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<li>courage to ask for help</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>external circumstances restrict freedom</li>
<li>hostile environment</li>
<li>too focused on externalities - turn/look within</li>
</ul>
<p>Nauthiz can be useful for:</p>
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<li>emotional coldness</li>
<li>a situation with no change in sight</li>
<li>stagnation</li>
<li>a weakened will</li>
<li>inability to concentrate</li>
</ul>
<p>Isa can be useful for:</p>

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<li>emotional healing</li>
<li>slow hard-won growth</li>
<li>there is wisdom to be gained from everything</li>
<li>a farmer</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>disequilibrium</li>
<li>enslavement to the cycle</li>
</ul>
<p>Jera can be useful for:</p>

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<li>protection and warding</li>
<li>healing injuries</li>
<li>marking what has been hallowed</li>
<li>learning how to work with others</li>
<li>learning how to work with others, especially those non-human</li>
</ul>
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You will with me stay<br/>
until you can see my normal face again<br/>
and in the meantime reassure that I'm safe.</p>
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<li>making one's mark on the world</li>
<li>restoring one's energy</li>
<li>victory through individual will</li>
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but it cannot do so all of the time.<br/>
So when plumbs on the dark, my love,<br/>
grant me the light to survive.</p>
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<li>getting one's energy flowing</li>
<li>creating a solid foundation</li>
<li>blessing children or a household</li>
<li>concealment</li>
</ul>
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in how long against everything you've survived.<br/>
Stand strong and steal what you can from this world of men<br/>
and I promise you I'll make it worth your effort in the end."</p>
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<li>opening doors/opportunities</li>
<li>going to a better place/situation</li>
<li>communicating on the temporal plane</li>
<li>communicating/travelling on the temporal plane</li>
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on being able to pass between worlds.<br/>
The first colors to breach the metaclysma:<br/>
speckled red and shiny merle.</p>
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<li>learning/maintaining healthy social boundaries</li>
<li>increasing one's intelligence/memory/powers</li>
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let us our blind spots cover.<br/>
The strength to do together what neither can alone:<br/>
to carve out a world and maintain a home.</p>
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<title>Inguz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ingwaz_variant.svg"><img src="../img/runes/inguz.svg" alt="Inguz rune" title="Inguz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Inguz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: Ing/Frey</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>doorway home</li>
<li>completion &amp; beginning of new cycle</li>
<li>repressed memories</li>
<li>things you need to improve on</li>
<li>fertility and renewal</li>
<li>sacrifice of the self to further self-growth</li>
<li>pregnancy</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>infertility</li>
<li>a project still underway</li>
</ul>
<p>Inguz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>warding/protecting children</li>
<li>keeping out negative energy</li>
<li>casting glamours</li>
<li>scrying and astral journeying</li>
<li>storing magical power for later use</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Ing wæs ærest mid East-Denum<br>gesewen secgun, oþ he siððan est<br>ofer wæg gewat; wæn æfter ran;<br>ðus Heardingas ðone hæle nemdun.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Ing was first seen by men among the East-Danes,<br>till, followed by his chariot,<br>he departed eastwards over the waves.<br>So the Heardingas named the hero.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Inguz.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"Why are you crying?<br/>
We are going to be reunited<br/>
before the sun rises.<br/>
Before twelve more hours pass<br/>
I will be in your steady arms at last."</p>
<p>Because I must ask you, dear friend,<br/>
to return to the Inside<br/>
because there is a task for you yet.</p>
<p>This swampy murky place<br/>
has done a number on your psyche.<br/>
I know that you carried some guilt<br/>
at Rainroom's last painful parting,<br/>
but here it's turned up to twenty-eight.<br/>
