Raidho, Rad, Reidh, Rit

Hail to all of our listeners!

The 5^th Rune in all the 4 systems is known as a Raidho, Rad, Reidh. or Rit depending on the system you are using. 

This Rune is another one of those runes that is passed over in the systems as somehow not being as significant as the rest yet nothing could be further from the truth. This Rune is the Rune of “the journey”. Yes, that can mean something as simple as a trip from one Township to another but it is more accurately describing “the journey” of life itself between birth and death. We can line up with the with universal law and have a journey of expansion and evolution, or use one fight against ourselves and really go nowhere. The choice is ours. You can see how as we have gone through the different runes up to this point in the series that each one builds upon the one before it and is connected! This is an important point to understand when dealing with the runes, that even though there are individuals staves that have purposes of their own, each one is connected to all the other runes as well in a collective power. The context of the individual stave is the entire Rune row in the same way that our individual expression of life has its context in the folk soul of our people!

Havamal Stanza 149--the spell song associated with Raidho (or Rit) is:

149.
A fifth I know: when I see, by foes shot,
speeding a shaft through the host,
flies it never so strongly I still can stay it,
if I get but a glimpse of its flight.

Until next time...