| Freyja's Ætt First Aett Fehu - cattle, wealth Letter value: f Keywords / Magical: Prosperity, social success, foresight, money, wealth, "inner-wealth" and creative fire. Gods, Goddesses and Deities: Frey, Freyja and Njord Lore: This is the principle of mobal power-within nature, within the self, and within society. Fehu is a power that flows outward like fire from its course and must be circulated in order to be beneficial. Positive Meaning: Foresight is needed. Wealth may be in the future, but it must be used with wisdom and shared to avoid conflict. Also true of "inner wealth" of knowledge. Negative Meaning: Greed can cause you to become a outcast. Discord may be in the future, discord based on a lack of circulation of the power of fehu. Excess of fehu can cause you to "burnout" your creative energies. Control them but use them with wisdom. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Uruz - aurochs Letter value: u,v Keywords / Magical: Vital strength and virility, defense, primal forming force, tenacity, freedom, health, understanding, sudden or unexpected changes (usually for the better). Gods, Goddesses and Deities: Audhumla, Urd Lore: This is the principle of vital organic life energy, original procreation, and organic transformation. Uruz is the primal cosmic bovine-force that shapes manifestation and defends that manifested form. The aurochs was a wild and powerful large bison-like longhorned bovine that roamed Europe until it became extinct. The beast was known for its power, ferocity, and tenacity. In the mythology this is represented by the great cow Audhumla, which licked a great icy block of salt in order to form the primal androgyne Buri. Also, she was the source of sustenance for the cosmic giant Ymir. Audhumla was herself formed from the dripping rime produced when the world fire met the world ice. This is also the unmanifested energized essence from which the cosmic ice and Audhumla were originally formed. Positive Meaning: Vital strength is its essence. There is a up-welling and out-pouring of energy. This energy leads to strength if it is tenaciously held onto and controlled. Properly this strength should be used to defend your "homeland", be that the physical home or the "hall" of the self (defense mechanisms). Strive toward inner goals and more power will result. Use the strength to burn away weakness and dross. Negative Meaning: Obsessive protectiveness and possessiveness. Strength used in the wrong way or time, or strength used by the wrong people whose only desire is to control others. Sickness, inconsistency, ignorance. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thurisaz : thorn, giant Letter value: Th Keywords / Magical: Reactive force, directed force, defense, to learn you must go through hardship, appiled power, regeneration (following destruction), essential desire. Gods, Goddesses and Deities: Thorr Lore: Thurisaz is the directed cosmic force of destruction and defense. This rune is a symbol of lighting and thunder and is associated with Mjollnir, the hammer of Thorr. This weapon is the protector of Midhgardhr and Asgardhr. Just as the thorn protects the rose, so too does Mjollnir protect Midhgardhr and Asgardhr. Positive Meaning: Thurisaz is the forward-trusting force of destruction of powers hostile to cosmic order. These hostile powers are not "evil", they are just harmful to the way of life demonstrated by the gods and expressed in mankind. It is a projectable form of applied power. May be combined with other runes to direct their force. Thurisaz is also a rune of regeneration and fertilization. It breaks down barriers so that new beginnings may occur. It is a catalyst for change. This rune is a sign of the psychosexual symbolic response, which in unconscious individuals leads to compulsion and in conscious ones to transformation. Negative Meaning: Betrayal, compulsion and defenselessness. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ansuz : a god Letter value: a Keywords / Magical: Inspiration (enthusiasm), synthesis, spiritual knowledge, container of knowledge, magical incantation, speech (the power of suggestion). Gods, Goddesses and Deities: Odhinn (Wodan) Lore: The Ansuz rune is instrumental in the creation of mankind. It describes two of the gifts given to Ask and Embla (the first man and woman) by the gods Odin, Vili, and Vé. These gifts were ond or anda (breath, sprit, animating life principle) and odhr (inspired mental activity, inspiration). Positive Meaning: This is the rune of the word, song, poetry, and magical incantation (galdr) as a container and expresser of magical force. Ansuz is a magical ancestral power, one that has been handed down from generation to generation along genetic line. Through the power of this rune the realization of the link between the ancestral gods and their people may be regained. Negative Meaning: Danger may come through a misuse of knowledge or from unwholesome influences. Beware of others trying to manipulate you. Boredom and intellectual death. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Raidho : journey Letter value: r Keywords / Magical: Right action and order, journey (way back to right), ritual Gods, Goddesses and Deities: Forseti Lore: Raidho is the cosmic law of right and order in the multiverse. It came to be a symbol of organized religion, of Asatru, the ancient form of Germanic religion. Today this rune is a symbol of the "way back to right", through the efforts of those who want to recover the essence of the primal order. Positive Meaning: This rune represents the right order of a persons journey through the paths of the Nine Worlds of Yggdrasill. Good advice and judgment according to right are attributes of Raidho. It is the channeling force according to natural laws along the right road leading to the right results. Obtaining justice according to right. Negative Meaning: Spiritual boredom. Beware of bad advice. Injustice. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kenaz : torch Letter value: c,k Keywords / Magical: Controlled energy, creativity, ability, sexual lust, transformation Gods, Goddesses and Deities: Freyja, dwarves Lore: Kenaz is the fire of creation, sacrifice, the hearth and the forge- fire controlled by mankind toward a willed result. Positive Meaning: It has the ability and the will to generate and create. It is the rune of the artist and craftsman, and the technical aspects of magic. Kenaz is also the rune of human passion, lust, and sexual love- as positive attributes. It is also important to the concept of kin. Negative Meaning: Lack of creativity, Inability, problems with relationships (break-ups). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gebo : gift Letter value: g Keywords / Magical: Gift (giving), generosity, hospitality, magical exchange, sex magic Gods, Goddesses and Deities: Odhinn, Freyja Lore: Gebo is the eminent unconscious magical force present in the Ginnungapgap (magically charged void) before the formation of the Worlds. The holy mystery of the two (or many) in one. Positive Meaning: It is the giver, the giving, the given and that which is given to. By the power of this rune persons are bound together through an act of will in order to effect a result. Gebo contains the secrets of psychically joining two people, or several persons, in order that they may produce a creative power greater that their sum total. This is the rune of sex magic. Negative Meaning: Do not become overly dependent upon gifts from others. Greed and weakness, or poverty and loneliness. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wunjo : joy Letter value: v,w Keywords / Magical: Joy, harmony, fellowship, well-being, binding Gods, Goddesses and Deities: Freyja, elves Lore: This is the principle of ideal harmonization of entities or elements - especially those derived from the same source. Positive Meaning: The power this rune aids in is the promotion of fellowship and goodwill between brother and sister and of the clan or tribe. Wunjo is the energy that binds different fields of power together and is therefore invaluable in rune magic. With this energy you can bind several runes into a single harmonious force that can work toward a specific result. Negative Meaning: Loss of identity, alienation, sorrow |
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