In a way I like the blank rune as wyrd, but lately I'm agreeing more with Freya on its meanings being included in preexisting runes already, making it unnecessary. Perthro covers enough of that already. I don't know, it doesn't feel right. I don't use it.
I've found I use the symbols less for divination so much as for magic directly. I 'cast' them by visualizing it in front of me in energy, and then charging and releasing as with any sigel. That works well for me. Slinging runes about feels a lot like 'spell casting'. Its neat, and makes sense to me. Forming bindrunes this way is a challenging mental exercise.
I use them in energy work as well, reiki and the like. Again with visualization and casting as a method of tuning the energy I need, and projecting it. By casting, I push/release the visualization away so that I see it moving away, as though spatially, but more in the 5th dimentional sense than the 3rd. Casting at targets helps to open channels of that sort to the target.
As for diviniation, I don't actually use a physical set of them right now. I started investigating the runes again (at about 12 I used them as an alphabet for sekret writings) when I started randomly seeing them in things: rocks, twigs, spraypaint on streets, that sort of thing. They knocked on my door, so I let them in and they deply became a part of how I work. Now that I've initiated myself into their escoteric meanings well enough to use them, I still divine that way. If I see a rune somewhere (and they just sort of jump out at me when they do), I take that reading. I've always been big on free-form divination that way, the "one foot in one foot out" shamanic style of dealing with the world.
As for the Eddas, I researched them on Amazon, and came up with these two as the best of the lot:
Snorri Sturluson - Edda (Everyman Paperback Classics)
Lee Milton Hollander - The Poetic Edda
Snorri's is the Prose Edda, a more readable translation. The Poetic Edda attempts to recreate the rhyme and meter of the original Islandic, and so reads more as poetry, so may be a bit harder to read. I haven't read them yet, but they're coming up real soon on my reading list  I'm knee deep in a course of study with Asatru currently, except for occasional interruptions from the land of voodoo.
Ever feel like the Gods are running you through a crash course to get you up to speed to do something? Its been like that for me lately.  |
) and soon found myself creating sigil type things within a week by using runic charaters as a base - the meanings they portrayed were incredibly powerful and soon took over what they originally represented - much to my detriment and anothers.
istinct holographic entities that when understood individually also combine in great detail as a whole hyperdimensional holographic representation of reality!