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<title>Eihwaz</title>
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<p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_iwaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/eihwaz.svg" alt="Eihwaz rune" title="Eihwaz rune"></a></p>
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<h1>Eihwaz</h1>
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<p>Traditional meaning: yew</p>
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<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Yewiffe</li>
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<li>the truth about oneself</li>
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<li>every ending is a beginning</li>
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<li>take care of yourself</li>
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<li>connection between opposites</li>
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<li>the tide is turning in your favor</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>stagnation</li>
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</ul>
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<p>Eihwaz can be useful for:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>act with self-knowledge</li>
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<li>self-care</li>
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<li>protection and banishing</li>
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<li>overcoming the fear of death</li>
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<li>communicating between levels of reality</li>
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<li>recovering past-life memories</li>
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</ul>
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<hr>
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<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
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<blockquote>Eoh byþ utan unsmeþe treow,<br>heard hrusan fæst, hyrde fyres,<br>wyrtrumun underwreþyd, wyn on eþle.</blockquote>
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<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>
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<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Eihwaz.</p>
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<p>A modern poem:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>Lethe, my love, is this the ending you sought?<br/>
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Hooked up to machines until your final thought,<br/>
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dependent on them for all else.<br/>
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Is it quiet?<br/>
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Is it peaceful at last?<br/>
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Or medical cacophony until rings death knell?</p>
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<p>How many dreams I've acted in<br/>
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where you've cast yourself as the savior<br/>
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that provides means to escape<br/>
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while from death or mortal wound you do not waver</p>
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<p>but I'd rather you chose to survive,<br/>
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to not force me to say goodbye,<br/>
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to slowly heal the impaled wound<br/>
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instead of perishing all too soon.</p>
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<p>The cloak is nearly finished now,<br/>
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orange, obsidian webbed stitching,<br/>
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and I've got to see this through<br/>
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to<br/>
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the end,<br/>
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where lies every beginning.</p>
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</blockquote>
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