The Weekly Rune - Berkana – Soul Intent Arts

For the week of 13 March 2022

Rehab and Flow

Berkana (Berkano,Beorc) is the half-month rune through 14 March. Ingwaz is the intuitive rune, Laguz indicates Flow’s message to us, and the mink rib occupies autumn. Read right to left is Berkana, Ingwaz, then Laguz.

The Elder Futhark runic calendar provides to humanity keys for how we live in season with All Things. Through #theweeklyrune I share the Futhark’s insight on how to live better as animists, to make better choices based on keen insight into the present, and to help each of us be more active in creating a better life for us all. That realization includes living with All Things as family, learning to tend what can’t just be fixed, and using every tool at our disposal to do so. The runes are such a tool, and in the Old Norse tradition, this process is wyrdweaving at it deepest potential. The runes provide one way that we can create ourselves as fit elders, so that upon our good death, we can be well Ancestors.

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What’s a half-month rune?

“Half-month” is an astronomical concept in which each month is divided into two parts: days 1-15, then 16-month’s end. In terms of the runic calendar, each half-month rune is one of the 24 runes of the Elder Futhark, and governs for a tad over two weeks (14 and 1/4 days, or a fortnight).

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The Weekly Rune is a three-rune cast. Those runes are the half-month, the intuitive rune, and the overview. The half-month is a set rune, which for the most part follows the traditional ordering of the Elder Futhark. The intuitive stave (meaning, I draw it blind) indicates the life force most available to us, to the focus of the half-month rune into sharper focus. It suggests how we can best handle the half-month energies. The final rune (also drawn blind) provides a high overview of the current time, and speaks from different voices. These voices have been Nature, Earth, Creation, though are sometimes others. I note who’s speaking each week, as it is revealed.

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A few people have asked the reason that I switch between different rune sets for TWR. The short answer is: because. The more nuanced answer is, I ask which sets wants to speak each week. I don’t assume the same elements are in play according to the timing of the runes; I also don’t assume the same elements of my runes are appropriate to speak each week. I did a podcast on this subject, so there’s more info there. (See above)
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If we look back over the last six weeks of TWR, Tiwaz was in most of them, either featured or framing. That inundation alone says we’re moving through a time where we have to pick our battles, and we have to implement a working strategy to express the grief that is an inevitable result of doing so. That element of pivot and grief in Tiwaz sets the stage for how we move into Berkana (Berkano, Beorc) this week.

Learn more about this seasonal progression, and how to draw its insights into the personal spiritual path in Runic Book of Days.

What does it mean?

Berkana is sort of a deep rehabilitation rune. In traditional Futhark order, it’s the rune of respite and deep care given after a traumatic event. Its ‘dues paid’ aspect draws on the recovery note, but it also brings in a no bullshit/full realization of what has transpired. There is no spa pampering or jading here. In this way, Berkana is also the indicator of having deeply assessed the pivot of Tiwaz and reached some sort of status in the relationship with grief. It doesn’t mean we’re done with grief. Rather, Berkana indicates we’ve moved to a place of active acknowledgement of it, in such a way that we can visualize how life might go on. Read more…

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Originally published on Soul Intent Arts.

S. Kelley Harrell, M. Div.

I’m an animist, author, deathwalker and death doula. For the last 25+ years, through Soul Intent Arts I’ve helped others to ethically build thriving spiritual paths as fit, embodied elders, who upon death become wise, capable Ancestors. My work is Nature-based, and focuses soul tending through the Elder Futhark runes, animism, ancestral healing, and deathwork. I’m author of Runic Book of Days, and I host the podcast, What in the Wyrd. I also write The Weekly Rune as a celebration of the Elder Futhark in season. Full bio.

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