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For those of you who haven't stumbled across this yet, there is a new set of runes in town. Eirik Westcoat created the American Futharch. The purpose of it is to create a futharch consisting of 33 symbols that match the phonetic sounds of American spoken English. Instead of transliteration, you can now write American English words phonetically in runes. It is important to understand that depending on your region you may spell words differently in the American futharch based on your pronounciation of them. In addition, Eirik Westcoat wrote a rune poem for the American Futharch runes. This is utterly revolutionary. It can easily be used adapted to Canadian English, and lays the groundwork for creating new runic linguistic resources for modern times.  Resources:  American Futharch Page https://americanfutharch.com/ American English Rune Poem https://americanfutharch.com/aerp/ Image Source: Tue Rune from the American English Rune Poem https://americanfutharch.com/aerp/

The 2025 New Moon rune according to The Nordic Animist Year by Rune Rasmussen is Tyr/Tiwaz. In these posts I examine the prediction for the year based on the Swedish rune poem in Rune’s book. I then compare the Swedish rune poem to other rune poems to try to gain more insights. After that I examine historical data on weather/climate, as well as politics, to try to predict what to expect in this year. This is all speculative. I want to see if the 19 year cycle can predict world events, specifically in Scandinavia and circumpolar regions.  We start with the Swedish Rune poem as that is in Rune Rasmussen’s book. Swedish Rune Poem: Tyr i Vatŭm ledast.  Tyri brinner bäst i.e.. dyrast. Tyr (bull) is badly off in water/Tyr (bull) is meanest of spirits. Resinous wood is best for burning, i.e. hardest. The strangest part of this poem to me was how Rune was translating Tyr as a bull. I am not sure what his reasoning for this was. Since it doesn’t seem to actually say that in the Swedis...