TEUTONIC MAGIC - Awaken Video

(summer) and ice (winter) not as warring opposites but as interacting complements. Only the raw primal
forces of fire and ice are violent together. Jera shows their weal-working interaction within the ring of
Midgardhr, calmed by their manifestation through the secondary elements of water, air, and earth. Jera
differs from the eastern yin-yang in that it shows this unity not as a circle, but as a spiral in which each
turn brings the whole to further growth. This is related to the thought of every action or happening being
layered on the last and shaped by it; you cannot return to the beginning, as in a circle. Jera shows a
process of endless cyclical growth and weal-working change, seen in its highest form as the growth of the
“seed” planted in humankind by the gods to reach the wisdom and power of our godly kindred.
Jera shows the natural development of spiritual understanding, which cannot be hurried or forced.
It is a rune of patience and of awareness, of moving in harmony with both your inner changes (the “seed”)
and the changes of the world around you (“seasons” and weather”). Jera is not a rune of immediate
gratification, but a rune of long-term planning and the day-by-day process of bringing your plans to fruit.
Magically, jera is used to bring your will into effect slowly and naturally, a process which is almost
always more effective and desirable than forcing change on an unready world. Like nauthiz, jera is
associated with the original meaning of Wyrd, “to turn”; however, nauthiz is the power of turning around
or “counter-turning” Wyrd, while jera is the power of turning with the flow of Wyrd, making slow and
subtle changes in it which can only be seen as they come into being.
In the personal sphere, jera is used to aid the growth of your own understanding and to guide you in
finding the correct times for rituals, especially initiation. Jera helps to determine the time for increases in
the difficulty or power of your magical workings, according to what you are truly ready for. It can also be
used to develop the potentials which lie like seeds within everyone and which require long care and daily
tending to bring them to fruition. It is used to ensure the success of plans.
In workings of woe jera can be used to bring the worst possible layers of someone’s weird to
fruition or to develop the seeds of self-destruction which also lie within everyone. The spiral of jera can
turn downward as well as upward.
The spiraling form of jera and its relationship to the movement of nature is what makes it an
effective rune of warding against woe- working seidhkonur (“witches”); the spiral current disperses spirit
farers and unturns such workings that are not part of the course of nature.
Jera is a good rune for workings involving fruitfulness or any sort of interaction with nature. It also
rules the creative process, from the seed idea through the completed concept and the finished work.
Ritually, jera represents the series of daily meditations which, practiced faithfully, lead you slowly
into higher levels of consciousness and power. Used with other runes, it brings them into being through
the workings of nature and the normal turnings of Wyrd.
Jera shows the entire cycle of interaction between the earthgoddess and fertilizing god: his birth,
marriage, sacrifice, and rebirth. This cycle is described more fully by the runes berkano and ingwaz and
the conceptual ties between the three runes. Ingwaz is the seed planted, berkano is the earth that receives
it, and jera is the growth and harvest.
The stone associated with jera is moss agate, which is traditionally tied to the plowman’s arm and
the horns of his cattle to ensure fruitful fields and breeding. Moss agate aids you in a deep attunement to
the movements of nature and the natural cycle which is jera.
Jera: Meditation
You stand in the middle of a field. The sun shines brightly, but there is a sharp bite of frost in the
air and the day is turning rapidly towards night. Around you, men and women in plain farmers’ tunics of
brown wool are harvesting the wheat that grows tall, rich, and golden. Scythes whirl to cut the grain
down; behind the reapers follow the gleaners who gather the stalks into bundles, and behind them follow
the sowers, planting the autumn seed which must lie in the ground all winter. You join these last,
collecting a sheaf of grain from one of the gleaners and picking up a digging tool. The ground is cold and
claylike under your hands, and it feels to you almost as if you are digging in grave mold among the
beheaded stalks that rustle like wraiths above you. You bury each seed and cover it carefully, neither too
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