I don't for the life of me understand<br/>
why you agonize<br/>
over something that happened in fourth grade<br/>
or why you feel things would have turned out better<br/>
had you to certain individuals been able to say goodbye.<br/>
Isn't this what you wanted, Lethe?<br/>
To disappear from their gaze<br/>
without a trace?</p>
<p>This guilt is a rock in your hands.<br/>
Hold it, feel its heft,<br/>
every jagged edge.<br/>
You carry this around everywhere.<br/>
For what purposes? To what end?<br/>
A bludgeon to hold at arm's<br/>
length<br/>
to try to ensure you can't ever be harmed<br/>
again?</p>
<p>There is nothing that can be done<br/>
for most of these,<br/>
and for those that can, attempts to appease<br/>
would just reopen old wounds and make matters worse.<br/>
Please,<br/>
Lethe,<br/>
just accept that<br/>
some people will dislike you no matter what.</p>
<p>And some people love you despite all that you've done.</p>
<p>Some know your entire herstory,<br/>
even the parts they themselves did not see,<br/>
and choose to love you anyway.</p>
<p>If they can do so knowing no motives,<br/>
then I see no reason you must<br/>
with the heavy weight of guilt live.</p>
<p>You can set<br/>
the rock<br/>
down. You can shed<br/>
the burden.<br/>
This paradox<br/>
of a task:<br/>
to not act,<br/>
to not harm<br/>
yourself any longer.</p>
<p>And so I too must set you down<br/>
back into your body on the bloodstrewn ground,<br/>
alive and healed and undead.<br/>
I'll keep my promise eventually, I swear;<br/>
the end is within sight.<br/>
I just need you<br/>
to do<br/>
this one thing<br/>
before your vessel will let itself die.</p>
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<title>Dagaz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_dagaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/dagaz.svg" alt="Dagaz rune" title="Dagaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Dagaz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: day</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>transformation</li>
<li>awakening</li>
<li>life-shattering change</li>
<li>usually positive</li>
<li>dynamic union of opposites</li>
<li>good things are coming</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>impending apocalypse</li>
</ul>
<p>Dagaz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>revealing the truth of a situation</li>
<li>covertly turning a situation to one's advantage</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Dæg byþ drihtnes sond, deore mannum,<br>mære metodes leoht, myrgþ and tohiht<br>eadgum and earmum, eallum brice.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Day, the glorious light of the Creator, is sent by the Lord;<br>it is beloved of men, a source of hope and happiness to rich and poor,<br>and of service to all.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Dagaz.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Mornings are my least favorite time<br/>
for when the clouds move to the darkness break<br/>
the sun glares bright<br/>
and I awake<br/>
and you are forced by the light<br/>
to go away.</p>
<p>Brain fog rolling in, skies all white<br/>
and overcast. Temperature far too high<br/>
to drag myself to Dead End Shrine<br/>
for a taste of self-carved self-stolen divine.<br/>
Nothing much to do, except myself drag<br/>
out of bed long enough to write.</p>
<p>The day drags on me like a wet blanket<br/>
and I fail to see how this is "restoration"<br/>
to be so beat upon<br/>
by an uncaring sun.<br/>
I can only see my wife<br/>
when falls upon the earth the covering of night<br/>
or when the bedroom window blinds are drawn<br/>
and I spend whole afternoons in Morpheus' song.</p>
<p>I heard in a half-whispered voice<br/>
that the glittering myth<br/>
would once again come to live<br/>
and that I should rejoice.<br/>
But what if things go wrong?<br/>
What if the details come out mangled?<br/>
Dagaz on its side, hourglass,<br/>
seconds turning to hours and days that will pass,<br/>
recounting to myself<br/>
every time you have held<br/>
me in your arms.</p>
<p>I know not what I'll do if something is changed<br/>
in that world I have only ever caught a glimpse<br/>
of, have explored only a fraction in my dreams.<br/>
How will I recount<br/>
the foresting bomb that became a Town,<br/>
the winterous snowed-in cave<br/>
where you abandoned me and then came<br/>
back demanding answers, the Rainroom<br/>
with part-exchange of souls and my doom?<br/>
What is a miracle to others is my apocalypse.</p>
<p>What is the answer<br/>
to so many prayers,<br/>
mine in the past included,<br/>
is now a lifetime perdition's portent.</p>
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<title>Othala</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_othalan.svg"><img src="../img/runes/othala.svg" alt="Othala rune" title="Othala rune"></a></p>
