<html> <head> <title>Ehwaz</title> <link href="./style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" title="main" media="all"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <link rel="icon" href="../img/runes/ehwaz.svg"> </head> <body> <p class="center"><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 (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> <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/> <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/> The first colors to breach the metaclysma:<br/> speckled red and shiny merle.</p> </blockquote> </body> </html>