Face your Ve and make a prayer and offering Before continuing it is also good to thank and make offering to Jord for using the earth and area for your needs. Now perform a Hammer Rite or any hallowing and protection ritual depending on your magick path to defend and hallow the area. Light the Mugwort incense and sit in front of your Ve, Recite Sigrdrifa’s Prayer HAIL SPIRITS OF THIS LAND, HAIL THE LANDVAETTR.” (place some bread and pour some water on the cairn) I OFFER THANKS FOR ALLOWING ME TO USE THIS SACRED SPACEĪND IN RETURN I OFFER THIS BREAD AND WATER Sit or kneel at your cairn and offer a prayer to the Landvaettr. The next thing to do is if your outside offer thanks to the land wights for using the area, this is best done at a small cairn. Sit facing your Ve and perform a 5 - 10 minute meditation to get you in a relaxed state. Finally building a small cairn near the Ve in honour of the land wights but only if outside. Upon the Ve place an offering bowl (if Inside), a bundle of Mugwort incense or a fruit based incense like citronella, a notebook and pen and an elder futhark rune set with each rune on its own or each rune drawn on a square of paper and all of your offerings. You will also need an offering of Bread and mead or if you cant get mead beer or wine is also acceptable. You will need an offering of water taken from either a stream or river or even rainwater, any natural source of water is preferable but if you can’t get it then ordinary tap water is acceptable. Once there set up a Ve or Altar dedicated to your chosen Deity, I prefer Odin but Bragi is a good choice as are a general one to the whole Aesir. If inside use your magick space or somewhere personal to you, free from distractions. Ok so first before starting you will needĪ quiet place to perform the ritual, if outside somewhere private or off any main tracks or land where you can be disturbed, a garden is preferable and is where I like the most. If you want to try this long process this is the ritual and method I use… Firstly you need to decide on a set that you will use and then either research the knowledge around your rune sets and the interpretations or like me spend a lot of time working with each rune learning their secrets and intents. Ok so now we know what runes actually are we need to do a little bit of research or magickal work to gain an understanding of the runes. These are usually 3-5 runes combined together to form a new rune which has a specific intention, the best way to use these is to create your own, and linking bind runes in a chain like this would work well but for now we will talk about single runes. The Vikings used a 16 letter system called the Younger Futhark or the Scandinavian Futhark but there is many more different alphabets the preference is yours for the purpose of this article I will use Elder futharkīefore we continue however I should briefly mention Bind runes. Even today the Elder Futhark is the most commonly used Runic alphabet, especially in Magickal and Heathen practices, due mainly to its simplicity. we know that the oldest set of runes are called the Elder Futhark, which were used between the the 4th and 9th centuries The earliest known carving of the entire futhark (alphabet), in order, is that on the Kylver stone from Gotland, Sweden, which dates to roughly 5th century, and had 24 runes representing not only letters of the alphabet but different aspects for instance the rune Fehu was used as a representation of the letter F and for the aspects of Cattle or Wealth (cattle at this time were highly prized and so used as wealth). The term Rune means secret and they are thought to have derived from symbols of the Etruscan (Northern Italy) alphabet with Latin Influences. The Runic alphabet or futhark is a form of writing system thought to be used by the Germanic peoples of Northern Europe, Britain, Iceland and of course Scandinavia. Now what I find great about these are they work with all sets of runes and I imagine the same can be said for sigils and seals although I have not attempted this yet. These are a string of around 5-9 runes hung together on a string or rope which help compliment and enhance an outcome. A recently found and really good way to use the magick of runes is to create something called a rune chain.
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