The effects of invoking elements or runes depend on how they are approached within your practice. Simply invoking an element or rune often aligns you with its inherent properties or energies. For example, invoking Fire may naturally stir feelings of passion, courage, or dynamism, as these are part of its essence.
However, the specific effects you desire (e.g., directing Fire for protection or inciting energy for a goal) typically require deliberate focus, intention, and programming. Without intent, the energy may manifest broadly, or remain passive in your environment.
Programming involves using affirmations, visualizations, or rituals to focus the energy toward a desired outcome. When using a rune for protection, you would program it by stating or visualizing it shielding you or your space.
If you skip programming the energies raised, the rune might simply radiate its natural properties, which may not align with your goal. Typically, energies dissipate when left unprogrammed, as energy itself is inert and lacks the capacity for reasoning. In such cases, energy naturally follows the path of least resistance.
After vibrating the rune’s name or using the element’s properties, you should focus the energy into a particular outcome. Here, you use certain affirmations, visualizations, and intent to guide the energy toward your specific goal.
Using Uruz for healing or Gebo for empowering the heart chakra shows the importance of structured programming. This further ensures the energy is directed effectively and avoids unwanted manifestations of the rune’s or element’s broader properties. For example:
- Breathing energy into a focus point (organ, chakra, or aura).
- Vibrating the rune while concentrating on a specific effect.
- Repeating a set number of times based on the rune’s numerical associations.
- Program the energies raised through affirmation, visualization and intent.
I hope the above clarifies.