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PiercedXWolfie [2009-01-09 14:51:04 +0000 UTC]
What an interesting way to read. I've never thought of using Rune cards. I love the reading blanket as well. My poor runes are chipped thanks to years and years of reading. Perhaps a set of cards would last longer. Do you find them easier to draw?
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Freetha In reply to PiercedXWolfie [2009-01-11 01:41:25 +0000 UTC]
My cards are two years old and just starting to show proper signs of wear and tear. I do find the cards easier to draw as I only "cast" (kasta = throw) the little wooden runes I have.
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PiercedXWolfie In reply to Freetha [2009-01-11 16:12:32 +0000 UTC]
What kind of wood do you use? I've been trying to find a nice piece of ash to make myself a nice set, but can't find any.
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Freetha In reply to PiercedXWolfie [2009-01-11 16:20:03 +0000 UTC]
I found a fallen branch of swedish oak that I used form my old set (buried 'em in sweden when I moved back home to Iceland), I've used birch for my current set and hope to make a new set out of bone/horn soon.
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Rune-Druid [2008-11-24 08:16:11 +0000 UTC]
Love it!
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Freetha In reply to Rune-Druid [2008-11-24 14:55:03 +0000 UTC]
*bows* Thank you.
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Lin16 [2008-11-05 22:14:52 +0000 UTC]
Fancy!
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Freetha In reply to Lin16 [2008-11-06 11:18:26 +0000 UTC]
^^ Thanks
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AJDrake [2008-10-30 15:18:29 +0000 UTC]
It's a bit hard to tell in the picture, but the color combination of blue with silver and black paint sounds rather pretty o_o
I still need to find my notebook I wrote the runes and their meanings down it. I been looking for it, but thus far it has eluded me. I didn't know they made cards for them that you could get meanings from o_o
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Freetha In reply to AJDrake [2008-10-30 18:21:40 +0000 UTC]
It's an icelandic production, so there's not too many ppl in the "whole wide world" that know about them.
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AJDrake In reply to Freetha [2008-10-31 15:50:59 +0000 UTC]
I know about runes, and that each rune has some sorta meaning. I didn't know the runes had names, though. And I didn't know you could use them for uhm... dunno the right word... fortune-telling?
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Freetha In reply to AJDrake [2008-10-31 19:22:12 +0000 UTC]
*snickers* (fortune-telling works... or Divination)
Well, now you know.
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Jacarath [2008-10-30 00:49:36 +0000 UTC]
This looks beautiful!
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dentalfloos [2008-10-29 21:40:52 +0000 UTC]
Heh, another anti-Blum person. Join the club, we have cookies (that 'haku hasn't taken at least). Though I've seen the blank "rune" used successfully a couple of times, so to each their own I guess.
This is a nice layout, a new design to me at least. I always like looking at how people interpret the layouts for runes.
Though what does the stave in the middle mean? I see kenaz, raidho, tir, and ing...am I right?
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Freetha In reply to dentalfloos [2008-10-29 22:08:37 +0000 UTC]
I will be using the cloth to do "professional" readings at a new-age shop (the only one) in Akureyri. So I decided to take Kenaz (for insight/wisdom) Raidho (in the sense of the journey of life) Ing (to keep productive/active) all under TΓ½rsrΓΊn for keeping just, fair, and to protect myself a little. It's a reminder to be just and fair, while asking my insight and activity into the lives of others to be treated just and fairly as well.
The three rune reading never gave me "enough", so I expanded it into 3x3 is all. It just made sense to me. It's worked wonders for my insight and it works brilliantly with my "Wisdom of Avalon" (Call me an elf for it and die!) cards.
And Blum's a twat!
The blank rune was never used by the norse/teutonic people. The word "Wyrd" is anglosaxon in origin and was never used by the norse/teutonic people. For all intents and purposes the word "RΓΊn" (rune) means mystery/magic in a similar sense as his "wyrd" is translated to, so if you have the runes you got that meaning in the lot of 'em anyway, so the need for wyrd is lost there too.
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dentalfloos In reply to Freetha [2008-10-29 23:10:47 +0000 UTC]
Sweet, I got them right! I find it interesting you use Ing for activity, since I usually see it as success and relief, a positive "end" rune of sorts (in general). Course that's not bad either for readings.
"Call me an elf for it and die!"
I wasn't going to I swear!
And I understand what you're saying about the runes. It's just that a few I've met who enjoyed runes as a divination device weren't too serious and concerned with getting the accurate history/lore on the runes. For them "wyrd" worked out.
But I don't think there's a need for wyrd as well. Perdro and Nied already cover all the aspects associated with "wyrd", and having a double of the same meanings in one reading would throw it off.
