Runes for Beginners: A Guide to Reading Runes in Divination, Rune Magic, and the Meaning of the Elder Futhark Runes (The Divination Series: Tarot, Runes and More)

by Lisa Chamberlain

Ingwaz indicates safety and a loving family environment.

Magical Uses: Fertility, bringing a situation to an end, building and releasing magical energy, protection, passion

Dagaz

Dagaz is the rune of daylight and is considered a very beneficial sign in any reading.

You may experience an unexpected successful outcome concerning a problem or project you have been working on.

Dagaz is also known as the “dawn rune,” and as such represents new hope, and an emerging from darkness into light.

Dagaz also represents the breakthrough of insight and inspiration, whether on an artistic, creative level or in terms of spiritual enlightenment.

Dagaz can point to a major transformation or fundamental change in your life.

Some have compared the rune’s shape to the wings of a butterfly, evoking the beautiful, winged completion of what can start out as an uncomfortable or frightening transition. If

Magical Uses: Good luck, promote positive transformations, increase in wealth, turning the corner in a challenging situation, spiritual or creative breakthrough

Othala

Othala, the final rune of the Elder Futhark, is the rune of heritage, and speaks to what we come into the world with in terms of who we are born to and raised by.

Othala may indicate that an aspect of your current situation is related to your background—perhaps unconscious beliefs you absorbed as a child, or some other element that shaped your upbringing.

Othala is associated with wealth.

ancestral wealth

the rune could just be nudging you to check in with your people “back home.”

Othala represents a maintaining of the status quo, the way “things have always been done.” In an ever-changing world, however, it’s up to you to distinguish between what is useful to hang on to, and what needs to be discarded

Othala reversed often points to conflict and disharmony within the family, and could indicate a divorce or major rift, or perhaps arguments over inheritance

More generally, the reversed position indicates a feeling of being alone, isolated from family and/or community, without connection to your current dwelling place.

Othala may also signify assistance from friends or older people.

healing, promote harmonious family relationships, clarity about the self and about the “bigger picture,” communication with ancestors

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