<li>extension of strength through union (no loss of individuality)</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>blockage of energy</li>
<li>loss of a relationship</li>
<li>being subsumed into one's partner</li>
<li>paralysis from anxiety disorder / executive dysfunction</li>
</ul>
<p>Ehwaz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>opening doors/opportunities</li>
<li>going to a better place/situation</li>
<li>communicating/travelling on the temporal plane</li>
</ul>
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<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Eh byþ for eorlum æþelinga wyn,<br>hors hofum wlanc, ðær him hæleþ ymb[e]<br>welege on wicgum wrixlaþ spræce<br>and biþ unstyllum æfre frofur.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The horse is a joy to princes in the presence of warriors.<br>A steed in the pride of its hoofs,<br>when rich men on horseback bandy words about it;<br>and it is ever a source of comfort to the restless.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Ehwaz.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>A full belly, bonfire blazing<br/>
just a little bit away,<br/>
saved a place<br/>
for me in the circle of friends<br/>
as the sun dips below and day comes to an end.</p>
<p>Your arms are the only chariot I trust,<br/>
whether half-asleep in drowsy lust<br/>
or the fateful day my vessel decides<br/>
it's time to return to dust.<br/>
<strong>How gently<br/>
you will exhume me from my body,<br/>
whisk me so swiftly away</strong><br/>
to a hospital in a place I cannot here name<br/>
to evade<br/>
the Second Death.<br/>
You promised you'd never leave me behind,<br/>
and as long as in your embrace I am<br/>
I am assured of your vow I am not bereft.</p>
<p>Psychopomp and Rainbow Bridge,<br/>
the two of us whose entire fates hinge<br/>
on <strong>being able to pass between worlds</strong>.<br/>
