Rune Interpretation - Thurisaz

Basic Meaning:

Protection – unfortunate events – self-discipline – secrecy - organisation – purification – meditation – conflicts – challenges - chaos

Magickal Application:

BREAKTHROUGH – DEFENSE – CHANGE

Deity Association:

THOR

Characterisation

Possibly the darkest rune in the bag, Thurisaz is the bringer of Chaos; He is a messenger of threat from those in power but may not always bring that threat to fruition. He is a warning of dishonesty and trickery, and offers a warning to resist temptation.

Thurisaz energy may seem unbalanced and swayed dramatically towards evil but this is a fallacy – there is nothing to fear from this rune; its balance lies in perceiving it as the force of the human psyche and a warning of luck changing and possibly protection from that chaos.

The ‘Thorn’ or point is a symbolic weapon – used to stab, tear and pierce but can be used protectively – much like a thorny bush.

Interpretation

Concentrating on the positive of this rune, it does reveal the ability of its reader to overcome current or upcoming obstacles – the capacity and potential to face anything. It is a message to fear nothing as within you lays the authority to claim your own destiny. Take charge and let your search for the truth be unhindered. This is not limited to the physical world and your everyday life; it applies to spiritual authority, how you command your path and the power your command creates. This in turn creates a choice: how you choose to use the created power – for selfish or loving motives. Power has the ability to corrupt if it is not used with a true and honest heart.

The negative connotations of this rune are a little more obvious: imminent chaos, obstacles or danger but keep in mind the positive and know that you can get through difficult circumstance.

Reversed Meaning:

The simplest interpretation of a reverse Thurisaz is that evil can be overcome; obstacles are coming up and will be conquerable. It is a good omen that things will improve in a bad situation. There is also significance with Thurisaz in reverse that a difficult road ahead can be taken as danger is slight.

Converse (face down):

As a converse rune, the evil is hidden or may appear disguised as good. It tells you to be wary of a situation that seems too good to be true.

http://www.runemaker.com/futhark/thurisaz.shtml

Astral Travel Spell - updated

This is a gentle meditative spell, rich in visualisation, to open your mind, body and spirit to the possibilities of life outside of the conscious state. With patience and persistence it is possible to open up the mind to higher states of consciousness and clairvoyance, so if you do not succeed the first time, keep trying.

You will need:

3 candles anointed with a combination of 3, 5 or 7 essential oils of your choice.

My personal favourites are coconut, patchouli and lavender.

Instructions

Note: It may be helpful to do this with a friend or partner.

Light the oiled candles and turn out all other lights. Place them so that you can lie or sit in the centre of them.

Close your eyes, ground & centre, gently relax… releasing your brain from everyday trivia.

Transport your imagination onto the ocean’s horizon; let the misty blue hues envelop you and lead you onto a path of air.

Continue on slowly and note all that you see. Accept all that you are offered but do not try to communicate.

As you go along, you may hear conversations, your senses may be aroused, and fragrances may draw you forward. Go with them, glancing up and down so as to miss nothing.

As the blue fades, slowly begin your return to the earth and as you finally reach this world, open your eyes and stretch.

Join hands with your companion and give thanks. 

My Spin

I do not change this one a great deal, I find it very useful as it is. However, I do find the ocean horizon and path of air. It is a perfectly acceptable way of reaching the location but I am very connected to the element of air and so I enjoy adding a more cyclonic way of travelling; I am also very connected to the earth element and so the path I take begins on the edge of a forest. This means the interactions I encounter are generally from the animal kingdom, the trees or the earth herself.

My other point of difference is earlier in the spell and relates to the candles and oils. The colour of the candles can be adjusted to suit your preference and needs, as can the oils. For example, if I had plans of letting my astral travels take me to the rainforest, I would use a deep green for the vibrant shades of the tropical foliage; a bright red for the stunningly exotic rouge blooms that grow in that environment; and finally, I would use a vivid yellow, which with red, brings to mind the flourish of wings as a parrot flies past.

