Uncle Thor's Lessons, Anecdotes and Humor

Today’s runecast is: Raido – Tyr – Isa Raido is speed, travel, and riding as a passenger Tyr is success, victory, strategy, overcoming and military might. Isa is a freeze, cold, stopping, immobility and halting. In this reading, Raido refers to a situation in which we are “along for the ride” rather than sitting in [...]

The Icelandic volcano is a reminder that there are no guarantees in life. All the plans of mice and men oft do go astray! One simple geologic event has virtually shut down air travel in Europe and put a tiny island in peril. It has adversely affected Iceland, Britain, France, Germany and Scandinavia. People try [...]

Today’s Runecast is: Lagu – Isa – Eh Lagu is the depths, the Sea, water, emotions and the unconscious mind. Isa is Ice, a blockage, freezing, putting a temporary halt to everything. It can also be the ice that makes the lake passable. It is a Rune of Crisis, for it can be danger and [...]

Television, movies and celebrity are an unreal world. How often do you really contact them? All you see is what makes it to the television screen. It is all entertainment. That being the case, why all the fuss over the antics of so-called celebrities? Does it really matter to the public that one famous person [...]

Today’s runecast is: Lagu – Dag – Ing Lagu is a lake, the sea and water. It is also the depths, the inner self, subjectivity, the subconscious and the place of dreams. Dag is the day, the cycle of day and night, daylight, and the light which exposes that which had been hidden in darkness. [...]

As many of our visitors know, I am interested in geology. That interest was ignited many years ago when I took a course in Oceanography. I soon learned that Oceanography entails quite a bit of geology, seismology, vulcanology and meteorology. Though I did not pursue formal scientific studies much further, the interest in geoscience had [...]

Today’s runecast is: Mannar – Eh – Gyfu Mannar is Man, oneself, and one’s identity. It is the paradox of who – the man himself – and what – the roles one takes. Eh is the equine Rune. It is a process that does something rather than makes something. It is also the journey, wherein [...]

One of my favorite sayings comes from a magnificent little booklet entitled The Magic Story: “Man should not be blind to whatsoever merit exists in the opportunity which he hath in hand, remembering that a thousand promises for the future should weigh as naught against the possession of a single piece of silver.” In modern [...]

Today’s runecast is: Lagu – Jer – Bjork Lagu is the depths, the lake and water. Jer is a long time, a season, a year, and a harvest. It is a thing that takes time to yield profits. Bjork is natural growth, woman, protection and children. From the depths of oneself – what some call [...]

Many criminals blame their behavior on a bad childhood. There are many more people who had a bad childhood than there are criminals. What happened to the folks who had a bad family experience, yet did not become criminals or sociopaths? (If I put it personally, what with a lousy childhood, then how come I’m [...]