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<p>Meanings when upright:</p> <p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul> <ul>
<li>foresight is needed</li>
<li>creative fire</li> <li>creative fire</li>
<li>synergy</li> <li>synergy</li>
<li>networking and creative connections</li> <li>networking and creative connections</li>

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<li>out of touch with reality</li> <li>out of touch with reality</li>
<li>let go of the past</li> <li>let go of the past</li>
<li>difficulty making a change</li> <li>difficulty making a change</li>
<li>overprotectiveness</li>
<li>strength used wrongly</li>
</ul> </ul>
<p>Uruz can be useful for:</p> <p>Uruz can be useful for:</p>

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<li>creative chaos</li> <li>creative chaos</li>
<li>stubborn aggressive endurance</li> <li>stubborn aggressive endurance</li>
<li>proteanism</li> <li>proteanism</li>
<li>unskilled brutal person</li>
</ul> </ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p> <p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
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<li>protection from going feral</li> <li>protection from going feral</li>
<li>need for a change of situation</li> <li>need for a change of situation</li>
<li>self-destructive tendencies</li> <li>self-destructive tendencies</li>
<li>defenselessness/danger</li>
<li>misery in relations with the opposite sex</li>
</ul> </ul>
<p>Thurisaz can be useful for:</p> <p>Thurisaz can be useful for:</p>

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<li>total shattering revelation</li> <li>total shattering revelation</li>
<li>inspiration in the arts</li> <li>inspiration in the arts</li>
<li>clarity of communication</li> <li>clarity of communication</li>
<li>responsibility to ancestral ways</li>
</ul> </ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p> <p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
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<li>binding but without harm (dispassionate and removed)</li> <li>binding but without harm (dispassionate and removed)</li>
<li>mental blockage</li> <li>mental blockage</li>
<li>unwillingness to face reality</li> <li>unwillingness to face reality</li>
<li>delusion</li>
<li>danger from misuse of knowledge</li>
</ul> </ul>
<p>Ansuz can be useful for:</p> <p>Ansuz can be useful for:</p>

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<li>arising after spiritual descent</li> <li>arising after spiritual descent</li>
<li>unstoppable force</li> <li>unstoppable force</li>
<li>time to decide on something of great importance</li> <li>time to decide on something of great importance</li>
<li>a person involved with the law or transportation</li>
</ul> </ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p> <p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
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<li>draining someone's energy</li> <li>draining someone's energy</li>
<li>misleading business dealings (when paired with Ansuz</li> <li>misleading business dealings (when paired with Ansuz</li>
<li>a change in direction</li> <li>a change in direction</li>
<li>hard times are ahead</li>
<li>spiritual boredom from rigid/stifling routines</li>
</ul> </ul>
<p>Raido can be useful for:</p> <p>Raido can be useful for:</p>

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<li>fruition of ideas</li> <li>fruition of ideas</li>
<li>teachers and education</li> <li>teachers and education</li>
<li>light in the darkness</li> <li>light in the darkness</li>
<li>an artist</li>
</ul> </ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p> <p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
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<li>creative block</li> <li>creative block</li>
<li>illness</li> <li>illness</li>
<li>something that will get worse if unattended</li> <li>something that will get worse if unattended</li>
<li>unwanted end to relationship</li>
<li>problems with children</li>
</ul> </ul>
<p>Kenaz can be useful for:</p> <p>Kenaz can be useful for:</p>

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<li>transactional sacrifice</li> <li>transactional sacrifice</li>
<li>balanced partnership</li> <li>balanced partnership</li>
<li>generosity</li> <li>generosity</li>
<li>person who works for a hotel or charity</li>
</ul> </ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p> <p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
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<ul> <ul>
<li>stinginess</li> <li>stinginess</li>
<li>poverty</li> <li>poverty</li>
<li>overdependence</li>
<li>bribery</li>
</ul> </ul>
<p>Gebo can be useful for:</p> <p>Gebo can be useful for:</p>

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<li>sacred marriage (by Mannaz)</li> <li>sacred marriage (by Mannaz)</li>
<li>lifting of the Veil</li> <li>lifting of the Veil</li>
<li>community peace</li> <li>community peace</li>
<li>a social worker</li>
