Hello! I’m new to Norse Paganism, and I am glad that I found your channel. Before I did, I didn’t know what to do, what the religion really was, and how to start. Your videos have helped me feel the gods around me, and I’ve become more connected with the nature around me as well. Thank you for helping me start on this path.
My own personal experience with the runes is that overtime I've attributed their *'mysteries'* as something akin to musical notes; one of the reasons I love the method of single instrument versus an orchestra you used. Each note itself is something profound and can easily stand alone, with variations between pitches, vibrato, et cetera, that can be used towards various effects and situations, yet when strung together in bindrunes allows for short *'riffs'* of music all the way to entire songs to be played. The music's effects are determined mostly by the intent in the making of bindrunes, as well as the person's understanding of the depth of the bindrune in general. Often I've heard that this *'music'* is a tool geared towards speaking to the *'otherworldly'* or otherwise spiritual/supernatural realms of existence, and that the deeper the meanings in the bindrune -- the more seemingly elusive, symbolic, or hidden the interwoven meanings behind your mixtures -- the stronger the force behind your intent; the stronger the signal or conveyed message for said effect. This depth from what I've found can come from anything you might think of; it can be simply the relationship between two or more runes -- their positions in the Futhark or their respective columns or their esoteric relationships *(ie, Inguz and Jera)*, it could be their numerological meanings like the number 13 often tied to death/rebirth, truly anything you might discover/imagine. My biggest case of runic work success and learning comes from my old friend's request to see more ghosts in his house (long story short, his home was something of a hotspot for randomly seeing such phenomena) and I carved out a rune on a beam in his attic as a welcome mat. I specifically stated *"Ancestors of 'X' are welcome to visit in this welcoming home, but only in peace"*; didn't want anything getting bright ideas afterall. The end of it was quite funny as it totally worked -- he got so many visitations afterwards it was unreal -- yet a family member of his outright demanded that I take the runes down as she hadn't had a moment of peace since. Goes to show that the runes can work, yet be cautious of overreaching and accuracy. Also, divination is its own basket of fun/terror to use, but this post is already in tl;dr territory.
On Divination for those still interested, I've experienced a few good castings and did a lot of reading there and honestly it can sometimes feel like it demands a lot of memorization to properly use. I would suggest to not be ashamed of just flipping open a book and using references to weed out the meanings behind runic castings, and even doing ritual practices outlined in rune books to make the practice more... well, *'holy'* and seperated from mundane practice, but above all I suggest two points to keep in mind. Runes in my experience for divination are blunt and powerful, yet broad stroak tools in comparison to... say tarot. If you want a yes/no answer, or something oddly specific to be told to you, you might need a tool like tarot or a seer. The Runes for divination work wonderfully for me, and I've managed to glean some good readings on generalities, like once I asked it if me finding a new group to practice my faith with was a good idea, and in short they told me that I had the inner strength to provide all the faith-based strength I needed. Made me feel pretty good about myself. That leads to point number two, the one where The Runes might also answer the deeper questions in your heart, not necessarily the ones you ask. They may pry deeper and more to what you need help with, so if an answer you recieve seems nonsensical, meditate and think on it for a bit; the revelation might surprise you. A good example might be you ask *'does this girl like me'* and the answer might be like *'murkstave wunjo'*. Whether she likes you or not, it might be saying such a relationship is doomed, or there will be much displeasure within it. A third point now that i think of it would definitely be sourcing rune meanings. Many people have different views of The Runes, even common ones, and the complexities between bright stave and murk stave might be enough to befuddle some websites and even authors. Some websites go for the barest and most basic meanings, others go wild with nigh on fantasy ideas; some are even outright wrong depending on your views. Make sure that you get at least an accurate or decently sourced material to learn The Runes to a familiarity, and then the deeper mysteries come with time and exposure; thinking on them and generally speaking meditation on them.
