Sowilo

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Sowilo:

ᛋ ᛊ

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

In Your Journal 

1. In your journal or on a separate piece of paper, trace, draw or doodle Sowilo. 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) Sowilo and apply them to the image you have drawn.
3. What texture do you think goes with Sowilo? Can you represent the texture in your drawing?
4. Look around. From your surroundings, what objects and shapes, if any, would you connect with Sowilo? What natural, man-caused phenomena or activities come to mind when you look at your representation of Sowilo? Write those down.

Now read the lines describing Sowilo in the rune poems.

•  Icelandic: “Sun shield of the clouds/and shining ray/and destroyer of ice.”
• Anglo-Saxon:  “The Sun is ever a joy in the hopes of seafarers / when they journey away over the fishes’ bath,/ until the courser of the deep bears them to land.”
• Norwegian: Sun is the light of the world;/I bow to the divine decree.”

In Your Journal 

5. Can you relate the description in the poems with 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 Sowilo in readings:

• translated as sun
• adversity ending
• healing
• successful endeavor
• spring or summer time (timing)
• equinoxes or solstices (timing)

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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