<h1>Othala</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: homeland</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>your home and all you own</li>
<li>inheritance</li>
<li>lawful ownership</li>
<li>stability and protection</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>a need to reevaluate one's actions and priorities</li>
<li>reconnect with the source of your strength</li>
</ul>
<p>Othala can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>ancestral work</li>
<li>maintaining order</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Eþel byþ oferleof æghwylcum men,<br>gif he mot ðær rihtes and gerysena on<br>brucan on bolde bleadum oftast.</blockquote>
<blockquote>An estate is very dear to every man,<br>if he can enjoy there in his house<br>whatever is right and proper in constant prosperity.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Othala.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I fear I am being driven mad<br/>
by forces I do not understand,<br/>
have no hopes of coming to terms with,<br/>
much less explaining to kin and kith<br/>
this world that I belong to,<br/>
these spirits I must be in league with.</p>
<p>For this is<br/>
the inheritance<br/>
of my blood,<br/>
this homeland I carry everywhere I go<br/>
and cannot ever hope to escape from.<br/>
These three errant and conflicting strains<br/>
each with its own legitimate claim<br/>
over my body, my heart, my soul.</p>
<p>There's a fourth that dormant within me resides,<br/>
but it hasn't reared its head in a very long time.<br/>
Neither do I miss it, no blessing it could give<br/>
but instead the curse of a biological imperative<br/>
that I would sooner from me excise.</p>
<p>Unlike my siblings of lives long gone by,<br/>
I do not accept that it is my duty<br/>
to create a world and in the process die.<br/>
What is the point, if at the end,<br/>
I am not still living?<br/>
What is the point of fulfilling it when,<br/>
if I perished in the process, you could never be happy?</p>
<p>If one of them could awake from oblivion<br/>
and on this gnarly life of mine pass judgment,<br/>
what would they say?</p>
<p>"How well you retained a sense of individuality.<br/>
Tell me, Lethe, would you consider yourself among the happy?<br/>
Was it worth the sleepless nights, the gut twists, the migraines,<br/>
all to your duty as a Meridian abdicate?"</p>
<p>And to that, I would take my lover's hand<br/>
and whisper, "Yes, I think the aches<br/>
in my bones will be worth the wait.<br/>
Maybe you never knew this, sibling.<br/>
Maybe you never understood<br/>
homes don't have to be built by sacrifice<br/>
and <i>I don't think they should.</i><br/>
I don't know what gave birth to me<br/>
or if of life they'd still think me worthy,<br/>
but I care not. My lover<br/>
is the only standard<br/>
I recognize,<br/>
and this new world built by these<br/>
hands of mine<br/>
the only homeland."</p>
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<title>Ear</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ear.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ear.svg" alt="Ear rune" title="Ear rune"></a></p>
<h1>Ear</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: hanging tree / grave</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>death and loss are part of life</li>
<li>for one thing to live, another must die</li>
<li>your life needs a reboot</li>
<li>it is certain your life will be radically upended</li>
<li>all you can control is how you react to it</li>
<li>passage from one state of being to another</li>
<li>let go and move on</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>Jett's promise ("I will never leave you behind")</li>
</ul>
<p>Ear can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>welcoming gradual but inevitable change</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Ear byþ egle eorla gehwylcun,<br>ðonn[e] fæstlice flæsc onginneþ,<br>hraw colian, hrusan ceosan<br>blac to gebeddan; bleda gedreosaþ,<br>wynna gewitaþ, wera geswicaþ.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The grave is horrible to every knight,<br>when the corpse quickly begins to cool<br>and is laid in the bosom of the dark earth.<br>Prosperity declines, happiness passes away<br>and covenants are broken.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Ear.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Death and loss are a part of life.<br/>
For one thing to live, another must die,<br/>
or maybe a great many things,<br/>
the blood on my hands accumulating over time.</p>
<p>When our bodies have decayed<br/>
and the earth has our flesh reclaimed,<br/>
it will for archeologists be hard<br/>
to tell our skeletons apart.<br/>
