
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system that originally wasn't, even, I don't believe at least.
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I don't think it originated as a System for like divination it
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stemmed from things. Other than that you know he has
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this calendar he's got rituals, the ritual system worked into it
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and numbering system and alphabet like all very, very
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intricate stuff and then from it all you know, the, the symbols
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the Glyphs become men, Dalek or turned into a man.
28:36
Dalek symbol. That kind of brings it all
28:40
together and he can explain it much better than I can.
28:45
It sounds like a bunch of wacky stuff right now, but I'm telling
28:48
you for those that were a shadow moved last year that got a
28:51
chance to see him present, what he, what he did for the first
28:54
time ever. I mean, like I said, the man's
28:55
been working on this for more than 20 years of the bigger part
28:58
of 20 years, at least. and last year and shot him, it was the
29:03
first time that it was ever presented to the public in the
29:07
way that it was But the reason I brought it up is again, you
29:13
know, that may be something that you encounter, similarly, from
29:18
somebody or somebodies that, you know, and it's like, well,
29:21
nobody's ever heard of this, you know, nobody's ever seen
29:23
anything like this before and yet, you know, they've got all
29:27
of these years. I've got all of this experience
29:30
behind them that's that that proves Or that it had to that
29:34
has been proven that there's something behind it, and that
29:37
it's beneficial. you know, so don't necessarily discount or
29:43
discredit something that somebody says just because I
29:47
can't find that in any sort of, you know, Old Source material or
29:51
I haven't read a book about that or you know, it's again it's, it
29:56
is a fine line and it's a Kind of like walking the straight and
30:02
narrow path on that you know because you got some really
30:04
wacky wacky things out here that are wacky in a bad way that I
30:09
guess, you know, don't don't be afraid to explore a little bit
30:13
and just extend and see because that's how you learn.
30:15
That's how you you know you don't learn from from just
30:19
sitting here and waiting for stuff to happen.
30:21
You you learn by leaving and going out and voyaging and
30:25
exploring and venturing out wandering, you know?
30:29
I saw something the other day. Somebody share the.
30:32
It was a He was Papa listen my dear friend and brother feel
30:39
that your Workshop that right he had shared something about.
30:42
You know the knowledge that doctors Physicians Healers
30:49
Sorcerers shamans those types, you know, the medicine man,
30:53
Medicine Woman, The Witches, the whatever name you want to put to
30:56
them, the knowledge that they've, you know, achieved and
31:01
acquired has not been knowledge that they just collected
31:05
locally. They've had to go out and travel
31:09
and even to this day, right? Like Medical doctors and stuff.
31:14
You know they they they go places.
31:16
They don't just stay in one place, they they're going to
31:20
travel, they're going to study under you know, different
31:26
locations different different sources, and they're going to
31:31
require that that skill that knowledge by Traveling by
31:36
wandering of it. And I think that's a neat thing
31:39
to bear in mind that with, with, with Odin and his seeking of
31:43
knowledge. Again, it's he's not just
31:45
getting online and Googling it, you know, he's not just using
31:49
his Godly powers to, you know, whatever human and mutant bring
31:53
back to me is as my knowledge for the day.
31:54
He's going out and he's wandering himself and he's
31:58
seeking that knowledge himself. He's putting in the work.
32:04
Good way to tie into the the topic, you know, putting in the
32:08
work. It's not just waiting for it to
32:13
land in his lap. It's not just that we, you know,
32:18
explore all options. I guess, explore all options and
32:27
See what fits, you know? Maybe maybe not, everything is
32:30
going to fit. Maybe the said before, if it
32:34
doesn't feel right to consult the rooms, there's plenty of
32:36
times guys where I've, you know, had things happen and I have
32:41
consulted the runes. I've, I've done readings or
32:44
people have asked for Rune readings, right?
32:46
And there there there's times for that and there's other times
32:50
where I'm like, I don't need to I don't need to consult the
32:54
runes for this. I don't need to find out
32:58
anything else other than what I already know, right what I've
33:01
already done but the the The combination.
33:07
Of figuring it out going through that like rational thought
33:12
process. Good judgment and all that.
