Musings of an Addled Mind

A place for me to collect my obsessive fangirl thoughts.

[missmentelle]

At age 23, Tina Fey was working at a YMCA. At age 23, Oprah was fired from her first reporting job.  At age 24, Stephen King was working as a janitor and living in a trailer. 

At age 27, Vincent Van Gogh failed as a missionary and decided to go to art school.   At age 28, J.K. Rowling was a suicidal single parent living on welfare.

At age 28, Wayne Coyne ( from The Flaming Lips) was a fry cook. At age 30, Harrison Ford was a carpenter.  At age 30, Martha Stewart was a stockbroker.  At age 37, Ang Lee was a stay-at-home-dad working odd jobs. Julia Child released her first cookbook at age 39, and got her own cooking show at age 51. Vera Wang failed to make the Olympic figure skating team, didn’t get the Editor-in-Chief position at Vogue, and designed her first dress at age 40. Stan Lee didn’t release his first big comic book until he was 40. Alan Rickman gave up his graphic design career and landed his first movie role at age 42. Samuel L. Jackson didn’t get his first major movie role until he was 46.

Morgan Freeman landed his first major movie role at age 52. Kathryn Bigelow won the Academy Award for Best Director when she made The Hurt Locker at age 57. Grandma Moses didn’t begin her painting career until age 76. Louise Bourgeois didn’t become a famous artist until she was 78. Whatever your dream is, it is not too late to achieve it. You aren’t a failure because you haven’t found fame and fortune by the age of 21. Hell, it’s okay if you don’t even know what your dream is yet. Even if you’re flipping burgers, waiting tables or answering phones today, you never know where you’ll end up tomorrow. Never tell yourself you’re too old to make it. 

Never tell yourself you missed your chance. 

Never tell yourself that you aren’t good enough. 

You can do it. Whatever it is. 

[irinaspoetry]

Holy shit this is inspiring

[onceland]

[mummybubblemakes]

So damn true

[aeronsrunestones]

Here’s a bind rune for the anon with social anxiety who works with the public! I chose to use these runes: 

Wunjo for “comfort”

Ansuz for “language” and “communication” (because you work with the public)

Uruz for “freedom” “strength” and “action”

Mannaz to represent humans and people, as well as reinforce that you have the skills needed to interact with them!

I hope this helps you anon!

Please don’t repost this image or remove my captions

[woodfireink]

Bind Rune for Insight for Difficult Decisions

Principal Rune:

Eihwaz - This rune is associated with Yggdrasil, the spine, and the yew bow.  It is a rune of great potential energy and action.  If Eihwaz were to come up in a rune casting considering a choice (such as, “Should I take this job offer?”), it often indicates, “go for it!.” Odin hung himself from Yggdrasil for nine days and nights to gain the knowledge of the runes.  This rune can help bring insight to you if you are willing to give what is necessary. 

Supporting Runes: 

Raidho - The rune of the wagon, of travel.  It is also the rune of your will manifest- as you move forward through the universe, make sure you are the rider, not the horse being ridden. When combined with kenaz, it can help you realize your true will (through kenaz) and then act accordingly (raidho).

Kenaz - The rune of controlled fire.  Like a torch illuminating the darkness, kenaz will light the hidden parts of your mind, allowing you to understand your true desires.

Wunjo -The rune of joy or perfection.  Wunjo represents striving for perfection, even though you know you shall never reach it.  During a difficult choice, one can reflect on wunjo and try to discern which option will bring about the best possible version of oneself. If you always keep this in mind and conduct yourself in such a manner, you will achieve true joy.

[neoliberalismkills]

Phoenix’s list for the interested witch

List of sigils for trans and non-binary people

Blog of pagan and magical resources

A large directory of spells

A bind rune for insight into difficult decisions 

A long list of pagan and witchy blogs

Various ways to charge sigils

Gender affirmation sigil for trans and non-binary people

Protection to ward off ex-lovers

Blog for the disabled and mentally ill witch

List of resources for help on how to use tarot cards

Pagan resource page

A few easy to make potions

[cultofthedead]

Runes; spell complications.

There is a lot that can be done with runes. When considering using them in magik it should be remembered that they were given to Odin after his travel to the land of the dead. He was given a set of runes and a key rune. There are many runes, not just the younger and elder futhark. There are examples of multiples sets (or alphabets if you must) and there are examples standard sets having been used with one or more bind runes, or otherwise unknown/obscure runes.

The standard sets have a lot of information attached to them in the form of poem, mythology, numerology and alphabet. Thinking you just need to carve or draw the shape as part of a spell and it’s done will bring disappointment. There are reasons that a lot of time is meant to be spent becoming familiar with each rune.

Context is one. Any one rune has meaning which can conflict with your intended goal. As a real basic example of this Ken means torch and illness. Which of those two or the other 3 meanings are you using?

Creation is another. A person using runes needs to be able to create their own runes for a spell. Yes in some instances reversing, inverting or repeating a rune does the trick, but how do you know that if you do not know how to create your own? Mutilation of a rune is an important part of rune work, but if you are not a builder I don’t recommend converting your loft.

When a rune is used in runic magik as opposed to being used in a generic pagan manner it is part of a word of power, a poem or other statement such as a curse. The whole is written in runes and you find within certain mutilations, bind runes or other. These are the ones that make the difference between a spell and a bit of carving. The word or phrase or poem is chosen carefully with many considerations, perhaps in a similar way biblical verse or QBL words and spelling are chosen.

