Wodan-Faste Daeg 3

 As we slip into 72 hours I am somewhat surprised at the lack of hunger.  Food seems like a foreign concept though I still truly believe that I like food in a true fat boy fashion... 

Today was an interesting day to fast, as here at work there is food everywhere.  I do feel the need to reiterate that my fasting is not about weight loss... while I have put on a few more domesticated happy pounds since I have been back from Hawaii, I don't feel a pressing need to drop a bunch of weight. My overall fitness goals include me being about 204 pounds.   I am still under 200 at last check.  The last couple of years my weight goals had been to drop down to around 190 and add 15 pounds in Muscle mass.  While in Hawaii last year I had dropped down to 182.   I seem to have less appetite in warmer climates... I also seem to be rambling. 

Today's Rune is Ansuz.  It is a Rune of knowledge, eloquence, and inspiration. 

Wodan-Faste Daeg 2

 44 hours into my fast... 

Yesterday at about the 24-26 hour mark I was very pulled by food... not that I felt hungry but that I wanted food, because my body was used to it. 

Today I awake somewhat more clear, with definite feelings of energization.   My system has started expunging its wastes and clearing itself.  I drink a lot of water, tea, and a bit of coffee.   Not the cleanest but I don't feel it detracts from my endeavor. 

Todays rune was Inguz representing Fertility and potential.  Signifying that a situation I am in currently has occurred before and I should put energy into resolving things differently. 

I plan to workout today... or run depending on the temperature outside. 

Wodan-Faste Daeg 1

Several moons back, while on a spiritual journey in a deep breathwork sound healing, I received a vision quest of a  9-day fast as a physical and spiritual metamorphosis tool.  Inspired by Odin's self-sacrifice of himself to himself, his hanging from Yggdrasil for 9 days and 9 nights, without food or water, pierced by Gungnir his spear.  He is said to have peered down into the fathomless depths of the well of Ord of which the tree of life grows out, seeking to attain more profound knowledge, ostensibly of both himself and the cosmos.  I seek wisdom on my shamanic journey, spiritual clarity, autophagy of my body, and to kick my 50-year-old metabolism into turbo!

While foregoing food and water... hanging upside down... and piercing myself with a spear is not an approachable goal... I can gather certain corollaries from my experience, and indeed the act of a 9-day fast is a sacrifice of myself to myself, as my body must consume itself to survive. 

I will venture to art, music, yoga, study of the runes, exercise, and other feedings of my soul to further this endeavor. 

Today's rune was Perthro... signifying what is hidden... seems appropriate as I venture into the mysteries. 

May 15 10:00am, 20 hours fasted!