Introducing Spell Spin

Introducing

SPELL SPIN

The new page on my blog where I post my favourite spells taken from a variety of books and put my own unique spin on them. I may substitute an ingredient, or add a symbol; sometimes I will be calling a more personal energy or rewriting an incantation to my own style.

It took me a long time to be confident in writing my own workings and even longer before I would adapt someone else's. Now, I feel very uncomfortable using a spell that is completely written by another witch, so this adaptation process works very well for me. Of course, I still write my own when the need arises but for speed and practice it is a great way to get used to adding something of yourself into a working.

I have decided to do this based on my Healing Meditation & Debt Free Spell posts which were both adapted from books.

Wittering on - 24/02/14

You will hopefully be pleased to know that my Rune Interpretation post for Thurisaz is on its way. I started it yesterday after a little break from runic study. Characterising Thurisaz is proving very interesting and quite fun.

The Rune Magick for Thurisaz is also taking shape and is set to include:

• A Shadow Work Talisman
• A Fire Purification Spell
• A Thurisaz Circle Casting &
• A 'Dispel the Negative' Visualisation

Possibly I will add a Thor Meditation too as this is His rune. If you would like this added, please let me know in comments.

Other posts coming up in the next week or so will be:

• Reflecting on... Meditation
• Reflecting on... Affirmations
• How to Call the faeries into your circle
• An Astral Travel Spell

As I have said in previous posts I am open to suggestion and taking request for things I should post about.

Blessed Be x)O(x

Reflecting on... Visualisation

Visualisation is an art form. It is a way of bringing to the visual receptors of the mind anything your imagination can conjure. Your visualisations can be as big or as small as you like, they can be dramatic, mellow, stylish, aquatic, lunar, even spacey-wacey if you’re a Doctor Who fan. It is an intrinsic part of spiritual and magickal practice because almost every part of a working involves some form of visualisation – manifesting intention in the spiritual world, picturing your energy and the energy of other forces, be them deity, elements, faeries, etc. Even the basics, like grounding and centring involve a degree of seeing something change in the world behind your eyelids.

I personally find that visualisation techniques require the Third Eye chakra to be open, cleansed and at peak performance; in fact attempting to visualise without the aid of my Third Eye chakra is like trying to breathe without the help of oxygen. This chakra is your gateway to the unseen and so will be the subject of a visualisation exercise:

Visualisation Exercise 1 – Third Eye

This exercise is for practice only and is not part of a full chakra meditation, visualisation or cleansing.

1.    Close your eyes and take a few deep breaths to relax you – ground and centre.

2.       I like to focus on thinking and feeling how my eyes open and close, how they see. This information I then concentrate on my brow.

3.        Try to open the third eye, using this information – now, when I say open, I do not mean open outward toward the physical world, but inward, into your thoughts, emotions, feelings and imagination.

At first, you may only feel pressure, or heat, maybe tingling in the area but with time and practice, it will open.

4.      Once it does, you can play with how it looks: will it be an eye that looks like your physical eyes? Will it be an animal eye? Will it be decorated with make up? Will it blink/wink a lot? Take your time and work on it till it feels right.

5.        When you are ready to finish, make sure you close the eye; leaving any chakra open can be draining to your energy and can effect your health.

6.        Let it fade into the aether before opening your eyes.

An Eye for Detail

You may have picked up from the visualisation exercise that detail is an important element of visualisation. It is in the detail where manifestation begins… I therefore have a second exercise:

Visualisation Exercise 2 – The Face

This is an exercise to practice conjuring specific detail to a visualisation and is in 2 parts.

Part 1

• Look at your face in the mirror; try to see every aspect of yourself – notice the shape & colour of your eyes; the width, depth & slant of your nose; the plumpness and curvature of your lips, etc…
• Experiment with your expressions to make a more 3D imprint of yourself on your memory.
• Once you feel you have all the information you need, close your eyes and take several deep breaths to relax your body and mind
• Try to recall the image that saw in the mirror: start with the basic shape and make that solid before moving on to features and finally expressions.

