“Every beginning has within it the seeds of its own end.”
Fehu – “Fay-Who” – Literally: “Cattle” – Esoteric: Mobile Property, New Beginnings, Wealth
Key Concepts: Wealth, money, food, sustenance, Hamingja, luck, personal power, circulation of power, financial strength, prosperity
Psi: Beginner’s Mind, presence, freedom, first impressions, young love
Energy: mobility, luck, charisma, dynamic power, liquid and mobile transferable energies, abundance, circulation, ‘mana’, sexual attraction
Mundane: money, recent purchases, reputation, freshness, fashionability
Divinations: New beginnings, social success, foresight, energy, travel, money, control; or greed, failure, atrophy, poverty, endings.
Governs:
- Delegating your energy to another, power transference or projection; the sending rune
- Drawing gravity into the personal sphere
- Promotion of personal and social evolution, changing circumstances of importance
- Increase in personal monetary wealth
- Beginner’s mind and presence as a tool for consciously creating a fresh start
My notes:
Fehu is actually the rune of ‘luck’. The universe is not so much made up by chance, as by luck. Luck is a hidden but real energy field inherent in your ‘hamingja’. Fehu governs the capacity to hold this luck and use it like a magical ability. This basic energy, your accumulated luck, is the foundation of the wealth and power in your life. Courageous deeds are central to increasing one’s ‘luck’.
Circulation of power, wealth and the mobility of all things is a key aspect to Fehu. These are associated with new beginnings, but keep in mind that there are no true new beginnings or endings, only the conscious marks of transformation. This can be most effectively understood while studying the runes as a cycle in and of itself (visually, a circle). The use of this principle leads to beginner’s mind and to presence as a tool for consciously creating a fresh start.
Indeed, money will work for you best under the guidance of the energies implicit in Fehu. Yet money is only a mundane and simplistic representation of Fehu’s nature. It’s best to think of wealth as food, water, shelter, clothing, sustenance and mobile assets, rather than needless luxury.
In starting new endeavors, Fehu will activate the will, restore self-confidence and assist in goal-setting followed by immediate action. Use the symbol and its teachings against procrastination. It is a reminder to think for yourself, which is fundamental to working with the runes. I find that the vibration of this rune to be in alignment with the principles of sexual attraction, first impressions and young love. Fehu is a reminder for us to act out of the present moment.
The conscious use of money for right ends is the domain of Fehu. In society today it is important that we explore new definitions of wealth and come to a realization of what is truly valuable. Wealth is a creative process in every sense of the word, not a static and measurable mass. I encourage the exploration of this idea right away.
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I think this site has great potential! I have long wanted to do something similar. So far I have only completed Fehu, however. Tyriel has kindly said he will post my thoughts on Fehu in an upcoming post.
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Hello,
I am absolutely new to the world of runes…I really want to learn more about it and its uses, but I need a start from you. Also, I was wondering if runes are connected to star signs, for example, I am an Arien so what would be my rune symbol like?
Perhaps my question does not make any sense at all – I dont know if runes can be interpreted in the way I am thinking, but I would feel nice if you could guide me with your knowledge.
Thanks
Welcome to the site Cher!
Rune Secrets is a great site for us to begin and continue exploring the runes. We are all learning about them together by thinking and meditating on them. For the most part we allow our intuition to lead us.
You might want to start with the first rune of the 24 – Fehu and take your time reading and thinking about each one in sequence. haveBe sure to read all the comments posted for each one as well.If you have questions as you read post them on the site and someone will try to help out I’m sure.Several other users of this site have done this to the benefit of all of us!
As for the astrological signs and relationship to the runes, some published Runsters have attempted to assign these. So far, I haven’t found any of the attempts particualarly satisfactory. I think that parallels will be associated with the energies of the planets that rule the zodiac signs and how they manifest. The zodiac has twelve signs and there are 24 runes. So, if there are parallels we should anticipate two runes to a sign. As you read about the runes think about which kinds of astrological energies they mirror. Let us know your thoughts becasue no one has the definitive answer to this!
Hi,
I find this site is really helpful. Personally, I have done meditaion on runes and found a few ideas.
From one aspect, I have conceived Fehu as rune of “making something one`s own”. To really make something you should not just be given asset, but you need to make it your own. I guess then this becomes real “wealth” which you can control. I thought this psychology of possesion can explain fiery force of Fehu, and wealth as not just given but obtained, thus becomes personal force-Hamingja.
How would you think on this thought? I will appreciate any suggestion. Thanks.
Welcome to Rune Secrets Gondlir, thanks for commenting. I really like this idea of making things one’s own. It reminds me of how we can read other people’s wise advice, even stuff from thousands of years ago, but it won’t be ours until we experience it and can re-tell it in our own particular fashion. I agree that life demands a certain courage from us to be lived, and living rightly is a major source of Hamingja.
Feel free to write more on this Gondlir, I’m interested in your viewpoints here. If you care to write at length and formally, I could always post it as a proper guest-article.
