Taking Up the Runes A Complete Guide to Using Runes in Spells, Rituals, Divination, and Magic Diana Paxson
Taking Up the Runes is the ultimate workbook for using the runes on a psychic, spiritual, and magical level. Learn how to make your own rune set and how to use the runes in guided meditations and song.
(PRWEB) April 17, 2005 -- Although many of us first encountered runes in
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, this sacred alphabet is by no means a
fabrication for books or movies. Similar to Hebrew letters in the sense that
each symbol contains a meaning that transcends its original function as a
letter, the runes are practical, flexible, and effective symbols with a variety
of uses.
“Effective use of the runes requires both the old wisdom and
the new. The student must not only consciously study the meanings ascribed to
the runes by earlier scholars, but must internalize them.” —Diana Paxson, from
Taking Up the Runes (Weiser Books, May 2005)
Today, the best-known
application of rune lore is divination: chips or stones marked with the runes
are drawn, cast, or laid out in patterns like tarot cards. In Taking Up the
Runes, Paxson delves into the ancient historical meaning of each rune and
explains their contemporary uses and meanings. We discover that the real power
of runes comes from inside ourselves when we find the wisdom and power within
each symbol and internalize them.
Taking Up the Runes is the ultimate
workbook for using the runes on a psychic, spiritual, and magical level. Learn
how to make your own rune set and how to use the runes in guided meditations and
song.
Diana Paxson is author of more than a dozen historical novels with
strong spiritual themes including The White Raven and The Serpent’s Tooth. She
is also the coauthor, with Marion Zimmer Bradley, of Priestess of Avalon and has
continued the immensely popular Mists of Avalon series on her own. Visit Diana
at www.greyhaven.net.
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