I wrote about the rune Fehu / Feoh in a post about a book on tunes I had in mind (not pursued owing to the time, energy, and health limitations, and the fact that the rune market is already saturated), which post is at https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2019/10/post-no-1429-rune-book-project-runes-in.html.
A couple of extracts from that post follow:
The space rune Feoh / Fehu
Traditionally, Feoh / Fehu is considered to represent mobile – in the sense of “moveable”, or “transportable” – wealth, such as cattle, in the “Dark Ages” and Middle Ages in Northern Europe. In the context of interstellar space, the most wealthy thing to have is life – it is rare, of inestimable value, and requires a significant quantity and variety of resources to sustain it.
It is also “on the move” in a number of senses – evolution is changing all forms of life through time, and the places upon which life is found are hurtling through space at staggeringly high velocities.
Life forms are mobile – mostly within the life-space (planet) they evolved on, but we’ve stared dipping our toes into interstellar space a little …
From the point of interstellar space, the lesson of Feoh / Fehu is to appreciate the rarity of things that make life worth living – true wealth, rather than the false images of wealth that, in the words of the Old Norse Rune Rhyme, “causes strife among kinsmen”.
Sequencing: Wunjo to FEOH / FEHU to Uruz
In this section I will consider the significance of the runes of either side of each rune – either side within each ætt, that is. In this case, Feoh is the first rune, and thus is succeeded by Uruz, which is 2nd in Freyja’s Ætt, and is “preceded” by the last rune, Wunjo.
I used to have this on the rune cards, but took it off my current versions, as I tend to focus more on the microrunic aspects.
So, let us consider Feoh / Fehu, and, with spiritual ecstasy (Wunjo) on one side, and strength (Uruz) on the other, how can you not be wealthy?
This sequence reminds us that wealth is not necessarily material things, it is those attributes, both physical and non-physical, which we carry within ourselves.
Actually, this could go further, and remind us that having spirit and the physical close together, perhaps even in union, is the ultimate in wealth.
The thought that occurred to me today is that one of the moveability aspects of this rune is the nature of wealth itself.
In the physical sense, wealth could, for instance, have comprised cattle (a source of milk and food and possibly [animal slave] labour - it must be used to be of benefit in the sense of this rune [and I hope animal rights will come so that is never a prospect for other forms of sentient life]) in Scandinavia a little over a millennia ago, cash at times (which can be saved for hard times, but ultimately needs to be converted to things like food, shelter, clothing, health care, etc), and now ... perhaps data and information (which is, it should be noted, of no value unless it is used).
Emotionally, as a child, wealth constitutes being cared for - but that is of benefit in that that helps us to develop (meaning we should not seek to be eternally cosseted), whereas a teenager wealth may be peers, friends, and opportunities to grow beyond our family (but choices remain there, and choices to that are, for instance, self destructive or harmful of others are a waste of wealth), but for an adult wealth may be the opportunity to give to friends and one’s own family (but not to an extent that is self sacrificing).
Spiritually, what constitutes wealth changes with where we are at spiritually - our spiritual evolution: as a beginner, wealth may be access to teachers and knowledge (which must lead to learning, or is is a waste of potential), as we grow, wealth may be the joy of using our knowledge and skills to be of benefit to ourselves and others (and is the joy of the benefit to others that is wealth: secretly hoarding but not using knowledge is a waste of potential and not true wealth at all), and ultimately the ability to share with peers and to pass on what one has learned (including adaptations of others’ knowledges) is what becomes wealth.
So ... food for thought, perhaps?
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