23 Feb 2011

Hagalaz, Gebo, and Berkana offered guidance for today.

Hagalaz represents hail.  It indicates a crisis of some form.  How we react to the crisis dictates the outcome: positive or negative.  I started my homework today.  A list that incorporates mitigation.  Learning new things about life phases.  How interesting that our life cycles follow natural cycles, including weather.  Civilization and technology have joined together to dilute our understanding of nature's influence upon our lives.  Hail, for example, is both damaging and nourishing.  It damages by coming to Earth with huge force, slicing and puncturing things in its way.  It melts and nourishes the ground beneath it.  It does not indicate a decision or solution is immediately at hand.  It is the process, the homework, the coming into the light of the action of the decision.

Gebo brings gifts.  An opportune time after changes brought by yesterday.  Now is the time to trust the Self.  Build the trust while going through the work of research.  Research your issue.  Research your feelings.  Research your life.  The steps of your research slowly builds your trust in your Self and its ability to guide you to your new life.  It will not be soon in coming, that is not in the nature.  Nature has cycles which develop over time.  They take their time, as should you, and if they are subtle enough in their development and movements, they may arrive with force.  Enough force to knock you off your axis.

Berkana is growth.  At times, you need to ask how to focus your growth.  Today, Inner Peace required attention.  To develop inner peace, I needed to lay things out on paper.  To use a sounding board between my self and Self.  I needed to identify strengths and weaknesses.  I am not completed with this task.  However, I have not scared myself away.  Mitigation may be needed to fully determine the gift brought by hail.

Isa advises to look within, in silence.  It is the water transformed into ice that makes up hail.  It brings all into itself into stillness like water into ice.  It goes into stillness to reflect upon all things.  It identifies and addresses fears.  Considering yesterday and the activities today, tonight is an excellent time to look within, in silence.  Are my fears valid?  Are they actual?  Or are they "figments?"  Can they be mitigated?  Are my fears within the lists I am making?  Can they be turned into strengths, into caution.  Caution not because I am scared to go forward, but caution because like the person who burned their fingers, I am approaching the fire with stealth and respect.  Look within and review what the self and Self have discussed and discovered.  Come on, you know they talk to each other.  Make no decisions.  Take what they have discussed, what they agree upon, and disagree upon and consider the reasons for each side.  Consider with care.  Reflect.  Then wake........