Wild cattle and reindeer
Published: Tue, 06/11/13
Good morning again from Somerset. It is a little later this
morning and today it is actually raining. Just a continuous
drizzle which is good for the garden and it is providing a test for
a rainwater collection system I put on the shed a couple of days
ago. It is filling up nicely. It is also a coincidence that on of
the meanings of the rune I am considering this morning, Ur can be
drizzle.
Ur, the second rune in the Younger Futhork, the one that looks a
bit like an upside down 'U' and if you are using the runes
for writing then Ur is used as u, v or w. Ur means primal or
original. So Ur-laug or orlog means primal law, not a man made law
but a principle which even the universe obeys. Auroch means primal
cow or bull, the prehistoric wild cattle of Northern Europe which
roamed until about 1500 when the last one was killed in Poland. So
if considering Ur you will be looking for primal sources and primal
reasons for something. It may be about working out an original
reason for a belief, behavior, attitude or situation. It may also
be about purifying and removing waste products or unhelpful
attitudes which prevent some thing or person from being their true
and really effective self. The rune poem talks about slag coming
from iron ore which suggests purification through heat and
transformation. The second line of the rune poem describes the
reindeer running frequently on the hard snow. Newly fallen snow is
soft and hard to walk on but if well compacted it provides as
smooth an easy path. This suggests sustained and focused effort to
create transformation for the better.
Ur is associated with Vidar, Odin's son, and known as the
silent and blameless one. Even Loki had nothing insulting to say
to Vidar. What are the implications in a rune reading? It always
depends upon the person who is being read for but if it is the Ur
rune they have picked then it will have a message for them, it is
just a matter of unpacking it. http://www.runesvid.html in case
you haven't seen it yet.