Waking The Dragons: Norse Myth, Runes and Magic

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.

In Norse myth, Memory (personified as Mimir) had a daughter called Urd. Urd is the Goddess of the Cycles of Time, all of time flowed toward her like currents of sea and she received all; she is all of the past. The memory of yesterday transforms into her Urd-water (named Aurr); she collects each wavelet and fills the great Well of Memory. This wate

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.

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

The three sisters of time are called Urd, Verdandi and Skuld. Past, present and future. The word Skuld, depicting the future, means "hidden" - also this is the same root word as "debt" in many Scandinavian languages.

Logos was the peer-reviewed essay, the analysis, the laboratory, the bookkeeping. Since that time, and as a heritage from ancient Greece and the influence of the enlightenment period, our Western society presents logos as the main, and only, viable description of reality and truth; a reality and truth that can be calculated and quantified.

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

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

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.