</ul> </ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p> <p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
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<ul> <ul>
<li>severance from the divine</li> <li>severance from the divine</li>
<li>madness and insanity</li> <li>madness and insanity</li>
<li>groupthink/collectivism</li>
<li>loss of identity</li>
<li>strife and alienation</li>
</ul> </ul>
<p>Wunjo can be useful for:</p> <p>Wunjo can be useful for:</p>

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<p>Meanings when upright:</p> <p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul> <ul>
<li>spiritual descent</li> <li>the Eschaton</li>
<li>deep roots of Yewiffe</li> <li>deep roots of Yewiffe</li>
<li>repressed memories</li> <li>repressed memories</li>
<li>winter/darkness/silence</li> <li>winter/darkness/silence</li>
<li>water</li> <li>water</li>
<li>creative destruction</li> <li>creative destruction</li>
<li>upcoming crisis/trauma</li>
<li>good outcomes from forced change</li>
<li>mystic/magician/priest</li>
</ul> </ul>
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<li>sky-scraping branches of Yewiffe</li> <li>sky-scraping branches of Yewiffe</li>
<li>a bright sunny future</li> <li>a bright sunny future</li>
<li>stagnation</li>
</ul> </ul>
<p>Hagalaz can be useful for:</p> <p>Hagalaz can be useful for:</p>

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<title>Jera</title>
<p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_jeran.svg"><img src="../img/runes/jera.svg" alt="Jera rune" title="Jera rune"></a></p>
<h1>Jera</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: harvest</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>passage between worlds</li>
<li>planting and harvesting</li>
<li>gentle pushing of limits</li>
<li>emotional healing</li>
<li>slow hard-won growth</li>
<li>there is wisdom to be gained from everything</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>disequilibrium</li>
</ul>
<p>Jera can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>opening up to changes in state/being</li>
<li>expanding one's boundaries/limits</li>
<li>guiding a dying person to the afterlife</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Ger byÞ gumena hiht, ðonne God læteþ,<br>halig heofones cyning, hrusan syllan<br>beorhte bleda beornum ond ðearfum.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Summer is a joy to men, when God, the holy King of Heaven,<br>suffers the earth to bring forth shining fruits<br>for rich and poor alike.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Ár er gumna góðe;<br>get ek at o,rr var Fróðe.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Plenty is a boon to men;<br>I say that Frothi was generous.</blockquote>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I plant scattered words<br/>
in the garden of my notebook<br/>
and wait to see which will sprout<br/>
aboveground and take a look<br/>
at the sun<br/>
above.</p>
<p>Sometimes it takes years,<br/>
others only a day,<br/>
packaged into sorrowful poem<br/>
and then sent on its way.<br/>
The ones that linger in the soil<br/>
sometimes rot, having no soul<br/>
or otherwise missed its context,<br/>
last metro train heading home<br/>
now departing the station.</p>
<p>You slowly opened up to me<br/>
like a flower blooming,<br/>
yet inside nearly bursting<br/>
at the seams<br/>
to have someone to share a dream<br/>
with. Cross-section of a seed<br/>
that was about to germinate,<br/>
crumpled-up squiggle of green<br/>
sometimes with a tiny leaf<br/>
for soil lying in wait.<br/>
Some seeds can be frozen<br/>
almost indefinitely,<br/>
waiting in oblivion for a world<br/>
that will treat them far more kindly.<br/>
And you waited. You waited so long<br/>
for somebody like me<br/>
to help you remember how to breathe,<br/>
how to grow again.</p>
<p>My rewards in Sablade<br/>
will be far greater than any pain<br/>
that I must bear.<br/>
And when comes time to die,<br/>
I should be able to look you in the eyes<br/>
and let you carry me gently into that good night<br/>
and in our new home spill from my lips all the tales<br/>
with perfect memory of all that has transpired<br/>
since to kill Eris the first time you and I failed.</p>
<p>A book starts from just a single word,<br/>
and a life from a solitary breath,<br/>
and grows day by day until<br/>
I have a tome of praises and a gentle death.<br/>
It always feels like torture<br/>
in the moment of toil,<br/>
but at the end when all comes to fruition<br/>
I cannot help but bless the soil.</p>
<p>I was too ambitious,<br/>
too close to the sun.<br/>
We didn't get to see what the<br/>
seed would decide to become.<br/>
We didn't get to do<br/>
everything we wanted to<br/>
in just one lifetime.<br/>
Right now is an interlude.<br/>
And when we reunite<br/>
in Sablade, I'll give you<br/>
a part two<br/>
worthy of your love.</p>
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<title>Eihwaz</title>
