The Rune Companion
A pocket guide to reading runes
Drew a rune? Turn to its page and read what it's telling you in seconds, wherever you are.
- Find any rune fast: one rune per spread, all 24 on the index on page 3.
- Read it for your question: a line for love, work, money, wellbeing and protection.
- Read three runes as one story: four worked readings show you how, step by step.
- Complete on its own, and made to go with Runes, Sigils & Magical Alphabets.
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Draw a rune and know what it's telling you before the moment passes.
The bag in one hand, a stone in the other, a question you really care about. That's the moment you want an answer, not a search.
Here, every rune has its own spread. On the left: the rune drawn large, its name, how to say it, a hook to remember the shape, and what the Old English Rune Poem says, labeled From the sources. On the right, labeled In practice: what it means upright and reversed, a line for love, work, money, wellbeing and protection, and what it means as the situation, the challenge or the advice.
Small enough to keep in your bag, by your bed, beside your runes.
Mid-reading, the answer is never where you need it...
Flipping through a big book while the stone sits in your palm.
Three websites, three different meanings, and no way to tell what's old and what's new.
A one-word keyword that says nothing about the question you asked.
Charts that list meanings and never show you how to read three runes together.
The runes aren't the hard part. Hunting for the answer is.
Find your rune by its shape on the index, turn to its page, read.
A line for each part of your life: love, work, money, wellbeing and protection.
Its meaning as the situation, the challenge or the advice in a three-rune spread.
From the sources and In practice, always labeled, so you know what's old and what's modern.
A question to ask yourself and lines for your own notes on every rune.
YOU STAY IN THE READING, NOT IN THE SEARCH.
Read three runes as one story you can act on.
WORKED READING 1 OF 4 · LOVE · P 64
The question: "Where is my relationship going?" Three runes, laid left to right.
- Gebo, the situation: a real bond, a give and take.
- Isa, the challenge: something has gone cold or quiet between you.
- Laguz, the advice: talk about feelings, and trust what you sense.
Then you read it as one story: "The bond is real, but something has frozen. Don't force it. Say what you feel, gently, and listen to your gut about the answer." And one action to take: choose one calm evening this week to talk.
Four worked readings show you how, about love, work, a choice and a heavy week, so your own readings follow the same steps.
Open it to any rune and read it in seconds
Three parts: the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark, one per spread; reading the runes, with spreads and worked readings; and signs for every need, with twelve bind runes and the Theban alphabet.
Find your rune by its shape
How to use it in three steps, then the index: all 24 runes drawn by shape, each with its page.
Each group of eight at a glance
Each group of eight runes opens on an illustrated dark page and a list of its runes, two keywords each, with the page to turn to.
A rune a day, and the everyday spread
Five steps for a daily draw and a rune diary, then how to read three runes in a row as one sentence.
Three more ways to read
The Norns, the Five-Rune Cross for a bigger question and the Nine-Rune Cast for the whole picture, every position named.
Sixteen pairs, read in one line
Fehu and Jera, Gebo and Isa, Hagalaz and Dagaz: sixteen pairs that come up together, given as modern reading habits, not rules.
A rune for every need
Twelve needs, from protection and money to sleep and friendship, each with its runes and the page of its bind rune.
Twelve bind runes, already checked
How two runes join on one stave, four rules and where to put one. Every sign in the book passed the stowaway check for hidden runes.
What you'll do with it in your hand
A few of the things inside, with the pages they're on.
- Draw one rune each morning. Read its line, ask the question at the foot of its page, and look back that night (p 60).
- Read three runes as one sentence. "Because of this, that is hard, so do this," then one action for the week (p 61).
- Follow a question through time. The Norns: what has been, what is becoming, what shall be (p 62).
- Cast nine runes for the whole picture. Read only the runes facing up, center first, the edge for outside influences (p 63).
- Spot the runes that come up together. Sixteen pairs, like Gebo and Wunjo: a happy, balanced relationship (pp 68 to 69).
- Draw a bind rune where you want it. Guarded Home inside the front door frame, Steady Money in your wallet (p 73).
