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Runes – the magical symbols from cold North, used for protection and divination. For some time, I was publishing articles about these on A State of Mind.
Runes – the magical symbols from cold North, used for protection and divination. For some time, I was publishing articles about these on A State of Mind.
Rune reading (also called runecasting, meaning casting of runes) isn’t easy stuff, especially for beginners. One of the biggest problem for all people who just begins their adventure with runes is that they’re worried people they’re giving reading to will laugh at them for using books as references for interpretation. If you worry about this, stop now, here’s how you can perform a rune reading in 3 simple steps. (more…)
Both beginners, both sometimes also experienced runecasters are aware that each and every single runic symbol have two sides – up and down, good and bad, yin and yang. The duality in runes is something agrees to, but the problem remains – how to we recognise which side of the rune we’re looking at? (more…)
As I promised in last entry about runes, today I’m presenting you some recipes for bindrunes. While runic scripts look more like words, bindrunes are a way to bind and compose different runes into single sign. Making your own bindrunes requires knowledge about each rune and some artistic skills for composition. But don’t worry, as you won’t have to make your own bindrunes, in this entry I will give you some useful examples. (more…)
Previous post, 13 runic scripts, had driven a lot of traffic (especially from here, polish-russian solidarity, thanks guys!), I thought it’s a good idea to post even more runic scripts for you to use in daily life. So, here are 10 more runic scripts that can be engraved or just drawn on a piece of paper. (more…)
People think that creating their own runes set is difficult – this isn’t true, creating your own runes is very, very simple. Making them work is another story however, but I will leave it for some other day. I would like to tell you about making your own runes, materials and techniques you can use to accomplish this very easy task. But first, answer this simple question: why do you want to have your own runes? (more…)
I’ve been talking about runes in many entries already, but it appears I never actually gave you any details as to what runes are or where did they came from. It’s time to fix this mistake. Runes are not just symbols, but it’s the entire mythology behind them, called “The Norse Mythology”. And it’s freeze, literally :). (more…)