Part 2

At this point, it’s time to have a little fun and engage the imagination much more fully. It’s time to play. I have put this part as a bullet point list because it is entirely up to you. With your face sitting fully formed in your mind, try a little change: slim the chin, maybe, or narrow the nose, life the cheek bones, smooth out the wrinkles, change the shape or colour of your eyes, even change your hair.

If you want to get really imaginative, change the colour and texture of your skin, maybe morph your face into that of a tiger or a serpent. The possibilities are endless. That is the point of visualisation, you are only as limited as your imagination is.

Visualisation & Meditation

As I have already mentioned, visualisation is an important part of magickal work but never so much as in meditation. Meditation is, in my humble opinion, a form of visualisation for a more defined purpose. I liken it to dreaming because the relaxation state is so similar to that of when you are sleeping; your mind is wide open to possibilities, messages, guidance, etc… The difference between visualisation and meditation is that a visualisation is all from you, it is your subconscious, your imagination, your manifestations; meditation is when it is not all from you. Visualisation techniques are used to see a location, a deity, a myriad of energies, but if those energies react or interact with you it would be more definable as the practice as meditation.

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Book Haul Jan/Feb

Recommended by Friends

WITCHCRAFT & PRACTICAL MAGIC

by Susan Greenwood & Raje Airey 

THE CRAFT

by Dorothy Morrison

CELEBRATING WICCAN SPIRITUALITY

by Lady Sabrina

Informational Buys

HERB MAGIC for BEGINNERS 

 by Ellen Dugan

HERBAL MAGICK

by Gerina Dunwich

ASTRAL PROJECTION

 by Denning & Phillips

 RUNES

by Soraya

Wanted for Ages

ZILLIONZ - TITANIA'S BOOK OF NUMEROLOGY

by Titania Hardie

EVERYDAY SUN MAGIC

by Dorothy Morrison

EVERYDAY MOON MAGIC

by Dorothy Morrison 

Reflecting on... Centring

Centring is, to me, the most fundamental part of magickal application, or any spiritual practice for that matter. It is the act of aligning your own energies and the process of finding inner stillness to make focusing your intention & thoughts possible. You simplify and organise them so that you can focus more intently whilst in a relaxed state. When you centre, you are preparing your mind, and your spirit, for a working by calming yourself internally. I'm sure everyone has heard the term “Mind, Body & Spirit”; these are the elements of you that centring will align and harmonise. Without centring yourself the energy you use for magick or spiritual practice will not be concentrated enough to project your intention to the Universe.

Centring is the second step of magickal preparation, after grounding. Once you are anchored to the physical via grounding, you have the freedom to bring your energies together.

Calcite Centring

Citrine or sunstone work just as well but I’m partial to the calcite.

I find the easiest place to focus my energy is at the solar plexus chakra – the emotional centre. Pictured to the left is my calcite crystal which I use for centring – it is specifically charged for the purpose of bringing all of my thoughts, emotions and energies to my solar plexus.

Charging the Calcite

The charge is simple enough but you require 3 things:

• A yellow calcite crystal
• Magnetic/Lodestone Oil
• An imagination

How?

1.    Cleanse the crystal through incense or smudging. As crystals are so self-cleansing, they rarely require anything else but if you like, it can be cleansed under full moon energy too.

2.        Anoint the calcite with Lodestone oil; this can be brought or made – see recipe →

3.         Hold the crystal, close your eyes and visualise its energy – a bright, yellow, shining, sun-like light. It emanates through every molecule, particle and atom of the calcite.

4.       Let the light travel to your solar plexus using any method which feels right.

5.        Once you feel the crystal energy in your chakra, begin to infuse it with your intention.

6.        Focus your emotions, your thoughts and your energy on that one spot; feel the magnetic force from the oil pull them all in to your solar plexus.

