Hi! I do stuff with runes.

Bindrunes, divination, what have you. Let me give you a reading 😍

[herbalisyl444]

my resources 📝

i have uploaded a few of the current versions of my best notes to google drive, for anyone to use. these notes are not comprehensive, they are personally based on the specific books i have read thus far. i may update these over time, or i may not! i hope these are useful to you all!

current resources: runes (for now it's just elder futhark), astrology, & tarot

Resources 📝 - Google Drive

[runeboon]

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[vesse-moricaleo-lusifero]

Some "Basic" Troubleshooting For Identifying Entities and Spirits (Part One)

Some simple troubleshooting for identifying spirits. Because you won't be able to identify any being based on appearance alone. Physical / projected appearance is never reliable. Ever. Don't trust it. You will have to engage with and speak to it.

measure regional and ethnic dialogue

measure and gauge general connections to structures and responses to environment

measure time and day behaviours

measure incremental engagement

ask questions. Not like "what are you" but things like: "Under what conditions were you first able to act?" "What existed before you noticed yourself?" "What must exist for you to exist?"

Pay attention to some details such as:

Evasion vs. metaphor

Circular answers ("I have always been" type stuff)

Answers that anchor to process instead of event

Gauge the entity's relationship to time as well. This is always very telling Ask things like: "Do you experience change as loss?" "What does ‘before’ mean to you?" "Can you remember something you no longer are?" "Do you anticipate, or only respond?"

If the answers flatten time ("all is now" kind of crap), you can press with questions like: "Then why speak sequentially?"

Check for boundaries as well: Power is always limited somehow. Always. Ask questions such as: "Where does your influence fail?" "What are you not permitted to alter?" "Who can command you; and who cannot?" "What happens if you refuse a request?"

Why does this work you may ask? But limits define classification. Angels have jurisdiction. Dead have attachment points. Thoughtforms have fuel constraints from whoever made them. Things from Outside have rules they didn’t write. Everything exists with degrees of environmental storytelling.

A very important follow-up question you can use: "Is that limit inherent, imposed, or chosen?"

Also examine things like costs, exchanges, and their appetites.

Never ask what they want. Ask what changes. Ask these questions: "What increases when you act?" "What diminishes when you are denied?" "What sustains you without effort?' 'What harms you unintentionally?"

What you are looking for: Predators talk about hunger. Gods talk about imbalance. Constructs talk about completion. The dead talk about relief. Parasites usually dodge the question entirely.

If they claim they don't need or gain anything. Then ask: "Then why engage at all?"

This is just some surface level kind of questions to get you started. Some "basics" so to speak.

[sticksandstans]

so because i mainly use runes to talk to the gods i read them pretty differently than most people. instead of drawing a set amount and interpreting them like tarot cards i instead throw out random amounts and use them to pull together sentences/ideas. i've found that the gods like to create epithets for themselves and lately loki has been calling himself "ᚺᚱ" or essentially "the chaotic ride" and well. that's definitely not untrue...

[vesse-moricaleo-lusifero]

you talk about mindfulness a lot. could you better explain what that is, what it means to you, and how to better apply it to everyday life? if you've already made posts on this, i would be more than happy to be linked to those!

thank you<3

Why hello, my darling! Welcome! I am happy to see you and I appreciate you bringing up a very important question!

This is particularly important because mindfulness has become one of those words that is prone to being constantly used whilst meaning very little. Or, for those that do not know what mindfulness is, it simply becomes a wallpaper word.

Come with me, let's talk about the nuance of Mindfulness together! I hope you are prepared for a wretchedly long response!

When I speak about mindfulness, I am not referring to an idea of constant calm, passive acceptance, or a perpetual state of peace.

For me, mindfulness means clear presence. And this clear presence may connect you to your practise by providing critical forms of connection to both yourself and the presence of Entities and Beings.

It is the practice of being fully with what is happening. It means internally and externally being present without immediately narrating, justifying, escaping, or dramatising the moment. It is noticing what is occurring before you decide what it means or what to do about it.

Mindfulness is awareness without flinch.

I have an ask I have answered that does refer to forms of mindfulness and awareness with links to various posts here for further reading if you wish to check those out!

In spiritual practises, this is oh so tenderly essential.

Without mindfulness, your practise becomes very easy to:

mistake imagination for communication

mistake fear for warning

mistake desire for divine will

mistake intensity for truth

confuse emotions and circumstances for UPG

Mindfulness is what allows you to discern whether an experience has arisen from the self, the environment, or an external influence as well. In everyday practise, mindfulness is developed through very ordinary means. Means such as:

noticing bodily sensations before reacting

observing emotional shifts without dramatizing them

catching internal narratives as they form rather than after they’ve solidified

This is not about suppressing thought or feeling. It is about witnessing them clearly. You are connected to the events that transpire. You know yourself as you've become mindful of yourself and you are mindful of what occurs that is other.

