Random Rune Messages
I just wrote this out, half in a stupor, so I have no idea if it makes sense, but I needed a place to write this down before I forgot it all. I feel that some was already lost just in the waking process, hence the urgency to preserve. These things fade so quickly that it's important to stay awake & record them immediately or they evaporate like morning wisps, only to return unheeded to the waters of the Collective pools.
I had a dream where I was being shown the differences between certain rune meanings in concept form, by situations unfolding in the dream sequence. (I wasn't aware of the "download" nature of this until I woke up.) But these concepts equate to the understanding of those from the ancient Nordic culture far more than they do to our current, modern one... which is why the true concepts need to be taught in dream form rather than from a book or website. Words have different meanings now & language can be misinterpreted, manipulated & misleading. We don't always "get it" from the written word form.
The things that we have that no one can steal from us in the snatch-and-go sense of the word, such as our culture, our heritage, lordships, titles, or.. in a word, endowments, are represented by Othala. They can be taken from us in our modern culture, but it's a different kind of process than thievery. Even then, in the ancient world, these things could have been stolen but it would have required acts that breach integrity like murder, subterfuge & usurping. Othala is in Tyr's aett & therefore deals with matters of integrity.
The items we have that can be pilfered from us through thievery, robbing, raiding or sacking, like jewelry, cattle, tools, grain, crops, food, and even "virtue" (ie the concept of the maidenhead or "virginity") are represented by Fehu. These belong to the aett of Freyr & refer to very material items or possessions.
In ancient times, the "untouched" body was an entirely different concept than the fierceness or independence of the "untouched" spirit. A Virgin, at one time, was a woman of unbroken spirit who didn't need the protection of a man. Neither did she need to serve him nor be controlled by him, though she most certainly may have been sexually active if she chose to be.
Eventually the word Virgin morphed into meaning a woman who had not had sex or "been ridden" by a man. These two concepts are practically opposite from each other. While the maidenhead is, in that sense, a material possession & can be stolen by a bandit or marauder, strength of spirit can only be stolen by being humiliated or demoralized.
Certainly, a rape can be demoralizing & therefore there is a distinction between forceful sex and consensual. This now becomes more a concept of the aett of Heimdall. The things that belong to Heimdall's aett & refer to the Self as an "Id"; who we are, our sense of pride, ideals, perspectives, confidence, dreams (ie goals) etc, are represented by the Yew Tree or Eihwaz.
I was completely ignorant of this concept & I am very grateful for lessons taught through dream work.