BIND-RUNES

Blessings, spell work, prayers and meditations using Runes.

Please take the runes seriously as they are not a parlor game like Monopoly or Checkers. Whether you believe in Wyrd, Karma or the Three Fold Law, use common sense always in anything you do and especially when using the runes. If you believe it, then it is so. If you say it, you cannot take it back.

Bind-runes are very powerful because when you draw them they come from deep from within your subconscious becoming conscious. If you take the different runes you need to bring about change, placing one rune on top of another the end result is that you get many more runes than you bargained for. You have to take these extra runes into account for the bind-rune.

What is a Bind-rune?

They are two or more rune staves superimposed one over the other and sometimes used to make galdor-staves. Draw them on paper before making them permanent any where!

What is galdor? (Old Norse, Galdr/pl. galdrar)

It’s a magical incantation very much like a mantra. Some call it singing the runes. It is quite beautiful and powerful in use. You can learn to pronounce the runes correctly by getting a copy of Rune Song by Edred Thorsson or Northern Mysteries by Freya Aswynn (both include CDs with the pronunciations). Rune singing used with intent to bring about change by using the correct rune chant is very empowering.

What is a galdor-stave?

It’s a magical sign which may or may not actually be a bind-rune. It is used for focus of magical intent.

What is a stave?

Used sometimes as meaning the same thing as a rune or as in rune stave. It is the physical shape of the rune.

What is risting?

Risting is the equivalent of carving a rune.

Example of a request made for tattooing a specific bind-rune:

“…On my chest, over my heart, I would like a bind-rune that represents, again, in essence: Love, Truth, Awareness, Understanding, Honour and Well-Being…”