“The guide leads you to the doorway, then waits for your return.”
Sowilo - “So-iölo” - Literally: “Sun” (Sol) – Esoteric: wholeness, success
Rune of guidance from an outside source in the process of making a journey or transformation of any kind. Rune of the light of the inner sun and its link to the outer sun, both of which are signs of the goal of the process of rune-work.
Psi: central nervous system, seat of the soul, revelation
Energy: sun-wheel, strengthening the hvel/charka, cosmic energies, motivation, life-giving force
Mundane: sunlight, fire, meeting of goals
Divinations: Guidance, hope, success, goals, honor, life purpose; or false goals, bad advice, false success, gullibility, loss of goals.
Governs:
Activating highest values
Strengthening of psychic centers (hvel aka Chakras)
Increase in spiritual will and optimal health
Guidance through the pathways, “enlightenment”
Victory and success through individual will
My Notes:
It is the rune of the sun. It is the counter-force to cosmic ice in the rune Isa. Sowilo represents the force of fire in the physical and mental world. It promotes invigoration, dedication, optimism and persistence in any endeavor. It will ward against the harmful opinions of others to keep the heart focused on its purpose.
The hvel (Old Norse term equivalent to the Sanskrit word chakra) are the spinning wheels in your body. They look like miniature suns to the psychic eye. By increasing the capacity of the hvel to handle greater flow of megin energy leads to optimum health levels and advanced psychic capabilities.
The ancient mystics were intuitively aware that the sun provides this planetary system and its life forms with many diverse cosmic energies necessary for the evolution of the life force, and indeed, it is the power of the sun (and stars) that encompasses the dynamic energies inherent in all things within its system, as once it was all being forced within its unfathomably hot furnace. Sowilo exposes matters to the clear light of day and strikes suddenly like lightning in a controlled and centered burst of overwhelming action.
Sowilo contains the ancient code of honour. These are the common sense guidelines and morality that hold a society together beyond the letter of the law and holds the individual to ‘do the right thing’. Sowilo is also the rune of success and victory, and is therefor associated with the next rune in the order, Tiwaz. It gives us the power to win and connects us with revelations concerning our life’s purpose. The science of Neuro-Linguistic Programming has a lot to offer in terms of insight and mastery of this rune.
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