(HSL stands for Heathen Soul Lore)
Winifred Hodge Rose
Hugr is a deep and complex soul, operating on many levels of Being and at home in several Worlds. What you learn in this step is only the beginning, but it forms the basis for more advanced learning and practice.
Reading
Read Book I (Heathen Soul Lore Foundations) Chapter 10: “Who is Hugr,” or the website article of the same name. Two additional or supplementary chapters / articles about the Hugr are Chapter 9: “Hunting the Wild Hugr,” and Chapter 11: “The Occult Activities of the Hugr,” or the website articles of the same names. These will give you general, research-based information about Hugr.
https://heathensoullore.net/who-is-hugr/
Then read Book II (A Personal Approach) Chapter 10: “Exploring your Hugr,” or Study Guide 10 of the same name on this website, and work through those exercises in your Daybook or Workbook. This will help you learn more about your own Hugr.
https://heathensoullore.net/study-guide-10-exploring-your-hugr-soul/
Practice Notes
Hugr is much involved with our thought-processes and reasoning, but these things are influenced by our deep emotions and longings. When we attend appropriately to those deeper feelings they can strengthen rather than subvert or distort the rational thought-processes of Hugr.
Bindrunes
I have designed bindrunes that express some of my perceptions of each of the souls, shown in Book II and in the Study Guides on my website. If you have some familiarity with rune-lore, I encourage you to use my Hugr bindrune for meditation, and / or create your own Hugr bindrune and use that one. If you are not up for creating a bindrune right now, you’re also welcome to meditate on single runes that seem related to your Hugr soul and how it is involved in the emotions and thought-processes of your Midgard life.
Work with your soul-tokens, if you are using them
When you are doing the reading, writing the exercises, meditating, communing with the Deities and spirits, using divination or spaeworking, and working with bindrunes or single runes, keep any token(s) that you made during the previous Steps with you. If you want a specific Hugr token or Hugr-part of an overall soul-token such as a strand for a braided cord, create it during this Step.
Divination and spaeworking
If you like to use runes or another system of divination, by all means use them to explore more questions and insights about your Hugr soul and record them in your Daybook. Likewise, if you are experienced with spaeworking, seidhcraft, or similar esoteric or magical work, these are excellent ways to explore the souls, but should not be pursued before learning proper methods and precautions.
Initiation Ceremony
If you wish to perform a Hugr initiation ceremony, and hallow your Hugr token if you have one, the text for the Hugr ceremony is included here: https://heathensoullore.net/hugr-initiation-ceremony/
End-notes
If you want to pursue spaework, seidhcraft or other esoteric or magical methods as a means of soul exploration, I highly recommend it, but not without prior experience and training. One useful book for this purpose is:
Cat Heath, Elves, Witches & Gods: Spinning Old Heathen Magic in the Modern Day. Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn, 2021.