33:17
Sometimes you need that kind of wild look on things, sometimes
33:21
you need that perspective. That that changes that changes,
33:27
but adds a layer, you know, adds another as another layer that
33:33
you have to peel back and explore a bit, But yeah.
33:39
So before we move on with the episode though, I do want to
33:43
Kind of take a. Little detour off here.
33:46
We're going to we're going to jump off the exit, you know?
33:48
So if you guys in the use bathroom now is the time.
33:52
Like you're missing me going on these road trips vacations.
33:54
You know anybody need to pee pull it off right now.
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co-founders collectively of sacral society and It's, you
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I'm leaning more into. If I had to put a label to
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anything, labels are silly. I mean it's not doesn't make or
38:04
break anything. But Nordic, animism does have a
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nice ring to it. It makes a lot of sense with
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what values I hold but you know, having that mentality of nature
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being sacred. And taking care of the land.
38:22
And in the things, you know, I was I was out earlier this week
38:28
just on a walk, you know, like I wasn't Going out to pick up
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trash but whenever I do go out on walks on the Greenways by the
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river. I'm always picking up trash.
38:40
There's there's there's always something to pick up, you know,
38:44
gum wrappers soda, can beer bottles cups, whatever.
38:49
And I had a bag and off, there was a little white bag or
38:54
looking shopping shopping sack and just throwing stuff in
38:58
there. And several times, you know,
39:02
People did say thank you. No respect.
39:05
I appreciate that. And any chance that I can get,
39:08
you know, if they're like running passing, not going to,
39:09
hey, hold on a minute. And I, you got second, I can
39:12
talk to you about. I'm looking to do that, but if
39:16
they engage in a, you know, say that's great.
39:18
Thanks for doing that, you know? Say, You do it now, right?
39:21
Please carry on carry this on with what you do.
39:24
You're going in that direction. I'm going this direction.
39:26
You see something that needs to go in the trash, pick it up and
39:28
take it with you. Drop it in the trash can and
39:32
that's opportunity you get, you know, doesn't have to be a lot.
39:34
Like you don't have to go out there and pick up, you know, 19,
39:36
trash bags, full of litter, just whatever it is.
39:41
It's, you know, most of us have pockets, most of us have a free
39:44
hand, you know, pick it up, throw it away.
39:49
I got a couple responses. Yeah, I'm going to do that,
39:52
right? I mean I don't know if they will
39:54
or not but at least you know it, we don't do it for that reason.
39:58
We don't do it for the recognition, Don't Do It For the
40:02
Glory, maybe but do it out of the pureness and then desire to
40:06
want to keep what is sacred? Holy and sacred to us, you know,
40:12
like keep it keep it that way. And as I said, Wildlife will
40:16
thank you. And so, will the people that
40:18
come by and because they're out there enjoying nature to, you
40:22
know what I mean. You're not necessarily the ones
40:26
that left that trash there but seeing somebody pick it up,
40:31
could be an inspiration for people to say oh man, that's a
40:35
good idea. I want to do that so check out
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the link to relink or not the lecture.
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Society. There's also a Earth Day event
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It's a on the sacred Trail Society Facebook page.
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So up coming here soon and whatever the next few weeks, at
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least, maybe less my birthday is I believe the event is the
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weekend of the 21st, so I think it's like Saturday the 22nd or
41:19
that whole area, we can whatever.
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It's again, just a, an inspired event to go out on the trail.
41:27
Take a sack with you, take a bag.
41:29
Go for a walk and pick up what litter there is and, you know,
41:35
do better. And as we mentioned before, the,
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the merchandise that gets sold is proceeds for that go back
41:45
into the organization to You know provide more supplies and
41:53
and things to further the effort.
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So check it all out for sure. But yeah, so anyway, back to
42:01
back to what we were saying. You know, I, I think that how
42:07
it's done is, is it's done carefully and with purpose, We
42:13
how we? You know, like don't skip the
42:17
steps, don't don't just go until.
42:19
Let me see what the cards say. Let me see what the tea leaves
42:23
say, what does you know, what are the runes?
42:26
Say, and then don't do that with and with neglect to the first
42:32
part of things, you actually using your head and talking with
42:38
people if you having a hard time with something, if you're having
42:40
a or you just need an extra set of eyes on it, maybe need some
42:48
We call that second opinions. There's plenty of times where
42:51
I'm like, well I think this is what I should do.
