SYNOPSIS
Any author knows very well that words seek the company of words, deeds lead to further deeds and deeds also look for expression through words, to paraphrase Odin speaking in Hávamál St. 141.
This book presents an innovative way of working with the runes. There were three key insights (explained below) which led to me developing the material presented here.
- Years ago I wrote in my Rune Journal that “Every liminal space between runes is a mystery school, and its curriculum is mythology!” This insight proved to be incredibly fertile ground for mapping the liminal spaces between the runes.
- The letter (or glyph) sequence of many early (ancient) alphabets (such as Phoenician, Archaic Hebrew and Egyptian Hieroglyphs) appears to be connected to the night sky and star patterns. Does a similar correspondence exist for the runes?There is also a chapter about Old Norse Astronomy, guided by astronomical numbers and references to celestial events described in the Poetic Edda.
- Next I asked myself the following question: before the Enlightenment, Astronomy and Astrology were one unified field of study. What happens if I arrange the Runes of the Elder Futhark in a Circle and then look at that circle the way that an astrologer reads a natal (birth) chart?
The runes map a mythical or imaginal realm where cosmic blueprints share their stories and wisdom through archetypal figures, deities, personifications, alchemical images and symbols.I found countless correspondences and wisdom teachings (portals, patterns and pathways, which gave me the title of this book!)
