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8 RUNIC RELATIONSHIPS
There are two chief types of relationships between runes: structural and conceptual. Structural
relationships are those determined by placement in the futhark order, including division into aettir,
Schneider’s “futhark pattern of manifestation,” = and all relationships discovered through number.
Conceptual relationships are those in which the basic idea of a rune is closely tied to the basic idea of
another, either overtly through name and references in the Rune Poems or through linkages of nature and
function.
Because of the manner in which all of the runes are woven together, one may, and should try to,
find an endless number of ties between them. One may see here a model of the universe as a whole and of
the human mind at work, keeping in mind that even the most contorted chain of logic will come up with
truth when working to prove something true-in this case, the dependence of every part of the universe on
every other part and the infinite web of connections between them. One may observe how well the
Qabalists have done by the use of gematria (numerical calculations in which each Hebrew letter is
assigned a number and words of the same value are assumed to be equivalent in nature) . . . or even by
discovering Qabalistic truths in the rhymes of Mother Goose.2 Although the latter may sound exceedingly
silly, the discipline of looking into everything-no matter how frivolous or ordinary-to see the workings of
the runes is an excellent form of meditation, strengthening both one’s capabilities to use the runes
practically and one’s ability to read the cast runes aright.
STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIPS
The greatest complex of structural relationships, which was the best-known of traditional (pre-Christian)
runic theory, is the division of the futhark into aettir-a curious term which may mean either “eights” or
“families.” This term is also used for the eight divisions of the compass and their winds. The division of
the futhark into aettir was retained even after it was reduced to the Younger form and no longer made up
of three literal “eights.”
The first aett is formed of the essential elements and abilities which the vitki must have developed
within her/himself: magical force (fehu), vital shaping power (uruz), dynamic/active force (thurisaz),
inspiration and galdr-skill (ansuz), rhythm and timing (raidho), control of energies and skill to aaft them
(kenaz), the ability to give and receive power (gebo), and self-confidence in an integrated personality
(wunjo). This is called Freyja’s aett because it be- gins with the first rune of her name and is largely
defined by the runes associated with her, beginning with the basic energy of fehu and continuing with the
ability to control, form, and use the power in Midgardhr and the immediately surrounding worlds in<
which the might of Freyr and Freyja mainly works.
The second aett is alternately called Hagal’s aett and Heimdall’s aett. (* Schneider proposes an
unknown god Hagal, possibly associated with the creation of the world, as an explanation for some of the
mysteries of hagalaz; there is no reference to this being in any other source.) This aett holds withir’ itself
the runes writing forth the shape of the cosmos, those being also the runes of the vitki’s initiation into the
higher levels of consciousness. It begins with the wholeness of the universe’s structure (hagalaz) and
continues through testing to awaken the inner fire (nauthiz), primal ice and the bridge of consciousness
(isa), the cycles of the year and the growth of the seeds of power within the vitki (jera), the vertical trunk
of Yggdrasill and the initiation by ordeal (eihwaz), the Well of Wyrd and the vitki’s ability to understand
and use its power, the yew-tree/Bifrost bridge and the communication between vitid and valkyija, and the
wheel of the sun and the vitki’s magical will (sowilo). Both the hailstone (hagalaz) and Heimdallr are
fining in naming this aeft, the one marking it as the aett of cosmological structure, the other as the aett of
rising awareness and expanding consciousness, as Heimdallr, the guardian of the bridge, also hears
everything that happens in the Nine Worlds.
The third aett is called the aett of Tiwaz because of the rune that begins it: the spear is the emblem
of Tyr in his oldest aspect as Sky-Father, and it is this aspect to which the aett-name refers esoterically.
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