-Tyriel
If we look at the words of feoh,could this also be to do with the moral and spiritual value of wealth.That needs to be looked at to,we must remember that the Anglo saxon rune poem was put down in book form by the monks .And therefor was written in Latin,The fact that Hick,or perhaps some unknown monk already unfamiliar with the runes,managed to surpply some of the anglo saxon words for the runes helps to explain some of the difficulties we have today.this is why i think the moral and spiritual side should be looked at,when we read the runes.thank you
I agree. Runes are so much more than divination tools, just as the Tarot is so much more than a deck of cards with pretty pictures. I have learned to appreciate runes as “living things”, with an energy of their own. We can communicate with them spiritually and magically. They can help us in creating and visualizing what we want to bring into our lives. They can also be used as tools in daily life, your magikcal bag of tricks. Do you wish to understand someone better? Draw “ken” in the air (preferably when they’re not looking…lol), or mentally draw it, works the same. Need to defend yourself against someone? Mentally push “ailgiz”, the stag’s horn at them to back them up, or toss “thurisaz”, shaped like the thorn, behind you, to create obstacles. There are many uses for the wonderful Rune, and their spiritual and magickal meanings should be learned and fully embraced. I am still learning them, it’s a very interesting journey.
Thanks Tyriel. You are offering great support for rune seekers.
I am still trying to understand why dynamic, energetic force of Fehu can be connected to adundance. Since, adundance sounds like feminine quality though I believe this rune is of primary masculine energy. So, in the above post, I tried to interpret abundance or welth as dynamic energy related to personal power. How would you think about taking Fehu as abundance which is a result of, and transform to dynamic energy?
Gondlir:
A clue may lie with the Zen Buddhists, whose practice link the cultivation of ‘beginners mind’ (which I believe is very much a state of mind useful for understanding Fehu) and the reduction of ‘desire’ in one’s life.
If desire is reduced, freedom sought, if life is lived moreso with Necessity in mind (we see need-fire relationship in Nauthiz), then indeed the universe becomes incredibly abundant… one finds, almost magically, that everything one needs/desires is supplied by the universe.
Desires, in this viewpoint, act as fetters: everything you desire keeps you chained. Seeking freedom, which is the highest form of wealth/mobility brings abundance. Beginners mind here keeps one most poised to act in accordance with the truth of the moment, keeps one humble, and grateful for the many lessons the universe teaches.
Property and abundance that acts in other ways is more related to one’s Estate, and that falls within the providence of Othala’s mysteries.
I hope these ideas help.
That`s beautiful explanation! So I guess adundance which becomes solid and fixed would be Othala while Fehu signifies HOW we deal with, or are connect to wealth that surround us. It is very interesting that the first letter (beginning) & the last one (end) have close relation and it forms circular structure.
I will write up an article though it will be edited cos` I`m not good at writting English, plus I am lazy so it will take time:)
For some reason, Mahryan’s article hasn’t been linked to this one, but it totally should be. You can find it at:
http://runesecrets.com/rune-meanings/fehu-extended
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I’m not entirely sure that I agree with your interpretation of the concept of Hamingja, especially as it pertains to the idea of “luck”, “freedom”, “beginner’s mind” or the rune Fehu. My understanding of Hamingja is as a product of Wyrd and Orlog, that is to say, the natural path of life, living one’s life aware of one’s strengths and limitations, to a path of destiny of one’s own design, improving or dishonouring one’s family’s Hamingja in the process. Hamingja is the “family soul”, the soul of the (Nordic) family which can be traced back to that particular family or clan’s parent deity, and which is continued down the family line, with its members being reincarnated from Hel back into that family line, unless a family member ascended to Aesgard, leaving the cycle of reincarnation, or the family line died out, in which case the last remaining member/members would remain in Hel, with no hope of eventually residing in the hall of the family’s origin deity. Hamingja dictated a strict code of social order and honour within the family unit, the goal being reunification with the family deity. If anything, I would connect Hamingja to Ansuz and the Triple-Goddess, the Death-Rebirth cycle (esoteric, archetypal), and themes of family unity, honour, obligation, and sacred initiation. Luck and Hamingja are unrelated, if not opposing, concepts. Seems to me like a great deal of personal extrapolation.
I appreciate your perspective on Hamingja, Zara. Could you provide sources, so that I could explore that idea further?
The ideas in the above document are merely notes. Notes on Fehu, primarily, not lengthy enough to describe any ‘extrapolation’ of Hamingja at all. But there are a few things about Hamingja that I find are related. Not opposing.
-Charisma or ‘luck’ (in terms of Fehu, that you get off to a good start)
# -It increases because of courage deeds in the Present incarnation
-It is affected by the positive and negative actions of the ancestral line
-It influences one’s power over Wyrd.
-Every rune in the futhark is in some way related to Hamingja, Wyrd and Orlog
Bloodlines are not the only way of re-incarnating. Too heavy an emphasis on blood is ethnocentric and misses the point entirely. No spirit who is willing to honorably face its tasks in this world would be trapped in Hel simply because its temporary physical body did not produce a baby.
