Thurisaz – thorn– Thurisaz hasn’t been The Weekly Rune since fall of 2013. This rarity isn’t totally surprising, as this stave brings in energy of the Giants, and they’re a race not to be taken lightly–kind of a pun, since it represents Thor’s hammer. We can only handle so many doses of their medicine.
When this Rune appears, blunt force is on the horizon, which in terms of life force indicates change. The third Rune in the first aett, Thurisaz sees us at the point that we’ve realized a need to take action, a point at which we need to see the efforts of our own power. As such, it’s a Rune associated with masculine life force–the active principle.
This Rune gets a lot of bad press, largely due to modern psyche not really understanding the role Giants played in Old Norse culture. When we look at the Runes as each stave comprising an element of a greater story, the Giants represent unconscious urges. As the power players in the creation of Earth from a mythological perspective, this is extremely significant, as Thurisaz indicates an abrupt modification of events, usually for the good, by our own choosing. It is that latter bit that distinguishes this Rune from the other “change” Runes; we have control.
The thing that makes control actually powerful is knowing what to do with it. In and of itself, control isn’t worth much, and having the discernment of how to hold it and enact it effectively delineates whether it’s useful.
When Thurisaz appears, it’s time to strike. Miss, and it’s over. The moment has passed. Of course, the only way to be assured of wanted outcome is to stay aligned with divine order. And the only way to truly flow with divine order is not to be attached to the outcome.
Kelley,
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Thank you, lovely lady!
As runes have no solid reference to their meanings several runes have one or more stands of meaning and this is one of those runes. As skelleyh has point out there is the giant thread, but there is also the Thors Hammer thread and is this we can fallow a pattern in the runes in which the first to runes point to domestication of the raw source as seen in Fehu and the source itself as seen in Urus thus this third rune can be seen as the tool by which we achieve success.
Turas as Thors hammer and extended to imply all technologies as they may in tone.
Thus as we see the economy gaining traction and many new jobs added to the national economy we might read this rune as a sign of returning strength to the nation And on a personal level as a sign of prosperity through the use of your tools whatever they may be in your field of endeavor.
The rune in the image is not Thurisaz, its Wunjo. Wunjo is a rune of happiness and comfort. Thurisaz, although it looks somewhat like Wunjo, it has the triangle shape in the center of the line, not on the top.
It’s Thurisaz. I made it, myself. The base stroke extends above, it just isn’t painted thoroughly.
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