HAGALAZ- ᚺ

Hagalaz is the hailstorm beyond all control.

When hail descends, it pelts and confronts you with the intensity of frozen ice. Perhaps this weather was unexpected, you feel caught off guard by the ferocity of the sky. The hail continues regardless. It clears stagnation and prepares you for the next step in the journey. All is impermanent, and with time, the frozen ice melts, as it does, becoming water for the seeds beneath the soil. There is a period of time before the thawing and germination, here lies the underworld journey. The contemplation before understanding. The space between death and birth.

To go into darkness is to surrender. To allow yourself to be composted. To give up knowing and simply become. You will not find answers in your surrender but you will find them in your birth as the sun moves across the sky and the light returns. What is the nature of destruction? Rune of winter skies. Your first line marks the beginning. Your second the road we want to take. And the line between is how we get there. Slanted, not straight, and this too is the nature of hagalaz. A rune of passage from one place to the next. A rune where we are confronted with our past and patterns. Our subconscious is the oceanic terrain we descend to as the moon ascends and the tide laps gently at our feet.

This time of year is ruled by hagalaz, hailstone of destruction and healing.

Are you willing to let go of who you have been

so you might be born again?