Uncle Thor's Lessons, Anecdotes and Humor

A friend of mine was very involved in Recovery. He ran into a situation that baffled him. There was a man who had been sober a couple of years. He had it all: great job, nice income, pretty wife. All of a sudden, he relapsed into drinking. My friend was new to Recovery and was [...]

Today’s runecast is Action of the Gods – Hagal – Elk There are powers beyond our control which have their own goals. These may be experienced as sudden difficulties. Troubles may seem threatening, but the outcome is your safety. It is as if there is a barrier between you and danger.

Many times, a series of mistakes causes a plan to fall apart. The effort does not succeed in its goal. This often happens at the early stages of a larger enterprise. There come several small failures. Failure? Actually, they are usually minor setbacks. The importance of these setbacks is to teach us what mistakes we [...]

Today’s runecast is: Ing – Ken – Eh With Ing initiating things and bringing luck, everything is set in motion. Ing is the catalyst, the ignition, the spark that lights the fuse. It is also good luck. This leads to discovery and knowledge. Ken guides the way that may have seemed unclear before. Eh is [...]

The Creative Principle is at work everywhere. That should be no surprise. Other principles, such as Gravity, are also at work everywhere. Creativity likes to express diversity. It does not limit itself to one thing, but is prone to create varieties and variations. Even in the forbidding depths of the bottom of the oceans, the [...]

Today’s runecast is Fe – Dag – Gyfu Fe is assets and prosperity. Dag reveals and gives clarity. Gyfu is a gift and an exchange. We begin with assets. Dag is the light that clearly reveals facts that help make best use of those assets. The gift is the added good received as a result [...]

We see in all things a creative principle at work. It is behind the creation of everything from galaxies to the next crop of daffodils. We also see other principles at work in all things. There are laws by which subatomic particles work, and there are laws that govern the passage of time. These laws [...]

Today’s runecast is Isa – Ing – Naud When things have been frozen and stagnant, you might be tempted to start something just to break the doldrums. When you initiate a course of action out of frustration, you might very well set forth a set of circumstances that punts you in a worse bind. Better [...]

Wouldn’t it be funny if the monotheist’s “Supreme Being” turns out to be the Higgs Boson? And that the particle physicists beat the monotheists in uncovering the real nature of the “one Universal God”? That is, if the astrophysicists don’t get there first. In the race between particle physics and astrophysics, a lot depends on [...]

Today’s runecast is: Ing – Yew – Urus Ing is a Rune of the hearth, of luck and of the spark that starts something. Yew is a tree that stands firm, but is flexible. Urus is strength, wildness, and the ability to stand and not yield an inch. This is like growing stronger. The process [...]