(Image : Ways of the Wyrd, The Road to Xanadu, collage on paper, Shakti G., 2002. )

Shakti :

While Mika and Adam are taking Adam´s Mum, Fran, to one of those funny bars on the beach where you can get Spanish tapas (all kinds of little plates with strange-looking E.T (=tiny extraterrestrials with a lot of tentacles in hot sauces), I´m baby-sitting the doggies (and the chicken, and the bunnies) and exploring the Web on a chase about the concept of the Wyrd.
A simple definition :
"Wyrd literally means 'that which has turned' or 'that which has become'. It carries the idea of "turned into" in both the sense of becoming something new and the sense of turning back to an original starting point. In metaphysical terms, wyrd embodies the concept that everything is turning into something else while both being drawn in toward and moving out from its own origins. Thus, we can think of wyrd as a process that continually works the patterns of the past into the patterns of the present. "
Think of it as karma, but with the sense that one can actually change one´s wyrd by taking some kind of voluntary action. Fate is not something blind that happens to you, it is a weaving of factors, some of them being obligatory (if you are unconscious of them), and some of them you can transform by an act of awareness. (Why oh why didn´t you write that letter, that e-mail, that comment in our blog ???...Why didn´t you follow that hunch, see the sign, grok the synchronicity ?... See?)
Oh, that´s weird. Yes, it has become "weird", but a long time back it was your wyrd, meaning : your destiny.
I like that much much better than the concept of a wrathful God distributing gifts or chastising the believers.
Here you have an interesting article about the subject :
http://www.wyrdwords.vispa.com/heathenry/whatwyrd.html

Mmm... this is a wyrd-weaving post, if you catch my meaning.
;-)

http://www.wayofwyrd.com