Blue sodalite stones, cut flat and polished, come in this pouch, each with a gold-coloured rune on its face. Their shades are bright blue, royal blue, dark blue and greyish blue, with whitish veins and light grey patches. Each is roughly rectangular with rounded edges. Origin: India.
Deep blue stone, white veins
Whitish veins form a different pattern on every stone, so they are easy to tell apart even side by side. On a light, plain cloth both the blue and the gold signs show up well. Sodalite is named after sodium, which it contains in large amounts. It is often mistaken for lapis lazuli, but sodalite rarely shows the golden flecks typical of lapis.
Every rune has a name
Every sign of the futhark had a sound and a name. The first, fehu, means cattle and wealth; the second, uruz, is the name of the aurochs, the wild ox of old Europe; the third, thurisaz, means giant. Medieval rune poems kept these names alive, such as the Old English, Old Icelandic and Old Norwegian ones. Rune tradition holds that these old meanings answer the question asked.
Alongside a rune notebook
Sodalite is the stone of clear thinking and honest words in crystal tradition. If you keep a notebook of which sign you drew on which day, you will learn the meanings over time. Leafing back, you can also see what happened on those days.
Since sodalite is softer than quartz, keep the stones in their pouch. If you wipe them, use a soft, dry cloth and do not scrub the gold signs.