What is Divination:

DIVINATION is conversation between you and your SELF or you and the Gods. It is you, tapping into the stream of all that is. Runes are only one way of carrying on this conversation. Branch out and explore all the other ways. Conversation with the Divine is never demeaning or making low use of runes or tarot -- it is a high calling.  You are not predicting the future, however. You are only reading the stream of energy and using your knowledge of what that means to forecast the possible events. SPIRIT, the Universe and your own Spirit Guides and Ancestors are willing and eager to give guidance.

RUNE MAGIC FOR WRITERS

RUNE MAGIC FOR WRITERS

FEHU begin it,

URUZ test it,

THURISAZ give it spunk,

ANSUZ, word it well,

RAIDHO, give it rhythm

KENAZ, craft the creative spark,

GEBO, my gift brings return,

WUNJO, My story (poem, etc) follows its bliss,

HAGALAZ gives the story action and with each storm, a seed,

NAUTHIZ heightens the tension and gives solutions in due course,

ISA Hones the idea to perfection and solidifies it,

JERA, cycles of change give my story variety within wholeness,

EIHWAZ, Mystery and an edge of intrigue fills my story,

PERTHRO, mysteries unfold as information comes forth,

ELHAZ, I weed what needs weeded and heed what needs heeded.

SOWILO, My story is a success and finds the spotlight,

TIEWAZ, my story's aim is true and finds its audience

BERKANA, The story is nurtured to completion,

EHWAZ, What I've created now finds its expression perfected, and draws a harmonious response

MANNAZ, My interesting and intelligent story finds its place in a community of peers,

INGWAZ, All the wisdom of my story is now gathered in one place and draws interest

DAGAZ, My story is creating a bridge of transformation in all who read it,

OTHALA, And my words live long, my legacy to my kinsmen…

Author: Keldarune

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RUNE ROSARY

RUNE ROSARY

Send your runes around you in a circle in whichever way suits you. For this one, using the three circle aetts to create circle makes sense as you'll see.

Fehu, Hagalaz, Tiewaz

Uruz, Nauthiz, Berkana

Thurisaz, Isa, Ehwaz

Ansuz, Jera, Mannaz

Raidho, Eihwaz, Lagu

Kenaz, Perthro, Ingwaz

Gebo, Elhaz, Dagaz

Wunjo, Sowilo, Othala

Make a rune cord with 8 knots, while chanting the account from the Havamal telling Odin's Ordeal. Then pour your runes into them in three passes through the length of the cord.

The first aett, then the second, and then the third. Breathe the rune into yourself as you visualize it in front of you. Then breathe that rune into the knot, giving it life.

Three times each knot will pass through your hands and be ignited by your breathed intent, the breath blown into it -- one breath for Fehu into that first knot and following with the second knot awakened to Uruz. Then when you are finished birthing the first eight, return again to the first knot and breathe into it Hagalaz, and so on through the second aett. Then the third, beginning with Tiewaz and ending with Othala.

I know that Freya Aswynn teaches the runes with the last two reversed and she is following historical precedent in doing this. For awhile I followed her lead, but found that in my life, the need for balance and integration of "day and night" (Dagaz) had to come first before finding tribe and home (Othala).

You, of course, have to decide that one on your own. All other runes must be chanted in the way they are given: Fehu, Uruz, Thurisaz, Ansuz, Raidho, Kenaz, Gebo, Wunjo, Hagalaz, Nauthis, Isa, Jera, Eihwaz, Perthro, Elhaz, Sowilo, Tiewaz, Berkana, Ehwaz, Mannaz, Lagu, Ingwaz, Dagaz-Othala.

This cord you are making can then be used as a prayer cord. When you use it, chant the runes through to begin, seeing them arising from the cord and surrounding you as they do in the rune ring. Then chant your prayers -- either prewritten or created at the time of need -- and end by chanting the runes once more, seeing them return to the cord.

A NINTH knot may also be added, with embellishment, such as a Thor's hammer or the glory twigs. On this you can recite a retelling of Odin's ordeal.

