I’m not going New Age on you.  Really, I’m not.  But not long ago I came across a set of Runes that I bought many years ago.  Am I superstitions?  Do I believe in magical properties of fortune telling stones?  No – or at least not TOO much.  But I am a strong believer in the power of Intuition.  Runes are considered by some to be an ancient alphabet, and some consider them to be a gate to reading the future.

Like many mystic questions, I think there may be an interpretation for both.  Consider the typical fortune teller.  Unless truly gifted with a possibly real talent, the majority are simply very very good at reading body language and making some interpretive guesses from acute observation.  If indeed history repeats itself, then you have a halfway decent chance of “telling the future”.

With Runes you are bringing your own interpretation to the speculative definitions of various runic combinations, cast in different patterns.   Runes fell out of popular use when they were taken up by German Scholars associated with the Nazi movement.  In the 1980’s they came back into favor with New Age popularity.

According to the dictionary, intuition is:

direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process

Actually I found several places that had very vague definitions – after all, it basically boils down to suddenly knowing something that you supposedly did not already know, without any reason to know it.

I’ll offer a different theory here.  Intuition may just be your synapses connections between the neurons in your brain pulling in extra information like a wifi google search – and returning something you never expected.  We take in a great deal of information in our lifetime.  Do we really forget, or does it get stored somewhere like a remote brain server waiting to serve up that snippet of forgotten code?

Back to the Runes.  The approach I like is once you look up the interpretation, don’t really put any weight behind that interpretation or “prediction”.  Pay attention instead to your reaction.  That reaction may be your intuition trying to tell you things from a new and more accurate perception.  Basically like standing in front of lateral blinds in an office that are slightly closed. From one angle you can’t see anything but the blinds, but walk a few feet and turn in the other direction, and suddenly the blinds practically disappear and you can see the view outside.

Nurture your intuition – it might just have a magic all it’s own.

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