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Lesson 17 - Tests and Reading

Comprehension Test

1. What addition information does Othila (Ethel) offer when found beside Fehu (Feoh) ?
2. What are the four elements?
3. How many runes are capable of 180 degree rotation?
4. If runes can be shown to operate according to a simple formula, what does it mean for us as readers?
5. Suggest a meaning for Tiwaz (Tir) when performing the representative function
6. What might the effect be of one Air and two Water runes?
7. Name two runes to which particular significant might be paid when they occur in a spread?
8. In most readings where there is interaction between two adjacent runes, what role does the second rune play?
9. If rune reversal does not change the meaning, what does it change?
10. Why do we not often see two adjacent runes with an identical meaning?

Further Exercises

1. Using your knowledge of the runes, chose an other aspect of them (other than governing element) which you think could result in patterns during a reading. Explain how your method works and give an example of it in action.

Reading

These are themes not very well covered in the set books, or indeed many others, so there is not very much reading to do this lesson. In Freya Aswynn's Principles of Runes, chapter 4, "Divination with Runes", read from the top of p 77 to p 78 ending ".. aspects they have in common".

You will recognize that Aswynn's "inverted runes" are the same as the reversed runes discussed in the lecture. Her "companion runes" are a more generalized form of modifier rune. This is a little different to what was considered in the lecture, but as you will be aware by now, there are few definites with the runes. You will have to consider the various approaches and decide which, if any, you wish to apply in your own divinatory practice.

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