Romancing the Runes

Translation : Germanic:  Nauthiz Old Eng:    Nyd Mod Eng:  Need Phonetic:   N                                                                                     ( Handbook , 37) Physical :   (2,2)                                                                                                           ( Futhark , 12-13) Divination : + resistance (toward strength), recognition of Orlog, innovation, needfire (self-reliance -  constraint of freedom, dist...

Translations :                                                           (In progress) Germanic:            Hagalaz Old Eng:              Haegl Mod Eng:             Hail Phonetic:              H                                                                                ( Handbook , 35) Physical :  (2:1)                                                       ...

I'm listening to this amazing music by Laboratorium Peisni.  Polish chanting music.  Really tribal and cool. It reminds me a lot of Medieval Babes who sing in Old English poetry and songs from hundreds of years ago.  Anyways, Hagalaz showed up first in my first pull a couple days ago for my next rune so I will deal with that one first. It also showed up today for my galdr rune in my meditation. The first rune I pull is the one that I galdr before my meditation. It helps me focus with the rhythmic breathing and the vibration in my chest from the chanting.  It sometimes provides a theme for my meditation as well. I can use it as a question to ask or with my pendulum, or sometimes it even leads me to a place like what happened with Laguz. During the galdr I pictured the rune and it's alternate forms. At one point the image of the Rune Mother morphed into a yin-yang symbol of fire and ice wrapped around each other.  It reminded me a bit of some of the feeling I ...

Translation :                                                        Germanic:          Laguz Old Eng:            Lagu Mod Eng:          Lake, Leek Phonetic:           L                                                                         ( Handbook , 59) Physical :           (3:5)                                                                   ...

I do have other rune books planned as I've mentioned in the first few posts in this blog. I am still acquiring rune books about the runes themselves, different series, and different applications such as rune astrology.  Thorsson in one of his rune studies talks about a spiraling upward in his discussion of Raidho.  I'm taking a similar path in my study of the runes. I'm doing one cycle of the 24 runes with Thorsson primarily.  The second cycle will involve two or three more books of a similar nature. I may do a few more basic books on runes before I move into books about meditation and galdr work. But the process of learning the runes will be a series of turns.  I won't go through the 24 and call it done. I'll go through them again with different authors or a different focus, and try to tie them to what I did in the previous cycle.

This one is personal. Laguz has been following me all week. It has appeared in every reading I have done, about five readings so far.  Yesterday I pulled it twice from two different sets.  I've been trying to figure out what it could mean. Laguz is a rune of deep mystery, waterfalls, the well of wyrd, the subconscious mind.  It could indicate hidden forces at work, or something I need to pay attention to with my subconscious.  More than twice it appeared with Dagaz in the same reading.  This could have something to do with a hidden force, or layers of orlog, contributing to a possible revelation moment. Wunjo and Uruz have appeared multiple times as well, but as a more subtle influence. Perhaps to indicate the work that I am doing with fellowship and my physical health is having as a secondary effect on these things. I'm still pondering this message. Less subtle is the meditation I did when I pulled Laguz as my galdr rune. I've been using galdr to help ge...

Translation :                                Germanic:  Ingwaz Old Eng:    Ing Mod Eng:  the god Ing (Freyr) Phonetic:   NG                                                                              ( Handbook , 61) Physical :   (3:6) Divination : + Rest stage, internal growth, gestation -Impotence, scattering, movement without change                      ( Handbook , 62) Magickal Uses : storage of power transformation of power fertility rites passive meditation centering thought/ energy sudden release of energy                       ...