Fehu

These Pagan Portals are all current works in progress, serialised here on the Pagan Collective blog with each chapter being open for comment. In due course the entire script will be published as a Pagan Portal book.

Over the next few months, we will be running weekly Spirit of the Rune lessons on this blog. Follow along and learn the runes!

Fehu:

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Before reading about the meanings and qualities associated with Fehu, take time to contemplate this rune.

In Your Journal 

1. In your journal or on a separate piece of paper, trace, draw or doodle Fehu. While drawing, say its name out loud: how does it feel? Where does it resonate within your body?
2. Imagine what color(s) best match(es) Fehu and apply them to the image you have drawn.
3. What texture do you think goes with Fehu? Can you represent the texture in your drawing?
4. Look around. From your surroundings, what objects and shapes, if any, would you connect with Fehu? What natural, man-caused phenomena or activities come to mind when you look at your representation of Fehu? Write those down.

Now read the lines describing Fehu in the rune poems and meditate on them.

• Icelandic: ”Wealth, source of discord among kinsmen/ and fire of the sea/ and path of the serpent.
• Anglo-Saxon: “Wealth is a comfort to all men;/yet must every man bestow it freely,/if he wish to gain honour in the sight of the Lord.”
• Norwegian: “Wealth is a source of discord among kinsmen;/the wolf lives in the forest.”

In Your Journal 

5. Can you relate the description in the poems to your own experience of the rune? You may be able to find correlations with the description given in just one poem. Or you may not see any correlations yet. Journal your findings, whatever they are.

Here are some of the meanings commonly attributed to Fehu in readings:

• generally understood to mean abundance;
• prosperity, increase;
• abundance, be careful about arousing envy;
• generosity, mindful of not becoming wasteful;

In Your Journal 

6. Journal about how these meanings fit with your own experiences so far. Be open to the fact that the way you perceive this rune may change over time, with some meanings fading and others emerging. At the end of the course, revisit your journal entry and make updates (if necessary).

 

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