Mar
Feeling the Lagu Rune
Lagu is the Rune of lakes, waterways, leeks and healing. These are exercises to help you experience the Lagu Rune personally.
Exercise 1: The Lagu Rune has two meanings. It can represent a body of water or the leek. The leek was a symbol of healing and magickal power. The word Lagu is related to our modern term Lake. In actual use, the Rune meant any body of water. If you are near a lake, pond, ocean, stream or river, you can try to get a feel of the Lagu Rune. Spend some time beside the water, Pick a spot that feels best to you. Along with sight and touch, put your sense of smell to work,. The odors of seaside or lakeside can be evocative of the Lagu Rune.
Use your sense of touch to feel the atmosphere around the water. How does it feel close to the edge? How about several yards away?
Lagu is easily appreciated through water. Much that is Lagu is found in the air around a body of water. The senses of touch and smell are especially good for this.
To give you an idea of the power of smell and air, you can read a previous lesson: http://thortrains.net/blog/2008/06/26/gas-punch/
Exercise 2: Lagu is connected to our moods and emotions. It can be symbolic of our subjective side. These are connected with the place of dreams. Because we are conditioned to let the objective, intellectual mind take charge, we often ignore our subjective perceptions. When going about our everyday work, we often stifle feelings so we can rely solely on our intellect.
For one day, try this: Along with your objective perceptions and reactions, try to note their subjective counterparts. Pay attention to the feelings that come up when you react. Do not stifle them. Allow yourself to feel them. Some may seem inappropriate for the situation. Of course, subjective reactions do not follow objective logic. Consider what may stand behind the inappropriate feelings. Your subjective reactions are an example of your own personal Lagu Rune. Consider your subjective reactions and see if they are somehow connected to things you dream about.
Alternate Exercises: An experience of the healing / soothing aspect of Lagu is quite common. It can be a powerful enough example that instantly puts you in touch with the Rune. Think of a item when you have been very, very thirsty. That means a thirst that is very uncomfortable. Now think of how a cool drink quenched the thirst. Remember how quickly the cool liquid assuaged that parched feeling. This is a powerful experience of the Lagu Rune’s power to soothe and to overcome dryness.
Lagu is one of the healing Runes. If you are sensitive enough to sense your surroundings, you can look for connections. If you have done the first exercise, you have a very personal feel for Lagu. The next time you are at a medical facility – hospital, doctor’s office, clinic, etc. – try to sense the atmosphere. You are feeling for an essence that is similar to that of watery places. It will feel slightly different, by comparison. This is the Lagu Rune in its healing aspect.
Persons who can sense like this can seek the Rune in other places, as well. Each will reveal another nuance of the Rune.
A very easy experience of Lagu as a cleansing , purifying forces is the simple act of taking a shower. The water pulls dirt from you, much as Lagu removes blight. Going a step further, have you ever been in a very unpleasant place, or had to endure the company of unpleasant people? Were they so foul that you felt as if you had to take a shower afterward? Water can help draw off astral as well as physical sludge.
Lagu is the realm of dreams. Since ancient times, bodies of water have symbolized the dream world we know as the deeper subconscious. Dreams are often surreal. Ponder your own dreams in this context. Think of recurrent themes and characters in your dreams. We might go so far as to say that the dream realm is an expression of the Lagu aspect of you.
The exercises above have dealt with bodies of water, moods, feelings, cleansing, quenching, healing and dreaming. Sit and meditate and consider all of these things together. Can you feel a common thread uniting them all? Contemplation of them can be great for helping you put them into perspective.
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