Uncle Thor's Lessons, Anecdotes and Humor

The Yule season is coming quickly. It is a time to share with those we love. The rest of our society indulges in the mercantile madness known as “Christmas shopping.” Not us! Yule is not a mercantile holiday. It is an accumulation of shared joys, great and small. Little gifts, gingerbread men, holiday candy, spiced [...]

Today’s runecast is Jer – Fe – Eh The patient one works for the long-term results. He can wait to harvest his good. When he does, he is rewarded with assets. These enable him to go forward on his own accord. He chooses his path because he owes no one.

A German military saying is: “An officer without a schwerpunkt is like a man without character.” Schwerpunkt is the main point of effort: the focal point of one’s strategy. But the issue here is character. In Germany at one time, an apprentice’s becoming a journeyman was not just a level of skill. It was also [...]

Today’s runecast is Eh – Dag – Ken The Journey that brings us a revelation and urges us to seek knowledge and understanding. This runecast is a comment on human nature We come upon a thing that interests us and we go forward to learn more. Have you ever come upon a thing so interested [...]

20 years ago on November 17, my wife and I had our Heathen wedding. (We had the legal one two days later.) 20 years. Are we any better off than when we first got together? Yes! We are. I could probably write a list of the things we have acquired, but they are of secondary [...]

Today’s runecast is Fe – Eh – Ken You need to have enough assets before you take a journey. You need food, supplies, fuel, etc. The cost of the trip must be met. So it is that the journey to knowledge has a cost. For parents of college-age children, this is obvious. The pursuit of [...]

I had an incident today which was something of a revelation and a lesson. I was buying something at the pharmacy. An old, wrinkled woman was online behind me. She set her purchases on the counter before I was finished paying for mine. Finally she blurted, “Hurry up! I’m in a hurry.” I looked down [...]

Today’s runecast is Action of the Gods – Mannar – Eh There are times when an action of Wyrd or the Gods encourages a person to take a good look at himself. It causes him to consider his place in the scheme of things his identity, who he is and what he does. Self-knowledge can [...]

You know you have made it when you can say “Life is unfair,” and feel that it is a liberating statement. No self-pity, no bitterness, no bad feeling. Liberating, as if you just let go a 50 pound burden. Life is unfair. That is a fact. Some of us have it easy and some of [...]

Today’s runecast is Urus – Lagu – Gyfu Urus and Lagu both have something wild about them. After all, Lagu represents bodies of water and what is in them. Can you tame marine creatures? So we go from a stable strength in Urus to a flowing strength in Lagu. There is a freedom and wildness [...]