Just to help out a little more, not that one has to agree with Wikipedia, but for Hamingjathe entry right away refers to luck. Even from this, you can see there’s not a ‘great deal’ of personal extrapolation going on… not that I won’t include a great deal of personal extrapolation where I judge that understanding is weak in external sources.
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Wikipedia on Hamingja
In Norse mythology, hamingja (Old Norse “luck”[1]) refers to two concepts; the personification of the good fortune or luck of an individual or family, and, secondly, refers to the altered appearance of shape-shifters. Both Andy Orchard and Rudolf Simek note parallels between the concept of the hamingja and the fylgja.[2]
And for Fylgja it has:
a fylgja (Old Norse, literally “someone that accompanies,”[1] plural fylgjur) is a supernatural being or creature which accompanies a person in connection to their fate or fortune. Fylgjur usually appear in the form of an animal and commonly appears during sleep, but the sagas relate that they could appear while a person is awake as well, and that seeing one’s fylgja is an omen of one’s impending death. However, when fylgjur appear in the form of women, they are then supposedly guardian spirits for people or clans (ätter).
Both Andy Orchard and Rudolf Simek note parallels between the concept of the hamingja—a personification of a family or individual’s fortune—and the fylgja.[2]
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When exploring or emphasizing the ancestral aspects of Hamingja, the typical ancestral-related runes obviously apply. Ansuz, Kenaz, Othala all weigh in heavily. But there is no ‘single rune’ of Hamingja; each rune will share its secrets.
In Fehu, I would emphasize the individual fortune: initial conditions, charisma, ability to move toward spiritual fulfillment (freedom).
The root of Hamingja actually seems to MEAN ‘luck’ translated to English from Old Norse. That would hardly suggest to me that “Luck and Hamingja are unrelated, if not opposing, concepts.” I’m much more tempted to acquiesce to the etymologists. But if there are other sources/translations that I’ve missed, do share.
If the ‘luck’ aspect of Hamingja is poorly understood, it’ll require some more research and careful thought. Personal insight is also acceptable. Fehu may not be the best place for an in depth discussion of Hamingja, but it is where my brief note ended up. I will dedicate a lot of pages to Hamingja in the Book of Rune Secrets, and hopefully get a post up about it once I’m done fleshing out each rune analysis.
Thank you for bringing it up, at any rate Zara, I’m certain that our readers will appreciate the discussion!
Another note (yes, I seem to be eager today to explore this).
Zara’s interpretation of Hamingja belongs to the “Hafskjold-Stav” tradition. Ivan Hafskjold founded Stav: “a philosophical system and martial art which uses runes and Norse Mythology in its teaching.”
Ivar Hafskjold claims that according to his family’s oral tradition ‘Stav’ has been passed down in his family since its origin in circa 500 CE. This of course, is impossible to confirm, but is no less interesting. The biased emphasis on the importance of the family’s origins and its continuation with regards to Hamingja should be clear, since Ivar Hafskjold’s claims to any authority rest upon this important connection and oral family tradition he personally has with the Norse and older northern peoples.
What is interesting though is it appears that the Stav tradition is now carried forward more by breath than by blood.
Much of what Zara suggests can be found in an essay on the Stav-International website, on Orlog, Wyrd and Hamingja taken from the book by David Stone called the Principles of Stav (not available on Amazon, or I’d link it).
So, although the Hafskjold-Stav tradition is an interesting perspective on Hamingja, I don’t consider it definitive in the slightest. Nor would I go to it with regards to the mysteries contained in the Elder Futhark (24 runes), since the martial art’s runic component is based on the Younger Futhark (16 runes).
And if I didn’t make it clear enough: there is FAR from enough reliable evidence to convince me that Ivar Hafskjold done anything other than ‘a great deal of personal extrapolation’.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that, if you’re honest that that’s what it is.
And I’m generally pretty frank… my interpretations here are based on research, conversations, logic, intuition, and a keen mind.
I can’t claim a family history dating back to 500CE, some direct communication with the gods or that I’ve had some famous, enlightened teacher, as I’ve seen many do when it comes to the occult and mysticism.
I’ve figured it out for myself.
Perhaps that’s the most spurious claim of all. But it’s the one route I encourage everybody to invest the greatest amount energy into.
I found the discussion on Hamingja interesting.
It seems to me also that the ideas of personal Hamingja being hereditary and of it representing our ‘luck’ and ‘charisma’ are quite compatible with each other. What seems to be missing from the points both Zara and Tyriel have offered, is that in our current life we have the ability to strengthen our initial amount of Hamingja, and both deplete and replenish the amount we ‘use’ each day. Personally, I found Denali to be quite helpful on understanding Hamingja.
I was especially fascinated by Zara’s description of other world incarnation possibilities because her portrait resonated with my instincts, for which I had not found supporting sources. All I have is dream or vision, which as the topic has come up I thought I would share.
