Dagaz as a Birth Rune

Dagaz people can see light where others see only darkness. Their lives have moments of sudden understanding after which everything changes. They bring clarity and hope.

Dagaz is the border between night and day, end and beginning. The rune's lesson is not to fear transitions: every sunset leads to a new dawn.

• Clarity. You see the heart of things and help others see it.
• Breakthrough. You find a way out where there seemed to be none.
• Optimism. You believe in the dawn, even on the darkest night.
• Renewal. You know how to start again with a clean slate.

Dagaz's shadow is waiting for a miracle. The person waits for a revelation that will change everything and doesn't take the ordinary steps that can't be skipped.

Another pitfall is endless beginnings: each new dawn seems more important than carrying the work through to evening. What the rune teaches is that a day isn't made of morning alone.

In love you are an inspiring, bright partner. You bring hope, freshness and clarity to a relationship and can see the best in the person you love.

Remember to keep the light on ordinary days too, not only in moments of revelation. Love lives in routine as well.

Dagaz suits work that calls for clarity and renewal: science and invention, consulting, teaching, psychology, medicine, creative work, start-ups, reform, any work that brings people the light of understanding.

You shine wherever a breakthrough and a fresh look are needed. Recognition comes through sudden ideas that you carry through into action.

Dagaz's period falls in the second half of June and at the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. Light is at full strength, and it is at this point that the runic circle closes. Dagaz is the eighth and last rune of Tyr's aett and of the whole Futhark.

Before Dagaz comes Othala: the heritage is gathered in. After it comes Fehu: the new year begins with the first rune, and the circle repeats.