Fire in The Moon (The Bound Series Book 3)
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Hidden information and truths, mysteries, esoteric, that which is unknown on a conscious level, it could come into the light and you would understand the 'higher meaning' of things.
Reversed: Events stalled, you need to clear out something - unpleasant surprise - the old way must come to an end, do not focus on outcomes, nor bind yourself with memories of past achievements or you will orb yourself of the true present. When your inner being is shifting and reforming, on a deep level, patience, constancy, and perseverance are called for.
Do no repeat the old - let it go!
The initiation - the veils of the illusion are being lifted - let the old ways go!
Stay centered, see the humour and keep your faith firm.
ALGIZ: Z
Spirit guides - (How interesting as my guide is Zoroaster and I call him Z!) - protection, fortunate new influence, making the connection with spirit and working through your issues.
SOWILO - S: The Sun
The circle is completion - wholeness, the sun, the path to awareness and self-knowledge. See you 'dark side' - that which makes you destructive to yourself and others. Seek change to heal and be complete with yourself. Cannot be reversed
TEIWAZ - T: Tyr, the sky god.
To be successful in competition, very motivated, finding the spiritual or transcendental self.
Reversed: Low energy and lack of enthusiasm
BERKANA - B: Birch-goddess
To be prepared, cautious in what you do. Also, references your family and home.
Reversed: An unfortunate domestic situation - so use caution.
EHWAZ - E: The Sacred Horse
The balance of things in the universe, stability, move forward carefully focusing on the tools that will help you get there
Reversed: Sudden unexpected change that is not wanted
MANNAZ - M: The nature of Humanity
The self and its place in the collective conscience of humanity. We are all part of the collective unconscious - we are all One. Your attitude towards and their attitudes towards you. Take this time for personal reflection. Cannot be reversed.
LAGUZ - L: Water - Emotions
The moon, the flow of emotions and all things into the collective unconscious - all bodies of water - Aquarius - feminine energies - higher mind, spirituality, health and healing - a time of cleansing.
Reversed: Not listening to your inner voice, tackling something you know you should not do - or are not capable of doing.
INGWAZ - NG: Fertility
Fertility of the joining of human beings, usually for a new life - a pregnancy. Finish what you are doing, tie up loose ends and start something new. Cannot be reversed.
DAGAZ - D: Daylight or Dawn.
A new day begins and go to work. You become more insightful, breaking through your new ideas. Light is around you. Cannot be reversed.
OTHALA - O: Ancestral property - Inheritance
Freedom and independence through releasing ideas and things that keep you 'stuck'. You will feel 'free'. You will inherit from someone.
Reversed: Not letting go of outmoded ideas and concepts. You will feel 'stuck'.
BLANK RUNE: Sometimes called "Odin's Rune":
Anything is possible and can happen. The sum-total of who you are, what you have done, and what you have become. Choose a direction and go for it. The blank Rune was added to the others in the 1980's. It shows that as humanity has grown - the possibilities are beyond what was conceived by the original Runes. Some people include the blank Rune in a reading - while others leave it out! I prefer to leave it in as the Universe has limitless possibilities!! If you get this Rune - and you believe in yourself - you can manifest anything.
Runic Magic in History
There is some evidence that, in addition to being a writing system, runes historically served purposes of magic. This is the case from earliest epigraphic evidence of the Roman to Germanic Iron Age, with non-linguistic inscriptions and the alu word. An erilaz appears to have been a person versed in runes, including their magic applications.
In medieval sources, notably the Poetic Edda, the Sigrdrifumal mentions "victory runes" to be carved on a sword, "some on the grasp and some on the inlay, and name Tyr twice."
In early and more modern times, related folklore and superstition is recorded in the form of the Icelandic magical staves.
In the early 20th century, Germanic mysticism coins’ new forms of "runic magic", some of which were continued or developed further by contemporary adherents of Germanic Neopaganism.
Runes have been used in Nazi symbolism by National Socialists and neo-Nazi groups that associate themselves with Germanic traditions, mainly the Sigel, Eihwaz, Tyr, Odal (see Odalism) and Algiz runes. The fascination that runes seem to have exerted on the Nazis can be traced to the occult and volkisch author Guido von List, one of the important figures in Germanic mysticism and runic revivalism in the late 19th and early 20th century. In 1908, List published in Das Geheimnis der Runen ("The Secret of the Runes") a set of 18 so-called "Armanen Runes", based on the Younger Futhark, which were allegedly revealed to him in a state of temporary blindness after a cataract operation on both eyes in 1902. In Nazi contexts, the s-rune is referred to as "Sig" (after List, probably from Anglo-Saxon Sigel). The "Wolfsangel", while not a rune historically, has the shape of List's "Gibor" rune.
