Fehu
wealth·flow·new beginnings
Fehu comes when life asks what you truly hold and whether it is still moving.
The meaning
Fehu is the rune of living wealth: cattle in the old world, money and energy in ours. But it was never about the size of the herd. It is about the flow. Wealth kept still begins to rot. Wealth that moves feeds the field, breeds, comes back multiplied. Fehu often marks a beginning full of raw possibility, something to be tended and shared, not clutched.
Where it comes from
Fehu means cattle. In the old North your wealth walked on four legs. It could breed overnight or die of plague just as fast. That is why it opens the whole runic alphabet: the runes begin not with a god or a letter, but with the plain question of whether you have enough. The oldest poem warns that wealth causes strife among kinsmen. The carvers knew the truth we forget: a full barn is a comfort and a danger in the same breath.