Tag: kenaz

  • casting runes — 16dec25

    kenaz
    after pasts go to pyre
    burning the longest night
    a brand to sear away
    open sores left behind

    A rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.

    Today’s rune is kenaz, which has been translated as both “torch” and “ulcer” . It is conceived as symbolic of flame, which is the illuminated creativity as well as the source of purification/healing/cautery. Fire is a a source of transformation and unmaking as well as heat, passion and light. As an ulcer, kenaz can be associated with a fever or inflammation, perhaps a wound which requires healing.

    Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.

  • tossing a rune — 22apr25

    cut & cautery
    carve away those
    parts we do not like
    & give to smoke that
    not given to root
    not given to bone

    sun gazing &
    dizzy of dance—
    reborn

    Today rune is kenaz. The word has been associated with “ulcer” and “torch”, depending on which rune poem is used or name derivation you embrace. By extension, it implies flame and illumination as secondary meanings. Tertiary meanings come from ideas associated with those themes (e.g., burning, knowledge, light in darkness).