TEUTONIC MAGIC - Awaken Video

Heithrun, the goat is called,
who stands in Warfather’s hall
and eats of Laerath’s limbs,
She fills the vat full of bright mead.
That drink cannot be drained.
Fikthyrnir, the hart is called
who stands in Warfather’s hall
and eats of Laerath’s limbs.
Drops fall from its horn to Hvergelmir.
From there all waters have their way. 1
The stave-shape of uruz also shows the horns of the aurochs. They point downward rather than upward,
showing the animal ready to charge. The best-known quality of the historical aurochs was its untameable
ferocity, which to the ancient Germanic people was a sign of its overflowing spiritual vitality. Its horns
were embodiments of this potency, and also represented the capability to pierce into other worlds. The
Germanic peoples sometimes wore horned helms in ritual for this reason: the warrior/vitki has access to
all realms and is master of all. By defeating the aurochs and drinking from his horn, the warrior assumed
the animal’s strength, power, and pride of place. Uruz is the rune by which the vitki rules the “lands”
around him/herself, just as the aurochs ruled the moors.
The rune uruz is best known as a rune of healing, since it draws life-force from all the realms and brings it
into being according to the initial pattern which is held in the genetic structure of the body (see hagalaz).
It both shapes and maintains the health and strength which are necessary to sustain the intense efforts of
magic and to withstand the strain which prolonged use of energies puts on the user.
Uruz is used to aid in the growth of “wisdom” within you; that is to say, the deep-rooted, semiconscious
awareness of the patterns of being and the way in which the waters of Urdhr are flowing. It can be used to
bring your awareness to the workings of nature and the ebb and flow of natural energies. Uruz can be
used in the personal sphere to bring you courage and physical strength and to enhance your independence
and leadership abilities.
In workings of woe, uruz can be used either to control another directly or to put that person at the mercy
of internal or external forces which he/she cannot control. More frequently, it is used to strengthen
yourself and bring you wisdom needed to gain victory in a struggle. In using uruz to enhance your own
power, you must remember that it is a primal and wild force which requires streght to work with. As the
Germanic warrior had to overcome the physical aurochs to prove his fitness, so the vitki must be able to
do this on the mental and spiritual plane.
Used with other runes, uruz works to bring them into being on all levels of reality and to send them into
the Well of Urdhr, as described above. It is the power by which you can shape the patterns of your weird
and by which those patterns are brought forth; it is the working of Wyrd’s water, as laguz is the water
itself and perthro is the Well.
As a rune of warding, uruz can be used against forces of breaking both to maintain the patterns that
already exist within your own sphere and to either turn those energies back to their source or to use them
for your own weal.
Ritually, uruz represents the act of drinking or pouring a hallowed draught from the horn or cup.
In its aspect as the horns piercing the walls between the worlds, uruz can be called upon to bring about
visions or to make speaking between realms easier.
The stone associated with uruz is tiger’s eye, which is traditionally said to bring courage, confidence, and
strength, and which calls forth life force and brings it into your own being. The eyelike gleam of light in
this stone hints at the horns of uruz piercing the realms of being so that a ray of brightness shines through.
Your mouth is dry and parched with thirst in spite of the cold. You scoop up a freezing handful of water
and taste it, but it is so frothy and bitter that you spit it out at once. As you watch, a cloud begins to rise
from the churning torrent shedding bitter black venom which mingles with the sparks arching across the
void to form a roaring giant-shape towering far above your head. Clear water begins to drizzle down from
the purified cloud. You toss your head back to drink of it; it is sweet, coot and good.
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