#ELDER FUTHARK OR WITCHES RUNES HOW TO#

This made the Norns the most powerful beings of all. Not only the fate of the animals and the people, but the fate of the Æsir or the gods themselves. The Norns were three very mysterious and very powerful women who controlled fate. This enabled it to grow and sprout and protect these worlds. This well was very deep and it’s where the World Tree got its water and nourishment. At the base of the tree was a well, the Well of Urd. So, Yggdrasil was believed to be this giant tree that held up all the worlds. The name of the World Tree in Norse mythology is Yggdrasil. The other thing that you have to know about Norse mythology is the idea of the World Tree. The mythology of how the runes were discovered shows you how powerful people considered these amazing, magical tools. So, I’m going to tell you the legend of the runes. Understanding their magical meanings is easier when you know the legends that the Norse people had about the runes. Each of these letters has a very specific and special magical meaning. We can find the evidence of these letters all over the place, and they are quite common. We also see them on bone, antler, wood, and even on metal! Oftentimes they would show up on memorial stones for people that had passed on. These runes would be carved on stones, for example. The runes, pop up all over these archaeological finds around England, Scandinavian countries, and beyond. We might use the tarot for meditation or a spell, but it doesn’t have that quality of being a written alphabet. We don’t really use tarot in many other contexts. Tarot is an amazing divination tool, but isn’t an alphabet. Give that some thought when working with them.

While the runes are an amazing divination tool, they were also a useable alphabet. However, when we are thinking of rune divination sets, we’re almost exclusively thinking of the Elder Futhark. Now, there is also another Futhark, it’s called the Anglo-Saxon Runes, which have 33 characters in it. And this was in use from around 700 ACE, up until the Middle Ages, 1200 ACE. The Norse people condensed the alphabet down to these characters and abandoned the rest. The Younger Futhark has only 16 characters. These sets contains 24 runes, or sometimes 25 when a blank one is in the set. The Elder Futhark is what is most often seen in rune sets. The Elder Futhark has 24 characters and was predominantly used from about 100 ACE to 700 ACE. And it’s named for those first six letters of the Norse writing system.īecause they are so old, we know very little about The Elder Futhark. Much like how the word alphabet contains alpha and beta, The Futhark is the name of the alphabet. The alphabet of the runes is known as a Futhark, which is the first six letters of the rune alphabet. You may have heard the terms Elder Futhark or Younger Futhark. Germanic people, including Norse Vikings, developed this written alphabet. That’s the first evidence of runes that we see in our archeological findings. First of all, runes date back to about 100 ACE. Let’s take a look at the history of the runes. Divination is only the tip of the iceburg when it comes to what you can do with runes. Getting runes tattooed is not a divination practice, but it is a way of bringing the runes into your magic. Happiness, and awakening, and breakthroughs. They symbolize what I want to bring into my practice. So, these are the things I want to bring into my environment. Wunjo means joy, and Dagaz means breakthrough and awakening.

The two runes I picked are Wunjo and Dagaz.

I love them so much that I have a rune tattooed on each wrist. But I do love them and I do love working with them. I will start out by saying that I am by no means an expert on the runes. But this is a way to work with the runes even if you aren’t using them as a divination tool yet. You don’t have to have a long deep relationship with runes to begin your journey, though this technique I’ll teach you doesn’t prevent that from happening. This article is going to give you an amazing, phenomenal, beautiful way to start working with the runes, even if you have had no experience with them. For those of you who have not yet been introduced to their magic, runes are usually viewed as a divination tool like the tarot but the magic of the runes does not stop there.

#ELDER FUTHARK OR WITCHES RUNES HOW TO#

Do you know how to use runes in spells, magic and divination? Most of us who know about magic know a little bit about the runes and at least are familiar with them or may have even have worked with them.

Elder futhark or witches runes