Ehwaz                                                     “bond” / “momentum”

                                                                                 Element: Earth                                Herb:
Ragwort

                                                                                 Astrological: Gemini                      Tree:
Ash

                                                                                 Color: White                                     Crystal: Iceland Spar /
Clear Calcite

Ehwaz - “eh-was”

Literally: “Horse”

Key concepts: Rune
of harmonious teamwork and trust. Rune of pairs of entities working together
for a common goal.

Psi: trust between individual entities,
sexuality

Energy: trust, cooperation, the Fetch

Governs:

          -Activating
the energies of your inner Fetch
          -Ability to detect deceit and uncover subtle queues
          -Facilitates swiftness in every regard
          -Establishing trust and bonds with animals (ie. horse whisperers)

Element:
Earth rules over the east; earth’s animals

Astrological:
Gemini is in the sky from May 22^nd till June 22^nd ; is
associated with Mercury; Twins

Herb:
Ragwort is a plant of protection; protection at sea, warding against dark
spells

Tree:
One of the three Celtic druid sacred trees, the Ash is referred to as “the
backbone of the universe”. Often used as wand materials, spells that come forth
from this wood are best at mental focusing, magical strengthening and healing
magic. Ash trees provide wisdom, higher perspective, inspiration, and are the
guardians of children.

Crystal:
Clear calcite, also known as the Iceland spar, is a powerful amplifier and
cleanser of various types of energies. It is also used to double the power of a
magical ritual and spell.

       Ehwaz symbolizes
all the various bodies as vehicles for travel and movement. Twins represent the
Sacred Marriage of the Inner and the Outer, or mind and body. The horse and
rider metaphor is the best way to represent the symbiotic relationship between
two individualized, yet harmonious beings.

       Ehwaz is not force, but persuasion,
suggestion and co-operation. Making the best of a situation, making the
necessary adjustments to a relationship and the finding of means are frequent
activities that focus on Ehwaz can assist. In every way it represents
flexibility, adaptability, pragmatism. The loyalty, trust and dependence build
between two partners with each passing day forms a web of emotional and
spiritual one-on-one connections which becomes highly resilient as time goes
on. Ehwaz is particularly relevant to the energies which bond man and woman
together in lawful marriage. Its energies can unify two people in a strong
cooperative relationship and attract the right persons for partnership in work,
business, teams or service.

       Ehwaz is the rune
of the psycho-spiritual construct called the Fetch. Your Fetch is the opposite
gender as you, inactive in the material plane but still quite accessible within
your spirit. Activating the Fetch can assist you in attracting to yourself the
right partner as your life mate. It will also refresh an existing marriage or
committed relationship by re-energizing the two conscious minds of the partners
in the coupling.

       Most
people do not realize that the answer to the great mysteries of the opposite
sex are found within their own mental make-up when a communication link is
established between oneself and one’s Fetch. One might imagine the Fetch, in
modern terms, as the dormant DNA which is still active on a psychic level,
though the physical manifestation has already chosen and developed its gender.
Likewise, we are able to create an emotional understanding with any other human
being, because within ourselves, we find the Other.