Cast the runes
Hold your question and draw from the 24 Elder Futhark runes — a single rune for a clear answer, or three for past, present and what’s coming.
The 24 runes of the Elder Futhark
The runes fall into three aettir of eight — each a family with its own character. Tap any rune to read it in full: its meaning, the rune poem behind it, and its upright and reversed faces.
Freyr's AettThe first eight — creation, cattle, abundance and the building of a life.
Hagal's AettThe middle eight — hail, need, ice: disruption, trial and the forces beyond our control.
What the runes are
The Elder Futhark
The oldest runic alphabet, used across the Germanic world from roughly 150 to 800 CE. Its 24 characters are named after the system’s first six sounds — F, U, Th, A, R, K. Each rune is at once a letter, a sound, and a force of nature or fate.
The three aettir
The runes are grouped into three “aettir” (families) of eight, traditionally linked to Freyr, Hagal (or Heimdall) and Tyr. The order moves from creation and abundance, through disruption and trial, to the gods, the self and the homecoming.
Where the meanings come from
Our readings are grounded in the public-domain Anglo-Saxon, Norwegian and Icelandic rune poems — the oldest surviving descriptions of each rune — not modern copyrighted systems. That keeps them close to what the runes actually meant.
How a cast works
Hold a question, then draw. A single rune gives a clear, focused answer; three runes read as past, present and what’s coming. A reversed (merkstave) rune turns the meaning toward its shadow — some runes are symmetrical and have no reverse.