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Divinatory Meanings & Magical Uses
FEHU
DIVINATORY MEANINGS: Great luck, prosperity, wealth, goals, promotion, self-esteem, karma, for love to come true, concern with physical and financial needs. INVERTED: You may lose all you have conquered so far. Learn the stones' lesson: beware of people around you.
MAGICAL USES: Business, promotion, finding a job, achieving a goal, money, starting new enterprises.
URUZ
DIVINATORY MEANING: Energy, passion, vitality, instinct, sexuality, fertility, the unconsious, irrationality, rite of passage. You may lose someone or something. You will rise from the remaining of old values. INVERTED: Do not waste opportunities. No drawing back.
MAGICAL USES: To strengthen the will, increase sexual potency and energy, for hunting.
THURISAZ
DIVINATORY MEANING: Hardship, painful event, discipline, knowledge, introspection, focus. The door is its symbol. Think it all over and get free from your ghosts. Then cross the borders. INVERTED: consider your past before making decisions in the future.
MAGICAL USES: Aid in study and meditation, self-discipline, clearing out a bad situation.
ANSUZ
DIVINATORY MEANING: Be ready for the unexpected. Changes, authority figure, leader, mind & body balance, justice, clairvoyant. Ansuz urges you to explore your depths as well as to practice your sensibility and power of observation.
MAGICAL USES: for wise decisions, success, leadership, to help in divination and magic.
RAIDO
DIVINATORY MEANING: Raido is union and reunion. The end of conflicts. Journey, pilgrimage, change, destiny, quest, progress, life lessons. This is the moment to act. Find out what your heart wishes. Resistance's will be gone. INVERTED: Be rational instead of instinctive.
MAGICAL USES: protection for travellers, to ease or bring about chnage, to reconnect.
KANO
DIVINATORY MEANING: This is the rune of fire. It means the end of darkness in your life. Your passion ans sensuality may be a sign of a coming marriage. Wisdom, insight, solution to a problem, creativity, inspiration, enlightenment.INVERTED: A love or friendship will die. So, be ready for a moment of change.
MAGICAL USES: For creative inspiration, aid in study, fertility, dispelling anxiety and fear.
GEBO
DIVINATORY MEANING: Gebo is union, partnership of any sort but you must keep your individuality and self-confidence. This is the rune of freedom. Gifts, offerings, relationship, love, marriage, generosity, unexpected good fortune.
MAGICAL USES: To find or strengthen a relationship, for fertility, to mark a gift or offering, to bring luck.
WUNJO
DIVINATORY MEANING: Comprehension has become wisdom. Success, recognition of achievements, reward, joy, bliss, achievement of goals, contentment. Deep and lasting affection is about to come. Joy at work.
MAGICAL USES: To motivate, to complete a task, for success in any endeavor.
HAGALAZ
DIVINATORY MEANING: A wish of change and freedom, but for this to happen, it is necessary to put the material reality aside. Look at your inner world. Sudden loss, ordeal, destruction, disaster, clearance, testing, karmic lesson, drastic change. If things seem to be out of control, a break up might be a good idea. Self growth cycle.
MAGICAL USES: Breaking destructive patterns, removing unwanted influences.
NAUTIZ
DIVINATORY MEANING: Your dark sides block you and make you weak. Poverty, hardship, responsibility, discontent, obstacle, frustration. Investigate what makes you so attractive to bad luck. INVERTED: It is necessary to reach the edge in order to emerge into a new life. Hold your anger, keep your faith and sense of humor.
MAGICAL USES: To represent a need to be filled.
ISA
DIVINATORY MEANING: All your plans will stay frozen and suspended although you do not realize that. Do not overwork. Inactivity, blockage, stagnation, potential, patience, reflection, withdrawal, rest. Try to find out what keeps you attached to your situation and throw away what is old. Resignation might mean wisdom. WARNING: Don't count on a friend's help.
MAGICAL USES: To stop a process, to represent primal form.
JERA
DIVINATORY MEANING: Optimism, but nothing comes fast, as each happening has its own cycle. Change, cycle turning, reward, motion, productivity, inevitable development. Keep your trust and perseverance.
