(HSL stands for Heathen Soul Lore.)
Winifred Hodge Rose
This Step takes you more deeply into your Mod soul, into ways of understanding it and ways to work with it so as to make the most of its many useful qualities and abilities, as well as keeping Mod satisfied and cooperative!
Reading
Review Book I (Heathen Soul Lore Foundations), Chapter 8: “Dances with Daemons: The Mod Soul,” or the website article of the same name, as the basis for this Step.
https://heathensoullore.net/dances-with-daemons-the-mod-soul/
Read Book II (A Personal Approach) Chapter 9: “Exploring your Mod Soul,” or Study Guide 9 of the same name, and work through those exercises in your Daybook or Workbook.
https://heathensoullore.net/study-guide-9-exploring-your-mod-soul/
Practice Notes
While you’re working on this Step, notice your moods, which are expressions of your Mod. Mod absorbs mod-and-mægen energy from all around you, channels that energy through itself, and expresses the energy through its actions and its moods. As you do the exercises in this Step, you may gradually become more aware of this process of how Mod shapes your moods, and may find clues as to how you can shape your moods according to your own Will rather than having them shaped by subconscious and outside influences.
Bindrunes
I have designed bindrunes that express some of my perceptions of each of the souls, shown in Book II and in the Study Guides on my website. If you have some familiarity with rune-lore, I encourage you to use my Mod bindrune for meditation, and / or create your own Mod bindrune and use that one. If you are not up for creating a bindrune right now, you’re also welcome to meditate on single runes that seem related to your Mod soul.
Work with your soul-tokens, if you are using them
When you are doing the reading, writing the exercises, meditating, communing with the Deities and spirits, using divination or spaeworking, and working with bindrunes or single runes, keep any token(s) that you made during the previous Steps with you. If you want a specific Mod token or a Mod-part of an overall soul-token such as a strand for a braided cord, create it during this Step.
Divination and spaeworking
If you like to use runes or another system of divination, by all means use them to explore more questions and insights about your Mod soul and record them in your Daybook. Likewise, if you are experienced with spaeworking, seidhcraft, or similar esoteric or magical work, these are excellent ways to explore the souls, but should not be pursued before learning proper methods and precautions.
Initiation Ceremony
If you wish to perform a Mod initiation ceremony, and hallow your Mod token if you have one, the text for the Mod ceremony is here: https://heathensoullore.net/mod-initiation-ceremony/