I recently went to a local bookstore (Jan 26th, Friday around 4:45 pm) I was searching for books on couple of topics & got one on Runes. Now the book looked good, but rather expensive. I just flipped to a page, & then I thought something like "If I had runes & if I tried to get a reading, what would I get?" & I just flipped the page & I got this Rune, "ANSUZ".

Now, it said a lot of things about this Rune & there was nothing about it being merkstaved or reversed, so I think it mean't that the rune was straight (Right).

Now what I read, I don't remember it clearly, but it had something along the lines of God, Spiritual development, magical development, & etc, etc. When I searched in this site, all I got was this..



I would like to get more info about this, what could it have meant, or what could it signinfy in me. I am done with dismissing things like these or thinking of a logical answer to things like this when they happen. I think there is some reason or something behind this, anyone can tell me what it is??

This is part of a series of things happening to me now.

The runes generally respond to a specific question, like the tarot.  Ask the question and receive the answer.  In this case, I am not aware of a specific question, so it is difficult to interpret the answer.  I am going to work on the assumption that there is more than random chance taking place here.

Yes, if the rune is not reversed, but is face up and right side up, then the meaning behind Ansuz is God.  Typically (in Norse fashion) this represents Odin, the All-Father and Ansuz actually represents his staff.  The trait often associated with Ansuz is inspiration.  Without anything contextual, my inclination is to interpret Ansuz as advise to seek counsel and reflect on meaning before making an important step.  Counsel would be of a spiritual nature, of course.

The rune I got was from a book, & as I said I don't think that is reversed.

My question was something like: "what is going to happen to me & what is my future & what is going to happen to me". the question kinda passed my head for less then a second, it went as soon as it came. & I didn't recall the question for a long time, until few days ago.

This is one of the few odd things that happened to me. I was trying for spiritual advancement, etc, etc, & I opened this book thinking about my future & I get this rune. I was surprised, if not shocked.

To me Ansuz is the rune of communication, if you ever get a Rune Chakra reading or do one youself you will find it denotes the throat chakra and it's colour is blue.  It also can mean an in coming message and dependant on what runes you cast around it, it will tell you the answer to your question.

On one of my previous posts I mentioned the book which got me going with runes.  It is called Rune Magic the history and practice of ancient runic tradtions by Nigel Pennick.  It is always not to get stuck with one author as each author may add their own scope to the writings.  Hope this helps some.

Comments you and others have made get me thinking about interpretation. As a source of reliability, I have to refer to those who lived in runic days.  Like the Icelanders, where most of what we know about the runes historically comes from.  In the ancient Icelandic Rune Poem, Ansuz is described as:

Ansuz
   aged Gautr
   and prince of Ásgarðr
   and lord of Vallhalla.

This clearly means Odin, the head of the Norse pantheon (Gautr is one of those Scandinavian words for God and has been used to describe Odin in the past).

The trait associated with it can be inspiration, like I mentioned earlier, and I read somewhere that it can mean communication as well. So much of the time the meaning has to be taken in the context of the question. In Vish's situation, I saw it as inspiration, but communication could have been equally relevant as well.

Ahhh, I just remembered!  It has a different meaning in the Anglo-Saxon poem:

Ansuz
The mouth is the source of all language,
a pillar of wisdom and a comfort to wise men,
a blessing and a joy to every knight.

If you interpret as Norse, then it is God and inspiration, if Anglo-Saxon, then mouth and communication.

The Elder Futhark (method used by the Norse/Icelanders) is the oldest recorded runic method, so I generally quote as such, although the A-S method is also popular, and I suspect that would be the case in England or countries with some loyalty to the crown (like Australia?)