I got my first tattoo a week ago and it includes the Algiz rune in protection of my children. It means so much to me. I’m planning on doing an activation ritual during the Aquarius full moon. I did a ritual before the tattoo and mentally as the tattoo was being done, but now that it is a part of my body I am ready to take that final step in activation. It really means so much when it is on your skin and part of you.
On galdr and runes, I would recommend the works of Lars Magnar Enoksen, he approaches the subjects of both galdr and runes from both an academic perspective and a practitioner's perspective. And he makes very good points about the differences in runic systems and their uses, and why those differences are of vital importance for the practitioner. For those of you wanting to seriously understand the runes, I would recommend to start with the book "Runelore" by Stephen Flowers from 1987 (and only that one from that author, since that book is his doctoral disertation, the others incorporate other views that not always mix). Also the old runic poems (islandic, norwegian and anglo-saxon; can be found on the internet). And also, the works of Lars Magnar Enoksen I mentioned before. You have done a great work with this channel. You have given me the last piece of inspiration I needed for my own channel in spanish. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Good health, and good luck to you and yours.
I am aware of bindrunes. I mean jeez, they’re all over Instagram! I would like to learn more about them before I commit to something like a tattoo or crafting drawings of my own. And in general I’m still relatively new to this belief. Small baby steps. If I have learned anything from my life experiences, it is to take it one step at a time with patience and diligence. Thank you so much for another awesome video!
This video was the first video I saw when I opened my RU-vid app and I find that kinda ironic, because I'm quite new to Norse Paganism and had the intuitive idea to begin working with the Runes more deeply and create bind runes with the ones I pull out for the day.
It's through open minded divination with runes that I found my faith. I've been studying the runes and playing with combinations in bind runes for about 9 months now. Great video, thank you for posting 😊
Harald Bluetooth was a danish king and the ones that invented Bluetooth was danish, so here in Denmark it's seen simply as an honor to our old kings and ancestors
I'm an omnist eclectic priestess. A few months ago I saw some symbols in a tree I vaguely recognized. My mentor said it was a German word, but I knew that was wrong, the letters the branches appeared to be didn't carry the real meaning because that wasn't a word in any language. I figured out they're runes and I'm dying to decode them
Wow, thank you so much for the lesson. I took notes because I don't want to screw this up. Also quite amusing with the wooden spoon. Reminds me of the nuns slapping me with the ruler (happened a lot 😂). There's so much to learn. Thanks again for the education. Skol!
Gandalf's rune is actually the letter for the hard g sound in the Cirth alphabet. It is runic in style, but it's not the Fehu rune. It is what the Dwarves used to write Khuzdul, their native language. Khuzdul was created by Tolkien through inspiration from Semitic languages.
How fun, I know you've been dreading the making of this video. The information is as always very welcome. I personally like to think that runes are deeply magical, but they have to call to you first. Does that make sense?
Thank you for the community you're building. You've inspired me to reach out to other Norse pagans in the UK and make some Norse pagan social media to connect with people after years of practicing paganism alone. 💜
Hey Jacob. Love your stuff! I’m a Celtic Pagan here in Georgia. Question:you did a video in Glastonbury with a white witch. I’m going in Sept and would love to perhaps hire her to show me Glastonbury and some of witch stuff since i am also a White/Earth witch. I tried to access the website but i must have copied it wrong. Can u help me find her? I will also be taping my trip. Thnk you Jacob!
Hello I’m new to Norse paganism but it’s been around for as long as I can remember. It’s all very familiar and odd but not so new to me. Anyways I had a dream about a bind rune. I believe it is but i don’t know anything about it. It was the only thing in the dream and I’ve been trying to find someone who could possibly help me or give me a new perspective. As well as what does it mean when you dream of bind runes as well as runes but know really nothing of them? Also I love these videos and it makes me very happy to see others in morse paganism as well! It’s comforting to know my family isn’t alone!