<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>
<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>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>stagnation</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>
<hr>
<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>
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<title>Perthro</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_pertho.svg"><img src="../img/runes/perthro.svg" alt="Perthro rune" title="Perthro rune"></a></p>
<h1>Perthro</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: divination tool</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>totality of Yewiffe</li>
<li>primal womb from which all ideas flow</li>
<li>passageway between states of being</li>
<li>the future inquired about is unknown</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>this will certainly come to pass</li>
<li>you need to know</li>
</ul>
<p>Perthro can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>evocation of prophetic dreams</li>
<li>holding repressed memories</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Peorð byþ symble plega and hlehter<br>wlancum [on middum], ðar wigan sittaþ<br>on beorsele bliþe ætsomne.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Peorth is a source of recreation and amusement to the great,<br>where warriors sit blithely together in the banqueting-hall.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Perthro.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>All that you've done so far has led me to believe<br/>
that every winter of our passing will be followed by a spring.<br/>
That, no matter how dark and cold between you and I it gets,<br/>
the clouds will eventually break and the sun will shine again.</p>
<p>But still I have no clue what the fates will us bestow<br/>
when it gets longer between our touch and what words pass are cold<br/>
with disappointment, misunderstandings, or simply had a bad day<br/>
and, although still loving, cannot any measure of warmth feign.</p>
<p>Deep purple dice cup with thick frosting of dust<br/>
as though this were a bakery and Time held a brush<br/>
to sugar everything, last breath of a world that for me did not wait,<br/>
beckoning me to twist the lid and allow myself to play.</p>
<p>"No people are more addicted to divination by omens and lots."<br/>
My genes mark me no different. But the only words I ever sought<br/>
were from you, my lilac spring, and even then mostly<br/>
I just wanted to know if you still loved me.</p>
<p>My head in your lap as you lean against<br/>
a tree trunk, not Yewiffe but still offering rest.<br/>
Arboreal claws we lie intimate between,<br/>
scales ruffling above in the gentle breeze.</p>
<p>"I don't live in Wyrd, Lethe; I'm far from a Norn.<br/>
I can't see to which fate this world has you sworn.<br/>
But this, I feel, I insist you need to know:<br/>
my love for you will always burn no matter how buried by snow."</p>
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<title>Algiz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_algiz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/algiz.svg" alt="Algiz rune" title="Algiz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Algiz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: elk</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>strength of the spirit</li>
<li>connection to all worlds</li>
<li>birth</li>
<li>protective blessing</li>
<li>non-violent feral (hyperthomosopramia type 2) draconity</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>need for protection</li>
<li>excessive scattering of attention</li>
<li>not standing up for yourself</li>
<li>being drained of energy</li>
<li>death</li>
</ul>
<p>Algiz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>protection and warding</li>
<li>healing injuries</li>
<li>marking what has been hallowed</li>
<li>learning how to work with others</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Eolh-secg eard hæfþ oftust on fenne<br>
wexeð on wature, wundaþ grimme,<br>
blode breneð beorna gehwylcne<br>
ðe him ænigne onfeng gedeþ.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The Eolh-sedge is mostly to be found in a marsh;<br>it grows in the water and makes a ghastly wound,<br>covering with blood every warrior who touches it.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Algiz.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>I'm clinging to your waist<br/>
like you're a floating log<br/>
and I'm halfway to drowning<br/>
not knowing how to breathe with a non-human face.</p>
<p>Someone once called me the Rainbow Bridge,<br/>
being the crossing point between so many worlds,<br/>
but I am neither bi<br/>
nor could I ever abide<br/>
frost over the surface of this roiling sea<br/>
in this metaphor of mine.<br/>
I move too violent,<br/>
too constant,<br/>
for the whole thing to freeze<br/>
over, you see.</p>
<p>But I certainly feel like being quartered<br/>
face from hand from back from limb<br/>
trembling to keep my mind<br/>
