{"id":513,"date":"2025-03-22T05:09:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T05:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/?p=513"},"modified":"2025-03-22T05:10:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T05:10:40","slug":"tools-of-my-trade-the-runes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Tools of my Trade: The Runes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have been using the Elder Futhark runes for divination since 1985. I was given a copy of Ralph Blum\u2019s The Book of Runes<\/em> by a classmate. Although most authors ascribe different meanings to the runes than Blum did, I still found them to be quite useful. It wasn\u2019t until I began to practice Asatru some eight years later that I read works by Thorsson, Tyson, Gundarsson, Cooper, Paxson and others that I learned potentially more traditional meanings. Here are the various sets that I currently have. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Wood-burned Red Oak, self-made.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Etched river stones, gifted to me<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Low-temperature ceramic, gifted to me<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Fired ceramic, made for me by my apprentice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Rune Magic cards by Donald Tyson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Power of the Runes cards by Voenix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Enameled wood by Wellfleet Press<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Rune playing cards by Bicycle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been using the Elder Futhark runes for divination since 1985. I was given a copy of Ralph Blum\u2019s The Book of Runes by a classmate. Although most authors ascribe different meanings to the runes than Blum did, I still found them to be quite useful. It wasn\u2019t until I began to practice Asatru … Continue reading Tools of my Trade: The Runes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":523,"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spikevision.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}