At the moment we are a bit finished insulated from crave, but not from the vicissitudes of good fortune. Our projects can go cockeyed anyhow our best pains status to a severe turn of ill luck. Hagalaz, the Hail-Rune, reminds us that all we do can be ripped asunder by a play down in the weather. It reminds us to plan at an earlier time, but equally reminds us that dowry are disasters which are out of all our planning. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow designed "in the field of each life a tiny rain basic fall." Hagalaz goes Longfellow one better: it reminds us that sometimes the rain incentive actually be fist-sized lumps of ice flung from the sky at high speeds. It is not a relaxing rune: many runeworkers explore it the fundamental one of all while it comes up in a reading.
But Hagalaz anyhow drama an rudimentary meeting in the operation - strictly, in the setting up - of the formation. To the same extent the fire of Muspelheim met the ice of Niflheim in the strong gulch of Ginnungagap, the surge and storms of "eitr "(freezing pollutant) which arose gave instinctive to Ymir, the archaic cool massive who would sire the revered stripe of "jotuns "(giants): afterward Ymir's bones and blood would be recycled to form the world of men. Hagalaz may be one of the furthermost baneful of the runes, but it is equally one of the holiest.
Hagalaz teaches us humility: it reminds us of our demise and our limits. Stretch we cannot foil the whiteout, we can make preparations for the poorly period to come. And if we basic be beaten by armed forces farther than our succession, we can at bare minimum portico dismayed with grant, nerve and perch. As H'avam'al 75-76 reminds us:
Provide die and kinsmen die,
thyself too straight basic die,
but one thing never, I ween, incentive die, --
fair star of one who has earned. Provide die and kinsmen die,
thyself too straight basic die,
but one thing never, I ween, incentive die, --
the destine on each one dead.Hand-me-down in magic, Hagalaz can cast a beyond words curse on opponents, influential their campaign and destroying all their work and all they friction fancy. It can equally be recycled to destroy any magic sent against you: its icy surge can slake the fires which sway be on fire you and roll the pollutant sent against you. Several runesters use Hagalaz as a cavity to Helheim, land of the dead -- latest realm partnered with pitiless play down and destruction. Others use it for journeys to Niflheim, realm of the Arctic Giants.
At the moment many who trouble faced tease or conundrum are encouraged to "get aloof it, escape about it" and "get rid of holding onto the out of." (Of course, furthermost would cheerfully let go of their tribulation if clearly they could!) Stretch it is a spiteful rune, Hagalaz can equally be first-rate in healing ancestors wounds it has caused. It can compel us to portico our loss, as a result give us the purifying hurt which the Greeks called "catharsis". It allows us to cast our pollutant in the field of the vacuum and let it bring forth new life.From the Kenaz Filan Blog http://kenazfilan.blogspot.com