Your analogy to understanding the context of Runic meanings as being similar to understanding Music is spot on. When any language is allowed to be bastardized, it loses all meaning.
So how I cast my spells is I charge them with my breath and belief that the bindrune or runes has been charged and also burning them after that is good. So like Kanu gebo and berkana for a love spell. Opening of love, partnership and growth. Also like manifesting you need to make an effort to meet the universe halfway. Also, remember to have an intention!!!
How did you find your rune teacher and is there anyone you recommend we should watch and study from? Because just coming into runes for the first time to me personally I'm standing here like oh man where do I start?
Runes are primarily a form of communication. Be it basic writing or full on Galdr which can affect our personal environment. I've used bindrunes for repetitive words like "the". But also to build layers in talismanic practices.
Other than odin telling me to learn the runes the other reason I want to learn is to make my own because like you said the internet is generic and you don’t know
While I've been an eclectic witch for decades now, exploring all sorts of paths, I was doing that to "find the power" if you will. I was looking outside myself, away from the Creator Within. Once I found and connected consciously with the Creator Within, I began to find that all sorts of practices from all around the world would work for me. My explorations with Dagda and Morrighan, Shiva and Shakti, Osiris and Isis, and Hermes and Aphrodite led me to Freyr and Freya. I've received an attunement to something called Run Valdr back in 2011, which is basically a codified system of personal gnosis, but as it's been added to my own personal gnosis, I can work with it sometimes in ways that Rodney Cox, the author, cannot. While it uses the elder futhark as a foundation, it goes from there (similar to some stave spells) with a lot of "circles and lines". I believe the reason it works for me, even though it was channeled this century, is that everything that works is ultimately due to personal gnosis. Whether you connect to the Creator Within through runes, or sigils, or Gods, or grimiores, etc, it is that connection with divinity that makes magick and spirituality work, which by necessity will be unique to each person. So, while old traditions may be stones on the path to magick, they are not necessarily part of the magick itself. No matter how we find the knowledge (gnosis) to do so, it is the divine within that gets it done. Once I stopped looking to the path to provide the magick, and looked to the path more as "how to apply the magick you have within", everything that was not meant for me fell away and everything that is meant for me is rushing to me. Some of that comes from the Norse, some from Celtic, some from Arabic, and Gnostic, and Faerie, and Hindu, and some from modern forms of magick and spirituality like Run Valdr and the Law of One. I'm here to do work with magick in the current day more than history reenactment, so while I am informed by the past, I am not bound by it. This is not in any way meant to insult those who achieve gnosis through a singular tradition, nor those who immerse themselves in the old ways to get there. The path to Wisdom is many-fold for the mind but singular for the heart. As long as I see you there, I don't care how you got there, I'll pass you the mead horn as one of my People. But if some of the things I have learned can help others along their own uniquely divine path, I gladly offer them.
Can i correct you a bit? Bluetooth bindrune is made of Berkana and Gebo, or reversed Kano, but i think its still a gebo, that symbolises harmony. If yiu mean hagall, it coukd be taken from late futhark, but hagall doesnt fit here.
Thanks first I thought you were going to be like Tik Tok bullshit but thanks really interesting. Klyvarstenen Klyvarstenen 400 G 88 ad has a bindrune is Tyr as bindrune. And also on a brakreatr (offer coins) there also where nine Naud for taking away sickness. But besides that none information at all. Thanks for great posting. And magic. I would absolutly make a connection bindrune modern Wynja and Naud as great rune or Marriage made to be :)
Hi ! I think it’s better says Asatru or Norse Faith than Paganism. Pagan, Paganism terms are Latin Roman concepts that’s means farmers out of cities and used by the Christianity in order to undermine our Gods and Goddess and our Norse Faith. Love you Asatru Norse Faith Brothers and Sisters. Glory to our Gods and Goddess. Glory to our Ancestors. Glory to our Heros. Glory to our Norse Faith. Glory to our Kindreds.
