Ansuz

These Pagan Portals are all current works in progress, serialised here on the Pagan Collective blog with each chapter being open for comment. In due course the entire script will be published as a Pagan Portal book.

Over the next few months, we will be running weekly Spirit of the Rune lessons on this blog. Follow along and learn the runes!

Ansuz:

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Before reading about the meanings and qualities associated with Ansuz, take time to contemplate this rune.

In Your Journal 

1. In your journal or on a separate piece of paper, trace, draw or doodle Ansuz. While drawing, say its name out loud: how does it feel? Where does it resonate within your body?
2. Imagine what color(s) best match(es) Ansuz and apply them to the image you have drawn.
3. What texture do you think goes with Ansuz? Can you represent the texture in your drawing?
4. Look around. From your surroundings, what objects and shapes, if any, would you connect with Ansuz? What natural, man-caused phenomena or activities come to mind when you look at your representation of Ansuz? Write those down.

Now read the lines describing Ansuz in the rune poems.

•  Icelandic: ”God aged Gautr/ and prince of Ásgarðr/ and lord of Valhalla”
• Anglo-Saxon: “The mouth is the source of all language,/a pillar of wisdom and a comfort to wise men,/ a blessing and a joy to every knight.”  
• Norwegian: “Estuary is the way of most journeys/ but a scabbard is of swords.”

In Your Journal 

5. Can you relate the description in the poems with your own experience of the rune? You may be able to find correlations with the description given in just one poem. Or you may not see any correlations yet. Journal your findings, whatever they are.

Here are some of the meanings commonly attributed to Ansuz in readings:

• generally interpreted as a god, particularly Odin;
• voice, expression;
• communication in its many forms;
• wise advice (needed or received);
• inspired thought, good planning;
• pursuit of knowledge, spiritual growth.

In Your Journal 

6. Journal about how these meanings fit with your own experiences so far. Be open to the fact that the way you perceive this rune may change over time, with some meanings fading and others emerging. At the end of the course, revisit your journal entry and make updates (if necessary).

  

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