Here Venus comes into a very dominant role, and as she comes conjunct with Saturn's responsibility and limitations and Juno's sense of negotiation for personal needs within a relationship. Venus of course represents our sense of beauty, of attraction and attractiveness, and simply our sense of joy and pleasure. In a very real sense on a deep spiritual level Venus represents what wealth means. She represents a wealth of joy. She represents what desire means, and what it means in a reciprocal way.
And here is what I want to get at. In Libra the conversation is about negotiations, about making things work for all sides, finding the best of all worlds. Right at this moment, western culture has managed (for the most part) to find its way to a very strange idea of what wealth means. Let me explain:
To do this I would like to look at 3 runes from the Elder Futhark (also the Uthark, if you follow that theory). In many ways these 3 things represent an understanding of wealth, gift and bounty, and these are the three things that must be understood to recognize an idea of wealth from whcich we have migrated.
Fehu (top left of picture) is the rune of wealth, and represents cattle, domesticated heard cattle
Gifu (center) is the rune that translates often as gift, but may also be translated as Boon
Bjarka (Byarka) is the rune of the birch tree and represents fertility and bounty- birch is a source of sugar
When we think about these three runes we can get an understanding of ancient heathen-Germanic understanding on the subject of wealth.
When a cultural understanding of wealth is understood in terms of a herd, it brings to mind a very interesting thing. Unlike gold or silver, heard wealth requires a "give-back" a daily investment in care. More-over it is a wealth that requires a community to keep and maintain.
In a very real sense our ancestors made a sort of agreement with the ancestors of cattle, sheep and other domesticated creatures, that we would give care, and help their progeny to expand their ranges and continue, and at the same time they would aid us, and our progeny the same way.
Gifu, is gift, but one must understand that a gift in the ancient thought meant a bit more. The reason why gifu appears like our "X" is because gifu or a boon represents a reflexive relationship. A gifu was given by a king, chieftain or Lord for and to cement loyal service. Within the idea of accepting a gift was the implied alliances, give-backs and general good-will in which it implied.
This returns us back to the idea of reciprocal wealth that we began with in Fehu. We go from the "gifu" of the wealth of the herds, to the "gifu" among the peoples, and finally we end with Bjarka, who is the Sugar of the land, that which we all live on and need equally.
I mention all these things because it seems to me a good time to examine how "Gifu" "Fehu" and "Bjarka" are functioning in our lives. How do we tend our herds? Live up to the contracts of our wealth? Keep faith in wealth with the peoples? Accept with reverence the sugar of the land?
This is not a question of the letter of the agreement, for unlike legalistic tradition, these are agreements made through action, through history, through the very act of living.
I have a covenant with the land, and the givers of my food. Human, plant, animal. The givers of my wealth and the communities from which real wealth ultimately issue. How much give-back are you giving? How much are you asking for? Either way Gifu must function with an equality. Generally if we are not copping to a cost it is coming one way or another, sometimes from our souls, sometimes its a charge against the future. Think about it.
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