Uncle Thor's Lessons, Anecdotes and Humor

These are the exercises for the Tyr Rune. They can help you get a more personal feeling for the Rune. Please enjoy them! Exercise 1: This is a very physical exercise, but it shows the idea of applying one’s effort to a single goal. Indeed, bayonet fighting is the modern equivalent of spear work, which [...]

“Where there is Life, there is hope.” I like this quote from Cicero. It agrees with my own experiences. Where there is Life, there is always hope. There is always a chance, however remote, that even the worst of circumstances can be negated. In the colloquialism of today, many a dire situation was reversed at [...]

Pollyanna was a literary character who saw everything through rose-colored glasses. Today, her name is synonymous with those who claim to see only the bright side even when everything is falling down around them. Pollyanna typifies false optimism. There are Pollyanna teachings which claim that the key to pleasant circumstances is to think positive thoughts. [...]

One of the prerequisites of successful spiritual and magickal study is doubt. Anyone who claims to be free of doubt is either a fanatic or a sucker. Anyone who claims perfect faith is fooling himself. “Blind faith” is the refuge of people who cannot abide having doubt. Doubt has its uses. It keeps us honest. [...]

In my experiences when researching the spiritual foundation of prosperity, I noticed certain mental habits of the prosperous and the poor. We discussed one of them yesterday. Problems are common for those who tend to act without thinking of the consequences. Wise people tend to think before they act. Of course, the problem of acting [...]

Acting on impulse is a shortcut to tragedy. A knee-jerk reaction to every one of Life’s incidents invariably leads to problems. Sadly, many people live that way. They react on the spur of the moment with little or no thought. A wise friend told me many years ago to “think it through.” In other words, [...]

Words in our modern language can be very illustrative of the Runes. The Runic energies have not changed, even if our languages have. Today, we have many words with Latin and Greek roots alongside the older Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Germanic terms. These “borrow words” are useful because they are literal translations from the old Latin. [...]

Yesterday we spoke of the Sig Rune and its connection to the Sun. The celestial bodies that ride our skies play a great influence on us. One example is in our language. The sun is considered bright, warm and friendly. A sunny day is cheerful and pleasant compared to the gloom of a rainy and [...]