Ingwaz as a Birth Rune

Ingwaz people know how to gather their strength and patiently see things through. Like a seed that ripens long in the earth, they don't hurry, but when the time comes their plans sprout at full strength.

Ingwaz is the rune of completion, after which something new begins. The task this rune sets is to nurture, wait and release what has ripened into the world at the right time.

• Patience. You can nurture an idea until it is ripe.
• Fruitfulness. Your plans bear fruit: ventures, projects, a family.
• Completion. You see stages through to the end.
• Inner strength. You have a reserve of energy that opens up at the right moment.

Ingwaz's shadow is endless incubation. The person prepares for so long that they miss the moment to act, and the plan never makes it into the world.

Another pitfall is withdrawal: focusing on your own seed shuts you off from others. The rune's message is that fruit needs light, not only warm earth.

In a relationship you are a warm, dependable, family-minded partner. You dream of a lasting union and often of children. Your love is deep and fruitful.

Be careful not to keep your feelings inside for too long. Share with your partner what is ripening within you, not only your finished decisions.

Ingwaz suits work with a long ripening time and visible results: farming and gardening, medicine and midwifery, teaching, science, creative work, entrepreneurship, long-running projects.

You come into your own wherever a venture has to be grown from nothing. Good fortune comes once a plan has ripened, and then it opens up at full strength.

Ingwaz's period falls in the second half of May. The crops have come up, the orchards are in bloom, and all of nature is full of fertile force. Ingwaz is the sixth rune of Tyr's aett.

Before Ingwaz comes Laguz: the well-watered earth is ready to give birth. After it comes Othala, the rune of the home: ripened fruit becomes the wealth of the family line.