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Rune Casting: A Framework for Understanding Your Runes' Messages

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A Practical Guide to the Runes

Eihwaz the yew, Uruz the wild ox, Kenaz the hearth fire. Created by the Nordic and Germanic tribes of northern Europe, the runes began as a magickal system of pictographs representing the forces and objects in nature.

This guidebook will help you discover the oracular nature of the runes and how to use them as a magickal tool for insight, protection, and luck.

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Thurisaz

Thurisaz is Thor’s Rune. This is the Rune of the disruptor and the protector. This represents a disruption in the status quo, that which you need to be protective against. Conversely, it is also the Rune that helps you to protect. It is the thorn with which you stab and protect yourself, but it is also the thorn that stabs you.

Hagalaz

Hagalaz literally translates to “hail.” In the eyes of the Norse, and especially those who relied upon crops for sustenance and survival, there may have been no worse adversary than hail. Hagalaz portends delays and disruptions and should ready you for a potentially difficult time ahead. You are, or will be soon, suffering under a force of nature of which you have no control.

Mannaz

Mannaz is the Rune of man, of humanity, of mankind. Named after Mannaz, the “father of the Teutonic peoples,” this Rune is sometimes connected with Heimdall, a member of the Aesir and foremost guardian of Asgard, also known as the “Father of Men.” This is the Rune of the self, yet also the Rune of all humankind, and how our relationship with ourselves is reflected in relationships with others

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Fehu

Fehu is the raw archetypal energy of motion and expansion in the mul­tiverse. It is the force that flows from Muspellsheimr, the source of cos­mic fire, from which Midhgardhr was produced (see I-rune). The F-rune is the all-encompassing and omnipresent power symbolized by the charging bovine herd and by wildfire. The cosmic fire of Muspellsheimr is instrumental in the creation of the world, but it is also the principal agent in its destruction of Ragnarök. The firegiant, Surtr, spreads the flames of destruction over the world, thus destroying all but those gods and men who are to survive or to be reborn in the renewed world on the Idha plain (the shining plain). It must be remembered that fehu is not the undifferentiated power of the cosmic fire of Muspellsheimr but rather the mystery of its eternal working eminently throughout the multiverse.

Raidho

Raidho is the cosmic law of right and archetypal order in the multiverse. This is expressed by such natural phenomena as the daily path of the sun and the cycles of nature and humanity. The R-rune is the mystery of divine law, manifest in both the multiverse and in humanity.

Raidho came to be a symbol for organized religion, or better said, of Ásatrú, the ancient form of Germanic religion. In ancient times the external, self -conscious order of religion was much less fixed because of the internal, unconscious, and instinctual order of holiness. This internal order found expression in institutions that were a balanced blend of religion, magic, and law (politics). Today the R-rune is a symbol of the “way back to right,” through the conscious efforts of ásatrúarfólk to recover the essence of the primal order.

This rune represents the right order of the initiate’s journey through the paths of the Nine Worlds of Yggdrasill.

Naudhiz

Naudhiz is the cosmic force used by the powers that form the “fates” of mankind and the world. For an analysis of the Germanic concept of “fate” (ϕrlög) and these “shaping powers” (Nornir), see the P-rune. The N-rune does not represent ϕrlög; rather it embodies a cosmic force nec­essary to its formulation, that of resistance. It is a synthesis of an implicit thesis and antithesis that is expressed throughout the rune row. Naudhiz. is a two-pronged concept. It contains the idea of distress but also deliv­erance from that distress. This idea is well expressed in the pertinent stanza in the Old English Rune Poem:

(Need) constricts the heart,

tho to the bairns of men it often becomes

help and health nevertheless,

if they heed it in time.

The N-rune is the self-created fire, the need-fire, created by friction/resistance to serve the needs of man in the material as well as spiritual realms.

Stadhagaldr

This discipline is heavily indebted to the work of twentieth-century runic magicians of Germany who developed a system they call Runenyoga. In the writings of Siegfried Adolf Kummer, Friedrich Bernhard Marby, and Karl Spiesberger there is much concerning Runen-Asana, Runen-mudra, and so on. Indeed, they seem a bit too dependent on the kindred Indian discipline. Nevertheless, their practical experiments, invaluable clues, and ritual formulas are the basis for the following work.

The overall aims of stadhagaldr are:

1. Control of the body through posture (stadha)

2. Control of thought through song (galdr)

3. Control of breath

4. Control of emotion

5. Becoming aware of the rune realms of the self and of the world(s)

6. Control and direction of the will

Each of these aims should be striven for in turn, until all six have been mastered.