TEUTONIC MAGIC - Awaken Video

may be seen clearly in Odhinn’s many workings to overcome the doom of Ragnarok by ensuring that a
new and even better world shall emerge after the downfall. The word Wyrd or Urdhr comes from a root
meaning “to turn”; the bow-drill is the counter-turning which works around the turnings of Wyrd at need.
Nauthiz rules the ability to guide the great power of deliberate sexual frustration (as opposed to the
guided sexual expression of kenaz).
Nauthiz is essentially a rune of overcoming in all ways. In its ability to deal with the woe-workings
of Wyrd, it is also a rune of counter-spelling, as described in the Sigrdrifumal where the valkyrja Sigrdrifa
gives Sigurth a veiled warning about the enchanted draught of ale he is shortly to face, which, by forcing
him into love with Guthrun and betrayal of Sigrdrifa (Brynhild) will bring about his death. She tells him
to “Learn ale runes eke I lest other man’s wife I betray thee who trusted in her: I on thy beer horn scratch
it I and the back of thy hand I and the Nauth rune on thy nails”.[1] Nauthiz can write around both that
which has been written by the Norns and that which has been written by other wights, if you know when
to use it.
Nauthiz represents the power to deal with all factors of stress, as described in the Havamal.
In the personal sphere, nauthiz should be called upon to strengthen yourself at need and turn woe
into weal. As well as sudden bursts of great bodily might, Nauthiz brings sudden bursts of creative
inspiration; the cliche “necessity is the mother of invention” writes it forth well. It is the rune that brings
forth the full range of your inner might when it is most needed. It also aids in the growth of your selfdiscipline.Nauthiz
is the stave of the inner stress which drives you to either greatness or an early grave,
sometimes both. It can cause compulsiveness and obsession.
The woe and weal of nauthiz’s working are so mingled that you can hardly use the one without the
other. When it is used on another person, it may give him/her the strength to endure suffering or it may
bring about hardships which teach that person an important lesson and ultimately strengthens her/him.
However, whether the stress caused by nauthiz ends in destroying or empowering its object is entirely
dependent on that person’s inner, hidden strength.
Ritually, nauthiz is the rune of banishings and cleansing by fire, especially the need-fire and the
smoke of recels. When blended with other runes, nauthiz can be called upon in its being as the rune of
counterspells and writing around written orlog, particularly in the setting of the many rune-readings
which are done before and after each runic working.
Nauthiz develops both the will and the self-sufficiency of the vitki. Its hardships must be faced
with only your own might, and only the self-generated fire can overcome them. Nauthiz is the rune of
trial and testing.
The stone of nauthiz is obsidian-glass hardened by intense fire until it can be shaped into weapons
which can take the sharp and painful edge of need. Obsidian is said to be a psychological tester which
shows you the faults in yourself and the sufferings you must undergo to overcome them.
Nauthiz: Meditation
You crouch in thin, dead grass on a mountainside at night, hungry and alone. A chilling wind
sweeps down from the peak, cutting through your wool tunic and patchy cloak as if you were naked,
freezing your very bones. The waning moon glitters off patches of frost on the scraggly grass around you
and shows your breath as little white clouds of ice in the air. Your cows huddle together near you. They
are thin, with scruffy coats, and most of them have the cloudy eyes and running sores of sickness.
Spreading your cloak to block the wind, you pick up a block of beech wood with a small hollow cut into
it, a small bow, and a stick of wood. Putting the end of the stick against the hollow, you turn it rapidly
back and forth with the bow. Your hands grow tired soon, but you keep at it doggedly, shivering as you
turn the bow-drill faster and faster. Slowly the exercise begins to warm you. Your panting rasps hotly
through your throat, breathing out great puffs of mist, but your hunger and fear keep you going. You
know that if you cannot kindle the need-fire now, before too many of your cattle have died, you will
starve this winter. You are beginning to sweat now, your muscles shaking with tiredness. You close your
eyes and keep drilling, grimly forcing your trembling arms to move faster, move faster. You do not stop
until you feel the sudden rush of warmth from beneath your hands and see the little coal burning. You
feed the fire slowly with kindling, putting a few leaves of dead grass on it the frost hissing away as they
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