Lessons - Tests

Lesson 17 - Tests and Reading

Comprehension Test

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

Further Exercises

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

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". (this extract is available for registered students only at the Student Site).

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.

In Ruarik Grimnisson's Rune Rede, chapter 12, "Casting and Reading the Runes", read from page 206 to page 207 down to "..applied to their magickal applications".

Once again we encounter another form of modifier runes. In the lecture, then in Aswynn's book and now in Grimnisson's, we have seen an acknowledgement that runes interact with each other, yet all three writers have viewed this as occuring through (slightly) different mechanisms.

As we have said before, the runes are a very personal oracle and everyone's experience with them will be different. Imagine two witnesses to a crime. Both people see the same events but from slightly different viewpoints. Moreover since people have varying perceptive abilities, the chance are the two witnesses will remember different details. One might remember the criminal's height, the other his hair color etc. In the same way, our ability to use and perceive the power of the runes is highly individual. Only through time, practice and experience will you discover the runic patterns that you are able to see and hence which will have significance for you.

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