Runic Architecture: Bringing Runes into Your Home

In Germanic Fachwerk homes, the runes were built into the structures. Good examples are Tudor-age homes. You can easily see ALGIZ, URUZ, TIWAZ, and the other runes in the beams both outside and inside the home. Buildings were vessels of magickal energy, and by forming the runes in the timbers, the building could imprint these runes and their energies onto the residence.

Tudor-age home
What Runes do you see?

Our homes and structures are not as well-thought out or spiritual today. Your home should be a sacred space. Maybe we don't purposefully have runes built into the very foundation of our homes, but we can incorporate runes into our daily lives and homes. Think of what you want your home to embody, what you want to draw into it. Protection? Love? Partnership? Family? What runes correspond with those?

You can bring runes into your home in almost anyway. It can be anything from laying stones in a rune's shape in your garden to setting out rune stones to draw in those energies you wish for in your home. The only limit is your imagination... which is limitless, might I add.

I have a game I like to play with myself. Find the runes. Whether I am in my own home, or another building I like to look around and see where I can find them. Look everywhere; the seams of tiles, the windows, the angles of the walls, the door-frames, even furniture still holds the runes. They may not be as intentional as they once were, but the runes are still very present in our daily lives. In man-made environments such as buildings or even some cars, the runes have made a place for themselves. If you still find you self wanting, just look outside. The runes are all around us.