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Jeff Russell ([personal profile] jprussell) wrote 2025-02-13 10:11 pm (UTC)

Glad to hear you've found them useful! And I don't mind at all.

1. I have indeed. Besides more general spiritual insights and growth, they've also greatly deepened my understanding of the fews for divination. For clarity, I've followed the system in the Druid Magic Handbook, with each Few assigned to a path between one of the stations of the Wheel of Life, though for the past few months I have stalled out for personal reasons, and so haven't quite wrapped up the Forfeadha.

1a. Sort of. The Fews are, so far, the only symbols that I have scried in the context of "paths" between nodes on conceptual framework, but I have done scrying a bit more widely - each of the seven gates of the Sphere of Protection, each of the Fews of the Ogham, each of the stations of the Wheel of Life, and a handful of other "places." Perhaps more directly related, when I was first starting to follow JMG's "tripod of magic" (daily ritual, meditation, and divination), I followed some guided "pathworkings" on the Runes from The Teutonic Way: Magic by Kveldulf Gundarsson. These aren't exactly pathworkings as JMG uses the term, but rather a method of scrying with a script - each Rune has a little imaginal journey associated with it, and the idea is to follow along with it as described and take note of how you feel about it and what else pops up. While I think this approach has limited value, I have to give it some weight, as it was during one of these scryings that I had my first religious experience where I felt the presence of a Goddess. Nothing explicitly with the GD or Cabala as yet, though, so I'm afraid I can't offer direct comparison. Overall, though, I'd say that such scrying has been tremendously aluable to me.

1b. Very much yes to both. For a good, solid 2 years, I did daily readings with the Ogham of the form "What do I most need to understand about what happens in the coming day?" with a spread of "Knowledge, Power, Peace." Lately, I haven't been as consistent with this, but I have found it to provide some good insights for myself, and for a few readings I've done for others via this journal. For what it's worth, in my own experience, the Ogham seems especially well-suited to "spiritual" questions, and the Runes for more "practical" ones (or those directly having to do with Heathen religion), but others (including JMG) have found the Ogham perfectly good for more prosaic stuff, so that might a personal style/preference thing.

Hope these answers help!
Jeff

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