Runes Today Options

Howdy all-

I was having a thought today, and thought I'd post it here.

Runes are generally thought to be a very powerful magick, right? In my experience, though, they don't seem to be very well fit for spellcasting today. I've been trying to think of a reason why that'd be. I was thinking that perhaps it was because for us today, the runes do really have any meaning. I mean, before I started looking into magick I had no idea what they were or meant, and even still, there's no real connection for me, with them.

I was thinking how I could remedy that and I came up with an idea, but I'm not even sure if it's a good idea, but I thought I'd toss it out here to get some input.

Runes were powerful for their originators because they had strong meaning to them, and they put their power into them. For us today, though, I think that disconnect probably significantly weakens what we can do with them. Yeah, there's an allure to working with something ancient, but personally, I think that a personal connection is probably more important.

Then I thought: "why doesn't everyone work with their own runes"- I think it'd be a decent idea, but then there isn't that universal power that everyone using them puts into it.
What if we created our own rune system- it could have a personal connection, and the benefit of a large body of users putting their energies into it?
The downside that occurs to me is that by not using the current, ancient-based runic system, we'd be disconnecting ourselves from that source of ancient power.

I would think that this downside would be a pretty big one, and I can't really think of a way to rectify it. Perhaps by keeping some of the ancient runes, and mixing them up some.

What do you guys think? I realize this would be a really difficult thing to do, I mean, getting enough people to put their energies into it to empower the marks.

Any input would be most appreciated.

When you create or design your own, I would call them sigils rather than runes, but sigils can be quite effective.

When you create or design your own, I would call them sigils rather than runes, but sigils can be quite effective.

Aha! I knew there was a word for it. Sigils still isn't exactly what I mean, but yeah- it's a hell of a lot closer than runes. Thanks!

I'm not going to go ahead with the project until I have 6-12 people willing to help out with the process. I'm willing to take care of most of the work- such as putting together a website to help get more attention to the project, and explain what we're trying to do.

I'd also like to publish an E-book to explain more in depth, to make it available at the website and probably at Lulubooks (or whatever they're called) for as close to free as possible.

My goal is to create a tool, that thanks to a collective power-source of users will be many times more effective than an individual's personally-created sigil could be.

I'm not looking for people who claim to be great and powerful mages or any crap like that. Just sensible people, with a realistic view of what magick can do, who are willing to work as a team via email.

thanks,

Hamilton