Ansuz
Meditations
Odin/Loki Coin Power Up
I came up with this
meditation because when I first started studying Ansuz, I struggled to meditate
on the duality of it – the power of Odin versus Loki. Therefore, this is the
way I choose which power will come through when I am working with Ansuz.
Prep
1.
I
like to burn incense when I meditate and this meditation is no exception; the
incense blend I put together is featured to the right and has a very simple
charge.
2. Also you will need a
Carnelian crystal and an Obsidian crystal – these are the physical representations
of Odin and Loki and will help keep balance during the meditation.
3.
The
third item you will need is a candle – I use a dark blue as the colour is
associated with Ansuz. Inscribe the candle with the Ansuz symbol – A. If you wish you can use anointing
oil too but I feel adding oil makes it too busy for my tastes.
4. The last thing to prep is
charging the crystals. I do this ‘in circle’ before I begin the meditation but
it can be done outside the circle if that’s easier for you.
Instruction
1.
Sit
somewhere quiet at a time you won’t be disturbed. Cast your circle, then ground
and centre.
2.
Light
the inscribed candle and hold the carnelian in your dominant hand; the obsidian
in your receptive hand.
3.
Focus
on the candle flame for several minutes as you slow your breathing and let your
conscious mind drift into the sub-conscious.
4. In your subconscious,
visualise a coin – it will have the Ansuz symbol on both sides, one of which
will be inverted.
5.
Once
this coin is solid in your mind’s eye, make it spin horizontally – slow at
first, then speeding up until it’s a blur.
6.
This
will create energy which you will then direct, by your will, through your
physical body to the crystals in your hands
7.
One
crystal will feel warmer with the generated energy, the other will not. Hold
the warmed hand and crystal to your root chakra. Hold the other to your crown
chakra.
8.
Keep
the coin turning and the energy flowing but now connect it through the chakras
so that the energy of each crystal links up through them. I like to see this
energy as a deep blue beam of light running straight through my energy core.
9.
Extend
this beam of light earthward and skyward… beyond the chakras. Feel it pulse;
see it brighten as the coin spins. Let that energy fill your chakras – you will
feel the presence of one or both of the Norse deities – their energy will be
strong within the beam of light. Let it fill you with its power, their power.
10. When you feel the energy
completely flooded your spiritual core, retract the beam back to your hand and
thank deity. Next retract the beam completely so it leaves the chakras. Stay
like this for a moment to indulge in the feeling of power.
11.
Bring
your hands away from the chakra placements and to your lap.
12. Now focus back on the coin –
let it slow down to a stop before fading back into the aether.
13. Take 3 deep refreshing
breaths and open your eyes.
An after thought on this
meditation made me realise that when I first start the coin spinning, if it was
spinning forwards then Odin was the deity that came to me, if it spun
backwards, I got Loki. This makes for an experiment… if I spin the coin
vertically (as if spinning it on a counter) would the same results occur (i.e.
deosil = Odin, widdershins = Loki). I will post these results another time!
Realm Portal
I feel that as a rune associated
with Air energy, Ansuz has a natural connection to the realm of the fae; as
such, in meditation, it seems very fitting that it be used as a key to reach
that magickal place. Likewise, as the fly agaric plant is associated with both
the fae and Ansuz, I have chosen it as the gateway.
1.
Find
a place and time you won’t be disturbed. Cast your circle, then ground and
centre.
2. Close your eyes and
visualise you are in the centre of a fairy ring – a circle of fly agaric mushrooms. They can be small or huge, connected with vines or spaced apart. This
is the part where your imagination and personal spin can create your own portal
between realms. Make it the place you feel comfortable for a fae portal to be;
a place the fae would be comfortable too.
3. Once
you have created your place expand your aura out to the edge of the fly agaric
circle.
4. Visualise a large Ansuz
symbol of blue energy above your head. Again, it can be made to your own
tastes: smoky, sparkly, made of spinning ribbons, etc…
5.
When
the symbol is as you want it, bring it down through your crown chakra and into
your astral body. It will be big enough to reach through all chakras.
6. Use
the energy of Ansuz combined with the energies of your chakras and aura to make
the symbol charge. Depending on how you visualised the symbol, this extension
of the visualisation will compliment that. If you visualised smoke, it will
plume bigger; if it sparkled, then the speed of the sparkling should pulse more
quickly.
7. Build the energy like a crescendo,
like a sexual climax, until it explodes out to the fly agaric circle. When it
does that, again the explosion will be in line with the texture of the
visualisation – my favourite for this part is the smoke symbol because the
bright blue smoke extends to the edge of the circle from my astral self. When
it clears the portal is open.
8. From
this point, you can use your time in the realm of the fae to communicate with
our fluttery friends.
Portal Close
As with all magickal works,
to close what has been opened, the process is to be reversed. I will use the
smoke example as it is the simplest.
1.
Raise
the smoke from the fly agaric circle. It had only dissipated for you to see clearly.
You are drawing it back into you.
2. Reshape the formless smoke
into the Ansuz symbol once it is back in your astral self. Remember it is big
enough to reach through all chakras.
3. Once
formed, lift the Ansuz out of your astral body via your crown chakra and let it
implode on itself.
4. Sink the fly agaric mushrooms
and any additional ‘scenery’ into the aether.
