Eihwaz

Yew tree, World Tree. Yew — the spine between worlds.

Endurance, the World Tree, and the bridge between realms. Transformation through perseverance. Death of the old self births the new — the yew is hard wood with poisonous needles and a green heart.

This rune is non-invertible. It carries the same charge however it falls.

Eihwaz has no reversed meaning — Yggdrasil stands eternal. The transformation it signals cannot be avoided; only your relationship to it can shift.

A rune of initiation. Past: a death-and-rebirth already survived. Present: hold the line; the cost is real but so is the change. Future: an axis-shift in identity or vocation. Reads strongly with Perthro (fate) and Algiz (protection).

The yew tree, traditionally identified with Yggdrasil, the World Tree on which Odin hung. Yew wood made the oldest Norse bows. Eihwaz is the rune of the axis — vertical, enduring, connecting the nine worlds.