Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's getting on for midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. With certain exceptions, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question received after then will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted. I've been getting an increasing number of people trying to post after these are closed, so will have to draw a harder line than before.) If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.0 of The Magic Monday FAQ here. Also: I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says. 

The image?  That's the thirtieth card in The Sacred Geometry Oracle. Card 31, the Sphere, when upright tells you that the possibilities before you are much bigger than you realize; when reversed, it tells you that you're completely missing what's going on. The sun in the upper left corner of the image tells you that this card belongs to the final third of the oracle, which corresponds to Nwyfre, the principle of spirit and meaning.  We've completed our passage through the first two of the basic root functions of sacred geometry -- √3, the principle of the vesica piscis and the equilateral triangle, and √2, the principle of the square and its diagonal -- and now we're working with the √5, the seed from which the Golden Section unfolds and resolves all back into unity.

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Comments

[nebulous_realms]

Greetings, JMG. While this question involves using runes for divination, I think the question is one you can still readily answer.

I have started three-rune draws for daily divinations, with the runes being the answer to my question, “what do I most need to understand about the next twenty-four hours.” Should I decide ahead of divination how to interpret the sequence, or should I discover myself how to interpret the sequence over two or more weeks of daily divinations? Many rune manuals/books suggest specific ways to interpret the sequence of runes, while LRM, which I’m using as an additional reference for basic divination, suggests (albeit with tarot cards in mind) that you should try to envision a story or process that could explain what the three cards represent, and then reflect on if the events of the past day matched what you wrote or what they could mean otherwise.

Maybe others who use runes have their own input they'd like to add. Thanks to all!

[ecosophia]

I know people who do both these options. These days, I decide in advance that the different positions mean, but your mileage may vary.

[jprussell]

I've found the below applies roughly equally to my work with the Runes and the Ogham:

- I typically pick what each stave/card will represent ahead of time, as I find the juxtaposition of the fixed meaning of the position with the interpretive meaning of the staves/cards productive
- That being said, sometimes a link between the cards that doesn't exactly fit the pre-planned layout just jumps out at me, and typically I'll go with that
- Sometimes a card/stave literally jumps out, and I tend to either treat that as an overall theme for the reading, or else as the first card "drawn"
- I also find it helpful for the three positions in the spread to be a little more symbolic than "just" past, present, future. For example, with the runes, it's Urdhr, Verdhandi, Skuld, and with the Ogham, it's Knowledge, Peace, and Power. While I default to treating these as "basically" past, present, and future, the labels have other esoteric associations which somehow help work out what a reading might be telling me

Hope some of this helps!
Jeff