This includes your engagement with Entities.

When engaging the Divine, mindfulness acts as a stabilising anchor. It keeps devotion from becoming compulsive, fearful, stagnant, or performative. It allows you to maintain agency while still engaging with beings of significant power.

Mindfulness also creates safer spiritual boundaries. You learn to recognise when something is genuinely other versus when something is emerging from stress, projection, or unresolved internal materials (self produced concerns).

Applied consistently, mindfulness sharpens discernment. Discernment protects both the practitioner and the integrity of the practice. Those without mindfulness, to me, may very well lack properly reliable discernment. This is something I pay close attention to when individuals seek my personal opinions on their work and tradition. It is also why I attempt to not engage with other people's UPGs as much as I am able.

If you are asking how to apply this practically, begin simply. Sit with your breath. Be aware of what arises without chasing after it. Notice things but do not dissect them or follow them. Observe reactions during ritual without judging them. Simply be aware of them. Allow silence before and after invocations without needing to fill that space. Allow it to simply be and allow your own presence to be as well.

Additionally, when you perform acts of devotion, spiritual hygiene, or ritual, your actions should be grounded in this awareness and presence. When you offer tea or light incense, take in the warmth of the cup or the fire that ignites the tip of the incense. Take in the dance of the smoke. Become aware of the moment and what you have done as well as the consequences of it. Connect to the moment.

Feeling these moments and gestures fully is a part of truly participating in your work. When I braid my hair, I do so with my whole essence. I am connected to the feeling of my hair between my fingers and the movement itself. The rhythm flows through my hands. I touch it. I feel it.

These are acts of intimacy that many people truly are not experiencing. And it is not too late to cultivate a holistic practise.

Actions are not actions. They mean something. They always have been able to mean something. But their meaning and the sensation of those meanings is lost when we do not connect our whole beings to what we are doing. I fear so many people are so numb nowadays. I fear that emotions have become dulled. Passions have been smothered. Tears are not so easily shed over a beautiful work of art or gratitude for a blooming flower. Mindfulness reconnects us to these simple pleasures.

You should live life.

Do not simply 'exist' in it. You are an active participant. You are not a creature meant for life to pass you by. Mindfulness is the harmony between you and these sensation. Mindfulness is the cultivation of a holistic tradition and practise.

I hope this has helped provide some insight, guidance, and food for thought! I appreciate you coming by!

[thecalledone]

God, I love her Artstyle so much! All her drawings are soooo speaking!

[wanderingwitchofthewood]

[the-neurographic-wizard]

Bitchin' Yule

[dreamiesgrimoire]

Berkana

[runeboon]

"Soul loss is an important affliction to understand and a crucial one to heal... If a soul part is missing at the time of a person's death, the rest of the soul cannot penetrate the barriers and make a transition to whichever afterlife it is destined... Someone who dies holding additional soul parts also remains... until those soul parts are released. To remedy the situation often involves a very complex process, swapping a series of soul parts between several different people before any of them can move on to the afterlife."

Dean Kirkland, Seidr Magic, 2024, pgs 164-166

I just find it fascinating that you don't have to be wholly yourself in order to become whole. A lot of people who go through trauma find that they can't return to who they were before they encountered the things that changed them. And you can take pieces of other people and try and fit them inside of you - learning new ways to cope and grow even after you're changed.

[runeboon]

"In these days of globalization, multinational trade, and the internet, each of us is exposed to the energy of countless local wights from all around the world. Ideally, we are habituated to it, able to use and understand it, feel at home in it, and so can adapt to it and any spiritual path that developed alongside it. Generally, there are no longer any spurious barriers---based, for example, on categories like race, gender, or sexual orientation---that should prevent anyone from following any spiritual path, anywhere in the world."

Dean Kirkland, Seidr Magic, 2024, pg 141-142

[thejewitches]

Christmas Trees aren’t pagan…So why are people so obsessed with this myth?

Before you respond in anger, ask yourself:

- do I think this because it feels right or because I have evidence?

- is the evidence a blog post without citations? (See also TikTok, tumblr post, etc)

- do I think this bc I’ve thought it for a long time?

- what evidence do I actually have?

- how much time have I spent researching this? (again: opinion pieces without citations don’t count as research)

Scholars agree: there is no solid evidence linking Christmas trees to previous pagan traditions…

Let’s trace its origins back to the German nationalists of the 1800s, to the Nazis who promoted this myth, & let’s debunk the supposed origins — Saturnalia, Yule, Sol Invictus, the Yule Log….all with citations galore.

