The Runes are really fitting in with the changing of the seasons,
Today is Jera
(yair-ah)
year, harvest
reward, natural cycles, fruition and growth
Applied personally Jera enables the seeds of potential that are inherent within to develop through careful nurturing so they can manifest effectively when they are truly ready. It emphasizes that actions are in harmony with nature will culminate in the right results because that is the natural order of things. Your inner vision can not be hurried, either, any more than you can hasten a harvest.
Jera is the rune of the year. It speaks to good work well done and the harvest we get from said hard work. It is the origin of our modern word year and shows us, as the 12th rune of the Elder Futhark, how it coincides with the 12 months of our year. As we’ve seen with runes before Jera, like Fehu, and runes after, like Ingwaz, agriculture was paramount to the lives of the ancient Norse of northern Europe.
Jera is not only the year but the harvest, that which we reap at the end of the growing cycle. It means “cycle” as well, and as we’ve seen with Hagalaz, the harvest of agricultural crops literally meant the life or death of the people within Norse communities. If Jera comes out during divination, it can mean that it is time to rejoice in a long-desired pregnancy. However, a warning is a must: do not force events, as there is a time for everything. After passing terrible trials and great difficulties, we are now face to face with destiny.
Everything moves according to the principle of cause and effect; we reap what we have sown, and we have learned that we cannot escape death if we do not violate giving up life, salvation is not found in mourning, in regret, or in nostalgia. Death is no longer an enemy but a faithful ally who reminds us that time passes and that what needs to be done must be done in the present time. Death is rhythm, time, as well as the snake that gnaws at the roots of Yggdrasil, the Cosmic Amber; the rhythm of its teeth makes you feel in all the Nine Worlds that sooner or later everything will end.
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