Gebo

gift · Rune 7 of 24 in the Elder Futhark

Meaning

An exchange between equals: a gift, an agreement, a bond. Giving and taking are one motion here, and no account is kept.

Give or accept — today, and with no counter-account. Start counting and the gift stops being a gift.

This rune looks the same either way up, so it has no reversed position.

The first eight: life, gain, craft — what people live by

Readings are for entertainment. Runes describe where things stand, not events to come.