READ THE ARTICLE HERE

[theflaminggoat]

Would it be alright if I called arguments about Norns "díscourse"?

[underthetreeshade]

Working with wunjo and gebo to try to stave off. winter depression cuz dang when it hits it hit hard.

Actually very calming to focus on the pen strokes, helps me prevent overthinking at the moments and negative emotions.

[runeboon]

I think my favorite website right now is runesecrets.com. I keep seeing it popping up here or there in people's citations for rune info, and at this point it's been kind of like being Rick Rolled.

I wonder what happened to the original owners, whether they sold it, or stopped paying for whatever reason. I wonder if they are okay.

Do they know their website now has the world's most visually discomfiting bindrune I have ever seen? And it is weirdly bare.

I wonder how long these tenants will be there, and what remnant they leave be scraped up and made useful again.

[runeboon]

I've been reading Seidr Magic by Dean Kirkland and it's all about reconstructionist Norse shamanism.

And it's really frickin neat, but also I think the author misses some opportunities for creativity for the sake of adhering to a constructed purism that doesn't totally work in today's world. And like. That's what reconstructionism IS.

But when you're finding your seidrstaff, you're more likely to find it if you set your intentions at, say, a walk through Home Depot instead of just a regular walk. The only wood around here is in people's yards and I am not knocking to see if I can have/purchase a piece of their garden. I am adorable:I would get snatched.

And then, the staff itself and it's embellishments have so much potential if you're not trying to be a Ye Olde Norse. For example, the top of the staff has a knoppr (a knob) of some kind. The knoppr acts as a temporary home for spirits as you transit around the various planes. It acts as a shelter.

The staff itself can also be metal. In ye olde times it would have been either wood or iron. But now? In the days of steel and alloys?

You could use a mailbox or birdhouse with a post as a staff. You could make your staff out of a CLOSET ROD, or a pipe. You can use a tiki torch and include fire in your rituals. You can make a staff out of a wooden stair post.

I figure as long as it resonates, and technically fills the brief, then it ought to be good enough.

[the-seedling-witch]

I've got similar thoughts! I love the idea of staying as close as possible to the historic record when able, but theres also room for modern interpretation and resources. What you have is what will work. If a home depot or dollar store curtain rod is what works, then it works. Its all about intention, not so much the purity if material in my book. The gods see the effort and intention. The rest is immaterial.

Now I kinda wanna grab a large pipe from my husband's workshop (hes a plumber) and use that when im ready to make my staff

[runeboon]

You, me, your pipe, and my obviously stolen mailbox are gonna cast so many spells.

[runeboon]

I've been thinking about the Ginnungagap. It's sort of a violent contradiction. It's full of things that oppose and clash with one another, and that conflict is what yields its potential.

There's a sort of intentional message that conflict is the process through which we grow, that we are meant to scratch up against each other and that that is necessary in order to be polished and remade.

And then we get Dean Kirkland, saying to ceremonially toss your seidrstaff into the Ginnungagap to provide it a connection to the raw potentiality of the void in order to allow it to develop and grow. (Seidr Magic, 2024, pg 62-63)

And actually - that's such a good idea?? Providing a direct connection between your magical tools and the raw primordial forces from which magic came to be? Genius, actually.

Before you do that, you have to use galdr and sing a song spell (vardloka) to awaken the spirit in your staff. The Vikings appeared to have a strong sense of animism - anything can have a soul, but that soul might need to be sung to in order to awaken.

It sort of reminds me of a mother singing a lullaby to their child. All things can have spirits, but we have to ease them into awareness through thoughtful care and music.

Anyway - step one: wake up your staff spirit.

Step two: wrap the staff in black cloth.

Step three: wrap the cloth in red cord or yarn nine times (nine is a sacred number to the Norse).

Step four: tell the staff that you are casting it into the darkness if the Ginnungagap in order for it to develop and grow. Kirkland suggests this be done in alliterative verse that you've composed beforehand.

Step five: marinate somewhere dark, where light cannot get to it. The duration is up to you, but Kirkland suggests some iteration of nine. Nine days, nine weeks, nine months, you get the idea.

Step six: remove from darkness and carefully unwrap. Kirkland says to welcome it like you would welcome a new baby into the world, and suggests it be done in alliterative verse.

Step seven: give your new staff spirit a name reflective of it's purpose

Step eight: (optional) "blood" the staff if that's something you're comfortable with.

So - those are the steps, but it's possible to do with anything. You can yeet runes into the Ginnungagap. You can put altar items into it. You can put whatever you want in there. It's free real estate, and it increases the potency of the magical item to have touched the forces from which magic came.