After my mother died, I had this dream I which I saw my mother waiting (obstinately) in Hel. She was not prepared to acknowledge the limitations of her past life time and would have to remain in the ‘grey haven’ until she was ready to do so. What I was ‘told’ in this dream was that we have choices when we leave Midgard. If we have achieved the tasks assigned to us for that lifetime, we are invited to visit Asgard or another world is we so wish. We will also be asked to consider returning to Misgard to undertake more work. We are not ‘punished’ for not having achieved all we undertook, but we are expected to acknowledge where we fell short. We can remain in Hel (which is not a horrible place – more a sort of resting limbo), or we can undertake to return and take up our incomplete tasks). It would seem to me that hereditary Hamingja would be very tied into this process.
Some sources on Hel seem to me to be influenced by descriptions of the christian hell, where you go if you are ‘bad’ and from which no one can ever ‘escape.’ The Norse mythologies, however, talk about gods visiting Hel and people being ‘awakened’ from ‘death.’ Hel is also expected to play an important role at Ragnarok.
I didn’t expand much on it, but one of my first bullets is “-It increases because of courage deeds in the Present incarnation”. I definitely agree that this is a component of power we can access in our present life.
If you follow this link, http://www.northvegr.org/northern/book/disir003.php, there is a part written on Hamingja that suggests evidence by pulling out bits and pieces from the Sagas, but the only source it uses is the book “The Road to Hel: A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature” by Hilda Roderick Ellis (Davidson) 1968
Has anyone checked out that book?
Quite interesting aspects.
I would add that Hamingja seems to be a most complicated word and that a literal translation to just “Luck”, as Wikipedia implies, would be rather a simplification.
If Zara has more sources than that tradition, it would be better to declare it. I admit that my first book on the runes was one that followed the “Uthark theory” but when I read Tyriel’s articles, I didn’t come up and say “Eh guys, you are all wrong, you are misdirected by christian interpreters, esoteric original sequence is different” and so on. I compared what I read here and elsewhere with my personal understanding and made up my mind (finally accepting the Futhark sequence), expressing respect on any other’s opinion.
“…No spirit who is willing to honorably face its tasks in this world would be trapped in Hel simply because its temporary physical body did not produce a baby…”
We are the children of our teachers. Our parents could be our teachers, but not our only ones.
Tyriel, we can’t wait for the book!!!
Vanr (and this conversation) brings up some points I’d like to add to with a constructive rant. They have little to do with Fehu, but they are fundamental to beginning my work with the runes.
One if the limits of a purely historical approach is the availability of evidence. The other is that history tends to create a macro view rather than account for individuality. Our tendency is to find some evidence, piece together a theory which stretches that evidence to its absolute limit and then imagine that those sources, and the resulting theory, represent an entire culture. What is actually produced is dogma.
So real pragmatism must be used when approaching the Elder Futhark. And a grounded, common sense attitude which borrows from experience and any wisdom-tradition the world over can fill in huge areas… curiosity and self-honesty will go a long, long way.
The individual differences of opinion serve to inspire very enlightening conversations that bring personal understanding even deeper. Where individual differences are suppressed or discouraged, I have unfailingly found weaknesses. Glaring ones. Same with ethnocentricity. You invariably run into the limitations of being This or That, or anything other than profoundly Human.
So being misdirected by Christian interpreters is one thing, just watch out for those Norse and Germanic interpreters too! I joke, but there’s a grain of truth in what I’m saying there. I’ll wager that every single person who ever lived in those ancient cultures had their opinions and beliefs — not to mention the different tribes — just as we do now.
Our understanding of medicine, psychology, physics, and many other things have advanced. There seems to be a peculiar bias that totally rules out the possibility that our ‘spirituality’ may have advanced as well. And we find that purely-historical analysis appeals to that bias. I’ve asked it before, and I’ll ask it again: Just how ancient does something have to be before it’s authentic? A rhetorical question.
Vanr, thanks for your vote of confidence. I’ll get that book to you as soon as I can ;)
Just how ancient does something have to be before it’s authentic?
Tyriel,
That comment right there leads to alot of thinking. I think that kind of sums alot up but also makes you think about things.
It is nice to have good discussions on this and we will all take what we need out of it. Good to have a basis, but as you say Tyriel, we are all human and we are all searching for our own path. We will find and learn what we need to know.
I always thought that ancient people had the advantage and the ability to be entrepreneurs on just making elemental discoveries. Today, something like this is almost impossible.
Why do we believe something that is ancient? Finally whom do we trust? Why we almost do not have the right to say something against some taboo-persons? Even if we say that we follow what ourself instructs us, are we sure that this part of ourself is not affected by external sources?
I recently read again after a lot of years the “Dune” by Frank Herbert. Just excellent. Excellent thoughts and events that could give some answers on the above questions.
Waxing philosophical;
Now let’s separate stave from concept. Or consider that any other (remotely similar if need be) glyph may represent similar concepts. As regards magickal application, as in efficacy, what’s more important? Surely the latter concepts.
