TEUTONIC MAGIC - Awaken Video

Isa, the “I” rune, is also the strength of the ego, and it is a bridge also in the sense that it provides
safe passage through the turbulent waters (laguz) of initiation-both because it guards the ego from
dissolution by holding the vitki’s concentration firm and warding it against the stresses placed on it, and
because it provides a sound mental “footing” as you travel through the dark abyss. The rune-poem line “a
danger to fey men” shows the perils of trying to travel on this way before you are ready. The ice of your
ego may seem thick and strong, but it is often surprisingly brittle and soft beneath the glistening surface,
and if you have allowed your ego to deceive you about your magical and mental prowess, the bridge of
ice will break. At best, you must tread with utmost care; the power of isa is, indeed, “exceedingly
slippery,” and any crack in the ice of your concentration will drop you into the dark waves beneath.
Isa is the antithesis of fehu in all ways. It can be used in workings of woe to bring about
barrenness, to interfere with prosperity, and to cause depression and lack of the will to act. As fehu is the
rune of energy and movement, so isa is the rune of binding. It can be used to set battle-fetter and cause
paralyzing fear or obsession; it works to prevent or halt movement, both that of growth and that of
disintegration.
As a rune of control, isa should generally not be brought into direct contact with fehu except as
guided by the workings of thurisaz and hagalaz. As described in the Havamal, isa is a “sea- rune”: the
unruly powers that it is best at calming and guiding are those seen as wild winds or waters, such as the
might of troubled circumstances and confusion.
In the personal sphere, isa can be used to strengthen powers of concentration and stabilize the
personality. Care should be taken, however, that you do not render yourself or another dull or obsessive.
Isa works to calm hysteria, hyperactivity, and restlessness.In the side of its being which is part of Hel and
the ice of death, isa is often used in magics of revenge and defense.
In ritual workings, isa embodies the unbreakable will and concentration of the mage. Isa can be
used to numb pain of the heart or the body.
Together with other runes, isa can be used to bind or to “shield” one rune from another to keep
them from interacting, although generally making a separate taufr is simpler and more effective.
Stones which may work well with some sides of isa’s being are herkimer diamond, which is said to
hold thoughts and energies stilt and gem silica, which is calming and relieving, particularly to the pain of
female troubles.
Isa: Meditation
It is night. The thin crescent of the waning moon sheds a pale light over the snow-covered ground
around you. You stand near the bank of a huge, powerfully rushing black river, its wild waters laced with
white froth and tumbling chunks of ice. A strong, freezing wind blows about you, quickly numbing your
face and hands.
You feel that you need to cross to the other side of the river. It is as if you were bound to a path
leading across it, but the river is too wide and its icy waters run too deep and fast for you to even think
long about fording it.
You walk closer to the edge of the bank, your boots leaving deep footprints in the blue-white snow.
As you near the water, you hear a sharp cracking sound and feel your footing beginning to tilt beneath
you. You try to scramble away, but the thick ice over the river’s edge has already broken off flinging you
face-down on one of the larger chunks. You must cling to your piece of ice, embracing its numbing cold
tightly. It tilts sickeningly, one way and another, as the black waters whirl it around and around, sweeping
you unstoppably downstream on the little floe that threatens to dump you into the river at any moment.
Slowly, moving an arm or leg to balance yourself every few seconds, you draw yourself up until you are
sitting in the center of your piece of ice, which, balanced, no longer tilts so alarmingly. You can see now
that all the solid snow on the banks is actually a roof of rime over the wide black sea, holding its rushing
wildness back except where the betraying waters sweep you along. Carefully, concentrating on every
motion to keep from tilting the ice or sliding off, you rise to your feet and stand in the position of isa, feet
together and arms over your head, feeling the stillness of the rune come over you like a shield against the
wind.
When you open your eyes, you stand on a fixed island of ice in the middle of the water, a white
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