The Weekly Rune - Fehu, Tending Pain

For the week of 5 July 2020

Tending Pain

Fehu is the half-month stave through 14 July. Jera is the intuitive rune, and Thurisaz reversed indicates Conscience’s message to us. Read right to left is Fehu, Jera, then Thurisaz reversed.

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 life for us all. That realization process includes learning to tend what can’t just be fixed, and using every tool at our disposal. 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 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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The Runecast

When the runes repeat week-to-week in any fashion, it’s always something to pay attention to. That Jera, the rune of accounting, pairs again with Fehu, the rune of assets that must be tended, means it’s time to listen more closely to what they’re saying.

On a practical level, this power duo is about creating a lifestyle around how assets are tended. Meaning, to truly grow our assets, we can’t just treat them as if they are separate from ourselves. We can’t just check the boxes, nod the approval, and walk away from their process. We have to be their process, which means we have to bring more to our care of them, and of ourselves.

We’re mostly comfortable with seeing ourselves as life force, and with unifying aspects of our inner cosmologies to shape our lives. However, we still struggle with seeing patterns, habits, thoughts, and feelings as life force, also. When we talk about tending anything, though in this case, what we value in life, we have to remember that it is life force. It is alive, and as such we have to honor its agency.

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?

Is it easier to think that way with our cash, or with our calling? Indeed, Fehu is most often distilled to our financial resources, though at its base, wealth is whatever we value. This can include our health, our emotional states, our wyrd, our talents, our legacy… The most significant currency we bring to life is our calling. It is what we being to community, and it is what sustains us. And this week, none of it is going to come easily.

If we’re animists, then we have to honor that everything is on its own trajectory. Everything. Even the things under our purview and care have their own plans, and this week’s runecast taps into what negotiating that relationship requires. 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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