MUDRA and MANTRA

MUDRA AND MANTRA

Mudra for taking away hardships

Sit with your back straight so the energy can flow up from the earth. It is through the earth that you gain your strength – strength like a mountain. Feel that strong energy coming into you as you form this mudra’s energies in your mind. Feel the light coming from the sky as well, moon energy or sun energy according to your purpose.

Make fists with both hands. Your thumbs are on the outside of your fists, not tucked away. Begin with your fists in front of you, palm-side in, thumbs on top. Swing your arms up and back – thumbs will be toward the back of you. Then swing your arms out and down – your thumbs will be to the outside, your hands will come toward each other, heel-side first. Keep the circles large and powerful. The mantra is: I REMOVE ALL OBSTACLES. THE WAY IS CLEAR BEFORE ME.

A rune mantra can be created for this purpose. Chant: Fehu, Ingwaz, Lagu. Fehu frees your energy, allowing good things to flow to you and allows you to let go so there is no blockage, no fear of being without (fear draws that which you fear). Ingwaz is the storehouse of energy from which you draw and which you fill with this mantra. Lagu is the flowing and calms a troubled mind. Use this chantra while visualizing the runes and forming the mudra.

Another rune mantra is: AH OO YAH (AUJA) This is made of the root sounds of the runes, Ansuz, Uruz, Jera and Ansuz. The rune, Ansuz, is about voice. (Simply making the sound aaaaaah from the rune Ansuz is enough of a charm to break restrictions.) Ansuz encloses the runes Jera which brings harmony to Midgard and which brings awareness of the cyclic nature of all things (this too shall end), and the rune Uruz which brings good fortune, and guides them to an open ended freedom from within and without. Amplified!

Another wonderful mantra is the call, Oepandinam (oo pahn dee nahm), roughly translated: “With the voice, I break free!” This comes from Odin’s ordeal on the world tree as he took up the runes, nights all nine, wounded by the gar and given from self to Self. We have all had our times of desperation and sacrifice and, as Odin did, we have persevered, and took up those things which would heal the wounds. Reading passages such as Odin’s Ordeal help us build our strength to deal with adversity and teaches that we gain much through those seemingly dark and despairing times. I have often noticed that after such a time, there is great gain. Odin took up the runes, ROARING, making a loud call as he did so. The voice is a powerful tool for breaking restraint.

NOTE: If you are walking the way of the Handmaidens, you can call on Hlin to flash her blade into the obstacle and/or Syn to sweep away the hardship. You can create a mantra from the names.

Syn’s name adds up to: Sun’s energy turns the need.

Hlin (used as a rune charm) adds a storm to the equation. Don’t forget the difference between these guardians. Syn sweeps away the harmful, but Hlin does battle. Hlin’s name, used runically, would call in Hagal, Isa, Nauthiz and Lagu, the first three of which are powerful battle runes and not to be used lightly. When voicing her name, the H is nearly silent so that it sounds like ‘Leen. Her name adds up to a Hailstorm, the flow of a lake, Ice and needfire. I’m adding all this about Hlin so that you can see this charm should be used with caution. The others I’ve given are much safer, but Hlin is a charm you can use when the need for such is particularly strong, when you are actually being threatened and this is the harm you want turned from you. As a mantra, however, her name can be used safely to ward yourself or your home.