Laguz Rune in Practice: Flow, Intuition & Emotional Healing
BY NICOLE LAU
Introduction: Flowing Like Water
Laguz (α) is the rune of water, flow, and intuition. This practical guide provides hands-on techniques to work with Laguz's power to develop intuition, heal emotions, surrender to flow, and access the unconscious. Whether you're seeking to enhance psychic abilities, process emotions, trust your inner voice, or learn to go with life's currents, these practices will help you embody Laguz's flowing wisdom.
Daily Laguz Practices
Morning Flow Activation
Begin your day with Laguz's flowing energy:
- Stand near water if possible (or visualize it)
- Trace Laguz (α) on your sacral chakra and third eye
- Visualize deep blue water flowing through you
- Move your body fluidlyβsway, flow, don't be rigid
- Speak aloud: "I flow like water. I trust my intuition. I surrender to the current. I am Laguz."
- Carry this flowing energy into your day
Duration: 3-5 minutes
Best for: Daily flow, intuition activation, emotional fluidity
Intuition Check Practice
Laguz teaches through inner knowing:
- Throughout your day, before decisions, pause
- Close your eyes and place hand on your belly
- Ask: "What does my intuition say?"
- Feel the answerβnot think it, feel it
- Trust the first feeling you get
- This is Laguzβtrusting your inner voice
Duration: 30 seconds as needed
Best for: Developing intuition, trusting inner guidance
Emotional Flow Practice
Quick practice for processing emotions:
- When emotions arise, don't suppress them
- Visualize them as water flowing through you
- Let them moveβfeel them, then release them
- Water doesn't hold onto anythingβneither should you
- This is Laguzβemotional flow and release
Best for: Emotional processing, releasing stuck feelings
Laguz Meditation Practices
Water Flow Meditation (20 minutes)
Preparation:
- Sit near water if possible (ocean, lake, stream, or bowl of water)
- Have Laguz visible or drawn before you
- Optional: Hold aquamarine or moonstone
- Light blue candles
Practice:
- Settling (3 min): Breathe deeply. Listen to water sounds. You are here, ready to flow.
- Becoming Water (5 min): Visualize yourself as water. You have no fixed shape. You flow around obstacles. You adapt to any container. You are fluid, flexible, flowing.
- Emotional Release (7 min): Let any stuck emotions flow out like water. Tears are sacredβlet them flow if they come. Water cleanses, purifies, releases.
- Intuitive Opening (3 min): Feel your intuition like a deep well of water within. It's always there. Trust it.
- Integration (2 min): Return to normal awareness. You are waterβflowing, intuitive, cleansing.
Best practiced: Full Moon, Monday evenings, near water
Dream Incubation Practice
For receiving messages through dreams:
Before sleep, draw Laguz on your forehead (third eye). Place moonstone under your pillow. Ask a question. Say: "Laguz, bring me dreams that answer." Keep dream journal by bed. Write dreams immediately upon waking. Your unconscious speaks through dreamsβLaguz helps you hear it.
Duration: Nightly practice
Best for: Accessing unconscious wisdom, receiving guidance
Galdr: Laguz Rune Chanting
Basic Laguz Galdr
Chant: "Laguz, Laguz, Laguz" (pronounced LAH-gooz)
Repetitions: 9 times
Technique: Chant fluidly, like water flowing. Feel emotions and intuition opening.
Extended Laguz Galdr
Chant: "Lagu Lagu Lagu, Laguz Laguz Laguz, Laguuuz"
Purpose: The extended "Laguuu" creates a flowing, wave-like vibration
Use when: Seeking flow, developing intuition, emotional healing
Intuition Galdr Combination
For enhancing psychic abilities:
Chant: "Laguz-Perthro-Ansuz" (Water-Mystery-Wisdom)
Repetitions: 3 rounds of 3
Posture: Sit with hands on belly (intuition center)
Galdr Tips for Laguz
- Chant fluidly, not rigidlyβlike water flowing
- Visualize deep blue water surrounding you
- Feel your emotions and intuition opening
- Let the sound create flow and release
- End feeling fluid, intuitive, cleansed
Laguz Rituals & Ceremonies
Full Moon Water Ritual
Timing: Full Moon, Monday, near water
Duration: 60 minutes
Materials:
- Blue candles
- Aquamarine and moonstone crystals
- Bowl of water (ocean, spring, or moon water)
- Seaweed or water lily
- Journal and pen
Ritual Steps:
- Create water altar: Set up near water if possible, with bowl of water at center.
