Nauthiz is the 9th Rune of the Futhark or ‘runic alphabet’. It is the second rune of the second ‘Aett’: the runic alphabet is divided into three sections of eight runes each called Aetts.
The first Aett is all about what it is to be a person and communicate, go on a journey and form a relationship.
But the second Aett deals with the adverse circumstances of life and offers us true insight into how to deal with them, and if we can deal with them well, this begins to move us beyond the human realm of Midgard, onto Bifrost, the Rainbow Bridge which leads to the God Realm.
The ancient rune poem fragments all state how awful Nauthiz-type situations make us feel, but they point out that they can drive us to greater heights and thus, out of difficulty and extremity, they become a help and salvation. They offer us the hard chance to refine and improve our life.
A big theme of Nauthiz is sacred fire. The actual sign is two sticks crossed. And if you rub them together you can generate fire to keep alive in the middle of the hail of the preceding rune and the ice of the following rune.
But Nauthiz situations require hard work and learning to successfully meet great challenge. We must learn to focus on the right path of action and let old patterns die.
Always we feel the resources we have to meet Nauthiz situations are inadequate and scanty, but they are all we have, and meet Nauthiz we must! It is about making the best out of disaster or difficulty.
Nauthiz is a destiny rune. It is about having to meet a challenge we cannot avoid. It is one of the reasons we are here: our incarnational destiny.
The Norse had a belief that the web of life was woven by three ancient giant women who sat under the world tree Yggdrassil and wove our destinies. They sit by the well of Urd and their Names are Urd, Verdandi and Schuld: past, present and future. Future is the working out of Debt. They measure your destiny and decide your future at your moment of birth. The third Norn wields the shears that cut your thread of life when it is time for you to die. They are just and they keep the balance of the universe.
Every day they chant the Orlog, the law of cosmic balance. Only on the last day, when the forces of chaos will destroy the gods will their ancient chant fail. They keep open the passage between the worlds, ever watering the roots of the world tree Yggdrassil to save it from where the evil dragon Nidhogg gnaws (Nidhogg is controlled by the Norse Goddess Hel). Nauthiz situations are crucial fulcrum moments in the outworking of our destiny. The stands of the web of life radiate out in time from the three Norns. Our life is one of the threads. Whatever you do to part of the web you do to the whole of the web.
With the arrival of the Norns (described in the ancient Norse Voluspa Saga) the laws of causality were born into the universe. They have sustained the universe ever since. But the Norse view is that the Gods would be destroyed because they represent duality and over-organisation, because they represent the division of the primordial unity and one-ness experienced by Mimir, the First Being, whom Odin and his brothers so cruelly slew: they divided Mimir’s body up to become the manifest world, this world, Midgard and the other eight worlds of the Norse cosmology. This is an important allegory of humanity cutting itself off from unity consciousness and entering the manifest realm of division, cause and effect and consequence.
Nauthiz is also about fated relationships. As I said above, the rune is like two stick crossed: two sticks joined together by a knot: the knot of a fated relationship. The knot embodies ties between two lovers: ties known and unknown! And so Nauthiz situations are so often challenges that must be overcome in that relationship otherwise you fail in a main reason you are here: fail in succeeding with this part your destiny, and probably, therefore, fail in rising to your destiny as a whole. And, remember, the knot is imbued with vision, because only if you can work with the challenge in that knot, can you attain your vision of love, and of life, and only if you can work with the challenge in that knot can you attain your destiny. At this time you can seem in utter darkness, but that darkness can be penetrated if you manage to light the need-fire that is Nauthiz.
But Nauthiz situation comes upon us outside our control, a bit like the situations brought upon us by the previous rune Hagalas meaning Hail. We must resist them, because in practising resistance, we become adult.
And so the Rune Nauthiz can betoken a Crisis in Love, a Magician, a very tough situation, a Fated Situation. It is experienced as an unpleasant situation, but merely focussing on its unpleasantness is to fail to realise the situation’s true power. Nauthiz situations are spurs to empowerment. They are absolute necessity. They are part of Cosmic Law: the laws of cause and effect. What we call Fate.
Self-created fire resists these Nauthiz situations. We face them with will-directed action in the context of wisdom and knowledge, stepping forth into successful magical manifestation. We use our Destiny, though we cannot strive against it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TGsm05ok2g astrology 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmz4tekuGKw Introducing the runes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLvgZOrO1zg Rune group and Fehu
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The Seeress prophesied at the beginning of time that the Gods of Asgard will not survive the final battle; the Nine Worlds are heading to destruction; beauty and order will fail. As the forces of chaos and darkness gather, Declan and Magda, two young people who have never even seen each other before, suddenly find themselves seized by Odin. He takes them from their own world to work together to save the magic of the Runes and create a new future for the gods. Caught up in the end of the worlds, they choose love, courage and even cunning, and they themselves undergo the awesome magic tests where Odin first won his great powers. But can the prophecy of the Seeress be averted? Can a new world be created? And what will be their place in it?
‘Heimdall has sounded the Gjallarhorn. The forces of chaos are invading Asgard,’ Magda said urgently.
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