Eihwaz Rune Meaning: The Yew of Endurance
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Eihwaz
The yew tree: endurance, roots in both worlds and reliable strength through change.
Eihwaz is the yew: the evergreen of graveyards and the wood of the great war bows, poisonous and life-prolonging at once. Many see in it the world-tree itself — an axis with roots below and crown above, holding both realms in one trunk.
Thirteenth in the futhark, fifth of the second aett, Eihwaz reads as backbone in a daily draw: the resource is endurance, the tactic is rooting down. Change is coming either way; the yew's advice is to bend without letting go of the ground.
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