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<title>Eihwaz</title>
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<h1>Eihwaz</h1>

<p>Traditional meaning: yew</p>

<p>Meanings when upright:</p>

<ul>
	<li>Yewiffe</li>
	<li>the truth about oneself</li>
	<li>every ending is a beginning</li>
	<li>take care of yourself</li>
	<li>connection between opposites</li>
	<li>the tide is turning in your favor</li>
	<li>seek independence from the order of the universe</li>
	<li>a mystic or magician</li>
</ul>

<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>

<ul>
	<li>stagnation / burnout</li>
</ul>

<p>Eihwaz can be useful for:</p>

<ul>
	<li>act with self-knowledge</li>
	<li>self-care</li>
	<li>protection and banishing</li>
	<li>overcoming the fear of death</li>
	<li>communicating between levels of reality</li>
	<li>recovering past-life memories</li>
</ul>

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<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>

<blockquote>Eoh byþ utan unsmeþe treow,<br>heard hrusan fæst, hyrde fyres,<br>wyrtrumun underwreþyd, wyn on eþle.</blockquote>

<blockquote>The yew is a tree with rough bark,<br>hard and fast in the earth, supported by its roots,<br>a guardian of flame and a joy upon an estate.</blockquote>

<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Eihwaz.</p>

<p>A modern poem:</p>

<blockquote>
	<p>Lethe, my love, is this the ending you sought?<br/>
	Hooked up to machines until your final thought,<br/>
	dependent on them for all else.<br/>
	Is it quiet?<br/>
	Is it peaceful at last?<br/>
	Or medical cacophony until rings death knell?</p>

	<p>How many dreams I've acted in<br/>
	where you've cast yourself as the savior<br/>
	that provides means to escape<br/>
	while from death or mortal wound you do not waver</p>

	<p>but I'd rather you chose to survive,<br/>
	to not force me to say goodbye,<br/>
	to slowly heal the impaled wound<br/>
	instead of perishing all too soon.</p>

	<p>The cloak is nearly finished now,<br/>
	orange, obsidian webbed stitching,<br/>
	and I've got to see this through<br/>
	to<br/>
	the end,<br/>
	where lies every beginning.</p>
</blockquote>