Jul
The Arc of the Gyfu Rune
Gyfu is the Rune of giving, exchanging and the crossroads. That does not sound as if it has a cycle. However, another old expression might shed some light:
“ A Gift demands a Gift.”
There is a turn and a return. This is not the turn of a circle, but of an arc. If one end of the arc is Point A and the other Point B, then the cycle goes from A to B and back to A. It is like a pendulum, but this arc tends to run above rather than below the horizon.
Gyfu is the Rune of bridges, and a bridge rides above that which it traverses. It is like the arc mentioned above, going from Point A to B and B to A. The “roadway” below can be a road, railroad or river. (The river is the water road.) Just as the bridge has a cycle, so a similar cycle exists for the road or river below. The crossroads is a confluence of two cycles.
That which goes from Point A to B need not be the same thing that comes back from B to A. For example, the gift of Money may be met with the gift of Gratitude. Both are given, but they are not the same thing, yet both are part of the same cycle. In our example, Money and Gratitude are two sides of the one thing. That thing is the Gyfu Rune.
Bridges and crossroads and gifts may seem very different, but here we can more clearly see how all three are expressions of Gyfu.