MAGICAL USES: Use for fertility, growth, and to bring needed change.
EIHWAZ
DIVINATORY MEANING: It means things will turn out fine, no matter how difficult they are. Change, initiation, confrontation of fears, turning point, death, transformation. The obstacles are instruments to test your patience. Hold your anxiety.
MAGICAL USES: To ease a life transition, to bring about profound change.
PERTH
DIVINATORY MEANING: Mysterious powers are taking place but tend to be revealed. Rebirth, mystery, magic, divination, fertility, sexuality, new beginning, prophecy. It is a perfect time for reflectiona nd also material gains. INVERTED: Do not expect anything. Your character is being tested. Think positive and keep your sense of humor.
MAGICAL USES: To aid in divination and magic, enhancing psychic abilities, fertility, easing childbirth.
ALGIZ
DIVINATORY MEANING: This is the rune of protection, victory, new opportunities and challenges. Be strong and take control of your emotions. Problems should not be ignored. Protection, assistance, defence, warning, support, a mentor, an ethical dilemma. INVERTED: Be aware of your health. Do not assume someone else's problems.
MAGICAL USES: For protection.
SOWELU
DIVINATORY MEANING: Victory, success, positive energy, power, activity, fertility, health. It is time to admit something long denied.
MAGICAL USES: Energy, strength, success, healing, fertility.
TEIWAZ
DIVINATORY MEANING: Victory at any competition. If the question is love, you and your partner have a lot to work out together. Duty, discipline, responsibility, self-sacrifice, conflict, strength, a wound, physicality. INVERTED: Teiwaz warns you: hurry and perfection to not match.
MAGICAL USE: Protection, victory, strength, strenghtening the will, healing a wound.
BERKANA
DIVINATORY MEANING: Fertility, health, the birth of a person or new idea, new beginnings, growth, conception, plenty, clearance. Take your steps carefully. INVERTED: Aspects of your character might be blocking your progress. Pay close attention to the needs of the people around you. This is how you will find your way.
MAGICAL USES: Achieving conception, making a fresh start, healing (especially infections).
EHWAZ
DIVINATORY MEANING: Changes, you could be moving to another home or country, transportation, motion, assistance, energy, power, communication, will. Your decisions tend to be right. INVERTED: Stop. Go slow and think about your choice. Maybe it is better to stay where you are.
MAGICAL USES: Aids in communication, transportation, to send a spell, power.
MANNAZ
DIVINATORY MEANING: Self, family, community, relationships, social concerns. The start up: the need to improve your "self", to help your relationship with the world. Keep your modesty. Your path will be found. INVERTED: Look at yourself: who are your real enemies? Your challenge is to forget old habits.
MAGICAL USES: To establish social relationships, to represent a specific person or group of people.
LAGUZ
DIVINATORY MEANING: You urge to follow your instincts but you forget the negative consequences. This is the rune of the supernatural power inside your mind that will give you protection. Emotions, fears, unconscious mind, things hidden, revelation, intuition. INVERTED: Consult your heart. Cherish your instincts.
MAGICAL USES: Enhancing psychic abilities, confronting fears, stabalizing mental or emotional disorders, uncovering hidden things.
INGUZ
DIVINATORY MEANING: Bounty, work, productivity, groundedness, balance, connection with the land.
MAGICAL USES: Growth, general health, balance, fertility, farming.
DAGAZ
DIVINATORY MEANING: A big turnover in your life. Might be a new love, new work, new opportunites, or a new attitude. Happiness, success, activity, a fulfilling lifestyle, satisfaction. Dagaz claims the darkness is gone and the sun will light your way.
MAGICAL USES: To bring a positive outcome.
OTHILA
DIVINATORY MEANING: Means radical break-up ahead, but you will reach your dreams. property, land, inheritance, home, permenance, legacy, sythesis, sense of belonging, materials goods, your beliefs. INVERTED: Think twice!
MAGICAL USES: To complete a project, to strengthen family ties, for acquiring land or property.
