Why these Glyphs now?

In dark with Tarot and FUTHARK?

Why not just consult Tarot cards, as there are many wonderful, Beautifully artistic Tarot decks, or the FUTHARK Runes?

Tarot Decks have 78 cards, and can take years of study to truly get familiar with, such that people feel frustrated and lost when trying to do their own readings, or consult a professional to read for them.

Let’s talk about the Futhark runes. The runes are truly inscrutable.

Here is a picture of the ancient runes:

Many years ago, a friend introduced me to a set of Futhark Runes, and a book on how to use them. I was in a time of transition, making decisions that were difficult, and dealing with the stress of not knowing whether I should take steps that made me insecure, but liberated from a situation I needed to escape. I used consultations with the runes to help make up my mind to take an “empty handed leap into the void.” Ralph H. Blume’s The Book of Runes was a valuable part of that process.

Whenever I consulted these symbols, I had to look up each of them to read what the symbol was called, what its name meant, and what Mr Blum had to say about the basic meaning of each of them. Not exactly an intuitive experience. So the inspiration for this book was the Futhark runes in both the sense that I enjoyed using the runes to find answers to my questions but also because it felt like there was a barrier between the experience of the runes and the meaning that could be extracted from a more direct experience, more easily grasped “ah ha” experience.

I developed these symbols around the year 2000, thinking of their meanings as more visually direct, for people living in this Third Millennium. I called them M3 Glyphs for short. I put together a few pages about them and then set the project aside for the next 25 years.

Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books are the inspiration for calling them Recent Runes.

His fantasy world includes a professor at his Unseen University, a wizard “Lecturer in Recent Runes”. As there are “Ancient Runes” logic suggests that there might be modern ones. So here they are: These M3Glyphs are Recent Runes, with warm thanks to Mr. Pratchett for the suggestion..