"O"

The womb and the legs of the goddess standing

3rd aett, 8th rune

Immobile property associated with heredity

Ancestry, prosperity, inheritance, DNA, family

Hawthorn

Gold thread

Diamond, emerald, ruby, clear quartz, amber

Deep yellow

June 14 - June 29

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

The Germanic name: Utal (Othala)
 The Norse name: Odal
 The Anglo-Saxon name: Otael (Ethel)
 The Icelandic name: Odal
 The Norwegian name: Odal

Othala symbolizes the sacred land, including 
the interaction and bond that people have with 
the land. The people of northeastern Germany 
and the Netherlands called this rune "Eeyeneerde," 
meaning "own earth" or "own land." By comparison, 
Othala refers to ancestral heritage in the form 
of family, clan, and tribal land. Early Europeans 
perceived land as wealth that was never sold, but 
instead was handed down from generation to generation. 
Also, as each successive generation died and was buried, 
in many ways its energy returned to the Earth. This 
vitalized the Earth with ancestral power that could 
be called upon by future generations in time of need. 
This analogous to the concept of the "sleeping king" 
or "sleeper"-a great leader who sleeps within the land, 
often in a mountain or cave, waiting for the time when
he is awakened to come to the aid of humankind.
 Fehu is wealth that you can trade and sell, whereas 
Othala represents wealth that is immobile and can be 
neither sold nor given away. Like the wealth of 
information coded in human DNA, Othala influences 
every aspect of your being. It symbolizes the 
sovereignty of the land.

Odin-Odin was the All father who was procreator, 
the original couple, and the energies of Oneness. 
At some point Odin was all things and, as all 
things, he was both male and female. It was not 
until later that he became a male god.

Eagle, wolf, raven, bear, hound, sheep, cow, 
swine, cock, hen, horse, bee, salmon, peacock, 
ibis, octopus, owl

Air, the mastery of all elements

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The Full Moon

The Moon

The oldest literal meaning of Othala is "noble" or 
"prince," denoting regal status. Odin is the god of 
Othala as he quests for all wisdom. This is the 
ultimate quest because, as with the grail cup, 
it offers the possibility of everlasting immotality. 
When you understand and come to know the polarities 
of Oneness, you can control the powers of life and 
death. But as Odin found out, you cannot change the 
Orlog.
 Othala represented either Odin's final destruction 
at the hands of the Fenris Wolf, or his ascension 
into the divine state of being all things at all 
times. Othala is the moment and place when all the 
elements of Oneness are reconciled and balanced, and 
if your magic has endurance, you reach your intention 
and actualize your dreams. If you aim for divinity, 
then divine is what you will become: action follows 
thought.

Understands the implications of the whole
 The wisdom and integration of all things
 Uses the lessons of the past to better deal with the future
 Is at one with the source of everything
 Works with the elements of the sacred land
 Communicates with the sleepers
 Acheives goddesshood or godhood
 Increases your lucid dreaming ability

Othala, othala, othala
 O o o o o o o o o o
 O o o o o 
 Othul othal othil othel othol
 Othol othel othil othal othul
 O o o o o 

The O-rune is the rune of Oneness. Tap into 
Oneness and you tap into everything, by virtue 
of the fact that everything is connected together 
into one giant web. Oddly enough, the Internet 
could be called a representation of Othala, 
because it shows the interconnectedness of 
everything as it moves in the whole of Oneness. 
When you experience Oneness or, as the Norse 
might say, "Wodan-ness," you have wisdom about 
everything that was, will be, and is. Energy is 
always on a one-to-one ratio, for this is the 
essence of the Orlog, the energy that brings 
everything together into one. Orlog also begins 
with the letter "O."
 When you reach the state of Othala, your desires 
manifest according to your intention, and you become 
wise like Odin. Othala may represent everything 
coming to divine fruition or, on the other pole, being 
completely destroyed, as in Ragnarok. It is all or 
nothing as the third aett closes, in what can only be 
termed the divine forces of Oneness. If you travel 
wisely through the runic stream, you become one with 
everything and become a divine being. If you resist 
the Orlog and refuse to heed the wisdom of the runes, 
you go down in a hail of destruction, to rise once 
again in the primal fire of Fehu. All paths hopefully 
lead you to the divine state of affinity with Oneness, 
at which level anything is possible. Be careful what 
you dream, because it will become reality.
 The Rune of Inheritance or Physical Possessions
can represent zeal, dedication, vision, hard work,
and thus be a positive rune; but it can also symbolize
greed, parsimony, and the materialistic hoarding
of wealth and resources. In reversal it suggests
obstruction, frustration, or delay.
 Othala, one of the last in the sequence of the 
runes, signifies return to the apparently earthly 
area of richess and property, and this is why it
makes a whole with the first rune, Fehu. However, 
while Fehu stands for movable property, Othala 
signifies land, the only property that is
unchangeable, constant. Land, in sense of property, 
defines who we really are in the manner that it 
defines where we are. Finally, it is our home.
This rune brings us the seventh key point, 
which lies in the center. Meeting here there are 
places in between Midgard and Asgard, between 
us and our goods. This is the axis our lives 
spin round. The idea of land or property is 
just a symbol of the request that we find our 
own "center" which will bring sense into 
our lives, this being the true goal and 
destination of this travel through the runes. 
All adventures and travels end with one's returning
home, but this does not mean that they are 
all senseless. On the contrary, it is only 
thanks to departing in the first place that 
we can learn and know what "home" really is, 
i.e. what the spiritual center means in reality.
 There is no place, indeed, capable of replacing 
one's home, however only provided one truly 
understood where the home is. The fact is that 
neither of the lessons along the way will 
make any sense if we fail to integrate it into 
our everyday life and find the central point, 
the one round which all new experiences are 
possible to organize and arrange. 
 Othala is not the ending of just a small 
cycle of the third aett, but also of the 
whole rune travel, in this manner taking us 
back to the beginning, however on a higher 
level.
 When used in divination it signifies: property, 
land, inheritance, heritage, home, duration, 
synthesis, the sense and feeling of belonging.

For use in magik: to round-off land or 
property, for project completion i.e. execution, 
for reinforcement of family ties.

When Othala is drawn in an upright position it 
suggests financial and material gains. This can be 
a donation or help received from relatives, especially 
those elderly ones, from friends, or from someone 
who appreciates i.e. praises highly what one does and 
wishes to let one know that he is not alone. That 
donation, gift, can also appear in form of inheritance 
granted to one by some relative in the last will.
 Othala points to your stubborness and insisting on 
own opinion; thus in coordination and combination 
with other runes it can possibly point to fields
where you should necessarily demonstrate some more 
flexibility. 
 When Othila is drawn in the reversed position it
suggests failure, misfortune i.e. accident, and big 
damage. The person asking the question is advised 
to be exceptionally careful in performance of own 
tasks and duties, because some damage might be 
produced meaning big material losses, most
frequently the word being of damage produced 
to expensive mechanical equipment due to 
inappropriate handling and use. The person's 
life and health are not threatened, and thus 
no reason to fear in this sense. Only necessary 
is some special care in the coming period, as 
this is how an unwished material loss is 
possible to prevent.

Fehu Uruz Thurisaz Ansuz Raidho Kenaz
Gebo Wunjo Hagalaz Naudhiz Isa Jera
Eihwaz Perdhro Algiz Sowilo Tiwaz Berkana
Ehwaz Mannaz Laguz Ingwaz Othala Dagaz


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