Tho both alphabets were used as ways to write, and elder futhark is said to be the one used for magickal purposes, does that mean that bindrunes used as magickal purposes should be made from elder futhark and not younger? If there’s no evidence to the contrary? Update: and as I’ve been thinking and rewatching the videos it really feels to me like they have meanings yes, but how you use them and what energy u put into them is what matters. Intent is everything is things like this
I love your work. I just don’t dig this magic stuff. Magic isn’t real. Still it’s fun to play with it, but when people get hurt because their tattoo is supposed to protect them from injuries it’s nothing i want people to believe in.
we give the runes their magic...we give the tarot cards their magic...they are conduits for our own power and tap us into the power of the world around us...imo...of course...
So my personal favorite is that I am a path of the beserker. We use Tyr with two ice and I forget the name of the whole thing. But with the rune being to subside the rage we suffer from it gives us the ability to focus more
Hi, I'm new. been trying to find symbol i drew in my dream. maybe you can help. upside-down triangle with line coming down with an angle line from close to bottom?
Once again very inspiring I hope one day I can join one of your gatherings! That’ll be one thing I wish to attain in this life before the next! Keep up the good work and Skal!
I'm happy I found this channel but my one problem is I'm trying to figure out how to use these old ruins to make my initials which are C.B. because I learned vikings would carve their initials into their work. I'd like to use them in things I worked in. But I'm worried I might do the wrong ones
Where i live today seems to try and steer us into religions they want today its islam and not for me I'd like to delve deeper, I've heard some runes are subjugated like the one like a letter y not sure or not if it means life ,Im up for learning what they all mean and what's it all mean
Bindrunes are symbols, sigils that u charge by scribing and using ur inagination. you define the magical value. Symbols and hieroglyphs alike have been around forever.
I really need to understand biorunes more. I'm holding off my next tattoo because I need one made for me personally please my friend if you could help me I would appreciate it.
Having noticed you parchment style lampshade, Rune Lampshades inner or outer sides. Beautiful canvas. ❤runes ... "Walk softly carry a big stick" (walk softly carry the Rune ( stick) peacefully. Ty, video is wholesome, inviting and informative.
Fascinating. On the subject of wunjo next to hagalaz, might that not be an invocation to "take joy in pain"? I could see fitness buffs doing that; or perhaps people with less vanilla tastes in fun; if you see what I mean?
New here and just beginning my rune studies any advice or wisdom on a bindrune that can help control blood lust i had the unfortunate event that I had to kill a guy protecting my home and mother and now I crave to do it again and that craving has distanced me from everyone I’ve asked odin to no avail my cousin thinks I must talk talk to tyr which worries me blood lust and war is not a good mix
I'm getting ready to create a piece of artwork for a very dear friend of mine of Norse heritage. It occurred to me to use runes in the process to add depth, meaning and protection, but have scant knowledge of such things. I searched YT for help getting started, and this video was the first one I chose to watch. Mind blown. I took copious notes. Everything you shared was exactly what I needed to hear to build on what knowledge, exposure and experience I've had to date. This was the precise information I needed to finally start on my deep and lifelong delve into the study and practice of the meanings, creations and applications of bindrune spell work. I can't thank you enough. Skål!
i, first time here. I've been reading on runes and intending to make some bindrunes myself. I have questions: Some say we have to draw vertical lines top to bottom, some say it's bottom to top. Some say runes are best if drawn in green or red, some say black and blue will do. So, if you could let us know how to draw correctly, I'd be very much obliged. Thank you :)
I'm a beginner celtic pagan, and I have Scottish, Irish and Swedish heritage so I'm trying to find the gods of my ancestors. This channel helps alot, I hope you can make more celtic videos and just keep this all up
I have used those bindrunes The protection one, But I imagine Algiz and thuriaz right side up and upside down, for protection above and below, That's how I veiwed or saw it as. It still works. I feel like it's about intent. But I do make my own bind runes as well. I've been studying runes for about a year now.
