Rune: Inguz

Names: Inguz, Ing
Represents: Fertility, New Beginnings, Renewal, Continuity
Alphabet: "ng"
Color: Black
Sequence Number: 8 Blume, 21 Meadows, 22 Cooper - Tyson - Thorsson
Aett: Tir
Gods: Freyer
Plants & Minerals: Apple Tree
Potency: Access to broader reality, dream-time, or spirit.
Challenge: to accept your power - your own 'medicine'. To be what you we're meant to be.
Primary Uses: To expand our influence, build a legacy, extend conscious awareness and to improve memory
Stroke Order: Upper-left to middle-right to lower-left, then upper-right to middle-left to lower-right.

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Blume looks upon Inguz as the rune of fertility and new beginnings. It is a time to complete old tasks, release obstructions, and prepare for rebirth. This is when the fields of the soul are tilled and sewn as we anticipate the eventual harvest. Another rune in the cycle of initiation, Inguz is the necessity of prepartion. No growth can occur if you have not taken the time to prepare for it.

Meadows sees Ing as the rune of lineage and rebirth. It is both the physical lineage passed down by your parents, and the spiritual lineage passed down from your prior lifetimes. It is the rune of fertilization, the seed, and gestation.

Cooper takes Ing in another direction, speaking not of personal lineage but of communal lineage. It is a gathering of people or powers, It is a rune of fascination, which allows for hypnosis, trance or meditation.

Tyson aligns himself with Cooper in many ways, but is somewhere between Meadows and Cooper in his application of Ing. Ing is the rune of domestication, the hearth, and of common sense. It is a rune of stability and holds sway over the earth as Laguz holds sway over the waters. It is best used to solve domestic problems, as an anchor, and in matters of procreative-sex.