7.        Tell the calcite – silently or otherwise - you wish it to repeat this action whenever you use it.

8.        Hold the crystal against your solar plexus and imagine the physical stone sinking into the chakra vortex.

9.        Give the calcite back its light and visualise it withdrawing.

10.       You can open your eyes and place the crystal to one side. You are now calcite centred.

To use the crystal later

1.          Once you’ve grounded, repeat step 8 of the charge process – hold the calcite against your solar plexus and visualise the physical image of it before sinking it into you chakra.

2.        Visualise the magnetic properties of the oil on the calcite activating.

3.         When they do, they will draw all of your thoughts, emotions and energies to it.

4.       Visually withdraw it and place it down – you are now centred.

Runes - Quick Reference

Reading runes is my favourite of the ancient divination practices. I use a white candle when I’m reading as a focal point for my energy but if you choose to you can use a candle colour which corresponds to the question you have brought to your runes.

Feoh

F

GOOD FORTUNE – WEALTH – LUCK – CREATIVE ENERGY

Uruz

U

STRENGTH – HIGHER SELF – DETERMINATION – HEALTH

Thurisaz

X

TRUE WILL – MATTER OF FORM – CHAOS – CONFLICT

Ansuz

A

WISDOM – OCCULT – POWER – REVENGE – HEALING

Raido

R

DEFENCE – TAKE CONTROL – JOURNEY – DECISION

Kenaz

K

KNOWLEDGE – LEARNING – QUEST – HEREDITARY KNOWLEDGE

Gebo

G

AGREEMENTS – SETTLEMENTS & UNION – BOUNDARIES

Wunjo

W

BLESSINGS – CONTROLLING WILL – SUCCESS – FERTILITY

Hagalaz

H

DRASTIC CHANGE – DISRUPTIVE FORCES

Nauthiz

N

NEED – FUTURE – VICTORY – OPPORTUNITY – DEFENCE

Isa

I

STANDSTILL – DEFENCE TO DELAY – CRYSALLIS

Jera

J

GENTLE GESTATIONS & CHANGE – CYCLE – TIME

Eiwaz

Y

OUTGOING – DYNAMIC – GO! – HUNTING – EVOLUTION

Pertho

P

SECRET – DISCOVERY OF THE HIDDEN – HISTORY  

Algiz

Z

PROTECTION – SHIELD – HELP – RAINBOW CONDUCTOR

Sowulo

S

HEALING – STRENGTH – CENTERING – LUCK

Teiwaz

T

JUSTICE – LEGAL MATTERS – DEDICATION – BRAVERY

Berkana

B

WOMENS MYSTERIES – BIRTH PROCESS – EMOTIONAL STABILITY

Ehwaz

E

SHAPESHIFITING – TELEPATHIC LINKS – ADJUSTMENT

Mannuz

M

COMMUNICATION – CO-OPERATION – LEGAL AFFAIRS

Laguz

L

OCCULT – SEX – INFLUENCE – MOVEMENT

Inguz

Q

ASTRAL – VESSEL – GROUNDED – PROGRESSION – FERTILITY

Othila

O

CENTERING – GROUNDING – INVOKING – VALUES – FAMILY – KUNDALINI

Dagaz

D

RENDERED INVISIBLE – CATALYST – BETWEEN THE WORLDS

Debt Free Spell

You will need:

·        A green candle

·        A silver coin

Correspondence:

Day:                     Thursday

Moon Phase:            Waning

Colour:                  Green

Other:                   Silver

A 1-2-3 Method:

1.     On a Thursday, during a waning moon, cast a circle of green energy, then ground and centre.

2.       Light a green candle, hold a silver coin in your hand, then say:

Within a month and a day

Sufficient money my bills to pay

Not for me out of my greed

But to satisfy my genuine need

I ask that this request be correct

And will nobody else affect

So that no harm whatsoever

Shall arise right now or ever

So mote it be!

As you do this, visualise your bank balance increasing and your bills decreasing – no more red letters coming through the door, no more phone calls demanding balances to be paid. Indulge in the peace of mind that brings.

3.        Now drop green wax on to the coin until it is covered, and carry the coin with you until all debts are settled.

RESOURCE TO BE ADDED

Need to find it first