- Light candles: Say: "I call upon Laguz, the flowing water. I call upon NjΓΆrΓ°r and RΓ‘n, gods of the sea. I call upon my intuition. I open to flow."
- Charge crystals: Place in water bowl and chant Laguz galdr 9 times.
- Water scrying: Gaze into the water. Let your eyes unfocus. What images, feelings, or messages come? This is your intuition speaking.
- Water Flow Meditation: Full practice. Become water.
- Emotional release: Write what you need to release on paper. Dissolve it in water (or burn safely and add ashes to water). Let it flow away.
- Seal the work: Trace Laguz on your third eye with the water. Say: "I flow. I trust. I release. I am Laguz."
- Close: Pour water onto earth (returning it to flow). Keep charged crystals.
Follow-up: Repeat monthly at Full Moon for ongoing intuition development.
Emotional Healing Bath
For processing and releasing emotions:
Materials:
- Bath tub
- Sea salt or Epsom salt
- Blue candles
- Aquamarine or moonstone
- Essential oils (lavender, chamomile)
Process:
- Draw warm bath, add salt and oils
- Light candles, place crystals in bath
- Before entering, trace Laguz on the water 9 times
- As you soak, let emotions flowβcry if you need to
- Visualize water washing away pain, grief, stuck feelings
- Stay at least 20 minutes
- As you drain the bath, see emotions flowing away
- Emerge cleansed, renewed, flowing
Best timing: When emotionally overwhelmed, after difficult experiences
Intuition Development Practice
For enhancing psychic abilities:
The Practice:
- Every day for 30 days, do the Intuition Check Practice
- Keep intuition journalβrecord hunches, gut feelings, dreams
- Note when intuition was right (it usually is)
- Work with Laguz during Full Moon
- By day 30, your intuition will be significantly stronger
Best for: Developing psychic abilities, trusting inner guidance
Laguz Talisman & Amulet Crafting
Intuition Amulet
Materials:
- Moonstone or labradorite
- Blue paint
- Blue or silver cord
Creation Process:
- Cleanse the stone with water and moonlight
- On a Monday during Full Moon, paint Laguz on the stone
- On the reverse, add a wave or moon symbol
- Hold the amulet and perform Laguz galdr 9 times
- Sleep with it for 3 nights to bond
- Wear it when you need intuition or emotional support
- Touch it and remember: you are water, flowing and intuitive
Recharging: Place in moonlight, especially Full Moon, or in water
Dream Journal
For tracking unconscious messages:
- Get a journal dedicated to dreams and intuition
- Draw Laguz on the first page in blue
- Keep by bed with pen
- Upon waking, immediately write dreamsβdon't wait
- Note intuitive hits, synchronicities, gut feelings
- Review monthlyβsee patterns, messages, guidance
- This trains you to hear your unconscious
Laguz for Specific Situations
Developing Intuition
- Use the Intuition Development Practice (30 days)
- Work with Laguz during Full Moon
- Keep dream journal faithfully
- Trust your first feelingβdon't second-guess
- Practice, practice, practiceβintuition strengthens with use
Emotional Healing
- Use the Emotional Healing Bath regularly
- Let yourself feelβdon't suppress emotions
- Cry when you need toβtears are water, cleansing
- Work with Laguz + Berkano (flow + nurture)
- Remember: emotions are meant to flow, not be held
Learning to Surrender
- Practice Water Flow Meditation daily
- When you can't control something, visualize it as water flowing
- Say: "I surrender to the flow. I trust the current."