Are you writing in English, old English or some variation of Germanic? Although the runes were given by the English they were given to a person of a different culture and language base, and have since been changed by those same people. Is it compatible with any language?

[comradeheathen]

Made myself a sleep rune. Just pencil on a sheet of paper, but it worked SOO well for a few nights. When I get the time, I’m gonna put some more effort into it, carve it into a wood disc or something. But yeah, if you have trouble sleeping, try it. It totally worked for me.

[ambrose-velour]

Credit to owner.

[fornsed-blog]

Bind Rune Sigils

[aeronsrunestones]

Bind Runes: A How-To

Yo gais, I’ve gotten several requests from people to create a tutorial on how I do bind runes. Keep in mind that everyone creates a unique set of rules and methods for creating these so you don’t have to follow this to the tee!

First: CHOOSE AN INTENT The biggest thing is to know what you want this bind rune to be for. Do you want a bind rune for strength or for creativity? You’ll use different runes for different intents, so make sure you know what you want from it.

Second: CHOOSE RUNES THAT MATCH YOUR INTENT Now that you know your intent, choose runes that match! I like to use sets of 3, but if you feel two or even four or more runes would be better suited to your task go ahead! Runes can also be mirrored to reverse the meaning, for instance you can mirror Haglaz to include in a protection rune as something like “calm weather.” If you are new to runes, I have a post here that has my personal associations! For the purpose of this tutorial I’ll make a rune for protection. We can always use protection runes.

The runes I’ve chosen are: Agliz for Protection Ingwaz for Safety Sowilo for Good Health

Third: COMBINE THE RUNES This stage is where you get to be creative. Overlay the runes, one on top of the other, to create the bind rune. Try out different lay outs, pick ones that are aesthetically pleasing to you. In this stage we also make sure that we’re not creating any other runes that would result in mixed energies. (For instance, we wouldn’t want a reversed Wunjo in a protection rune.)

These are examples of bind runes that you can get from just those three runes I showed you eariler!

Fourth: MAKE LAST ADJUSTMENTS Here’s where you choose your final design(s), and make sure there’s no more changes to be made. This is the easiest step in my opinion, just final adjustments!

Last Step: CLEAN IT UP AND USE IT I like to clean my designs up using a digital program. SAI or Photoshop are personal favourites of mine. After that, all that’s left is to use it! Sometimes you can carve it into a piece of wood and use sangomancy(blood magic) to charge it and make sure the energies are directed towards you, or you can just draw it on your wrist as needed, or create a charm from it! The uses are endless, much like sigils. So go make bind runes, and have fun!

[chaosophia218]

Bind Runes. A Bind Rune (Icelandic: bandrún) is created by combining two or more ancient Viking Runes into a single symbol. What this combination is believed to do is create a more powerful Rune, than the individual Runes used to make it. How the Bind Rune is created is very important. Bind Runes should be kept as simple as possible so that each Rune is clearly distinguishable. Using more than five is usually not advisable. When a bind rune is too complex it will be less powerful than a simpler symbol. Bind Runes were rare in Viking days; there are not many examples of the ancient Norse writing them. They became more common among the Scandinavian people later in the Middle Ages.

[evanstanx]

say no to hydra cap

[sizvideos]

Chris Hemsworth has a bone to pick with the Avengers

[evanstanx]

Reblog if you’re on team cap

[sharaabeys]

[INSP.]

[reedusnorman]

[mummybubblemakes]

Amen to that! 🍺

[mummybubblemakes]

who should you fight on TWD?

rick grimes: wanna fight rick? well, he once tore a guy's throat out with his teeth. so y'know. don't. you will 100% die and he'll use your blood as moisturizer.

michonne: dude. michonne has a katana and the most toned body you've ever seen. don't fight michonne unless you want your head to roll away from your body like a bowling ball.

carl grimes: carl only has one eye, so that has to mess with his depth perception at least little bit. i'm just sayin'... you could probably take him.

glenn rhee: if you choose to fight glenn he will fight back, but he'll end up taking you under his wing because he is the purest angel and cares about you. you're family now.

carol peletier: carol aleady knows you're thinking about fighting her so she will bake some cookies for you and then slit your throat while you admire her caring nature.

daryl dixon: don't fight daryl. hug daryl. build a blanket fort with him where you can keep him safe from harm and watch over him while he sleeps and dreams about bikes.

maggie greene: maggie is so smooth and diplomatic that she'll probably convince you to fight yourself instead and donate all your money to charity.

tara chambler: i recommend fighting tara because it's a good excuse to get close to her beautiful face and body. she probably smells good too. damn.

sasha williams: don't fight sasha. i mean, she'd beat your ass if you came at her, but she's been through a lot and just needs to feel loved and needed. blanket fort #2.

abraham ford: please fight abraham ford, he will actually enjoy it and afterwards he will give you a weird nickname that makes you avoid his presence in the future.

rosita espinosa: you do not want to fight rosita espinosa. instead, run away from rosita because she is a triple threat: smart, strong and better than you in every way.

eugene porter: eugene has a mullet and is scared of everything. this is your best shot at fighting someone from the walking dead and it will not take much effort.