The Witch's Corner

The fruit tree part may be a personal thing, iirc (again) the same person was speaking on how they don't believe burning the runes in is appropriate due to the association with death of the object (wood). But then, what of using blood as ink? A creature that has died to provide the blood, I guess associates with death, but then doesn't cutting the fruit tree during a reproductive phase represent that?
Perhaps it depends on what you're doing with the runes, if blood and death is your focus versus life and rebirth versus neutral.

There are a lot of superstitions, right way, wrong way, etc. in all schools of magick. As I've spoken on; a lot of (if not most) things are tools to make things easier. Divination can be achieved in many ways, from cloud gazing, reading tea leaves, casting bones, to gematria, tarot, rune stones.

You could say that it doesn't matter the tool, it's how well you use it.
Unless you've got a big tool and use it really well of course. :P

Halloween oracle? Curious.

The fruit tree part may be a personal thing, iirc (again) the same person was speaking on how they don't believe burning the runes in is appropriate due to the association with death of the object (wood). But then, what of using blood as ink? A creature that has died to provide the blood, I guess associates with death, but then doesn't cutting the fruit tree during a reproductive phase represent that?
Perhaps it depends on what you're doing with the runes, if blood and death is your focus versus life and rebirth versus neutral.

There are a lot of superstitions, right way, wrong way, etc. in all schools of magick. As I've spoken on; a lot of (if not most) things are tools to make things easier. Divination can be achieved in many ways, from cloud gazing, reading tea leaves, casting bones, to gematria, tarot, rune stones.

You could say that it doesn't matter the tool, it's how well you use it.
Unless you've got a big tool and use it really well of course. :P

Yes. I saw it online and figured why not :)

Was curious of the imagery, had to Google.
Interesting looking deck, like that uniqueness

And of course doing so has me finding one pulling at me.

*gestures at above picture*

I've got enough!

Yeah was wondering how that thought process would consider a set made from bone.
Less the "specific" way, and more into that intuitive guidance that leads to a unique creation.

And even with a big tool, still fun to add additional things to *ahem* shake things up. Vibrate at another frequency and all haha

It is addictive lol

The buying of new stuff XD

Intuitive guidance to unique creation; for sure. What is more "you" than something you created yourself for yourself in your own way?

As for the rest...



Terrible lol, love it.

Buyyyyy meeee!

Whats your going rate?
Milk for free.
$3.50
etc.

:D

No milk here. My dairy farm is out of business lol

Haha, by process of elimination you're stating your price is $3.50. Cool beans. I won't complain, but are you sure you're not underselling?

https://imgur.com/a/sVINCqd

Buyyyyy meeee!

wait... what.. huh? LOL

:D :D :D

Bad GW, bad!



Was a(nother) dragon deck lol.
Didn't help the first card that popped up from it was the same illustration as the bag I'd carry my decks in while working in the shop.

Bah

Völva the Viking Witch or Seeress

A Völva or as it is pronounced in old Norse a V&#491;lva (in Danish a ”Vølve”), is what we in English would call a Seeress. You could compare it to someone who practiced shamanism or witchcraft. So a Völva is a Nordic version of a shaman or witch, that practiced magic. The Völva in the Viking age were the predecessors of the medieval witches, so you could say, they were witches before it became cool. A Völva is not something that just dates back to the Viking age, a Völva is, in fact, very ancient, and their roots go back more than 2.000 – 3.000 years. 50%<


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huh? vulva was derived from Nordic witches? No wonder some men go crazy and hurt them...sounds like a universe they cannot access in their mind (present men non mentes reae):
mons pubis
labia majora
labia minora
vestibular bulbs
vulval vestibule
hymen
Bartholin's
Skene's

My house guest will be leaving in the next few weeks, he has been quite the magician:)

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lol, it's an amusing scene cut from all but the earliest versions. There's another scene with them earlier in the movie, iirc they even state "*ewish Nazi Suicide Squad"

Ah, the things that we used to be able to get away with.
I do wish for the days where we could laugh at each others stuff without making it hateful.

Just the opinion of a pasty skinned, round eye, convict settler. *shrug*

Incooommmmiiiinnnng. Hagalaz, hail, crisis, disruption, radical change.

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Hagalaz is the rune of change. Typically radical or drastic change and/or corrections. Sometimes things change for worse or for better - sometimes both, and, sometimes quite radically.
Hagalaz can represent the seeds of something new being formed as well as an uncontrollable power - a natural chaotic power, like wild hail storms. It can be used to seed or be the catalyst, it can be destruction.

It is the first rune in Heimdall's AEtt. Heimdall the White, (historically an albino) he who sees all, guards bifrost and the one who will blow the horn that wakes the Gods before Ragnarok.

For better or worse, Hagalaz is:

Shit is going down.

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Vitka and Vitki is interesting.
Wicca?




Catfriend poses well for pic :D

With such a large amount of information spread across space and time through so many cultural moves, migrations, mergers, splits and so forth; the cross reference and research in to corresponding deities is very important in finding the truth of things. It should always be more important in finding the similarities between peoples, rather than the differences.

Y'know, otherwise we'll spend another 1,000 years fighting amongst sects of the same core religion... *ahem*

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Something very important to consider is that all the stories we have via Snorri were approved by the church. The originals even have a prayer in the front, iirc.

I'm of the opinion that Snorri was able to 'hide' some truth in them through use of metaphor and allegory that were overlooked by the church.

The comparison to Jesus with Odin is an interesting one, there are indeed artworks by nordic artists (at least one), depicting Jesus with a bird on his shoulder. Being a wandering wise man, his sayings, his sacrifice, pierced in the side by a spear, his return after, gift of knowledge to man, the Othela rune (often related to Odin, but is in fact inherited power, etc.) closely resembles the Jesus fish, which btw is a vesica piscis with the tail, turned on it's side. Lots more to say on that but it veers away from the topic.

Things get very interesting though, when we relate Tyr's hand to Jesus. Tyr's right hand, who sits at the right of God? Do you know why Fenrir was bound in the first place? Other Gods feared his potential, due to his parentage. Literally the sins of his Father.
You could, as I have related before, say that Tyr sent his Right to humanity(metaphorically; Fenrir and his great potential), where it was sacrificed. Whilst others sneakily bound humanity in fear of its fast growth, with things that don't exist. Illusion and deception.
I've explained that better elsewhere, but I think that's enough to get the idea across.

Here's an image that may make further sense to folks when including some of these things.

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The deity is in the details... :D Also, *waves to hidden hand folks*

NICE! those are very lovely:)