- Remember: water doesn't fightβit flows around obstacles
- This is Laguzβthe wisdom of surrender
Laguz Affirmations
Speak these while visualizing or tracing Laguz:
- "I flow like water"
- "I trust my intuition"
- "I surrender to the current"
- "My emotions flow freely"
- "I am fluid and adaptable"
- "I listen to my inner voice"
- "I am cleansed and renewed"
- "I am Laguzβflowing, intuitive, free"
Laguz Journaling Prompts
Deepen your relationship with Laguz through reflection:
- What is my intuition telling me right now?
- Where am I resisting the flow of life?
- What emotions need to be felt and released?
- What messages is my unconscious sending?
- How can I be more like waterβfluid, adaptable, flowing?
- What do my dreams reveal?
- Where do I need to surrender control?
Laguz Rune Combinations
Combine Laguz with other runes for specific goals:
- Intuition & Wisdom: Laguz + Perthro + Ansuz (flow + mystery + wisdom)
- Emotional Healing: Laguz + Berkano + Wunjo (flow + nurture + joy)
- Psychic Development: Laguz + Algiz + Dagaz (intuition + protection + awakening)
- Going with Flow: Laguz + Raidho + Jera (flow + journey + cycles)
- Feminine Power: Laguz + Berkano + Freya's runes (water + earth + love)
- Dream Work: Laguz + Perthro + Sowilo (water + mystery + illumination)
Working with Laguz's Shadow
When Laguz Energy Becomes Imbalanced
Laguz's shadow manifests as:
- Emotional overwhelmβdrowning in feelings
- Passivityβtoo much surrender, no action
- Delusionβconfusing intuition with wishful thinking
- Escapismβusing flow as excuse to avoid responsibility
- Stagnationβwater that doesn't flow becomes stagnant
Balancing Practice: Remember that water flows but also has power. Balance surrender with action. Balance intuition with reason. Flow, but don't drown.
When Intuition Seems Wrong
If your intuition led you astray:
- Was it true intuition or fear/desire?
- Intuition is quiet, calm, knowingβnot loud, anxious, wanting
- Practice distinguishing true intuition from mental chatter
- Keep trackingβover time, you'll know the difference
- Work with Laguz + Mannaz (intuition + consciousness)
Troubleshooting Your Laguz Practice
"I can't feel my intuition"
- It's thereβyou're just not listening
- Use the Intuition Check Practice daily
- Quiet your mindβintuition speaks in silence
- Start smallβpractice on little decisions
- Trust the first feelingβdon't overthink
"I'm overwhelmed by emotions"
- Use the Emotional Healing Bath immediately
- Let yourself cryβtears are water, cleansing
- Don't try to control emotionsβlet them flow through
- Seek support if neededβtherapy, friends, community
- Remember: emotions are meant to flow, not be held forever
"I can't surrender control"
- Practice Water Flow Meditation daily
- Start with small thingsβsurrender control of minor issues
- Remember: you can't control everything anyway
- Water teachesβit flows around obstacles, doesn't fight them
- Work with Laguz + Isa (flow + stillness) for balance
Integration: Living Laguz Daily
The most powerful Laguz practice is flowing through life:
- Trust your intuitionβit knows
- Feel your emotionsβdon't suppress them
- Flow with lifeβdon't fight the current
- Be like waterβfluid, adaptable, powerful
- Surrender controlβyou can't control everything
- Remember: you are waterβflowing, cleansing, renewing
Next Steps
You now have a complete toolkit for working with Laguz's flowing energy. Use these practices to develop intuition, heal emotions, and surrender to life's flow.
To deepen your understanding further, explore:
- Laguz Rune: Complete Guide to Meaning & Magic - Foundational knowledge and correspondences
- Laguz Rune Deep Dive: Norse Mythology & Symbolism - Historical and mythological context
May Laguz open your intuition, heal your emotions, and teach you to flow like water. You are the ocean. You are the stream. Flow. Trust. Surrender. This is Laguz.
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