Could the former be viewed as talismanic? Simply, does ritual work with fehu, as rune stave, manifest it’s associated concepts? Likely hit or miss depending upon the worker’s frame of mind; subconscious programming via auto suggestion of (say) consensus based rune meanings.
It just seems to me that we are, in essence, today, maintaining an archaic belief system of a few persons (of course conditioned by their collective). What they deemed important enough….
Consider that “Fehu for mobile wealth” etc could simply be akin to the mnemonic A is for apple.
When I was doing Denali school’s lessons I mentioned to Ragnar that it seems to make more sense, in magickal use remember, to simply focus on the concepts. You need X, just see yourself with X, as having it in the now….
If you put all your attention on say activating the stave fehu, what might you be really doing? To my mind it seems to be an unnecessary buffer between desire and target. But I’m a product of today’s paradigms.
I suppose there may be an ancestral charge behind each stave and that alone counts for something. But I’d like to think that fehu and on down the line are or were more associated with primal creative/destructive forces. Thorsson does indicate this in the lore of several runes but it appears to break down latter in the row.
Of course, this may reflect a refining or evolution of energies/consciousness etc.
I guess another way of conveying the ideas above is to ask whether employing the rune fehu or say a seal of Jupiter in meeting financial demands would work better. It’s probably up to the user again and these symbols, arrays in general, are moot. Again, for purely magickal or co creational ends.
Open ended questions here. I totally agree with Jung when he said a major catalyzing function towards psychic experience is enthusiasm. So, whatever turns you on will or may “fit the bill”.
But it does seems as if we runesters are more antiquarians than rune masters or magicians.
When I look at Fehu, I see a person holding his arms up. This is from my personal perspective. And the reasons for him doing so can be many: May be he is looking up to heaven for help, to get out of a certain sticky situation; or holding his hands up in victory. A person also be holding his hands up to his face level if he’s about to get into a brawl with something. It may not necessarily be a physical fight. Or he could be playing an instrument, a flute, or a trumpet, perhaps.
On the other hand, it looks like a tree is spreading its branches outwards.
That’s what I get on a first look
” I have been getting rid of stuff, stuff that I have carried around with me for far too long in my head and in my personal belongings in fact, I have been having breathing problems and at times felt I was suffocating! I had also made the decision to rid myself of my big mortgage in favor of a smaller simpler lifestyle( especially as I had since lost my job and was at an age that is now considered over the hill ) and I wanted to know if this was the right move, I pulled out Fefu.
I often imagine the God and Goddess standing in a woodland clearing, I approach with my question and the runes I pull out are their reply.
It always seems relevant.. ”
Ps Yes, my breathing started to improve as i began the big clear out.
…sorry about the spelling, I am talking about FEHU ,
It always seems relevant.. ”
Now that’s my own experience with divination. I find I divine better via the local environs itself. Here’s the thing; whenever I ask a question to my rune or tarot deck, I draw the Very card that…reflects the question. It’s like an echo.
Example, my last attempt was in a pine grove, asking something about life and death. I drew Eiwaz. Dead on. I do this more often than not. My body wisdom has an excellent knack in finding the Pertinent card that Reflects the question.
See the problem? It doesn’t actually provide new or useful information. It merely reflects back to me my question!! This is what I get anyway, Most of the time.
So as mentioned, I find divination via birds, timings of curious events, plants that seem to shout out at me, items on the side of the road that I pass after asking a question etc. I think this is actually the real way it’s been done.
Cards, stones and contraptions came later me thinks. I’ve always felt that using cards etc basically Forces an answer on you. You physically draw a card; unless your in the Zone… it really doesn’t mean anything and you are simply exercising your powers of projection. Not a good thing.
Hi Mark,
When I had to have my dog put to sleep after 20 years of companionship I was racked with pain, I asked my runes where had my dog gone? and pulled out Perth sometimes known as Perdhro or Peorth. This rune is a mystery rune but in divination it deals with things hidden, secrets, the occult ( The Priestess ). Strong intuition will be called upon to help one out in difficult times, sometimes tells of a kind of initiation taking place and for me, it was as my dog has made his presence known to me many times.
This rune served to REMIND me in my grief of what would give me the most strength over time to help me cope.
I think you are very compatible with runes and should not give up on them rather, seek to know why you feel as you do by asking in a new way like what do I need to know at this time ? or, where am I on my life’s journey? or, just pick a rune in the morning jot it down and see if anything is relevant through out the day ( but don’t ask any particular question ) as it could be that you don’t need to ask a question! You could also pick a Tarot card at random to compare or even dip into the i ching oracle to see if they all point in the same direction. I too am into my Tarot and signs and omens for sure are our way of connecting to the earth … its how we should be.
Keep a journal or diary of your progress and don’t forget to date everything so, you get some idea of time scale.
Ps: I am a cloud reader!
Hiya. I’d like to get a cat with long black hair and green eyes… saw one once and was enchanted so much. It’s poise was godly.
