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Yggr’s Eye

Elder Futhark rune readings

Yggr’s Eye

Elder Futhark readings, cast the old way. Grounded in the sources, read with care, and honest about the difference.

Every reading arrives as a photograph of your actual throw and a recorded interpretation. Your first one is free.

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Roots of an ancient ash tree around a dark pool of still water

At the roots of Yggdrasil, the well where Odin left an eye.

The readings

Four ways to put a question to the runes

No format is “better.” Pick the one that fits the size of your question. For the biggest ones, there’s The Nine Nights.

01 / 04

One question, one stave

Single Rune Draw

A single rune drawn for one clear question. Good for a decision in front of you, or for a rune to sit with for the week ahead.

  • Photo of the draw
  • 3–5 min recorded interpretation

$201 rune

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02 / 04

What was, what is, what is becoming

Three-Rune Spread

Three runes laid in a row: what came before, where you stand, and what is starting to take shape. Useful when a situation has a history. (The three-position layout is a modern spread, not an ancient one.)

  • Photo of the spread
  • 8–12 min recorded interpretation

$403 runes

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03 / 04

Cast onto the cloth, read as they fall

Custom Rune Throw

The runes are thrown onto the cloth and read by where they land, which way they face, and how they sit together. For questions with several threads.

  • Photo of the full throw
  • 15–20 min recorded interpretation

$60Full throw

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04 / 04

Stay with the question until it opens

The Nine Nights

For the question that won't sit still. We talk it through live, cast from several angles, and you keep asking follow-ups for nine nights until you have what you came for.

Named for the nine nights Odin hung on the Tree before the runes showed themselves (Hávamál 138).

  • Intake questions before any runes are cast
  • 45-minute live Zoom session, recorded for you
  • Several casts, each photographed
  • Follow-ups on the same question for nine nights
  • Written summary with reflection prompts

$150Live + nine nights

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Weathered hands holding a leather pouch of carved wooden runes

The reader

Sources first. Interpretation, clearly labeled.

I read the Elder Futhark, the oldest runic alphabet, carved across the Germanic world from around the 2nd century onward. I start from the sources: the rune poems, the inscriptions, and the Eddic poetry that keeps Odin's winning of the runes alive.

The sources give us the names and the imagery. They don't give us a complete manual for divination, and anyone who says otherwise is selling something. So when I read for you, I'll tell you what is attested and what is my own interpretation. I think you deserve to know the difference.

Gebō, the gift

Your first reading is on the house.

Any format except The Nine Nights, including the full custom throw. There's no payment step and no card on file. Ask your question and see if this way of reading is useful to you.

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One free reading per person.

How a reading works

Four steps from question to answer

If you’ve never had a rune reading, here’s the whole process. Nothing live and nothing to install, except The Nine Nights, which starts with a live Zoom session.

  1. I

    Choose a format

    Single rune, three-rune spread, full custom throw, or The Nine Nights, a live deep dive.

  2. II

    Ask one focused question

    Write it in your own words. A sentence or two of context helps.

  3. III

    The runes are cast

    Your runes are drawn or thrown by hand and photographed exactly as they fall.

  4. IV

    Receive your reading

    A recorded interpretation and the photo of your throw arrive by private link, usually within 3 days.

Carved wooden rune tiles scattered on a dark wool cloth, some face-down
The photograph: your runes exactly as they fell.Sample image

What you receive

A photo of the throw and a reading you can replay

Nothing is simulated. Your runes are drawn by hand and photographed where they land, and the interpretation is recorded so you can come back to it. Both arrive by private link.

Sample: three-rune spread, excerpt0:00 / 1:09

Where the name comes from

Insight has always had a price

I know that I hung, on a wind-rocked tree,nine whole nights, with a spear wounded,and to Odin offered, myself to myself;on that tree, of which no one knowsfrom what root it springs.

Hávamál, stanza 138 in most editions (140 in Thorpe), trans. Benjamin Thorpe, 1866
Yggr
“The Terrible One” is one of Odin's many by-names in the Old Norse poems, and the one that gives this practice its name.
Yggdrasil
“Yggr's steed” is the World Tree Odin hung from for nine nights, wounded by a spear, until the runes showed themselves to him.
Mímir's Well
At the roots of the Tree, Odin gave up one eye for a drink from the well of wisdom. The eye is still there in the water, watching.

The word rune itself carries two meanings in the old Germanic languages: a letter, and a secret.

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Ask your question

Choose a format and tell me what you’re asking. I’ll reply within 3 days. Paid readings are paid only after I accept your request.

Format

For a custom throw, describe what you’re asking in as much detail as you like.

First reading · Free

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