- Write a name in Theban. The witches' alphabet, traced from Agrippa's plate of 1651 (p 76).
- Keep your own notes on each rune. Lines on every rune's page, plus two notes pages for a rune diary (pp 77 to 78).
The book you read with your runes, beside the book you learn from
The Rune Companion is the reading book, the one you open with the stones in your hand. Its partner, Runes, Sigils & Magical Alphabets, teaches every rune with its full sources and rune poem, three sigil methods, bind runes, five magical alphabets and practice pages.
The companion works on its own. With the full book, you get the same runes and the same two labeled layers, one to learn from at your table and one to read from wherever you draw.
Made for the witch who reads her own runes
Skip it if you want
- A full course on runes, sigils and alphabets (that's the full book)
- A reading that decides your future for you
- An academic runology textbook
- A religion or a set of gods to follow
It's for you if you want
- To read a rune the moment you draw it
- A meaning for love, work, money, wellbeing and protection
- Worked readings that show you the steps
- To know what's from the sources and what's modern
- A small book that lives beside your runes
Draw one rune tomorrow morning. Turn to its page.
Hold the bag, ask what to pay attention to today, draw and read. Write the rune in your notes, and after a month the runes that keep coming back tell their own story.
You're covered by our 30-day money-back guarantee. Read it, use it, keep it beside your runes. If it isn't the book you wanted, you get your money back.
The questions people ask first
Straight answers, from the book itself.
1.I'm new to runes. Can I start with this?
Yes. Page 2 shows how to use it in three steps, and the index on page 3 lets you find any rune by its shape. Start with One Rune a Day (p 60): draw one rune, read its page, and look back that evening. When you want the full teaching, sources and practice pages, they're in Runes, Sigils & Magical Alphabets.
2.Do I need Runes, Sigils & Magical Alphabets to use it?
No. The companion works on its own: the meaning of all 24 runes, a daily draw and four spreads, four worked readings, sixteen pairs, twelve bind runes and the Theban alphabet are all inside. It's made to go with the full book, which teaches every rune with its full sources and rune poem, three sigil methods, five magical alphabets and practice pages.
3.What do I get for each rune?
Two facing pages. On the left: the rune drawn large, its name, how to say it, four keywords, a hook to remember the shape and what the Old English Rune Poem says. On the right: its upright and reversed meaning, a line for love, work, money, wellbeing and protection, its meaning as the situation, the challenge or the advice, a question to ask yourself and lines for your notes.
4.What about reversed runes, or a rune that lands on its side?
Each rune's page gives a Reversed line, or tells you it reads the same both ways: nine runes look the same upside down. Quick Answers (p 59) covers the rest: choose one way with reversals and keep to it, decide your rule for a rune on its side before you draw, and don't redraw an answer you didn't like.
5.Do I need a rune set?
You need runes to draw from: the companion is the book you read beside them. Any Elder Futhark set of 24 works, in stone, wood or card. If your set has a blank rune, page 59 tells you where it came from (Ralph Blum, 1982), so you can use it or leave it out.
6.Is it Wiccan or Norse pagan?
Neither. It's written for anyone who reads runes, on any path. History is told as history, labeled From the sources, and nothing asks you to worship or follow a tradition. The book also says plainly what's modern: there's little evidence of rune reading in the Viking Age, and casting runes is a modern practice, and a good one.
7.Can a reading tell me what will happen?
No reading decides anything for you. The companion reads each rune as a situation, a challenge and advice, and every worked reading ends with one action you can take. Nothing in it replaces a doctor, a therapist, a lawyer or a financial advisor.
8.How big is it?
It's a pocket paperback, 4.25 x 6.875 in (about 10.8 x 17.5 cm), with 80 pages, a black-and-white interior and a color cover. It fits in a bag, or beside your runes on a bedside table.
9.How does shipping work, and what if it isn't for me?
Your copy is printed when you order and shipped to you, with the delivery estimate shown at checkout. You're covered by our 30-day money-back guarantee: if it isn't the book you wanted, you get your money back.