The Modern Heathen

In a previous article I talked about the need, when considering the runes, including readings, to not just consider each rune in and of itself, but also to consider the relationship between runes.   Another very close relationship is:

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When I teach the runes, and when I consider them, there are two important concepts I try to tell my students.   First is that the runes tell the story of history, and some of the events through history, from creation through Ragnarok.   It can take years to see this story, and I still haven’t gotten all the pieces together.

But what I perceive to be more important is that the runes have relationships to each other.   As with the virtues, where I discuss the relationship between each of the virtues, the same is also true for the runes.   While everyone rune doesn’t have a clearly relationship with every other, there are other pairs, that when we consider them, seem to fit together.

One of my personal favorites, and one that comes up commonly is the relationship between

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