Jul
The Spin of the Jer Rune
The Jer Rune is a harvest. It symbolizes the seasons from planting to harvesting. Within the Jer Rune is an expanding well-being.
The Jer Rune is the polar opposite of Naud. As such, its cycle is diametrically opposed to that of Naud. We already noted that the Naud cycle is an increasingly tightening spiral shrinking inward. Jer is its opposite. The Jer cycle is best described as an increasingly expanding arc or spiral. I think Jer is definitely in tune with the phenomenal Universe. Scientists tell us that the Universe is expanding outward at an enormous rate.
On the opposite pole, Naud is expanding inward, increasingly compressing into an infinity of nothingness.
Think of a clock spring, if you will. (Those of us “over 40” will remember the works of clockwork / wind up toys with their coiled springs.) Winding it tightly is like Naud, for the spring is compressed. The unwinding is Jer, as the spring metal seeks to reassert its shape by expanding otuward. Notice that the process of winding takes energy from outside itself, while the unwinding produces energy. There is a give and take. The Naud end takes and the Jer end gives.
The ever-shrinking Naud cycle decreases to infinity. It can be likened to a thing shrinking to an infinite smallness. The ever-increasing Jer is expanding to infinity. It is ever-growing, always enlarging itself. Each cycle of its wheel or spiral makes it that much larger. Here we have the cycle as a circle, but that circle grows each time it spins. It is also the cycle of the spiral, so that each loop is both a circle and part of an ever-expanding coil.
Life favors expansion. Were a Jer Cycle to collide with an equal Naud Cycle, the Jer would break its Naud equivalent.
