Raido

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!

Raido:

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

In Your Journal 

1. In your journal or on a separate piece of paper, trace, draw or doodle Raido. 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) Raido and apply them to the image you have drawn.
3. What texture do you think goes with Raido? Can you represent the texture in your drawing?
4. Look around. From your surroundings, what objects and shapes, if any, would you connect with Raido? What natural, man-caused phenomena or activities come to mind when you look at your representation of Raido? Write those down.

Now read the lines describing Raido in the rune poems.

• Icelandic: ”Riding joy of the horsemen/and speedy journey/and toil of the steed.”
• Anglo-Saxon: “Riding seems easy to every warrior while he is indoors/ and very courageous to him who traverses the high-roads/ on the back of a stout horse.”  
• Norwegian: “Riding is said to be the worst thing for horses;/ Reginn forged the finest sword.”

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 Raido in readings:

• generally translated as journey;
• travel, relocating;
• moving into a new stage (life, work, study, spiritual pursuit)

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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