ODAL

ODAL'S image is a house, representing coming home to the ancestral land or property: the place to which you can always retreat in hard times.

This is a rune of security, material well-being, prosperity and the acquisition of inherited genes, property and possessions. In a reading it relates to anything to do with the home and domestic issues.

This rune offers us the chance to complete our journey on the path. Often this is represented in archetypal terms by a cottage or chapel in a grove of trees at the heart of the wood or forest.

This symbolic building may be inhabited b (a wizard, witch or hermit who signifies our higher self. In the old mystery traditions the /initiate was led through a series of passageways caves or a labyrinth to the inner sanctum. The latter was an empty room where he faced his own reflection in a mirror.

This tells us that ultimately the truth has always existed within you all the time. The elusive prize at the end of the journey is the impulse that made you begin the quest in the first place.