Catastrophe | Crisis | Radical Change | Acceptance | Surrender | Opportunity
“Don’t try to fix what we should break before it breaks us.”
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Hagalaz – “Hag-all-az” – Literally: “Hail” or “Hailstone” – Esoteric: Crisis or Radical Change
Key Concepts: hailstones, crisis and catastrophe, disruption, radical change, destructive elements of nature, severe weather, the uncontrollable, unavoidable unpleasantness, Jungian shadow, psychoanalysis, regression, acceptance of the unalterable
Psi: disruption, change, personal past
Energy: power beyond human ability to harness, perfect pattern, seed formation, objective confrontation, destructive natural forces, chaos
Mundane: bad weather, obstacles, surprises, shelter
Divinations: Change according to ideals, changes for the long-term good, controlled crisis, corrections, completion, inner harmony; or catastrophe, crisis, stagnation, loss of power, loss of property, short-term disappointment, victim-consciousness, obsession with the past, blame.
Governs:
Completeness and balance of power, integration of unconscious shadow elements
The inevitability of Fate, Wyrd, Orlog
Evolutionary progress and operations of becoming
The outworking of a perfect pattern
Protection through banishing or exorcising disharmonious patterns, protection
Awareness of the unconscious ideas for eventual processing
Causing discomfort in others by awakening their own subconscious ‘garbage’
Hagalaz is another rune that cannot be pulled in reverse. It is a powerful rune that symbolizes the wrath of nature, destruction, uncontrolled forces, and being tested. Pulling Hagalaz is a warning of energies or forces that we cannot control. They can surface as illnesses, natural disasters, obstacles, and challenges. You will not be able to influence the outcomes of these energies, so it’s important to stay open-minded and welcoming of new opportunities that land in your path during this time. However, you will need to exercise a lot of self-control by removing your own emotions from your intentions or goals. Just remember, it may seem as though many doors are being shut in your face but this is to allow new, more prosperous doors to open in front of you. Each destruction will present a new opportunity for growth.
Source: https://runesecrets.com/rune-meanings/hagalaz