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The Runes constitute one of the most ancient forms and means of divination. Used in concert with the daily nature of the Moon, the Ancients discovered the perfect guide for personal conduct and timely action.

-MARCH 9, 2025-

GEBO

KEYWORDS: PARTNERSHIPS, INDIVIDUALITY, EQUALITY

Virtues: Giving and Receiving and Mutual Affection

Daily Theme: GEBO is known as the Rune of RELATING. Maintaining your individuality is a joy of life no matter what circumstance you find yourself - love relationship, marriage, friendship, business or family. For any union to work out with equity each player must be him or her “self.” This type of separateness brings about the ultimate unity which is freedom. The essence of this Rune also concerns one's connection to the Divine and one's sense of charity and helping others. Gebo may be asking you to give to someone who is truly in need at this time. Conversely, if it is your situation that is in need of assistance, help may be on the way. Gebo reminds us that if we do our part and remain connected to the flow, the cosmos joins us in ourselves and our partnerships, strengthening the one to solidify the other.

Today, crystal practitioners and advocates should work with Opal (encourages freedom and independence, sense of balance, connections).

LUNAR ASPECTS FOR RIGHT ACTION: Be tolerant and you will endure. Be spontaneous when expressing new ideas. Intuition and insight are available for creativity - just remember to wax philosophical.

CONTEMPLATION STATION
With Alan Oken

MESSAGE FOR SPRING

It is said that our greatest challenge individually and collectively is to create channels for the Soul’s expression in our daily lives. As we create these avenues for the outer expression of inner life, we also consciously co-create our own destinies.

In the process of reorientation to the new archetype, ask yourself if you are experiencing any of the following:

Consistently seeking methods of self-improvement that give you a feeling of greater wholeness.
Expressing interest in methods and/or processes which serve to heal other people from negative and addictive patterns.
Becoming increasingly aware of others outside of your immediate family and/or social circle.
Finding it easier to relate with people connected to you through similar belief or ideological systems.
Becoming exhausted (emotionally or mentally) by civic, social, or spiritual activities that at one time used to be enjoyable or at least tolerable. Do these activities represent a distinct drain on your vitality?
Increasingly finding yourself attracted to love and less attracted by desire OR are experiencing a conflict between the two and trying to unite them.
Growing increasingly dispassionate, detached and discriminating. Does sometimes his make you feel guilty, fearful or at a loss?
Definitely searching and maybe even finding a greater purpose for your life’s energies. Is “service” becoming an important factor or even a dominant theme in your life?
Seeing through and growing dissatisfied with “game structures” tied to nonregenerative egocentric habit patterns. Do you desire to become more detached from these magnetic traps?
Sensing, perceiving and experiencing another aspect of Love which is more impersonal and detached – one that is unconditionally supportive and demands nothing in return – one that has an attraction beyond all differences like gender, ethnic/religious/social orientations.
Feeling a growing need to be part of a group of people who are working towards these same inward and outward goals.
Becoming increasingly impersonal to all things that are personal and increasingly personal to all that is impersonal.

A Message About Reincarnation

FROST TO FIRE

Inspired by dreams divine

Beyond the tracks of time

Song and rhyme to feed your starving ears

In faith I heed the call

Yet so uninvolved

Questions unresolved, too deep and high

From frost to fire

I'll leave, your desire at the door

No more

Lives to wait

In time, I'll lose all designs

And nothing left undone

Never again

To "speak in tongues"

And if you've lost sight of sacred ground

The key may still be found

In your heart

If you've the strength to look there

From frost to fire

I'll leave your desire at the door

No more

Lives to wait

In time, I'll lose all designs

And nothing left undone

Never again

To "speak in tongues"

To see with sight of closed eyes

The visions of the wise

Can come as no surprise

The trumpet sounds...

This candle has been lit for all those anywhere in the world who are suffering physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. May the Light find you, illuminate you and heal you.

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BUDDHA IN BLUE JEANS

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Buddha in Blue Jeans – An Extremely Short Simple Zen Guide To Sitting Quietly and Being Buddha is a universal guide to the meditation practice of sitting quietly and being yourself. Tai Sheridan is a Zen priest in the Suzuki Roshi Lineage. His poetry transforms ancient Zen and Buddhist classics into accessible and inspirational verses. He has affiliated with San Francisco Zen Center, Berkeley Zen Center, Dharma Eye Sangha, Zen Heart Sangha, and the Shogaku Zen Institute.

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THE SECRET ADAM

https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Secret-Adam-A-Study-of-Nasoraen-Gnosis.pdf

The Secret Adam – a Study of Nasoreaen Gnosis by E. S. Drower takes us deep into the pre-Christian spirituality of the ancient Persia. Still today there are remnants of the Mandaeans (“Gnostics“) also known as Sabaeans in Iraq who among others had a tradition of baptism. Their knowledge is historically accessible through a vast amount of scrolls. In The Secret Adam, E. S. Drower outlines the history of the people, their thoughts and secret knowledge.

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MAGIA NATURALIS - NATURAL MAGIC

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Magia Naturalis (natural magic) is the main work of the Neapolitan scholar Giambattista Della Porta, first published in 1558 in four books and then in 1586 in twenty books. It is the compilation of fantastic phenomena and beliefs he collected during his life and that he has tried to wrest from the divinatory magic by giving them a naturalistic justification or by legitimizing them by classic literary references. The first edition of Magia Naturalis dates from 1558 in Naples (then Antwerp in 1560), while Della Porta was only twenty-three years old. From an early age, with the help of his preceptors, he hunts for surprising, wonderful, and even miraculous facts, to review them in order to tear them away from popular superstition and put them back to their proper place within the natural philosophy. The Magia Naturalis is not a book of magic spells but merely an anthology of natural wonders written at a time when science was still in its infancy.

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FUTHORKH: A JOURNAL OF RUNE ESOTERCISM AND MAGICK

VOLUME II 2025

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FUTHORKH: A Journal of Rune Esotericism and Magick is the journal of Knights of Runes. Of utmost importance to this journal, is the study and practice of the Armanen Runes in the tradition of Karl Hans Welz. To begin, it is necessary to understand that a Rune is best described as a secret or a mystery. They are properly described as cosmological mysteries and concepts that date back to the dawn of time—to the Ginnungagap itself. In the pages of FUTHORKH, we explore the esoteric nature of the Runes, reveal their secrets, consider their practice, and attempt to solve, at least some of, their mysteries.

FRINGE KNOWLEDGE FOR BEGINNERS

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Fringe Knowledge for Beginners - Sequential overview of our situation regarding metaphysics, cosmology, human origins, aliens, the Control System, the Shift, and how to empower ourselves spiritually.

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