Modern systems of runic divination are based on Hermeticism, classical Occultism, and the I Ching.
About the author
J F Holland is a stay at home wife and mum with six children and a menagerie of animals. She still lives in her small home town of Partington, in Manchester (UK), where she was born, raised and attended school. She’s always had a love of romance books and spent a lot of time as a child re-writing the fairy stories she read. She also confused the hell out her children as they grew and learned to read themselves. The stories read to them growing up never matched the books she'd read from.
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Special note: -
A new spin off from The Bound Series is coming
Immortal Flame, book 1 of Eternal Mates
Summer 2017
Message from the Author: -
This is the 3rd book in my paranormal series, The Bound Series. I was first given the idea many years ago, but I had to find my feet first and get comfortable again writing.
I've been listening to stories of big black cats roaming the British countryside for years. Obviously, that got me thinking why so many sightings of big cats? What was going on that so many people had claimed to see them? Some even caught on camera while conservationist still insist that the cats aren't indigenous to the country and there was no real proof (and not just cats either). Cover up or is there something else going on? So, my shifter stories were born, add in all the stories and media attention due to crop circles and it all kind of clicked for me. Surely these crops circles must have been around for centuries, planes, helicopters and satellites have only been around for the last century (starting with the Wright Brothers first flight in 1903), so maybe these crop circles have always been around. Maybe we only really discovered them, after man found a way to take to the air. Just how long have they been appearing and what could their significance be? Yep, it definitely piqued my interest and gave me something to work with.
If you’d like to read more in the Bound Series, Jaden and Maya's story began in book 1, 'Moon Sworn.’
I also write Contemporary Romance: -
Read on for the first chapter of Book 3 'Second Chance, part of The Dennison Property Story Series.
this came out on the 4th May 2016
Second Chance
Chapter One
Mike, his co-worker, and direct senior, was still only in the office part-time. He was spending time with Mel and their new-born twin girls, so he was doing most of the grunt work. Not that he minded he'd rather be doing this than that, Jeff shuddered at the thought of one, never mind two babies. They were nowhere on his radar, not now, not ever. He’d seen first-hand just some of the atrocities man was capable of while serving his country. There was no way in hell he was bringing his own flesh and blood into a world man was slowly destroying through greed. It ended with him, he would not be responsible for another human being.
Dropping the thoughts as he double checked the payroll information, and making sure they had everyone’s correct National Insurance details. He was cross-referencing them against the files when out of the corner of his eye, a name registered. The pencil he’d been tapping on his desk dropped from his nerveless fingers in shock.
No, not possible?
Surely he was seeing things? Pushing the payroll information to one side, he reached for the sheet of paper to take a closer look. Son of a bitch. Surely not? Helen couldn’t be back in the country, and especially not working here? Not without someone warning him, it had to just be a coincidence? It was surely a different one, it couldn't be the only woman he had regrets over. There was no way it could be her and especially not her working for the same god damn company as him?
Pushing back his chair he stood up as he ran one hand through his hair in agitation, leaving the dark strands mussed and standing on end. He walked towards the big windows on the back wall, hands shoved into his trouser pockets. Once he reached them he stood motionless, silently staring out at the normally relaxing view of the docks before him, but not today. The scenery in his mind was not that which was there in front of him, no. The scene presently running through his head was not out there beyond the window, and it was nowhere near as pretty or inspiring.
He’d messed up big time with Helen. The problem was he still didn’t know how he could have done it any other way? Leaning his forehead against the window pane he closed his eyes, fingertips pressed to the cold glass above his head. The last time he’d seen Helen was still as fresh in his mind today as if it had only just happened. It played behind his closed lids as if on a movie screen, a crystal-clear show reel as she’d walked away from him. Well, not him personally because she'd not known he was there. He’d watched her broodingly from the airport window as she'd crossed the tarmac, head lowered and shoulders hunched against the cold. He stood there right up until she'd been eaten up by the rest of the passengers boarding an early morning flight to America. He’d been too late, and if he was honest, at least with himself, he'd also been too much of a coward to even try to stop her. Regret had eaten away at him for months afterwards.
After she'd gong he couldn't even bear the thought of hearing her voice, so had ignored any incoming calls on his house phone. Letting the answering machine pick up on the off chance that it was her, and storing the discs away once they'd been full. A habit he still had to this day.
He now had a nice little collection of recorded messages that he'd still not listened to, there could be anything on them? Enough people had been lost to him over the years, so deleting the messages; even with it only be a possibility of being her, he hadn't been able to bring himself to do. It would feel like he was throwing her away, and that he would never be able to do.