[cinder-wrought]

My first real encounter with futhark runes came from one of my many read-throughs of The Hobbit. There was this old hardcover edition I routinely checked out from my local library, with an inscription circling the cover, a ring of strange angular shapes. One day during another re-read, I was staring at the cover and suddenly the shapes shifted in my mind. I could see the structure of The Hobbit hidden in the runes.

That tiny moment completely derailed my afternoon. I dropped straight into amateur cryptography mode and spent the next few hours meticulously translating every symbol on the cover. I flipped back and forth between every example of the script across the book, the map with the moon runes, and the cover itself, piecing together words from the symbols I had already confirmed and making guesses based on the ones I had half decoded. I didn’t know anything about orthographic conventions or Tolkien’s linguistic habits, I was just following the lines, matching what I knew, and building an alphabet like I had uncovered a lost code.

When I finally finished, feeling triumphant and way too proud of myself for discovering all but two of the symbols that matched the modern alphabet, I flipped to the preface and learned that Tolkien had already explained the entire system. He walked through how he adapted the futhark into his Dwarven script and laid out the transliterations in plain English. My breakthrough was basically me reinventing what he had already placed in front of every reader.

But the feeling stuck with me. Something about the shapes, the sharp deliberate lines, the sense that they weren’t just written but carved, stayed lodged in my mind. The next day I spent all my free moments doodling runes in the margins of my school worksheets, on the backs of finished tests, and anywhere I could get away with it. It wasn’t about magic or fantasy then, it was the satisfaction of holding a set of symbols that felt older and more meaningful than regular letters.

It didn’t fully hit me how much I had absorbed until years later, when I stumbled across a photo of an actual rune stone. Just a random image online of a tall weathered slab covered in the curling patterns of elder runes. Without thinking about it, my brain started transliterating it. Not translating, I couldn’t read the language, which was Icelandic or some older Scandinavian tongue, but I could render the shapes into Latin letters instantly, like it was the most natural thing in the world. It felt surreal, like this childhood side quest had been waiting quietly under the surface.

That moment cracked something open again. It revived my long standing interest in Norse mythology, which had always been there in the background. Following the runes pulled me back into the stories behind them. I ended up rereading the myths with a different sense of attention, seeing how each rune wasn’t just a letter but a concept, a belief, a fragment of how the Norse understood the world.

Eventually I came across the story of Odin learning the runes, the version where he hangs for nine nights on the world tree, pierced and alone, sacrificing himself to himself in order to pull knowledge from the deep places of existence. The imagery struck me, not as divine melodrama but as a myth built around the idea that understanding, real understanding, asks something of you. It asks for cost, intention, and endurance. It asks you to sit with the unknown long enough for it to reshape you.

And learning more about the runes began to reshape things in me too. They changed how I thought about language, symbolism, and the way meaning sits beneath the surface of things. Once I understood that each rune carried layers of cultural memory and metaphor, even everyday symbols felt heavier. A name. A sign. A carved line. Patterns in the world became visible the way constellations do once someone points them out. Simple marks felt like anchors to older ideas, older fears, older hopes.

What fascinated me most wasn’t just the myth of Odin or the discovery of the runes themselves, it was the way the Norse treated language as something inherently powerful. Not just communication, but influence. A force. The belief that words shape reality, or at the very least shape the person who carries them. The more I sat with that idea, the more it made sense. Humans are the only creatures who think in symbols, who build internal worlds out of marks and sounds and meanings we agree to share. There is something quietly magical about that, something that hums beneath every conversation and story and decision.

Encountering this through runes made it feel personal. It reframed how I understood my own thoughts. Language stopped feeling like a tool and started feeling like a landscape. I saw connections between things I had never linked before. The way a concept can change a room. The way a single true word can alter the shape of a memory. The quiet courage of naming something you have carried in silence.

One of the first concrete moments where I realized how much this had changed me was when I recognized the Bluetooth symbol as a bind rune made from Hagall and Bjarkan. I had seen it thousands of times and never looked twice at it, but now I could spot ancient symbols hidden inside a modern tech logo. Other shapes started jumping out too. The angular forms in street signs. Other logos that unintentionally echoed the structure of runes. Even the alphabet itself felt different once I noticed how many of its early forms echoed older runic shapes.

The more I learned, the more it felt like all these pieces from childhood lined up. The book cover. The decoding. The rune stone. The mythology. The quiet thrill of seeing meaning in shapes that do not reveal themselves to everyone. It felt like discovering a language beneath the language I already knew, something that made the world feel wider and more layered than I had ever realized.

Runes stopped being letters a long time ago. They became a doorway. And walking through that doorway pulled me into a mythic worldview that still feels like home in a way I can’t fully explain.