Jul
Raido Rune: Reeling in the Years
The cycle of the Raido Rune is the cycle of the wheel. It spins and spins on its axis. Does that remind you of the turning of the Moon and Sun each day? Perhaps it is no wonder that Norse myth symbolized sun and moon as moving across the sky in carts.
The spinning wheel translates to linear movement. Though the wheel never leaves its axis, it propels itself across the ground in a line. We see this every time a car traverses a roadway. Cyclic motion creates linear motion. By being a circle, it moves in a straight line.
The Sun and Moon move through the day in their arcs. These are great circles in the sky. At the same time, this circular motion translates to a linear movement through time. Days and nights become weeks and months and years. In our experience on this world, time has both a linear and circular motion. It is cyclic and that translates to a forward motion straight through the years and decades and centuries and millenia.
Raido is not time. The Raido Rune is the measure of time. Time itself comes forth from Wyrd. Just as Time is a linear and a cyclic thing, so Wyrd is symbolized as having its forward and its cross weaves. Can Raido traverse the flow of Wyrd the way it crosses a road or measures the night? A good thing to ponder. Perhaps Raido can measure the warp and weft of Wyrd.
Meditate on this. Instead of a simple answer, you might gain an insight.