She had been the one person in his life he'd have moved heaven and hell not to hurt, but he had without meaning to. She’d been there for him for years through thick and thin, and he’d let her down when all she'd asked for was his honesty. When she’d put her heart on the line, and asked something of him for the first time, ever, he'd let her down.
Groaning, he curled his fingers into his palms on the window pane, feeling the cold seep through his skin, matching the cold, vacant place in his chest. Desperately he tried to block out all the images of her over the years that played across him mind’s eye. Sweat beading on his brow at the relentless bombardment of memories, her laughter, she'd had such a great laugh and had laughed with her whole being, her warmth. God, she'd been so warm and loving, she’d loved to hug him and sometimes he could still feel her surrounding him. Then there’d been the little sighs and the way she’d moaned his name the one and only time that they’d…
Snapping open his eyes, he swung around and stalked away from the window, his fists now clenched. He would not do this. It may not even be her; he could be completely off the mark? But his gut didn’t think so, it was twisting and turning in agitation, and possibly a little bit of hope. He shook that thought away as soon as it surfaced, he didn’t believe in hope or fate, not anymore. Pulling his suit jacket off the back of his chair, he pushed his arms through the sleeves and leaned forward, hitting divert on his phone.
He left his office in seething silence, ignoring Joan on his way out of the door. Just bypassing her and her startled querying gaze. He was being rude, and he damn well knew it, but just then his laid-back façade was slipping, and he couldn’t give a shit.
He could still hear the last words Helen’s had spoken, they echoed in his subconscious as he pushed through the door, hitting the stairs instead of the elevator.
“If you love me, Jeff, even just a little, you’d ask me to stay. If you can’t bring yourself to say the words, then show me by still being here with me when I wake up.” But he'd done neither as something had violently woken him from slumber, that dreaded thing he’d never spoken to Helen of. He’d took off, and left her sleeping in his bed as he'd walked, trying to outrun his demons but obviously, it was impossible. You couldn't outrun your own thoughts and memories.
He'd finally stopped, taking stock of his surroundings and been confused to find himself in a part of town he didn't know. He'd couldn't remember how he'd got there and after checking his watch he realised he'd been missing for hours so had rushed back. It was too late though, the only thing she'd left behind was the fading scent of her perfume, a dent in his pillow where her head had lain, and silence. God, the silence had been the worst thing. No more laughter, no more light and warmth. No more Helen.
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Helen pushed through the main glass doors of Dennison’s Property Services. Passing by the main reception desk, she waved to the receptionist as she headed straight towards for the lifts. It was her first day back and she'd been told to come in after lunch. Today was just to give her time to meet her new work colleague, and reacquaint herself with the legal department. Tucking her dark blonde bangs behind her ears, she ran her sweating palms down her dark dress pants.
She’d not stepped foot in this place since walking out five years ago. What the hell had she been thinking following her parents back to America, and trying to get… No, she would not think of him, not today. She just wanted one day where he didn’t encroach on her thoughts. Her obsession had gone on long enough. It was way past time that she got over him, time to move on. Easier said than done though, but she was determined to succeed.
He'd made his choice, and not once in the time since had he attempted to get in touch with her. He'd never even answered or returned any of her calls or correspondence. If nothing else, that alone spoke volumes. He'd completely forgotten about her, discarded her as e
asily as a blind date. It was as if she'd served her purpose and once gone their history had meant nothing. Shaking off the upsetting thoughts, she was determined to move forward. It was time to take back control of her life, she was finally ready to put herself out there and try to find someone to settle down with. Someone who was capable of loving her, and accepting the baggage she now brought with her. Her second chance at love.
Jeff walked back into the foyer of Dennison Property Services, after taking a walk around the quays to clear his head. His breath caught in his lungs because just ahead of him was Helen Orpington, and she'd just stepped into the lift. He knew now that it was definitely her, he'd know her anywhere. Now did he catch up with her, or did he hold back? Letting her go 5-years ago had been one of the hardest decisions he'd ever made and he couldn’t go there again, he just couldn't. Did he slow down or speed up? Indecision warred inside him on which way to go, but uppermost in his mind though was his confusion as to why she was back?
In the end, he held back, turning again to walk out. Then he stopped, incapable of leaving while she was there, his feet felt glued to the floor. He wanted to run, but his body wouldn't comply. Blowing out a breath he pushed his hands through his hair before he again turned around. Maybe she no longer affected him? Snorting at the absurd thought he put his hand in his jacket pocket, giving his wallet a tap. Yeah right. She'd always affected him, even when he didn't want her to.
He was helpless to do anything but feast his eyes on her as she turned, re-learning the shape of her body from toes to her head. A leisurely perusal as he realised he'd not forgotten a damn thing about her. Finally reaching her face Jeff was caught and held captive in those large, melting, chocolate brown eyes of hers.