By Fire Well and Tree

 I can't believe it's been all year since I've posted. But... yes, I can. So today is Lughnasadh, the first harvest, and for a change my "home Lughnasadh" is sort of lining up with calendar Lughnasadh. The extra heat of the year (global warming? What's that?) woke up the cicadas early by about 3 weeks. but from one or two things to harvest every 4-5 days, now it's a daily activity, and I may need to take the basket out with me going forward. I was tempted to take the day and do Nothing except scratch mosquito bites. I did finish the last of High Magic's Aid (yes, the one by Uncle Gerald ) but I looked around our house and thought... I really need to get on some stuff here.  But can I do it with Intent (tm)?   My omen for August, drawn at Yule is Othala.  Othala is a rune of home, land, and boundaries.  Seeing to those things does seem to be called for if there is need, and by golly there is totally need. My Lughnasadh omen from the Druid Animal/Plant o...

 As what has become usual, my yuletide observances have been derailed by illness.  This time, it's a third dance with Covid.   In year's past I've done an 'omen for the year' by choosing a rune on each of the twelve days of Yule, starting with Solstice Eve, and ending twelve nights later.  You can see examples of prior years  2023 ,  2021 ,  2020 , ... starting as early as  2017 .  At least as far as what I archived here.  I'd have to dig into  my old Livejournal account  to see about earlier... I'm not sure where I got the idea for a rune pull a day. I do somewhat dimly remember recognizing the twelve days and then twelve months of a year is convenient coincidence, and combining that with the use of divination during liminal times, made it a good idea.  Sometimes I post it, and then don't go back to it. Other times I do, and I notice my interpretation changes, as is correct. I always say readings are a snapshot, what...