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The Barbelith Elder Futhark Library - Jera

00:28 / 16.04.02

Jera
(proto-germanic: Jera; Gothic: Jer; Old English: ger; Old Norse: ar)

Jera: Isn't it nice to be done with all that sleet and ice?

Rune index

02:20 / 18.04.02

The rolling of the seasons...
The subject on which you consult may take time to reach fruition.
Better to await ripeness to avoid bitter fruit.

[if you want to set up a time locator - allow the futhark order to be the next 24 months... "will x happen in the next 2 years?" and agree that an upright stave = "yes + month number"]

Wrecks City-Zen

03:48 / 18.04.02

The 12 th rune - YEAR as in 12 months - Revolution- Harvest- associated to the hangman in tarot...-combined with previous rune, I get ice age...

17:45 / 23.04.02

Upon ingestion I see the sea at night gently lapping onto a beach. The moon is full and it draws the waters to and fro. The tidal flow is a cycle that goes back and forth, adjusting to the seasons of the year.

Jera invokes the interplay between two polar elements, a balanced juxtaposition. From it one can learn to sweeten the sour and accept the bitter sweet of success.

The wheels on my new bike/cycle go round and round, round and round, round and round.

Progression is not as rapid as I wish, but I am sated by the gradual marked progression that I can see and acknowledge. Old friends are met again as new friends leave my social sphere, ringing in the changes. I diagnose my allergy to wheat through synchronistic events, brought about by others. Events that take place outside of my sphere of influence, but allow me to influence myself. Positively

The days are getting longer and warmer.

Have you planted your seeds, are they germinating?

Rain, water, emotion are food for the plants/projects of my life.

The twin spirals of my DNA intertwining, turning, driving me forwards.

18:01 / 23.04.02

Old Norse Rune Poem
Ar
Plenty is a boon to men;
I say that Frodi was generous.

Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem
Ger
Summer is a joy to men, when God, the holy King of Heaven,
suffers the earth to bring forth shining fruits
for rich and poor alike.

Icelandic Rune Poem
Plenty
Boon to men
and good summer
and thriving crops.

After the three runes of Hail, Need and Ice, Jera shows that the wheel turns, and from periods of difficulty we can reap unexpected rewards. It's a turning point in the second Aett, pointing to a more expansive, and complex energy. It's often referred to as Harvest, indicating that from long and patient work comes the fruit of one's labours. A rune very much associated with the cyclical nature of the seasons.

02:10 / 24.04.02

come out, little butterfly... dry your wings before the cold makes you sleepy.

18:05 / 24.04.02

What letter/phoneme is this? Ng?

18:46 / 24.04.02

J, but Js in Germanic are pronounced as Ys. So, Jera is Yera is Year. It covers both J and Y, phonicly.

01:15 / 25.04.02

hail Freyja!

15:09 / 25.04.02

The year, the turning of the earth about the sun, in the greater solar cycle. Endings are beginnings, what you reap you will have sown. The duality of earth, in death of winter and fertility of summer, a duality in harmonous cycle. Stand upon the high point of the year, the summer solstice, and know how good it is to be alive.

Here we are, again. And again. And again. Dance the spiral dance.

15:49 / 22.07.05

Who is "Frodi"?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

23:26 / 22.07.05

Who is "Frodi"?

There was a Danish king of that name who was famed for his generosity, to whom the rune poem probably refers. However, it's worth mentioning in this context a kenning for gold, "Frodi's meal," which might also be connected.

The kenning comes from a certain story that we now have in the form of the Grottasöngr.

Frodi (Fróði, Frode, Frodhi) was a Scandinavian king. He had a magic mill ("Grotte" = grinder) that could grind out anything the owner wished for--catch being, the millstones were so huge that no man could turn them. Frodi therefore enslaved a couple of female Jotun and roped them to his mill. He had them grinding out gold and treasure (hence Frodi's Meal) allowing them to take a break only for the duration of a certain verse. (I'm sure his decendants must be running a temp agency.)

With this wealth he created a lasting peace in his kingdom. However, the giantesses were understandably miffed by this shabby treatment and sang a kind of curse, the Song of Grotte, grinding out a big old army instead of money. A passing sea-king, King Mysing, duly took over the army and fucked up Frodi (and his peace).

The Jotun chicks were no better off, though, because King Mysing nicked the mill along with the rest of the treasure. He set the giantesses to work once more, this time grinding salt. They asked for a break, but he failed to learn from Frodi's mistakes and had them keep on grinding away. Understandably pissed, they ground hard enough to create a whirlpool that sank all King Mysing's ships.

Overtime, creche facilities, dental. Good for your enslaved Jotun workforce, good for you.

02:15 / 30.07.05

Seasons of time, go out to farmland and nature or take the pooch for a walk. The cycle like ourobos never ending.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

07:08 / 30.07.05

I cannot look at this rune without seeing grain. Kernals of wheat, tumbling as they are winnowed; also, look at the zig-zag arrangement of the grains on an ear of wheat.

21:47 / 07.08.06

I know this is an old thread, but I'm to understand digging out old threads is preferable to starting new ones.

I've been thinking a lot more about bindrunes lately, for various reasons, and about how I generally don't worry too much if a bindrune I've made has unintentional runes in it, as long as they aren't seriously counterproductive, because some of the runes occur within other runes, so it's really unavoidable.

The example that immediately comes to mind is that Kenaz is clearly doubled in Jera. I've seen Jera drawn both ways - I usually draw the left side higher than the right, but I've been told that's backwards to the usual.

I can't remember where I recently read that somebody associates Kenaz far more with Death than with Fire, and I haven't had a chance to check on this interpretation. But what suddenly occurred to me driving home from the store just now is that if this is indeed the case, then the right side of Jera would be Kenaz reflected - life. Jera does indeed represent cycles of life and death to me, so this makes sense. But more importantly, if this is significant, I do feel I've been drawing it "backwards", because, as a living being, I do consider Life the upswing, and Death the downswing of the cycle.

--Ember--

Less searchable M0rd4nt

21:56 / 07.08.06

(Mod hat: Yes, digging up old threads is fine, even preferable. This is especially true of topics like the Rune and Tarot threads, which are supposed to be ever-deepening repositories of different people's takes on each rune or card. Go for your life.)

22:08 / 07.08.06

(Rock on! I officially love the Barbelith Temple now. I'm going to bore you all to tears, though, with my bits and pieces of insight on various runes and tarot...)

--Ember--