Fehu

Fehu

The skills and gifts you have within are your greatest treasure. They will never be stolen. Pay attention tot he way you view the links between personal power and wealth. Prosperity needs to be developed over time - and then shared. 

I am the way to wealth,

The power of having and moving,

The freedom of having enough,

With more to come.

I carry my treasure.

Within me is all.

I am Fehu.

Fehu (pronounced FAYwho) is one of the runes of the Elder Futhark. It literally means "cattle", and the symbol itself resembles the horns on cattle. 

The vikings, who traveled quite a bit, had to carry portable forms of wealth with them as they traded or explored. Their wealth, therefore, wasn't measured just in gold. Cattle and other livestock, for instance, represented a type of mobile wealth - wealth that was literally "on the hoof", so this rune is an apt symbol for the idea of prosperity within the viking paradigm. 

The vikings also relied upon the development of a variety of skills. Boat builders, carpenters, stone masons, weapon makers, hunters, weavers, story tellers, artists - what ever your skill, when you developed it with excellence, it was seen as a valuable treasure. You could take this portable form of prosperity with you wherever you went, and your craft, unlike gold or jewels, could never be stolen.

Reversed: you do not know it all. More education or skill in a matter is needed. There maybe a threat to your prosperity, so take heed. Although it is said that everyone has their price, you are being warned that not everyone can be bought. If you are thinking of taking a risk, be forewarned: your luck with money has run out.

Element: Earth.

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Fehu

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Name	Proto-Germanic	Old English	Old Norse
	*Fehu	Feoh	Fé
	"livestock, wealth"
Shape	Elder Futhark	Futhorc	Younger Futhark
Unicode	ᚠ U+16A0
Transliteration	f
Transcription	f
IPA	[f]
Position in rune-row	1

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The Fe rune ᚠ (Old Norse fé; Old English feoh) represents the f-sound in the Younger Futhark and Futhorcalphabets. Its name means "(mobile) wealth", cognate to English fee with the original meaning of "sheep" or "cattle" (Dutch Vee, German Vieh, Latin pecum, Sanskrit pashu).

The rune derives from the unattested but reconstructed Proto-Germanic *fehu in the Elder Futhark alphabet, with the original meaning of "money, cattle, wealth".^[1]

The corresponding letter of the Gothic alphabet is 𐍆 f, called faihu. Such correspondence between all rune poems and the Gothic letter name, as well, is uncommon, and gives the reconstructed name of the Old Futhark a high degree of certainty.

The shape of the rune is likely based on Etruscan v 𐌅 , like Greek Digamma Ϝ and Latin F ultimately from Phoenician waw .

Rune poems

The name is recorded in all three rune poems:

Rune Poem:[2]	English Translation:
Old Norwegian ᚠ Fé vældr frænda róge; føðesk ulfr í skóge.	Wealth is a source of discord amongst kin; the wolf lives in the forest.
Old Icelandic ᚠ Fé er frænda róg ok flæðar viti ok grafseiðs gata aurum fylkir.	Wealth is a source of discord amongst kin and fire of the sea and path of the serpent.
Anglo-Saxon ᚠ Feoh byþ frofur fira gehƿylcum; sceal ðeah manna gehƿylc miclun hyt dælan gif he ƿile for drihtne domes hleotan.	Wealth is a comfort to all; yet must everyone bestow it freely, if they wish to gain honour in the sight of the Lord.