Guest Author - Kim DeLeary

It is beneficial to make your own runes for divination purposes. Making your own rune set is a part of the rune magic. Making your own runes can be as simple or as complex as you want it to be.

There are several benefits from making your own rune set. When you make your own runes and are handling them during the process you are imbuing them with your vibrations or energy. By making your own runes, your connection with the runes can enable more accurate and clearer readings.

There are enough ways to make runes simply and inexpensively that you should be able to soon have your own handcrafted runes ready to use. Some of the different ways for easily creating your own runes include using card stock and a pen, forming and baking the runes from salt dough or craft dough and using cut pieces of wood. Remember to also make a simple drawstring bag for your runes.

Make your own rune cards from lined index cards. Draw the runes on the front of the card and use the lined side for writing the meaning. Write the meaning of the rune first so you can contemplate its meaning as you draw the rune on the blank side. When you are ready to use your runes, shuffle and draw. Draw cards for Urd - past, Servandi - present and Skuld - Future. Interpret your cards.

Use sculpting clay that you can form, mark and bake according to manufacturer's instructions. Get red clay to symbolize life. There are several types of baking clay that you can use, for example, salt dough. You can form circular, triangular or rectangular shapes for your runes. Remember the shape of the runes when deciding on the size of your rune blanks.

You will need to comfortably be able to impress or incise your rune forms without running out of space or cramping the rune from not enough space. Try out a few first and then form little balls of that size so your runes will be equal in size. Practice making the rune marks on your blanks until you know the correct pressure to use that will let you mark the soft rune without squishing it out of shape. Form the balls into your preferred shape, mark and bake.

If you decide that drawing your rune symbols on your baked form is easier than carving or pressing the symbol on your clay, use paint, markers and specialty pens for the job. Make sure it is smooth where you plan on drawing the symbol. If you choose to use natural clay that must be fired, you will need to locate a kiln that you can rent space in for a small fee. There are two main firings of the clay, before and after the glaze is applied.

Cut wood circles from a single fruit tree branch. Carve the rune symbols into the runes. Cure for one year for complete drying and one day to direct your preferred magical energies into the runes. Runes were stained red, sometimes with a drop of blood in the staining agent. While staining a wooden rune with the symbol cut into it, avoid getting stain into the symbol so that the symbol will stand out from the stained portion.

Different mediums have different magical correspondences. You can also choose a medium because it is right for you at that time. You can also use found items like pebbles, stones, beads, glass stones, penny tiles, little wooden discs used in wood crafts and cut wood trim from the lumberyard. Liquid pens will sometimes mark on these things well; gold and silver lettering look nice for dark items. If you use glass, make sure your paint sticks to its surface. Paint markers and gel pens write legibly on a variety of surfaces. Here is a link to the Norse runes and their meanings. There are only twenty four in this set so it is easy to work with when making your own runes.

You can be creative when making your rune set. By making your own, you can be sure your connection to the runes will be closer than the runes you buy from someone else or that have been mass produced. It is easy to have fun creating your own runes for divination.


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