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The Warrior

It's thursday, which means it's home day. This afternoon, I'll be traveling for the second weekend in a row. I a little screwed up because of last weekend, but it's good. Two weekends in a row of peace and love, sunshine and beer. We're going to Edmonton tomorrow for the night to have dinner, maybe check out a movie (but I've been told it won't be Revenge of the Sith) and do some shopping.

I spent some time packing last night. I'm taking home anything that isn't essential to me next shift. This includes most of the books and witchy paraphenilia I'd brought up over the course of the last 9 months. I think I'd feel better about it all if I had a place to move it to, but I haven't found a place to stay up here yet. There's an over shadowing uneasiness that is twinging the bottom of my stomach. My back up plan for not finding an apartment is living in a hotel. Barring that, I have no plan. I'm not worried about being homeless, because I can survive, it's not knowing.
*Edit* In the time it took me to finish the story below, I have a place to live. One of the people in the office has a furnished basement suite for rent, so I took it*

Today's Rune:
Teiwaz - Tyr
The warrior's rune. Duty, discipline, self-sacrifice and strength. All those things I wish I had more of in my character. It is time to be strong, to stand my ground and prepare for battle. Conflict. This is the rune of Tyr, one of the norse gods, and is involves one of my favorite norse tales. My loose understanding is thus:

Loki fathered three children. Hel, who became mistress of the realm named for her, keeper of the dead, Jormungand, the Midgard serpent who lives in the seas and encirles midgard, and Fenrir, the wolf. The children grew, both in strength as well as power and both Hel and Jormungand were cast out of Asgard to protect the gods. But Fenrir was allowed to stay. The time came when the gods looked on the wolf and feared that he too would soon be too powerful to contain, and Odin foresaw his own death in the jaws of the great wolf in his vision of Ragnarok. It was decided that Fenrir would be fettered to protect the gods.
A great chain was created, and the gods went to Fenrir and offered him the challenge of breaking the chain. Fenrir scoffed that he was so strong, no chain could hold him and was bound. He stretched out his great body and splintered the chain and the gods went away.
Later they returned with a second chain, bigger than the first, its links massive. The challenged Fenrir to break this chain. Again, Fenrir scoffed, and was bound. And again, stretching out, the wolf shattered the chain. Disheartened, the gods went away.
Odin sent message to the dwarves, living below Midgard to create a magic fetter to bind the wolf. The dwarves gathered cats' footfall, women's beard, bears' sinew, mountains' root, fishes' breath, and birds' spittle (all things that no longer exist in the world because of this) and created a magical thread and presented it to the gods. They took the thread to Fenrir and again challenged him to break the bond. Suspicious, Fenrir would only agree if one of the gods would put his sword hand in the wolf's mouth. All the gods were nervous, trying to decide who would do it, expect Tyr. Tyr walked up and placed his right hand in Fenrir's mouth and the others bound him with thread.
Fenrir stretched, but the thread held. He shook, but the bond would not stretch and when he realized the thread would not break and that the gods had trapped him, he bit down on the right hand of Tyr.

posted by September @ 7:32 AM