Daily Draw

Daily Draw Saturday, 17 December 2016 Method: Elder Germanic Runes Stave Dawn: Jera. This rune means “Harvest.” The Anglo Saxon rune poem verse is: Harvest is the hope of men, when gods let The holy king of heaven, the Earth give Her bright fruits to the nobles and the needy. The Old Norwegian Rune Rhyme: Harvest is the profit of men. I say that Froði was generous. The Old Icelandic Rune Poem: Harvest is the profit of all men and a good summer, And a ripened field. This rune is the harvest. It is associated with Sif and Freyja. Sif is a Corn Goddess and wife of Thor. Freyja is amongst other things, a fertility Goddess, but she is also leader of the Valkyries and a Goddess of death, as she takes half the slain warriors, the other half go to Odin. She taught seið magick to Odin and he taught her the runes. She is a shape shifter and can take the form of a falcon. She rides a chariot pulled by cats and I think need to think of her today. This rune is usually a good rune to have and after yesterday’s “The Tower” tarot card, I could do with something more positive. Yesterday’s lesson to me turned out to be not to think I know it all. I wasted many precious hours labelling individual images for a picture library, when I could have done many of them as a batch. Jera indicates plenty, a gathering of the harvest, reaping rewards for what I have sewn. It does represent cyclical patterns though and perhaps there is a circle that needs to be broken. Now would be the best time for that. In actual fact this is far from a time of plenty and more a time of need. As well as reaping rewards, it also suggests putting something by for the future and preparing for the year ahead but I don’t have the resources to do that. Winter is the worst time financially in general for me.