Rune Secrets - the Complete Guide to Elder Futhark: Meanings, Divination, Magic, and Shadow Side of All 24 Runes

Most rune books give you a keyword and a picture. This one gives you the whole stave.What it carries. What the old poems say about it. What it does when it turns. And one working you can actually perform.Rune Secrets is a complete guide to the twenty-four runes of the Elder Futhark, written by someone who draws a stave every morning and has done so for twenty years. It is built to be kept within reach and opened at the page you need, not read once and shelved.Inside this book- All twenty-four runes, one to a chapter - the meaning, the old rune-poem verses in English with the original beneath, the shadow side, and one working- Eight ways to cast the staves - from the single morning draw to the Ancestral Cross, the nine-rune cast and the Wheel, each one read through position by position in a full worked example- Twenty-eight rune formulas for love, protection, work, making and courage, written as workings you perform rather than outcomes you are promised- The Key - a correspondence table with a stated reason for every line, the reversible and non-reversible staves, the three ættir, an index of situations, thirty rune pairs, and a glossary- The three surviving rune poems - Old English, Norwegian and Icelandic - dated, sourced, and set where they belong: inside the chapter of the rune they describeWhere the runes come from, and where they do notThe Elder Futhark is northern. Alaris Zev is not, and the book says so on its first page rather than inventing a lineage. The historical material is dated and sourced. The workings are hers, and are named as hers. The North supplies the rune; the hand is your own.For the first row of staves, and for the twentieth yearA beginner is told what to do on the first morning, and what to do when nothing comes. A reader who has kept a set for years will find the shadow of every rune worked out in full, the reversals settled, and the reasoning behind each correspondence written down instead of asserted.Revised and expanded edition. Twenty-four hand-drawn rune plates, eight cast diagrams, and a full reference apparatus.