in a bedroom lost and somehow dimmed.<br/>
Three different bloods rage inside<br/>
and two are battling for my skin<br/>
and your fingertips brushing the back of my neck,<br/>
the temples where bone and antler connect,<br/>
are the only reminder you're here to protect<br/>
me, promised by palm to keep me sane<br/>
even if draconity ever overcame<br/>
me and my body forcibly changed<br/>
to that of a beast.</p>
<p>Do you think, if a stranger ever saw,<br/>
they'd mistake me for a particularly messed-up elk?<br/>
Wonder where my eyes went, or why so blunted my maw?<br/>
A creature too exquisite for this world, too peculiar for their ilk,<br/>
have to always stay on the periphery<br/>
or in long-lost bedrooms where nobody can see<br/>
the ribbons with every breath wavering.<br/>
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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<title>Sowelo</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Long-branch_Sol.svg"><img src="../img/runes/sowelo.svg" alt="Sowelo rune" title="Sowelo rune"></a></p>
<h1>Sowelo</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: sun</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>impending challenging surprise</li>
<li>rapid spiritual awakening</li>
<li>restorative vitality</li>
<li>blessings</li>
<li>courage</li>
<li>unpleasant unexpected change</li>
<li>you will be cared for in the end</li>
<li>escape from stagnation</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>arrogance</li>
<li>cruelty</li>
</ul>
<p>Sowelo can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>making one's mark on the world</li>
<li>restoring one's energy</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Sigel semannum symble biþ on hihte,<br>ðonne hi hine feriaþ ofer fisces beþ,<br>oþ hi brimhengest bringeþ to lande.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The sun is ever a joy in the hopes of seafarers<br>when they journey away over the fishes' bath,<br>until the courser of the deep bears them to land.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Sól er landa ljóme;<br>lúti ek helgum dóme.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Sun is the light of the world;<br>I bow to the divine decree.</blockquote>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>What comes after<br/>
disaster?<br/>
What follows<br/>
the worst possible outcome?</p>
<p>The wind in its wealth carries your words:<br/>
<i>keep going, get a move on.</i></p>
<p>I was told the Eschaton<br/>
was but a cleansing that stretched out long<br/>
to destroy all that prevented me<br/>
from accepting<br/>
my title as Solstice and my being as Lethe,<br/>
but I've achieved both<br/>
and all still grows worse<br/>
and I know not how much longer I can drag<br/>
this body of mine writing verses in red<br/>
before I end up lifeless, drained, inert<br/>
in the back of a hearse.</p>
<p>You said we were palm pals, that you'd spend your life<br/>
keeping me non-feral, safe, happy at your side.<br/>
But my hand<br/>
stands<br/>
empty, cold, bleeding out<br/>
and held up to the sky to catch the sun before in clouds<br/>
it drowns.</p>
<p>How much longer to go? How much more time to wait<br/>
until the tragedy leaves me and the sorrow abates?<br/>
You promised I'd be dead by May,<br/>
assured me in the dead of night<br/>
as from anxiety I could not stifle a weep.<br/>
And I know it's not your fault<br/>
it was a promise you could not keep.<br/>
Not all in the future you can see clearly enough to tell<br/>
and even if plans are made, ever-shifting is the Veil.</p>
<p>Blanketed by thunder at four forty-four,<br/>
arm around my waist to hold me secure.<br/>
The moon reflects the rays of the sun,<br/>
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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<title>Tiewaz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_tiwaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/tiewaz.svg" alt="Tiewaz rune" title="Tiewaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Tiewaz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: Tyr</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>self-discipline</li>
<li>self-reliance</li>
<li>willingness to do what is right despite the consequences</li>
<li>integrity</li>
<li>justice</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>person of malleable character and weak will</li>
<li>an untrustworthy person</li>
<li>need to step back and reconnect with one's priorities</li>
<li>run-down spirit</li>
</ul>
<p>Tiewaz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>guarding against moral relativism</li>
<li>self-regulation</li>
