Although Runes as a realizational-magical instrument possess considerable power, they, like all that is embodied, have limits to their capabilities.
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The striving of Activity to be reflected in Plasticity, to expand, is expressed at the level of the Third Atta by an irresistible force — irresistible precisely because it combines with care and tenderness.
This nourishing energy expresses the Principle of motherhood, compassion, care, and the source of new life.
We have already observed that the First aett of the Elder Futhark traces the cycle of the birth of Being, the Second confirms its Laws, and the Third gives form to its outward existence. Thus it is unsurprising that the most active rune of the Third aett — the one that sets all its motion — is the rune that declares, “every victory is purchased at the price of sacrifice.”
In our conversations about the Runes we have repeatedly noted that Runes are a symbolic expression of flows of Power.
I would now like to draw attention to the fact that any Flow can be considered in two ways: on the one hand as a vector with definite coordinates and length, and on the other as the content of that flow, its inner current.
The second att, like the others, concludes with preparation for the transition to the next turn. Since this att concerned a person’s personal efforts—the laws of his individual existence—within such an individual myth the kinetic energy accumulated over the preceding seven Runes pours forth in a powerful release of force.
Receptivity at the level of the Second Atta manifests as the ability to sense danger in advance, which is sometimes even more important than the possession of strength.
On the level of the Second aett the transition from Neutrality to Receptivity gives rise to fluctuations in the surrounding environment.
These fluctuations are a direct consequence of the intrusion of the Lower World’s forces (which occurred at the stage of Eihwaz) into the Middle World, and are described by the Rune Perthro (the lot, sometimes the womb, Perthro).
The thirteenth rune of the Elder Futhark, in its neutrality, unites life and death into a single whole.
The rune Eihwaz (Yew) embodies the continuity of the cosmos as a single flow, encompassing the union of above and below, of actual and potential being.
Among practitioners of the Runes and those drawn to the runic spirit, two different conceptions of the Runes and their place in humanity’s spiritual and magical sphere can be encountered.
The turning inward at the level of Isa was only the antechamber of a new return, a new cycle. And just as spring inevitably follows winter, after pregnancy, after turning inward, comes birth, a new manifestation.
The eleventh Rune of the Elder Futhark – Jera (year, harvest) – the Rune of organic development, which is always cyclical.
It continues the Second Aett — the Rune of passivity, of slowing, or even suspension of movement. However, given previous events, this suspension is necessary for further development. Since, in Manifestation, the stages of Yav always alternate with periods of Navi (life–death, day–night, etc.), to the diurnal mind Manifestation appears discontinuous. Those very interruptions, which in fact are simply periods of other existence, symbolize the forces of the Rune Isa.
The influence of the principle of Mortality on the movement of the Wheel of the second Atta leads to an awareness of the need for endurance and resolve.
The awareness of death, at first paralyzing and then permanently transforming, forces one to press on through life’s storms with gritted teeth.
The Second Att begins with the rune Hagalaz, which establishes the foremost law governing the existence of manifested being: everything that is born must die.
This rune expresses the activity of the Second Att: the driving force behind the establishment of laws is the relating of the reality of life to death.