Ah, it’s nice to germinate something and then have it give birth. Maybe it’s just cuz it’s late spring, I don’t know. But despite my saboteur’s efforts to blow things up jera has been quietly doing it’s little thing in the background, and there be seeds bearing fruit all around.
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I’ve been working on a rather large project for a couple that lives clear across the country for me. Yesterday they came out to my neck of the woods on vacation and after three months of work we had a chance to finally meet. They’re so ecstatic with what I’ve been doing on their behalf that they can hardly hold still. Jera bearing fruit.
Then there’s a family tragedy that has turned into something of an information boon. Geneology and family history is something I enjoy. The death of my grandmother last month has led to not only a wealth of information about that side of the family — but the cup runneth over with information! I spent the weekend pouring over family pictures and documents and I barely scratched the surface of what the old bird (and my also deceased grandfather) had squired away in her 91 years on this old Earth. The oldest picture I found dated back to 1805. But the best part was some work she had done herself back in 2005 that took one branch of the family back to the mid 17th century. Jera bearing fruit.
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But of course, Jera cannot bear fruit without the help of ingwaz — the unbroken seed that must be left to germinate. And there’s the part that’ll seem like its about to kill you. For the most of us, that which we desire is so tangled up with that which we really, deep down desire that we’ll never entangle them. Put another way, all the “positive thinking” in the world does little to no good in our lives because it barely scratches the subconscious patterns that truly shape our lives. Those patterns are the ones that truly effect the world around us, constantly causing “unexpected” things to happen.
Which is why ritual, for most people, including the ancient erulians, was so important. So responsive is the Universe to our will that if we can break the subconscious patterns, even for a little while, we can see at least some small part of that which we (claim) we really desire. Rune magic does this. So does Wikan magic, Christian prayer and sacrifice, the Islamic practice of of prayer and Jihaad (the real practice of jihaad, not the silliness of the fundamentalist extremists).
In short, anything you do that forces a real change in consciousness will affect the world around you. It is as much the essence of jera and ingwaz as the opposite: The stasis of birth, growth, and death. Remember that the next time you’re feeling stuck.
(But don’t claim I ever said it would be easy!)Technorati Tags: the runes, wikka, magic, jera, ingwaz, creation
