Runes Asking - "What do Vitranc most need to know about the times before me (2025)?" Draw Setting: Hagalaz Work: Perthro Outcome(s): Tiwaz (Murky)
My Take on It
Alrighty, to do this reading, I opened a sacred space, called upon the Wyrds (Norns) and concentrated on your question while shaking the Runestaves vigorously. I then dropped them in a dice tray, said a prayer to the Gods who help me with divination, and then drew three staves without looking, using the spread "Setting (context), Work (doing the thing you're considering), and Outcome(s) (whatever is most likely to come about if you do what you're thinking about). If I drew the stave right side up, it is "bright," and if I drew it face down it is "murky," which is roughly equivalent to drawing a card reversed in systems like Tarot. In the system of interpretation I use, "murky" means either that the forces represented by the Rune are manifesting in an unhelpful or harmful way, or else that they are somehow "blocked" - not manifesting fully or at all.
This reading is a bit complex, so bear with me as I put it together, please. For "Setting," what's going on around or within you this year, we have Hagalaz, which means "Hail" and stands for crisis - something unexpected and likely to be seen as negative at first, but perhaps containing the seeds of growth within it. "Work," meaning the kind of things you will/should turn your mind to in the coming year, came up as Perthro, which means (maybe) "Pear Tree/Wood" or "Game Piece/Cup" (their is no scholarly consensus on the meaning of the Rune, and the clues we have in the Old English Rune Poem are obscure), and is associated with the Heathen concept of luck/fate/the working of time Wyrd, but with a positive connotation when it comes up bright, rather than murky. Lastly, for "Outcomes," what is most likely to come about thanks to the happenings of the year as of this asking, we have Tiwaz (Murky), which means "Tiw" (the God known to the Norse as Tyr), which is associated with order, discipline, law, and self-sacrifice, and when murky, the downsides of these things.
Putting these together, as I said, we have a fairly complex reading. It seems this year will hit you with the unexpected, and in a way that might not seem welcome, but that your work, whether to ready yourself for this, or in response to it, will go well and be associated with the deeper flow of things and how they link together, but that if you are not careful, you might end up stuck in "analysis paralysis" - planning, weighing, evaluating, but not doing, or, alternatively, giving too much of yourself to the point of unhelpful self-sacrifice. Luckily, the Germanic conception of Wyrd is not so fatalistic as it is sometimes portrayed, and handling things well may lead you to happier outcomes than those indicated here, as with Ebenezer Scrooge desperately asking the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come "Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only?," we have a chance to change our ways, and so change what may come. So, to me, this reading indicates that you should heed what the world outside of you is trying to tell you, rather than getting caught up overly much in what comes from your mind - look for the opportunities in crisis, the happy accidents in your work, and trust more in doing than in planning.
Please let me know if you have any follow up questions, and if you're willing, I'd very much appreciate hearing whether this struck a chord or felt off, and if so, in what ways.
Re: Times before
Asking - "What do Vitranc most need to know about the times before me (2025)?"
Draw
Setting: Hagalaz
Work: Perthro
Outcome(s): Tiwaz (Murky)
My Take on It
Alrighty, to do this reading, I opened a sacred space, called upon the Wyrds (Norns) and concentrated on your question while shaking the Runestaves vigorously. I then dropped them in a dice tray, said a prayer to the Gods who help me with divination, and then drew three staves without looking, using the spread "Setting (context), Work (doing the thing you're considering), and Outcome(s) (whatever is most likely to come about if you do what you're thinking about). If I drew the stave right side up, it is "bright," and if I drew it face down it is "murky," which is roughly equivalent to drawing a card reversed in systems like Tarot. In the system of interpretation I use, "murky" means either that the forces represented by the Rune are manifesting in an unhelpful or harmful way, or else that they are somehow "blocked" - not manifesting fully or at all.
This reading is a bit complex, so bear with me as I put it together, please. For "Setting," what's going on around or within you this year, we have Hagalaz, which means "Hail" and stands for crisis - something unexpected and likely to be seen as negative at first, but perhaps containing the seeds of growth within it. "Work," meaning the kind of things you will/should turn your mind to in the coming year, came up as Perthro, which means (maybe) "Pear Tree/Wood" or "Game Piece/Cup" (their is no scholarly consensus on the meaning of the Rune, and the clues we have in the Old English Rune Poem are obscure), and is associated with the Heathen concept of luck/fate/the working of time Wyrd, but with a positive connotation when it comes up bright, rather than murky. Lastly, for "Outcomes," what is most likely to come about thanks to the happenings of the year as of this asking, we have Tiwaz (Murky), which means "Tiw" (the God known to the Norse as Tyr), which is associated with order, discipline, law, and self-sacrifice, and when murky, the downsides of these things.
Putting these together, as I said, we have a fairly complex reading. It seems this year will hit you with the unexpected, and in a way that might not seem welcome, but that your work, whether to ready yourself for this, or in response to it, will go well and be associated with the deeper flow of things and how they link together, but that if you are not careful, you might end up stuck in "analysis paralysis" - planning, weighing, evaluating, but not doing, or, alternatively, giving too much of yourself to the point of unhelpful self-sacrifice. Luckily, the Germanic conception of Wyrd is not so fatalistic as it is sometimes portrayed, and handling things well may lead you to happier outcomes than those indicated here, as with Ebenezer Scrooge desperately asking the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come "Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only?," we have a chance to change our ways, and so change what may come. So, to me, this reading indicates that you should heed what the world outside of you is trying to tell you, rather than getting caught up overly much in what comes from your mind - look for the opportunities in crisis, the happy accidents in your work, and trust more in doing than in planning.
Please let me know if you have any follow up questions, and if you're willing, I'd very much appreciate hearing whether this struck a chord or felt off, and if so, in what ways.
Cheers,
Jeff