10:50 that's exactly how I use them. I use a bindrune of my initials to mark my things, and as a kind of personal logo. I've never bought into the notion of magical spells and powers, but they do make for a very interesting and unique signature.
i’m new to runes and tried to create some bind runes for the spring equinox. i don’t intent to activate them but i want to paint them on eggs. i combined gebo and wunjo for the gift of joy (saw that somewhere), dagaz and ingwaz for a new cycle of life, laguz and ingwaz for the duality of creation, and berkanan and laguz for basically girl power. do they make sense or is there anything negative i don’t see?
So.. i can make a bind rune to represent somthing such as a group without any magical repercussions? but if i try to make somthing magical without knowing, i will be seeing reproductions?
Thank you so much. I guess in a way you gave me permission to practice with runes. I've always been attracted to them but was afraid of how to use them, and always wanted to be respectful.
That’s awesome, I had a similar experience with Kala by Danheim, I was told about the faith by a very close friend and when I decided to renounce my prior Christian beliefs I was listening to the song and I felt something truly magical
@@theenglishpagan Awesome! I just checked it out! Thanks! Beautiful scenery, looks like Skogafoss waterfalls, Reynisfjara black beach and fjords of Iceland!!
Once again very inspiring I hope one day I can join one of your gatherings! That’ll be one thing I wish to attain in this life before the next! Keep up the good work and Skal!
So I tried making my own bind rune but it was before watching this video and it was rune magic and had a negative effect on me and now I'm watching this and noticing my mistakes so this helped a lot thank you
Love this channel. Was going through some big changes in life and had a massive hawk land next to me on a trail while I was sitting and just hang out, I felt a strange rush of motivation and well being.. anyway got home later and randomly saw a video about Freyja and connections to the hawk which lead me to this channel where I learned I feel really connected to this faith and practiced some aspects without even realizing. Thank you! 👍
I believe bind runes have power, even if they were never used in original Norse practices. Its like science, we learn more as we age, so bind runes could be a more modern form of magic compared to the Norse mythology
No symbol is inherently magical, its just lines or shapes. The intention makes it magical and magic itself is in part tapping into the superconscious of humanity. In that sense, the more people that 'worship' a symbol and give it power the more you can draw that collective power from the symbol. That is why taking sigils from online sources is dangerous because you dont know what groups put what energy into that symbol. It is also why certain pagan groups and mystery schools are very careful about their secret symbols. They dont want random people 'polluting' the symbols with energy they do not want.
This video came in a very interesting time, I had a bind rune of my creation tattooed on my chest last Friday and I went through the same steps, creation (which took me quite some time), analysis, and I did its activation yesterday.
Please tell me what blue tooth symbol means? I wanna learn because like u said they are everywhere in logos of companies as symbols for things we use every day and they have meaning and effects so I wanna know more.
I’ve really been struggling recently , the division in the pagan community has really killed my excitement and I’m feeling so so disappointed and I’m Afraid it’s disconnecting me
I think its important to remember you can be a solo practitioner 100% or even for a time. Communities are a lot of drama. I do my best make this community about the faith, but that doesn't stop drama, jealousy, and politics from trying to get involved. Do what's best for you, and stay true to who you are! That is what is most important!
@@TheWisdomOfOdin thanks for the encouragement, it can be crazy in this community but maybe I need to see what fits me first and my relationship with the gods , thank you once again
Red, you do not need other people to validate who you are. If they're toxic, put some distance but that's not reason to give up on your faith/practice.
@@Some_Guy_Called_Raven thank you for the encouragement, and I’m definitely excited to see what I can learn on my own without negative influences pushing me one way or the other
Hi there again. please read me!!!!!!! . You don't have to worry about anything ever being a christian symbol. Christianity is a younger religion compared to most other religions in the world. When Christianity first started they had nothing. So they took symbols from other religions to do what they needed to do. Like the Christmas tree.
