{"id":12,"date":"2008-09-03T05:34:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T12:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/?p=12"},"modified":"2008-11-09T07:23:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T14:23:45","slug":"berkano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/?p=12","title":{"rendered":"Berkano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/berkano.jpg\" title=\"Berkano\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/berkano.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Berkano\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before I woke my astoundingly tall sons &#8212; how did this happen? &#8212; for their first day of school (5th &amp; 8th grade) this morning, I performed my new moon ritual of lighting a candle and drawing a rune. The new moon was actually on Saturday, August 30th: O well, I think it&#8217;s ok to be imprecise when it comes to the moon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When I draw a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunnyway.com\/runes\/meanings.html\">rune<\/a>, I take it with me mentally and meditate on it throughout the day  Sometimes, I use it as a weapon against despair or a psycho boss. In this case, Berkano speaks to me of continuous growth and fertility; it says propagate, propagate, propagate! It tells me to create and be in a perpetual state of birth-ing. No more biological children for me, so I take it to mean poems, stews, paintings, songs, friendships. I take it to mean: keep on keepin&#8217; on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I woke my astoundingly tall sons &#8212; how did this happen? &#8212; for their first day of school (5th &amp; 8th grade) this morning, I performed my new moon ritual of lighting a candle and drawing a rune. The new moon was actually on Saturday, August 30th: O well, I think it&#8217;s ok to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}