42:53
I feel like this is what I should do when you bounce it off
42:56
with somebody else, you know? I mean let me run it by somebody
43:00
who have can trust that. Will provide Good Counsel, you
43:06
know, in a good read on it. I don't, you know, I don't ever
43:13
just put stuff out like of that nature on.
43:18
A public platform. I don't think that people should
43:22
open up themselves to that kind of you know, BB at free about
43:27
it, but whoever you trust could be just one person could be a
43:31
few people, right? Go down that route and and maybe
43:37
get their Insight on it because they could have a way of seeing
43:42
it that you don't. And maybe that way is is going
43:46
to enhance or maybe change or do something with with what you're
43:51
already thinking of. And because let's face it guys.
43:53
Like we all have that that, that bias that be approach things
44:00
with, you know, a lot of us, you know, when we're presented with
44:05
something that could be a challenge or difficult.
44:09
And a lot of us are resorted to what we were going to decide on
44:13
before we even get there. Like a lot of the times we we
44:17
reach a conclusion. Without.
44:23
Logically rationally thinking through everything first.
44:28
So because we've reached that conclusion already without doing
44:31
all that all of the steps in between are going to be affected
44:35
by that bias. So, When it comes to like, you
44:41
know, Big Time stuff, you know, I'm not talking about what
44:43
should I have for dinner? You know, should I have chicken
44:45
tonight or steak or I'm talking like potentially life-changing
44:52
things, or maybe just some stuff that that can weigh heavy, you
44:56
know, like, How one should perhaps deal with family
45:04
members? when it comes to a particular
45:10
topic or you know, subject matter that you find conflict
45:17
with with with certain people you know and you want to address
45:20
it and how should I address it? I think I should do it this that
45:23
way the other and talk to other people and get their thoughts or
45:27
opinions on it. Can can make a difference,
45:31
perhaps, or change it for good, or Better, or For Better, or For
45:36
Worse? I should say, maybe you're
45:39
hell-bent on it. Being a certain way and then you
45:42
talk to somebody else and they go man, I wouldn't I would do it
45:45
this way. I think we'll, why would they
45:49
say it? Why would they say it
45:50
differently or why would they come up with a different?
45:55
Result that I would. Yeah it's probably because of
45:58
that bias and I have wonder if we as individuals if we you know
46:05
go into something like a rune reading or card reading break.
46:10
I said we already have that answer in the back of our minds
46:14
that we've arrived at prior to any sort of rational or logical
46:18
thought how much of that? Affects our impacts what we want
46:25
to see. You know, from from the
46:29
Divination. So that's why I say, you know,
46:33
it's you should probably a good idea if you know, if it's a big
46:37
thing like that that you, you, maybe go outside of yourself, go
46:42
to someone who is trusted and ask them to give a reading about
46:48
the situation if that's what you want to do.
46:51
Like if if you're looking for that sort of feedback, if you're
46:54
looking for that sort of, Insight, you know, an unbiased
47:01
perspective. Then you have to take yourself
47:04
out of it completely, you know. So I've had to actually I've had
47:10
to really search myself a few times in my life, more than it
47:15
just a few times. Actually, when it comes to stuff
47:18
like that, you know. it was the answer that I'm is the answer
47:24
that I've arrived at. did I, did I get to that answer before I
47:28
even Looked at all the possibilities that I give it
47:32
good rational logical. Thought that I get some buying
47:37
from people who I should get some buy-in from some some
47:40
counsel from did I go into my divination with, you know, an
47:47
existing bias already and has that impacted.
47:49
What I'm seeing here is my vision clouded because of
47:55
because of that. You know.
47:59
So I think that's I think that's a an important part of all of
48:05
this, you know, it's not that we shouldn't or that it's, you
48:07
know, you know, Ill-advised to the gist.
48:17
Go one way or the other or not incorporate any of those things.
48:21
But Do it, do it, do it, rightly do it wisely, you know. so, But
48:32
yeah, man. That was a that was a that was a
48:34
really good question and it gave me something else to think about
48:39
today when I Was preparing for this episode.
48:44
So Bradley This is actually thanks to you Bradley for
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48:56
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49:13
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49:20
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49:24
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