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MY RUNE POEMS

RUNE POEMS OF MY OWN

FEHU

Open hands hold the harvest,

But hoarding withers vines

URUZ

In steady strength,

single steps gain ground

THURISAZ

When might rules reason

Ruin shatters the shield

ANSUZ

With loud cry or silent song

Sorrows flee

RAIDHO

A rocky road in rough terrain

Readies the rider

KENAZ

Kenaz quickens the cunning mind,

Sparks swift perception

GEBO

Gebo gifts with giving

Agreement binds the blessing

WUNJO

Kinsmen together

Gather joy

HAGALAZ

Storm stones singe the halted harvest,

hasten the farmer in his field,

fashions singleness of vision

NAUTHIZ

He who fashions the fire delivers

Himself from darkness

When need narrows the vision

ISA

From i to I,

The way is won in silence,

Condensed into solitary steps

JERA

Cycle of seasons yields a year

Health and harvest in a field of plenty

EIHWAZ

What was becomes what is

As peace perfects the pattern

PERTHRO

Birth is best in season

What is ready reveals.

ELHAZ

Spirit’s cause connects protection

Strengthens safety in whispered wisdom…

SOWILO

Success shines as sun’s gold

Illumines the way with weal

TIEWAZ,

A warrior’s way wends high and true,

A strong arm is sometimes bound

For a higher aim

BERKANA

A babe at the breast

And a birch’s thirst

Are we, in the keep of the Goddess,

EHWAZ

Body mirrors spirit’s swift movement,

Communion follows true commitment…

MANNAZ

Man is mindful of Man

When mind rules emotions…

LAGU

Deep waters deliver lasting impressions

When intuition rules reason,

INGWAZ

Gebo ok Gebo, great in gain

Pregnant with potential

Power honed to perfection…

DAGAZ

Day is a delight to daughters of men,

But night is the nourishment of dreams...

OTHALA

Home heals the heart

Ancestors stir the soul,

What is held holds,

Binds as well as frees...

Author: Keldarune
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RUNE BASICS

BASIC RUNE MEANINGS:

Fehu -- Tangible representation of energy, often used in commerce

Uruz -- Test of endurance, skill, independent strength

Thurisaz -- A conflict of wills

Ansuz -- Speech

Raidho -- Right action, rhythm

Kenaz -- vitality, comprehension

Gebo -- Union, gift

Wunjo -- Contentment, tribe

Hagalaz -- Pulled in two directions

Nauthiz -- Self reliance born of necessity

Isa -- Stillness, inactivity

Jera -- cycles (a year)

Eihwaz -- life/death

Perthro -- secret, purse

Elhaz/Algiz -- connection to the Gods, protection

Sowilo -- power, purpose

Tiewaz -- justice, man, warrior

Berkana -- healing, woman, birth

Ehwaz -- connection, horse (also car)

Mannaz -- collective mindset

Laguz -- ebb and flow

Ingwaz -- potential,

Dagaz -- transformative stress and new light from same

Othala -- inheritance, ancestral lands, house

Note: this is a starter set of meanings, collect your own by drawing one rune a day and at the end of the day, write how that rune has shown its meaning. After awhile, you will have quite a collection of communications between yourself and Spirit or your own High Self. Communication is what we are doing in Divination.

RUNE CIRCLE

CLOCKWISE the runes encircle a Ve' -- In the North, FEHU, NE:ANSUZ, in the East, GEBO, SE: NAUTHIZ, in the South, EIHWAZ, SW: SOWILO, In the west, EHWAZ, NW: INGWAZ.

That will give you a bit of a guideline as you're learning to sing the runes around you -- there are two runes between each of those settings you see above.

Work also with the pairs of opposites and the runes that are "square" to other runes. How does a square react, when speaking of runes?

For instance, Fehu, Gebo, and Ingwaz -- a flowing energy, an exchange, and a holding of energy. If you think in one of energy's simplest terms -- currency -- you can see moveable wealth as something you can buy and sell. What is the difference between this and Gebo's form of exchange? and how does Gebo's exchange oppose Ingwaz' holding (as in a bank). Fehu squares Ingwaz in that Ingwaz holds to build the energy, but Fehu allows the energy to flow and with the flow generates a space whereby other energy may flow in to replace it. Gebo, the opposing rune to Ingwaz, actually builds capital "behind the scenes" in goodwill -- which, in turn, pay forward into Ingwaz (so that it works as a "seesaw", this pair of opposites.

