রুন: Sunday, August 30

Fehu is cattle: wealth that walks, and can walk away. Today it points at whatever you own that needs feeding, whether that is money, a possession, a commitment or a reputation. None of it is passive. Ask what your holdings are costing you in upkeep, and whether the answer is still worth it. Something you count as an asset may quietly have become livestock.

Fé is wealth, and the Icelandic poem is blunt about what it does: money is the strife of kinsmen. Today the resource itself is not the problem. What it does between people is. If there is a sum, a share or an inheritance in play, handle it in the open and in writing. The rune's whole warning is that the quarrel arrives through the money rather than because of it.

Feoh is cattle and money, and the Anglo-Saxon poem adds the condition: wealth is a comfort to all, but a man must deal it out freely if he wants honour. Today whatever you hold is held on the terms that it keeps moving. Spend some of it, share some of it, put some of it to work. Wealth that only accumulates stops being wealth and becomes storage.

Beithe is the birch: the first thing back on cleared ground and conspicuous about it. Today something new is visible before it is established, which attracts attention it has not earned yet. Let it be early rather than impressive. Describing a beginning as further along than it is costs you the room to change it.