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<title>Wunjo</title>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Runic_letter_wunjo.svg"><img src="../img/runes/wunjo.svg" alt="Wunjo rune" title="Wunjo rune"></a></p>
<h1>Wunjo</h1>
<p>Traditional meaning: joy, perfection</p>
<p>Meanings when upright:</p>
<ul>
<li>bilocality in awareness</li>
<li>passionate love and union</li>
<li>joy in self-recognition</li>
<li>sacred marriage (by Mannaz)</li>
<li>lifting of the Veil</li>
<li>community peace</li>
<li>a social worker</li>
</ul>
<p>Meanings when inverted:</p>
<ul>
<li>severance from the divine</li>
<li>madness and insanity</li>
<li>groupthink/collectivism</li>
<li>loss of identity</li>
<li>strife and alienation</li>
</ul>
<p>Wunjo can be useful for:</p>
<ul>
<li>strengthening links and bonds</li>
<li>binding runes toward specific purposes</li>
</ul>
<hr>
<p>Anglo-Saxon rune poem:</p>
<blockquote>Wenne bruceþ, ðe can weana lyt<br>sares and sorge and him sylfa hæfþ<br>blæd and blysse and eac byrga geniht.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Bliss he enjoys who knows not suffering, sorrow nor anxiety,<br>and has prosperity and happiness and a good enough house.</blockquote>
<p>There is not a Norwegian rune poem for Wunjo.</p>
<p>A modern poem:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Where do our nerves know where to end?<br/>
X equals X times two,<br/>
all but nought to the stratosphere.<br/>
I touch your cheek, and I feel the sheer<br/>
softness, and the pressure against an aching tooth<br/>
in your jaw, and my fingertips starting to sweat.<br/>
I know, and I know that you know, and you know<br/>
that I know that you know.<br/>
Reaching across an imaginary line<br/>
that between our bodies divides<br/>
a canvas, symmetry mode, whatever I do<br/>
to you is mirrored in sensation on my own hide.</p>
<p>I would to atone self-flagellate<br/>
if not for the knowledge that the bloody pain,<br/>
although on your skin leaving no wound,<br/>
would convince that it had become serrate.<br/>
This vessel of mine is just as much yours<br/>
now as it was when Inside I was born,<br/>
reincarnate, held century's prisoner.<br/>
I should take care of it, I think, to minimize<br/>
the pain transferred from this bond of our life.</p>
</blockquote>