Thurisaz - Rune of Thoughtful Thrashing

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Thurisaz the Rune most people equate with a good pounding !   Thor's hammer, giants with clubs, and smacking an enemy in the head is what comes to mind.  But by studying words in the Norse languages, mine being English, we can see that the energy of Thurisaz is one of a directed, purposeful strike, a strike that has a goal in mind.  Thurisaz is a rune of work, action, striking the iron each day, planning, exacting, figuring things out, writing things down.

Even a thorn is protecting something precious by pounding it's sharp point into predators.  It's strike has purpose.


Each day we go to work to pay our bills and feed our families.  At the end of the day we may sit and think of everything that happened during to the day, maybe making sure we make changes for tomorrow.   Each day we pound our hammer, put our nos to the grindstone all with purpose, thoughts, and goals in mind.

Giants in many of the sagas, were the keepers of treasures of wisdom, magical wells, and magical powers and potions that humans did not possess.  The giants were far more knowing than man.

Here are some nouns and words to examine using the Th Rune phonic in English:

thread, thorn, thumb, thimble, thought, thinking, thrashing, thrall, thump, throat.  (google more nouns and verbs that begin with the th sound)

Words are magic.  And if we believe the story of the Norse people, about Odin bringing the Runes to mankind, we might all begin to see that these energies and mysteries he brought are hiding in plain sight in the written word.


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