The Runes
The Anglo-Saxon Runes are a very useful magical and divinatory tool.
For magical work, they can either be used alone, "bound" with other runes or worked into a sigil. In this way, the runes may act as a symbolic representation of your desired magical effect.
More commonly, the runes are used as a divinatory tool. As such, they can help us to determine a workable course of action based events and situations from the past and present and on possible future outcomes.
Below, you will find some information that will help you in working with the runes.
The Anglo-Saxon Runes and Their Meanings
Rune |
Sound |
Name |
Translation |
Meaning |
|
f |
FEOH |
Cattle |
wealth, possession, ownership; cowardice, stupidity; slavery, bondage. A valuable object. |
|
u |
UR |
Aurochs |
masc. potency, freedom, energy, action, courage, strength; lust, brutality, rashness, violence. Sexual desire. |
|
th |
THORN |
Devil |
evil, malice, torment, lies; catharsis, nemesis, purging cleansing fire. Bad man or woman. |
|
a |
OS |
God |
(Odin)good, love, health, harmony, truth, wisdom, revealing message of insight; vanity. Good man or woman |
|
r |
RAD |
Riding |
travel, relocation, evolution, change of place or setting; disruption, dislocation; demotion, delusion, poss. death. A journey. |
|
k |
KEN |
Torch |
vision, revelation, knowledge, light, guidance; exposure, loss of illusion and false hope. A beacon. |
|
g |
GYFU |
Gift |
gift, reward, bequest, offering; sacrifice, obligation, privation; initiation. A present. |
|
w |
WYN |
Glory |
joy, ecstasy, delight, glory, spiritual reward; delirium, intoxication, possession by higher forces. Happiness. |
|
h |
HAEGL |
Hail |
pain, loss, suffering, hardship, affliction; tempering, testing, trial. Wrath of nature. |
|
n |
NYD |
Need |
Necessity, extremity, want, deprivation, poverty, emotional hunger; endurance, survival, determination resistance. Defiance of circumstance. |
|
i |
IS |
Ice |
treachery, illusion, deceit, betrayal, guile, stealth, plots; glamour, seduction, allure, invitation, entrapment. A cunning and beautiful woman. |
|
j |
GER |
Harvest |
alteration, transformation, turning, revolution of circumstances, fulfilment of plans; inversion, sudden setback. A major change. |
|
e |
EOH |
Yew |
strength, dependability, reliability, trustworthiness; stolidness, lack of imagination or initiative. An honest man who can be relied upon. |
|
p |
PEORD |
Apple |
abundance, luxury, opulence, lavishness; debauchery, decadence, superficiality, drunkenness, lasciviousness, gluttony. Physical pleasure. |
|
z |
EOLH |
Defense |
protection, defense, warding off of evil, guardian; taboo, warning, turning away, that which repels. Danger. |
|
s |
SIGEL |
Sun |
power, elemental force, cleansing fire; destruction, retribution, justice, casting down of vanity. Wrath of gods. |
|
t |
TYR |
Tiw |
(war god)victory, valor, battle prowess, discernment, winning of disputes; strife, war, conflict. A battle. |
|
b |
BEORC |
Birch |
growth, fertility, love, healing, arousal of desire; passion, carelessness, abandon, loss of control. A love affair or a new birth. |
|
e |
EH |
Horse |
transportation, speed, movement, conveyance (vehicle); blind precipitation, rushing in, reckless haste. Rapid progress. |
|
m |
MAN |
Man |
intelligence, wisdom, forethought, craft, skill, guile, ability; cunning, slyness, manipulation, craftiness, calculation. The magician. |
|
l |
LAGU |
Water |
water, river, ocean, dreams, fantasies, mysteries, the unknown, the hidden, the underworld; madness, obsession, despair, perversity, sickness, suicide. The unconscious. |
|
ng |
ING |
Fertility god |
common virtues, common sense, simple strengths, family love, caring, human warmth; production, toil, work, career. The home. |
|
d |
DAEG |
Day |
a cycle, period, phase, span of a life, unit of time; ending, limit, coming full circle. A completion. |
|
o |
ETHEL |
Homeland |
property, house, land of birth, fixed possessions; karma, patriotism, prejudice, clannishness. What a man is bound to. |
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