Jera - Literally: “Year” - Esoteric: Harvest
Rune of harvest and reward for, or reaction to, right actions in a horizontal (naturally ordered) cyclical process. Rune of peace on the land and in the heart.
Divinations: Reward for positive action, plenty, peace, proper timing; or repetition, bad timing, poverty, conflict, regression.
Isa - Literally: “Ice” - Esoteric: Stasis, Stillness
Rune of concentration of things in a static or frozen state. Rune of stillness and the Ego-Self.
Divinations: Concentrated self, ego-consciousness, self-control, unity of being; or egomania, dullness, blindness, dissipation, immobility, self-centeredness, lack of change, psychopathy.
Nauthiz - Literally: “Need-fire” or “Necessity” - Esoteric: Constraint, Friction
Rune of resistance, which can kindle a fire of higher will or which can constrain the self (or any process) and its development. Rune of the power of the ordeal in life. Rune of conflict and drama.
Divinations: Resistance (leading to strength), recognition of örlög (ultimate law, primal truth), innovation, need-fire (self-reliance), personal development and life lessons, achievement through effort; or constraint of freedom, distress, toil, drudgery, laxity, warnings, worry, guilt, moral cowardice.
Hagalaz - Literally: “Hail” or “Hailstone” - Esoteric: Crisis or Radical Change
Rune of crisis and catastrophe. Condensation of powers into a seed-form from which further developments, positive or negative, become possible. Rune of Devolution preceding evolution.
Divinations: Change according to ideals, changes for the long-term good, controlled crisis, completion, inner harmony; or catastrophe, crisis, stagnation, loss of power, loss of property, short-term disappointment, victim-consciousness, obsession with the past, blame.
Wunjo - Literally: “Joy” - Esoteric: Hope, Harmony, Perfection
Rune of pleasure and a feeling of harmony within the self and in the society in which you find yourself. The rune of well-being.
Divinations: Joy, harmony, fellowship, accomplishment, prosperity; or stultification, sorrow, strife, alienation, warns of caution, blindness to danger, deception, betrayal.
