The realization of just how badly I’ve messed up right off the bat today, had me feeling pretty low, pretty ashamed, and yes, sad. I needed some guidance, and I was getting ready to walk out the door, my eyes alighted on the tarot and runes sitting there from two weeks ago. I hadn’t picked them up since, last time being a powerful gift that kept me going for quite a while. So this morning, I took a couple more moments to ask what I should be keeping in mind right now, and got a bit of a surprise.

Two cards leaped off the top of the deck after shuffling, face up and side by side. I drew two runes as well. I ended up with the “2 of Chalices” linked with the rune “Fehu”, and “The Lovers” linked with the rune “Jera”. I’ll leave my personal interpretations of this set to myself, it’s a bit private, but I did notice a few things with this draw that caught my attention. While reading the rune interpretations for “Fehu”, a part I usually ignore – the deity associated with the rune – leaped off the page at me. Fehu, associated with Freyja. A mental shrug, and then on to the next. Jera, the year, the harvest. A rune tied to harvest coming up on Mabon? Interesting! On a whim I looked at the deity associated with this rune too. Freyja. Two runes tied to Freyja, one dealing with harvest, on a day associated with harvest.

I’m not familiar with Freyja. I’m not familiar, if it comes right down to it, with MOST of the god/dess forms deity chooses to reveal itself as. I did a little research however (as much as was possible to get a general idea, being limited by my cellphone internet), and came up with this. Freyja is a goddess of love, beauty, abundance and fertility. She also is a goddess of battle and death. She has connections to magic and divination. And on a further whim, searches on deities related to Mabon revealed, of course, Freyja. This all seems to fit in with both the cards and runes drawn, and with today in particular.

Therefore, I’m taking today to do a little more research, and honor Freyja for bestowing me with this gift, and to take some time to reflect on the message I’ve been given. Hopefully today I can bake some bread, and maybe it’s not too late to salvage today, to mark it and make it something special, and share it with the one I love, in whatever way I can. Happy Mabon to you all.

One day, I was doing a weekly draw, asking “what do I need to keep in mind this week?” The card I got didn’t make a whole lot of sense to me on its own, and while contemplating drawing a clarifier, my eyes fell on the bag of runes. The idea hit like a ton of bricks, and so I went to draw one rune for my clarifier. Within moments of opening the bag, one rune just about jumped out, literally spilling from the bag with barely a touch by me. After looking up its meaning, and tying it to the card, I realized I was on to something. It brought the card into sharp focus for what was going on in my life, in a way the card itself could not alone.

Since then, I’ve done all my weekly draws with one card and one rune, and it’s AMAZING the way they link together. Recently while doing a weekly draw, 3 cards and 3 runes all leaped out, despite my only wanting one. When things like this happen, I roll with it, because I figure it’s important, that I’m being TOLD something, if that makes sense.

In the desire to share this, and the hopes that maybe somebody else can find a use for working this way, the following is my drawing and impressions from two weeks ago.

With this card came the blank rune, often used to signify having no choice, to things being out of your hands and in the hands of fate or the gods. 

From the 5 of chalices I get something small and alive inside something broken, a hope, a rebirth from the pieces of some tragedy, a thoughtful and hopeful, curious sense of adventure for what lies ahead, a time to transition to action, to explore. I don’t know what the traditional meanings are, and I can never remember what each suit signifies off the top of my head. Hence my love for intuitive reading.

This card speaks of loss, but progress as well.  With the blank, as it’s tied to the card, that these things are in the hands of the gods, that it’s not something that can be controlled, ….. I wasn’t sure how to tie it in with what I got out of the card yet though, and thought that it may be possible that in this case the runes aren’t tied to specific cards at all but to each other, which would be interesting.

And with this card was Perth, the rune of chances, mysteries, unknowns, making the best of things, “There is an element of choice in everything. No one can upset you, you can only choose to be upset. No one can exert power over you unless you choose to subject yourself to it. Claim your right to choose, and don’t allow others to compromise your truth or prevent you from doing what you need to do. The only danger here is not to make a choice at all, but to leave things to fate when you will have no say in your own future.” I think there was a LOT of that message in the card as well. I also got this rune in a converse position, meaning take nothing for granted and only trust your loved ones.

The card represents a judgement with the cherub blowing the horn of course…. but the things sneaking up around him are creatures of his own creation. The media he works or lives his life on looks up at him adoringly, the brush points accusingly, the ink looks sneaky and suspicious, the paint is well fed and sedentary, the clothing is curious but inactive, and the background is in motion and unclear, but it all seems tied to the artist. Is the artist sleeping? Are they hiding? crying? It feels like it’s saying, the only person who can truly judge you is you. If I tie this rune to this card, they’re saying: “Who knows what judgement may come, it’s your choice, it’s what you choose to make of it. Stick with what you believe, take your chances, and make the best of it.

With this card is tied Sowilo, the sigil, the sun, the strength and courage to take action for that which is good. Having the power to bring good things to fruition. Good fortune and a positive feel. To face fears and overcome. A force for attack, and a symbol for victory.

I can also see the runes linking to each other specifically, seperate from the cards…. there is the power of the gods, the will of the gods, and after that, there is what you choose to make of it, and you can make the best of it.

If I link the cards together I come up with: “From within tragedy and brokenness, lie seeds of new possibilities, of adventure and unknown… we choose to make of these what we will from our own fears and demons, our own dreams and ideals and hopes… but ultimately, it’s what we make of it… ending with a reminder that with that, comes a time for action, to be prepared to strike when the moment comes, to not be a slave to fear and doubt, to not hide our faces from what is before us, or sit musing in the wreckage, but use our strength and be prepared to take action for what we have our sights on..

And if I link the triple runes to the triple cards……….

What lay behind and what lays before…. only the gods know for sure, but we have the choice to make the worst of it, or the most of it, but ultimately, it is our choice what we do, and if we’re to take action, we will do so with positivity and resolve.