Ask teh runes!!!1

[louiselux]

Day 158 - runes

Ahem.

I impulse bought them from the British Museum shop, along with King Harald's Saga by Snori Sturluson. It's gripping and fast paced and so far I have got to part 34, where Harald and King Svein of Denmark are about to fight it out over who deserves Denmark more. In this part, I like that there is a court poet known as Thorleik the Handsome. He must've been very very handsome to be known for it.

I also bought Chronicles of the Vikings by RI Page, which I mostly picked because it has a chapter entitled 'the unheroic life' that comes straight after a chapter called 'the heroic life'.

Anyway! I have been practising with the runes (put hand in bag, extract rune, consult little book, feel baffled). Apparently, long distance rune-reading is quite acceptable. Please do feel free to ask them anything you like!! (Answers may not make sense, may contain nuts)

Comments

[ro-anshi.livejournal.com]

Hello Runes of louiselux:

I could ask you something of import (such as whether I will manage to stay on the diet-and-exercise plan I just started, long enough to positively impact my health) but instead I want to ask:

Am I going to be able to write those four damn Springkinks I so blithely selected some weeks ago, yet which now appear to be inexorably STALLED?!

I bow before your awesomeness, O Runes (and I also bow before the awesomeness of louiselux, who has set such a high standard in previous Springkinks...)

[louiselux.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you. :)

You drew perth: initiation, something hidden, a secret matter.

Uncertain meaning, a mystery, hidden things and occult abilities. Initiation, knowledge of one's destiny, knowledge of future matters, determining the future or your path. Pertaining to things feminine, feminine mysteries including female fertility, and vagina. Good lot, fellowship and joy. Evolutionary change.

Powerful forces are at work here, yet what is achieved is not readily or easily shared. After all, becoming whole, the means of it, it is a profound secret.On the side of the earthly or mundane, there may well be surprises, gains or rewards that you did not anticipate.

On the side of human nature, the rune is symbolised by the flight of the eagle, soaring free from entanglement, lifting yourself above the endless ebb and flow of ordinary life to acquire a broader vision.

I has no idea what that means in term of your question! I hope it means something to you.

[ro-anshi.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's certainly... something. I'll have to meditate upon it myself to try to suss out what the universe is telling me. (I really hope that, with all that talk about feminine mysteries, it's not warning me of an upcoming yeast infection.)

BTW, I'm just going to blatantly state right here and now that your "Ne Me Quitte Pas" is, IMHO, the BEST GOJYO STORY EVER. I've never had the opportunity to tell you that before, so I'm telling you now. It rips my heart up and out in the best possible way, then stitches it back together and replaces it gently in my chest in an impossibly BETTER way. Thank you for writing it.

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

isn't it just?...I have read it and taken it to heart so many times that I can see it in my head now!

It is so beautiful and wonderful on so many levels! ^__^

[ro-anshi.livejournal.com]

isn't it just?...I have read it and taken it to heart so many times that I can see it in my head now!

It is so beautiful and wonderful on so many levels! ^__^

That story hit me so hard that, once I finished it, I deliberately had to put it aside and NOT let myself re-read it for quite some time. Because I just could have gotten lost in it (meaning obsessed with it) as it was SO strong and SO powerful. The depiction of Gojyo's pain at being "left" was so real - too real - and terribly, painfully in character. But the growth he gets out of it... what a perfect package of a complex story, one that I couldn't hope to write in my best day.