Fehu opposes Eihwaz as one is the movement of energy and one turns the energy inward until it bursts forth renewed (Eihwaz is a bit like a spring with its coils pressed tightly together until such a moment as it springs forth again. In spring forth, it can only go so far, with a great burst of movement, not the freeflowing movement of Eihwaz.

RUNE PRONUNCIATION:

There are several different pronunciations for many of the runes. For instance, Rune 2/7 -- the seventh rune of the second aett is Elhaz (Ale-haaz) or Algiz (all-geez). I have used the (I suppose) Americanized pronunciation for quite some time. SO-WEE-LO (with long O), Ing-waz, not Ing-vaz. Give this pronunciation a try:

fay-who

ooh-rooz

thuh-ree-sahz

ahn-suz (long u, as in school)

rye-thoh

kay-nahz

gay-boh

vuhn-yoh

hah-gah-lahz

now-theez

ees-uh

yair-uh

eye-vahz

pear-throw

ahl-gahz or ahl-hahz

so-vay-lo

tea-vahz

bear-can-oh

a-vahz

mahn-nahz

lah-gooz

ing-vahz

dah-gahz

ohth-ah-lah

DISTING

FEBRUARY 2 – DISTING DAY

Light a green candle, soft green of spring, new as the leaves that will soon begin to show, new as the grass as the snow melts. Craft a swan, origami, painted, or cut silhouette. A drawing, maybe, or fashioned of clay. The swan is one symbol for Frigga.

Berkana rune. The colors green and white. The reason: waking from winter’s deep sleep and beginning to stir towards the fullness of the sun.

Honor the Goddess and your feminine ancestors (The Distaff side) on this day.

In honor of Frigga, host a Handmaidens Feast, serve honey meade or Birch tea with honey. Serve wheat cakes topped with a swan drawn with whipped cream. Light candles on your hearth or altar stone, green candles, the color of spring. Create collages of the handmaidens (my current project). Help your guests explore their links to the various Handmaidens and share stories of: for instance: a message received (Gna), a victory in a dispute (Syn), a healing (Eir) or a time your guest has felt as if permission had been given for entrance into a once-forbidden territory (Lofn).

Let each guest take a bit of roving and pour into it her hopes for the coming year. These can be twisted into thread and kept for knot magic or spread thin and given to the wind or hung in the trees for the birds to use in nesting.

Honor Frigga, the Handmaidens, your feminine ancestors,  and the Great Mother, Earth. Use Green as your color and soften with white. Use small amounts of other colors too, for new flowers that are beginning, purple crocuses, yellow daffodils and dandelions. Make the altar colorful with springtime, still somewhat muted; make it less colorful than your Ostara celebration will be. More green, more white, only a bit of color. Use the rune Berkana and use Fehu. Use the rune, Jera and use the rune, Wunjo. Otherwhere in this Spindle find bits of Spindling to help you create the celebration: Disting, with Frigga and her Handmaidens.

Note: A distaff holds the fiber you will spin into thread. Distaff is also the name given to the feminine side of your ancestry.

Author: Keldarune
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Kitchen Prayer (Two)

.KITCHEN PRAYER

Let the hands that stir the brew

Be guided by you,

Let the leaf that steeps the tea,

Be blessed by you,

Let the broom sweep clean

And your guidance be seen,

May all that we do,

Keep us close to you,

Mothers, hear my words

May the bread rise

And the kettle boil,

May home be formed

By this earthly toil,

We can fashion,

We can form,

But the spark that keeps us warm

Came from the Kin,

Before we were born,

Ancestors, hear my words

From seed to plant,

From plant to plate,

With Spirits of the Land,

We co-operate,

As you’ve aided us,

So we honor you,

Earth Spirits, hear my words,

Cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, clove,

Sprinkle all herein with love,

Not a word shall boil,

Not a threat shall bubble,

This blessed hearth

Repels all trouble,

Gods and Goddess,

Elder Kin,

Bless this kitchen

And all within.

Author: Keldarune
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