TEUTONIC MAGIC - Awaken Video

As the final rune and completion of the futhark, othala holds all the runes; the power of the runes is
our own mystical heritage.
The rune othala is used to strengthen the ties of clan, especially those which relate to family
customs and practices. This encompasses all those of similar physical and/or spiritual ancestry, the sibs of
blood and soul.
Othala is used to bring out wisdom and power from all sources of your heritage, including past-life
knowledge and talents.. It is particularly useful here in conjunction with mannaz and ansuz (mark the
numerical correspondence also). It may be used to gain an earthly inheritance in cases of legal questions,
or to bring you back to the homeland of your ancestors and roots into family history.
Othala is used to gain wealth in the form of possessions and immobile property, as set against the
mobile wealth of fehu. It also protects that which you rightfully own.
Othala shows both inclusion and exclusion; in workings of woe, it may in certain combinations and
settings be used to cast an individual out beyond its borders, the borders of human society. It may also
create a sense of racial or cultural prejudice. The vitki working with this rune must always be careful not
to let her/himself be bound by it!
In ritual workings, othala shows the circle or ritual enclosure. The outer circle is the ordinary space
of society (Midgardhr); the circle of the vitki is the holy circle, corresponding to Asgardhr. It also shows
the mysteries of the ancestors and the blood-and-soil of the homeland as the truth held in all the beliefs
about “native earth.”
Used with other runes, othala defines their sphere of working, particularly in those cases where the
matter at hand is a boundary of some kind-magical, social, or physical. It is good as a part of wardings. It
may also be used well in meditations to learn more of your past.
A stone which works well with othala is petrified wood, which is particularly known for its
capability to bring out the memories and talents of past lives, and which can also be used to awaken the
slumbering dragon of ancestral might.
Othala: Meditation
You stand outside, in a valley, at sunset, inside a fence which encloses a wide diamond-shaped yard
around a house. You recognize this house as your childhood home, set alone in this bit of fertile land
surrounded by high, rocky mountains. You begin to walk the long stretch of the fence around the field,
tools in your hand to repair any breaks in it you might find.
The sky darkens quickly when the sun has sunk behind the dark mountain peaks. The wind from
the heights moans and howls eerily, sweeping down through the rocks in a whispering blast of cold. As
the night settles into windy blackness, you see that the fence is beginning to glow with a faint golden
light. You sense that wild things are moving beyond its border. You can just see the shadows of their
misshapen forms.
One of the wild things lopes up to the fence, moving now on four legs, now on two, lifting its face
up to sniff at the boundary. It seems to be a manlike wolf or wolflike man, with flat face and long limbs
covered with coarse gray hair. The wolf-creature howls, a mournful, desperate sound that sets the hairs
prickling up on your arms and down your back, and runs back into the night. You know that you have
seen a vargr, an outlaw, cursed to live as a wolf beyond the bounds of kin and clan, and shudder in both
pity and revulsion.
Finally you have completed your rounds of the fence. Certain that nothing can break through it,
you enter your house. Your family is eating dinner inside; it is warm and bright, and you are glad to join
them.
As you eat, you see a faint brightness out of the corner of your eye. You turn your head and see the
rune othala in bright gold upon the floor. Inside it stands a woman in golden robes. Her hair is streaked
with gray, though she is strong and tall; her eyes are bright with wisdom. Although you do not know her,
you can tell by her features that she is a member of your family.
Your kinswoman beckons to you. You push back your hair and go to her, entering the enclosure of
the rune through the crossed lines at its base. As you step in, the rune grows until it seems that you and
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