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Moonlight at Midnight

I'm a little on edge this morning. It has been a relatively excellent day so far (even though I've only been here for an hour and a half), but I'm garnering a sense of impending confrontation. Maybe I'm just in a confrontational mood. I'm in a mood I haven't been for a long, long time; I'm bigger than I think, I'm smarter than people give me credit for, and I know and feel things many people could never imagine. And as I sit here, with the half hidden smirk, listening to inane conversations about designer products and unimaginative music, I'm reveling in my dark hidden mind. Maybe it's the rain of the last few days; maybe it's having slept for ten hours last night after being deprived for the last few days; it could be the waxing moon, coming up to be full in one week or the solstice in just under a week; maybe it's that I only have 2-1/2 days to go here before I've officially quit my job. I've had some interesting conversations this weekend, and for all of the reasons above, I feel "connected" to something I haven't been in ages.

Today's Rune:
Thurisaz -Thorn
Hardship, focus, knowledge, pain. Alot of what I've read of this rune is negative; it warns of destruction, of uncontrollable power, of blood. As I understand, the original meaning of the rune was "frost giant", the thing which the gods fought against, but the meaning was changed to be thorn for various reasons. I see the rune with it's "thorn" meaning as opposed to the more destructive "frost giant" meaning. I think both meanings have a place, but when the giant meaning is applied, it's hard to see the lesson here. The rune holds particular appeal to me for this reason: through suffering there is knowledge. By confronting the giants, the gods often come away with a greater prize (the mead of poetry, Slepnir, the walls of Asgard, and ultimately new life at the end of Ragnarok). The meaning is easier to understand with thorn (climbing into the blackberry bush is painful and will shed blood, but the berries hidden there are sweet). As long as we look for a way to take understanding from that pain, as long as we remember to gather berries while we walk the tangled bushes, the journey becomes better for the hardship.

posted by September @ 7:57 AM