<li>returning to reality / linear time after trance work</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Tir biþ tacna sum, healdeð trywa wel<br>wiþ æþelingas; a biþ on færylde<br>ofer nihta genipu, næfre swiceþ.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Tiw is a guiding star; well does it keep faith with princes;<br>it is ever on its course over the mists of night and never fails.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Týr er æinendr ása;<br>opt værðr smiðr blása.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Tyr is a one-handed god;<br>often has the smith to blow.</blockquote>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>A cruel world this is where I must choose<br/>
to live my truth<br/>
or have a place to snooze<br/>
at night, safe from thieves<br/>
or murderers or even just<br/>
the relentless and ever-encroaching heat.</p>
<p>Raised on tales of heroes from the sky,<br/>
but the days pass on rapidly by<br/>
and my rights disappear<br/>
into the ether<br/>
as curled up in my bed I wait to die.</p>
<p>Conflicting directives you have bestowed,<br/>
to not lie to myself<br/>
and yet take care of this vessel.<br/>
For so long I've been trying to vindicate<br/>
who I was this age minus eight,<br/>
angel number, all portals<br/>
to the outside world<br/>
for the crime of poetry taken away.<br/>
Keeping my mouth shut means safety<br/>
but heavy conscience, soul decay.<br/>
I might as well be no one at all.</p>
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<title>Berkana</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_berkanan.svg"><img src="../img/runes/berkana.svg" alt="Berkana rune" title="Berkana rune"></a></p>
<h1>Berkana</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: birch</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>a warm reassuring hug from a lover</li>
<li>new beginnings and opportunities</li>
<li>conscious manifestation</li>
<li>pride in one's creations/actions</li>
<li>relief from pain</li>
</ul>
<p>Berkana can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>gentle healing</li>
<li>getting one's energy flowing</li>
<li>creating a solid foundation</li>
<li>blessing children or a household</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Beorc byþ bleda leas, bereþ efne swa ðeah<br>tanas butan tudder, biþ on telgum wlitig,<br>heah on helme hrysted fægere,<br>geloden leafum, lyfte getenge.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The poplar bears no fruit; yet without seed it brings forth suckers,<br>for it is generated from its leaves.<br>Splendid are its branches and gloriously adorned<br>its lofty crown which reaches to the skies.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Bjarkan er laufgrønstr líma;<br>Loki bar flærða tíma.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Birch has the greenest leaves of any shrub;<br>Loki was fortunate in his deceit.</blockquote>
<p>A modern rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Lethe Berkana Beltane.<br/>
From this rune<br/>
I took my middle name<br/>
in hopes of carrying with me always<br/>
the warmth of an early spring day,<br/>
a gentle impassioned hug from my wife,<br/>
the promise that soon all will be okay<br/>
and together we'll build a kinder life.</p>
<p>Berkana makes things grow,<br/>
even after the storms have thrown<br/>
all down<br/>
in shambles onto the ground.<br/>
The seedling that blooms after wildfire,<br/>
alone amidst the ashes.<br/>
Blaze<br/>
razed<br/>
down the treetops, and now sunlight<br/>
through the skeletal branches<br/>
passes.</p>
<p>"Keep going, Lethe,"<br/>
my wife to me beseeches.<br/>
"You have every right to take pride<br/>
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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<title>Ehwaz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_ehwaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/ehwaz.svg" title="Ehwaz rune" alt="Ehwaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Ehwaz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: horse</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>journeying between worlds</li>
<li>possession (in the exorcism sense)</li>
<li>rapid change</li>
<li>presence of the divine</li>
<li>extension of strength through union</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>blockage of energy</li>
<li>loss of a relationship</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 on the temporal plane</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<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/>
How gently<br/>
you will exhume me from my body,<br/>
whisk me so swiftly away<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 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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<title>Mannaz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_mannaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/mannaz.svg" alt="Mannaz rune" title="Mannaz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Mannaz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: man</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>balanced partnership</li>
<li>romantic attachments or marriage</li>
<li>maintaining one's independence</li>
<li>healthy cooperation with others</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>an enemy</li>
