![]() Psychic bedrock is struck you must respond decisively from your core, or be wounded. Pressures arise which tear away everything except your essential nature, revealing levels of instinctive strength and self-knowledge untapped in less stressful times. What resources, inner and outer, do you need in order to thrive in your personal journey? Seize them at all cost, and discard the rest. Materially, this is a fortunate rune, if you don't abandon yourself to other people's definitions of success. You are invited to define the meaning of prosperity for yourself. THE NORSE RUNES, interpretation copyright 1999 Jodie Forrest Steven ForrestĪsk for permission This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. Many thanks to the Kewel Ristar ( ) for allowing us to use their. Shells worn by the sea, or wood turned on a lathe, also make fine Runes. If you want to make your own Runes, we suggest you gather stones from a place that's special to you, then paint or carve the Runes onto them. The third, Skuld's Rune, the Rune of Necessity, governs that which may evolve if you take the course suggested by the second Rune.Įxperiment, and invent your own layouts. The second, Verdandi's Rune, the Rune of Being, governs the suggested course of action in the present. The first Rune you have drawn, Urd's Rune, the Rune of Fate, governs the past background of the situation. They rule the past, present and future, and even the Norse gods and goddesses were said to be subject to them. Then draw three Runes for the Nornir, the three Norse Fates, Urd, Verdandi and Skuld, a.k.a. If this is your first exposure to the Runes, try drawing the symbols on 3" x 5" cards, then shuffle them as you think about a situation in your life on which you'd like some insight. As in Jodie's Nordic-Celtic historical fantasy novels, which feature the Runes, some poetic license has been taken! Still, we think you'll find them interesting. They are not the definitions of a Norse scholar, nor a modern day godhi or gytha (Norse priest or priestess) but those of a novelist and an astrologer. The following interpretations were researched and elaborated by Jodie and Steven Forrest. One good place to start reading about them is Freya Aswynn's book Leaves of Yggdrasil, Llewellyn, St. Many historians, mythologists, occultists and modern pagans have studied the Runes. Our links page has some links to modern pagan sites. Also see his Nine Worlds Dictionary, illustrated by Sharon Rossman, his Theft of the Sun and Other New Norse Myths, and the Rossmans' book Valhalla in America: Norse Myths in Wood at Rock Island State Park, Wisconsin. The chief Norse god, Odin, was said to have been voluntarily wounded with a spear and hung for nine nights on the nine worlds of Norse cosmology's axle-tree, Yggdrasil, in order to obtain knowledge of the Runes' meanings and magical uses-a kind of Norse shamanic initiation.įor more about ancient Nordic cosmology, click here for an article by Norse storyteller and scholar Dag Rossman. They also had oracular, mythological or psychological import. Untitled Document The Runes were the letters with which the ancient Norse wrote until approximately 1000 A.D., and they can be seen carved on Runestones across Scandinavia to this day. The chief Norse god, Odin, was said to have been voluntarily wounded with a spear and hung for nine nights on the nine worlds of Norse cosmology's axle-tree, Yggdrasil, in order to obtain knowledge of the Runes' meanings and magical uses-a kind of Norse shamanic initiation. The Runes were the letters with which the ancient Norse wrote until approximately 1000 A.D., and they can be seen carved on Runestones across Scandinavia to this day.
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