Runes and reversals 2

In my work with bindrunes, using runecasting as the means for selecting runes to use in creating a bindrune, in some of my work I have been given the reversed forms to incorporate. The first time this happened, my initial inclination was to turn the rune right side up. After a several minutes contemplating this, I changed my mind and turn the rune back the way it had come up in the reading, and proceeded with creating the bindrune into the aesthetically pleasing sigil I wanted. Since then, many of my bindrunes have incorporated reversed runes in thier makeup. At first I wasn’t sure what it may indicate, but as time and experience progressed, I slowly came to realization. It has to do with the action of the rune and where it is being activated. This is different from in a reading, although understanding it might help make some things more clear in a reading.




This first became clear to me when I was creating a bindrune to find hidden treasure. Finding hidden treasure is of great interest in much European and American folklore. Long before banks were common and established as mostly trustworthy institutions… People protected their money and valuables through concealment, often through burying them where only they would find it, so long as their secret was not revealed. The problem is that sometimes before they could recover their valuables, the person might die from various circumstances, or without documentation they also forgot where they concealed their wealth. It seemed interesting to me that something like this exists, and yet there is no real modern day interest in this action, except for various treasure hunters who seek out a multitude of technological toys to assist them. Of course, in this day and age, hidden treasure might take on a different meaning. From family bank accounts that were forgotten or lost because of bank foreclosures, to finding out that grandpa’s old clock is a $5,000 art piece to the right collector, to the right bit of information that suddenly puts laws and regulations in your favor, hidden treasure can take many forms.



I thought I would try this out, so I created a bindrune to work with in finding “hidden treasure.” In the process of casting the runes for this, one of the runes that came up was Feoh reversed, the rune of wealth upside down. That is when it dawned on me, “Duh, of course, Hidden Wealth, would be Feoh reversed.” From that insight, the rest of the pieces fell into place for other reversed runes in the bindrunes. They can point to an interior aspect, of the magic of changing the energies within you or a situation. It can also point to powers that are acting discretely, cause sometimes charging in head first, guns blazing is quick way to get your request denied, whereas choosing to grease the palm of the bouncer to get in the back can be more successful. It is something that I have happily embraced with my rune magic, but it has also been a great boon in readings to, as sometimes the layout of runes in the reading indicates that hidden aspect of a reversed rune, instead of a misfortunate meaning.

Rant on Love and Judgement

After some recents events involving people in my life, someone made the comment to me that "they love everyone equally" and "they don't judge."  The only thing I can think of is "wow, that's totally messed up."  Why?  because you just accept and tolerate every persons behavior they will either a) eventually walk right over you, but you won't care just you don't judge and b) stomp all over everyone around you while you sit back, loving them, not judging and allowing them to carry on in destructrive ways.  Love and judgement go together in my book.  If you are not judging someone's behavior, then you do not love them either.  If you don't love someone, then you also don't bother to judge thier actions and seek to help them correct it when they are maladaptive behaviors.  It just really irks me when people tell others "You shouldn't judge" or "Don't judge" when it comes to poor behavior, when they really mean I shouldn't judge them because of certain physical traits that they cannot control.  But all people can control thier behavior, as the nature of all behavior is voluntary.  So when someone is behaving poorly, I will judge thier behavior and tell them to knock it off, as they have chosen at some point, to act inappropriately to the situation and it's context.