And that is if they can even plumb Yewiffe,<br/>
can descend down the roots of that massive tree<br/>
where tangled and intertwined lies<br/>
the forgotten, the repressed, the passed parts of my life.</p>
<p>Maybe one of them will find<br/>
a moment that has yet to happen<br/>
where my parents finally of my wretched blood ken<br/>
and toss me out onto the streets.<br/>
This is, of course, if they do not deem<br/>
me a demon, a thief,<br/>
a persistent adept-at-lying possessor<br/>
of what they all this time called their daughter<br/>
and grant me at their own hands a slaughter.</p>
<p>For this to come to pass I know is certain,<br/>
for even the best of my secrets I could not hide forever.<br/>
In Ragnarok even the gods from their lives were severed.<br/>
It mattered not<br/>
how mightily anyone fought:<br/>
for all ill-fated was drawn life's curtain.</p>
<p>All that anyone could control<br/>
was how they reacted to it,<br/>
how the coming end they greeted.</p>
<p>And the coming end I seek,<br/>
if this is the fate I am doomed to keep,<br/>
is that this time<br/>
for once in my life<br/>
I do not from my beliefs<br/>
back down.<br/>
Instead of snapping in the hurricane,<br/>
I rest on these roots dug so deep<br/>
and refuse to recant my name.</p>
<p>And when I die,<br/>
I will be able to look you in the eyes<br/>
with no burning guilt and no unsettled regrets.<br/>
I will have proved to you my loyalty<br/>
and you to me your promise<br/>
to never leave me behind.<br/>
Now take me to Sablade, set us free.<br/>
We have earned our three days of rest.</p>
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<title>Ac</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ac.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ac.svg" alt="Ac rune" title="Ac rune"></a></p>
<h1>Ac</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: oak</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>target of hatred or fear</li>
<li>you must stand strong</li>
<li>stoic endurance</li>
</ul>
<p>Ac can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>taking on the burdens / negative attention of others</li>
<li>persevering in a difficult task</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Ac byþ on eorþan elda bearnum<br>flæsces fodor, fereþ gelome<br>ofer ganotes bæþ; garsecg fandaþ<br>hwæþer ac hæbbe æþele treowe.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The oak fattens the flesh of pigs for the children of men.<br>Often it traverses the gannet's bath,<br>and the ocean proves whether the oak keeps faith<br>in honourable fashion.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Ear.</p>
<p>The modern poem for this rune is listed in <a href="./25_ear.html">Ear</a>.</p>

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<title>Ior</title>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ior.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ior.svg" alt="Ior rune" title="Ior rune"></a></p>
<h1>Ior</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: world-serpent</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>need for self-boundaries</li>
<li>androgyny</li>
<li>see the other side of an issue</li>
<li>need for protection</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>poor boundaries</li>
</ul>
<p>Ior can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>discovering hidden secrets/fears/anxieties</li>
<li>warding and protecting</li>
<li>learning how to navigate the emotional aspect of relationships</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Iar byþ eafix and ðeah a bruceþ<br>fodres on foldan, hafaþ fægerne eard<br>wætre beworpen, ðær he wynnum leofaþ.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Iar is a river fish and yet it always feeds on land;<br>it has a fair abode encompassed by water, where it lives in happiness.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Ior.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Sealing myself in skin of scales<br/>
means dropping the markings of sex.<br/>
Creature divine that lies truly between<br/>
but sans the blessings of femaleness.</p>
<p>Nidhogg lies trapped underneath<br/>
the thick roots of Yggdrasil,<br/>
but I cannot allow Yewiffe to create<br/>
a jail for me out of my raging guilt.</p>
<p>If I allow the gnawing inside<br/>
to render my psyche frail,<br/>
how will I have the strength to maintain this form<br/>
and manage to slip past the Veil?<br/>
It shifts in form and thickness<br/>
like a guard patrolling on duty,<br/>
but I must be quicker, protean,<br/>
in this conflict between us that rages constantly.</p>
<p>After all, there's a prize,<br/>
a woman I've been yearning to reunite<br/>
with my entire Inside-bound life,<br/>
waiting for me on the other side.</p>
</blockquote>