Laguz, the Rune of Water

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Meaning: water   Phonetic equivalent: 'l'

Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem

The ocean seems interminable to men,

if they venture on the rolling bark

and the waves of the sea terrify them

and the courser of the deep heeds not its bridle.

Norwegian Rune Poem

A waterfall is a river which

falls from a mountainside,

but ornaments are of gold.

Icelandic Rune Poem

Water

eddying stream

and broad geyser

and land of the fish.

Laguz

Cala Gobraith, 2009

Laughing laguzi, the babbling brook, drifting through

life with lazy ease, healing with

light-hearted laughter, washing clean

lanced wounds and liberating the

love locked deep within.

Lacking in brute force, laguz helps one

learn to go with the flow of things.

Galina Krasskova sees this rune as representing water, all the ways we consciously use energy, power and attraction, as an element of sexuality, as how emotions and mental state affects one's consciousness when working magick, flowing energy, shape-shifting and the manifestation of desire.

To Aswynn, Laguz represents water, the waters of life, feminine energy, associations with the goddess Nerthus, healing, initiation, love, hidden ebb and flow of the currents of life, the deepest currents of the collective unconscious and emotions.

Francis Melville sees in Laguz such aspects as journeys across water, fluidity, imagination, intuition, artistic creativity, soul journeys, psychic power, dreams, especially of the initiatory type, emotions and the psyche. Associations: deity- Njörd, tree- willow, plant- leek, animal- seal, bird- duck, astrology- moon, color- green, element- water.

For Oswald, this rune is one of water in all its forms, cleansing, flow, the unconscious, intuition, and psychic abilities. Associations: deity- Njörd, Nerthus, tree- Osier willow, plant- leek, astrology- moon, color- dark green, element- water, stone- pearl.

Paxson associates this rune with the goddess Nerthus, the waters of the earth, femininity, new life, creativity welling from the unconscious and fluidity of being.

I associate Laguz with water, subconscious, intuition, emotions, and the ability to be mutable and adaptable, to 'go with the flow' of life.

Meditation associations: Water, underworld, emotions, can be peaceful or torrential, intuition, music, especially peaceful music; ocean waves, calmness, rocking sensation, light-blue glyph, darkness, twilight, caverns.

Runes: Theory and Practice, Galina Krasskova

Power and Principles of the Runes, Freya Aswynn

The Book of Runes, Francis Melville

Discovering Runes, Bob Oswald

Taking up the Runes, Diana Paxson