But yes, I guess. My thing about drawing a card that echos the question is the norm. It happens almost every time. In a way it’s ridiculous. But my body wisdom is phenomenal apparently (still trying to find a way to use this to hit the lottery). I’ll keep in mind to query from a different angle tho.
Was in one of those Golden Dawn off shoot orders and burned much of those correspondences into my subconscious. More games…
But pulled the Tower once asking about the week’s course…I got fired that week. I may get more out of the tarot as far as useful or new information. Too much crap going down however and I feel better with runes in these times of trouble. I mean that totally. {Another thing is it seems I keep drawing the negative cards in tarot.}
Clouds!! Sooo many these days are artificial!! Just today, for the first time ever, I saw one that was almost a perfect triangle. You can tell when Haarp has zapped a region etc as clouds form into those ladder like shapes. Other times I’ll see a perfect hole in the middle of a smooth formation…. These guys just don’t stop.
Taking any iodine yet!?
Oh yes, I’ve been recently perusing List’s Armanen system. Supposedly more magickally available, as it were. Tho the (“yoga”) postures seem contrived I think they or it has it’s uses. I love the Man rune and posture (Elhaz in Elder).
All this imparts a very wholesome feeling; you cannot say this with Golden Dawn or Hermetic Kabbalah and all that – especially Enochian. It’s got a very odd feel and this has been brought up by others as well. Could be a personal thing but it may be more.
The Archangels feel bright and pure tho yet that May be from past conditioning/expectation. It’s the system itself with it’s correspondences.
To heady.
I’m also into grimoires but am apparently too lazy to follow those instructions in full. Plus I’m both very sensitive, paranoid.
von Blut
…bought the iodine but, never got round to taking it! thanks for the reminder.
Not into angels as such because i have big issues with organized religion’s and the pap that they constantly feed the masses but, can fess up to meeting a being of light way back in 1979 in a moment of astral travel and it gave me much needed healing, s’pose some would call it an angel but, i didn’t hear or see any beating wings (aka romantic depictions)
Included in my idea of organized religions are the Pagans, Druids and Spritualist’s who say that they are different but sell the same stuff under a new heading so, many feet of clay.
I am a natural dowser and would also be labeled by some as a hedge witch but, find even this tag too confining so a solitary seeker I remain having dipped into and passed over, much that is out there.
Be in a relaxed state ,look at the sky and allow the clouds to disperse and form before your eyes be they natural or man made a shape will form and take you by surprise. If you can leave your email here I will email you some of the better photographs I have taken, to start you off.
Sandy
PS: I had a beautiful kitten once with green eyes and long black fur but, it turned out to be the cat from hell! it used to run up and down the walls ripping all the wallpaper to shreds and scratching all the paintwork, it also liked to howl and mess in all the corners of the house instead of the cat tray so, in the end I gave it to a animal sanctuary in the countryside that specialized in homing stray and wild cats, when I later visited it to see if it was ok they said it refused to come inside and lived outside with the stray donkeys and, was the widest cat they had ever been given!
I’ve never been able to reshape a cloud. As for all the sop strains, wilco. Strains of Sop!
I’ve a slow connection but go ahead; mpam76895@yahoo.com
Back to sop. Is is funny that once you reach a certain age or pass that threshold of experience with any magickal system, you realize it’s all rehashed info with dubious value. That is, my perception now is that a person can Only Do So Many things with their sensory apparatus. We (should) just narrow down to what’s practical.
Yet I’ve wasted years jumping from one system to the next, admittedly not following through with requisites of any. Main reason was because I didn’t feel them to be effective ; ) Plus I eventually saw that fussing over lists of correspondences might be a good way to go crazy. Perhaps folks with a modicum of innate psychism should just use their own intuition to move on.
Probably don’t need to concern ourselves with runes or any such thing. But for some dang reason these are comforting(?) on many levels. Tho I of course do not subscribe to nazi ideology, I do confess to love all the trappings, the overtly heathen symbolism and the rest. I sure would like to establish my own rigorous understandings of them. I thought the comparative route would be the obvious course. But reading everyone’s take on a specific rune is well, a good way to go crazy.
The problem imo, has always been when you enter too many related ideas to an already open ended symbol. Simply put, it turns to mud, can mean anything. This is much more the problem with golden dawn/kabbalah/tarot correspondences. There, the angelic hierarchy is infused with all that to make one huge intellectual monstrosity of pure mentalism. Tho I do not mean to bash and a lot of good work was put into that. It is beautiful. You Need to be rich with a lot of spare time to really work all that out. And look what happened anyway, all the major players ended up not only leaving the order but moved on to different systems. Could be wrong on this last bit but don’t think so. Crowley…. who knows. I think he was used – for yet another dog and pony show to distract the youth.
I’ve found a grove… hopefully I’ll naturally find my way. I’m trying to get away from magick books etc. I no longer think a spell has to be hard work either. Now for money, that is another story.
Sparky
Hello to all the new recent commenters.
And Mark – I hope you enjoy the grove interactions!
One of the great things about Rune Secrets is Fehu rune that it is open to sharing everyone’s thoughts and musings (I once went to the shelter to get a black cat and came home with a white one!).