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Freetha In reply to dentalfloos [2008-10-30 00:07:14 +0000 UTC]
exactly..
Ing is not used for "ends" in any of the runic meanings I work with and what I work with is as close to the "original" meanings as I can get. Ingwaz is used for productivity and diligence..
PerΓΎro is destiny itself..
But Nauthiz (Nied) is the proverbial bump in the road. It's the hardships and suffering we must all overcome in life. It's the "Need" that teaches us to find a way.
It makes me wonder where you've been studying by the by.. just out of curiocity.
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dentalfloos In reply to Freetha [2008-11-01 05:18:28 +0000 UTC]
Sorry, I'll elaborate. What I meant by Ing as being an "end" rune is this: while I've seen it linked to starting points a lot, in my personal experiance it has often signified a positive, or successful, ending point that in turn becomes a positive starting point for the next event, however it pertains to the original question asked.
Basically, the "death" of one thing becomes the "birth" of another. Even if that's not the true meaning of Ing, it seems to be working out for me and those I cast for just fine.
And what you said about Perthro and Nied/Nauthiz is basically how I've seen wyrd interpreted.
Which is basically how I interpret the runes, some basic keywords and concepts that put my own experiences and results on top of them. It's half personal and half books, in other words. No official studies here I'm afraid, and since I cannot speak anything close to the original languages connected to runes, I'm stuck with using English writings. But so far it's worked out nicely so I'm not complaining.
I respect the history and lore surrounding the runes, but I only use this system for personal reasons (and to those that ask me for readings as a favor). I don't claim to be a runemaster or rune mage or whatever the hell people say, and I certainly don't claim to know all about the runes. They're just something that I've successfully connected with internally for the past 5 years, more strongly than with tarot or oracle cards. Runes were my first divination method after all.
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Freetha In reply to dentalfloos [2008-11-01 12:28:41 +0000 UTC]
Tarot were my first divination meathod. Got a fresh deck of Rider Waite tarot cards when I was ten but haven't been using it much at all in the last four or five years since I dreamt I was laying a different deck, one I "know" I should have. It's still not "finished", the woman that's painting them has been painting them since I first dreamt of laying them. Cats' Eye Tarot, they're worth a look.
No one knows "everything" about the runes, it's impossible to, but 16 out of 24 runes come with little icelandic rune-poems which do explain their meaning in greater detail than you could ask for from other sources, that combined with the old norse rune poems is the basis behind the meaning as given on these cards, which is why I love them with all my divination-oriented-heart. It's as close to "original meaning" as one could hope to get.
I've ofcourse been studying the runes and their history more than using them for divinatory purposes. Knowledge first and all that. It wasn't 'til about 6 years ago that I started seeing the runes around me, in the way things around me were organized, in the patterns written by the falling snow and so forth, and then I figured I might as well listen.
Got the cards two years ago and haven't pegged them wrong yet..
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dentalfloos In reply to Freetha [2008-11-02 21:32:52 +0000 UTC]
Oh I hate the RWS deck, it's so ugly and plain. My first deck was Animals Divine, thankfully, so I never had to use the RWS one.
"that I started seeing the runes around me, in the way things around me were organized, in the patterns written by the falling snow and so forth, and then I figured I might as well listen."
They do seem to have a life of their own don't they...I've noticed that too. Both around me and in the stones themselves (I don't use cards, I just have regular, plain stones). Part of the reason why I feel so attached to them.
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Freetha In reply to dentalfloos [2008-11-03 14:03:08 +0000 UTC]
The RWS is what all other tarot cards are based off of, so I figured I'd start at the beginning. It's kinda my approach to most things. Study it from the "start".
It's simple and plain yeah, but it isn't ugly, it's just in a different art-type than people are used to today.
I've sometimes considered doing a tarot deck based on the norse/teutonic heathen-path, but I couldn't do all the artwork for it myself, I'd rather just "design" the thing and work with another artist to get the images to look the way I want them to. My style doesn't fit what I'd want to do.
The runes are a living thing yeah, sometimes uncomfortably so, heh.
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dentalfloos In reply to Freetha [2008-11-04 01:43:04 +0000 UTC]
There's actually several Norse/Heathen themed decks out there already: [link]
But I haven't bought any yet, so I can't tell you if they're good/accurate/etc., or not. On a glance though nothing stands out to me as being unique.
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Freetha In reply to dentalfloos [2008-11-04 20:15:20 +0000 UTC]
On a glance, they look a little poor...
the 25-rune-cards alone make me want to throw things.
*grumbles about mr. Blum again.. *
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dentalfloos In reply to Freetha [2008-11-04 23:57:35 +0000 UTC]
Which is why I never recommend them to anyone XD
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