I've always been curious about how runes are cast, but whenever I ask I'm fobbed off with mystical-joo joo-only-you-know-how nonsense.
I hate that. To me it indicates a few things:
1. 'I don't actually know.' 2. 'I know, but I'm too lazy to explain it to you.' 3. 'I know, but if I share my secrets, you'll perceive me as being less magical / mystical / awesome' etc.
I also think that there's a real culture in paganism of writing about the theory of something - where runes came from, but not actually writing about it in practice. Like, there's no book out there - to my knowledge - which is '50 spells and the results I personally got when I used them.' Or 'great tarot reading disasters.' It's that sort of practical knowledge which matters most, and no one's talk. Bleh.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2008-05-29 12:52 am (UTC)I hate that. To me it indicates a few things:
1. 'I don't actually know.'
2. 'I know, but I'm too lazy to explain it to you.'
3. 'I know, but if I share my secrets, you'll perceive me as being less magical / mystical / awesome' etc.
I also think that there's a real culture in paganism of writing about the theory of something - where runes came from, but not actually writing about it in practice. Like, there's no book out there - to my knowledge - which is '50 spells and the results I personally got when I used them.' Or 'great tarot reading disasters.' It's that sort of practical knowledge which matters most, and no one's talk. Bleh.