But, I’m feeling that perhaps this thread has strayed so far from a focus on Fehu the that it might be confusing for any newcomer trying to understand how that rune manifests. So, maybe you will allow me to re-focus it a bit? I think the discussion began with a contemplation of what is ‘wealth’ in the true Fehu concept. And as Mark hints, it is far more than money – it is material well being, but not just accumulating money in the contemporary way we look at it. Cattle as wealth are connected with Fehu and I think that today, our loving animal companions are a form of wealth in our lives. Not like an object that is property, but as animate companions that contribute to our well-being and for which we have a reciprocal responsibility.
In the 21st century, knowledge too is wealth and though more usually associated with Kenaz and its communication with Anzuz, as a form of ‘currency’ it can also fall under Fehu and the obligation to share our wealth.
I think that is maybe why contemplating Fehu led to an exchange of ideas and experiences that seemed on a tangent from the rune. So thank you all for sharing what you know and have experienced.
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On topic. Well, about cats… maybe be right about long haired black cats as the one I mentioned actually scratched the hell out of me when I accidentally scared it.
Anyway, yes and no, perhaps. Let’s not forget Fehu’s cattle seems to reflect the hebraic row’s Aleph as Ox. That’s likely no coincidence.
A recent observation; the word effort…
EF – seed sound of Fehu = (eh)FFF
FORT – the enclosure as well as culmination of our efforts = Othala – a Fort
EF – FORT = A – Z = F – O or Fehu to Othala
Ain’t that nice? So things don’t just fall into our laps. Well, unless you one of the beautiful people but I’m starting to wonder about even that.
But one thing I didn’t mention regarding the hebraic Aleph’s Ox is that the Ox actually represents a castrated bull. This implies service or even sacrifice…. an effort.
So, I have discovered, contrived, a hidden alchemical formula akin to the Western Mystery Tradition’s term Azoth, which equates to the Alpha and Omega.
Wo ist Morris die Katze? Kaputt?
I was joking of course. Seems no matter what pattern or connection you find it’s ultimately moot in light of some other info. And I hate making typos.
A few more considerations;
FFF is a fricative sound. Implications…
F = the hebrew letter Vau, which means nail. To connect things together.
All the words, from free to form to four…….
Hmm. This is why I’ve a love hate relationship with contemporary kabbalistic thinking.
But we still see it; an effort is required to form your fort of fruit.
Now, I can easily imagine a weight lifter making that fricative sound in lifting his heaviness. Thus we wonder about PH….of phorget it.
But hey, P is Peh or mouth in hebrew, which is corresponded with the energy of Mars! H is Heh or window… a conveying perhaps.
Halt.
Did it again!
If fehu is a ” fee”, it is wise to ask what am I paying? And to whom? We know the whom, but He is a notorious deal-breaker! Runes are riddles, weaving in and out of a system long abandoned and changed. Money is more akin to uruz, fehu is what you did to get the ” cattle”. Sometimes you have to spend a little, to make a little. Indeed, fehu is a numinous power. Some people have an ability to make money. What is that power? Thought this might resonate.
Very USEFUL site – great thanks to Everyone for setting up, supporting and contributing. The only suggestion – can be a bit of a challenge to read in grey after having worked hours on end staring into he screen:-) The fact Fehu section has not become one of the few sections out of the 24 that are absolutely crowded with comments despite the globally overwhelming obsession with finance of today – this fact alone is enough to understand the exceptional quality of this particular place on the web. I wanted to share last night’s dream experience hoping to get some ideas from you: I never actually dreamt of writing runes before, so last night was the first time. For quite awhile in my dream I was struggling to draw Fehu, but every time it came out as Wunjo! When my attempts to draw it got really desperate the most I could achieve was adding the top sloping line of Fehu to that of Wunjo already drawn thus adding a resemblance of Sol to it. The same evening preceding the dream I received Fehu in counteracting position while divining.
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“For quite awhile in my dream I was struggling to draw Fehu, but every time it came out as Wunjo! When my attempts to draw it got really desperate the most I could achieve was adding the top sloping line of Fehu to that of Wunjo already drawn thus adding a resemblance of Sol to it. The same evening preceding the dream I received Fehu in counteracting position while divining.”
Could be wrong but this, on the surface, sounds like an issue about flow or giving back what is received. Mentioning sowilo could mean your soul might be involved here as well. Not quite tradition on this last bit but ya never know what lurks etc and so forth…
Thank you for your idea. I should probably have mentioned the issue that dominates my thoughts and naturally became the subject of divination: it is a business project the launching of which I have been involved with for the last year or so and which is presently approaching the point where it either rockets up or dies altogether. As I mentioned Fehu was counteracting but at the same time Othal was pro-acting with Thurisaz as the principal acting force. Did anyone ever consider some Runes literally as the Gods they represent?
If each rune was associated with a god/ess we could do that once this idea got established in the subconscious.
