Berkano Rune Zentagle

Interesting little story. Yesterday, I started doing Zentangle with my daily rune meditation. I had decided to keep a separate journal as I tangled my way through all 25 runes (I use the black rune in my Runemal... some people do not.) Due to the winter storm, I didn't get to the store to buy a journal/notebook, so I had to make due with what I had.

I found an old notebook that had been a than you gift for a "job well done" when I was an executive assistant. It was actually quite fancy. It had a hard cover, and thick lined pages, with a stretchy band that connected to the back that you pulled over the front to keep it closed. The problem was a big gaudy logo, and the department name in gold letters across the front of it.

I quickly flipped through it and it was empty. So, being the creative person that I am, I created a cover of white card stock that I glued over the front and around the sides. (I plan to eventually paint something nice on it.)

So I had my new journal. I pulled my rune Berkano. This is the Rune of Growth (both mental and physical personal growth) and Rebirth. It is the promise of new beginnings and the light of spring. (It also can mean the prospering of an enterprise or venture, but that was not what I was focusing on in my meditation.)

I was very pleased with the results, and posted my Zentangle on my blog here, and on my Facebook page.

Then pasted it into the first page of my new journal. I wrote a few lines that came to me while I was meditating/tangling, and then turned the page...

Apparently I had missed 3 pages that I had previously written in this notebook. But that wasn't the most interesting part.

The pages that I had written were 2 Rune casts from 6 years ago almost to the day when my husband and I were going through some very difficult circumstances. The economic crash hit hard, and we were in mountains of financial troubles. These readings were done at a point in my life when we had hit rock bottom. We were both unemployed and our home had been foreclosed after more than a year of jumping through hoops to get the bank to work with us.

We were exhausted and defeated and our only option was a plea for help from family. So, we moved cross country to a town I hadn't lived in for almost 20 years, and was completely unfamiliar to my husband, and thew ourselves at the mercy of a relative who had built up so much wealth over the last 50 years, that he didn't even acknowledge there was a recession.

Without going into the gory details, our only this person blamed our situation on our laziness, lack of financial planning, and irresponsibility - which was certainly not true - but, it really did a number on our self esteem.

It took a long time to claw our way out again. Along the way we fought "demons" who wanted to keep us down, and were befriended by some wonderful "guardian angels" who encouraged us to keep going.

Drawing Berkano at this exact day, tells me that we are heading for a new beginning of financial grown, and a new chapter of marriage. Starting this journal reminded me of how far we have come in 6 years, and how bright our future is becoming.