Waking The Dragons: Norse Myth, Runes and Magic

We have Ur-logs in our own lives - the big ripples, such as love won and lost, illness, relations, betrayal and all the tangles of our human existence. In the ceremony we are invited to add new Ur-logs (laws) through a pledge or to change our ways or to do things differently.

The etymology of the word "rune" means: "to carve" or "to cut". In Low German, the word is "raunen". As the runes were cut and carved into wood, metal or stone, the word "rune" was analogous to the rune letters themselves. In Old English, "writing" comes from "wrītan"; which orig

Our world the gods called Midgard - the Middle Earth. Over Middle Earth Ymir’s skull was placed as the sky, held up by four dwarves: north, east, south and west - to forever hold it together upon their shoulders. Ymir’s brain is today the floating clouds. Always moving and always thinking - changing like the weather. His decapitation and the creati

"Myths are things which never happened, but always are."

The word rune also means: "mystery, secret or whisper."

We don’t need to discredit either science or the fairytale. Mythos is necessary; we need it at funerals, at weddings and when a baby is born. It is a language that shows a reflection of our humanity and it carries metaphorical and poetic depth. We need logos too; in the laboratory, to build a house, in calculating the speed of sound and the mathema

The heart of ceremony is transformation and when done correctly it can offer us a set of new eyes with which to view our relationships, obstacles or community.

But Odin knew that his largest and most dangerous battle would have to be against the firstborn babe, Ymir - the biggest of all the giants and the most wild. Upon an ice mountain in Nifelheim they battled, none was a victor at first and for many years they fought. Until one day, Odin (spirit) cut open the throat of Ymir and blood cascaded out of hi

The primal laws are called Ur-Log in Old Norse texts (Ur = origin, log = law). These laws relate to the constant unfolding of the cosmos. The consequences of these ancient laws are called the Wyrd.