Not always fun to wade through past posts but I brought up the annoying trend that divination – for me anyway – seems to reflect the question. Results simply “echo” the question; no new information without contrivance and or projection. Your result seems to reflect this….
Something pointed out by an Austrian was that runes (referring to the Armanen runes) give Seemingly general answers. Yet they (supposedly) are giving answers that are come from the deepest levels. This same gentleman said to use the tarot for more mundane queries.
I tend to agree with this man….
You may want to check your natal chart and current transits. You might get an idea as to what thurizas was about as it can be interpreted in different ways.
Seems kinda straightforward however. You will have some challenges and will need to focus and align your ass(ets) towards your goal which will eventually manifest.
Othala might mean either someone from your line may be of help or, you’re overall material situation will turn out positive. Note that is just one aspect of life however.
I’d try another reading one a day where everything is going good.
In my case it is Tarot that mainly reflects my questions giving the more or less generalized summary of my own vision of the situation (warning: objects in this mirror are closer than they appear:-)) In fact there is a whole complex system of actually practicing Tarot rather than reducing it to a merely mantic tool which the above practitioners disregard as profane. I am by no means trying to claim the Runes to be a mere mantic tool, but they can sometimes be shockingly efficient that way: many years ago I’ve been told a whole story about my girlfriend of the time cheating on me, having to do a surgery + the information on getting money I needed – and all of that in just two spreads!
“disregard as profane”
You may be reading too much into my prose. I’m fully aware of the extremes certain groups have taken tarot, such as golden dawn. Was in an off shoot order for a while. There’s also an author who cooked up a magickal system using tarot exclusively (which I may still check out as I’m into this kinda quasi kabbalistic mind candy).
I don’t like the contrived combo of astrological correspondence and Tree’s associations as they don’t fit in many instances, imo.
As far as real divination – for personal matters – I don’t really bother with tarot or runes. I feel, at times, they can be akin to an unnecessary buffer between sought info and ego awareness. But if the sensitivity to magnetism is up then we’re doing good…
The answers can be found directly through the local environs in any case. This was the way it really was surely. Then came the toys and props, or symbolic buffers…still a bit removed from nature and the flow of spirit.
I’ve been more into feeling runes lately; employing or resonating with the (however perceived if not projected) energies. This has it’s uses in which I’ll waive sharing at this time.
But ain’t it cool to be in the woods to fix on a rune to then pull that very stave in a draw… This has happened so many times now it’s old hat. There was one time I had a Sunday afternoon read about Thor’s Hammer…Later that night I did a little spread of seven cards (rune deck). To my delight I was able to rearrange the cards into a word; mjolnir. Actual word has two L’s but you get the picture.
In the end I find that, no matter how blatant or impossible, nothing much comes of it…which shows it’s really nature and (it’s) flow of consciousness.
I have fairly recently encountered a well-grounded speculation that not only every mantic system, but every other approach such as dowsing, pendulum and virtually any other way or reading the information off the surrounding Reality is merely the way of projecting the direct reception of knowledge by our inner faculty of many names (subconscious, soul, spirit aka, aka, etc) so that our conscious part can perceive it and get it translated into more or less comprehensible language. To put it really bluntly we have to use some external props to bypass on the outside the inner barrier that prevents us from becoming whole integrated beings capable of dealing with Reality directly. However there are people (I know some) that managed to evolve past that dilemma and their perception is amazing (if not awe-inspiring to most). In one system this is called “maintaining resonance between subjective and objective realities”. One example: after a brisk glimpse at me from a distance of about 10 meters a person like that describes to me later on the phone the appearance of my actually crushed shin that could not possibly been spotted under my long trouser leg.
This is all getting a little off the topic of ‘Fehu’.
However, I’m shortly announcing that the Rune Secrets Study Community is open to all! Why not go over there and make an account, and start some conversations? :)
Warmly,
Tyriel
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Thank you very much for the link because the “community” section on the top of main page seems to lead somewhere other than where the link you’ve given does.
Eep thanks for drawing this to my attention! I don’t know why that part of the site is broken right now. Looking into it.
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While meditating on the meanings of Fehu, it occurred to me that one form of “mobile wealth” is the sum total of one’s skills and experiences. For example, if I were a plumber, my ability in plumbing would constitute an important “asset”. Wherever I am I would have those skills with me; thus I would have “mobile wealth’ in the sense that I could at any time (theoretically) use this skill-set to obtain money or, through barter, anything else I need. This idea extends to a remarkable number of “skills”, e.g., such as interactive “people” skills that provide us with influence, etc.
Connection with family or community is also suggested by Fehu, although its meaning begins to merge with Othala. Certainly having such connections, especially with a large group of people, provides a kind of semi-mobile wealth that extends as far as the boundaries of your community. Here it blends with the “homeland” aspect of Othala.
I have put this up because I have occasionally had trouble interpreting Fehu in context of divination, and this notion of and internalized “mobile wealth” helps me understand some of the readings I’ve made.
I am interested to hear what others may think of this interpretation. Thanks,
Arthur