Liveable runelore?

For so long, we didn’t have access to credible resources on the Elder Futhark. The Internet has opened literally a world of information about their history and cultural context, and how to work with them as an oracle. My approach to the runes brings that rich heritage forward in a way that helps us not just receive the guidance of the runes, but to live it. By working with seasonality, timing, and place through runic calendars, my work centers the Elder Futhark’s animistic roots, which are all about relationship. As I say in my soul tending practice, if something isn’t relatable, it isn’t very useful. What’s wonderful about the runes is that they aren’t just relatable to us today, their wisdom and guidance is liveable. It has stood the test of time.

That said, this may not be the way that you want to work with the runes, and that’s fine. In these pages I’m sharing my experience of approaching the runes as living relationships. Your mileage may vary.

As animists, runelore is not just representative of concepts we can live with, but ways of being we can live through. This distinction with the runes is the difference between nouns and verbs: the runes don’t just demonstrate a quality, but through intentional relationship with them they impart guidance on how to embody them as an experience. Their wisdom is not just as ‘runes oracle,’ but ultimately is runes ally. They do not create our experience; rather, they co-create our experience with us. This is wyrdweaving at its deepest potential.

My challenge to you in learning your personal relationship with the runes is to find the places where they are already in you and make them active in your life by engaging them. Throughout season 6 of my podcast, What in the Wyrd, we explore the runes as verbs, and pages will be added below.

Runic date and elemental correlations are from Nigel Pennick’s Runes and Astrology. Rune poem translations are from Runic and Heroic Poems, by Bruce Dickins unless otherwise cited. All other informamtion is from noted traditional sources or my own. From these pages learn traditional meaning of each rune, birth runes, how the rune relates in Old Norse context, and how to make the life force of each rune liveable.