Dagaz is the half-month stave through 29 June. Ingwaz is the intuitive rune, and Sowilo (Sowilu) indicates All Things’ message to us. Read right to left is Dagaz, Ingwaz, then Sowilo.

I truly believe that #theweeklyrune includes the keys to making better choices based on keen insight into the present, to help each of us be more active in creating a better reality for us all. That realization process includes learning to tend what can’t just be fixed, and using every tool at our disposal to accomplish that. 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 we can create ourselves as fit elders, so that we can become well Ancestors upon death.

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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 are usually Nature, Earth, Creation, though are sometimes others. I note who’s speaking each week, as it is revealed.

New to The Weekly Rune?

• Catch a couple of my IGTV videos, which explain the intention and process behind the runecast, and what makes it different from other ways of casting.
• Listen to my What in the Wyrd podcast, which is available across all popular podcast platforms, including Google Play and  iTunes.
• 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)
• Also, for deep work on coming into relationship with the runes in season, check out my book, Runic Book of Days.

What does it mean?

Dagaz is the rune of day, literally a turn on the Earth’s axis, though there is more emphasis on the light portion of that trip than on the dark.  Over the last few weeks, on Instagram and social media, What in the Wyrd, I’ve talked a lot about mindfulness and living in the gap. Summer Solstice is the perfect time to experience it firsthand.

Ingwaz as the best way to manage Dagaz is glorious. It represents an end, in its own right. It’s the culmination of a specific micro-cycle that plays out in the Elder runes, and the result of it is the birth of a new consciousness. So, first off, well done! This is real. Feel it. Allow it. Embody it.

This rune tells us that our efforts aren’t just real, they are consciousness. They have become, and in doing so now have their own agency. Our role must shift to allow the flexiblity required to let what we’ve set in motion do its thing. The challenge isn’t so much realizing the beingness of this consciousness. Rather, it’s allowing how we see ourselves in relationship with it to change. Maybe we’re not caretaker anymore. Maybe we’re not even the authority. We may not even be on the team. 

Part of the realization of our success is seeing how it has changed us, and allowing that change to be. Gap stuff, all the way around, and we can do it. We can face it well.

Sowilo speaks with the voice of All Things. It comes as the powerful force of All, that which we are, that which we move among all day, everyday. When we pause to feel that connection, we’re aware that we’re in the gap. The power of that position and awareness is that we embody All Things. It’s very simple, yet incredibly complex, and very challenging for some folks to believe. We are All Thing, and through us, the BIG us of that unity, all things are possible. 

Sowilo demands that we remember our role in divinity–that we are divine–and through that knowledge, that we inspire that knowledge in others.

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