<li>distrust</li>
</ul>
<p>Mannaz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>learning/maintaining healthy social boundaries</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Man byþ on myrgþe his magan leof:<br>sceal þeah anra gehwylc oðrum swican,<br>forðum drihten wyle dome sine<br>þæt earme flæsc eorþan betæcan.</blockquote>
<blockquote>The joyous man is dear to his kinsmen;<br>yet every man is doomed to fail his fellow,<br>since the Lord by his decree will commit the vile carrion to the earth.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Maðr er moldar auki;<br>mikil er græip á hauki.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Man is an augmentation of the dust;<br>great is the claw of the hawk.</blockquote>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Our cooperation<br/>
enhances our freedom.<br/>
It seems like a paradox, but it's true.<br/>
Think about it: if you come down with the flu<br/>
or a cold or some other illness,<br/>
while you suffer in bed, who will protect you?<br/>
Me, because I am here.<br/>
I will care for you, ensure<br/>
you have what you need.<br/>
If I while hunting or gathering food<br/>
an awful injury suffer,<br/>
who will carry me home?<br/>
Who will tend to my wounds?<br/>
You, with your strong arms<br/>
and our connection sans Veil,<br/>
location always known.<br/>
Come,<br/>
my love,<br/>
let us fill the gaps in each other,<br/>
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>Laguz</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_laukaz.svg"><img src="../img/runes/laguz.svg" alt="Laguz rune" title="Laguz rune"></a></p>
<h1>Laguz</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: water</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>use of magical energy</li>
<li>sexual tension</li>
<li>shape-shifting</li>
<li>manifestation of desire</li>
<li>creation of magical illusions/glamours</li>
<li>bending the will of others</li>
</ul>
<p>Laguz can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>manipulating magical energy</li>
<li>shifting one's awareness to other layers of reality</li>
<li>bending people to your will</li>
<li>feeding/creating a magical illusion</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Lagu byþ leodum langsum geþuht,<br>gif hi sculun neþan on nacan tealtum<br>and hi sæyþa swyþe bregaþ<br>and se brimhengest bridles ne gym[eð].</blockquote>
<blockquote>The ocean seems interminable to men,<br>if they venture on the rolling bark<br>and the waves of the sea terrify them<br>and the courser of the deep heed not its bridle.</blockquote>
<p>Norwegian rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Lo,gr er, fællr ór fjalle<br>foss; en gull ero nosser.</blockquote>
<blockquote>A waterfall is a River which falls from a mountain-side;<br>but ornaments are of gold.</blockquote>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>"I've always found it strange<br/>
that, in hypotheticals<br/>
of you losing control and going feral,<br/>
you always imagine your draconic form.<br/>
Not the one, the chaotic, proven to,<br/>
when lost control, cause massive harm.<br/>
What's up with that, Lethe?<br/>
I mean,<br/>
I'm not saying I want either to happen,<br/>
but you're so focused on one<br/>
that you discount the other's chances."</p>
<p>I... I don't know, in all honesty.<br/>
I have no concrete answers to give,<br/>
no easy explanation that will relieve.</p>
<p>I guess because...<br/>
in the former form I'm slender and elegant,<br/>
and maybe I associate it with intelligence,<br/>
and so I'm more likely to retain<br/>
some semblance of myself amidst the insane?</p>
<p>Because part of the fantasy<br/>
is you managing to rescue me?</p>
<p>I know you said<br/>
you wanted to spend<br/>
your whole life at my side,<br/>
but I don't want you here if to you<br/>
this is just another sacrifice,<br/>
if you're throwing away your happiness<br/>
just to keep the worlds in safety and bliss-</p>
<p>"That's... not what I meant at all.<br/>
I just want us to be prepared<br/>
in case you ever come under the thrall<br/>
of another evil-seeking god.<br/>
You <i>eat</i> gods, you know. Are you aware?<br/>
With your tail you reave whole worlds to shreds<br/>
and suck souls dry until there's nothing left.<br/>
If you must be in the hands of someone,<br/>
let those hands be mine,<br/>
who has loved you since what feels like<br/>
the beginning of time<br/>
itself.<br/>
You trust me, don't you?<br/>
To not put you through hell?"</p>
<p>Of course. I trust you with all that I am<br/>
even after my very last death knell.<br/>
I think, if I should ever go feral,<br/>
it should be in the form that forgets the least<br/>
so you can bring me back to sanity<br/>
with the utmost of ease.<br/>
After all, I think I'd like to remain<br/>
an (arch)angel for the rest of my days<br/>
since only then do I have the hands,<br/>
the face, the voice to say:</p>
<p>"I love you."</p>
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