I have the Dremel, a beach full of smooth stones, the elder futhark, and the summer solstice coming up in two weeks.
Any tips, tricks, rules, or suggestions on how best to create and charge them?
>>17782479
Unless you plan on selling them to autists I'd recommend you get a job.
You would do more universal good, enhance more live that'll you would imagine by doing something so simple as planting a few trees, or taking an hour to talk to someone about something real and true.
But if magic stones are your thing I'll concede.
>>17782479
If you mean to do a halfway decent job on them, you're not going to manage more than one a day. It's harder than you think it is.
At least you're using your time creatively.
I'm expecting it to take a couple or three evenings to do one set. Might sell them if they look good.
More just interested in the creation process and the opportunity to put intent and energy into the runes.
Stone type, color, etc must play a role somehow, but perhaps the efficacy there is based on the meaning I derive, more than any 'best practice'?
Bamp. No divination friends online?
>>17782479
Do not forget - paint the carved runes by your own blood.
>>17783170
or he can use loaded pigments.
Pigments used by the old vitkar were red ocher, minium (red
lead), and madder. Minium is a latecomer, but ocher was known from
neolithic times. Madder is obtained from the root of the plant of the
same name (rubia tincturia). The Old Norse form of madder is madhra,
and the magical power of the plant is no doubt increased by the
magico-affective association of this world with madhr, the Old Norse
word for "man" (: M :). All of these pigments are available in some
form at art supply stores. They should be ground with linseed oil, or
a gum mixture, in a ritual manner just prior to the beginning of the
runic rite. Linseed is, of course, derived from the seed of the flax
plant, which is extremely important in runecraft. Its ancient name
lina often appears in runic talismans for fertility, growth, and well-being.
During the grinding process the futhark or the runes to be
used in the rite should be intoned, infusing the dye with the potential
energy of those runes. All of these pigments are symbolic substitutes
for the innate magical power held by the blood, either human or that
of a ritually sacrificed animal. If blood is used no "preloading" is
necessary. However, since the blood runes, the sanguine mysteries,
are part of the religious expression, many vitkar will not concern
themselves with them. All of the rituals in this book certainly may be
performed powerfully using these venerable dyes!
Excellent, thank you!
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