Rune Reiki Magic

I'm a big believer in fundamentals. Get the foundation right in any discipline, and you give yourself every chance for success. But rush off helter-skelter, doing this and that in a higgledy-piggledy, random way, and the entire structure of whatever you're learning is likely to crumble.

In Reiki and many other healing arts, this typically means creating a solid, energetic foundation for everything you do.

Work on your hara. Work on your base chakra, and now you're ready to launch into higher vibrational realms.

Tap into your intuition. Get out of your head. Become one with the flow – and now you're ready to explore the fancier healing techniques.

From my experience, energetically speaking, you want to be like a pyramid: broad at the base so you can build higher and higher.

Because once you have that foundation in place, your healing work can become more nuanced. For you can then expand your repertoire of techniques, and as a result, expand the range of things you can successfully heal.

Some might say that learning uncommon techniques will somehow corrupt your healing practice, but that is not necessarily the case. For if these new techniques have real worth, then they'll not only typically circle back to the fundamentals of your discipline but also reinforce and enhance them.

And that, my friends, is where Rune Reiki comes into the equation.

Now, I'll be honest: runes and Reiki historically have nothing in common. And yet, scratch beneath the surface, and crazily, you find that working with runes can actually deepen and strengthen your Reiki in multiple ways.

No doubt, I could come up with dozens of reasons why this is the case, but in this article, I want to focus on four key ways they help you to:

1. Develop your intuition.

2. Deepen your meditation.

3. Strengthen your chakras.

4. Strengthen your healing.

1. Improve Your Intuition

Reiki is an art, not a science.

It is not something for the rational mind to dig its claws into. It is not something we can rationally dissect. It is not something where we know that 2 plus 2 equals 4.

Rather, it provides us with truth that transcends the mind. It gives us direct knowledge. Knowledge about things we can't explain.

And that's what's so exciting about it, so liberating.

When we're healing someone, we typically don't know from one moment to the next where we will end up.

Rather, we follow an intuitive breadcrumb trail.

Maybe an inner push nudges us in the direction of the crown, so we work there.

Then, perhaps, we feel an inkling to go down to the feet, so we head to the bottom of the table.

From there, we might get a push to go up to the solar plexus chakra, and after that, who knows?

Typically, we have little idea ahead of time where we're going to work next.

And this ability to follow our intuition, to enter a state of flow, is what marks the beginner from the more experienced healer.

The beginner wants the assurance of structure. The beginner wants to know where they'll be working and for how long. The experienced healer, the Healing Master, just lets themselves be nudged along by their intuition, by their inner guidance.

And since each person is different, this makes total sense. For no two people should receive the same healing session. Everyone should receive something unique.

This doesn't, of course, mean that we shouldn't begin with structure. In fact, in my Reiki 1 classes, I teach the Reiki hand positions. But these are more of a crutch than an ideal. These are placeholders until we learn to trust our intuition more, until we learn to be guided by it.

And that's why working with runes can be such a big help with Reiki.

In many ways, runes are like their more familiar younger cousin, tarot. I say younger cousin because runes have existed for approximately two millennia – far longer than tarot.

This is not a value judgement. It's just noting that two millennia is a long time for the energy of the runes to seep deep into the heart of our planet. Two millennia for runes to be carved into wood, stone, metal, and even people's houses. So whether you believe runes have any innate power or not, that's a lot of collective intent being built up over the years.

In any case, working with runes helps us improve our intuition, just like working with tarot does.

Each reading we do is like entering an intuition gym. It's an intuition workout that helps raise our awareness of subtle intuitive cues.

Think of the runes to be like scaffolding upon which our intuition can grow. They're like a trellis fence for a vine. They give it just enough support and structure so it can thrive.

And when our intuition thrives, it helps us gain clarity, direction, and purpose in life.

2. Runes for Deeper Meditation

Mandalas, mantras, runes – what do they have in common?

To begin with, they are all tools for harnessing energy.

A mantra is a sound, and sound is energy. So working with them is a way to tune in to specific energy vibrations.

Mandalas are the geometric formations of energy waves. Focus on them. Meditate on them, and you can tap into the energy field that creates them.

Similarly, runes are containers for energy. Each rune connects to a different energy – energy that we can harness through meditation.

What's more, mantras, mandalas and runes are all excellent focusing tools.

Our mind’s natural inclination is to dart off in a thousand different directions, but mantras, mandalas, and runes bring it back to a single point of focus. A point of focus that calms the mind and stills the soul.

As such, runes are an outstanding meditation tool.

Focus on them. Open up to their energy, and they will help you still the turbulent waters of your mind.

3. Runes for Chakras

Runes, just like the chakras, are all tuned to different frequencies.

There are 24 (Futhark) runes, and each one carries a different energy – energy that can be used to strengthen, heal, and balance the seven chakras.

For instance, Sowelu, which represents the sun, works on the solar plexus chakra.

Laguz, which symbolises water, works on the sacral chakra.

And Eihwaz, which depicts the yew tree, connects all seven chakras through the sushumna (our body's central energy channel that runs from the base chakra up to the crown chakra).

So the runes are like symbols that can work on specific chakras. Tools that will help balance and heal their energy.

It is not an idea I’ve heard anyone else discuss, but it makes a lot of sense.

4. Runes for Healing

In the classical Reiki system, you have four symbols. You learn three of these in Reiki 2, and the final one, the Reiki master symbol, in the Reiki master level.

Of course, esoteric symbols have also been added to the many diverse styles of Reiki, and in this vein, we can also add the 24 (Futhark) runes.

These can be used just like Reiki symbols, and they can help us not only focus better, but also tap into specific shades of energy for nuanced healing results.

To use them in a Reiki healing session, simply draw them strategically over certain parts of the body, tune in to their energy, and let them work alongside Reiki for deeper healing.

What Can We Learn from Runes?

Runes are typically used by themselves, but they can also, interestingly, integrate with Reiki.

Reiki purists would no doubt shudder at the idea, but if we accept that Reiki is a spiritual path that helps connect us more to the essence of our being, then adding runes to our Reiki arsenal is not so absurd – all the more so when Reiki practice already includes symbol work.

Runes enhance our intuition. They help us meditate more deeply, and they also add subtlety and nuance when we use them as symbols in our Reiki healing.

So give them a shot and see how they work for you.

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Reiki, Retreat, Runes…

If you would like to learn more about the runes, come along to our upcoming June 20–21 Reiki retreat. At the event, I'll show you ways to use them both to enhance your Reiki healing and meditation.

And if you need retreat accommodation, I've secured some rooms at the Kyneton Shamrock Hotel for only $61 for a same-sex twin-share room, and $134 for a deluxe queen room.

Try My Rune App for Free!

Also, if you'd like to play around with some runes, then I've built an app which, for the next couple of weeks, I'll let people use for free. Use it to do rune readings and to learn more about runes. To try it out, simply visit www.runereiki.com.

(Article by Jeremy O'Carroll)